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Post by nickd on Jan 20, 2020 20:09:38 GMT -5
When making my Top Hot 100 Songwriters of All Time list, I had to go through a lot of "greatest songwriters of all time" lists, so I think I have a pretty good database of the most significant songwriters of all time to make a rankdown based tournament out of it. ROUND 1 - Due February 5, 2020 Rank these songs 1 to 20 from best to worst and PM me the list. Alexander's Ragtime Band - Ray Charles (writers: Irving Berlin)Blackbird - The Beatles (writers: Paul McCartney, John Lennon) Clocks - Coldplay (writers: Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion) Crazy - Patsy Cline (writers: Willie Nelson) Dance In The Dark - Lady Gaga (writers: Lady Gaga & Fernando Garibay)
Don't Stop Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson (writers: Michael Jackson) Every Time I Close My Eyes - Babyface (writers: Babyface) I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (writers: Smokey Robinson, Al Cleveland)I Want It That Way - Backstreet Boys (writers: Max Martin, Andreas Carlsson) I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston (writers: Dolly Parton)
I Wish - Stevie Wonder (writers: Stevie Wonder) People Everyday - Arrested Development (writers: Sly Stone, Speech) Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard (writers: Robert "Mutt" Lange, Joe Elliott, Phil Collen, Steve Clark, Rick Savage, Rick Allen) Pride (In The Name of Love) - U2 (writers: Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Lary Mullen Jr.) Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac (writers: Stevie Nicks)
She's A Lady - Tom Jones (writers: Paul Anka) She's Always A Woman - Billy Joel (writers: Billy Joel) Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry (writers: Chuck Berry) The Way I Am - Eminem (writers: Eminem)You Want It Darker - Leonard Cohen (writers: Leonard Cohen, Patrick Leonard) (bolded songwriters are the most prolific ones and the main reason for the song's inclusion in the list) Round 1 Spotify Playlist
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Post by nickd on Jan 20, 2020 20:47:24 GMT -5
How the tournament works:
Songs get points based on their average rank in each rankdown. The songs' points then get split among all officially credited songwriters. The rankings table will include both an average rank for each songwriter and total points.
Performance on previous rankdowns will affect how frequently a songwriter will appear in future rankdowns, for example, the top songwriters from one rankdown will get to have another song included in the next rankdown, so songwriters that rank well will appear in more rankdowns and have a chance to accumulate more points.
However, songs will only get ranked once, so presumably even the most popular songwriters will eventually run out of good songs and start performing more poorly, allowing other songwriters to take their place.
Songwriters' first entry into the tournament won't begin with the 1-2 songs that I think Pulse will rank highest, but more like a top 3 to top 10 song, since, again, a truly great songwriter should have more than 1-2 good songs. If their first/previous song does poorly, I'll to include a better song for their next entry to keep them competitive, and if it does well, I'll include a similarly or slightly less good song.
Songs with officially credited samples of another song will get pitted against the sampled song and only count towards the songwriter's points if they rank higher than the sampled song.
I'll also try to include songs from a variety of genres and time periods in each rankdown. Each rankdown will only have 20 songs and relatively short deadlines so that the tournament can move along quickly.
Eligible songwriters:
Anyone with a significant number of noteworthy songs. We're not interested in songwriters that struck gold only once, but those that were able to write a large number of popular or acclaimed songs.
That means I'm not limiting it to just songwriters with big Hot 100 hits, I'll also include acclaimed songwriters from less mainstream genres like folk or alt-rock (ex Leonard Cohen, Mark Knopfler, Roger Waters, Bob Marley) or from genres that only became popular after their career peak (ex. Notorious B.I.G.), or that were mostly successful on European charts (ex ABBA, Oasis) or that were making music prior to the existence of the Hot 100 charts in 1958 (ex. Irving Berlin, Robert Johnson), although I won't be including any classical music composers.
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Post by nickd on Jan 20, 2020 20:56:05 GMT -5
Tag list - this is basically everyone who replied to my Top Hot 100 songwriters thread, plus the general/chart RD tag list. If any of you guys that are more into the charts subforum and aren't into games want to be untagged from these tournaments (or if anyone else wants to be untagged), let me know since you'll be getting tagged roughly every week as long as I have the time to run these. And of course let me know if you want to be added to the tag list.
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Post by imbondz on Jan 20, 2020 21:42:57 GMT -5
Dude this is very cool. The linked Spotify playlist is awesome!
