The great Michael McDonald is on this year-end countdown as a solo artist ("Sweet Freedom"), half of a duet ("On My Own" with Patti Labelle) and as a backing vocalist ("I'll Be Over You" by Toto).
There have been a few years where the #1 song on the year-end countdown never hit #1 during its chart run! I think the most recent was Lifehouse's "Hanging By a Moment" in the early 2000s.
Because of the weird way that Billboard tallies year end lists. IIRC, a song gets (101-X) points for each week spent on the chart, where X is its chart position. so 100 points for a week at #1, but 96 points for a week at #5...barely a difference. A song with a long chart stay can rack up points despite a modest peak. In contrast, Typical Male spent 3 weeks at #2 but only ends up at #71 here because it climbed the chart fast and fell back down fast.
I used to prepare my own year end charts where i would use the formula X^(-.5), or the reciprocal of the square root of the chart position. Thus a week at #1 was 1 point, #2 was ~.707 points, #3 was ~.577 points, #4 was .5 points, etc. It produced results much more in keeping with the peak position. A song would have to have a strong showing at #2 or a very strong showing at #3 to rank among the #1s.
@@JaDav40 I did my weekly charts, and Klymaxx completely missed my top 10. I had songs that hit number one but was between number 2 to number 25 on the Hot 100. Stacy Q hit number 1 on my charts. Some songs on here never made my top 100 at all for the year.
@@Spitfirethedragon The difference between being #100 and #99 on a weekly chart is miniscule, but the Billboard method gives the latter twice as many points. mine gives it ~1% more.
@@JaDav40 I do a top 200 since there is more than 1000 songs out at the same time for radio and all that. But for the different genre charts? I give it a 25 week rule. We have songs playing on the radio for like a year and half before it finally reached number 1. Today, we are seeing songs last for more than 30 weeks. Billboard needs to change their methods so that we can have a rotation of songs on the radio.
Number 50 is the very last number one hit for which no music video was made. (I think a few since then have had only "lyric" videos showing the words of the song, but not the artist.)
@@Georgeous1ful I Miss you was in the Top 40 about 4 months, but was on the Hot 100 for 6 months. The total chart life of songs on the Hot 100 is what contributes to the year end rankings.
@@derekbrown2215 It's basically when New Wave started to dry up and new trends were coming in to fill the void like hair metal and rap. Also, the ballads came back in full force this year and the colorful decadent party energy of the previous years started to fade.
@@liamrondeau4675 Interesting analysis. I certainly think the first part of that is true. I will say that IMO 1986/early 1987 is when we see peak aesthetic in terms of big hair and gaudiness.
@@liamrondeau4675 Let me ask you another ❓. Do you believe 1986 is when the 80's started to feel kinda "stale". It seems as though much of the euphoria from 1984 was fading away.
The great Michael McDonald is on this year-end countdown as a solo artist ("Sweet Freedom"), half of a duet ("On My Own" with Patti Labelle) and as a backing vocalist ("I'll Be Over You" by Toto).
Thank you so much! What a year!
I love the way that Klymaxx’s song ended up with a higher peak for the entire year than in its actual chart run. #3 vs #5.
There have been a few years where the #1 song on the year-end countdown never hit #1 during its chart run! I think the most recent was Lifehouse's "Hanging By a Moment" in the early 2000s.
@ Breathe - Faith Hill, for instance
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7:14: Its remarkable that I Miss You by Klymaxx could have ended so high on the year end charts at #3 despite not hitting #1 at all !
Because of the weird way that Billboard tallies year end lists. IIRC, a song gets (101-X) points for each week spent on the chart, where X is its chart position. so 100 points for a week at #1, but 96 points for a week at #5...barely a difference. A song with a long chart stay can rack up points despite a modest peak. In contrast, Typical Male spent 3 weeks at #2 but only ends up at #71 here because it climbed the chart fast and fell back down fast.
I used to prepare my own year end charts where i would use the formula X^(-.5), or the reciprocal of the square root of the chart position. Thus a week at #1 was 1 point, #2 was ~.707 points, #3 was ~.577 points, #4 was .5 points, etc. It produced results much more in keeping with the peak position. A song would have to have a strong showing at #2 or a very strong showing at #3 to rank among the #1s.
@@JaDav40 I did my weekly charts, and Klymaxx completely missed my top 10. I had songs that hit number one but was between number 2 to number 25 on the Hot 100. Stacy Q hit number 1 on my charts. Some songs on here never made my top 100 at all for the year.
@@Spitfirethedragon The difference between being #100 and #99 on a weekly chart is miniscule, but the Billboard method gives the latter twice as many points. mine gives it ~1% more.
@@JaDav40 I do a top 200 since there is more than 1000 songs out at the same time for radio and all that. But for the different genre charts? I give it a 25 week rule. We have songs playing on the radio for like a year and half before it finally reached number 1. Today, we are seeing songs last for more than 30 weeks. Billboard needs to change their methods so that we can have a rotation of songs on the radio.
Number 50 is the very last number one hit for which no music video was made. (I think a few since then have had only "lyric" videos showing the words of the song, but not the artist.)
Object Of My Desire peaked at #5.
Make the "Top 40 Complete List" of 1986, if it’s possible
He already did, but you have to go back in his complete videos list to find it
Prince never had a #5 hit single. He went to #1 with “Kiss” for 2 weeks and not #5
It was a typo, let it go!
There's a typo. 19. Kiss (Prince & the Revolution)(#1(April 19 to April 26)
How is it that some of these songs which didn’t hit #1 rank higher than those that did?
I think it's down to how long they spent on the charts : I Miss You by Klymaxx, for example, only hit #5 but was in the top 40 for more than 6 months.
@@Georgeous1fulExactly, sustainability
@@Georgeous1ful I Miss you was in the Top 40 about
4 months, but was on the Hot 100 for 6 months. The
total chart life of songs on the Hot 100 is what contributes
to the year end rankings.
@@mrtelevision I stand corrected! Thank you!🙏
This was the midlife crisis year of the 80s as I said before.
What do you mean by that just out of curiosity?
@@derekbrown2215 It's basically when New Wave started to dry up and new trends were coming in to fill the void like hair metal and rap. Also, the ballads came back in full force this year and the colorful decadent party energy of the previous years started to fade.
@@liamrondeau4675 Interesting analysis. I certainly think the first part of that is true. I will say that IMO 1986/early 1987 is when we see peak aesthetic in terms of big hair and gaudiness.
@@liamrondeau4675 But yes musically this was the case.
@@liamrondeau4675 Let me ask you another ❓. Do you believe 1986 is when the 80's started to feel kinda "stale". It seems as though much of the euphoria from 1984 was fading away.
Some of your “peaks” aren’t accurate.