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TaintedLogic
Hi. I'm Andrew. Audio portal junkie since 2010, supporter since 2017. I always want to improve what I do! I make music, run the NGUAC, post poetry on BBS, and am the all-time #2 audio reviewer. I love this site, and I want to make it the best I can! ^_^

Andrew Mikula @TaintedLogic

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A record-breaking month for the Audio Portal

Posted by TaintedLogic - February 1st, 2024


In January 2024, there were 12,218 submissions to the Newgrounds Audio Portal, by far the most in the Portal's 21-year history. This is actually quite easy to verify: the first submission of February was @Urielthepro's "February", and the first one of January that wasn't subsequently taken down was @IvySnyder's "24-1-1-1-1" (the true first of the month - this one - was taken down sometime in January). Just subtract the audio IDs from each other, and add 1 for the missing "true first," and you come up with 12,218.


And yes, I figure out this number every month because I'm an absolutely UNWIELDY stat nerd. The previous record was 11,646 submissions in June 2021. Here's a chart of the number of Audio Portal submissions every month since February 2003:

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TL;DR: I'm a huge dweeb and the AP is as popular as ever. :)


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my song was actually uploaded on the 1st of February lol.
It was at exactly midnight.

The true last submission of January was this: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1289726

I think that every January has a higher than usual number of submissions due to Jamuary which has a lot of participants (including me)

Ah, yes. I explained that wrong in the original version of the news post. Calculating the number of submissions in a month should involve subtracting the Audio Portal ID for the first submission of the subsequent month from the first submission of the relevant month. I have edited the post to reflect this. Thanks!

I noticed a lot more participation in Jamuary this year!

Yeah, it's crazy. Maybe there were just more contests/events than usual on the AP, but I still don't know how to explain a spike quite this large. It's almost the same magnitude as the FNF spike of 2020-2021!

this info is so crazy and I wonder what this means for the future of all of us who've been here for so long.

Potentially a bigger audience for our tracks. But also harder to get front-paged. Overall, I think it's a good thing though.

@TaintedLogic I agree!