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AMR/ARIA Top Singles of the Year Lists (The 100 Best Selling Singles of the Year)
My Top Singles of the Year Lists (Includes Singles That Have Never Charted Here)
Every AMR/ARIA Charting Single Lists (With an Average of 431 Singles Per Year)
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Decade Lists, All Time Lists, Triple J Hottest 100 Lists, Weeklies & Other Lists
Question, how can Something About The Way You Look Tonight rank at #53 and November Rain rank at #19 in the songs of all time on ARIA, when in the songs of the 1990s, Something About The Way You Look Tonight was ranked at #1 and November Rain was ranked at #12?
ReplyDeleteHi Jason, thanks for your question. Neither of the lists are official ARIA rankings, which would be based on sales. ARIA have never released, at least not publicly, a Top Singles of the 1990s list (mine was compiled by chri8topher, using estimated sales figures) or a Top Singles of All Time list (mine is based on ARIA Top 50 chart runs). Sales figures rarely match up with chart runs so that would explain the contradictions in rankings. :)
DeleteThe double A-side Something About The Way You Look Tonight/Candle In The Wind 97 is listed as number 1 for the decade as well as number 1 for 1997 as published by Wikipedia with its sources being ARIA and the OzNet Music chart
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_number-one_singles_in_Australia_during_the_1990s
I notice November Rain has moved to number 20, but Something About The Way You Look Tonight/Candle In The Wind 97 hasn't moved up - if fact its moved to 55. To me the minimum position it should be in Number 10 (ahead of all of the songs from the 1990).
DeleteCommonsense should tell you that
This list is based on chart runs whereas the other two are based on sales (estimated sales in the case of the decade list). Rankings can't really be compared between these two types of lists.
DeleteTo put it another way, a song at number 50 (1 point) for 1 week might sell more than a song at number 50 (2 points) for 2 weeks. The 2 week song will always be higher on this list on chart because it gets more points.
ReplyDeleteGreat site you have here. Really appreciate the effort you've made with this. I've been studying pop charts for 30 years myself. You mentioned the ARIA era beginning in mid 1988. I would say it began in late 1983 with the Countdown charts which stated they were "authorised and endorsed by the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA)". Regards, Ken.
ReplyDeleteHi Ken. The beginning of the ARIA era, in this case, is referring to when ARIA started compiling their own charts (late-June 1988). Before then, ARIA had been licensing the Kent Music Report/AMR charts, starting in mid-1983. :)
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