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Re: Charts by county, region or continents

Bork — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:13:09 GMT

Author: Bork

Posted: 11/11/2010 15:13

Works great. Cheers!

Re: Charts by county, region or continents

albummaster — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:27:26 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 11/10/2010 16:27

We've now added an option to the custom chart page for you to 'include member chart rank points'. This will give the same behaviour as Bork was expecting earlier in this thread.

Viz. when this option is checked, this will include member chart rank points in the total when generating the rankings in a custom chart. The default is unchecked (and will show you the same chart as before).

Re: Charts by county, region or continents

albummaster — Sat, 6 Nov 2010 08:40:51 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 11/06/2010 12:40

yes, there's nationality data on all albums now. This was manually updated, so there may be a few errors (but these should be squished over time).

The include/exclude member charts option probably doesn't work in the way that you expect. It just acts as a filter, so if you wanted to see the top-ranked albums in the professional lists you could choose to only include an album if it *also* appears in x or more member charts (rather than affecting the total rank score, the include/exclude option just disables this filter). The original point of this feature was to be able to show albums that were not just popular with critics, but were also popular with site members.

Re: Charts by county, region or continents

Bork — Sat, 6 Nov 2010 01:21:24 GMT

Author: Bork

Posted: 11/06/2010 05:21

There is a choice to exclude member charts already, so it is possible to have that functionality if wanted.

Re: Charts by county, region or continents

RFNAPLES — Sat, 6 Nov 2010 00:03:48 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 11/06/2010 04:03

Give the members a choice with a radio button or box. (Include or Exclude member charts). Do we actually have nationality data on all albums?

Re: Charts by county, region or continents

albummaster — Fri, 5 Nov 2010 14:44:28 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 11/05/2010 18:44

I agree, we'll change it as part of the next site update. We've had some members in the past that were keen on viewing the performance in the professional lists, but now that the site has grown, this has become a bit redundant.

Re: Charts by county, region or continents

Bork — Thu, 4 Nov 2010 09:27:34 GMT

Author: Bork

Posted: 11/04/2010 13:27

Ah, that explains it. I would think that it is better to use the same ranking system on the customised charts. That is just an opinion, but I can't see why anyone would want to see how albums were charted on average on just the published charts.

Re: Charts by county, region or continents

albummaster — Wed, 3 Nov 2010 18:47:03 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 11/03/2010 22:47

The custom chart currently works slightly differently to the rest of the site. By default, the rankings in this chart are based on how an album ranks in the 'professional lists' and exclude the rank points awarded in member charts.

For example, even though Wolfmother has an overall rank of 314 it ranks lower in the custom chart because it was only awarded 71 points from professional lists.

There was only one Swedish album in the professional lists and this is why you are seeing just that one one listed. (All of the other Swedish albums oin this site have been added by site members.)

It is a bit confusing that the custom chart works in this way and perhaps we should change it to be consistent with the rest of the site.

Re: Charts by county, region or continents

Bork — Wed, 3 Nov 2010 15:55:20 GMT

Author: Bork

Posted: 11/03/2010 19:55

I was trying to look at the highest charting artists from certain countries, so I went to customize overall chart and changed country to 'only Australia'. The top 10 that was then generated looked weird to me (the overall rankings of the top 10 albums were, in this order: 55, 1287, 1412, 1505, 314, 1372, 4161, 1550, 266, 914). Not sure if I overlooked something or if something is wrong with this functionality, but I can't see where I went wrong. Tried again and choose Sweden (leaving everything else unchanged) and it only listed one album, although there are more albums from Sweden in the total database.

Re: Charts by county, region or continents

RFNAPLES — Thu, 7 Oct 2010 09:36:18 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 10/07/2010 13:36

It isn't the first time wikipedia has been wrong. See the IMDb site for a track listing http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052077/soundtrack Worth isn't there either.

