Songs that I like but I think I'll get bored of, during the week, will enter at around 35-40, so that if I find I don't get bored of it during the week after then it could climb (Depending on how much I love/like it) because then if I do get bored of it, I can take it out the week after or something, without having weird chart run's like Juranamo :P (Like Sugababes - No Can Do, entered my chart at 37, because I really wasn't sure, then I massively went off it so it went out my chart the week after)

I take my 10 favourite current songs and place them in order of:

 

A) Age (Newer songs near the top - it's just how I roll)

B) How much I like the song

 

So if something's new and I really like it, there's a 95% chance it'll be no.1, unless something just as current which I like more is already at no.1. Pretty straightforward.

 

I order them by age because I like to keep my chart fresh, btw.

I'm doing 12 charts this year, one at the end of each month. Will be a list of my top 50 / 60 songs that were leaked / released / that I heard that month. Album track, single, unreleased tracks, etc. Yarr.

I used to base mine on if I liked them and what was coming out soon but with this there were massive drops and jumps in the charts so when I started my latest chart I decided to try and base it on iTunes play counts which explains why some old tracks/album tracks get added

I do my Personal Chart basing on my love to each track every week. Just how i feel. No release schedules. No last.fm etc counts.

I am doing a chart revamp today :o

 

it will be songs i have listened to the most this week x songs i have loved the most this week x new release schdeule/album tracks, unreleased tracks, demos etc.

 

so any song ever can enter my chart :o

 

it will be up later when i can be arsed/when im avoiding my coursework.

Although I don't post my personal charts I do them and mine works like this. The highest charting song on the real chart I like goes to number one and so on and so forth. Eg this weeks chart goes like this:-

Just the top 5

1. James Morrison and Nelly Furtado - Broken Strings

2. Kings of Leon - Use Somebody

3. Kanye West - Heartless

4. The Killers - Human

5. Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire

 

If I get sick of a song it gets deleted. If I start liking a song it get's added. My album chart works in the same way

Mine's uber mathematical :wub: Formula for the win :P

When I used to do a show on Hospital Radio, I used to take twenty songs that were current and that I like, and roll percentile dice live on air to work out positions. :lol:

 

To get realistic chart runs, songs that had done well the previous week as well as the number one, got extra rolls, which often created tension as we got to the top of the chart, with two songs left, one of the final two contenders would have to roll a certain total or higher to push the other one to number two. Reggie and Fearne never have that much tension! :naughty:

 

Nowadays, the chart I do on Buzzjack is based solely on what I like and am listening to at the time. Often it's current chart hits or new releases, but I also like a fair bit of foreign pop music which does well, and retro hits.

 

The retro hits are always there for a reason, never random. Often it's because they've appeared in a TV advert, such as The Jackson Sisters and Frankie Goes To Hollywood songs that are in my Top 20 at the moment, or they're featured in a TV show... the current showing of 1970s football matches on ITV4 led me to hunt out the Big Match theme music on the internet, download the full version in its technicolour cheesy glory off ITunes, and it's currently number four in my chart cause I love listening to it right now!

 

Sometimes, it doesn't even have to be off a TV show or advert, it could just be an old song I've recently heard for the first time. That was how Can got to number one last year with 'I Want More' - stumbled on it on YouTube, and even though it was from 1976 it sounded so cool and fresh... downloaded it and listened to it obsessively on my IPod for a few weeks as if it were a new release - well, it was new to me. Hence a number one hit.

 

That said, I am unlikely to chart a random old song that I've loved for years without good reason - don't expect to see Bohemian Rhapsody in the Radio Newtown Top 20 anytime soon, for instance. And I won't chart the current fad, no matter how popular it is, if I don't happen to like it. So no 'Just Dance' in my chart... didn't mind Lady GaGa a few months ago, but sick of hearing her now, so I won't be charting the current song even if it's number one for nine weeks on the BBC.

I rank my favourite songs every day and then take an average position. New songs always get added lower down the list so it is quite hard to go straight in at #1.

 

I count any songs that I like at the time for whatever reason. Which is why I have Be Somebody by KoL at #1 and last week has Suzie Q by Creedence Clearwater in my chart because I sang it at karaoke and that made me listen to the track more.

