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Michael Jester (
Talk)
16:57, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Hey! I consider that, in the need to avoid confusion with single charts, instead of writing in the output "Spain (PROMUSICAE)", it should be written as "Spanish Albums Chart (PROMUSICAE)" or just "[[PROMUSICAE|Spanish Albums Chart]]". It would be better and follow the standard stablished on Wikipedia for albums. -- Hahc21 [ TALK][ CONTRIBS 17:53, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
There really should be no need to develop an EP chart. Depending on the country, they are simply classified as either "albums" or "singles" and chart accordingly. They can then just use the appropriate template. --Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars Talk to me 08:41, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
I don't think we need a category to categorize each page that uses this template. That's what the "what links here" function is for. And even if we do need it, Category:Albumchart is a horrible name for it. At the very least, the category should be a hidden, administrative category. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:44, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Before we continue with the discussion, i'd like to thank you. This discussion gives me (or us) feedback about the most suitable way to use and mantain articles using a Template. Also, as i want the template to work at its best, it provides me feedback on how to reach that status. -- Hahc21 [ TALK][ CONTRIBS 03:03, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Well, as i've now taken care of the Template, i chose the convention name to be like this:
As an example:
-- Hahc21 [ TALK][ CONTRIBS 23:19, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
There's another fix that needs to be done and it involves the Tropical Albums. For some unknown reason, Billboard messed up the Tropical Albums. Tropical Albums before the week of July 5, 2003 are instead shown on the Tropical Songs chart. Erick ( talk) 22:04, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
I would like to know what the reason was behind the display name for Top Canadian Albums. It seems like the display name should be "Canadian Albums (Billboard)" instead of "US Canadian Albums (Billboard)" because the latter seems unnecessarily confusing and it makes the table harder to sort alphabetically. Rock'N'More ( talk) 20:06, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
See here for more information. Till 01:12, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Can someone build a template for this, if possible? Till 04:54, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
The multi-reference support for the Scottish album chart doesn't seem to work. See Glassheart as an example. — Lil_℧niquℇ №1 [talk] 18:41, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
I find the naming of the charts very awkward and hard to read. I'd like to suggest the charts to be re-named as follows:
Argentinian Albums Chart
Austrian Albums Chart
Australian Albums Chart
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)
Brazilian Albums Chart
.
.
.
This is the established naming practice in all Wikipedia album articles. I think including the name of the chart in parentheses only adds unnecessary clutter to articles. Samsonite Man ( talk) 16:49, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
This was brought up at Template talk:Singlechart, so I decided to bring it up here too. Erick ( talk) 19:28, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
If I use it correctly it should link to chart chart?f=310 but it is linked instead to chart?f=406. If I change the chart in the template from "chart=Christian & Gospel Albums" to "chart=Christian Albums", which is the correct title, I get the right link. I hope I didn't damage other articles requiring the Christian & Gospel Albums chart. Walter Görlitz ( talk) 22:15, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
I wonder if we could get someone to add the UK Christian & Gospel chart to the template. HotHat ( talk) 18:20, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
I've recently added the template to the All Over the Place (Mike Stern album) article. The link to the Heatseekers chart works fine, but the link for Jazz chart leads to http://www.billboard.com/artist/311226/Mike+Stern/chart?f=921, while the Jazz chart for this artist is at http://www.billboard.com/artist/311226/Mike+Stern/chart?f=901 – so the problem is with one digit (921 instead of 901). — Mayast ( talk) 12:00, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
I'd like to propose adding "Finland2", this time with links to the website
finnishcharts
{{albumchart|Finland|21|artist=justin timberlake|album=the 20%2F20 experience 2 of 2}}
producesFinnish Albums ( Suomen virallinen lista) [1] | 21 |
Can we please change the language version in the link to the chart? It's a very simple operation.
For example, the reference for the last week's issue of the Polish chart
http://olis.onyx.pl/listy/index.asp?idlisty=865 when using the template looks like this:
But there is also an English language version of the OLiS website, all we need to do is just add "lang=en" parameter to the URL:
http://olis.onyx.pl/listy/index.asp?idlisty=865&lang=en
And then we could remove the "(In Polish)" part from the reference. —
Mayast (
talk)
23:20, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
Polish Albums ( ZPAV) [2] | 18 |
The GAON chart links needs to be changed. The album link is now this, instead of this which the template generates. — Indian:BIO · [ ChitChat ] 11:13, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
Can someone please also add UK Rock & Metal chart? The format would be the same as with other UK charts, eg. UKR&B and UKCountry, so it would use artist and date. Here's the latest issue: http://www.officialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/11/2014-06-28/ — Mayast ( talk) 18:43, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
The German charts have changed the domain name, and unfortunately the links aren't redirected to the new one correctly. I haven't checked all the chart names for Germany, just Germany3, but here's an example: the link generated by the template for Ghost Stories is http://www.charts.de/album.asp?artist=Coldplay&title=Ghost+Stories&cat=a&country=de, while the correct URL is now http://www.officialcharts.de/album.asp?artist=Coldplay&title=Ghost+Stories&cat=a&country=de. Looks like a simple modification. What's funny is that other Hung Medien websites still link to the previous domain name, as well. — Mayast ( talk) 20:14, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
On Turn_It_Up_(Josh_Thompson_album), can someone tell me why a random redlink is showing up in the Country Albums usage? I have no idea what could've gone wrong in the coding. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 20:49, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
|artistid
parameter while Billboard Top 200 seems to be working without that. I have now fixed the code in
Turn It Up (Josh Thompson album).
