What your profile keeps from your history
Every published edition becomes an artist total, a song total and a list of number ones
When you publish an edition of your chart, it does not only live on that week's page. It feeds three aggregates, and they update on their own.
None of this is typed in by you. It all comes from the positions you chose.
The artist table
Every artist that passed through your chart gets the sum of the points from the positions their songs held, across all editions.
Alongside that come four numbers:
- How many distinct songs by that artist have entered.
- How many editions they appeared in.
- The peak, the best position any of their songs reached.
- How many times they were number one.
There is also a growth percentage, comparing the artist's points with the previous period. That is the number showing who is entering your rotation now, rather than who has been there for months.
A featured artist counts in full
If a song has a feature, the guest receives the same points for the position as the lead artist. The points are not split.
This has a visible effect: someone who guests a lot climbs your artist table fast, without ever having a song of their own on your chart. If a name you did not expect shows up high, that is usually why.
The song table
Same logic, by song. Points added up, editions it appeared in, peak and how many times it led.
One small detail: the cover shown is from the edition where the song hit its peak. If it climbed to first place in March, the cover you see is from that edition.
The list of number ones
The third aggregate is the list of songs that have held first place. Each one keeps how many editions it led, the first and the last.
It is the shortest history on the profile and the one that tells the clearest story. A list with three names over six months describes one person. A list with twenty describes another.
Editions count presence, not a streak
One thing about the edition count is worth understanding, because it gets read wrong often. It counts how many editions the song appeared in, not how many consecutive ones.
A song that entered in January, left in February and came back in March has three editions in total, not a broken streak. A gap does not reset the count.
The peak works the same way: it is the best position ever reached, in any edition, and it never gets worse. If a song hit second place once and spent the following months around twentieth, the peak is still second place.
Both choices point the same way: the profile records the best that happened and the number of times, and does not punish anything that disappears for a while.
Why this matters more than it looks
Listening that is not recorded disappears. You remember what you played this month and not what you played in February.
A chart history solves that with no extra effort, because you were already choosing the songs and the record is a by-product. A year later, the profile answers questions your memory does not: which song stayed with you longest, which month your taste turned, which artist came in and never left.
That only works if the positions are honest. An invented order produces a pretty, useless history.
Frequently asked questions
- If I delete an edition, do the aggregates change?
- Yes. They are recalculated from the editions that exist, not stored as a fixed total.
- Do my two charts mix together in the count?
- No. Each chart has its own aggregates, using the point scale of its cadence.
- Can other people see this?
- Yes, the profile is public. It is the part of the site that most resembles a listening portfolio.
