Reviews And The Best Of 2025

I've had a few questions about 2026 Reviews and when they will appear on here. They are being written in down time, but none will appear until the end of the Best Of 2025 posts. There are a lot to come. We carried over 20 odd 2026 releases from last year and loads more albums are coming in.

The reason for this is two fold. It allows us to concentrate time on completing 2025 and gives followers time to discover the albums. But most importantly, we don't want any new review to get lost in the melee of the Best Of Posts. It does mean that there is a delay in people leaning about and listening to the latest albums. But you know they will be coming.

We changed the way the Best Of Year is posted this time round. It is the most popular thing we do and takes up the most time. We don't ever want to so a list with no signposts, because not every album gets the attention it deserves, particularly albums further down the countdown. Posting 10 rather than 20 a day allowed greater focus on all the albums and you know that we post the full list at the end.

71 - 80 yesterday was up later due to a much later shift in my real life work. I knew this was going to happen, so I thought I'd look at how the new format was working. There was only 20 albums posted at that time. Being in an office without any streaming allowed due to work set online restrictions allowed me to dig further.

The early indications are that the posts are working exactly as we wanted and why we made the change. It is too much to do it across all posts, but circumstances meant it was a good time to do it. The early indications are really good.

There seems to be much less action than the past on the two individual posts. But a massive increase on the 20 Reviews. This is exactly what we wanted and why the reviews have a separate link rather than a summary. It also stops the posts from becoming too long and unwieldy. The overall affect is that site numbers for the two posts are massively up. Over 500% up on last year. Followers viewing all the albums was the main aim and that is the reason why the links open to another window.

Thanks as always for the support. I know that uninterested social media readers may get a little irritated by the daily posts, but it is normally much less social media wise from us. Four Listening To This Week posts and two Review summaries per month and this only lasts for a fortnight. Today's Best Of features Numbers 61-70 and will be up this evening.

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