De728631 (
talk)
21:11, 9 July 2014 (UTC)The link for the Irish charts is incorrect, please use
irish-charts
This is hardcoded as Prometheus Global Media. There are two problems with this. First of all, it has no value in a reference - anyone trying to check the reference will get no help from knowing the publisher - only the publication name is useful. And secondly, for anything earlier than 2010, it's wrong. From 2009–10 Billboard was published by E5 Global Media, before that by Nielsen Business Media and before that by VNU, and before that by Billboard Publications. So I suggest removing the publisher from Billboard-related charts altogether. (And the
guidelines for citations and for the
cite journal
template recommend not specifying the publisher for periodicals).
Colonies Chris (
talk)
21:24, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
publisher: Name of publisher; may be wikilinked if relevant. ... Not normally used for periodicals.
|publisher=
alone until consensus has been reached.
De728631 (
talk)
18:19, 16 December 2014 (UTC)The official UK Charts Company website has been upgraded and now includes top 100 singles in the archives. [1] The Wikipedia formatting will need to be updated in order for the templates to work. QuintusPetillius ( talk) 11:40, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
Why is danishcharts.com used as archive for the Danish Album Top-40 chart when Hitlisten.NU is the official site? The archive of the Album Top-40 chart at hitlisten.nu goes back to week 1 of 2001. MsigDK ( talk) 12:58, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
For a centralised discussion, please see Template talk:Singlechart where I've posted a thread about the GfK charts and the use of their website. De728631 ( talk) 17:04, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
The UK Albums Chart now includes streaming, just like the Singles Chart. Can we add the dagger shape to the album template too? Unreal7 ( talk) 13:06, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
US Billboard 200 [1] | 82 |
Can someone explain why this template tells me the entered name is "illegal"?? Thanks, AlddiHagg0815 ( talk) 15:09, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
References
The site of Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos recently upgraded, helping to further research into albums, etc. I ask you to update the template as soon as possible. here Greetings. Pablodiego15 ( talk) 07:51, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
An error tracking category for invalid artists is proposed in this discussion. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 14:30, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Here's a project for someone with a lot of free time: many of these charts require certain parameters, and if those parameter are not present, the rendering and the URLs do not work correctly. Add tests to the template to emit a tracking category like "Albumchart missing required parameter".
For example, using "UK" without an "artist" parameter results in a non-working URL. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 06:33, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi I just tried to use Ireland2 chart identifier and the resultant reference points to a dead site.
Len TheWhite Cat 08:47, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
The link generated for Argentine charts seems to be broken. "Firefox can't find the server at adminlic.capif.org.ar." nyuszika7h ( talk) 08:08, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
The link doesn't take it to the right chart, or are there more than one? I was using the template for the album chart here at Celtic Woman: Destiny, and it gives the Billboard site here (which has no chart entry), rather than here (which has). Can someone fix this? Hzh ( talk) 22:51, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
In Forever Gentlemen this template is used twice for each of three refs, using the same ID each time, which throws up invalid ref tags errors. I tried to fix it without success. Somebody else please have a look. Jodosma (talk) 19:10, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Is there any way someone could create an album chart for the UK Christian & Gospel Albums Chart? Here's the link to the chart if it helps. [1] ilovemusic (Talk To Me!) 01:05, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
@ Matt Fitzpatrick: Do you know how to create a template for the UK Christian & Gospel Albums Chart? Ss112 said you might be able to help add it. FanofMusic (Talk to Me!) 23:20, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
References
I tried out the template at Of Dirt and Grace: Live from the Land, but it doesn't seem to work either. Do you think that it might be the chart in general? FanofMusic (Talk to Me!) 18:08, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
I don't know what happens, but it is impossible to put Agnetha's name and go to the right link of the chart page, I tried to put only Agnetha, or put the name without the "¨", but always go to a page that says no found... I think the probleam is with the ¨ that her name has. Can someone help me?! See here: Wrap Your Arms Around Me (song).-- 88marcus ( talk) 04:37, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
It works with the album charts, see: Wrap Your Arms Around Me-- 88marcus ( talk) 18:18, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
{{urlencode:}}
being used in the album charts template as well as in {{
single chart}}. As far as I can see there is no automated way to change the encoding to Windows-1252. @
Frietjes: Do you know a quick way to encode special characters accordingly?
