Data: The Billboard Hot 100 via #TidyTuesday
Tool: R
š #rstats code: https://github.com/ikashnitsky/30daychart2026
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by ikashnitsky
10 Comments
Expected the y-axis to be like, āred giant, white dwarf, blue giant, etcā and was very confused
I know Hip-Hop is a young man’s game (or young women’s game) but I’m slightly surprised no old-timers hit number-one with their debut.
And by old-timers, I mean 35-year-olds.
poor contrast, unexplained area charts with unexplained lines and dots.
Santana was way better when he was young. I wouldnāt say his collab with Rob Thomas was his peak.
*Modern* stars “flare up” when the machine that cranks them out says it’s time. It has nothing to do with actual talent or consumer requests. It’s all by design at this point. might’ve been different decades ago, but not now.
Looks like an incredibly nonsensical chart sry
Love to see a raincloud plot
What does the thickness means ? Why is it thick at the tail of several curves ?
Eh, Billboard #1 might be too stringent for what you’re trying to measure. You’re getting more of a “what genre’s singles are at #1 the most?” graph. That leads to more of a “for each genre, which age range tends to make hits?”
Like you have Santana there at 51 for Smooth w/ Rob Thomas, but Santana has been legendary since the 60s. Evil Ways hit #10 when he was 22.
Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, The Who.. many all-time bands from an earlier era just didn’t chart singles, they charted albums.
Pink Floyd’s first and only #1 single was Another Brick in the Wall in 1979, after Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, and Animals which charted at #1, #1, and #3 on the album charts.
6 out of all 9 Led Zeppelin albums charted #1, and the other three were #2, #6, and #7.
This is very confusing and will only ever be understood by people good at data visualization or very invested people.