Billboard Top 40 - Top 100 of 2012 (Official)
Dec 17, 2012 13:13:19 GMT -5
Post by Cerebro on Dec 17, 2012 13:13:19 GMT -5
Oh, cool! Thanks for finding this.
This PDF has the whole top 100 (of which, I completely nailed the rest with my projections). It also lists the top 50 artists, too:
1 KATY PERRY Capitol
2 FLO RIDA Poe Boy/Atlantic
3 RIHANNA SRP/Def Jam/IDJMG
4 MAROON 5 A&M/Octone/Interscope
5 ADELE XL/Columbia
6 DAVID GUETTA What A Music/Astralwerks/Capitol
7 NICKI MINAJ Young Money/Cash Money/Republic
8 CARLY RAE JEPSEN 604/SchoolBoy/Interscope
9 KELLY CLARKSON 19/RCA
10 FUN. Fueled By Ramen/RRP
11 THE WANTED Global Talent/Mercury/IDJMG
12 ONE DIRECTION SYCO/Columbia
13 CALVIN HARRIS deConstruction/Ultra/Roc Nation/Columbia
14 ELLIE GOULDING Cherrytree/Interscope
15 BRUNO MARS Elektra/Atlantic
16 JUSTIN BIEBER SchoolBoy/Raymond Braun/Island/IDJMG
17 GYM CLASS HEROES Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen/RRP
18 USHER RCA
19 PITBULL Mr. 305/Polo Grounds/RCA
20 LMFAO Party Rock/will.i.am/Cherrytree/Interscope
21 P!NK RCA
22 DEMI LOVATO Hollywood
23 JESSIE J Lava/Republic
24 TAYLOR SWIFT Big Machine/Republic
25 CHRIS BROWN RCA
26 NEON TREES Mercury/IDJMG
27 GOTYE Samples 'n' Seconds/Fairfax/Republic
28 KARMIN Epic
29 TRAIN Columbia
30 DRAKE Young Money/Cash Money/Republic
31 ALEX CLARE Republic
32 SELENA GOMEZ & THE SCENE Hollywood
33 WIZ KHALIFA Rostrum/Atlantic/RRP
34 GAVIN DEGRAW J/RCA
35 SIA Monkey Puzzle
36 CHER LLOYD SYCO/Epic
37 OUTASIGHT Warner Bros.
38 NE-YO Motown/IDJMG
39 OWL CITY 604/SchoolBoy/Interscope/Republic
40 J. COLE Roc Nation/Columbia
41 JANELLE MONAE Fueled By Ramen/RRP
42 KIMBRA Samples 'n' Seconds/Fairfax/Republic
43 BREATHE CAROLINA Fearless/Columbia
44 LADY GAGA Streamline/KonLive/Interscope
45 B.O.B RebelRock/Grand Hustle/Atlantic
46 NEON HITCH Reprise/Warner Bros.
47 PSY SchoolBoy/Republic
48 KE$HA Kemosabe/RCA
49 BIG SEAN G.O.O.D./Def Jam/IDJMG
50 CHRISTINA AGUILERA RCA
I'd love to figure out what their formula is for generating the artist rankings. Given how far down the list artists like Sia and Janelle Monáe are placed, it would seem that they place a lesser weight on featured performances than they do on lead performances. I'm, probably, going to start playing around with my spreadsheet to see if I can crack it.
