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Rate Your Music (often abbreviated to RYM) is an online encyclopedia of music releases and films. Users can catalog items from their personal collection, review them, and assign ratings in a five-star rating system. The site also features community-based charts that track highest-rated releases.

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History

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The first version of the site, nicknamed "RYM 1.0," allowed users to rate and catalog releases, as well as to write reviews, create lists[1][2] and add artists and releases to the database.

In May 2009, Rate Your Music started to add films to its database.[3]

Features

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The main idea of the website is to allow the users to add music releases of many types including but not limited to albums, EPs, singles, music videos, mixtapes, DJ mixes, and bootlegs to the database and to rate them. The rating system uses a scale of minimum of a half-star (or 0.5 points) to a maximum of five stars (or 5 points).[4] Users can likewise leave reviews for RYM entries as well as create user profiles.[5][6] Rate Your Music is generated jointly by the registered user community (artists, releases, biographies, etc.); however, the majority of new, edited content must be approved by a moderator to prevent virtual vandalism.

Statistics

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As of March 2025, RYM had over 819,000 user-created lists ranging from "popular lists" to "ultimate box sets," which cover various musical genres, including obscure micro-genres.[2][7]

As of March 2025, the site had over 1.3 million users registered, with over 6.6 million releases added and 147 million ratings.[8]

Impact

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Rate Your Music has been credited with helping previously unknown artists and albums rise to popularity, most prominently Have a Nice Life's debut album Deathconsciousness[9] and Duster's 1998 album Stratosphere.[10]

In 2019, Vice and The Ringer credited Rate Your Music for maintaining the popularity of the band Duster, which had recently reformed after being inactive since 2000.[11][10] Pitchfork and Junkee noted the website's impact on the career of the anonymous South Korean musician Parannoul, who said that he felt more anxiety than joy after his 2021 album To See the Next Part of the Dream temporarily topped the website's album chart for the year.[12][13]

In 2023, JPEGMafia and Danny Brown released the collaborative album Scaring the Hoes. Later that year, an official promotional merch site included a T-shirt featuring the album's Rate Your Music page.[14]

Chat Pile guitarist Luther Manhole said, "Our popularity on RYM definitely contributed to us having this career-type-thing, 100%.", as the band's self-released debut EP topped the weekly charts due to fortunate timing.[15]

Reception

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Rate Your Music has been received generally favorably. M.O.V.I.N [UP]'s Maurício Angelo praised RYM as "the best guide to discovering new music, in all styles, of any tempo".[16] Hypebot staff found Rate Your Music "snobby and multilingual and people come to show off their various incredible music collections. I’ve loved it for ages".[17] Wired's Andy Baio deemed it "quirky".[18] Radio Wave's Karel Veselý praised Rate Your Music and Discogs as "[t]he cult music portals".[19]

Flashmode Arabia staff commended RYM as "a fantastic way to discover new music" but critiqued its user experience.[20] The Daily Star's Deeparghya Dutta Barau called it "one of those hip sites that offer functionality over aesthetics".[21] Similarly, Newonce's staff was somewhat critical, stating the site was "Extremely ugly visually (its creators like the consistency: RYM has not changed the layout to this day), but quite useful".[22]

Centuries of Sound founder James Errington said "[he consulted] websites like Rate Your Music and Acclaimed Music to pick top hits" for his year-by-year mixtapes of the 20th century.[23] Pigeons and Planes's Adrienne Black highlighted the forums, stating, "if you haven't already spent half your day exploring the above, there are the highly active, engaged threads to dive in to".[1] Evolver.fm's Eliot Van Buskirk advised readers to "Keep a wishlist on rateyourmusic.com".[24]

In an interview with PopMatters, American electronic musician Skylar Spence noted that he would use Discogs and Rate Your Music to find "a lot of cool, old, hidden treasures that way".[25]

