Chart question re: Anthology of American Folk Music - Suggestions

hwex9000

Gender: Male

Location: Chicago

Hey, what the heck happened with the chart placement for Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music? It's consistently been in the all-time top 3000 for years - as recently as November 2024 - and now it's out of the top 10,000 entirely. Is this another release-year issue (i.e., related to the fact that the re-released box set came out in 1997 but the original albums themselves were first released in 1952)?

Hayden

Location: Vietnam

Seems to be a release date change. When an album changes its release date by that much (different year, different decade) a fair portion of charts it's on have their points nullified, causing the album to drop in ranking.

Now, why we changed the year from '52 to '97 seems to be a circumstance of packaging. The Harry Smith Archive states the release as '52, and I think we should consider it such. It just happened to be sold as three different volumes back then (primarily due to space on the wax).

I'd vouch for us keeping it as a '52 album, or at least allowing the individual volumes to be considered '52.

baystateoftheart

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Age: 30

Location: Massachusetts

Hayden wrote:

Seems to be a release date change. When an album changes its release date by that much (different year, different decade) a fair portion of charts it's on have their points nullified, causing the album to drop in ranking.

Now, why we changed the year from '52 to '97 seems to be a circumstance of packaging. The Harry Smith Archive states the release as '52, and I think we should consider it such. It just happened to be sold as three different volumes back then (primarily due to space on the wax).

I'd vouch for us keeping it as a '52 album, or at least allowing the individual volumes to be considered '52.

All the original individual volumes already have 1952 release dates. People just need to start adding them to their year and decade charts. They weren’t released as one compilation until 1997, and we shouldn’t have false release information just to avoid upheaval on the charts.
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Hayden

Location: Vietnam

baystateoftheart wrote:

Hayden wrote:

Seems to be a release date change. When an album changes its release date by that much (different year, different decade) a fair portion of charts it's on have their points nullified, causing the album to drop in ranking.

Now, why we changed the year from '52 to '97 seems to be a circumstance of packaging. The Harry Smith Archive states the release as '52, and I think we should consider it such. It just happened to be sold as three different volumes back then (primarily due to space on the wax).

I'd vouch for us keeping it as a '52 album, or at least allowing the individual volumes to be considered '52.

All the original individual volumes already have 1952 release dates. People just need to start adding them to their year and decade charts. They weren’t released as one compilation until 1997, and we shouldn’t have false release information just to avoid upheaval on the charts.

Oops. Didn't know we already had those on here Embarassed

(That's new, right?)

baystateoftheart

Neil Young as a butternut squash

Age: 30

Location: Massachusetts

Hayden wrote:

baystateoftheart wrote:

Hayden wrote:

Seems to be a release date change. When an album changes its release date by that much (different year, different decade) a fair portion of charts it's on have their points nullified, causing the album to drop in ranking.

Now, why we changed the year from '52 to '97 seems to be a circumstance of packaging. The Harry Smith Archive states the release as '52, and I think we should consider it such. It just happened to be sold as three different volumes back then (primarily due to space on the wax).

I'd vouch for us keeping it as a '52 album, or at least allowing the individual volumes to be considered '52.

All the original individual volumes already have 1952 release dates. People just need to start adding them to their year and decade charts. They weren’t released as one compilation until 1997, and we shouldn’t have false release information just to avoid upheaval on the charts.

Oops. Didn't know we already had those on here Embarassed

(That's new, right?)

2 & 3 are new, but 1 has been on here for 5 years.
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