You are destroying your website, which has been drowned in a sea of intrusive and annoying advertising. Allmusic used to be my favourite music website, and I used it for many years for teaching and research.

Now, I'd rather use Wikipedia, which has more comprehensive information without the advertising overkill. Your website is dying, and only the website managers can save it. Limit advertising, update information, or your supporters will abandon you.

The web page jumps around, presumably when you display adverts. The site is becoming unreadable and I am visiting less and less often. This is on wndos PC, windows lap top, macbook and android phone using chrome and opera.

Or find a way to display ads of a certain size so the page doesn't have to continually adjust. 

Hello, I have noticed a glaring issue with the discography for Mariah Carey. Other female artists (Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Lil’ Kim, TLC, Aaliyah, Mary J. Blige, Madonna, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Donna Summer, Britney Spears - compilation, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, etc.) have appropriately had album scores updated to five stars to reflect their respective classic albums, but this has not been done for Carey despite her level of influence and her insanely high-quality discography. It seems inexplicable that albums like Butterfly, Emancipation of Mimi, Daydream, Greatest Hits have not been updated to five stars to reflect their quality, influence, and

I’m a 20+ year user of this site. Your desire to induce people to sign up for memberships is killing what was once the best musical resource on the internet. Now, it’s literally unusable, with ads covering content. It’s sad. I’ve loved Steve Erlewine’s work. I’m sure this doesn’t make him happy. 

Please fix this. Its become unusable. 

I don't think there is anything intrinsically wrong with tiers of service. Quite the opposite, it is a way of making things economical for people.  Having a free tier and a paid tier is also fair, and clever.  You hook your customer, they love using the site, and eventually want more features unlocked.  You should do that, or just offer a paid service.  What you do right now is cruel and insulting.  I see sites and apps where you can use for free with advertising, or pay and have a cleaner experience, or with less delays.  Sometimes sites get greedy:

TL;DR: A certain AllMusic user's spammy reviews (41200+ reviews in <4 years) have made AllMusic a less useful, more hostile place to visit. This post requests that some sort of mitigating action be taken.

(Feel free to reach out if you want the specific username, but I'm sure you're already aware of this person. Hint: they review a lot of metal acts.)

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A certain AllMusic user has posted over 41200 reviews since November 9, 2019—that is, nearly 30 reviews a day for 3.8 years. With few exceptions, the reviews are content-free and negative/dismissive. Almost none of them demonstrate even

I’m a 20+ year user of this site. Your desire to induce people to sign up for memberships is killing what was once the best musical resource on the internet. Now, it’s literally unusable, with ads covering content. It’s sad. I’ve loved Steve Erlewine’s work. I’m sure this doesn’t make him happy. 

Like the artist filter, please add a title filter to Advanced Search.  If I can filter by title, then I can sort niche albums.  For example, I want to sort the highest rated "unplugged" title or "tribute" titles.

Airplay

Can we use this forum as a place to request new discography entries? I've noticed a handful of recent albums that seem to have missed AllMusic's radar. It may be because they haven't been physical released yet though they have all been made available digitally. Users who have already had a chance to listen to these albums may also appreciate being able to rate them. Here are the missing albums:

Boris - 'No' [Sources - Official Site | Bandcamp] Chloe x Halle - 'Ungodly Hour' [Sources - Official Store | Soundcloud] Nicolas Jaar - 'Telas' [Sources - Official Site |

Can you forward a request to the editorial team? It's a small list of recent albums to be considered for review. These artists have all had at least one of their previous albums reviewed by AllMusic and their new album seems to be quite popular amongst users:

• Iris DeMent - Workin' on a World
• The Murder Capital - Gigi's Recovery
• Ryuichi Sakamoto - 12
• Sunny War - Anarchist Gospel

In addition, could you find out if their are plans to review these two albums? Both have already been released digitally, though the AllMusic website notes that they are still awaiting

It is disappointing to see that All Music engages in censorship.

In response to the review of Ryan Adams new album in which the reviewer didn't actually discuss the merits of the record but instead focused on the controversy surrounding the artist, I wrote the following:

”Well, that is an embarrassing non-review by All Music. I get it: Ryan Adams is a creep. But you know what? Many if not most artists are creeps. Is All Music going to go back and down review records put out by Jerry Lee Lewis? Led Zepplin? Phil Spector?  

Wednesdays is a fascinating

I haven't received weekly news letter for a month (the last one I got was dated June 6th), I checked the settings and resubmitted it but there was no change. Is there anything I can do about it? 

A reviewer by name of Simone Appolini is going around review bombing AllMusic leaving useless one-star or two reviews. At first I thought it was just a bitter reviewer and paid no heed till I saw their negative reviews everywhere. Nearly every album I have reviewed I have seen their negative reviews. Now there might not be anything against policy with repeatedly dropping negative reviews, if it weren't for the repetitive construction of their "reviews".

As another report presented (link below), here is how the reviews are patterned most of the time.

The band's [year] album, [title], - isn't any different from

I have a paid subscription yet am still being bombarded with ads. The site is no longer usable. How do I get a refund for the remainder of my subscription?

... until Simone Appolloni poisened all the reviews. It's meaningless now.

Hello,

I'm observing long pauses on loading band pages and discography pages. I'm a subscriber (have been for years), so it doesn't seem to be ad related. I took some network traces, and it seems to be samples.json that is taking a while to load. On three pages I loaded (the pages for Kool & the Gang, Big Black, and the Melvins, and yes, that's quite a trio), samples.json took about 4 seconds to load twice, and then 19s. I've attached screen shots of the network traces here.

Since some (especially older) albums are missing metadata for styles, please include the artist's styles when filtering in Advanced Search.