Changelog

Changelog

What changed, dated. A new feature or a new pressing gets a paragraph here the day it ships. The daily chart and the weekly pressing keep their own clocks.

  1. FALL CLASSIC set over album covers from the pressing, Astral Weeks with its record sliding out, while maple leaves fall.
    2026-10-01 · Release

    Pressing 006: Fall Classic

    Sixty songs for the first of October, in seven sides that climb and come back down, Van Morrison to the Great Pumpkin Waltz.

    Play Fall Classic
  2. 2026-10-01

    Favorites: a heart on every record

    Tap the heart on any record to keep it. Your favorites live at the top right, on this device. The crate is now Favorites, and /crate takes you there.

    See it at /favorites
  3. A brown Zune 30 music player, screened into a two-ink halftone.
    2026-09-16 · Release

    Pressing 005: Star-Lord's Zune

    The three hundred feel-good songs a Redditor loaded onto a fictional Zune in 2019, reprinted with a map. The globe flies to where each maker is from as the song comes round, Detroit to Brighton to Kingston.

    See it on the map
  4. 2026-09-15

    A letter per country

    Open a country on the map and ask for its week: what climbed there, what arrived, and where it stands, on Friday, on top of the pressing. The ask on the edition now sits under the chart, where the movers are.

    See it on the map
  5. 2026-09-10

    In edits: the songs under a show's edits

    When TikTok is cutting a show this week, the edition says which songs the editors are cutting it to, ranked by edits, with the most-liked edits themselves. Song and culture pages carry the whole thing.

    See the front page
  6. A globe drawn as one ink circle, with a dotted line crossing it from stop to stop and the current stop marked in the accent ink.
    2026-09-09 · Release

    Routes are on the map

    A route is a playlist drawn as a trip: the globe flies to where each maker is from as the record plays. Pressing 004 is the first, a hundred stops.

    See it on the map
  7. Reddit's alien mascot, Snoo, screened into a two-ink halftone on an orange disc.
    2026-09-09 · Release

    Pressing 004: The Most Beautiful Songs

    A Reddit list of a hundred, reprinted with a map. Ninety-nine of them play, and the globe flies to where each maker is from as the song comes round.

    See it on the map
  8. 2026-09-08

    Who is listening, on the globe

    The map now shows who is playing what right now, and from which cities. A city is named only when it has 300,000 people or more; anywhere smaller reads as its country.

    See it on the map
  9. 2026-09-07

    The seatback speaks your units

    The weather strip under the globe prints Fahrenheit for readers in the countries that use it, the US and seven others, and Celsius for everyone else. The clock runs 12-hour for the US only.

    See it on the map
  10. 2026-09-07

    Night on the globe

    The dark side of the world gets city lights, a soft twilight band, the moon, and dusk, drawn in the seatback's own patterns.

    See it on the map
  11. 2026-09-06

    Shuffle: a loaded die

    One press lands somewhere on the globe, plays that place's record, and says why it landed there in the ledger's own words. Press again for another.

    See it on the map
  12. 2026-09-01

    Tone Plays finds the records your sound belongs in

    Pick a source sound and the analyzer matches it to records whose hooks share its voice: horns find horn hooks, a synth stab finds club records. 690 tagged songs deep.

    Open Tone Plays
  13. 2026-08-31

    STANDARDS reaches back ten years, not twenty

    The age floor for a standard dropped from twenty years to ten, so a record from 2016 that still holds fifteen markets can qualify. The first ten-year lane published September 1.

    See it on the chart