MIKEB
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Post by MIKEB on Oct 26, 2004 20:17:49 GMT -5
What criteria do you use before allowing a song to make it on your chart? Does the song have to be an official release or do album charts make it? Does a song have to be simply rumoured first?
For my chart, I try to limit it to only songs that are released in one form or another, whether it be to radio, as a single, a video, and while there's no limit on where it's released, I do favour songs released in North America. However, lately I've been considering revising my charting rules to allow album tracks to make up for my lack of interest in what radio is presenting me. However, the big flaw I see in that is when I buy a CD I really like, where all the songs on it I like, I'd rather not chart the entire CD at once, which would be the case with Tegan and Sara's CD at the moment.
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Post by FreakyFlyBry on Oct 26, 2004 20:57:31 GMT -5
For my chart, I try to limit it to only songs that are released in one form or another, whether it be to radio, as a single, a video, and while there's no limit on where it's released, I do favour songs released in North America. Same here. Also, for a song to chart, I must have it on MP3 or CD. I only implemented this rule a year and a half ago, and it's for the most part unofficial, but I like to follow it.
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Post by MIKEB on Oct 26, 2004 21:07:14 GMT -5
I think your rules are different than mine though. You chart songs as soon as there are rumours surrounding its release whereas I wait until some sort of official date has passed or I hear the song on the radio or something.
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Post by jt25 on Oct 26, 2004 21:29:35 GMT -5
Simple. I hear a song, if I like it enough to make my chart, it charts.
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Post by merg on Oct 26, 2004 21:34:32 GMT -5
i need to be able to easily hear it.. whether it be downloaded or other means.
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Post by Gerardo on Oct 26, 2004 22:15:37 GMT -5
So far, I've been sticking to official releases. Only Maria Mena's "Blame It On Me" has charted with only rumors surrounding its release.
I'm considering allowing album tracks to chart, but I'm not sure how I feel about that just yet.
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Post by Jawshii on Oct 26, 2004 22:45:11 GMT -5
I try to stick to songs that are released, however I kinda have a bad habit of charting songs BEFORE their release so if they become popular, they are actually falling on my chart. Kinda weird.
As for unreleased tracks, I limit a CD to 5 songs on the chart. Even though I haven't had to put this in effect yet, Evanescence has released 4 songs from Fallen, two to make my chart (chart had started after the first two ran their course). An unreleased song from them ("My Last Breath" is now charting, therefore, I am no longer allowed to chart songs from the Fallen CD.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2004 23:35:54 GMT -5
Simple. I hear a song, if I like it enough to make my chart, it charts. Amen, Jess! I mean, isn't that what a PERSONAL chart should be about anyway? My #1 track of 2004 is an album cut that spent 36 record-breaking weeks on my Hot 30 chart. If I had limited my chart to songs on "official release," I never would have charted the song that turned out to be my biggest hit of the year. My current #2 is a song that I've only heard through leaked promo copies on the net. At any rate, I think we sell ourselves short by making rules about what we can chart. After all, I think radio makes enough rules to conspire against what we hear, so I'll be damned if I'm gonna let radio dictate what can be on my personal chart! ;D
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Post by Sam I Am on Oct 27, 2004 3:15:23 GMT -5
For my chart, I try to limit it to only songs that are released in one form or another, whether it be to radio, as a single, a video, and while there's no limit on where it's released, I do favour songs released in Australia.
mine's as above. also, i have no limit as to how long songs can stay on.
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Post by Kworb on Oct 27, 2004 7:57:55 GMT -5
I will chart anything.. I try to keep album tracks at a maximum of two per artist though, and sometimes a song has other things going against it. For example, I'd have charted "Ghost Love Score" by Nightwish, but that song is probably my favorite of all time, and it's more than 10 minutes in length. Because of that I'd have a really hard time ranking it on my chart so I decided against adding it. Also, I only add really old songs if I really like them, I don't want them crowding the lower regions.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2004 10:05:50 GMT -5
I think your rules are different than mine though. You chart songs as soon as there are rumours surrounding its release whereas I wait until some sort of official date has passed or I hear the song on the radio or something. Same with me but every now and then I chart songs that haven't been chosen as singles.
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MIKEB
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Post by MIKEB on Oct 27, 2004 11:05:26 GMT -5
While I think having a no rules rule with charting any song at all would probably be more accurate in the end, it wouldn't really be a fun chart to make for me, I don't think. Part of the fun is when a certain album track that you absolutely love gets released and then watching it leap.
As for my other chart, one of the biggest hits of the year is the 6th "release" (for me) from Martina Sorbara's CD. That song wasn't officially released so it didn't make it on The Max chart but if I were to "designate" songs to chart on The Max, it would probably help solve that situation a bit. I tend to listen to songs I designate as personal singles (like the above mentioned Martina song, as well as others like '2 Find U' by Jewel, 'One Of These Days' by Michelle Branch and tons of others) so I could probably give them a pass to The Max chart as well!
That would probably mean me adding a new rule to my chart which allows only songs that receive a "designated pass" to chart; which would include most radio/single released songs and certain album tracks which would generally be one at a time.
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Post by Kworb on Oct 27, 2004 11:38:19 GMT -5
I don't think having a chaotic chart makes it less fun... the main reason I do it is to basically archive my music taste. When I look back years from now I want to see all music I loved and not just the singles. But I guess it's different for everyone
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Post by I Got Soul. on Oct 27, 2004 11:53:42 GMT -5
- Must be their latest offering (new single, soundtrack single, unreleased track) - Must be coming out within a 3-week period. (Going for adds, single release date)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2004 15:28:06 GMT -5
Amen, Jess! I mean, isn't that what a PERSONAL chart should be about anyway? My #1 track of 2004 is an album cut that spent 36 record-breaking weeks on my Hot 30 chart. If I had limited my chart to songs on "official release," I never would have charted the song that turned out to be my biggest hit of the year. My current #2 is a song that I've only heard through leaked promo copies on the net. At any rate, I think we sell ourselves short by making rules about what we can chart. After all, I think radio makes enough rules to conspire against what we hear, so I'll be damned if I'm gonna let radio dictate what can be on my personal chart! ;D I agree with Jessica and David too much. What's the point of making a personal chart if you can't include your all time favorite song assuming it's not a single. Ans as Kworb said, I wouldn't like to look back on time and see that my favorite song of 1999 was another one, instead of I don't have to wonder by Garth Brooks, which wasn't a single but it was my favorite that year. I don't see at all how it can be less funny to include album tracks, it's the opposite to me, having so many rules about what can chart can be boring, cause you are only allowed to chart what's on radio. Artists like Nek (an italian singer) usually releases the worst songs of his albums when he has lots of really good songs. I wouldn't like to pass on the oportunity to chart those songs! I really don't understand the point in having restrictive rules on a personal chart. But to each his own
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