Re: Charts by county, region or continents

albummaster — Thu, 7 Oct 2010 08:39:29 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 10/07/2010 12:39

Bork, top job on those ones - thank you. Sometimes it's difficult, where somebody was born in one country, but grew up in another, to determine which nationality to use, hence Neneh Cherry and a few others.

Cat Torso, I think we'll just record as 'Unknown' unless some other knowledge comes to light to clear things up. Yes, it does look like an internet-only movie and it could be fake. The only reference to this album that I could find is here.

Good point RFNAPLES, on the Wikipedia entry, Frank Worth is credited, but on IMDb he isn't. I'm now wondering whether Wikipedia is correct as he's also not credited on this other (specialist soundtrack) website either: http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/catalog/soundtrackdetail.php?movieid=2289

Re: Charts by county, region or continents

RFNAPLES — Wed, 6 Oct 2010 15:22:31 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 10/06/2010 19:22

Fuck Strangler: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" by Cat Torso http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?b=5109 may be an internet only movie. However, there is no listing for it or him in Wikipedia, IMDB or Amazon. May be bogus.

Re: Charts by county, region or continents

RFNAPLES — Wed, 6 Oct 2010 15:09:30 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 10/06/2010 19:09

Frank Worth was from Hungary but I don't believe he had anything to do with Plan 9 from Outer Space. Edward D Wood Jr produced and Directed the film. The Music Department for that movie was:
Gordon Zahler .... music supervisor
Emil Ascher .... composer: stock music (uncredited).

Re: Charts by county, region or continents

Bork — Wed, 6 Oct 2010 12:37:43 GMT

Author: Bork

Posted: 10/06/2010 16:37

Django Reinhardt was from Belgium (although he did most his music in France).

Neneh Cherry is from Sweden.

I believe George Melachrino called his band Melachrino Strings occasionally. If that is the one it would be the UK.

Giant Skyflower Band is from San Francisco, USA.

Populous is the artist name of Italian artist Andrea Mangia. Short Stories is the alter ego of American Mike McGuire.

Did some research and found a Frank Worth who composed music for movies and TV shows at the time (Bride of Frankenstein, Roy Rogers Show, etc.), but can't verify for certain it is the same guy. If it is he was American (born in Hungary and emigrated at a young age).

Cat Torso has me stumped.

Re: Charts by county, region or continents

albummaster — Wed, 6 Oct 2010 04:00:44 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 10/06/2010 08:00

Second batch of bands now processed. We've populated almost 4,000 out of approx 6,000 bands. We're having problems finding out the nationality for a few more bands.

Would anyone care to tell us the nationality of the following?

Frank Worth http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?b=4121
Cat Torso http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?b=5109
Neneh Cherry http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?b=4246
Django Reinhardt http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?b=4838
Melachrino Strings http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?b=4952
Populous With Short Stories http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?b=4668
Giant Skyflower Band http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?b=4180

This feature will be live in the next week or so (it is currently under development and so not visible at the moment)....

Re: Charts by county, region or continents

albummaster — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:33:59 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 09/11/2010 09:33

thanks RFNAPLES, that's the first batch completed. Where a single nationality cannot be determined, we've flagged it as 'mixed nationality' (e.g. some groups where band members are from different countries and also some artists such as Rufus Wainwright).

Composition so far*:
US - 52% of all bands
UK - 24%
Canada - 4%
Australia - 3%
[All other countries make up the remaining 17%]

(*Sample size: 2,500 bands.)

We'll post back later with some more anomalies after the next batch of bands has been processed...

Re: Charts by county, region or continents

RFNAPLES — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:20:20 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 09/10/2010 17:20

Clara Rockmore-Russia/Lithuania (born), died USA

Re: Charts by county, region or continents

RFNAPLES — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:16:04 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 09/10/2010 17:16

Solvent (Jason Amm)-Zimbabwe

Re: Charts by county, region or continents

RFNAPLES — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:13:51 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 09/10/2010 17:13

The Bug-UK (London)

Re: Charts by county, region or continents

RFNAPLES — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:12:02 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 09/10/2010 17:12

Black Chastity-USA