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Post by bobbo428 on Mar 26, 2014 15:10:37 GMT -5
In 1975, I began to rank my personal favorites, and my song chart debuted in April 1975--shortly before my 14th b-day. I chose Saturdays because Casey was usually on on Sundays. From 1975-82, my chart did not deviate much from the Billboard top 40, though some AC-only and AOR-only tracks did make their way onto my chart. I based my rankings on how much I liked a song (of course), as well as how often I heard it. I did allow album cuts to make my chart (the first non-single to make it was Elton John's "Pinball Wizard," in May 1975).
By 1983, my chart began to lean a bit AC, although it was still about 75-80 percent pop until March 1986. After that, I stopped doing the chart for nearly four years, then resumed in early 1990--not because of the quality of the music but the turn of the decade. I updated the chart only once a month throughout the '90s. By mid-decade, country songs began appearing on my chart regularly, peaking around 1999. After that, the declining quality of songs in that format, plus a jingoistic attitude, soured me on that genre.
In the 2000s, I reached my 40s and saw adult alternative and Americana make significant inroads on my chart.Pop songs took a smaller and smaller share of the chart, reaching a nadir in 2009. In 2007, I finally gained access to sites like You Tube--and was no longer at the mercy of terrestrial radio. Triple A, urban AC, and folk dominate in the 2010s, as well as the occasional retro-sounding dance track. My chart fluctuated between 50 and 75 positions--usually 55-60.
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Post by freakyflybry on Mar 26, 2014 23:07:36 GMT -5
I started my chart in January 1999 as a weekly top 40. By August 2002, it had expanded to 100 positions, where it remains to this day.
Originally my chart was highly dependent on what I heard on the radio, but the Internet has enabled a larger variety on my chart.
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Post by saltrek on Mar 27, 2014 19:42:23 GMT -5
I started mine in January 1977 as a top 20 based on ranking all the local and national countdowns I could listen to in the NY metro area.
By 1978 I was doing a top 35 which lasted until spring 1994.
In the fall of 1995 I was doing my new hobby - surfing the internet - and discovered web sires tracking everybody's PERSONAL CHARTS. I was dumbfounded that anyone else did this - and I had stopped! So, time to start it up again!!
I did a top 40 from fall 1995 until June 2001.
Started up again in June 2007 and continue to today.
My chart has been CHR based throughout. Now it is probably a CHR/HOT AC hybrid.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Mar 31, 2014 10:24:22 GMT -5
This thread's topic inspired me to start my own top 40 chart. It's based on VEVO video views on YouTube, and every Monday, I will record the present week's views and subtract the current week's views from the previous week's views, and rank by differences. The highest difference will get the #1 spot, and if there is a tie somewhere along the way, the position will be based on VEVO views. Here is a sample of my debut chart:  Next week's chart may see some noticeable differences. In my chart for this week, "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus is #1. Where this chart is my official first personal chart, the ranking is based on total VEVO views for this week, being its initial week. "Wrecking Ball" could be in a totally different position next week. |
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Post by Shane LaFleur on Apr 14, 2014 1:55:05 GMT -5
I have my own that I started in back in February of 1998 as a 20 position chart..now it's a 30 position chart based on personal preference. My chart currently leans towards more HotAC though has in the past featured a lot of songs from animated movies. My current #1 is 'Let It Go' (the Idina Menzel version, not the Demi Lovato pop version)
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Post by shadster on May 5, 2014 13:40:21 GMT -5
I have an extensive personal chart library as well. I started listening to radio when I got my 1st stereo (x-mas 1983) an very shortly after that to create my own personal top 10 (primarily CHR music, as its called today). That 1st year, 1984, i would write my Top10's down on whatever I could find and never put a date to any of em, so sadly i've lost all those records. In 1985, I started to get more organized w/ my charts, expanded them to a top20 an although i'm missing quite a few charts from that year, what I do have is fairly good representation of most of the year. By 1986 i was more meticulous an organized about where I kept my charts and subsequently I have nearly all my charts going back thru 1986 today. However, something happen to the stack of charts from the 2nd half of 1988. I've misplaced em/lost/ruined.....i dunno, they're just gone. Maybe I'll find em someday at my parents house when I hafta go thru everything in that house after they pass on. Not sure when I expanded to a top30, I think it was in 1987 actually. I also felt my charts should follow similarly to Rick/Casey in so far as a "song" should "climb" to #1, no matter how much I loved the song out-of-the-box. I wanted to change that so I changed my personal charts in 1989, basically right when I graduated high school, and voila, now songs could actually premiere/enter @ #1, which explains why I have some odd-ball #1's like "Crazy" by Daisy Dee. I kept up w/ my charts until mid-way thru 1994. I would even record the music into a countdown w/ me as the EmmCee, counting em down, and I'd listen to thru-out the week. It was probably in 1991 when I stopped doing charts on a weekly basis, started doing them once every other week, an eventually it became once a month or even once every couple months. I'm still not sure why I stopped in 1994, my last chart was June. Maybe the June chart was to last the entire summer? *shrug* I know that in the fall of 1994, I got on the internet and the internet started taking up most, if not all, my free time.
