Billboard releases top ten artists of all time list

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These publications insult people's intelligence when the create these "list". They rank the list, not for accuracy, but to create controversy to keep people talking. Same with ESPN.

Billboard just released a "list" 2 years ago:

Billboard names top 125 artists, with Mariah Carey as top female

Here are the top 20 artists on Billboard's list:

1. The Beatles

2. The Rolling Stones

3. Elton John

4. Mariah Carey

5. Madonna

6. Barbra Streisand

7. Michael Jackson

8. Taylor Swift

9. Stevie Wonder

10. Chicago

11. Whitney Houston

12. Paul McCartney

13. Elvis Presley

14. Janet Jackson

15. Rod Stewart

16. Drake

17. Prince

18. Rihanna

19. Billy Joel

20. Garth Brooks

MJ not being #1

Drake ahead of Prince

Artist moving up and down on the 2 list despite not releasing new music

No James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin, etc.

Hell, according to Billboard "Blinding Lights" is the greatest song of all time

The Weeknd’s ‘Blinding Lights’ Is the New No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 Song of All Time

Long story short don't put too much thought into these list. Cacs still mad that MJ owned the Beatles artistically and literally. No goofy list they draw up can change that fact. They'll release another list in a few years that won't make a lick of sense.

 

[THE MACHINE]

I really shouldn’t care about this list but I’m furious as fukk

 

[Sterling Archer]

you're wrong about Rihanna. just cuz you weren't listening to her doesn't mean the rest of the world wasn't

Then he said Beyoncé should be on the list over Whitney.

 

[NZA]

All y'all talking crazy angry when this is literally the charts list.

It shows how prone some of y'all are to conspiracies when you talking with certainty that you know what the conspiracy is despite the list not even being subjective.






It's Billboard's top ten artists of all time. Billboard is literally the chart.





They're just naming different high points for each artist, the Billboard lists are based on some sort of cumulative points (how many weeks each song was at #1, #2, #3, etc. all the way down) which they obviously can't fit into a summary.

fair enough, but that tweet characterizes it like it's some kind of subjective list from their editorial staff or something and doesnt even provide a link to the source

 

[Professor Emeritus]

fair enough, but that tweet characterizes it like it's some kind of subjective list from their editorial staff or something and doesnt even provide a link to the source

Which is why everyone should have stopped believing random tweets with no source years ago.


Even after I explained the entire deal carefully there another half-dozen commenters posting ignorantly.


We wonder why the nation can't get right on anything when people just believing any old shyt they see online without even trying to verify. If it ain't worth your time to check if it's true, then it ain't worth thinking about and especially not posting about and perpetuating misinformation.

 

[Oatmeal]

Sia wrote that song in under 30 minutes

Spoiler

Sia working on it in the early stage without lyrics

Spoiler

I still got love for Rihanna

 

[NZA]

Which is why everyone should have stopped believing random tweets with no source years ago.


Even after I explained the entire deal carefully there another half-dozen commenters posting ignorantly.


We wonder why the nation can't get right on anything when people just believing any old shyt they see online without even trying to verify. If it ain't worth your time to check if it's true, then it ain't worth thinking about and especially not posting about and perpetuating misinformation.

i agree with the general idea that stuff should be accurate and sourced, but it is a bit much to expect most people to treat posting in TLR about a list of singers with the same importance as deciding if we should mandate vaccines. people need some downtime where they can just shoot the breeze. and in doing that, there will be some misses

 

[Rell84shots]

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.

What made MJ bigger than everyone including Elvis is that he was a legit global icon, a lot of these artists were either only popular in the US or in their home country with a US appeal. MJ was popular in places where we didn't even know they had TVs

 

[Stuntone]

Elvis was Jesus back in the day.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

i agree with the general idea that stuff should be accurate and sourced, but it is a bit much to expect most people to treat posting in TLR about a list of singers with the same importance as deciding if we should mandate vaccines. people need some downtime where they can just shoot the breeze. and in doing that, there will be some misses

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?

