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Community music database and ratings website

Rate Your Music

Rate Your Music is a community music database where users catalog, rate, review, chart, and discover albums, artists, tracks, and genres.

Core use
Rate Your Music is used to catalog music, rate releases, write reviews, browse charts, and discover new artists and genres.
Community role
Sonemic describes Rate Your Music as one of the largest music databases and communities online.
Current project
The Sonemic project is an ongoing effort to modernize Rate Your Music with improved charts, cataloging, recommendations, and future APIs.
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What Rate Your Music is

Rate Your Music is a community music database and ratings website for cataloging, reviewing, charting, and discovering music. On Rate Your Music, users can explore albums, artists, genres, charts, lists, ratings, reviews, and community-built music data.

How people use it

A listener might use Rate Your Music to track albums they have heard, rate releases, write reviews, create lists, compare charts, follow genres, or discover unfamiliar music through community rankings. The site is especially useful for listeners who like cataloging and exploring beyond mainstream recommendations.

Charts and discovery

Sonemic says its chart work is now part of Rate Your Music, with filters for descriptors, subgenres, language, labels, release types, daily charts, popularity weighting, and other discovery controls. These chart tools help users move from a broad genre or decade to more specific scenes and releases.

Cataloging and community data

Rate Your Music relies on a community-built catalog and user activity. Releases, artists, genre tags, ratings, reviews, lists, and corrections all become part of how the site organizes music. Sonemic also describes a planned improved cataloging system for filtering, sorting, searching, editing, and cataloging collections.

The Sonemic project

Sonemic is the project to update and improve Rate Your Music. It was originally planned as a separate site, but Sonemic says the team decided in November 2020 to upgrade Rate Your Music itself, one feature at a time, so users could benefit as features were completed.

Why it matters

Rate Your Music gives music discovery a public, community-shaped structure. Instead of relying only on streaming algorithms or professional critics, users can compare large numbers of listener ratings, reviews, lists, genre votes, and charts across eras and scenes.

Limits and cautions

Community ratings can be powerful, but they are not neutral measurements. Scores can be shaped by fan campaigns, small sample sizes, genre bias, recency, controversy, and the tastes of active users. Catalog data can also be incomplete or disputed, especially for obscure releases.

WHOIS domain data

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Domain
rateyourmusic.com
IP address
172.66.174.245
Registrar
easyDNS Technologies Inc.
WHOIS server
whois.easydns.com
Referral URL
http://www.easydns.com
Created
December 28, 2000
Updated
December 13, 2025
Expires
December 28, 2026
Nameservers
jean.ns.cloudflare.com (108.162.192.121); julian.ns.cloudflare.com (108.162.195.94)
Domain status
clientTransferProhibited; clientUpdateProhibited
Contact listing
Registrant name is listed as Julien Sharifi and organization as Sonemic, Inc.; address, phone, fax, and email are redacted for privacy.