I suggest expanding / separating international music genres. African music, for example, now has several very prominent, and very distinctive sub genres in the mainstream that are not represented here (Afrobeat, Afrobeats, Afro-pop, High Life, Amapiano, etc) that it should stand alone as a category, the way Latin is a standalone genre.

Overall, Allmusic's coverage of underrepresented voices is good especially for major-label artists that other publications also cover.  Major labels are rarely willing to take a chance on underrepresented voices, and their marketers may not know how to market music that doesn't fit programmed radio formats.  So simply advancing from indie releases to a record label's backing is a career milestone for underrepresented voices!  Sunny War has just reached that milestone, and many publications have reviewed her new release.

Jake Blount has also reached that milestone, but I suspect that your editors slighted his release because they still consider Folkways Recordings

Allmusic blogged about a "new wave of Cosmic Americana".  If Advance Search adds instruments as a filter, then pedal steel guitar can be combined with filters for "album moods" (and possibly "genres & styles") to try returning albums that could exemplify that undefined style.

Zac explained: "Some albums tend to be announced, released, charting, and then practically forgotten within a matter of days, so we’re trying to prioritize coverage on the ones with some staying power."  Given a cut in the number of reviews, I agree with his theoretical explanation of Allmusic's priority.  Unfortunately in practice, Allmusic hasn't been very good adhering to that explanation.

In terms of recording types, I'd prefer that Allmusic first prioritize reviews of original recordings (and reissues).  There can be few exceptions to this first priority if a live album or cover/tribute album is exceptional.  Even with original recordings

User reviews are mostly useful and helpful. However, I see way too many 1/2 start or 1 star review for albums that have average critic and user reviews of four stars or higher. Why do you allow those when clearly these people have agendas against the artist or genre and very likely didn't even listen to the album? You should at least require they explain themselves instead of one sentence comments. The latest I saw was Jessie Ware/That feels good, but there are many examples.

Please consider having a middle of the year "best of 202# so far...". Wouldn't need to be as extensive as the year end review, maybe a handful of albums from each of your critics. It would be a nice way to catch up with albums you highly recommend that people may have overlooked rather than wait 'til the end of the year. thanks.

All Music must do away with the “Thumbs Down” feature as there are trolls that “thumbs down” many of the truly informative reviews just for the sake of the feature being there.  The worthless reviews often stay up while I’ve had many posts removed. Is this something the admins can check on? 

Please put the "best songs" recommendations back in for each album.  That was my single most used feature.  Why would you take that out?

Firstly I will say that I'm your paid subscriber and that the wealth of information on your website is extremely valuable for me. I couldn't imagine my life without allmusic.com. Now about the new design, I have few comments to make while I still remember how the old site was. Search field I think is unnecessarily long, secondly sorting before was possible with a single click on a header. Now you have to click once on the pull-down menu and then 2nd time on the actual attribute. To me that sounds like double the work. Also before when I saw

In Advanced Search, please add release info.  I'm particularly interested in release info's "tribute" tag, because editorial coverage of tribute albums has been diminishing.

Since the mobile-only redesign has disabled tooltips, desktop users can no longer peek into a search result within the same tab.  Tooltips previously made it possible to quickly identify which results have editor and user ratings.  It was especially useful when searching an album series or versions.

Without tooltips, I have to open every result in a new tab while keeping the results tab open.  Unfortunately, this workaround slows down my browser and can even crash it if its bandwidth overloads.  Instead of this problematic workaround, can editor and user ratings as well as review icons (indicating an editor review)

"Indie releases" are increasing, and more artists are self-releasing (or basically doing so with a dedicated label owned by their patron).  Allmusic is unable to capture many indie releases, because they usually aren't distributed by major distributors.  Since Allmusic doesn't accept data contributions from users, I suggest at least adding Bandcamp as a data feed to partially address this data need.

A database is only as good as the quality of its data and metadata (neither of which include bios or reviews).  The existing process for manual data-entry has been inconsistent, incomplete and imperfect.  When users follow Xperi's instruction for product submissions, data-entry can still be incomplete.

Every Xperi employee seems to use his/her judgment on how to perform data-entry, because there are apparently no guidelines.  For example, data-entry can list a duo's albums under the discographies of: each artist as an individual primary artist; the duo as a performing entity but not under each artist individually; or both (cross-listing).  Similarly

The band Saxon is one of the best and most consistent metal bands out there and the albums ''Battering Ram'' , ''Thunderbolt'', ''Inspirations'', ''Carpe Diem'', ''More Inspirations'' and the upcoming ''Hell, Fire And Damnation'' do not have ratings on your website. I hope you could listen to them and review them on the website because i would like that very much, and i think they deserve that because they're so fricking great.

Can't FIND a way to notify you of incorrect INFO! Incorrect info on page - Oscar Peterson At Carnegie Hall (1952) Mercury – MG C-107 [recorded Sept 18 1949-NYC released 1952] no pic, no info.

WHY can i log into ALLMUSIC, but can't give you INFO about BAD INFO on your site? (must log into ALLMEDIA network which apparently does not use same log in?

As a 50+ year old lifetime music fan, record buyer, songwriter and musician, I discovered long ago -- The only thing your site is good for is a reference guide for album dates, track listings, and personnel. All of which can be much easier and quickly obtainable through Wikipedia.

Your All Music reviews are mostly uneducated reports written by young people who never followed the band or have no experience with them. Perfect example is Eduardo Rivadavia's review of UFO - Phenomenon (1974) a landmark rock album https://www.allmusic.com/album/phenomenon-mw0000651879

If you surveyed thousands of UFO fans, they would likely tell you

The site is illegible due to ad placement. Put a banner at the top and bottom. Embedding them under discography is shitty practice, folks. Stop forcing ads. Place them elegantly and let the ad do the rest. It feels like a pirate streaming site now. I sent links to friends who are not users, and they always send me a message "I left, all the ads made me think I was going to get malware on my phone." At what point to you listen to customer feedback over non-effective ad revenue? Seems like a no-brainer. I come back a few

This is Day 1 of my repeated requests to offer a membership tier where I do not have to navigate ads. Please offer a subscription model. You have to offer either a subscription model or ad del. It is not honorable to spam subscribers by doing both. It's an age-old adage. 

Missing album: New (2023) double LP version of album "Liquored Up and Laquered Down" by Southern Culture on the Skids is not in your database.

Released on October 16, 2023, the 2 LP version of "Liquored Up and Laquered Down" with four "bonus songs" is available from their merch store -- online and at venues. Online purchases includes a digital download.

This would be an new "release" of this AllMusic entry: https://www.allmusic.com/album/liquored-up-and-laquered-down-mw0000620736

...or perhaps a new item, as it has additional tracks.

See new release at link below: https://stores.portmerch.com/southerncultureontheskids/featured-products/liquored-up-lp.html/