In which we point out instances of Allmusic changing their ratings from what they originally were

So I've noticed in the past while, that Allmusic has been changing some of its ratings of its albums, particularly those from the past decade. Fortunately, I've been able to find the original ratings on Metacritic to to make sure I'm not imagining things, since they've also changed the way their URLs are stored so I can't really use archive.org to find them. So here's some I've come across:

Arcade Fire - Funeral (4 1/2 stars - 5 stars)
Kanye West - The College Dropout (4 1/2 stars - 5 Stars)
Kanye West - Late Registration (4 stars - 5 Stars)
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells (4 1/2 stars - 5 stars)
The White Stripes - Elephant (4 1/2 stars - 5 stars)
Lady Gaga - The Fame (3 1/2 stars - 4 1/2 stars)
Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad (4 stars - 4 1/2 stars)
U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (4 stars - 3 1/2 stars)
Weezer - Make Believe (4 stars - 3 stars)

And as of today Paris Hilton - Paris still has 4 1/2 stars.

Let me know what you have found.

Alex Chilton's Like Flies on Sherbert went from 1 star to 3 1/2 stars at some point in the past couple years, although the scathing review was unchanged.

I'm pretty sure the way AMG (and other places like it) rates is that they'll give 4.5 stars for any new top album, no matter how good it is; 5 star ratings are afforded for influential/significant things, hence the need to change them only after a certain time. Whether Funeral or College Dropout are worthy is another question.

I thought AMG gave ratings in comparison to the artist's career itself? So Limp Bizkit's Significant Other gets 4 stars because it's not as shitty as everything else?

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (4 stars - 5 stars)
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black (4 stars - 5 stars)

Has there been stuff that's gone down?

Oh, didn't see the ones that went down in the original post.

That was hardly worth italics...

Changes by The Monkees went from 1 star to 2 1/2. Kept the same review tho.
The Smiley Smile-Friends run of the Beach Boys are now 4 stars instead of 2-3. Again with the same reviews.

They actually removed a review I wrote and replaced it with another one which I found odd since they have so many albums to review, why remove mine? I didn't think it sucked or anything...

That Monkees - Changes one is a big mark-up.

Which BB went from 2 to 4?

I think it was Friends.

Rolling Stone used to really be guilty of this. The first two Black Sabbath albums originally got one star and were later bumped up to five stars...doesn't really get more extreme than that

Have you ever read the reviews of the first three Led Zep records? Three serious pans (one by Lester Bangs, the other two from John Mendelssohn) that have been erased from history.

I'm pretty sure the way AMG (and other places like it) rates is that they'll give 4.5 stars for any new top album, no matter how good it is; 5 star ratings are afforded for influential/significant things, hence the need to change them only after a certain time.

When was AMG bought out by Macrovision?

Five-star ratings: Those are reserved for albums that are seen as the best within a genre. No album of new recordings is given five stars upon release. A set of albums is bumped up to that rating every few years.

Ratings within an artist's discography are sometimes calibrated when a new album is released, or when it's noticed that they are out of whack (a discography with reviews from two or more writers, discrepancies when reviews are replaced, and so forth).

The database contains well over two million albums, and hundreds of reviews are added on a weekly basis -- issues are bound to fall through the cracks. They're corrected/adjusted as soon as possible.

Quasimoto's The Unseen and MF Doom's Operation Doomsday both used to have very low scores but I don't know specifically what they were.

The Streets - Original Pirate Material (4 1/2-5 stars)
Burial - Untrue (4 1/2-5 stars)
Radiohead - Kid A (4-5 stars)
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner (4 1/2-5 stars)
M.I.A. - Arular (4 1/2-5 stars)
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury (4 1/2-5 stars)
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (4 1/2-5 stars)

The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (4 1/2-5 stars)

lol

Oh, Inverted Rating

interesting that OPM was given the retrospective upgrade to classic treatment. i always thought that one had a very immediate impact and, if anything, kinda waned.

more:

The Avalanches - Since I Left You (4 1/2-5 stars)
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (4 1/2-5 stars) (lol)

Turn on the bright lols

They still haven't revisited that Sabbath "Born Again" rating, I see.