I got the itch to resume charts in 1997, and did so, even went as far as 're-creating' the missing years of 95 an 96, based on CT40 charts that I had at the time and what I could remember as my fav songs of any given month. I also continued to create the actual countdown again (on cassette). My next stoppage was in 2003 I believe. 2009 I started again and continue thru to today, allthough admittadly I havent done a new chart since December (need to work on that). I also did another 're-creation' of those missing years 03-08. I did have some charts here an there thru-out that period but it was largly missing. It actually took me several years to re-create all those charts and some of the charts I re-created are for 2-3 month periods. I just didnt want to have any gaps. I still, even today, record my charts into countdowns to listen to in the car. I still have my Top 80 of the 80's, top100 of the 90's, and I created a top100 of the 2000's (which was the primary reason for re-creating all the missing charts anyway). I also have a Top 50 of 2010, 2011, an 2012. I've done my tabulation for the top 50 of 2013, just havent found the time to sit down an record the show yet. I don't EmmCee the show anymore, just create an auto-mated countdown so-to-speak.
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Post by bobbo428 on May 16, 2014 12:57:27 GMT -5
I have an extensive personal chart library as well. I started listening to radio when I got my 1st stereo (x-mas 1983) an very shortly after that to create my own personal top 10 (primarily CHR music, as its called today). That 1st year, 1984, i would write my Top10's down on whatever I could find and never put a date to any of em, so sadly i've lost all those records. In 1985, I started to get more organized w/ my charts, expanded them to a top20 an although i'm missing quite a few charts from that year, what I do have is fairly good representation of most of the year. By 1986 i was more meticulous an organized about where I kept my charts and subsequently I have nearly all my charts going back thru 1986 today. However, something happen to the stack of charts from the 2nd half of 1988. I've misplaced em/lost/ruined.....i dunno, they're just gone. Maybe I'll find em someday at my parents house when I hafta go thru everything in that house after they pass on. Not sure when I expanded to a top30, I think it was in 1987 actually. I also felt my charts should follow similarly to Rick/Casey in so far as a "song" should "climb" to #1, no matter how much I loved the song out-of-the-box. I wanted to change that so I changed my personal charts in 1989, basically right when I graduated high school, and voila, now songs could actually premiere/enter @ #1, which explains why I have some odd-ball #1's like "Crazy" by Daisy Dee. I kept up w/ my charts until mid-way thru 1994. I would even record the music into a countdown w/ me as the EmmCee, counting em down, and I'd listen to thru-out the week. It was probably in 1991 when I stopped doing charts on a weekly basis, started doing them once every other week, an eventually it became once a month or even once every couple months. I'm still not sure why I stopped in 1994, my last chart was June. Maybe the June chart was to last the entire summer? *shrug* I know that in the fall of 1994, I got on the internet and the internet started taking up most, if not all, my free time. I got the itch to resume charts in 1997, and did so, even went as far as 're-creating' the missing years of 95 an 96, based on CT40 charts that I had at the time and what I could remember as my fav songs of any given month. I also continued to create the actual countdown again (on cassette). My next stoppage was in 2003 I believe. 