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Rate Your Music (RYM) is a community-built online database and social platform focused on and , enabling users to catalog personal collections, rate releases on a scale from 0.5 to 5 stars, write reviews, tag genres and descriptors, create custom lists, and discover new content through recommendations and charts. It serves as one of the largest databases online, encompassing millions of entries for albums, singles, artists, and concerts, while also including a dedicated section for . Founded on December 24, 2000, by software developer Hossein Sharifi in Seattle, Washington, RYM began as a simple tool for music enthusiasts to rate and discuss albums but quickly evolved into a comprehensive driven by user contributions. Sharifi remains the site's owner, primary developer, and , overseeing its operations under Sonemic, Inc., a company he established to modernize and expand the platform. In November 2020, Sonemic launched a major redesign of RYM, introducing enhanced features like a "new music" portal, artist following, and integrated charts, alongside sister sites for films (Cinemos) and video games (Glitchwave). RYM's influence extends to music journalism and discovery, with its user-generated ratings and reviews often referenced by critics, podcasts, and playlists for gauging fan consensus on genres from to experimental electronic. The platform emphasizes detailed metadata, such as release dates, formats, and lineage charts tracing artist influences, fostering deep dives into and subcultures. Despite its niche appeal among dedicated listeners, RYM attracts a global audience primarily aged 18–34, with traffic split evenly between desktop and mobile users. Its ad-free model, supported by optional donations, prioritizes community moderation and database integrity over commercial algorithms.

History

Founding and Early Years

Rate Your Music (RYM) was founded on December 24, 2000, by resident Hossein Sharifi, who developed the site as a basic online platform for music enthusiasts to rate and catalog releases. Sharifi, still active on the platform under the username "sharifi," serves as its owner, lead developer, and system administrator. The site launched shortly after its creation, initially operating under the "RYM 1.0" interface, which provided core functionalities such as album ratings on a 0.5 to 5.0 star scale, user profiles, personal collections, reviews, lists, and the ability for users to add and edit music entries. From its , RYM emphasized collaborative metadata contributions, allowing a small user base of dedicated fans to build and share basic discographies, ratings, and descriptive details for albums and artists. This user-driven approach fostered organic growth in the early , with the platform relying on volunteer moderators to maintain content quality and resolve disputes over entries. Unlike more professionally curated sites, RYM's early emphasis on community input distinguished it, though it faced limitations from basic technical infrastructure that constrained scalability during this period. The RYM 1.0 era persisted until a significant redesign in 2008, laying the groundwork for broader adoption.

Expansion and Ownership Changes

Following its establishment, Rate Your Music underwent significant expansion in the late 2000s and early 2010s, with the introduction of advanced editing tools in 2008. These tools empowered users to contribute detailed release credits, comprehensive tracklists, and lineage connections linking related albums and artists, thereby enriching the database's utility and encouraging deeper community involvement. Concurrently, the implementation of genre classifications and expanded user review capabilities attracted a broader audience, fueling rapid user growth post-2005 as music enthusiasts increasingly turned to the platform for cataloging and discovery. In , founder Hossein Sharifi established Sonemic, Inc. to oversee the site's , incorporating input from long-time members. This move to under Sharifi's continued ownership enabled scaled infrastructure upgrades while upholding -driven through volunteer moderators and user edits. The initiative was bolstered by a successful campaign launched that year, which raised $67,552 from 2,084 backers—exceeding the $50,000 goal (as of campaign end in April 2016)—to finance server enhancements, cloud services, and over 200 requested improvements, including better mobile support and search functionality. This funding initiative underscored the platform's roots, marking a collaborative evolution toward sustained growth and modernization.

