Post by Love Machine on Oct 14, 2008 14:19:39 GMT -5
*"How do I read the song listing?" = The songs and following statistics will always go in order of:
1. RG Rank (based on my point system, this is how the song ranked for this year)
2. Song
3. Artist
4. Date (the date on which the song peaked at it's highest position on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts)
5. Position (the Peak Position the song achieved on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts)
6. Points (the point the song garnered, based on my point system)
*"But, where is 'this' song and 'that' song?" = I will have a separate section called "But, what about...?" where you may be able to find the song you are looking for. I think you may be surprised at how low some popular songs ranked, as well as how high others ranked. Many popular songs never ranked at all, but were only big album cuts. I have no way of assigning a point value to these songs, but I will try to include the more famous songs from each year that I can remember.
*"Why does the list only go up to 1999? What about the 2000's? Are you going to include those as well?" = No, I will not be including those. My reason behind this is simple: I really do not care for most music being released nowadays, and I have no desire to invest the time collecting those songs, and entering data for those songs. Although there were many good songs throughout the 1990's, I feel the quality of music really started to decline after about 1992. Today, music is boring, repetitive, unimaginative, and really lacks the uniqueness and individual signatures that most music had during the the peak of music, which I consider 1955-1992. Most people familiar with charted music agree with me on this, so there is no use debating this. If in fact you feel that today's music is the best music ever produced, then that is great; this blog is not for you.
*"Why are there many more songs from 'this' year than 'that' year?" = That's just how it is. Some years had many more releases than other years. The quantity of songs trailed off significantly in the 1990's.
*"Why do the 1990's songs have such higher point values than other decades? Are they just better or more popular songs?" = No. In the early 1990's, songs were tracked much more accurately than they were in the past. This was based on actual sales and airplay statistics. The tracking standards were woefully relaxed in the past, and although they did a good job of tracking the popular songs, the overall and final statistics for each song was most likely far from accurate. There are probably hundreds, of not thousand of songs that were most likely shafted in their charted numbers. It really is impossible to compare songs from different decades because of this.
1. RG Rank (based on my point system, this is how the song ranked for this year)
2. Song
3. Artist
4. Date (the date on which the song peaked at it's highest position on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts)
5. Position (the Peak Position the song achieved on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts)
6. Points (the point the song garnered, based on my point system)
*"But, where is 'this' song and 'that' song?" = I will have a separate section called "But, what about...?" where you may be able to find the song you are looking for. I think you may be surprised at how low some popular songs ranked, as well as how high others ranked. Many popular songs never ranked at all, but were only big album cuts. I have no way of assigning a point value to these songs, but I will try to include the more famous songs from each year that I can remember.
*"Why does the list only go up to 1999? What about the 2000's? Are you going to include those as well?" = No, I will not be including those. My reason behind this is simple: I really do not care for most music being released nowadays, and I have no desire to invest the time collecting those songs, and entering data for those songs. Although there were many good songs throughout the 1990's, I feel the quality of music really started to decline after about 1992. Today, music is boring, repetitive, unimaginative, and really lacks the uniqueness and individual signatures that most music had during the the peak of music, which I consider 1955-1992. Most people familiar with charted music agree with me on this, so there is no use debating this. If in fact you feel that today's music is the best music ever produced, then that is great; this blog is not for you.
*"Why are there many more songs from 'this' year than 'that' year?" = That's just how it is. Some years had many more releases than other years. The quantity of songs trailed off significantly in the 1990's.
*"Why do the 1990's songs have such higher point values than other decades? Are they just better or more popular songs?" = No. In the early 1990's, songs were tracked much more accurately than they were in the past. This was based on actual sales and airplay statistics. The tracking standards were woefully relaxed in the past, and although they did a good job of tracking the popular songs, the overall and final statistics for each song was most likely far from accurate. There are probably hundreds, of not thousand of songs that were most likely shafted in their charted numbers. It really is impossible to compare songs from different decades because of this.