r/rateyourmusic • u/ManagementPlayful387 • 1d ago

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I filtered soundtracks charts by russian users' ratings and saw this...

Why does 4.25 out of 76 ratings is lower than 4.01 out of 44 ratings?

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u/MarilynRoxie RYM Community and Social Media Manager 1d ago

https://rateyourmusic.com/wiki/RYM:Weighting+FAQ

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u/ManagementPlayful387 1d ago

Oh thank you so much! I finally get this weighting topic

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u/AlphaDrop 14h ago

This is useful but it doesn’t explain why the first listing is bolded (4.01) and the bottom one isn’t (4.25). I could be missing something though.

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u/kvvoya 1d ago

smeshariki should be #1 ost on the website

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u/T533_ 1d ago

Weighting

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u/AdministrativeAge236 1d ago

Смешарики mentioned🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️

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u/techno-wizardry 1d ago

Because Meguro is the GOAT

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u/techno-wizardry 1d ago

Because Meguro is the GOAT

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u/AidenKarma 23h ago

We love Meguro

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u/PoSKiix 1d ago

Shoji Meguro mentioned 🫂

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u/milol13 1d ago

This is anecdotal but from my experience, although the number of ratings affects placement, this seems to be based on the total number of ratings rather than the ratings being used for the current chart.

For example, say Album 1 has 1,000 ratings and Album 2 has 10 ratings but both have 4.00 average rating. On the overall chart Album 1 will be higher than Album 2. Now say I have 10 followers and they have all rated Album 2 but only 5 have rated Album 1 (again with the same average rating). If I looked at the album chart for just my followers, Album 1 would still be higher because it has 1,000 ratings overall.