Cheapthrills' Top 100 Artists 1997-2018 - COMPLETED

[cheapthrills]

Hello!

I hope to see you all when I start this.

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TOP 100 ARTISTS 1997-2018!

1. Eminem
2. Lady Gaga
3. Beyonce
4. Bonnie Raitt
5. Adele
6. Kelly Clarkson
7. Alicia Keys
8. Rihanna
9. Madonna
10. Sia
11. Coldplay
12. Bruno Mars
13. Maroon 5
14. Janelle Monae
15. Nicki Minaj
16. Ariana Grande
17. Fatboy Slim
18. Lily Allen
19. Shakira
20. Christina Aguilera
21. Pink
22. Gwen Stefani
23. David Guetta
24. 98 Degrees
25. Katy Perry
26. Green Day
27. Cee-Lo Green/Gnarls Barkley
28. Josh Gracin
29. Juanes
30. Jay-Z
31. Dua Lipa
32. Limp Bizkit
33. Stone Temple Pilots
34. Whitney Houston
35. Sam Feldt
36. Sugar Ray
37. Years and Years
38. Ellie Goulding
39. Dave Matthews Band
40. Outkast
41. Fall Out Boy
42. Linkin Park
43. White Stripes
44. Drake
45. Noisettes
46. Kanye West
47. Jewel
48. Zedd
49. John Mayer
50. The Weeknd
51. Black Eyed Peas
52. Justin Timberlake
53. Avicii
54. Duffy
55. Lauryn Hill
56. Grace Potter
57. Mariah Carey
58. Weezer
59. Beastie Boys
60. Scissor Sisters
61. Calvin Harris
62. Lil Wayne
63. Beck
64. Aloe Blacc
65. Selena Gomez
66. Kacey Musgraves
67. Destiny's Child
68. Panic at the Disco
69. ZZ Ward
70. Martin Garrix
71. Muse
72. Amy Winehouse
73. No Doubt
74. Usher
75. Janet Jackson
76. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
77. Mya
78. Taylor Swift
79. Ting Tings
80. India Arie
81. Mary J. Blige
82. Troye Sivan
83. John Legend
84. Lenka
85. Pharrell
86. Fitz and the Tantrums
87. Missy Elliot
88. Major Lazer
89. Jessie J
90. Alan Walker
91. Akon
92. Emeli Sande
93. Kylie Minogue
94. Franz Ferdinand
95. Eric Hutchinson
96. Oliver Heldens
97. Daft Punk
98. Lumineers
99. Barenaked Ladies
100. Audioslave
101. Daughtry
102. Nelly Furtado
103. Yeah Yeahs Yeahs
104. Red Hot Chili Peppers
105. Jason Mraz
106. Cecilia
107. Tove Lo
108. Avril Lavigne
109. Shania Twain
110. Robin Thicke
111. Sheryl Crow
112. Imagine Dragons
113. Kygo
114. Lloyd
115. Sam Hunt
116. Jet
117. Tim McGraw
118. 50 Cent
119. Daddy Yankee
120. Mya
121. All-American Rejects
122. Clean Bandit
123. Ed Sheeran
124. Macy Gray
125. Evanescence
126. Ozomatli
127. Eve
128. Scott Wieland
129. Bastille
130. Dr. Dre
131. Goldfrapp
132. Churchill
133. Flo Rida
134. Kris Allen
135. Enrique Iglesias
136. P. Diddy
137. Nelly
138. Idina Menzel
139. Eliot Yamin
140. fun.
141. Shaggy
142. Kelly Rowland
143. Kendrick Lamar
144. Papa Roach
145. Fray
146. Snoop Dogg
147. R. Kelly
148. Britney Spears
149. Plain White T's
150. Leona Lewis


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[JSparksFan]

1. If it is something you do, how do you calculate points for a particular song in general?

If it's a Top 20 chart, 20 points for #1, 19 points for #2, and so on.

2. For an artist chart, do you distinguish between whether an artist is featured or lead? For example, Dua Lipa is featured on "Scared to Be Lonely," but Martin Garrix is the lead artist - would you qualify her for full points? Some other examples:
a. Love the Way You Lie - Rihanna?
b. Monster - Nicki Minaj?
c. E.T. - Kanye West?

For me, this has to do with how key the featured artist is to my enjoyment of the song. For all the examples listed, the featured artists play key roles (for me) so I'd give them full points.

3, If a song debuts in one year, but peaks in another, to which year do you attribute that song?

To the year in which it accumulates the greater number of points. On the off chance that the points are spread out exactly evenly, then to the year in which I feel best represents my love for the song, if that makes any sense (for instance, "Drunk in Love" first hit #1 on my chart in 2013, but it got most of its plays within, and I have more memories of it from, 2014).

I hope to see you all when I start this.

Looking forward to it.

[cheapthrills]

Thanks, JSparks

I like your approach to featured artists. I guess I ask because there's a small handful of artists who have a lot of top tens because they are featured often rather than lead, so it feels like their position might be inflated.

[JSparksFan]

Thanks, JSparks

I like your approach to featured artists. I guess I ask because there's a small handful of artists who have a lot of top tens because they are featured often rather than lead, so it feels like their position might be inflated.

No problem!