2009 I started again and continue thru to today, allthough admittadly I havent done a new chart since December (need to work on that). I also did another 're-creation' of those missing years 03-08. I did have some charts here an there thru-out that period but it was largly missing. It actually took me several years to re-create all those charts and some of the charts I re-created are for 2-3 month periods. I just didnt want to have any gaps. I still, even today, record my charts into countdowns to listen to in the car. I still have my Top 80 of the 80's, top100 of the 90's, and I created a top100 of the 2000's (which was the primary reason for re-creating all the missing charts anyway). I also have a Top 50 of 2010, 2011, an 2012. I've done my tabulation for the top 50 of 2013, just havent found the time to sit down an record the show yet. I don't EmmCee the show anymore, just create an auto-mated countdown so-to-speak. I enjoyed reading the history of your song chart. My own chart used to be similar to the Billboard top 40, but now--with access to a huge number of songs online, my personal chart deviates considerably from what CHR and most other commercial formats) air. I hope to update my chart tomorrow because I've been hearing a lot of new songs since my last update (April 19). |
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Post by bobbo428 on Aug 31, 2017 9:29:20 GMT -5
Number ones on my song chart since January 2016
2016
Jan Gone Before You Met Me-Alan Jackson
2-27 Monumental Fool-Steep Canyon Rangers
3-19 Flaws-Alan Jackson C&W
4-16 Take Me Away-Janet Jackson URBANAC
5-28 Rider Of Days-Patty Griffin
Jun When We Were Young-Adele
Jul I Believe-Stringdusters/Lee Ann Womack
8-20 Not A Little Bit-K. Michelle URBANAC
9-17 Greensboro-Kate Campbell FOLK
10-1 Play By Your Own Rules-Sam Bush
11-5 Don't Weep for Me-Blue Highway
11-26 Missionary Ridge-Shovel and Rope
12-17 Funnel of Love-Cyndi Lauper
2017
Jan Woody's Landlord-Tim Grimm FOLK
2-4 High Road-The Savage Hearts AMER
3-4 I Won’t Look Down-Brother Sun FOLK
Mar Flipside-Norah Jones JAZZ
4-22 Lovers of the Sun-Jayhawks AMER
5-20 Isn’t This the World-Janelle Marie MOVIE
6-3 Show Me-Neil Young AOR
6-17 A Woman’s Love-Willie Nelson C&W
7-8 I Don’t Want to Be in Love-Gina Sicilia BR
8-12 How We Met—The Long Version-Jens Lekman DSC
8-26 Freedom Highway-Rhiannon Giddens FOLK/SOUL/GOS
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Post by bobbo428 on Aug 31, 2017 9:36:32 GMT -5
PERSONAL NUMBER 1s--2014 and 2015
2014
1-11 Home Again-Elton John AC
Feb High Hopes-Bruce Springsteen AAA
3-15 Thursday-Pet Shop Boys/Example DANCE
4-12 Modern Blue-Rosanne Cash AMER
5-17 Nowhere but Down-Woodshed Prophets AMER
6-7 Turn Blue-The Black Keys AAA
6-14 The Blackleg Miner-Jesse Ferguson IRISH
Jul Forever Ray-Carrie Newcomer FOLK
8-30 The Soundmaker-Rodrigo y Gabriela WORLD
9-6 She’s Not Me-Jenny Lewis AAA
Oct A Feather’s Not a Bird-Rosanne Cash AMER
11-29 Burning Bridges-Lucinda Williams AAA/AMER
Dec The Wife of Usher’s Well-Runa FOLK
2015
Jan Waves-Mr. Probs DANCE
Feb The Devil’s Right Hand-Bob Seger AMER
Mar Will the Circle Be Unbroken-Susan Boyle AMER/GOSPEL
4-12 Something Blue-Neil Diamond MOR (He is now too old/mellow for AC, so MOR is his new genre.)
