Monthly Artist Charts

[faint rover]

On the last day of every month, there should be a Top 30 Chart on the website that lists the most played artists (not songs) of the month, with the amount of plays they've got. It would be a great way to advertise artists' Spotify Profiles, and could also take the form of a TFM show! (Although, I don't know what format that would take.)

[hazy snow]

i feel like this would work well

[astral spade]

Select distinct(artists), plays
from charts
order by plays
fetch first 30 rows only ```

[modest basin]

My only concern may be that we have a lot of artists who maybe get 1 or 2 play. Over a year, I could see this working, but, over a month, you might have a decent top 10… at a push. Then you’d have the rest at random because they’d be all just with 1 or 2 plays, and it wouldn’t be fair for us to place whatever artists have only had one or two plays, if that makes sense

Or at least, as far as I know

I could be wrong & it might be more obvious than that

But just basing it on a quiet week with the normal chart, that’s what I could see happening

[faint rover]

But this would be over a month. If you look at a standard weekly chart, there's typically at least 20 distinct artists that has had 3+ plays on the Top 30 Weekly Song Chart to get onto it, and across the month... There'd undoubtably be 30 artists who have gotten 3+ plays, right? The middle to bottom of the charts, IMO, is rather volatile, and is very subject to change, with how easy it is to get onto it.

[modest basin]

I mean I’d be interested tbf to run the data for a month & see what the numbers are. I guess it depends on how our presenter numbers have been for that month. The slower the month, the less songs logged for charts. AutoDJ just sends the charts skewif

Let me see if we actually have this data & I’ll see if it’s worth using or what happens with it. I don’t know if it’s easily accessible

[faint rover]

Awesome. My thoughts are, over a month, there'd be 30 artists, wherein the cut off point (for charting 30th) would typically be around 5 to 10 plays (depending if artists get regular plays over a month).

[modest basin]

Yeah i mean it definitely wouldn’t work on a weekly basis. It could be that only a top 10 is viable. Let me find out how easy that would be to compile and I’ll see if I can trial it before we make any decisions on implementation

[faint rover]

Yeah, great to see this being considered. It'd probably be exactly the same as the charts, where it only counts presenter plays. ADJ is all over the place, in what it plays, and when. Very much not afraid to bounce from playing Rock Music to EuroPop without any bridge between.

[polar yacht]

@modest basin any updates on this?