Sonemic Integration and Recent Developments

The Sonemic project was launched in 2015 as a comprehensive redesign initiative for Rate Your Music, aimed at modernizing the site's aging infrastructure through an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign that raised funds for server upgrades and new features across music, film, and gaming databases. Phased integrations of Sonemic elements into Rate Your Music began in November 2020, introducing enhancements such as an updated front page, advanced chart systems, and a music portal to improve user navigation and discovery. These efforts included gradual improvements in mobile responsiveness to better support device compatibility and ongoing work toward API development, though the API remains in planning stages as of November 2025 with user registration for access interest. Between and , several key updates further integrated Sonemic functionalities, focusing on visual and exploratory tools. In , new pages were rolled out, providing historical overviews and contextual details for genres to aid in-depth research. This was followed by the introduction of maps in subsequent updates, offering interactive visual navigation of artists, albums, and genres based on user data connections. By 2024, the "evening" dark theme was deployed site-wide, enhancing and reducing eye strain for nighttime use, as part of broader refinements. As of November , development continues on features like access and expanded maps, with the last major update in August 2024 introducing song charts, integration, and enhanced search. Partial rebranding efforts emerged around 2023, with official profiles shifting to "Sonemic / Rate Your Music" to reflect the integrated project while maintaining the established rateyourmusic.com domain and primary branding. As of November 2025, no full name change has occurred, preserving the site's legacy identity amid ongoing Sonemic upgrades. Sonemic developments have incorporated user feedback through targeted responses, including bug fixes for editing disputes in the database moderation queues, where community members vote on pending corrections to ensure data accuracy. Major site changes are often discussed and voted on via official forums, allowing users to influence priorities like feature rollouts and descriptor adjustments before implementation.

Core Features

Database Structure and Cataloging

Rate Your Music's database employs a hierarchical structure centered on artist entries as the primary nodes, beneath which various release types are organized, including full-length albums, singles, EPs, and compilations. Each release entry captures granular metadata, such as precise release dates (often down to the day or month), available formats like vinyl, , cassette, and digital downloads, associated record labels, and unique catalog numbers that identify the specific edition within a label's output. This organization allows for comprehensive documentation of an artist's , distinguishing between primary studio works and secondary releases like live recordings or bootlegs. The maintenance of this database relies on a collaborative process where users submit additions and modifications, subject to by a tiered system of contributors. Regular users can propose changes via submission queues, while elevated roles such as Power Users handle preliminary reviews and edits for minor corrections, and Moderators oversee approvals, rejections, or escalations for complex disputes. Accuracy is upheld through detailed revision histories that track all changes to entries, along with structured protocols, including voting mechanisms for contested submissions, ensuring the database remains a reliable, community-vetted resource. Genres and descriptors form a core component of the cataloging system, with over 1,780 officially recognized genres available for assignment to releases, supplemented by user-suggested tags that expand categorization. Primary genres, such as rock or hip hop, are bolded for emphasis on release pages, while secondary descriptors like "" or "" provide nuanced sub-stylistic detail, enabling advanced filtering, searching, and exploratory navigation across the database. These tags are community-curated and moderated to maintain consistency, fostering a flexible yet standardized approach to music classification. A key aspect of the structure is the lineage feature, which establishes explicit connections between related releases, such as reissues, remasters, compilations, and their original counterparts. Users can link a new entry to an existing one during submission— for instance, designating a 2020 vinyl reissue as derived from a 1990 CD original—allowing traceability of variants through shared credits, tracklists, and notes on alterations like bonus tracks or artwork changes. This relational mapping helps users navigate edition-specific details and understand an album's evolution across formats and eras without conflating distinct releases.

Rating and Review Systems

Rate Your Music employs a user-driven where individuals assign scores to music releases in half-star increments from 0.5 to 5.0 stars. These ratings contribute to an aggregated average score prominently displayed on each release's page, calculated using a weighting system that adjusts for user activity and rating patterns to better reflect the opinions of active members, rather than a simple . This approach promotes transparency while accounting for engagement levels in sentiment representation. Reviews on the platform consist of user-written textual critiques, with full reviews requiring a minimum of around fifty words to qualify for publication on release pages. Users can structure their reviews in various formats, such as for or for structured breakdowns, and include optional spoiler warnings to hide sensitive content. Multimedia elements, including embedded images or links to external media, can be incorporated to enhance the review's illustrative value, though the core focus remains on written . To maintain quality and prevent abuse, Rate Your Music enforces contribution rules for reviews, including requirements for substantive content. Anti-spam measures include the ability for moderators to unpublish low-effort or rule-violating reviews, as well as temporary edit locks on high-traffic release pages to curb rapid, disruptive changes. These guidelines help foster substantive while mitigating spam and off-topic content. The rating feature was introduced upon the site's launch in , enabling early users to catalog and score their music collections systematically. Reviews originated as a basic component in the initial version but were significantly expanded in 2007, incorporating advanced options like stylistic descriptors for deeper analytical contributions, which allow users to tag elements such as influences or thematic traits within their critiques. This enhanced the platform's utility for detailed music and community-driven insights.