5-9 The King’s Shilling-Cassie & Maggie FOLK
6-6 If You Dare-Jazmine Sullivan URBAN AC
Jul Snow Falls in June-Ryan Bingham AMER
Aug Oh Jah Jah-Eddie Murphy REGGAE/GOSPEL
Sep The Brightest Day-Caitlin Canty FOLK
Oct Glory-Common & John Legend URBAN AC/HIP-HOP//GOSPEL
11-21 Hello-Adele AC
11-28 Radio-Steep Canyon Rangers BLUEGRASS
Dec You Can Always Come Home-Alan Jackson C&W
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Post by bobbo428 on Aug 31, 2017 9:42:11 GMT -5
We continue working back, and we now go to 2013, which saw a lot of turnover during the middle, as I was listening to a lot of adult alternative, folk, and Americana. I had a strong desire for the Rod Stewart song, "Brighton Beach," to make the AC chart, but it probably was considered too "soft" for that format, which should be called Hot AC.
2013
1-12 Skyfall -Adele AC
2-16 Kansas City-Melissa Etheridge AMER
Mar Better Dig Two-The Band Perry C&W
Apr Magpie-Beth Orton AMER
5-11 Catch My Breath-Kelly Clarkson AC
5-18 Long Time Gone-Ruthie Foster AMER
6-1 Out of My League-Fitz and the Tantrums MOD
6-8 I Will Wait-Mumford and Sons AAA
6-15 Sailor-Jay Nash FOLK
7-6 This Wall-Colleen Kattau and Some Guys FOLK
8-31 Made to Love-John Legend/Kimbra URBAN AC
9-14 Life Is Good Blues-Laura Cortese FOLK
9-28 Treasure-Bruno Mars POP
10-12 Isabel-Ben Fuller AAA
11-16 Long Time Gone-Civil Wars & T-Bone Burnett AMER
12-7 Brighton Beach-Rod Stewart AC
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Post by bobbo428 on Aug 31, 2017 9:50:53 GMT -5
The year 2012 was big for Adult Alternative, folk, and Americana. I was subscribing to NPR's Song of the Day, and quite a few of those songs made my chart that year. The Todd Terje tune ended up being number 1 for the year, as it spent nine months on my chart.
1-7 Gold and Silver-Mary Hopkin FOLK
This was the first new song I had heard from Hopkin since 1972's minor hit "Knock, Knock, Who's There," a tune I heard more than two years before my first song chart.
2-4 Wood and Stone-Tara Nevins AMER
Mar We All Go Back to Where We Belong-R.E.M. AAA
3-31 No Banker Left Behind-Ry Cooder AMER
4-14 Heaven Is Only Days down the Road-Shelby Lynne AMER
May Somebody’s Chelsea-Reba McEntire C&W
a lot of the country songs that I liked were doing poorly on that chart--sincerely and country airplay were becoming inversely correlated--as was thye case with pop radio by the late-'80s or early-'90s.
Jun My Valentine-Paul McCartney AC
7-7 Inspector Norse-Todd Terje TECHNO
7-21 Hello Cruel World-Gretchen Peters AMER
8-26 Well May the World Go-Tao Rodriguez-Seeger FOLK
9-8 Analog Man-Joe Walsh CLASSIC AOR
10-6 Isn’t That So-Lyle Lovett AMER
11-10 Home-Philip Phillips HOTAC
11-24 Gas Man-Burns Sisters FOLK
Dec All Fall Down-Shawn Colvin AMER
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Post by bobbo428 on Aug 31, 2017 19:01:06 GMT -5
The year 2011 was the last time that a song reached both number 1 on my own chart and on the Hot 100: Adele's "Rolling in the Deep."Aside from that, it was a big year for adult alternative, Americana, and urban adult contemporary--or neosoul.
1-15 Slice- Five for Fighting AAA
2-26 Rolling in the Deep-Adele AAA
Mar Care-Kid Rock/Martina McBride/T.I AC/C&W
Apr Moneygrabber-Fitz and the Tantrums AAA
Apr High in the Morning-Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers AAA OR CLASSIC AOR
May Walking-Mary Mary URBANAC
Jun SLASH AND BURN-RAZIA FOLK
7-2 Never Stop-The Bad Plus JAZZ
Jul Paper Airplane-Alison Krauss/Union Station AMER
8-13 GET IN LINE-RONNIE SEXSMITH AAA
9-17 New Orleans-Emmylou Harris AMER
10-15 The Last Crusade-Sam Roberts Band AAA
Nov. Down By the Water-Decemberists AAA
Dec Honey Baby Blues-Lauren Sheehan AAA
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Post by bobbo428 on Aug 31, 2017 19:23:29 GMT -5
The first year of the 2010s saw Adult Alternative as the principal source of charting songs. I also enjoyed a great deal of neosoul. Americana was beginning to make inroads onto my chart during the final year of my 40s.
