Overall Chart History Freeze - Suggestions

martintho

martintho

every new month at 00:00 I'm dead ready to manually record the changes in top 2500 starting at page 125 scrolling down to page 100 usually discovering 12 new albums and then go to page 126 scrolling in the opposite direction until the numbers matc. this month however #2481 has been the first newcomer 6 days running and Kansas - point of know return likewise #2494 as the second one. i suspect they have been newcomers since my previous recording 1st of february. I've been doing this for years. a tradition of mine is ruined. anyone there who can fix? and while I'm at it is it super easy to get this in the chart changes monthly update from now on releasing med this quality time in the midnight hour once a month? (the latter not important - but still - there is more than 1000 classics. I chose 2500 after som consideration a few years ago. love this site to pieces)

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martintho wrote:

every new month at 00:00 I'm dead ready to manually record the changes in top 2500 starting at page 125 scrolling down to page 100 usually discovering 12 new albums and then go to page 126 scrolling in the opposite direction until the numbers matc. this month however #2481 has been the first newcomer 6 days running and Kansas - point of know return likewise #2494 as the second one. i suspect they have been newcomers since my previous recording 1st of february. I've been doing this for years. a tradition of mine is ruined. anyone there who can fix? and while I'm at it is it super easy to get this in the chart changes monthly update from now on releasing med this quality time in the midnight hour once a month? (the latter not important - but still - there is more than 1000 classics. I chose 2500 after som consideration a few years ago. love this site to pieces)

Hi, I'll check into the issue, six days is probably from the last site update, so possibly something was introduced that caused a problem. In terms of alerts, I'll also see what could be done to simplify checking new entries in the overall chart. Something on the 2026 roadmap for Q3/4 is filtering movers & new entries within a chart. For aggregated charts this could be configurable for a specific time period (user-defined limits defining a new entry threshold etc), but for other types of chart (more simply) the changes are calculated from the previous version of a chart.
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martintho

martintho

Usually there's about 12 newcomers every month on top 2500. this month: 29! also on top 1000: usually the number is maybe 5 newcomers. this month 12. may I ask why (apologies if the reason has been posted elsewhere)?

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martintho wrote:

Usually there's about 12 newcomers every month on top 2500. this month: 29! also on top 1000: usually the number is maybe 5 newcomers. this month 12. may I ask why (apologies if the reason has been posted elsewhere)?

Thanks for highlighting, I think it may have partly been due to a calculation glitch a few weeks back, where some scores might have been understated at the end of the last period (due to decade scores not being included). I'd need to check the database to see when the issue was introduced (reported on 6th May, but bug may have been active for a little while before then).

(EDIT: Only stats from 5th and 6th May affected, so wouldn't have had an impact on month-on-month figures which are taken from last day of month (site update on 4th May introduced issue). New entries/leavers this month is an outlier from what I can tell, but happy to spot-check a few albums).

EDIT:
Last month 4 new entries in top 1,000:
Woodface by Crowded House (Rank today: 982 | Last month: 1017 | +35 places)
Aerial by Kate Bush (Rank today: 986 | Last month: 1004 | +18 places)
Band Of Gypsys by Jimi Hendrix (Rank today: 997 | Last month: 1056 | +59 places)
I See A Darkness by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (Rank today: 1000 | Last month: 1009 | +9 places)

In April, 6 new entries:
The Hurting by Tears For Fears (Rank today: 956 | Last month: 1012 | +56 places)
Sigh No More by Mumford & Sons (Rank today: 961 | Last month: 1019 | +58 places)
Portishead by Portishead (Rank today: 983 | Last month: 1007 | +24 places)
Shore by Fleet Foxes (Rank today: 995 | Last month: 1005 | +10 places)
Blizzard Of Ozz by Ozzy Osbourne (Rank today: 998 | Last month: 1052 | +54 places)

March - 8 new entries - https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29341
Feb - 8 new entries - https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29263
Jan - 9 new entries - https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29551

I'd need to go further back to see if 12 new entries has ever happened before, but this month seems like an outlier at the moment. In 2026, for the top 1,000, the monthly figures have shown between 4 and 9 new entries each month (before this month).
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