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Post by 13 on Jan 20, 2020 22:31:25 GMT -5
This looks fantastic.
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Post by kierz7 on Jan 20, 2020 22:54:57 GMT -5
Oooooooh... Iβm doing this! ππΏππΏππΏ
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Post by Adrian C. π on Jan 20, 2020 23:14:49 GMT -5
sees "Clocks"
Count me IN!
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Post by BBπ on Jan 20, 2020 23:17:30 GMT -5
Tag me for this but also know Iβm on the chart tag list
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Post by marsblyr on Jan 21, 2020 15:48:07 GMT -5
I hope you're gonna send a reminder a few days before the deadline :)
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Post by nickd on Jan 21, 2020 16:20:30 GMT -5
I hope you're gonna send a reminder a few days before the deadline Yeah, I'll send one a week before, another 2-3 days before and another the day before.
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Post by nickd on Jan 29, 2020 14:02:13 GMT -5
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Post by insen_13 on Jan 30, 2020 9:09:05 GMT -5
I don't think I'm qualified enough to participate in this rankdown. I will be following this thread though βοΈ
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Post by nickd on Jan 30, 2020 12:57:32 GMT -5
I don't think I'm qualified enough to participate in this rankdown. I will be following this thread though βοΈ Is anyone really? I'm sure there will be hot takes from a lot of people.
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Post by insen_13 on Jan 30, 2020 16:54:29 GMT -5
I don't think I'm qualified enough to participate in this rankdown. I will be following this thread though βοΈ Is anyone really? I'm sure there will be hot takes from a lot of people.Β Well, yeah. I believe that. I'm just not familiar to much of what's on the list. I'll try to participate should I have time.
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Post by nickd on Feb 3, 2020 13:31:16 GMT -5
About 2.5 days until the deadline.
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Post by nickd on Feb 5, 2020 0:26:43 GMT -5
Try to get your submissions in in the next 24 hours. I'd like to start reveals Thursday afternoon/evening but let me know if you need more time.
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Post by marsblyr on Feb 5, 2020 2:26:13 GMT -5
Done! Thanks, I discovered some new music today :)
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Post by BBπ on Feb 5, 2020 17:44:53 GMT -5
I donβt think Iβll have time to do this round but tag me in the reveals!
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Post by nickd on Feb 5, 2020 17:45:27 GMT -5
I donβt think Iβll have time to do this round but tag me in the reveals! You've got about 24 hours.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Feb 5, 2020 22:52:53 GMT -5
Gonna try to do this one tomorrow!
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Post by nickd on Feb 6, 2020 16:23:16 GMT -5
Gonna try to do this one tomorrow! You still working on it?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 16:44:00 GMT -5
Oh damn I didnβt realize that this was due so soon. Itβs alright Iβll do the next round if I canβt make it for round 1.
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Post by nickd on Feb 6, 2020 19:09:56 GMT -5
Reveals begin in an hour or two. If any of you are still working on your lists and want to submit let me know ASAP. Meanwhile, some pre-reveal questions What song do you think will come out on top? What song do you think will finish last? What song do you think will have the highest SD?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 19:11:14 GMT -5
Thanks but no thanks, please remove me from the tags if it's not an issue Thank you and enjoy the game everyone!
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Post by kierz7 on Feb 6, 2020 19:39:29 GMT -5
Thanks but no thanks, please remove me from the tags if it's not an issue Thank you and enjoy the game everyone! Erm...Damn.
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Post by nickd on Feb 6, 2020 20:07:36 GMT -5
Thanks but no thanks, please remove me from the tags if it's not an issue Thank you and enjoy the game everyone! Erm...Damn. I'm surprised people don't make that request more often tbh, out of over 100 people tagged, I'd expect at least a few to turn out to be uninterested.
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Feb 6, 2020 20:16:27 GMT -5
since I don't know who submitted I can't even begin to make predictions lol
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Post by nickd on Feb 6, 2020 20:19:34 GMT -5
since I don't know who submitted I can't even begin to make predictions lol jtd, indulgecountry, fearlessarrow, ampitup98, willapted33, alexcuse, snapculture, gatesofseattles, rockgolf, kierz7, istanphoebebridgers, samosaurus1, weaver, antigonerising, marsblyr and me
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Post by nickd on Feb 6, 2020 20:37:22 GMT -5
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Post by nickd on Feb 6, 2020 21:16:25 GMT -5
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