Music Charts
For 11 years (1989-2000), I did a weekly personal chart of my favorite hits. I finally succumbed to the pace of adult life and the ascension of other values on my priority scale, so in February 2000 I decided to stop doing weekly charts. In 2003 I resumed my weekly charts, but with a more manageable Top 20 songs instead of the old "Hot 50" I did through most of the 1990s.
My Charts
HitTracker™
Top 500 of the 1990s
One of the
authoritative (albeit subjective) lists of '90s pop hits
on the web today. The top 500 songs of the 1990s,
compiled from 10 years of my weekly charts.
Number One Hits of the Past
| A chronological archive
of all the number one hits on my chart from Dec. 31, 1989
until I stopped doing it in early 2000, and again since January 2003.
The lists for late 2000 through 2002 are what would probably
have been No. 1 if I had done a chart then.
Each year includes, in the right-hand column, a running total of the number of weeks each song spent at number one. |
Year End Charts
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Here are my year-end charts, based on a tabulation of all the weekly charts for a given year. In the Hot 50 era (1991-1999), for each week a song spends at No. 1 it gets 50 points; a week at No. 2 earns 49 points; and so on down the list (e.g., 41 points for No. 10, 11 points for No. 40, 1 point for No. 50). The weekly points are then tallied up and all the songs that hit my chart in a given year are ranked from highest to lowest point totals. Ties are broken by peak position, weeks at peak position, weeks in the top 10 and weeks on the Hot 50 in that order. In the Top 20 era (2003-present), the same general rules hold true, except that a week at No. 1 earns 20 points, a week at No. 2 earns 19 points, and so on. Ties are broken by peak position, weeks at peak, weeks in the Top 20 and weeks in the Top 10, in order of descending priority. Bear in mind that my musical tastes have changed over time (note I was only 14 years old when 1991 began) and that "airplay" (really, "earplay") is a factor in my charts (if I don't hear a song much while it's current, it won't do very well on my chart). So these should not be taken as an absolute reference point for my current tastes, though it does give you an idea of my musical preferences over time.
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Related Links
Billboard.com
Home of the famous Hot 100 and many other music sales and airplay
charts.
Radio & Records
An excellent source for
radio airplay charts and news concerning the radio and
music industries.
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