“気にしている”かはともかく見てるやつはまだ多いだろ

As people are alluding to, yes. It's not formally said on p4k, but Steve Hyden, Ian Cohen, Larry Fitzmaurice, even Jenn Pelly (in a post on the site about Brand New of all bands) have alluded to the process on twitter-they submit an album with a higher score that usually gets knocked down by an editorial board that is trying to choose the latest "album of the week" (bnms usually run on Fridays or Mondays)

あとピッチのスコアはライターがレビューと共に点数提案するけど
他のライターと割った平均点だから個人の点数とは違うし
ある程度客観性がある