De728631 (
talk)
22:09, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
Thank You Very Much!! S2-- 88marcus ( talk) 17:36, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
{{{dvd}}}[DVD]
" down in |FlandersMV etc. is causing trouble when the brackets are transferred to WLink?
De728631 (
talk)
17:49, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
It's not working anymore! When I did the article (9 October) it was working. Probably something with the " * ". See here: No Strings Attached (NSYNC album). Can someone help me?-- 88marcus ( talk) 18:16, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
{{urlencode:*}}
produces "%2A" in UTF-8, WLink seems to be thinking in MediaWiki syntax and wants to apply a bullet point anywhere it gets fed an asterisk.@ Frietjes: Has a recent edit to this template and Template:Single chart resulted in ampersands not being supported? Now, if an artist or song has an "&" in the artist or album parameters, it will not work (only for Hung Medien charts, like the Belgian charts, Sweden, Australia and so on). I recall that as recently as last week, it did, so I'm assuming a recent change has resulted in this error. Could this possibly be fixed? Ss 112 07:21, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
Charts that use the Hung Medien database (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland and so on) no longer appear to support use of the ampersand symbol (&), whereas until quite recently they did. Any attempt to use the symbol (outside of using the coding for it) results in a "not found" error; not sure if this was caused by a recent alteration to the code. Can this be fixed for both this and Template:Single chart? It would be very helpful, as many artist and even album parameters use this symbol. Thanks. Ss 112 18:57, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
I have added error tracking for unsupported parameters to this template. See Category:Pages using album chart with unknown parameters. A red error message appears when you Preview the article, in the chart section of the article. In the category, the articles are sorted by the name of the parameter that is unsupported.
I have added this error-checking to a number of heavily used infoboxes, and it usually goes smoothly, highlighting errors that improve the articles that end up in the category. Every once in a while, parameters are missed or something goes wrong. If that happens, don't panic, just post here and I will be happy to fix it. Revert the change if you feel that you must.
I have already found and fixed a few problems with foreign-language words being used instead of |year=
and |week=
, which would then show in the references as {{{year}}} and {{{week}}}.
If I have made any mistakes in coding, or if template changes are desired, please let me know. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 02:20, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
The Billboard R&B Albums chart appears not to have been added, and it does not work. It is however listed on page. I don't know the reason, perhaps it has been removed, can anyone clarify? I can add it but I don't want to do it without knowing first why it isn't there, or someone else can add it. Hzh ( talk) 13:42, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
The R&B Albums chart appears not to be listed in the Template:BillboardChartNum, so would need consensus to have that included in Template talk:BillboardChartNum as it is protected (few people seem to check there though). Something seems to be wrong with New Age Albums - it give the correct url for right Billboard website, but it doesn't come out right in the table. Can't see what is wrong in the script, perhaps someone else can have a look at it. Hzh ( talk) 19:22, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello, can the US Billboard Latin Pop Albums entry have its URL chart number suffix changed from "453" to "295"? It appears to be the current location of the chart; for instance, the link generated by BillboardLatinPop, if using the artist Shakira, gives http://www.billboard.com/artist/278867/Shakira/chart?f=453 as the link; however, Billboard now uses http://www.billboard.com/artist/278867/Shakira/chart?f=295. Thank you. Ss 112 03:04, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
Let's say we want to use this template for older albums which charted on charts that were not known at the time by the names the template outputs (ex. Billboard 200 used to be known as Billboard Top Pop Albums, and Billboard 200 Top Albums). Is there any way to account for this? Y2Kcrazyjoker4 ( talk • contributions) 15:19, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
Unless I've made an error somewhere, the "Germany3" option in this template no longer appears to work – it just seems to redirect to the home page of Offizielle Charts. I will probably strike the option from the template and suggest that editors use the "Germany4" option instead, unless someone comes up with a fix or tells me I'm doing something wrong. Richard3120 ( talk) 15:34, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi, the Scottish albums and singles template doesn't work anymore. It redirects to the main Scottish chart page, not to the archived chart. Could anyone fix this? Max24 ( talk) 11:59, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
@ Max24: I put the date without the "-" (beside 2000-10-22 I put 20001022) and it works!-- 88marcus ( talk) 17:16, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
Putting a date on the template for UK singlecharts or albumcharts will now automatically redirect you here. [3] Unreal7 ( talk) 22:13, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
I've found another album chart named Turkey Album Charts used in Wiki articles such as Brothers in Arms (album) that doesn't exist in the album chart template. Does anyone know if there is an official album chart for Turkey? Thanks. -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 20:47, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi all. I am seeing instances of Israel Albums Chart in articles such as The Collection (Alanis Morissette album). Problem is, I'm not sure which Israel chart it's referring to since there isn't an Israel album chart in this template. Anyone have an idea what an official Israeli album chart would be? Thanks. -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 05:38, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
Can somebody please add this one? Same URL and reference format as Czech Republic, also on the same website. Should not be too hard... -- Ali1610 ( talk) 21:18, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
Update Dutch albums chart ( MegaCharts → Album Top 100). Eurohunter ( talk) 21:56, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
The template doesn't work anymore for Billboard charts, because it changed again. There's something in progress to fix that?!-- 88marcus ( talk) 22:07, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
http://www.billboard.com/music/xxxx/chart-history/yyyyy
where xxxx
will be from the artist parameter in the template with hyphen and yyyy
will be generated from the chart name given. —
IB [
Poke ]
06:04, 24 October 2017 (UTC)![]() | This
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I would like to request that the Billboard charts get updated with the website's new URL format. I have made the changes in the sandbox and successfully tested them. Currently most charts technically fail verification as they do not redirect well.
