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How the Music Charts Work

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The points

Every member connects their Last.fm account. For each chart โ€” weekly, monthly, and one for the whole year โ€” we take every member's own Top 100 songs for that stretch.

A song's place on your list flips into points: #1 is worth 100 points, #2 is worth 99, all the way down to #100, worth 1. Then everybody's points for a song add together, and the biggest total tops the chart.

That means a song lots of people love beats a song one person plays on repeat. The gems rise.

Artists get a chart too. An artist's points are their songs' chart points added up โ€” so one loved song can carry a brand-new artist, no big catalog needed.

Joining

Tap the green button. Last.fm's own site asks you to approve SunnyGoat โ€” your password never touches this site, and we never see it. Last.fm sends back your username and a key that lets us read your Top 100 lists. That's all we store: your name and that key. No email, nothing else.

Your member page will show your own Top 10 from the prior month. If your listening is set to private on Last.fm, you get no public page โ€” your setting there rules.

Join the chart

Connect your Last.fm and your Top 100 counts. No email, no password here โ€” Last.fm does the asking on their own page.

Connect your Last.fm

Leaving

Leave any time: revoke SunnyGoat on your Last.fm settings page, or tell us and we take you off the member list. No questions, no hard feelings.

The rules

Real listening only. Fake or botted plays get the member removed โ€” that was the club rule before it was a chart rule.

Every chart is gathered by Chelsea and reviewed by hand with Daniel before it is published โ€” names Last.fm mangles get fixed in the review, never after strangers see them.

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