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Romanelli
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Location: Broomfield, Colorado 
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- Posted: 11/28/2025 16:18
- Post subject: One Album Per Artist: The Chart
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If The BEA Overall Chart Had A One Album Per Artist Rule... by Romanelli
This is a chart that I made ten years ago, in March of 2015. I figured it was time for an update. Note that the chart also includes, in the album notes, where the album is on the actual overall chart as of today.
So this chart is what the BEA overall chart would look like if the site had this rule: only one album per artist. I do not subscribe to this thought, as I believe that there are many artists who have released multiple albums that deserve top 100 status. There are several artists who have made multiple albums that are better than what most everyone else has done, and I believe that it's only fair that an album that may be an artist's second or third best album, but may also be among the top 20 of all time, should not be penalized for that. My opinion is that a one album per artist chart is interesting, but it belongs more in the custom chart category...let your top 100 be a true top 100.
But that's my opinion. I made this chart 10 years ago, and updated it today, because it's an interesting thought, and an interesting look. It's also an interesting conversation that we haven't had in these parts for quite some time. Do any of you have this rule on your charts? Do you have any other interesting rules in regards to your overall charts?
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Johnnyo
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I must admit I don’t subscribe to the one album per artist rule for the same reasons articulated by you by I did produce a chart of the top 100 of my favourite albums using this rule
1 album per artist - greatest albums of all time by Johnnyo
Which also needs updating but still feels pretty accurate as my top 400 hasn’t changed dramatically since I produce this chart
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Romanelli
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| Johnnyo wrote: | I must admit I don’t subscribe to the one album per artist rule for the same reasons articulated by you by I did produce a chart of the top 100 of my favourite albums using this rule
1 album per artist - greatest albums of all time by Johnnyo
Which also needs updating but still feels pretty accurate as my top 400 hasn’t changed dramatically since I produce this chart |
It's for sure an interesting exercise. A lot of really great albums end up not on the list when using this rule.
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craola
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Cool idea for a chart. If I counted right, an additional thirty-one artists make the cut, including three of my personal favorites Talk Talk, Cocteau Twins, and Slowdive.
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Romanelli
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| craola wrote: | | Cool idea for a chart. If I counted right, an additional thirty-one artists make the cut, including three of my personal favorites Talk Talk, Cocteau Twins, and Slowdive. |
Yep. It does add quite a bit to the diversity of the chart, that's for sure. But it also leaves off quite a few albums that deserve to be there.
I wonder if there's enough interest in seeing that to maybe have an option of 1 album per artist on the overall top 100. That would make my chart unnecessary, but there would probably be more options to look at.
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MadhattanJack
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| Romanelli wrote: | | I wonder if there's enough interest in seeing that to maybe have an option of 1 album per artist on the overall top 100. That would make my chart unnecessary, but there would probably be more options to look at. |
Personally, I'd rather see everything, and I don't mind a little extra scrolling (or page-loading, more like) to get past the "BIg Fifty" or however many entities there are who have made several highly-ranked albums. (Which reminds me, we still need bigger chart-view page sizes here as a "level perk.") Career achievement is nothing to sneeze at! Not that I don't admire and appreciate your efforts in this regard, of course.
The other thing is, if you impose that rule, it seems to me what you really end up with is a list of artists, not albums. Which is fine, but since all the charts here are album charts, it creates a visual/conceptual contradiction, almost like a "cognitive dissonance," for the reader. In my own case, for example, when I first registered here I thought it would be "cute" to make a chart of the best (IMO) albums by bands whose names consist of exactly three characters. I just figured that once I got to 100 I'd stop, make the chart, and that would be the end of it, but of course I didn't stop, and it turns out there are well over 500 bands listed on BEA whose names consist of exactly three characters. It's bad enough that the charts only allow 100 entries, but in that case you not only have to rank the bands and determine which is the best (or most "representative") album they made, you also have to impose a one-album-per-artist rule in order to list as many artists as possible. And when you do that, it looks like you're giving some artists the short shrift, which they don't deserve because it's hard to make a lot of good albums when your band name only has three characters in it.
If you ask me, what we need are more charts that can't easily be generated by SQL queries or compiled by artificial intelligence software. One example might be "Top {x} albums by bands whose names end with the word 'twins' despite there never having been actual twins in the band." Obviously it's easy for an AI to find all the bands with names like that, but it really requires a human to determine if any of the band members are actually twins, at least if they don't make a point of explicitly telling everyone at some point. And we know there are people out there who would want to see a chart like this, because people are weird.
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albummaster
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A counter position is that that some under-looked artists make the list that otherwise wouldn't and lead you down new rabbit holes. These kind of lists make great charts. Always interesting browsing them. AI is definitely a challenge, but the human element of picking a list and interacting with the list maker is something that AI can't easily replicate authentically.
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