id roughly say my 9s are probably most peoples 8s but it might be lower.

i think im rating kind of like grades. i really use a 5/5 system (doubled it in this post to make it into a 10/10 to show more of the separation) so if you convert that to grades i think it makes more sense.

5 - A+/100%
4.5 - A/90%
4 - B
3 - C
2 - D
1 - F

if i dont hate something its getting a 3. if something really irritates my then i might give it a 2. not sure when i give a 1. so if you think in terms of school, if you get a C youre kind of bummed, especially if you tried. its serviceable though. anything lower is pretty bad. a B? thats pretty good but youre not getting any gold stars lol. As are the ones you really need to focus on and thats where separation between them is more important.

maybe i should just switch to using letter grades lol

the other side is i dont think pure numerical ratings really reflect how good a whole project is. if we take Kota as an example, i think basically every song on Everything was great so that explains the high rating. yet i love FOTO much more and looking back at my score for it i rated it slightly lower. if i forgot about the average ratings id say FOTO is deserving of 4.5 mics while Everything was more of a 4.

kind of the same thing with Miles this year, that is probably a top 5 album/project for me in the year. meaning it hit me the most and will stay with me. since it has so many songs some of the lower points brought down its rating yet it doesnt impact how much i love the album.

so for now the ratings help me keep track of which albums i want keep coming back to and which tracks will stay in rotation. so before posting this list i went back and listened to all the albums i had rated higher than 4.5 out of 5. adjusted song ratings as needed. i found i really liked all of them except for maybe the last 5 to 10 of them which were more hit or miss.