I collected approximately 10 lists of “Best CDs of 2006” and combined them into one meta-list.  Here are the results.  The numbers in bold indicate the number of original list that the recording is on.  An asterisk means I own it.

On 8 Lists
Cat Power – The Greatest*

On 7 Lists        
Bob Dylan – Modern Times*
Joanna Newsom – Ys*

On 6 Lists
Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not*
Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood*
Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere*

On 5 Lists
The Decemberists – The Crane Wife*
Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins – Rabbit Fur Coat*
TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain*

On 4 Lists         
Band of Horses – Everything All the Time*
Ghostface Killah – FishScale

On 3 Lists   
Beck – The Information*
Beirut – Gulag Orkestar
Belle & Sebastian – The Life Pursuit
The Coup – Pick a Bigger Weapon
Lupe Fiasco – Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor
The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America*
Hot Chip – The Warning 
Muse – Black Holes and Revelations
The Roots – Game Theory
Silversun Pickups – Carnavas
Ali Farka Touré – Savane*

2
John Adams: The Dharma at Big Sur (BBC Symphony Orchestra; Adams)*
Lily Allen – Alright, Still
Louis Andriessen: Writing to Vermeer (Asko Ensemble; Schönberg Ensemble; de Leeuw)*
Art Brut – Bang Bang Rock & Roll
The Black Angels – Passover
Solomon Burke – Nashville*
Ornette Coleman – Sound Grammar*
Comets on Fire – Avatar
J. Dilla – Donuts
Dion – Bronx in Blue*
Vince Gill – These Days*
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Snake Farm
Keith Jarrett – The Carnegie Hall Concert
Kasabian – Empire 
The Long Blondes – Someone to Drive You Home
Midlake – The Trials of Van Occupanther
Juana Molina – Son
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – La Clemenza di Tito (Freiburger Barockorchester; Jacobs)
The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers*
Scritti Politti – White Bread, Black Beer 
Bruce Springsteen – We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
Vetiver – To Find Me Gone
Tom Waits – Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards*
M. Ward – Post-War
Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones*
Thom Yorke – The Eraser
Neil Young – Living with War*