Example change:
AS IS
| Billboard200 = {{!}} US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]{{#if: {{{3|}}} | {{#tag:ref|{{cite news|url={{{url}}}|title={{{title}}}|location={{#if:{{{location|}}}|{{{location}}}}}|work={{#if:{{{work|}}}|{{{work}}}}}|page={{#if:{{{page|}}}|{{{page}}}}}|date={{#if:{{{date|}}}|{{{date}}}}}|publisher={{#if:{{{publisher|}}}|{{{publisher}}}}}|accessdate={{#if:{{{accessdate|}}}|{{{accessdate}}}}}}}}} | {{#tag:ref|[{{BillboardURLbyName|artist={{{artist}}}|chart=Billboard 200}} "{{{artist}}} Album & Song Chart History"] [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] for {{{artist}}}. {{#if:{{{publishdate|}}}|{{{publishdate}}}. }} {{#if:{{{accessdate|}}}| Retrieved {{{accessdate}}}. }}|name={{#if:{{{refname|}}}|{{{refname}}}|"ac_{{{1|}}}_{{{artist|}}}"}}|group={{#if:{{{refgroup|}}}| "{{{refgroup}}}"}}}}}} {{Album chart/chartnote|{{{note|}}}}}
PROPOSED
| Billboard200 = {{!}} US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]{{#if: {{{3|}}} | {{#tag:ref|{{cite news|url={{{url}}}|title={{{title}}}|location={{#if:{{{location|}}}|{{{location}}}}}|work={{#if:{{{work|}}}|{{{work}}}}}|page={{#if:{{{page|}}}|{{{page}}}}}|date={{#if:{{{date|}}}|{{{date}}}}}|publisher={{#if:{{{publisher|}}}|{{{publisher}}}}}|accessdate={{#if:{{{accessdate|}}}|{{{accessdate}}}}}}}}} | {{#tag:ref|[http://www.billboard.com/music/{{#invoke:WLink|ansiPercent|{{#invoke:String|replace|{{{artist}}}|&|%26}}|space=-}}/chart-history/billboard-200 "{{{artist}}} Chart History (''Billboard'' 200)"] [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']]. {{#if:{{{publishdate|}}}|{{{publishdate}}}. }} {{#if:{{{accessdate|}}}| Retrieved {{{accessdate}}}. }}|name={{#if:{{{refname|}}}|{{{refname}}}|"ac_{{{1|}}}_{{{artist|}}}"}}|group={{#if:{{{refgroup|}}}| "{{{refgroup}}}"}}}}}} {{Album chart/chartnote|{{{note|}}}}}
Thanks! Songsteel ( talk) 22:42, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
What's happened to the UK chart template? It no longer works. You click on it and it says "This no longer exists". Turns out that it's only broken because of a plus sign and capitals instead of a space and lower-case. Unreal7 ( talk) 11:23, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
Unfortunately this still seems to be broken - the official chart company now seems to be using dashes as separators instead. I note that they also assign a number to the artist (the J Geils Band is 3307 [4]) so perhaps the template could use that instead. - Ashley Pomeroy ( talk) 14:39, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
The German charts have a lot more charts, which should be added. e.x the Hip-Hop charts [5] — Preceding unsigned comment added by TRYHARDFLY ( talk • contribs) 02:20, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
For some reason, when using the "Ireland" set of parameters, the template is not working properly to create a page name and/or URL. See Paradise Valley (album)#Weekly charts for reference. Steel1943 ( talk) 16:17, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
Please see my amazement at template:albumchart dates wrong *everywhere*? where I complain about 100's of unfixed links that are using outdated date formats for that external site.
And now I see the above topics UK chart broken links and Scottish chart broken links, so the fact that the URL formats for the external site changed was noticed, and still all the old usages were never fixed? Where should this situation be forwards to? Shenme ( talk) 07:09, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
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If anyone wants to recommend a new chart, ask on here.
