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> Indeed, there are fewer commercially successful artists Source? I reckon every decade had a handful of artists dominate the charts, so it wasn’t unheard of
by brayhite 6y ago
> Indeed, there are fewer commercially successful artists
Source?
I reckon every decade had a handful of artists dominate the charts, so it wasn’t unheard of at all to see multiple chart toppers by the same artists at any given time. In fact, given the gatekeepers of popular music largely were concentrated around radio DJs and the “industry machine” of record labels, I’d hypothesize there’s a larger on average number of unique artists in the top 100 since the 2000s than before.
- throwawayfire 6y ago>Source? https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100 https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100 You can change the week yourself. If you pick a few random weeks before 2000, you likely won't find this pattern that I identified, with the same artist in the Top 20 multiple times. If that's not enough evidence then there is a Python web scraper: https://github.com/jocelyn-ong/data-science-projects/blob/master/ga-dsi-weekly-projects/project-2-billboard.ipynb https://github.com/jocelyn-ong/data-science-projects/blob/ma...