Ranked surfaces on SynthCamp

• Top this month (home hero) →

  The single release shown at the top of the home page. Picked by the past month's distinct-buyer count (revenue breaks ties, minimum three buyers), with a fresh-release fallback for slow weeks.

• Trending this week (home shelf)

  The releases in the Trending shelf are ranked by their total number of plays over the last 7 days. The same for every viewer, not personalised.

• Curators leaderboard →

  Hosts are ranked by the total number of distinct attendees across their Discovery parties (their own attendance excluded), with the earliest first attendee breaking ties.

• Auto Discovery, similar tracks (player) →

  When the player's queue runs out and you have toggled the infinity button on, the platform appends tracks similar to the initial queue's artist first and to the just-played track's tags second. Contextual, not personalised - same seed produces the same continuation for every listener.

• Sound Rooms ordering

  The order in which the secondary Sound Rooms are listed on the home (the global master room is always pinned first). The detailed disclosure is pending an audit of the social-gravity logic. Until that audit lands, the ordering is influenced by friend and followed-artist presence, not by engagement metrics.

What SynthCamp does not do

• No personalised feed.The same home loads for everyone at any given moment. Ranking does not depend on the viewer's history, profile, or location.
• No editorial selection.No human picks which release is featured. Whatever shows up as “featured” is the output of an automated rule with the rule disclosed in-place.
• Engagement only where disclosed. A few surfaces do use aggregate engagement, and only the ones listed above: the Trending shelf ranks by play volume over the last 7 days, and Sound Rooms ordering reflects friend and followed-artist presence. No engagement signal feeds any other surface, and none of it is personalised to you.
• No paid placement. Artists cannot pay to appear on the hero or in any ranked surface. Doing so would defeat the whole point of disclosing the rule.

Changing your influence on rankings

Since none of the current rankings are personalised, there is nothing to opt in or out of as a viewer. If a personalised surface ships in the future, this page will grow a section listing the controls and a link to a settings panel for turning personalisation off. No personalised surface will ship without that control.