Daily or weekly chart: which to choose
The main one is always weekly, and the daily one is for a different kind of record
Each person can keep two charts on ChartFM. One of them is the main chart, and the other you set up however you like, including on a daily cadence.
The choice looks like it is only about frequency. It changes three things.
The main chart is always weekly
This rule settles half the questions: the main chart cannot be daily. If you make a chart your main one, it becomes weekly.
The reason is the Global 100. Only each person's main chart feeds the global ranking, and the global ranking closes by week. A daily chart adding into the same place would give someone publishing every day seven times the weight of someone publishing on Friday.
So if you want your picks to count in the general ranking, the main chart is what does that, and it is weekly. The daily one is a personal record.
The points per position are different
On the main chart, first place is worth 1000 points and hundredth is worth 10.
On a secondary daily chart, the curve is the same at a smaller scale: first place is worth 100 and hundredth is worth 1.
The smaller scale has a practical effect that is easy to see in the arithmetic. A daily chart publishes seven editions a week, which is up to 700 points of first place across the period. A weekly one publishes one, worth 1000. The two stay in the same order of magnitude instead of the daily one burying the weekly by sheer number of editions.
Movement is calculated differently
Movement is the up, down, new or returning marker next to each song. It compares the current edition with an earlier one, and which one counts as earlier depends on the cadence.
- Weekly: it compares with the immediately preceding week. If you did not publish last week, the song shows as returning, not as climbing.
- Daily: it compares with the last edition published before this one, even if that was three days earlier.
The difference exists because daily charts have natural gaps. If the comparison were always with the previous day, every Monday the site would erase Friday's memory and mark the whole chart as returning.
The publishing streak follows the same logic: on a weekly chart it counts consecutive weeks, on a daily one consecutive days.
Which to choose
It helps to think about what each one can show.
- Weekly records what held your attention across several days. Movement means something, because a week is enough time for a song to actually climb.
- Daily records mood. It captures the song that owned a Tuesday and never came back, which a weekly chart would never show.
If you only want one, use weekly. The daily one works well as a second chart alongside the main one, and it demands consistency: a daily chart abandoned for two weeks shows nothing.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I switch the cadence later?
- On a secondary chart, yes. On the main one, no, because it is weekly by definition.
- Does a daily chart count in the Global 100?
- No. The global ranking reads only the main chart.
- Do I have to publish every day?
- No. A daily chart accepts gaps, and the movement calculation already accounts for that by comparing with the last published edition.
