This is specifically about youtu.be/6vNnB4oLZNo?..., which is made worse by the fact that it was cowritten by the ex-skinhead member of the group

Also I’m curious what data you’re using if not Whitburn! :O

making all this open source if I can once I’m finished, but I can email it to you if you want it prior! (2/2)

Fair enough! One thing I’m doing to try to give better context is turn the weeks charted, peak, and debut of each song in Billboard and Whitburn’s history into a percentile compared to other songs from the year. Makes it easier to compare years like 1988 to year like 2005. I’m planning on (1/2)

It’s also worth noting that the timescales early on are underexaggerated - weeks charted would more accurately be portrayed as months charted. Not to say it can’t be used as a source, though it should be used with a biiig asterisk. timbrooks.net/review-whitb... (2/2).

Are you using spreadsheets sourced from Joel Whitburn’s Pop Memories? If you are, I would be cautious about definitively citing songs listed as being #1 hits before around 1940, as there wasn’t definitive charts around then, and people have called into question some of the methods used. (1/2)

I think the phrase that Forbes searches in vain for is "greed apocalypse." When tax breaks for billionaires suction the life savings out of Social Security and force people who would have comfortably retired back into the workforce at the same time new college grads are competing with ai for jobs 🙄

The symphony is Auschwitz Oratorium by Penderecki by the way. INCREDIBLE, hair-raising piece.

(I love my partners so much <3333)

I’ve known about it for a while! I think I found about it when I discovered the original song in 2019, and didn’t think much of it, but I revisited Tina’s version when she passed, and it quickly became one of my favorite songs of all time.

Albums being bloated on release or burdened with Deluxe Edition after Deluxe Edition damages the art of these albums. It forces artists to pump out filler and ruins the quality of these albums. Teddy Swims has put out like four versions of the same album, which now has 31 songs. It’s horrendous.

Similarly disgusting was Taylor Swift’s 31-track album, with no long-term hits, blocking Billie Eilish (11-tracks) and Chappell Roan (14), whose tracks did SO much better and were much bigger events, from #1 last year for weeks on end.

Interesting thing actually is you can point to the earlier 1940s music strike as the start of the fall of big bands (I have yet to confirm this emperically for myself) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942%E2...