How levels and XP work
Where each point comes from, why there is a daily cap, and what the number next to your name means
Every ChartFM profile carries a Level, from 0 to 99, with a progress bar beside it. The number comes from a single sum: how much XP the account has accumulated since it was created.
XP is never spent and never goes down. There is no shop, no item, and the Level does not change your chart's points, a song's position in the Global 100, or the reach of anything you publish. It shows participation over time, and nothing else.
What pays XP
One rule organises the whole table: making something is worth more and has no limit, while anything easy to repeat is worth little and stops at a daily cap.
- Publishing the weekly chart is worth 50. The daily chart is worth 10, a fifth of that, because seven dailies already add up to more than one weekly and a ten track list should not pay like the chart of the week.
- Writing an album review is worth 25. Leaving only the score, with no text, is worth 5. The gap exists because the text is the only human content an album page has.
- Recommending a song is worth 15, submitting a clip 20, posting in a community 10, and creating a community 50.
- Commenting is worth 3, liking is worth 1, following someone is worth 2.
Receiving counts too. Someone liking your work is worth 2 to you, gaining a follower is worth 3, and someone marking your review as helpful is worth 5.
Why there is a daily cap
Seven groups of actions stop paying after a daily limit. Likes you give stop at 10 XP, comments at 30, whatever you receive from others at 30, and article reading at 25.
The cap belongs to the behaviour, not the action: commenting on a chart, on a post and on a recommendation share one limit, because the person commenting has no idea the site keeps those in five separate tables.
Two things matter here. The cap cuts the XP, not the action: you can keep liking and commenting as much as you want, you simply stop earning points for it that day. And the day ends at midnight Brasília time, not UTC, otherwise the limit would apply twice between 9pm and the turn of the day.
Nothing that produces content has a cap. Publishing a chart, writing a review and recommending a song always pay.
The curve, and why it turns at 25
Each level up costs `150 × 1.06` raised to your current level. From Level 25 onwards the growth rate goes from 1.06 to 1.09, so every new level demands considerably more than the last.
The curve changes slope, it does not jump: the cost at the turning point is the same on both sides.
- Level 10 is 1,978 accumulated XP.
- Level 25 is 8,231.
- Level 50 is 62,762.
- Level 99 is 4,208,887, which is the ceiling.
In practice, a genuinely active week lands somewhere near 600 XP. Someone playing to max out every cap gets close to 1,350. The turn at 25 exists so the far end of the table stays distant even at that pace.
Achievements come in separately
Beyond day to day events there are 13 achievement families, each with four tiers: bronze, silver, gold and platinum. Unlocking a tier is worth 100, 300, 750 and 2,000 XP, in that order.
There are 52 achievements in total, and they read your entire history. Anyone who published hundreds of charts before the system existed receives the matching tiers the first time their profile is opened.
What does not pay
Browsing does not pay. Searching, filtering, opening a song or artist page earn nothing, because paying for navigation is paying for scrolling.
Liking your own work pays neither side. Publishing through automation earns no event XP. And account maintenance, such as changing your password or exporting your data, stays out as well.
Frequently asked questions
- Does the Level give me any advantage on the site?
- No. It does not change chart points, it does not affect the Global 100, and it does not promote you in any list. It is a record of participation.
- If I delete a comment, do I lose the XP for it?
- No. The XP ledger never removes a line. A point that landed stays.
- I liked something and got no XP. Why?
- Either the daily like cap was already spent, or it was your own content. Liking your own material pays nothing.
- My account is old. Do I start from zero?
- No. Achievements read your full history and are granted retroactively. Day to day events, on the other hand, count from here on.
- Does reading an article really pay?
- It pays 5 XP per article, once each, capped at 25 a day. It only counts after a minute with the page open, so opening and closing earns nothing.
