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October 30, 2026

Song search copes with a misspelled artist

• Searching for a song title with the artist's name spelled a little differently, like "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman Brian Adams", now puts Bryan Adams' recordings first. Before, a misspelled name made every result count as a poor match, and the song ended up far down the list under older songs with similar titles.
• When nothing matches what you typed exactly, results now keep Apple's own order, which usually has the right artist first.
• The plain-text answers for assistants also correct a misspelled artist and say so.
• Later the same evening: song and album search now also asks Apple Music's own search, the one the Music app uses, which ranks results better than the older search the page used alone. Albums it used to miss, like The Tragically Hip's Road Apples, now come straight back.
• Artist names that sound the same but are spelled differently now count as a match, which helps when searching by dictation: Steven or Stephen Stills, Neal or Neil Diamond, Brian or Bryan Adams.
• Apostrophes no longer split words, so "youre" finds "You're".

October 28, 2026

Easier to read on big screens

• Text and spacing now grow a little on large monitors, so the page no longer sits in a narrow strip in the middle of a big screen. Your browser's own text size setting still applies.

A shorter list of other sites

• "More sites by Brett" at the bottom of the page now shows a few related sites and a link to all of them, instead of every site.

October 27, 2026

Icons in the artist facts

• The facts at the top of About the artist (born, died, origin, genres, years active, labels, members and so on) now have a small icon beside each label, to make the list easier to scan by eye.
• The icons are decoration only. Screen readers read the facts exactly as before.

October 26, 2026

Billboard genre charts, and Mexico, Argentina and Brazil

• 13 Billboard genre charts: Mainstream Rock, Alternative Airplay, Adult Contemporary, the dance chart, Hot Latin Songs, Regional Mexican, Hot Christian Songs and Smooth Jazz, plus the country, R&B and hip-hop, Latin, Christian and dance/electronic album charts.
• They're off by default. Turn them on under Choose charts, in the Genre charts group, or with the Add all genre charts button.
• New country charts: Mexican singles and albums, Argentine singles and Brazilian singles. Wikipedia's lists for these have gaps, and each chart says which years it covers.
• When a list stops short of today, the weeks at number one now say so instead of counting on to the present.

Classical music

• A new Classical music section: search for a composer or a work. A composer shows their best-known works, most popular first; a work shows its recordings, grouped by album with their movements, complete recordings first and arrangements last.
• Work pages show the composer's birth and death years.
• Composers and works come from Open Opus; recordings and previews come from Apple.

Which version is which

• Song search now labels each version: mono, stereo, single version, remastered (with the year), new mix, live (with the venue), early or alternate take, or re-recording.
• Different versions on the same album are listed separately instead of being folded into one.
• Opening a chart hit picks the single or original version first.

October 25, 2026

23 more charts

• Album charts for Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand and Switzerland.
• Singles charts for Austria, Belgium (Flanders), Denmark, Finland, Italy, Japan (Oricon and Billboard Japan), Norway, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, and the Billboard Global 200.
• Number ones for a date are now grouped into singles, then albums, and there's an Albums only button.

More accurate number ones and song search

• Weeks at number one are now counted across every run at the top and across years, so a song back at number one after a break gets its true total.
• Wikipedia's placeholder row for next week's chart is no longer read as a number one.
• Song pages say whose recording the Wikipedia article describes, so a cover isn't shown with the original's details.
• Song search keeps every version, original first. Each artist shows up to 6 versions, and the rest are under a "More versions by" fold, so every artist appears in the results.

October 24, 2026

Albums Apple's search misses

• Some albums don't turn up in Apple's album search by title (Road Apples by The Tragically Hip, for one). The site now also looks for the album's songs and finds the album that way.
• Album pages and assistant answers that need Apple's catalog now load more reliably.

Fresher chart peaks

• Chart peaks for current songs and albums are checked more often, so a release that's still climbing shows its latest peak sooner.
• Albums whose Wikipedia chart table is headed "Chart peak positions" or "Chart positions" now show their peaks.

Easier-to-read number-one badge

• The gold number-one badge now uses black text, which has much better contrast than the white it had before. The sentence beside it still says the position.

October 19, 2026

American Top 40 countdowns

• The whole American Top 40 countdown for any weekend since Casey Kasem's first show on July 4, 1970: all 40 songs with how they moved, the songs that dropped off, and the week's stats such as the biggest jump and the debuts.
• List it number 1 first, or 40 to 1 as the show counted it. "This week in" buttons jump to the same weekend in past years.
• A note says which chart the show counted down in that era. Read from The Real American Top 40 fan wiki, with a link to each week's page. Long Distance Dedications and special shows aren't included.

Year-end charts

• Billboard's year-end singles chart for any year from 1946: the Year-End Hot 100 from 1959, and the shorter top 30 or 50 lists before that.
• It's a button in A year of number ones, and the two pages link to each other.

October 17, 2026

A tidier footer

• The footer is now grouped under short headings: Support, Data and thanks, Tools, and More sites by Brett, with links to each data source.
• There's a Ko-fi link for anyone who'd like to help cover hosting. The site stays free and ad-free.

October 16, 2026

Ask your assistant

• AI assistants can now read the site's answers in plain text, for example what was number one on a date, a song's chart peaks or an artist's hits. llms.txt explains how.
• Results now arrive with the page itself, before the script finishes loading, which helps on slow connections and older screen readers. A link to a date, artist or year shows its answer right away.
• The footer links to the weather site at accessibleweather.com.

October 13, 2026

Cash Box Top 100

• Cash Box magazine's pop chart, a rival to Billboard, from 1950 to its last chart on November 16, 1996. Later dates say the chart had ended.
• If you had saved your chart choices, new charts start out ticked.

Fuller song and album pages

• Song and album pages now carry the whole Wikipedia article: every detail from the info box, the previous and next release, the singles, and every section such as background, track listing and personnel.
• The fact sheet includes all of it in plain text.
• EPs are found more reliably, and a self-titled release no longer shows the band's own article.

October 12, 2026

About the artist

• The artist section now starts with the artist's Wikipedia biography: origin, years active, genres, labels and members, the introduction, and the full history under a disclosure you can copy or save as text.
• Pronunciation guides are left out of the introduction, so screen readers don't read out phonetic symbols.

Fact sheets and Clear buttons

• Every song and album page has a plain-text fact sheet (writers, producer, recording, background and personnel) that you can copy or save.
• The song and album search and the artist search have Clear buttons. Clearing also drops the search from the address, so it doesn't come back the next time you open the page.
• Lengths over an hour show as hours, minutes and seconds.

October 11, 2026

First version

• What was number one on any date, a song's or album's release date and chart peaks with track lists and 30-second previews, a year of number ones on one chart, and what's popular on Apple Music right now.
• An artist's chart history from their Wikipedia discography, and a history of the countdown shows and their hosts.
• Every chart picture and icon is hidden from screen readers and paired with a sentence that says the same thing.