—
Michael Jester (
Talk)
16:57, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Hey! I consider that, in the need to avoid confusion with single charts, instead of writing in the output "Spain (PROMUSICAE)", it should be written as "Spanish Albums Chart (PROMUSICAE)" or just "[[PROMUSICAE|Spanish Albums Chart]]". It would be better and follow the standard stablished on Wikipedia for albums. -- Hahc21 [ TALK][ CONTRIBS 17:53, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
There really should be no need to develop an EP chart. Depending on the country, they are simply classified as either "albums" or "singles" and chart accordingly. They can then just use the appropriate template. --Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars Talk to me 08:41, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
I don't think we need a category to categorize each page that uses this template. That's what the "what links here" function is for. And even if we do need it, Category:Albumchart is a horrible name for it. At the very least, the category should be a hidden, administrative category. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:44, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Before we continue with the discussion, i'd like to thank you. This discussion gives me (or us) feedback about the most suitable way to use and mantain articles using a Template. Also, as i want the template to work at its best, it provides me feedback on how to reach that status. -- Hahc21 [ TALK][ CONTRIBS 03:03, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Well, as i've now taken care of the Template, i chose the convention name to be like this:
As an example:
-- Hahc21 [ TALK][ CONTRIBS 23:19, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
There's another fix that needs to be done and it involves the Tropical Albums. For some unknown reason, Billboard messed up the Tropical Albums. Tropical Albums before the week of July 5, 2003 are instead shown on the Tropical Songs chart. Erick ( talk) 22:04, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
I would like to know what the reason was behind the display name for Top Canadian Albums. It seems like the display name should be "Canadian Albums (Billboard)" instead of "US Canadian Albums (Billboard)" because the latter seems unnecessarily confusing and it makes the table harder to sort alphabetically. Rock'N'More ( talk) 20:06, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
See here for more information. Till 01:12, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Can someone build a template for this, if possible? Till 04:54, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
The multi-reference support for the Scottish album chart doesn't seem to work. See Glassheart as an example. — Lil_℧niquℇ №1 [talk] 18:41, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
I find the naming of the charts very awkward and hard to read. I'd like to suggest the charts to be re-named as follows:
Argentinian Albums Chart
Austrian Albums Chart
Australian Albums Chart
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)
Brazilian Albums Chart
.
.
.
This is the established naming practice in all Wikipedia album articles. I think including the name of the chart in parentheses only adds unnecessary clutter to articles. Samsonite Man ( talk) 16:49, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
This was brought up at Template talk:Singlechart, so I decided to bring it up here too. Erick ( talk) 19:28, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
If I use it correctly it should link to chart chart?f=310 but it is linked instead to chart?f=406. If I change the chart in the template from "chart=Christian & Gospel Albums" to "chart=Christian Albums", which is the correct title, I get the right link. I hope I didn't damage other articles requiring the Christian & Gospel Albums chart. Walter Görlitz ( talk) 22:15, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
I wonder if we could get someone to add the UK Christian & Gospel chart to the template. HotHat ( talk) 18:20, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
I've recently added the template to the All Over the Place (Mike Stern album) article. The link to the Heatseekers chart works fine, but the link for Jazz chart leads to http://www.billboard.com/artist/311226/Mike+Stern/chart?f=921, while the Jazz chart for this artist is at http://www.billboard.com/artist/311226/Mike+Stern/chart?f=901 – so the problem is with one digit (921 instead of 901). — Mayast ( talk) 12:00, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
I'd like to propose adding "Finland2", this time with links to the website
finnishcharts
{{albumchart|Finland|21|artist=justin timberlake|album=the 20%2F20 experience 2 of 2}}
producesFinnish Albums ( Suomen virallinen lista) [1] | 21 |
Can we please change the language version in the link to the chart? It's a very simple operation.
For example, the reference for the last week's issue of the Polish chart
http://olis.onyx.pl/listy/index.asp?idlisty=865 when using the template looks like this:
But there is also an English language version of the OLiS website, all we need to do is just add "lang=en" parameter to the URL:
http://olis.onyx.pl/listy/index.asp?idlisty=865&lang=en
And then we could remove the "(In Polish)" part from the reference. —
Mayast (
talk)
23:20, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
Polish Albums ( ZPAV) [2] | 18 |
The GAON chart links needs to be changed. The album link is now this, instead of this which the template generates. — Indian:BIO · [ ChitChat ] 11:13, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
Can someone please also add UK Rock & Metal chart? The format would be the same as with other UK charts, eg. UKR&B and UKCountry, so it would use artist and date. Here's the latest issue: http://www.officialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/11/2014-06-28/ — Mayast ( talk) 18:43, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
The German charts have changed the domain name, and unfortunately the links aren't redirected to the new one correctly. I haven't checked all the chart names for Germany, just Germany3, but here's an example: the link generated by the template for Ghost Stories is http://www.charts.de/album.asp?artist=Coldplay&title=Ghost+Stories&cat=a&country=de, while the correct URL is now http://www.officialcharts.de/album.asp?artist=Coldplay&title=Ghost+Stories&cat=a&country=de. Looks like a simple modification. What's funny is that other Hung Medien websites still link to the previous domain name, as well. — Mayast ( talk) 20:14, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
On Turn_It_Up_(Josh_Thompson_album), can someone tell me why a random redlink is showing up in the Country Albums usage? I have no idea what could've gone wrong in the coding. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 20:49, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
|artistid
parameter while Billboard Top 200 seems to be working without that. I have now fixed the code in
Turn It Up (Josh Thompson album).
