Hello :)

I have one question.

There is a database with songs, albums and artists. Users can download songs and number of downloads for each songs in recorded.

What I want to do is to rate artists and albums on song download.

Here is a question.

Is it logical to rate Artists only by song downloads?

Example.

Artist1 was added in July and has been downloaded more than other Artists till say September. Since that time Artist1 is most downloaded artist.

Artist2 was added in December and was downloaded more than others too but did not get as many downloads as Artist1 in July.

According to download count of each Artist - Artist1 will be on the first place in the rating, which seems not to be fair.

Does this sound logical to you?

Thanks

Well, have 2 parts.. a overall top downloaded artist, and a top downloaded artist this month-and just select all the votes that were made that month and evaluate those.

How about rating them by downloads per day...

If you tally the total downloads for an atrist, then divide that number by the number of days the artist has existed in the database, it will give you an average downloads per day

Indeed, total downloads is not overly useful -- you need to consider the time factor, which This Month and This Week charts do implicitly. You may want to use the average downloads/time of all of the songs so artists are not penalized for only having a few songs available.

Originally posted by Xenatino
How about rating them by downloads per day...

If you tally the total downloads for an atrist, then divide that number by the number of days the artist has existed in the database, it will give you an average downloads per day

Not a bad idea to calculate average downloads per day.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks

You could divide the number of downloads for one artist by the amount of time he has been on for.

How about a listing of the most popular album? This would be the album that has an average of x amount of songs downloaded over y period of time.

You could even create something like "This month's mix" album..which would be the top 12 tracks for that month by popularity/downloads.

Great idea fyrestrtr!

I think I will make "Album of the month!"