Like Kit, I used to do a show...The Chart Show actually, for my local Hospital Radio. I started doing that in September of 1993 and started to compile my own chart (a top 10) in January of 1994. It was heavily influenced by the official chart, which I kind of regret now. It wasn't until sometime in 1997 that I decided to base my chart on my own preferences from the music I'd actually heard that week - so new entries didn't necessarily have to have been released yet. By that time my chart had gradually increased to a top 50 and from then on increased dramatically to be about a top 230 at one point in 1998(!) At that time I was going out my way to hear as much new music as possible...probably just with the aim of increasing my chart size...silly really :P

 

Since then it has varied in size, but always with a minimum of a top 75 and this week it's a top 92 - random number....but it does reflect the amount of tracks I'm hearing at the moment that I like...some I've heard and don't like at all....and as such they haven't charted!

 

Like Mart!n, I compile each week's final chart on a Friday, but then I do a re-order of the tracks on a Monday and shuffle them around and insert new entries in the order of the amount that I'm liking them. And, as I don't go out of my way to hear new music now, the majority of the songs included will be tracks I've heard played on daytime radio whilst at work. I stopped doing the Chart Show for Hospital Radio in April 2001 due to time commitments, but I've continued compiling my chart.

 

I've also compiled retrospective charts from before the time that I started to compile my own, a bit difficult really as I can't be sure exactly what I was liking "way back when" and my musical tastes have certainly changed, but it was interesting doing it.

I used Last.FM play count which is why mine used to be all over the place :lol:

mines based on most played and most interest.

 

i order them on what's been played most that week and shuffle them according to my interest. if it's a single out at the moment and i'm interested in seeing how it does then it'll move up over a song which could have a few more plays but not on the chart (no single release ect.).

i also take into account how much interest and how much plays as I determine it's final position.

 

hope that makes sense lol.

I plan mine by writing the midweeks of my chart which start on wednesday which consists mainly on the music thats caught my attention by likeability since my last chart. Then what i've heard throughout wed & some part of thursday will be positioned into my chart but some make the top 40 very fast & some don't, then by Friday evening or early Saturday morning quickly before i present it. I write up the final analysis of whAt happens. :D

Edited June 28, 200916 yr by RobDeMusicMan

Mine is most played on my iPod, most heard and likeability factor.

Points are given as No.1=30,000, No.2-29,000 etc...

Is there a way of finding the most played songs on itunes for a week without deleting the total play count every week?

I make my charts depending on by likeability factor and nostalgia.

I don't use a points format to my chart.

The songs in the chart are mainly recent releases and latest releases, before and after. I do not add old tracks to my chart (except for one song which I sent for BJSC), album tracks and not having 2 songs by the same artist.

 

I finish the chart on Friday or Saturday. Sometimes at Sunday morning. :heehee:

 

I hope that makes sense. :P

last fm playcount for me. Usually exactly what it says on Last Fm but I'm concidering changing slightly. e.g if a track has 24 plays it will obviously be above another track that has 20 plays, but if I have 5 or 6 tracks with the same play count then I might rearrange them in an order that seems better.

Mostly it is based on weekly plays on my MP3 player - I have a playlist of my weekly Top 50 plus any potential new entries and I listen to that frequently during the week, songs go up based on increasing play counts and get dropped off the playlist once they fall off the chart. As a result the chart is quite slow, and songs rarely debut in the Top 20. In fact I've only had 4 songs debut Top 20 this decade so far!

Mine was initially based solely off Last.fm in the order they were in but then I began to re-arrange them. I have had to backtrack a few weeksso when I do that I look at the releases for the week that I know and take last.fm into account.

 

Edit: Now I tend to base it on what I am liking during the weekand I do give some biases to artists I like and stuff. I went through a period this year where I wanted a lot of songs to go to number one so my top 10 got clogged up with the while I was waiting to put them at number one. Now I kinda know what songs are gonna go to the top of my chart a week or 2 ahead of when I actually do it but this can change.

Edited September 28, 20159 yr by Tombo