The Top 50 Hotlist - October 4, 2003
Oct 4, 2003 17:18:24 GMT -5
Post by Cerebro on Oct 4, 2003 17:18:24 GMT -5
Since I've never shared my personal chart with you guys before, I figured I would for a change of pace. My personal chart is actually my version of the national pop chart.
A little history to tell you where my chart comes from. Back in the early 90s, when I first started getting into charts via the countdown shows, I, of course, noted that said shows used different charts. I came up with the idea to reconcile all the charts together into one single chart (a "master" pop chart, if you will). I did my first chart for the weekend of March 7, 1992 (I've since, retroactively, expanded it to January 4, 1992, just to start it at the beginning of the year). I had two charts to use at the time -- Billboard's Hot 100 Airplay (used by AT40) and R&R's Pop Chart (used by Casey and Rick). My method has never been that scientific, but, nonetheless, fun to do. It simply consisted of averaging positions from all the available charts. The reason for 50 positions? Quite simple. There always tended to be about 10 songs that appeared on one chart but not the other, and vice versa. Thus, 50 was good enough to take both top 40 charts into account.
Over the years, the number of available chart sources and the methods of tabulation may have changed, but the essence has always been the same -- one comprehensive chart. But, again, it's not scientifically accurate. Just the best I can do with what I have. I've also continued to add new features. I've always listed droppers and "Hot Picks" (the equivelant of Dees' "Sure Shot" or AT40's "Sneak Peek"). I would later add "Making Noise" (songs added to radio and/or bubbling under the chart) and "#1s On The Other Charts". This past year, I started top 10 "Next In Line" and "Recurrents" sections.
I think I had the most fun with this chart during the mid-90s when I had four different charts to work with -- AMERICAN TOP 40, CASEY'S TOP 40, WEEKLY TOP 40 (Rick had switched to a different chart then), and ADAM CURRY'S TOP 30 HITLIST (remember that one?). The beginning of the 2000s saw about the same level of complexity when I started integrating Gavin and FMQB charts into the mix.
One thing that I should note is that I have no recurrent rule. This chart pretty much lets the songs do what they want. But, since my source material has varying recurrent rules (and due to the way my tabulation works), old songs tend to fall off of my chart a little faster than they would on, say, a recurrentless Mediabase chart ("When I'm Gone" was booted off 2 weeks ago). Another note: since I started my chart using only the countdown shows (no access to the magazines then), my chart dates correspond to the countdown shows and are, thus, 1 week behind the source material (i.e. the current chart would corroborate with the 9/27 R&R chart).
With that out of the way, here's this weekend's chart (see next post):
A little history to tell you where my chart comes from. Back in the early 90s, when I first started getting into charts via the countdown shows, I, of course, noted that said shows used different charts. I came up with the idea to reconcile all the charts together into one single chart (a "master" pop chart, if you will). I did my first chart for the weekend of March 7, 1992 (I've since, retroactively, expanded it to January 4, 1992, just to start it at the beginning of the year). I had two charts to use at the time -- Billboard's Hot 100 Airplay (used by AT40) and R&R's Pop Chart (used by Casey and Rick). My method has never been that scientific, but, nonetheless, fun to do. It simply consisted of averaging positions from all the available charts. The reason for 50 positions? Quite simple. There always tended to be about 10 songs that appeared on one chart but not the other, and vice versa. Thus, 50 was good enough to take both top 40 charts into account.
Over the years, the number of available chart sources and the methods of tabulation may have changed, but the essence has always been the same -- one comprehensive chart. But, again, it's not scientifically accurate. Just the best I can do with what I have. I've also continued to add new features. I've always listed droppers and "Hot Picks" (the equivelant of Dees' "Sure Shot" or AT40's "Sneak Peek"). I would later add "Making Noise" (songs added to radio and/or bubbling under the chart) and "#1s On The Other Charts". This past year, I started top 10 "Next In Line" and "Recurrents" sections.
I think I had the most fun with this chart during the mid-90s when I had four different charts to work with -- AMERICAN TOP 40, CASEY'S TOP 40, WEEKLY TOP 40 (Rick had switched to a different chart then), and ADAM CURRY'S TOP 30 HITLIST (remember that one?). The beginning of the 2000s saw about the same level of complexity when I started integrating Gavin and FMQB charts into the mix.
One thing that I should note is that I have no recurrent rule. This chart pretty much lets the songs do what they want. But, since my source material has varying recurrent rules (and due to the way my tabulation works), old songs tend to fall off of my chart a little faster than they would on, say, a recurrentless Mediabase chart ("When I'm Gone" was booted off 2 weeks ago). Another note: since I started my chart using only the countdown shows (no access to the magazines then), my chart dates correspond to the countdown shows and are, thus, 1 week behind the source material (i.e. the current chart would corroborate with the 9/27 R&R chart).
With that out of the way, here's this weekend's chart (see next post):