AOTY Changelog

Improved search support for non-Latin scripts

• Added ability to filter by release types to user library pages
• Updated the look of the filter menu dropdowns on mobile

Added ability to filter by genres to user library pages.

Search added when viewing users' libraries.

The random release tool (found in the footer) has been updated to include filters.  You can now narrow the random selection by:

• Type
• Year
• Primary Genre
• Secondary Genre
• Critic Score & Number of Ratings
• User Score & Number of Ratings

Users now have the ability to export their ratings to a .csv file from the settings page.

The rating distribution chart on profile pages now supports Videos and Tracks in addition to Albums and Singles.

Streamlined the look and feel of the genre suggestion popup.

New For You section added to the homepage. This section populates with albums released in the current week that are either in your spin list or from a followed artist.

Added Apple login as an option when creating a new account

You can now toggle rating distributions between All Users and Following on user review pages.

Critic genre charts now use a weighted ranking system similar to the user genre charts.

Music Video format added.

The filters when browsing by week, month, year, and decade have been expanded.  The following filters are now available:

• Followed Artists
• Listened / Not Listened (New)
• Rated / Not Rated (New)
• In Library / Not In Library (New)

The AOTY community year-end aggregate has arrived.  Find more details here.

• Slight design updates to both the overall top songs charts and artist top songs charts
• Dropdown menu added to rate songs directly from charts
• Dropdown menu added to overall top songs charts to access artist top songs
• Features and collaborators are now displayed in the charts

Updated the look of the end of year critic list layout.

User genre charts now use a weighted ranking system that gives more visibility to releases that previously fell below the minimum rating threshold. This system also factors in the number of ratings each release has when comparing similarly scored releases.

• Added section for "Under the Radar" albums.  To qualify, albums must have between 25 and 150 user ratings and a user score of at least 80.  These albums also must be at least a week old and released within the last 9 months.
• Moved "Recently Added" section below "On This Day" section.

• On an album page, clicking the cover now brings up a larger image of the cover.
• In cases where alternate covers have been added, the alternate covers can be viewed in a thumbnail gallery.  This will be rolling out slowly.  Current examples can be seen here & here.

Added rating distributions to publication pages, and the ability to click into each range for a filtered view of those releases.

SoundCloud links can now be added to releases.

Users will now receive a notification when an album correction they submitted has been fixed or declined.

Added commenting system to album corrections.

Updated the comment section to be in line with comments throughout the rest of the site.

• Last 15 comments are shown when a list has a large number of comments
• Mention button added to comments
• Notifications now sent for mentions
• Muted and blocked users are hidden in comments
• Menu added to follow, block or mute users

Added a "Browse By" section to the home page to give easier access to releases by decade, year, month and week.

• Releases can now be viewed by week
• Month view now paginated
• Added view for all releases

Added the option to choose from three settings for recent activity on your profile.

• Ratings (Default) - Shows most recently rated albums
• Listens - Shows most recent albums marked as listened
• Likes - Shows most recent albums marked as liked

• Added random album button to the Must Hear Albums page
• Clarified that User Must Hear requires 500 ratings, not 500 reviews

Added the ability to see which artists and publications a user follows on the following tab within their profile.

Added a setting to your library to set the default view to either all albums or albums you've marked as listened.

The Spin List has been brought back to track albums you want to listen to - think "watch list" for music.  The feature uses the current Library system (which was called "Spin List" ages ago), but will only display albums that you haven't marked as listened.  To add an album to your Spin List, just hit the Save button on an album page.

New Features

• Added access to your Spin List from your profile navigation in the header
• Added a Spin List filter for all releases and upcoming releases
• Three dot menu added to albums in Library / Spin List to access additional options 
• Random button updated to filter between Library & Spin List, and Reroll link added

• Added listen stats
• Added filter for Listened / Not Listened
• Added sort option for your score
• Added random album button
• Added release year

"Highly Anticipated" badge is now displayed on albums that the community is anticipating highly.

Added the ability to submit corrections for labels.  Open label corrections can be found here.

• Improved search
• Added descriptors
• Added AKAs
• Added popular genres
• Added country of origin

Added the ability to view the labels a user has added to the site and to releases.

Added the ability to view a user's track ratings for a particular album on their profile.

Added the ability to view the genre votes a user has added to the site.

Subscribers now have the option to customize the look and feel of release pages.  There are now options for the following:

• Show critic or user reviews first
• Show or hide critic reviews
• Show or hide user reviews or show only those for who you're following
• Show or hide the comment section

Added the ability to gift a subscription to another user.

Added the ability to view the artists a user has added to the site.

Added a link to toggle between albums & singles within the "New Releases" and "Popular Now" sections.

Separated albums and singles into individual tabs on tag pages.

Added the ability to view the releases a user has added to the site.  This can be accessed via the "Contributions" popup on a user's profile.

Added the ability to add multiple artists to a release at the time of creation.

• Added a to album tag pages to indicate that it is a descriptive tag
• Added listen stats to album tag pages

Added descriptive tags to album details

Users can now delete any comment from their own reviews.

Reorganized the order of the sections on album corrections pages.

• Highlights if you have the ability to edit an album
• Pushes up changes that have already been made and corrections that have already been submitted

Updated the look and flow for adding an artist or release to the site.

• Improved search for finding artists and releases
• More information displayed for artists to help differentiate those with the same name
• Updated design

Added RapReviews.com and Prog as new publications.

Added new contributor role with increased permissions to help bridge the gap between the donor role and moderator role.

Improved search results for queries with special characters.

• Added listen stats

• Added listen stats 
• Added the ability to filter by "Listened" and "Not Listened" when viewing a specific type of release

Several updates were made to the Must Hear Albums section.

• Added the ability to filter by year or decade
• Added the ability to filter by "Listened" or "Not Listened" when logged in
• Added a stat to show the number of Must Hear Albums you've marked as listened

Several design updates.

Updated the "More Albums" section to be "More Singles" on Single pages.

Added an option for users to default the "Best Albums" link in the site navigation to the users' chart instead of the critics' chart.

This option can be found on the settings page.

The best singles charts can now be filtered by genre.  For example.

Expanded the top songs rankings to include more than just the top 100 songs from the specified period.

Artist best song pages are no longer limited to the 100 best songs.

Descriptive tags will now show in bold on album pages.

Added the ability for users to change their usernames up to two times within a one year period on the settings page.