I am going to talk about the monthly statistics again, but I am going to skip a few months: that's right, no drill down statistics for January, February and March 2020. The reason is that Discogs had changed the dump format and I first needed to fix my scripts and give them a good brush up. The dump file that I researched contains the data as it was on May 1 2020 (I think as it was at 00:00 UTC, but I am not entirely sure). I compared this to the database from April 1 2020. there were 12,458,766 releases up from 12,302,145 releases, so that's 156,621 more 159,735 releases were added 3,114 releases were removed 11,676,243 releases stayed the same 622,788 releases were modified The modifications in the database were distributed across the data as follows: Releases in Discogs changed in April 2020 As I found out recently there are certain edits that are not very relevant , such as the YouTube links. These are irrelevant for me. The 268,187 releases with only irrelevant edits can
Time to return to an older subject: ISRC codes. I have written about ISRC codes before so if you don't know what I am talking about, you might want to read the older posts first and then return to this one. I wondered how in the past few months the number of obvious ISRC errors would have gone down. In my previous post about this subject I saw a massive decrease: May 2019 dump: 22,391 releases June 2019 dump: 21,096 releases July 2019 dump: 19,214 releases August 2019 dump: 15,161 releases September 2019 dump: 13,390 releases October 2019 dump: 12,090 releases November 2019 dump: 11,360 releases December 2019 dump: 10,578 releases January 2020 dump: 8,893 releases and I wanted to know if this trend continued: February 2020 dump: 6,840 releases (but this dump covered changes in January and most of February, not just January) March 2020 dump: 6,722 releases April 2020 dump: 6,468 releases May 2020 dump: 6,313 releases The trend is still downwards, but the pace seems to have slowed