The DDD Year song chart

Song chart DDD Year

The site at //digitaldreamdoor.com/ provides some fun lists like "100 Greatest Beach Music Songs" and is well worth checking out. They rank music according to input from users, however they seem to have avoided the most obvious "vote stuffing" that other such sites suffer. This chart is based on the annual listings they have.

The listing we have for most years is slightly out of date. The years 1940 and 1941 have recently been added.

Attributes

The attributes we use from this data are:

artist: The artist
name: The name of each song
position: The position within the list of songs from this year
year: The year the song was a hit

artist

There are a wide range of ways to assign scores to artists in order to work out which artists are most significant. Here is one listing, of the top five artists of each decade within the DDD Year chart.

Decade	Number 1 Artist	Number 2 Artist	Number 3 Artist	Number 4 Artist	Number 5 Artist
1970s	Stevie Wonder	Lynyrd Skynyrd	Led Zeppelin	Bruce Springsteen	Bob Marley
1960s	The Beatles	The Rolling Stones	The Beach Boys	Led Zeppelin	Aretha Franklin
1950s	Elvis Presley	Chuck Berry	Little Richard	Fats Domino	Hank Williams
1940s	Hank Williams	Wynonie Harris	Woody Guthrie	Louis Jordan	The Orioles

Since these songs are already ordered within the year one simple way to assign a ranking for each artist is to sum the scores for their songs, by giving each song a score of one over the ranking we get a reasonable order for the artists. Here are the top 20 artists for this chart using this approach:

#	Artist	Entries	Biggest Hit	Year	Year Position
1	The Beatles	69	She Loves You	1963	2
2	Hank Williams	31	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	1949	1
3	Elvis Presley	55	Hound Dog	1956	1
4	Led Zeppelin	15	Whole Lotta Love	1969	1
5	Chuck Berry	24	Johnny B Goode	1958	1
6	The Rolling Stones	29	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	1965	1
7	Ray Charles	23	What'd I Say	1959	1
8	Fats Domino	40	The Fat Man	1950	1
9	Little Richard	20	Tutti Frutti	1955	1
10	The Drifters	28	Money Honey	1953	1
11	Marvin Gaye	15	I Heard It Through The Grapevine	1968	1
12	The Beach Boys	25	Good Vibrations	1966	1
13	Stevie Wonder	13	Superstition	1972	1
14	Billy Ward & The Dominoes	13	Sixty Minute Man	1951	1
15	The Temptations	16	My Girl	1964	2
16	Lynyrd Skynyrd	4	Freebird	1973	1
17	Wynonie Harris	16	Good Rockin' Tonight	1948	1
18	Bill Haley & His Comets	11	Rock Around The Clock	1954	1
19	Aretha Franklin	13	Respect	1967	1
20	The Shirelles	9	Will You Love me Tomorrow	1960	1

The DDD Year song chart

Song chart DDD Year

Attributes

artist

name

position

year