Rate your music

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Rate your music
Online music - database
languages English , German , Finnish , French , Italian , Dutch , Polish , Portuguese , Russian , Spanish and Turkish
operator Hossein Sharifi
editorial staff Hossein Sharifi
Registration Optional
On-line December 24, 2000 (currently active)
https://rateyourmusic.com/

Rate Your Music, or RYM ( English for Rate Your Music ), is a free, member-built, online database of phonograms and recordings , record labels and films . It was founded in 2000 and is based in Seattle .

structure

Rate Your Music was founded on December 24th, 2000 by Hossein Sharifi. In contrast to Discogs , the focus in the beginning was not on electronic , but on rock music . The basic principle of the site is to allow users to enter albums , singles and EPs into the database and then rate them. The rating system ranges from a minimum of half a star to a maximum of five stars. Rate Your Music is similar to a wiki in that all data (artists, recordings and artist biographies) are entered jointly by registered users; however, they must be viewed and approved by a moderator in order to prevent vandalism . Nevertheless, the database suffers from considerable inaccuracies and duplicate entries. On the one hand, musicians and their associated bands are grouped together under the name of the solo artist (e.g. Bruce Springsteen), or the front musician and his accompanying band (e.g. Udo Lindenberg) are listed separately.

RYM 1.0, the first version of the site, made it possible to rate and catalog music recordings, write reviews, create lists and add artist names and albums to the database. Other functionality was gradually added, such as the introduction of user forums in 2002. On August 7, 2006, RYM 2.0 was introduced, a completely new version of the website, which offers additional functionalities such as entering track lists, labels, catalog numbers, concerts or Venues, bot.

Due to high operating costs, Rate Your Music has not only been financed by user donations since 2006, but also receives income from other sources. Specifically, these are commission-based links to online music services and contextual advertisements from Google AdSense (which registered users can switch off). This step was previously discussed in the user forums. A democratic vote on it did not take place.

In May 2009 Rate Your Music started adding films to its database.

"Custom Charts" and music recommendations

A special function at RYM are the so-called custom charts . These are numerical compilations of ranking lists of the various recordings and films in the database, whereby the user can open these ranking lists individually according to any criteria. In this way, the works with the highest, but also those with the lowest ratings can be sorted by year, decade, format or country. The album with the best ratings on the global all-time leaderboard is Radioheads OK Computer (January 2011).

In addition, a user can recommend films, artists or recordings to any other user. There is also an automatic function that gives the user new recommendations based on the ratings they have already given.

Problem

Although Rate Your Music was founded as a database and likes to see itself as such, the nature of the site goes far beyond the neutral collection of data. The fact that the main focus of the site is on the evaluation of sound carriers does not make dealing with certain database entries easy. Entries about Adolf Hitler and other criminals of the Nazi regime led to heated discussions within the forum and even to demonstrative withdrawals. In fact, Rate Your Music is used by supporters of the Nazi ideology as a playground to spread right-wing extremist ideas in music and to trivialize them. However, as can be seen in the link, these theses are also controversially discussed there.

scope

Nov 2006 Mar 2008 Jul 2010 Dec 2011 Dec 2012 Sep 2015
Artist 166.865 296,681 580.737 747.610 848.196 1,045,026
Recordings 702.857 1,148,333 1,896,128 2,300,765 2,547,775 3,122,252
reviews 4,033,301 8,513,580 17,414,284 23,339,936 27,481,332 39,531,443
Labels 3,345 16,466 45.154 58,475 64,912 90,678
Reviews - 636.739 1,159,958 1,453,200 1,644,165 1,969,531
Concert halls 1,315 4,374 8,134 9,714 10,379 12,270

As of December 2011, Rate Your Music had approximately 370,000 user accounts, with approximately half of its users being from the United States , Canada or the United Kingdom . The other half of the users come mainly from Western and Northern Europe, especially Scandinavia and the Netherlands , as well as Poland , Russia , Mexico , Brazil and Australia .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Information from Hossein Sharifi on Rate Your Musik January 23, 2012; Retrieved January 24, 2012
  2. ↑ Address on rateyourmusic.com accessed on January 19, 2012
  3. ↑ a b mahalo.com (English); Retrieved January 21, 2012
  4. ↑ RYM versus Discogs (English); Retrieved January 21, 2012
  5. ^ Bruce Springsteen discography , accessed March 26, 2013.
  6. ↑ Search input Udo Lindenberg , accessed on March 26, 2013.
  7. ↑ Voting on the introduction of advertisements in May 2006; Retrieved January 23, 2012
  8. ↑ Custom Charts , accessed January 25, 2012.
  9. ^ The Adolf Hitler Profile ; Retrieved July 6, 2014
  10. ↑ @ interpolar ; Retrieved July 6, 2014
  11. ↑ All Fascist Bangers (English); Retrieved July 6, 2014
  12. ↑ Statistics 2006 in the official "Statistics of RYM" forum , accessed on January 21, 2012.
  13. ↑ Statistics 2008 in the official "Statistics of RYM" forum , accessed on January 21, 2012.
  14. ↑ Statistics 2010 in the official “Statistics of RYM” forum , accessed on January 21, 2012.
  15. ↑ a b Statistics 2011 in the official “Statistics of RYM” forum , accessed on January 21, 2012.
  16. ↑ Statistics 2012 in the official “Statistics of RYM” forum , accessed on December 7, 2012.
  17. ↑ Statistics in September 2015 in the official "Statistics of RYM" forum , accessed on November 16, 2015.