Something here to interest you on a Sunday morning. The oldest to the youngest members of the top 40, excluding people who I can't find data for such as Otto Knows and Disclosure.

 

23 May 1970 - 42 - Matt Flynn of Maroon 5

13 February 1974 - 38 - Robbie Williams

15 March 1975 - 37 - will.i.am

29 October 1976 - 36 - Mark Sheehan of The Script

18 December 1977 - 34 - Axwell of Swedish House Mafia

31 December 1977 - 34 - PSY

5 October 1978 - 34 - James Valentine of Maroon 5

19 January 1979 - 33 - Wiley

18 March 1979 - 33 - Adam Levine of Maroon 5

2 April 1979 - 33 - Jesse Carmichael of Maroon 5

13 May 1979 - 33 - Micky Madden of Maroon 5

8 September 1979 - 33 - Pink

18 October 1979 - 33 - Ne-Yo

16 December 1979 - 32 - Flo Rida

3 October 1980 - 32 - Danny O'Donoghue of The Script

18 December 1980 - 31 - Christina Aguleria

xx xxxxxxxxx 1982 - 30 - Wesley Schultz of The Lumineers

26 February 1982 - 30 - Nate Ruess of fun.

20 June 1982 - 30 - Example

19 September 1982 - 30 - Skepta

22 November 1982 - 30 - Steve Angello of Swedish House Mafia

10 April 1983 - 29 - Andrew Dost of fun.

20 April 1983 - 29 - Sebastian Ingrosso of Swedish House Mafia

17 January 1984 - 28 - Calvin Harris

31 March 1984 - 28 - Jack Antonoff of fun.

8 December 1984 - 27 - Nicki Minaj

xx xxxxx 1985 - 27 - Naughty Boy

4 May 1985 - 27 - JME

17 July 1985 - 27 - Tom Fletcher of McFly

21 July 1985 - 27 - Paloma Faith

8 October 1985 - 27 - Bruno Mars

1 December 1985 - 26 - Janelle Monae

23 December 1985 - 26 - Harry Judd of McFly

12 March 1986 - 26 - Danny Jones of McFly

21 June 1986 - 26 - Lana Del Rey

19 August 1986 - 26 - Christina Perri

28 August 1986 - 26 - Florence Welch

30 December 1986 - 25 - Ellie Goulding

10 March 1987 - 25 - Emeli Sande

30 November 1987 - 24 - Dougie Poynter of McFly

20 February 1988 - 24 - Rihanna

5 May 1988 - 24 - Adele

4 August 1988 - 24 - Tom Parker of The Wanted

6 September 1988 - 24 - Max George of The Wanted

16 November 1988 - 24 - Siva Kaneswaran of The Wanted

21 March 1989 - 23 - Labrinth

17 October 1989 - 23 - Karis Anderson of Stooshe

1 November 1989 - 23 - Alexandra Buggs of Stooshe

13 December 1989 - 22 - Taylor Swift

24 July 1990 - 22 - Jay McGuiness of The Wanted

26 November 1990 - 21 - Rita Ora

17 February 1991 - 21 - Ed Sheeran

14 June 1991 - 21 - Jesy Nelson of Little Mix

4 October 1991 - 21 - Leigh-Anne Pinnock of Little Mix

24 December 1991 - 20 - Louis Tomlinson of One Direction

xx xxxxxxxxx 1992 - 20 - Ms D

10 February 1992 - 20 - Misha B

11 July 1992 - 20 - Courtney Rumbold of Stooshe

10 October 1992 - 20 - Gabrielle Aplin

21 November 1992 - 20 - Conor Maynard

26 December 1992 - 19 - Jade Thirlwall of Little Mix

12 January 1993 - 19 - Zayn Malik of One Direction

18 April 1993 - 19 - Nathan Sykes of The Wanted

10 July 1993 - 19 - Perrie Edwards of Little Mix

29 August 1993 - 19 - Liam Payne of One Direction

13 September 1993 - 19 - Niall Horan of One Direction

1 February 1994 - 18 - Harry Styles of One Direction

1 March 1994 - 18 - Justin Bieber

I thought Gabrielle Aplin was only 17-18. :blink:

Top 40 in 'dominated by young people' shocker.

That's just awful. I'm older than all but 3 of them.

Top 40 in 'dominated by young people' shocker.

 

Is it really that different from how it used to be from five or ten years ago though? I don't think so...

And the biggest non-shock of the day, is I am younger than everyone in the chart! I think I'll start to feel old when a 1997+ baby gets to #1. Willow Smith was so close to doing it the other year :drama:

That's just awful. I'm older than all but 3 of them.

 

That's 3 more than me... :cry: :drama:

Is it really that different from how it used to be from five or ten years ago though? I don't think so...

I doubt it. And I suspect it has always been the case. The pre rock 'n' roll era charts (prior to 1955) probably had a somewhat higher age though.

I'm not exactly shocked, Radio 1 haven't exactly made a secret of the fact they won't playlist people like Madonna and Kylie now because of their age.

 

So I'm just younger than Ellie Goulding, but marginally older than Emeli Sandé.

To be fair, are there many older acts that actually have singles out at the moment, that would realistically ever make the top 40?

...ok the amount of people younger than me in that list is somewhat troubling. :unsure: I'm sure the first act to have a number 1 who was born after me was Sean Kingston in 2007, although JoJo came close in 2004 ('Leave (Get Out)' got to #2). And now look at them all!! I'm in between two members of The Wanted...

I'm much older than all of them :( At least that will change once The Pogues re-enter in the next week or two. However, we could also see people in next week's top 40 younger than the entire Buzzjack membership.

My birthday lies between Rihanna and Adele.

Have fun looking for age data of everyone at Ladywell Primary School :kink:

 

This is quite interesting, I knew Maroon 5's members were fairly old compared to most current chart stars but that's strange they have one member who's nearly 10 years older than all the rest.

 

Also odd that three of the top 10 are rappers (will.i.am, PSY, Wiley)...

 

Bieber still the youngest in the top 40 some 3 years after he first charted :drama:

Edited November 25, 201212 yr by Bré

Very interesting, thanks! I feel so old :(

Nicky Minaj born in 1984 :lol: she is much older

Younger than them all. :lol: Definitely prefer most who are in the lower end of that list. P!nk's the oldest one I like and then there's no-one till Lana Del Rey.

Nicky Minaj born in 1984 :lol: she is much older

 

She could be, wikipedia gave 2 possible dates :lol: 1982 and 1984, I decided in the end to use the younger one :P

She could be, wikipedia gave 2 possible dates :lol: 1982 and 1984, I decided in the end to use the younger one :P

 

Considering on facts, that she graduated her high school in 2000, and Drake graduated from high school at the age of 25, she's definetely older than 28.

Also odd that three of the top 10 are rappers (will.i.am, PSY, Wiley)...

 

It's not that weird at all imo. Look how old Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Kanye West, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, etc. are. They're all 35+ I think. They were all in the charts together at some point during 2011 I'm sure (when Right There, Buzzin, E.T., I Need a Doctor, Sweat were out), so if we did this then the top 40 would've looked a lot older I think.

 

As someone else was saying, there's not many of the popular older artists have hits out atm.

Edited November 25, 201212 yr by Eric_Blob