De728631 (
talk)
21:11, 9 July 2014 (UTC)The link for the Irish charts is incorrect, please use
irish-charts
This is hardcoded as Prometheus Global Media. There are two problems with this. First of all, it has no value in a reference - anyone trying to check the reference will get no help from knowing the publisher - only the publication name is useful. And secondly, for anything earlier than 2010, it's wrong. From 2009–10 Billboard was published by E5 Global Media, before that by Nielsen Business Media and before that by VNU, and before that by Billboard Publications. So I suggest removing the publisher from Billboard-related charts altogether. (And the
guidelines for citations and for the
cite journal
template recommend not specifying the publisher for periodicals).
Colonies Chris (
talk)
21:24, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
publisher: Name of publisher; may be wikilinked if relevant. ... Not normally used for periodicals.
|publisher=
alone until consensus has been reached.
De728631 (
talk)
18:19, 16 December 2014 (UTC)The official UK Charts Company website has been upgraded and now includes top 100 singles in the archives. [1] The Wikipedia formatting will need to be updated in order for the templates to work. QuintusPetillius ( talk) 11:40, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
Why is danishcharts.com used as archive for the Danish Album Top-40 chart when Hitlisten.NU is the official site? The archive of the Album Top-40 chart at hitlisten.nu goes back to week 1 of 2001. MsigDK ( talk) 12:58, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
For a centralised discussion, please see Template talk:Singlechart where I've posted a thread about the GfK charts and the use of their website. De728631 ( talk) 17:04, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
The UK Albums Chart now includes streaming, just like the Singles Chart. Can we add the dagger shape to the album template too? Unreal7 ( talk) 13:06, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
US Billboard 200 [1] | 82 |
Can someone explain why this template tells me the entered name is "illegal"?? Thanks, AlddiHagg0815 ( talk) 15:09, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
References
The site of Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos recently upgraded, helping to further research into albums, etc. I ask you to update the template as soon as possible. here Greetings. Pablodiego15 ( talk) 07:51, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
An error tracking category for invalid artists is proposed in this discussion. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 14:30, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Here's a project for someone with a lot of free time: many of these charts require certain parameters, and if those parameter are not present, the rendering and the URLs do not work correctly. Add tests to the template to emit a tracking category like "Albumchart missing required parameter".
For example, using "UK" without an "artist" parameter results in a non-working URL. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 06:33, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi I just tried to use Ireland2 chart identifier and the resultant reference points to a dead site.
Len TheWhite Cat 08:47, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
The link generated for Argentine charts seems to be broken. "Firefox can't find the server at adminlic.capif.org.ar." nyuszika7h ( talk) 08:08, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
The link doesn't take it to the right chart, or are there more than one? I was using the template for the album chart here at Celtic Woman: Destiny, and it gives the Billboard site here (which has no chart entry), rather than here (which has). Can someone fix this? Hzh ( talk) 22:51, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
In Forever Gentlemen this template is used twice for each of three refs, using the same ID each time, which throws up invalid ref tags errors. I tried to fix it without success. Somebody else please have a look. Jodosma (talk) 19:10, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Is there any way someone could create an album chart for the UK Christian & Gospel Albums Chart? Here's the link to the chart if it helps. [1] ilovemusic (Talk To Me!) 01:05, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
@ Matt Fitzpatrick: Do you know how to create a template for the UK Christian & Gospel Albums Chart? Ss112 said you might be able to help add it. FanofMusic (Talk to Me!) 23:20, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
References
I tried out the template at Of Dirt and Grace: Live from the Land, but it doesn't seem to work either. Do you think that it might be the chart in general? FanofMusic (Talk to Me!) 18:08, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
I don't know what happens, but it is impossible to put Agnetha's name and go to the right link of the chart page, I tried to put only Agnetha, or put the name without the "¨", but always go to a page that says no found... I think the probleam is with the ¨ that her name has. Can someone help me?! See here: Wrap Your Arms Around Me (song).-- 88marcus ( talk) 04:37, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
It works with the album charts, see: Wrap Your Arms Around Me-- 88marcus ( talk) 18:18, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
{{urlencode:}}
being used in the album charts template as well as in {{
single chart}}. As far as I can see there is no automated way to change the encoding to Windows-1252. @
Frietjes: Do you know a quick way to encode special characters accordingly?
