Sam I Am
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Post by Sam I Am on Nov 17, 2005 2:05:28 GMT -5
As I date my chart for Sundays, my final chart for this year will be my 52nd of the year on December 25 (yes, christmas day). This means my first chart of 2006 will be Sunday 1 January, and my last chart of 2006 will be December 31!!! In other words, I'll have 53 charts next year for the first time since 2000.
However, I know some of you date yours for the friday or saturday beforehand. So that might mean you'll have 53 charts this year instead of next year.
My question is how do you others handle the changeover between years? I.E. do you have a certain cut-off date for your year-ends or strictly by calendar year?
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Post by Jawshii on Nov 17, 2005 3:47:23 GMT -5
My cut-off date last year was December 1st. Songs on the chart in December are on this year's chart...meaning a few songs that didn't even appear on my chart in 2005 will be on my year-end 2005 countdown. If a song is on the chart in December, but its been on for like 15 weeks and is about to fall off, I'll just put it on the 2004 chart.
I kinda hate this time of year, because usually new songs right now do crappy on year-end charts. I try to fix this!
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Post by qnx100 on Nov 17, 2005 12:47:55 GMT -5
My rule is that if a single reaches its peak position during the calendar year 2005, it is eligible for the 2005 year-end chart. For example, Mario's "Let Me Love You" debuted on my chart on 10/9/04, but didn't reach #1 (where it peaked, of course) on 1/15/05. Therefore, it is counted toward the 2005 charts. On the other hand, Snoop Dogg's "Drop It Like It's Hot" debuted on the same day (10/9/04) but reached #1 on 12/18/04, so it was counted as a 2004 single, even though its run at #1, which lasted 4 weeks, spilled over into 2005.
Simply put: the year in which the single reaches its peak is the year to which it is counted.
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Post by Icebox on Nov 17, 2005 13:35:32 GMT -5
Well i've only done 24 weeks of my personal charts so starting the First Week in January is when i will be able to do a whole year of Personal Charts but i do not know how i will do the end of year chart yet.
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Doctor Blind
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Post by Doctor Blind on Nov 17, 2005 16:20:28 GMT -5
Yeah year-ends are a bit harsh for singles that enter in November/December. Gwen's "What You Waiting For" only made 35 on the Year-end of 2004, and spent much of January 2005 in the Top 10 therefore will probably appear again in my Top 100 of 2005. Oh well, and yes I date my charts Sunday- so there will be 53 charts next year..
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Post by Gerardo on Nov 17, 2005 17:12:27 GMT -5
Last year, the cut-off for my chart was two weeks before the year officially ended. I'm going to probably do it the same way this year, as well.
It's looking like my final chart for 2005 will be the week of December 16th. So the week of December 23rd, my 2006 year will begin.
As for songs that straddle both years...I'm thinking about making a rule where if you touch into 2006, your entire run counts for 2006, regardless of how many weeks it is. That might work. But uh, I'm not sure.
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Sam I Am
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Post by Sam I Am on Nov 17, 2005 17:34:57 GMT -5
As for songs that straddle both years...I'm thinking about making a rule where if you touch into 2006, your entire run counts for 2006, regardless of how many weeks it is. That might work. But uh, I'm not sure. I have a song that spent 10 weeks at number one in the last 15 weeks of 2004 (finished up being my #1 of the year), yet has spent every week in my chart this year, despite only having a peak position this year of #5. I couldn't imagine not having a song which spent a fifth of the entire year at #1 in that year's year-end chart. This year I'm going to have two year-ends. My 'official', main one is simply my favourite songs of the year. This takes into account how much I personally like the song rather than simply how they charted each week. This means songs at the end of the year in fact have a bit of an advantage, although i do take into account how long they've been in the chart and how well they're likely to do. The second is what many of you others do, my 'best chart hits' based purely on where they charted each week with a points system, which goes from the first to the last week of the year. The main disadvantage I see for using this as my 'official' year end is that I don't chart too many album tracks, which means that I may love an album track for the whole year yet it may only get released as a single late in the year, which wouldn't allow it to give a true reflection on how much I liked it during the year.
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Post by FreakyFlyBry on Nov 17, 2005 17:36:18 GMT -5
My last chart for this year is December 18, 2005.
I just count whatever portions of a song's chart run is in each year when it charted; one song, as a result, will appear in both my 2004 and 2005 year-end charts. One song that was hurt by this was Train's "When I Look To The Sky", which would've been top 30 if its run was entirely within one year, but as a result, narrowly missed the top 100 for both years.
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Post by billcs on Nov 17, 2005 19:12:39 GMT -5
My rule is the same as Sebastian's
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Post by Mike on Nov 17, 2005 19:25:47 GMT -5
Strictly calendar year. I keep track of my YE chart by putting in each week's points as the year goes on.
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Post by Fredz on Nov 17, 2005 21:40:37 GMT -5
Surely, my last chart is December 17 ... For put the year-end .. The week of 24 count on 2006 I make a top 100 with a point system for egalize each song with the talent.. Like this is my first year in this system. The period for 2005 is January 1 - December 17 2006 will be December 24 - December .
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goodie
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Post by goodie on Nov 18, 2005 18:44:53 GMT -5
my chart is an interesting 1!!!!!
1stly i count the full 52 weeks of the year so i cut off at week #52!!!!!!!!
my year end usually is ready on new years day!!!!
i have a point system with my chart as i do with my year end and unfortunetly some songs which should chart highly in the year end, chart quite poorly due to the fact it chart's between 2 years!!!!!!!
nelly featuring tim mcgraw and snoop dogg were last years casulties, both songs reached #1 in 2004 but endend up with poor year ends n didn't even make the top 50!!!!!
i predict both songs 2 be in the 2005 year end too and probably chart quite poorly again whereas if they charted during 1 year they probably would end up in the top 5 of a year end!!!!!
chris brown, madona n kelly clarkson look like they will be stung by the split year syndrome (as i call it) this year!!!!!!
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Post by Icebox on Nov 30, 2005 5:55:06 GMT -5
I think i will end my 2005 Charts on 25th December, Which means mon Dec 26th will be my start of 2006 charts since on the Sunday it's the 1st.
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The Velvet Rope
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Post by The Velvet Rope on Dec 1, 2005 18:19:40 GMT -5
Unfortunately, if a song is released during the fall period (particularly late fall), only half or less of its charting performance will be counted for that year's year-end chart. That's just the way I do it.
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Post by banet2001 on Dec 2, 2005 9:19:25 GMT -5
My last week for my 2005 chart will be the last week in December.
As for my 2006 chart, I will count all points for songs from the first week of October 2005 to the last week of December 2005 towards the 2006 chart if the song (1) peaks in 2006 and (2) at least half of it's chart life was in 2006 and (3) at least half of its points were accumulated in 2006.
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