Discovery and Personalization Tools

Rate Your Music provides users with dynamic charts that aggregate community ratings to rank albums, artists, and genres, serving as a key tool for discovering highly regarded music across eras. These include all-time charts, which compile the highest-rated releases based on user votes, such as the top albums list featuring classics like by . Annual charts, like the top albums of 2024 or 2025, highlight contemporary releases and are updated weekly to reflect evolving user preferences, allowing for timely exploration of new music. Genre-specific rankings further enable targeted discovery, with user-voted lists for categories like metal or that evolve based on collective input. Users can create and share personalized lists and playlists to curate and disseminate their music preferences, fostering community-driven discovery. These customizable collections, such as "best of the decade" compilations, allow individuals to organize albums or tracks thematically and share them via RYM's forums for discussion and collaboration. Since 2022, RYM has integrated with Spotify, enabling users to connect accounts and generate exportable playlists from recommendations, including options like "Sonemic Recommends," which pulls one song per suggested release for seamless listening. This feature enhances personalization by bridging RYM's database with streaming services, making it easier to explore user-curated content externally. The platform's recommendation engine offers basic suggestions through "similar artists" sections, which identify related acts based on shared genres and user-applied tags, helping users branch out from familiar sounds. Advanced filters refine these recommendations by criteria such as release year, average rating, and popularity metrics, allowing for tailored explorations like high-rated from the . Enhanced in the August 2024 update, the system now incorporates broader for more precise matches, drawing from the site's extensive catalog to suggest undiscovered gems. Search functionality and visualizations further empower discovery with advanced queries and interactive tools. Users can perform detailed searches using descriptors for mood, theme, or lyrical content, alongside traditional filters, thanks to the revamped introduced in August 2024. A notable Sonemic integration from 2021 is the music feature, which visualizes the geographical locations of artists based on users' rated releases, providing an intuitive way to explore regional influences in personal music tastes. These tools prioritize conceptual over rote listing, enabling users to uncover patterns in music history through graphical representations. As of November 2025, minor updates to media links have continued to support integration with additional streaming services.

Community and Usage

User Engagement and Social Aspects

Rate Your Music fosters user engagement through its dedicated forum system, where members discuss specific music genres, individual releases, and provide feedback on site features and functionality. These forums serve as a central hub for interaction, enabling users to share insights, debate artistic merits, and collaborate on refining the platform's content. The platform supports collaborative editing of its database, allowing users to contribute by adding, tagging, and reviewing music entries, with a hierarchy of roles that oversee aspects like ratings and chart accuracy, such as Chartmasters who monitor and adjust aggregated user scores for consistency. User profiles further enhance this engagement by displaying personal collections, ratings history, and activity contributions, encouraging ongoing participation in the site's communal cataloging efforts. Community events and challenges, including annual listening logs where users document and reflect on their music consumption and genre deep-dives that prompt focused explorations of stylistic categories, promote sustained interaction and discovery. These user-initiated activities, often shared via lists and discussions, build camaraderie and motivate deeper engagement with diverse musical landscapes. Social features on Rate Your Music include friend lists that allow users to follow others' activities, activity feeds highlighting recent ratings and reviews from connections, and concert logging introduced in 2018, which enables members to record and review live performances attended. These tools facilitate personalized social networking within the community, integrating live music experiences with the site's core cataloging functions. Additionally, the platform connects with external communities like Reddit's r/rateyourmusic for broader discussions and shared engagement.

Statistics and Scale

As of 2025, Rate Your Music maintains a base exceeding 1.3 million individuals, primarily concentrated in and . The platform's database encompasses over 6.6 million music releases, encompassing albums, singles, and other formats contributed by users since its inception. This catalog supports 147 million individual user ratings and more than 10 million written reviews, reflecting extensive community input on descriptors, genres, and critical assessments. Growth patterns indicate steady expansion, alongside increased engagement in 2025 charts for niche and emerging genres such as . This trajectory aligns with broader historical phases of user-driven content accumulation following the Sonemic integration in 2020. Technically, the site has operated on cloud-based infrastructure since , enabling scalability to handle over 1 million daily page views with minimal downtime, as evidenced by recent upgrades to image hosting and server capacity. Monthly reached 13.08 million visits in September 2025, underscoring its sustained operational robustness.