 

[Dreadknox77]

Mike ain’t number one , makes automatically a bullshyt list

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Sia wrote that song in under 30 minutes

Spoiler

Sia working on it in the early stage without lyrics

Spoiler

I still got love for Rihanna

You came in to make a point…I’m sure of it

 

[Tribal Outkast]

These publications insult people's intelligence when the create these "list". They rank the list, not for accuracy, but to create controversy to keep people talking. Same with ESPN.

Billboard just released a "list" 2 years ago:

Billboard names top 125 artists, with Mariah Carey as top female

Here are the top 20 artists on Billboard's list:

1. The Beatles

2. The Rolling Stones

3. Elton John

4. Mariah Carey

5. Madonna

6. Barbra Streisand

7. Michael Jackson

8. Taylor Swift

9. Stevie Wonder

10. Chicago

11. Whitney Houston

12. Paul McCartney

13. Elvis Presley

14. Janet Jackson

15. Rod Stewart

16. Drake

17. Prince

18. Rihanna

19. Billy Joel

20. Garth Brooks

MJ not being #1

Drake ahead of Prince

Artist moving up and down on the 2 list despite not releasing new music

No James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin, etc.

Hell, according to Billboard "Blinding Lights" is the greatest song of all time

The Weeknd’s ‘Blinding Lights’ Is the New No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 Song of All Time

Long story short don't put too much thought into these list. Cacs still mad that MJ owned the Beatles artistically and literally. No goofy list they draw up can change that fact. They'll release another list in a few years that won't make a lick of sense.

They’re just trying to please the young and old folks. I’m over it. Just get Elvis out of here like I said in an earlier post.

 

[Luke Cage]

I have a hard time seeing how they're trying to "rewrite history" when Billboard has been around for 65 years and it's always been based on radioplay and sales. What about history are they changing with the list?






But it's not "arbitrary", its always been based on their top-100 songs list. Each song gets a specific # of points each week depending on how highly it's ranked. They can't just arbitrarily make MJ's ranking higher just because they know he's better than Janet, the charts are what the charts are. Every time they've pushed this top-ranking artists list it's based on the chart performance, not on their own subjective choices.

Here's their explanation from back in 2018 for why Janet ranks ahead of Michael:

Why Janet Jackson Outranks Michael Among the Top 100 Artists of All Time

Why Janet Jackson Outranks Michael Among the Top 100 Artists of All Time

The Hot 100's Top Artists of All Time


As part of Billboard's celebration of the 60th anniversary of our Hot 100 chart this week, we're taking a deeper look at some of the biggest artists and singles in the chart's history. Here, we revisit Janet Jackson, who finished at No. 7 in our all-time Hot 100 artist ranking.

Michael Jackson got a head start -- so why does Janet narrowly outrank him on the list of the top-performing artists in Hot 100 history? (She’s No. 7; he’s No. 8.) Michael boasts 13 No. 1s among his 30 top 10s, both higher sums than Janet’s respective totals of 10 and 27. (Michael’s numbers reflect only his solo career, not the four No. 1s, among 11 top 10s, that he earned as a member of The Jackson 5 and The Jacksons.)

But the more weeks an artist spends in the chart’s upper echelons, the better his or her all-time tally, and Janet has racked up 219 weeks in the top 10 compared with Michael’s 183. Between the two, Janet has also spent the most time at No. 1 with any single: “That’s the Way Love Goes” ruled for eight weeks in 1993, topping the career-best seven-week reigns of Michael’s “Billie Jean” in 1983 and “Black or White” in 1991 and 1992.

This article originally appeared in the Aug 4 issue of Billboard.


Michael's songs spent less time high on the Billboard charts than Janet's songs did. That might be stupid, but blame the people who buy singles and the people who spin the records in the radio stations, not Billboard for reporting it.

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.

 

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This list made me. . .