Rate Your Music (often abbreviated to RYM) is an online encyclopedia of music releases and films. Users can catalog items from their personal collection, review them, and assign ratings in a five-star rating system. The site also features community-based charts that track highest-rated releases.
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Type of site | Social cataloging and community |
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| Available in | English (main site) Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish (forums) |
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| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional and free (required to view and post threads on forums) |
| Users | 1.2 million (August 2024) |
| Launched | December 24, 2000 |
| Current status | Active |
History
The first version of the site, nicknamed "RYM 1.0," allowed users to rate and catalog releases, as well as to write reviews, create lists[1][2] and add artists and releases to the database.
In May 2009, Rate Your Music started to add films to its database.[3]
Features
The main idea of the website is to allow the users to add music releases of many types including but not limited to albums, EPs, singles, mixtapes, DJ mixes, and bootlegs to the database and to rate them. The rating system uses a scale of minimum of a half-star (or 0.5 points) to a maximum of five stars (or 5 points).[4] Users can likewise leave reviews for RYM entries as well as create user profiles.[5][6] Rate Your Music is generated jointly by the registered user community (artists, releases, biographies, etc.); however, the majority of new, edited content must be approved by a moderator to prevent virtual vandalism.
Statistics
As of February 2023, RYM had over 729,000 user-created lists ranging from "popular lists" to "ultimate box sets," which cover various musical genres, including obscure micro-genres.[2][7]
As of August 2024, the site had over 1.2 million users registered, with over 6.2 million releases added and 137 million ratings.[1]
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- ^ Vieira, Rafael (June 30, 2015). "Rate Your Music: os melhores discos de todos os tempos". Whiplash.Net (in Portuguese). Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ^ "Rate Your Music: Welcome!". Rate Your Music. February 1, 2023. Retrieved February 1, 2023.