Notable User Contributions

One of the most influential user-generated lists on Rate Your Music is "History of Hip Hop According to RYM," created by user noelrom, which chronicles the genre's evolution through over 200 entries organized chronologically and ranked by community ratings, serving as a key reference for hip hop enthusiasts. Similarly, the annual "Sonemic Selects: 2025" playlist, curated by user MarilynRoxie based on top-charting user-rated tracks from albums, EPs, and singles, highlights standout releases of the year as determined by the site's collective input. RYM's genre pages function as community-written wikis, with users collaboratively authoring detailed histories, timelines, and catalogs of influential releases; for instance, the genre page outlines the style's origins in the late 1980s scene, its key albums like My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, and its revival in the 2010s, with ongoing expansions by contributors to reflect evolving discographies. User reviews often exert significant influence on an album's visibility and ratings, as seen in the detailed critiques of 2025 releases such as Ichiko Aoba's Luminescent Creatures, where analyses praising its ethereal folk-ambient blend and intricate guitar work have propelled it to a 3.73 average rating from 12,078 users, affecting its position on yearly charts. The platform's forums and user lists foster recognition of outstanding contributors, with community-driven awards like the "RYM Awards" series by user ptree honoring top reviewers and list-makers for their insightful analyses and curations that enrich the site's database.

Impact and Reception

Cultural Influence on Music Discovery

Rate Your Music (RYM) has played a significant role in music discovery by providing community-curated charts and that inform selections for and media creators compiling "best of" compilations. For instance, the Centuries of Sound, which explores year by year, relies on RYM to generate spreadsheets of top tracks across genres, years, and countries, drawing from the site's aggregated user ratings to guide episode content. This approach leverages RYM's database to highlight influential recordings, including early sound experiments predating commercial charts. Similarly, high-profile releases like Deafheaven's Lonely People With Power (2025) quickly rose to the top of RYM's yearly album charts upon release, amplifying its visibility and aiding in its rapid cultural adoption within and communities. In the music industry, RYM's ratings serve as a benchmark for gauging fan reception, with labels and artists monitoring site metrics to assess audience engagement post-release. Academic research has increasingly cited RYM data to analyze patterns in music taste, such as comparative studies of fan versus critic ratings over time, which utilize thousands of RYM album scores to model evolving preferences across artists. For example, one study examined 4,030 albums from RYM users to explore how fan ratings diverge from professional critiques, revealing insights into collective taste formation. These analyses often incorporate visualizations like box plots to illustrate rating distributions for featured artists, underscoring RYM's utility in empirical investigations of listener behavior. RYM's global reach extends to promoting niche genres, particularly non-English hip hop, through dedicated user lists and chart integrations that spotlight international artists and foster discovery. Community-curated collections, such as those compiling hip hop in languages like Italian, Spanish, and , have elevated lesser-known acts by aggregating high ratings and reviews, contributing to broader awareness and occasional viral breakthroughs on streaming platforms. In 2025, RYM features highlighted international debuts in experimental and conscious hip hop, drawing attention to non-Anglophone releases that gained traction via site recommendations. Over the long term, RYM has contributed to debates on "algorithmic taste," where its average user ratings indirectly shape streaming playlists by providing a human-curated counterpoint to automated systems. Scholars and commentators reference RYM's data in discussions of how community-driven metrics influence personalized recommendations, highlighting the site's role in preserving diverse profiles amid algorithm-dominated discovery. This positions RYM as a key resource in broader conversations about balancing collective human judgment with AI-driven curation in music consumption.

