Best Ever Albums

Re: Most listened to Albums by BEA members 2014 - 2024

MrIrrelevant — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:35:43 GMT

Author: MrIrrelevant

Posted: 12/10/2024 20:35

An interesting way to define "best album" too. Maybe the best ones are the one you just listen to the most. Fantastic list.

Re: Most listened to Albums by BEA members 2014 - 2024

II — Sat, 7 Dec 2024 07:16:56 GMT

Author: II

Posted: 12/07/2024 12:16

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Re: Most listened to Albums by BEA members 2014 - 2024

Liedzeit — Sat, 7 Dec 2024 05:41:24 GMT

Author: Liedzeit

Posted: 12/07/2024 10:41

II wrote:

I wish the chart would have displayed the most times an album was listened to by different users one at a time.
Also this chart is made to show the most listened albums by users who had been active in the forums, so any user who hadn't don't count, but it's probably an alternative to all the albums on BEA that have been marked as "listened" the most by users, so that displays the most listened albums by different audiences, so I like that idea.

Well, I included the number of different listeners in brackets. I could have used that as the main sort criterion. Kendrick Lamar would have been at number One then. But the numbers are too similar. There are basically the same 30 people responsible for most of the chart.

As for the albums marked as listened in BEA, I for one mark an album only as listened if I do not own it. One that I listened to on Youtube mostly. The ones I own, I listened by default and most of them many more than only once.

Re: Most listened to Albums by BEA members 2014 - 2024

II — Sat, 7 Dec 2024 00:54:18 GMT

Author: II

Posted: 12/07/2024 05:54

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Re: Most listened to Albums by BEA members 2014 - 2024

Romanelli — Thu, 5 Dec 2024 19:42:18 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 12/06/2024 00:42

CassidyInc wrote:

This thread has encouraged me to start posting what I'm listening too more on here.

But

New albums I like I play them a lot. Certainly I was playing BRAT 15 - 20 times a week on release. So in the interests of this post being repeated again in the future and having accurate data in the thread I'd want my posts to reflect that. However it would also seem pretty spammy and not add value outside of accuracy to that thread. :-k

Hey. It's a thread that moves really fast. We have some who listen to the same albums almost every day. The way I see it...it shows who you are, and what kind of listener you are, and where your tastes are. Because of that thread, there are people on BEA who I follow more closely because of their listening habits and the content of their collections. Don't worry about it. Let your music player, whatever it may be, set you free. So to speak. Maybe if you play an album twice a day, post it once a day. We'll get it. And you won't be alone.

😁

Re: Most listened to Albums by BEA members 2014 - 2024

CassidyInc — Thu, 5 Dec 2024 19:28:10 GMT

Author: CassidyInc

Posted: 12/06/2024 00:28

This thread has encouraged me to start posting what I'm listening too more on here.

But

New albums I like I play them a lot. Certainly I was playing BRAT 15 - 20 times a week on release. So in the interests of this post being repeated again in the future and having accurate data in the thread I'd want my posts to reflect that. However it would also seem pretty spammy and not add value outside of accuracy to that thread. 🤔

Re: Most listened to Albums by BEA members 2014 - 2024

EyeKanFly — Thu, 5 Dec 2024 10:35:26 GMT

Author: EyeKanFly

Posted: 12/05/2024 15:35

Wow, really cool idea! I enjoy your blog post where you detail the technical stuff and how you handled the data.

Also somehow that Al Green album is the only one I haven't listened to/rated, despite it being on my wishlist. Time to remedy that

Re: Most listened to Albums by BEA members 2014 - 2024

CassidyInc — Wed, 4 Dec 2024 20:25:28 GMT

Author: CassidyInc

Posted: 12/05/2024 01:25

Oh my goodness what a brilliant idea and post. Well done!

I've looked back many times at the OG thread and the people posting seemed to interact with each other a lot more. Perhaps I'm wrong but it seems to me that posting the album art gets in the way of the original spirit of the thread. Certainly I'd be more inclined to use this thread if it was more text based and centered around conversation rather than just a huge album cover that we've often already seen countless times.

