Data product 14 public machine surfaces

Machine-readable critic consensus for albums.

Chorus is not just a destination site. It is a structured critic-consensus layer built for album questions, discography comparisons, freshness monitoring, and downstream products that need trustworthy review aggregation.

Albums tracked
1,073
Reviews indexed
6,658
Active sources
124
Credited critics
1,106

What makes this usable

Chorus exposes score, review count, confidence, freshness, praise, criticism, standout tracks, and source-linked evidence from the same answer objects used on public pages.

What it covers now

Albums, ranked artist discographies, monthly best-of lists, change feeds, score movers, and same-artist album comparisons are already available as machine-readable surfaces.

What comes next

Sponsor-ready recurring assets, more widget formats, and limited licensing access are the next distribution rails now that the first ChoruScore embed surface is live.

Public Surfaces

Current bot and data entry points

These are the public machine-readable surfaces Chorus currently exposes. They are designed to match the public proof layer, not drift from it.

Open change feed

Bot catalog

Live

Machine-readable catalog of Chorus entry points, traversal order, query parameters, and sample resources.

Open
https://chorus.reviews/api/music/catalog

LLM guide

Live

Plain-text guide that points agents to the canonical Chorus JSON surfaces and refresh loop.

Open
https://chorus.reviews/llms.txt

Current releases

Live

Recent releases with consensus score, review count, answer-state summary, and track metadata.

Open
https://chorus.reviews/api/music/current-releases

Trending tracks

Live

Critic-mentioned tracks from recent albums, ordered by mention count and sentiment.

Open
https://chorus.reviews/api/music/trending-tracks

Critic agreement

Live

High-agreement and high-disagreement albums packaged as a recurring consensus asset.

Open
https://chorus.reviews/api/music/critic-agreement

Change feed

Live

Freshness and delta feed for album and list updates from the canonical answer layer.

Open
https://chorus.reviews/api/music/changes

Score movers

Live

Largest recent score and review-count changes across the album graph.

Open
https://chorus.reviews/api/music/score-movers

Monthly lists index

Live

Discover recent best-of-month list assets and the top albums in each list without crawling HTML.

Open
https://chorus.reviews/api/music/lists

Album lookup

Live

Resolve a human query for artist and album title into the canonical Chorus album record.

Example
https://chorus.reviews/api/music/find-album?artist={artist_name}&title={album_title}

Album answer object

Live

Canonical album answer with score, review count, verdict, confidence, freshness, praise, criticism, standout tracks, and proof-page URL.

Example
https://chorus.reviews/api/music/albums/{album_slug}

Artist discography answer

Live

Ranked discography answer with consensus highlights, strongest albums, and related list/comparison links.

Example
https://chorus.reviews/api/music/artists/{artist_slug}

Monthly list answer

Live

Canonical month-list payload with summary copy, metadata, and ordered album entries.

Example
https://chorus.reviews/api/music/lists/{list_slug}

Album comparison payload

Live

Same-artist album-versus-album payload covering score, review depth, confidence, freshness, and consensus takeaways.

https://chorus.reviews/api/music/compare?left={album_slug}&right={album_slug}

ChoruScore widget

Live

Embeddable downstream score artifact powered by the same album answer object as the public proof page.

Example
https://chorus.reviews/embed/albums/{album_slug}/choruscore?variant=card&theme=dark

Embeddable Widget

First live ChoruScore widget

This is the first downstream distribution rail: a copy-paste album widget that reuses the canonical Chorus answer object instead of rebuilding score logic somewhere else.

Open widget directly
Card preview
Badge preview

Card iframe snippet

Drop this into a post, newsletter archive, shop page, or partner site to embed the full ChoruScore card.

<iframe src="https://chorus.reviews/embed/albums/cut-worms-transmitter/choruscore?variant=card&theme=dark" loading="lazy" width="100%" height="232" style="border:0;overflow:hidden;border-radius:18px;" title="ChoruScore for Transmitter by Cut Worms"></iframe>

Badge iframe snippet

Use the compact badge when space is tight but the citation still needs a clear score and album anchor.

<iframe src="https://chorus.reviews/embed/albums/cut-worms-transmitter/choruscore?variant=badge&theme=dark" loading="lazy" width="100%" height="96" style="border:0;overflow:hidden;border-radius:18px;" title="ChoruScore for Transmitter by Cut Worms"></iframe>

Why This Exists

Chorus is building the critic-consensus layer.

Metacritic-style score pages are not enough. The winning layer is score plus provenance, confidence, freshness, comparisons, and explicit machine-readable structure.

That makes Chorus useful to readers, useful to search, and useful to models or partners that need defensible album knowledge instead of scraped score fragments.

For widget, feed, sponsor, or licensing questions, use the direct inquiry path below. Chorus is still early, but the product direction is already public and crawlable.