1-9 Wonderful Gary Go AAA
1-16 The Uprising Muse ALT
Feb Million Dollar Bill Whitney Houston URBANAC
Mar Surface Mindy Smith AMER/CHRISTIAN
Apr Seattle Mary Mary URBANAC
5-1 Hey, Soul Sister Train HOTAC
6-5 Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart Alicia Keys URBANAC
6-26 Maybe California Tori Amos AAA
Jul Bittersweet Fantasia URBANAC
8-28 Jenny The Harters C&W
9-4 Summer Day Sheryl Crow AAA
9-11 Hey Yeah Steve Miller Band CLASSIC AOR
10-23 Love Bath Smokey Robinson URBANAC
Nov If It Wasn’t for Bad Leon Russell/Elton John AAA/AMER
Dec National Ransom Elvis Costello AAA
12-18 100 Miles from Memphis Sheryl Crow AAA
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Post by bobbo428 on Aug 31, 2017 19:29:24 GMT -5
2009
Adult alternative was very popular with me in 2009, as was the neosoul (urban adult contemporary) sound. Jazmine Sullivan’s excellent, 1970s-styled ballad “Lions, Tigers & Bears” is one of my all-time favorites. It should have been a major pop hit, but it wasn’t because it wasn’t macho or sexual enough. Sincerity was hard to find on pop radio, which I have avoided like the plague for many years.
1-3 Magic-Robin Thicke NEOSOUL
1-24 We Will Take It Back-Colleen Kattau FOLK
2-28 The Price Of Silence-Various Artists
for Amnesty International AAA/WORLD
Mar Right As Rain-Adele AAA
Mar Love’s a Mystery-Pretenders AAA
4-18 Lions, Tigers & Bearts-Jazmine Sullivan NEOSOUL
May Sissy’s Song-Alan Jackson C&W
Jun T-O-N-Y-Solange NEOSOUL
7-11 I’m Throwing My Arms around Paris-Morrissey ALT
Aug Airstream Driver-Gomez AA/CLASSIC AOR
Sep Complicated Shadows -Elvis Costello AAA
10-10 Welcome to England-Tori Amos AAA
Oct Bury Me Alive-The Fallen ALT
11-21 The Great Defector-Bell XI AAA
Dec Nothing But a Miracle-Diane Birch AAA
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Post by bobbo428 on Aug 31, 2017 19:33:57 GMT -5
In 2008, adult alternative was a chief source of new songs. However, there were a fair number of dance tunes making my top 40 as well as a lot of high-quality neosoul tunes. Folk and Americana also had a good year.
1-13 Punish the Monkey-Mark Knopfler AAA
2-2 On with the Song-Mary Chapin Carpenter AMER
2-16 Jenny Don’t Be Hasty-Paolo Nutini AAA
Mar The Moon Looks like It’s Crying-James Gordon and sons FOLK
4-12 Stronger Woman-Jewel COUNTRY
5-10 Love Is Free-Sheryl Crow HOT AC
5-24 No More-Eddie Vedder AAA
Jun I Saw God Today-George Strait COUNTRY
Jul Out of Our Heads-Sheryl Crow AAA/RETRO SOUND
8-16 Teenage Love Affair-Alicia Keys NEOSOUL
8-30 Opening Titles—John Adams Theme-Rob Layne/Steve Vitarelli TV THEME
Sep Violet Hill-Coldplay AAA
Oct Magic-Robin Thicke NEOSOUL
11-8 Chasing Pavements-Adele AAA
Nov Fine Line-Little Big Town COUNTRY
Dec What I Cannot Change-Leann Rimes COUNTRY/AC
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