Smart Queries: Favourite albums

I use smart playlists to display my most-played and recently-played tracks. Is there a way to create a smart playlist of my favourite albums? I haven't managed to do this using iTunes 6.
I was thinking of ordering albums by total or average track play count, and displaying the top 10.
Is there a way to do this? If not, would anyone else think this would be a good feature?
PC Windows XP

At this point, there are no attributes kept on Albums, only songs (tracks). Only music tracks keep meta-data about them (either within the PC file itself or within the iTunes database).
You can create a Smart Playlist of favorite Albums by using the 'Album' rule with either 'contains' or 'is'. You'll need a rule for each favorite Album. I do not know the maximum limit of rules allowed for only one smart playlist. You may need to create several playlists and then one more to collect them together.

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I have a lot of albums and each album has their proper track listings meaning their proper track songs. I would like to create smart playlists for all my individual albums and for every individual album has a smart playlist with the proper track songs in the smart playlist for the album?
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