Re: Most listened to Albums by BEA members 2014 - 2024

Liedzeit — Wed, 4 Dec 2024 16:35:59 GMT

Author: Liedzeit

Posted: 12/04/2024 21:35

Romanelli wrote:

I think your research shows, more than anything, that the thread is used more by people who are in the mainstream with their listening habits. A lot of people on site don't post there, and I know that many of them are people who have more eclectic tastes.

Actually, this is not really correct. There are more than 40,000 different albums that appeared in the thread. But almost by definition those with eclectic tastes do not vote for the same records. What the data shows is that there are a few dozen people who are responsible for the chart as it is.

But I agree with you, of course, more people should post what they are listening to.

Re: Most listened to Albums by BEA members 2014 - 2024

Anonymous — Wed, 4 Dec 2024 15:09:20 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/04/2024 20:09

Romanelli wrote:

melisandre wrote:

Great idea. Well done Al Green for crashing the top 25 with an album ranked at almost 7000.

I would post in that thread more often but pasting the album art has never worked from my mobile device for some reason.

Actually...you don't have to do that!

You can type in the box above labeled "Insert BEA link" until the album you want shows up. Click that, and it puts the album art and a BEA link to the album page onto your post. Then just send and done!

Al Green is the man.

Thanks Romanelli 😄

Re: Most listened to Albums by BEA members 2014 - 2024

Romanelli — Wed, 4 Dec 2024 15:00:35 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 12/04/2024 20:00

melisandre wrote:

Re: Most listened to Albums by BEA members 2014 - 2024

Anonymous — Wed, 4 Dec 2024 14:52:34 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/04/2024 19:52

Great idea. Well done Al Green for crashing the top 25 with an album ranked at almost 7000.

I would post in that thread more often but pasting the album art has never worked from my mobile device for some reason.

Re: Most listened to Albums by BEA members 2014 - 2024

albummaster — Wed, 4 Dec 2024 12:44:59 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 12/04/2024 17:44

Romanelli wrote:

AM...please tell me that the original thread still exists somewhere...I, for one, still reference it on a regular basis...plus it's historical value is huge! 😢 😢 😢 😢 :cry:

Apologies, the thread is temporarily disabled as it's causing massive performance issues. It'll be re-enabled when the underlying code (third party forum software) has been optimised (right now it's bringing the whole site to a halt when people browse it, so the better of two evils is to temporarily disable it to allow the site to function, which is also why the continuation thread was spawned).

Re: Most listened to Albums by BEA members 2014 - 2024

Romanelli — Wed, 4 Dec 2024 11:54:13 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 12/04/2024 16:54

Pretty cool...thanks for doing this! That thread is, I believe, central to the pulse of BEA. Or, at least, it could be.

I think your research shows, more than anything, that the thread is used more by people who are in the mainstream with their listening habits. A lot of people on site don't post there, and I know that many of them are people who have more eclectic tastes. I do wish more people would use that thread...it's quite amazing, and I believe fully that it could be the single best place on BEA for album recommendations. It's already close, but it could be so much more.

In the earlier days of BEA, many more people posted there. But it took a long time before anyone realized you could simply do a search and immediately post the BEA link to the album, complete with artwork. That's normal now, but for the early years, no one did that. I don't know if it was available back then. So I'm sure that the early years of the thread were not included in your data. Also, because more people posted there, there was also much more discussion on the thread than there is today.

Again...thank you for putting this together. Also again...I encourage users to post on this thread. When you put an album on. Takes just seconds.

https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27441

AM...please tell me that the original thread still exists somewhere...I, for one, still reference it on a regular basis...plus it's historical value is huge! 😢 😢 😢 😢 😢

Re: Most listened to Albums by BEA members 2014 - 2024

pedro1976 — Wed, 4 Dec 2024 06:42:38 GMT

Author: pedro1976

Posted: 12/04/2024 11:42

Brilliant idea. Will check this out ,?

Most listened to Albums by BEA members 2014 - 2024

Liedzeit — Wed, 4 Dec 2024 05:43:27 GMT

Author: Liedzeit

Posted: 12/04/2024 10:43

I made a chart with the most listened to albums from 2014 to 2024 out of the data provided by you members in the "What album are you listening to?" thread.

Before you click on the link, what do you think the Top 3 looks like? Any thoughts on the chart? Let me know.

https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=82231

I wrote a blog post on how I came to compile this chart which you can find here:

https://www.liedzeit.com/levities/2024/12/03_bea/