If you'll accept a little constructive criticism: you need to widen the remit or do something like maybe review or link to the songs you're posting. I can only speak for myself of course, but given your own disappointed comments it would seem to be the general way this is perceived. For me, I have little interest in reading a list of anyone's favourite songs. Sure it's a thing, but then you have to do something with it. Even if you were saying WHY you like the songs --- I love the guitar work in this, the lyric is particularly poignant in that, I can headbang to the other --- it would be something. But frankly, and I'm sorry if this sounds cruel, this is dull.
Look at the journals of other people here. They work to make them as interesting and inclusive as possible. You need to open this up if you want people to get involved. It's possible members are reading your lists, but then it's a case of, read that, so what, move on. And they'll read someone's account of a gig they went to or a review of an album or which comic book is best, or maybe a favourite film ... there's so much you can do with a journal and it seems to me you're just wasting it here, tipping around the edges.
I mean, look at it this way: you say (and I'll believe you) that you're listening to an entire discography every week, not just picking these tracks randomly. But what proof have we? And why should we care? If you spoke about the discog, your feelings listening to it, which albums you forgot were great and haven't listened to in ages, the ones that suck and you wish you had forgotten them, then people might be more interested and drawn in, and who knows, they might even start participating.
Take as a hypothetical example this: "Man I was listening to INXS discog and I forgot what a great song "Never tear us apart is". Those cellos! The stop in the middle. Hutchenses' voice. Then I started listening to Kick and I couldn't stop. Every track was gold." And so on. You might then have someone say "Yeah I haven't listened to that album in years but now I feel like putting it on" or whatever.
Basically, my feeling would be that people are not interested because it's not interesting. Every week we have five lines and a paragraph from you. There's so much more for people to read here in the Journals Section, you really have to kind of fight for the attention. Think of it like TV ratings. Would you rather watch say a Formula 1 race or two kids on bikes? Or a historical documentary versus a party political broadcast? People have a choice, here as anywhere, and if you don't give them a reason to stick around, well, they won't.
Just my two cents worth.
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