Do you chart old songs you just now discovered?

[Guy LeDouche]

I'm just starting to form a personal chart and am wondering what y'all do about songs that were released a long time ago but you just discovered them.

It would be good to chart them because then it would be an accurate representation of what I was listening to at the time....but then it would affect the contintity of the chart.

[halo19]

If I like it enough. I have many songs from the second Harvey Danger album, which was released 3 years ago. However, it's just way too good to ignore. Whereas, no songs existed on the first one that I liked enough to put on the charts 5 years after the original release.

[Matt4319]

In the end, it's really up to you. I tend not to debut songs that are older than a few months, unless it's gaining popularity on a national scale. Of course, this doesn't keep songs from staying on my chart as they grows older (the record for a song staying in my top 50 is just over nine months).

[Deleted]

It depends. Usually I look to see if the song is still hanging around on any charts around the world. If it's not on any chart, I won't chart it. So if it's still on the Club Play chart or the UK chart, I'll chart it.

Songs that I won't chart are songs that were released in the US a long time before they were released in another country. I feel like I missed my chance.

Finally, if it's on a chart but isn't a radio single, I won't chart it. The only time I will is if it's an artist that releases songs exclusively to the clubs. For instance, I did not chart Whitney Houston's "Love That Man" because she had radio singles and that was a club only single. My other side rule is if it's not a single but still makes the Hot 100 on a lot of radio play [Missy's "Pussycat"], I'll chart it though those songs usually won't peak as high as they would have had it been an official single.

[FreakyFlyBry]

Usually if I discover a song late, I won't chart it unless it's on some official chart.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Depends. I charted Sophie Ellis Bextor's 'Murder On The Dancefloor' in May 2003 because I didn't want to miss out on it.

Basically though, if you discover a song late and chart it late, it still represents your music listening at the same.
So I suppose I would say, yes I do. I wouldn't if a song was over a year old but if the situation arose, I probably would chart it... unless the artist had a new song already released that I liked too.

[Gorminako]

If a song is new to me and I like it, I'll probably chart it, even if it's been around for awhile. However, if it gets to a year old or so, or has been off all charts for several months, I probably won't, though there are exceptions. Obviously an exception was made for songs from Blue's first album, All Rise, but I rationalized that it was probably new to most Americans, anyway, since it was never available in the US to my knowledge. I was considering charting some songs from Donell Jones' last album that I bought a few months ago, but it was already close to 2 years old, and thus seemed out of place.

[mst3k]

As a rule, I usually don't... earlier this year, though, I charted Taproot's "Poem" for two weeks because I heard a friend of mine sing it karaoke and I really liked it.

[af18c]

No. I keep my chart strictly to currents and recurrents

[j]

Yes. Just look at my personal chart.

[jond7699]

I don't care how long a song has been out. I am still charting "HIt The Freeway" by Toni Braxton because I missed out on it when it was first released.

[Joe1240]

Nope.

[billcs]

It doesn't happen often but it did happen with my current #1 www.geocities.com/tunedon/tunedontop30.html

The last time it happened was in 1999 when Chris Isaak's Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing was revived due to inclusion in the movie Eyes Wide Shut. It got to #2 on my chart (though I loved it back in 1995 when it was originally released, I wasn't doing an Internet chart then).

[joe]

Depends on how old the song is, and how popular it is at the moment...I recently added "Get Low" to my countdown, which isn't exactly a new song, but is still getting decent airplay on the radio (especially Z100) and is still pretty much a current song...

If I were to suddenly become a fan of say Simple Mind's "Don't You Forget About Me", that has no chance of charting because, well, it's just about two decades old...

[strong4PMB!]

Four months at most. One exception, though, was my charting of Jennifer Peña's "Entre El Delirio Y La Locura," which I didn't know was released nearly eight months before I charted it. I charted the original version of Angie Stone's "Brotha" four months after it was released. I also charted Dido's "White Flag" two/three months after it was released.

[Libra]

j said:

Yes. Just look at my personal chart.

And I also did this last year. (Prozzak)

The only reason I will is if I tend to listen to the song in question on a consistent basis. Otherwise I won't bother. I tried charting In Your Eyes late, but it bombed out at #18 after I stopped listening to Fever for a few months.

[prenatt1166]

I try to follow a couple simple "rules", but they are not set in stone.

1) An album track can chart as long as the act hasn't issued a new album since. This would also apply to a single that I missed the boat on.

2) An older song is receiving some kind of new promotion is eligible, too. Examples would include a movie released on DVD that I am just hearing a song from the soundtrack. That seems to be happening more frequently on my chart.

Another example would be a commercial. After using Paps Fritas ("Way You Walk") in last year's Dentyne Ice commercials, I started to chart down the song even though it was released in 2000. "Way You Walk" is #22 for 2003 on my chart.

Like I said, nothing is is stone. There are probably numerous exceptions that I am not thinking of.