I emailed
[email protected] about creating a genre "Hot Pop Songs Chart" today, as they have put together for Rock, Country, Dance, etc. For those of you who get the print version of Billboard Magazine, you will notice they now place Top 40, Adult Top 40, AC, and Rhythmic together on half of one page. If you like the idea, please also email Billboard.
Since Billboard has already broken off a Pop Digital Songs Chart, I proposed they create a Pop Streaming Songs Chart, use Impressions instead of Detections from the four formats in the Pop Quadrant, to create the hybrid Hot Pop Songs Chart.
I do not know how long others have been reading Billboard, but during the early part of the 00's, Billboard did compile an Impressions-based Top 40 Tracks Chart, where Top 40, Adult Top 40, and Rhythmic Top 40 were combined for a weekly Airplay Chart. For the Airplay Component of Hot Pop Songs, they would go back to that and just add AC.
What are everyone's thoughts on this? Remember, this is coming from someone who listens almost exclusively to Active Rock, Country, and Alternative, but I recognize the need for the Pop format. Jazz really needs one too, but very few users on ATRL listen that format.