Billboard releases top ten artists of all time list

[Professor Emeritus]

Seems like kind of an arbitrary system of ranking. just being number 1 on the billboard doesn't tell you how successful a song was. just how it compared to other songs in that same time frame.

for example with movies. Infinity War being number 1 when it released, versus Shang Chi being number 1 when it release are technically the same. but they brought in 2 very different box office numbers.
Infiniity War opened to 260 million. Shang Chi opened to 75 million. but using their logic Shang Chi was more successful because it stayed at number one for 28 days while infinity war only stayed at number 1 for 21 days.

It's fine to criticize Billboard for tons of reasons. Making a perfect ranking that covers 65 years is hard. Imagine accounting for population changes, the state of the economy, the difficulty of your era, the changing popularity of radio, the introduction of streaming, and everything else. Before you even get into the questions of studios juicing the stats with pay-for-play and shyt. I don't think Billboard #'s prove anything at all.

Point being, they clearly didn't create an arbitrary rating to prop up Elton John over Elvis or claim Janet was better than Michael. This is literally how Billboard rankings have always worked. If fellas don't like it all they have to do is stop paying attention to it, it's not like anyone is going to use this list for anything meaningful at all, posters just trying to virtue signal their fake internet militancy as always.

 

[BukowCrow]

MJ should be higher of course but it's interesting how many people on The Coli either have no idea or ignore just how massive The Beatles are and continue to be.

 

[fifth column]

King of Pop 1a and Bob Marley 1b

 

[Luke Cage]

It's fine to criticize Billboard for tons of reasons. Making a perfect ranking that covers 65 years is hard. Imagine accounting for population changes, the state of the economy, the difficulty of your era, the changing popularity of radio, the introduction of streaming, and everything else. Before you even get into the questions of studios juicing the stats with pay-for-play and shyt. I don't think Billboard #'s prove anything at all.

Point being, they clearly didn't create an arbitrary rating to prop up Elton John over Elvis or claim Janet was better than Michael. This is literally how Billboard rankings have always worked. If fellas don't like it all they have to do is stop paying attention to it, it's not like anyone is going to use this list for anything meaningful at all, posters just trying to virtue signal their fake internet militancy as always.

i not really being critical. as i said this list is correct in the sense that these artist stayed at number 1 the longest in that order. but they didn't clarify in the name of the list. So the average reader thinks they are just subjectively saying these are best or most successful artists. Really this is just a list of the artist who got the most radio play. not the top ten best artists.

 

[NZA]

Not really calling for it to be the "same importance" as vaccine questions, just for a bare fukking minimum. Like, at least as much time as it will take them to write the ignorant comment that they about to post onto the thread. Or even read the thread - it was already said on here a half-dozen times.

You talk like they're here to shoot the breeze, but what's the point of them putting their opinion in the thread if they ain't even gonna read what anyone else had to say? They think their own uninformed opinion is so important to be worth public consumption, but just assume no one else's is?

it's tradition for TLR to have hotter takes than JBO...

 

[010101]

<<<<<musicality & melody>>>>>*

 

[Firefly]

Elton John at no time in history was ever a bigger pop star than the Jackson’s or cracker ass Elvis if we are being real. shyt Prince was way bigger too. The Top 5 being damn near all white is a damn slap in the face.

Considering the way MTV was forced to play Mike should be a story in itself. They never mention we been playing with a handicap and still winning.....this shyt is a slap in the face on some "You guys can sing and dance and all that but "stay in your place" we are still supreme here"