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How publishing and the aimusiclist chart work
What happens when you tick “publish”, and how the Top 100 counts real listeners fairly.
Publishing
- Everything you upload is always on your own site.
- Songs with “Also publish on aimusiclist.com” ticked (on by default) are also listed on aimusiclist.com.
- The first time you publish, your site registers itself. No sign-up, no waiting for approval.
- Changes show up within about a minute. Untick a song and it leaves aimusiclist right away — including the chart.
- aimusiclist never stores your song files. It reads your list and plays the songs from your site.
- Albums with 10 to 30 songs can be published. Publishing an album publishes its songs too.
The chart: count people, not repeats
The chart is built like the big music charts: what matters is how many different people listened, not how many times one person pressed play.
| Rule | What it means |
|---|---|
| 30 seconds | A play counts only after 30 real seconds (skipped parts don't count). |
| Once a day per person | The same person playing the same song again within 24 hours counts once. |
| 50 songs a day | One listener can add to at most 50 songs per day. |
| Everyone is equal | Your own plays count like anyone else's — once per 24 hours. |
| No limit per artist | If people love five of your songs, all five can be in the Top 100. |
Score for a day
- Member play: 1 point
- Guest play: 0.5 point
- A member adds the song to a playlist: 2 points (once per member, ever)
- Accounts younger than 24 hours count half.
The weekly Top 100 adds up the last 7 days. The daily chart uses the last day. Charts are calculated once a day at 03:00 Korea time. Ties go to the song with more different listeners, then the one aimusiclist saw first.
Keeping it fair
- Plays are checked by the server (a signed start ticket and real elapsed time).
- Too many plays from one IP address on one song are kept as “suspicious” and not counted.
- Unusual patterns — most plays from one or two places, or mostly brand-new accounts — are put on hold and reviewed.
- Plays on your own site don't count. Only plays on aimusiclist.com can be checked, so only those are counted.
See the chart on aimusiclist.com.