De728631 (
talk)
22:09, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
Thank You Very Much!! S2-- 88marcus ( talk) 17:36, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
{{{dvd}}}[DVD]
" down in |FlandersMV etc. is causing trouble when the brackets are transferred to WLink?
De728631 (
talk)
17:49, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
It's not working anymore! When I did the article (9 October) it was working. Probably something with the " * ". See here: No Strings Attached (NSYNC album). Can someone help me?-- 88marcus ( talk) 18:16, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
{{urlencode:*}}
produces "%2A" in UTF-8, WLink seems to be thinking in MediaWiki syntax and wants to apply a bullet point anywhere it gets fed an asterisk.@ Frietjes: Has a recent edit to this template and Template:Single chart resulted in ampersands not being supported? Now, if an artist or song has an "&" in the artist or album parameters, it will not work (only for Hung Medien charts, like the Belgian charts, Sweden, Australia and so on). I recall that as recently as last week, it did, so I'm assuming a recent change has resulted in this error. Could this possibly be fixed? Ss 112 07:21, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
Charts that use the Hung Medien database (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland and so on) no longer appear to support use of the ampersand symbol (&), whereas until quite recently they did. Any attempt to use the symbol (outside of using the coding for it) results in a "not found" error; not sure if this was caused by a recent alteration to the code. Can this be fixed for both this and Template:Single chart? It would be very helpful, as many artist and even album parameters use this symbol. Thanks. Ss 112 18:57, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
I have added error tracking for unsupported parameters to this template. See Category:Pages using album chart with unknown parameters. A red error message appears when you Preview the article, in the chart section of the article. In the category, the articles are sorted by the name of the parameter that is unsupported.
I have added this error-checking to a number of heavily used infoboxes, and it usually goes smoothly, highlighting errors that improve the articles that end up in the category. Every once in a while, parameters are missed or something goes wrong. If that happens, don't panic, just post here and I will be happy to fix it. Revert the change if you feel that you must.
I have already found and fixed a few problems with foreign-language words being used instead of |year=
and |week=
, which would then show in the references as {{{year}}} and {{{week}}}.
If I have made any mistakes in coding, or if template changes are desired, please let me know. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 02:20, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
The Billboard R&B Albums chart appears not to have been added, and it does not work. It is however listed on page. I don't know the reason, perhaps it has been removed, can anyone clarify? I can add it but I don't want to do it without knowing first why it isn't there, or someone else can add it. Hzh ( talk) 13:42, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
The R&B Albums chart appears not to be listed in the Template:BillboardChartNum, so would need consensus to have that included in Template talk:BillboardChartNum as it is protected (few people seem to check there though). Something seems to be wrong with New Age Albums - it give the correct url for right Billboard website, but it doesn't come out right in the table. Can't see what is wrong in the script, perhaps someone else can have a look at it. Hzh ( talk) 19:22, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello, can the US Billboard Latin Pop Albums entry have its URL chart number suffix changed from "453" to "295"? It appears to be the current location of the chart; for instance, the link generated by BillboardLatinPop, if using the artist Shakira, gives http://www.billboard.com/artist/278867/Shakira/chart?f=453 as the link; however, Billboard now uses http://www.billboard.com/artist/278867/Shakira/chart?f=295. Thank you. Ss 112 03:04, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
Let's say we want to use this template for older albums which charted on charts that were not known at the time by the names the template outputs (ex. Billboard 200 used to be known as Billboard Top Pop Albums, and Billboard 200 Top Albums). Is there any way to account for this? Y2Kcrazyjoker4 ( talk • contributions) 15:19, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
Unless I've made an error somewhere, the "Germany3" option in this template no longer appears to work – it just seems to redirect to the home page of Offizielle Charts. I will probably strike the option from the template and suggest that editors use the "Germany4" option instead, unless someone comes up with a fix or tells me I'm doing something wrong. Richard3120 ( talk) 15:34, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi, the Scottish albums and singles template doesn't work anymore. It redirects to the main Scottish chart page, not to the archived chart. Could anyone fix this? Max24 ( talk) 11:59, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
@ Max24: I put the date without the "-" (beside 2000-10-22 I put 20001022) and it works!-- 88marcus ( talk) 17:16, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
Putting a date on the template for UK singlecharts or albumcharts will now automatically redirect you here. [3] Unreal7 ( talk) 22:13, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
I've found another album chart named Turkey Album Charts used in Wiki articles such as Brothers in Arms (album) that doesn't exist in the album chart template. Does anyone know if there is an official album chart for Turkey? Thanks. -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 20:47, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi all. I am seeing instances of Israel Albums Chart in articles such as The Collection (Alanis Morissette album). Problem is, I'm not sure which Israel chart it's referring to since there isn't an Israel album chart in this template. Anyone have an idea what an official Israeli album chart would be? Thanks. -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 05:38, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
Can somebody please add this one? Same URL and reference format as Czech Republic, also on the same website. Should not be too hard... -- Ali1610 ( talk) 21:18, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
Update Dutch albums chart ( MegaCharts → Album Top 100). Eurohunter ( talk) 21:56, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
The template doesn't work anymore for Billboard charts, because it changed again. There's something in progress to fix that?!-- 88marcus ( talk) 22:07, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
http://www.billboard.com/music/xxxx/chart-history/yyyyy
where xxxx
will be from the artist parameter in the template with hyphen and yyyy
will be generated from the chart name given. —
IB [
Poke ]
06:04, 24 October 2017 (UTC)![]() | This
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I would like to request that the Billboard charts get updated with the website's new URL format. I have made the changes in the sandbox and successfully tested them. Currently most charts technically fail verification as they do not redirect well.
