If year end charts were more accurately representative

[alexandria2001]

Of course, Billboard Year End charts run from November - November, so the charts are more reflective of the hits in the later part of the previous year to the year they're dated to. Ending the year-end tracking in November of the current year doesn't give enough time for hits in the later part of the year to make the year end or have accurate representation on the chart, leading to the Fall mega hits landing below the Summer mega hits, along with smaller hits possibly getting caught in between years. If you want accurate representation, then a point system isn't really going to give a full picture, since the Fall hits need to catch up in points to get anywhere near the Spring mega hits, of course.

Also I know there's no way to have a 100% accurate chart, but it can still be very accurate anyway.

ANYWAY, what do you think each year end chart (from 2010 to now?) would look like if they were truly representative of the popular music during their respective calendar years? Of course, this will go by your own judgement, based on whichever charts you've looked at during the given year (Streaming, Radio, Sales, etc.) along with considering how big the songs were, pop culturally, of course. This is US specific since I'm wondering about the US charts, but you could do another country too (Canada, for example.)

Example: I'll do a take on 2019. This is what I think the Top 20 most popular songs during 2019 were.

1. Old Town Road
2. Bad Guy
3. Sunflower
4. Truth Hurts
5. Senorita
6. Without Me
7. 7 Rings
8. Circles
9. I Don't Care
10. Sicko Mode
11. Someone You Loved
12. Happier
13. Talk
14. Sucker
15. Going Bad
16. Middle Child
17. Thank U, Next
18. Good As Hell
19. Shallow
20. High Hopes


Edit: context

[irice22]

Dec 30, 2020 14:10:06 GMT -5 alexandria2001 said:

Of course, Billboard Year End charts run from November - November, so the charts are more reflective of the hits in the later part of the previous year to the year they're dated to. Ending the year-end tracking in November of the current year doesn't give enough time for hits in the later part of the year to make the year end or have accurate representation on the chart, leading to the Fall mega hits landing below the Summer mega hits, along with smaller hits possibly getting caught in between years. If you want accurate representation, then a point system isn't really going to give a full picture, since the Fall hits need to catch up in points to get anywhere near the Spring mega hits, of course.

Also I know there's no way to have a 100% accurate chart, but it can still be very accurate anyway.

ANYWAY, what do you think the year end charts would look like if they were truly representative of the popular music during any given calendar year? Of course, this will go by your own judgement, based on whichever charts you've looked at during the given year (Streaming, Radio, Sales, etc.) along with considering how big the songs were, pop culturally, of course. This is US specific since I'm wondering about the US charts, but you could do another country too (Canada, for example.)

Example: I'll do a take on 2019

1. Old Town Road
2. Bad Guy
3. Sunflower
4. Truth Hurts
5. Senorita
6. Without Me
7. 7 Rings
8. Circles
9. I Don't Care
10. Sicko Mode
11. Someone You Loved
12. Happier
13. Talk
14. Sucker
15. Going Bad
16. Middle Child
17. Thank U, Next
18. Good As Hell
19. Shallow
20. High Hopes

You actually probably could make an accurate chart. You could take every song that entered the chart in 2019 and track their total chart run (before the return from recurrent due to a death or holiday run). You would end up with a list of the biggest songs released in 2019. That's how the movie biz does it.

[alexandria2001]

[/quote]You actually probably could make an accurate chart. You could take every song that entered the chart in 2019 and track their total chart run (before the return from recurrent due to a death or holiday run). You would end up with a list of the biggest songs released in 2019. That's how the movie biz does it.
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I know, I want this post to be about what people think each year end chart (maybe 2010 to now?) would look like if the representation of each year was most accurate. It's just for fun. I did 2019 as an example. But yeah, confining the tracking of songs to the chart year definitely works!

[dremolus - solarpunk]

For 2020, I think a more representative Top 10 would be:

1. Blinding Lights
2. The Box
3. Don't Start Now
4. ROCKSTAR
5. WAP
6. Watermelon Sugar
7. Mood
8. Dynamite
9. Roses
10. Life is Good