Criticisms and Limitations

Rate Your Music has faced criticism for biases in its user-generated ratings, particularly an overrepresentation of indie and rock genres at the expense of others like pop and hip-hop. Analyses of the site's all-time top albums chart reveal that Black artists, who are prominent in pop and hip-hop, comprise only about 25% of the top 50 entries, significantly lower than their roughly 38% share on major industry charts such as Billboard's top 200 from 2012 to 2020. This disparity highlights a systemic underappreciation for genres associated with diverse artists, influenced by the site's predominantly white, male user base. Gender imbalances further exacerbate these issues, with the platform's ratings reflecting a male-dominated perspective. In the top 50 all-time albums, only three feature female vocalists, with Björk's ranking lowest at 31st; queer artists fare even worse, with just three in the top 100 and none identifying as female, queer, or trans until much lower placements like Big Thief at 398th. Such patterns stem from broader cultural gatekeeping and misogynistic tendencies within the community, where veteran users often dismiss or underrate works by women and underrepresented groups unless they align with established indie/rock canons. Usability challenges have long plagued the site, especially prior to the Sonemic integration, which aimed to modernize the platform. The pre-update interface was described as outdated and clunky, hindering navigation for newcomers and contributing to a steep ; mobile responsiveness was particularly poor, with frequent search glitches and inefficient data loading reported in evaluations. These issues limited broader adoption, as the site's dense, text-heavy felt archaic compared to platforms. Sonemic's updates, including improved search engines and speed optimizations, addressed some of these pain points, though remnants of the original layout persist. Community dynamics have also drawn scrutiny for fostering toxicity, including edit wars over catalog entries and gatekeeping by long-time users that alienates newcomers. This , often rooted in and queerphobia, discourages diverse participation and perpetuates biases in moderation, with a noted lack of and racial diversity among site administrators. In response, 2024 forum reforms introduced stricter guidelines on disputes and contributions to mitigate these conflicts, though challenges remain. Reception of the platform is mixed, with praise for its encyclopedic depth in niche genres but critiques for creating "" effects in user reviews, where like-minded opinions reinforce narrow tastes and amplify biases. While outlets like have noted the softening of overall due to community pressures, Rate Your Music exemplifies how user-driven aggregation can both enrich discovery and entrench subjective limitations.

Comparisons to Similar Platforms

Rate Your Music (RYM) distinguishes itself from primarily through its focus on user-generated ratings and detailed genre classifications, rather than the latter's emphasis on marketplace transactions and cataloging. Both platforms maintain collaborative databases of releases, enabling users to contribute and edit entries, but integrates real-time pricing data for vinyl records, CDs, and other formats to support buying and selling, a functionality not present in RYM. In contrast, RYM prioritizes subjective evaluations and taxonomic organization, allowing users to explore through community-curated hierarchies without commercial elements. Compared to , RYM relies on manual user input for cataloging and rating albums, artists, and tracks, fostering deliberate engagement over the automated tracking inherent to Last.fm's scrobbling system. Last.fm passively records listening habits from integrated music players to generate personalized statistics, charts, and recommendations based on play counts, whereas RYM's approach encourages active contribution to a shared without requiring playback integration. This manual process on RYM contributes to its charts' role in shaping user-driven tastemaking within niche music communities. In relation to professionally curated platforms like and , RYM operates as a community-driven aggregator of user votes, leading to rankings that often diverge from expert consensus. provides editorial reviews and scores by music critics, emphasizing cultural and artistic analysis, while compiles weighted averages from hundreds of professional publications to rank albums historically. For instance, RYM's 2025 top albums chart highlights user-favored releases such as those by emerging acts in experimental genres, contrasting with 's mid-year selections like Rosalía's LUX and Black Eyes' Hostile Design, which prioritize critical acclaim for innovation and production. These differences underscore RYM's democratic model, where aggregate user opinions can elevate underground or genre-specific works over mainstream critical darlings. RYM's unique strengths include extensive, user-contributed histories for music genres and subgenres, providing encyclopedic depth freely accessible without subscription barriers, unlike the ad-supported free tier of streaming services. However, it offers less advanced algorithmic personalization than 's 2025 tools, such as genre-filtered Discover Weekly playlists and AI-driven recommendations that adapt in real-time to listening patterns. While employs to suggest tracks based on and audio analysis, RYM's discovery relies more on static charts and user lists, appealing to those seeking curated, community-validated explorations over automated curation.

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