What do you mean? YTD and YE charts are an indication of what's been popular on any given year, nothing more nothing less.

 

I mean that the charts are now calculated in such a way that has made these charts boring and stale. They didn’t used to be, but now they are.

I disagree. I think the added need for longevity on these charts make them kinda interesting. Chart runs like Perfect and Mr. Brightside always intrigue me

It is true that practically songs released after April/May don't stand a chance on YE but I don't think anyone can disagree regarding the YE #1's of recent years:

 

2014 - Happy

2015 - Uptown Funk

2016 - One Dance

2017 - Shape of You

2018 - One Kiss

2019 - Someone You Loved

2020 - Blinding Lights

 

 

The chart of the year was a good measure of overall popularity in the physical age when almost everything did the vast bulk of its sales within one calendar year. In the download age it was still good but with more songs straddling years. In the streaming age it’s really biased towards songs that become popular around January.

 

I think a rolling 52 week chart, updated every week or just every month, would be really interesting. If I had the data and time to maintain one I would.

The chart of the year was a good measure of overall popularity in the physical age when almost everything did the vast bulk of its sales within one calendar year. In the download age it was still good but with more songs straddling years. In the streaming age it’s really biased towards songs that become popular around January.

 

I think a rolling 52 week chart, updated every week or just every month, would be really interesting. If I had the data and time to maintain one I would.

My dumb pipe dream is that I'd love to see a list of the 100 biggest songs of each release year that's updated either with their sales of the last 12 months or even all time sales. Or for there to be enough information distributed widely that someone with the passion & interest could accurately create it.

My dumb pipe dream is that I'd love to see a list of the 100 biggest songs of each release year that's updated either with their sales of the last 12 months or even all time sales. Or for there to be enough information distributed widely that someone with the passion & interest could accurately create it.

Absolutely - I wish the OCC would just make all the weekly and total sales publicly available via a database. They're already giving away a fair amount of sales information so why not go the whole hog? What would they have to lose from geeks like me having a field day with the stats? ^_^