Oooohh I didn't know that ranking system existed~ I'll definitely check it out.Whenever I'm in the mood to discover new songs, I take a look at the daily Vocaloid rankings. Its rules are great (compared to the popular Weekly Vocaran that's just.... a producer popularity contest at this point and has been for years) so the same song can't be #1 twice in a row, but other songs that weren't quite #1 will still show up on other days until either it hits #1 or becomes too old to be eligible for the dailyran. There's also a pickup corner in the end that shows new songs that kind of range from brand new to a week or two old, but didn't rank high enough to actually be in the top ten. I've found a lot of good new songs this way. Of course, it only applies to songs posted on Nico, but I'll check out songs that my friends send me or play during (what used to be) Rabbit sessions.
I don't generally like to click on random songs that show up in my recommendations even though that's what 90% of my recommendations are because... I don't know, haha. I like listening to snippets of many songs at once and figuring out what I like from those snippets and then going out of my way to listen to the full version vs listening to entire songs one by one.
Oooh that's a smart idea. I love love LOVE engloids so it'd probably be easier to find Western originals that way.I tend to look up "vocaloid original" and sort by newest on YouTube (this week, this month, etc.) I've found a lot of lesser known producers/songs this way!
It's quite the nightmare to find songs featuring Bruno. Luckily he's not exactly my favorite. I like him, but it's so hard to find songs with him because of his name. A bunch of Bruno Mars songs keep showing up instead. It's so much easier when they have very distinguished names.I also do the looking up "Vocaloid original" on YouTube and sort by newest, or check VocaDB
Since I mostly listen to Engloids now, it makes It both easier and harder to find songs. At least for Avanna, it's very easy to just look up "Avanna original" and get results for just her considering her unique name