What’s the largest jump in rating that you have seen on RYM? It can be up or down in quality.

I must admit, I'm fascinated by how RYM ranks things, forever trying to figure out what's going on under the hood. To help get a sense of how things change, I created a snapshot of the Top 5000 Albums of all Time chart around the end of March, which gives me somewhat of a glimpse of an album's changing ranking when I care to look.

Was looking through the 1001 - 2000 albums this afternoon, stumbling upon El Ultimo Concierto A, from an Argentine band I'd never heard of called Soda Stereo, which had, previously, ranked at 1,005. Was interested and pleasantly surprised to notice this record has performed rather well in the last month, garnering an additional 39 votes, resulting in a 4.09 with 465 rankings as of April 21.

One thing I found interesting is that, for one, 465 votes isn't very many. For another, it also indicates that live recordings are factored in with regular albums for the Top 5000. Thirdly, it's a humbling reminder that there are bands and musicians that are ENORMOUS that you might never even have heard of if you live in the United States. Finally, i feel like this live album's popularity might be reflective of a greater interest in Spanish-speaking music of all kinds in recent years, but I'd need a lot more data points to establish that trend.

Anyone else listen to this band? Follow-up question, what are some of the biggest jumps you've noticed or kept track of? Is there anyone else making their own charts like this?

If I look up any specific thing, it will link to a different specific thing. For example, clicking on Isley Brothers links to 311, clicking on YWH Nailgun links to Pollyanna, and Deafheaven links to Butthole Surfers. Currently the site is unusable Is anyone else experiencing this?

art pop has been genre that I have had hard time identifying or being able to attempt to create. Correct me if I am wrong, but from my current perception, i always thought it may be harder to identify because it doesn’t have a specific sound (I’ve heard it be defined as a fluid genre instead of an essentialist genre (genre characterized by very specific sound)), and that it’s seen by the way it interacts with other sounds or by making experimental music accesible (and vice versa). please let me know your thoughts, and if you’ve ever had a hard time identifying it; and if you did, what has allowed you to be able to? similar confusion goes for progressive pop/rock and art rock.

Following the recent post here regarding nirvana’s nevermind

now, 90% of the time, music that is considered one of them, is also the other, however, I have seen some people try to mark a difference between the slight difference of music taste style of both websites (within the parameters of both being quite similar), what do you think is the difference between both of them?

On the website you are unable to see past album #5000. Whenever I’m looking to discover more albums, I will pick a random number between 1 and 5,000 and listen to whichever album, but I don’t want to be limited to just the top 5,000.

Back in 2024 a user posted a collage of all 10,000 albums at the time, but they never got back to other users asking how they accessed them.

AN ALTERNATIVE:

Alternatively, I would like to know if there is a way to go directly to the page of any album in the top 10,000. Like a tool where you can put the number in and it takes you straight to the page of the album.

Any info helps. Thanks!

I'm surprised that The Police aren't very well appreciated on RYM.

I don‘t think I‘ve ever seen them being discussed on a website such as rym. Being kind of a novelty act might explain this but you can‘t the deny they (at least in Europe) had a string of pretty big hits. Fire Water Burn, The Bad Touch & Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo all got a lot of exposure and are in their way pretty great tunes I think. Also shoutouts to Along Comes Mary, The Ballad of Chasey Lain & Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Thiss.

That‘s quite an impressive run of big hits. How is their reputation in your country? What are other artists with a similiar status? Imo they hold a really unique place and are one of those acts I really kind of forget exists sometimes.