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Originally posted by £100
Oh gosh THANK YOU 
Hot 100 is ridiculous. If they must, the airplay factor should be MAX 25%. Billboard and the Dutch Top 40 are the two most archaic charts in the world. They've only been slightly altered since their inception, while the music industry has changed DRASTICALLY since the 1960s/1970s.
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Oh god, we have this argument just about every week, but I can't ignore you this time. You need a history lesson! When the chart was first introduced in the '50s, singles sales were the main factor for chart position. Thus, there was basically a different number 1 song every week. Radio (instead of jukeboxes) and long-form albums (instead of singles) became increasingly popular in the '60s and '70s, so of course, the chart changed to reflect that. That was pretty much the status quo until the mid-2000s, by which point, digital downloads had become the primary source for music consumption. So what do you know? The chart changed again to reflect that. Why would want a chart solely based on one way that people get their music? Why would you ignore radio, which is where many songs prove their cultural significance by topping the charts for months at time? I don't know, but I just can't get behind the idea of a chart based on the popularity of the flavor of the week, or the spending whims of pre-teens with their parents' credit cards.
I don't know if that's ever happened before.