Example change:
AS IS
| Billboard200 = {{!}} US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]{{#if: {{{3|}}} | {{#tag:ref|{{cite news|url={{{url}}}|title={{{title}}}|location={{#if:{{{location|}}}|{{{location}}}}}|work={{#if:{{{work|}}}|{{{work}}}}}|page={{#if:{{{page|}}}|{{{page}}}}}|date={{#if:{{{date|}}}|{{{date}}}}}|publisher={{#if:{{{publisher|}}}|{{{publisher}}}}}|accessdate={{#if:{{{accessdate|}}}|{{{accessdate}}}}}}}}} | {{#tag:ref|[{{BillboardURLbyName|artist={{{artist}}}|chart=Billboard 200}} "{{{artist}}} Album & Song Chart History"] [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] for {{{artist}}}. {{#if:{{{publishdate|}}}|{{{publishdate}}}. }} {{#if:{{{accessdate|}}}| Retrieved {{{accessdate}}}. }}|name={{#if:{{{refname|}}}|{{{refname}}}|"ac_{{{1|}}}_{{{artist|}}}"}}|group={{#if:{{{refgroup|}}}| "{{{refgroup}}}"}}}}}} {{Album chart/chartnote|{{{note|}}}}}
PROPOSED
| Billboard200 = {{!}} US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]{{#if: {{{3|}}} | {{#tag:ref|{{cite news|url={{{url}}}|title={{{title}}}|location={{#if:{{{location|}}}|{{{location}}}}}|work={{#if:{{{work|}}}|{{{work}}}}}|page={{#if:{{{page|}}}|{{{page}}}}}|date={{#if:{{{date|}}}|{{{date}}}}}|publisher={{#if:{{{publisher|}}}|{{{publisher}}}}}|accessdate={{#if:{{{accessdate|}}}|{{{accessdate}}}}}}}}} | {{#tag:ref|[http://www.billboard.com/music/{{#invoke:WLink|ansiPercent|{{#invoke:String|replace|{{{artist}}}|&|%26}}|space=-}}/chart-history/billboard-200 "{{{artist}}} Chart History (''Billboard'' 200)"] [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']]. {{#if:{{{publishdate|}}}|{{{publishdate}}}. }} {{#if:{{{accessdate|}}}| Retrieved {{{accessdate}}}. }}|name={{#if:{{{refname|}}}|{{{refname}}}|"ac_{{{1|}}}_{{{artist|}}}"}}|group={{#if:{{{refgroup|}}}| "{{{refgroup}}}"}}}}}} {{Album chart/chartnote|{{{note|}}}}}
Thanks! Songsteel ( talk) 22:42, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
What's happened to the UK chart template? It no longer works. You click on it and it says "This no longer exists". Turns out that it's only broken because of a plus sign and capitals instead of a space and lower-case. Unreal7 ( talk) 11:23, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
Unfortunately this still seems to be broken - the official chart company now seems to be using dashes as separators instead. I note that they also assign a number to the artist (the J Geils Band is 3307 [4]) so perhaps the template could use that instead. - Ashley Pomeroy ( talk) 14:39, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
The German charts have a lot more charts, which should be added. e.x the Hip-Hop charts [5] — Preceding unsigned comment added by TRYHARDFLY ( talk • contribs) 02:20, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
For some reason, when using the "Ireland" set of parameters, the template is not working properly to create a page name and/or URL. See Paradise Valley (album)#Weekly charts for reference. Steel1943 ( talk) 16:17, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
Please see my amazement at template:albumchart dates wrong *everywhere*? where I complain about 100's of unfixed links that are using outdated date formats for that external site.
And now I see the above topics UK chart broken links and Scottish chart broken links, so the fact that the URL formats for the external site changed was noticed, and still all the old usages were never fixed? Where should this situation be forwards to? Shenme ( talk) 07:09, 19 April 2018 (UTC)