Yeah, some artists shine more on other acts' songs than they do on their own. Nicki Minaj is one of my all-time favourite artists, and a huge chunk of her best verses are on others' songs (most notably "Monster" and "Bottoms Up"). It'd be tough for me to disassociate her from those songs despite the fact that she's not the lead act.

[cheapthrills]

Thanks, JSF

I am in the process of scoring my artists, but it is taking way longer than I ever imagined

[Leo]

I 'd do something different. For me just one point difference between #1 and #2 seems way too low! In general I'd give something like this:
I tend to start with a 5 points gap between positions, at a certain point move to 4 point gap, then 3 points gap, then 2 points gap and then 1 point gap.

Also, When there is an artist and features, what aI do is this:
Let's say #1 song gets 100 points. If it is a solo artist, 100 points for him/her; if it is one artist + 1 feat, 75/25 as for me the lead artist is the one representing the song; then if it two equal leads, I give 50/50, but if you have clearly 1 or more leads and 1 or more feats, I digvide 75 equally between the leads and 25 equally between the feats

ie: Charlotte Lawrence, Nina Nesbitt & Sasha Sloan - Psychopath
Than would be 33.33% of the points for each artist

Charlie Puth feat. Kehlani - Done For Me
75% for Charlie, 25% fro Kehlani

Banx & Ranx + Ella Eyre ft. Yxng Bane - Answerphone
75% divided between Banx & Ranx and Ella Eyre, 25% for Yxng Bane


I know, it may seem complicated LOL That's me

[cheapthrills]

Thanks, leo! Not sure if you will see this response, but I am only considering top ten positions. What do you think I should make the gap between them? I Kind of want to reward acts that managed to make the top ten rather than give them too much weight for havign one really successful song, so I'm trying to figure out how that could best work.

[trebor]

2. For an artist chart, do you distinguish between whether an artist is featured or lead? For example, Dua Lipa is featured on "Scared to Be Lonely," but Martin Garrix is the lead artist - would you qualify her for full points? Some other examples:

My 2 cents: The lead artist always gets 100% and the featured artist(s) 25%

Points: Also, if you are only using a Top 10 then the ESC formula is simple and a known standard (12-10-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1).

[cheapthrills]

I've finally gone through all my top tens, and will be assigning artists points, so hopefully, I can finally get this started in the next few weeks.

After the above, I think I will take JSparks suggestions for features, and assign them accordingly to my enjoyment of the song. Akon is featured on Sexy Chick, but is the vocal of the song, so I wouldn't assign him featuring credit there. However, he is more incidental in Gwen Stefanis Sweet Escape, so I would assign 25% there as trebor suggested.

I think in scoring, I will use a modified version of trebor's Eurovision suggestion 12.10. 8. 7. 6. and then 5 for anything ranked 6-10. I am also going to count weeks at #1 and weeks in the top 10 as part of the scoring.

I also am going to restrict placement to artists who have either had at least three top five songs or four top ten songs.

[BodyShop]

I'm excited for this !
Could you PM me when it starts?
I'm terrible at remembering threads or ,sometimes,even finding them

[JakeP]

Ohh nice Look forward to following this countdown. I've no doubt that it'll be spectacular.

Crazy Frog for #99

[cheapthrills]

Yay, some interest!

I will definitely PM you guys when it gets started. I am almost done doing the calculations. The way I did the calcuations seems to align with how I feel the artists so I don't think there is any need to reconfigure. There are a handful of artists whose rankings are a bit inflated, but not enough to complete change the methodology. I think I will start this at the end of the month - a nice summer countdown

[BodyShop]

Bring it

[cheapthrills]

UGH, my spreadsheet with all the calculations is on my laptop which I can no longer charge. Hope I can get it working soon :(

[cheapthrills]

I was able to get my spreadsheet back so I will start this in about a week

[JSparksFan]

I was able to get my spreadsheet back so I will start this in about a week

Awesome!

[Nippian93]

Will follow.

[cheapthrills]

The COUNTDOWN BEGINS NOW!

I'll bounce between the bubbling under artists and the top 100. But to finally get this going, here are the first five bubbling under artists. Ready to face the wrath

[JSparksFan]

Holy Jesus, is that Snoop Dogg I see above Britney Spears?

[cheapthrills]

I know! I guess I've really ignored Brit on my charts all these years. My chart started in November of 1997, so it's been around for her whole career! I was also strongly #teamChristina in the early days and thought she deserved just as much love, if not more, than Britney, so I think I took it out on her in my personal chart.

As for Snoop, he's at least had a number one song in Beautiful. Britney only made the top five once with Oops.

[JSparksFan]

I know! I guess I've really ignored Brit on my charts all these years. My chart started in November of 1997, so it's been around for her whole career! I was also strongly #teamChristina in the early days and thought she deserved just as much love, if not more, than Britney, so I think I took it out on her in my personal chart.

As for Snoop, he's at least had a number one song in Beautiful. Britney only made the top five once with Oops.

Only one Top 5 hit is harsh, but I'm sure there'll be loads of acts I love still to come. Lemme address these first five.

Leona Lewis is one of my favourite talent show graduates, comfortably Top 10 in that category, and coming from a guy whose introduction to 'new' music between 2005 and 2007 came almost exclusively through American Idol, that's not a light ranking. Spirit has to be one of the best debut albums ever, but she never really captured that magic again. "Happy" was phenomenal, but Echo, overall, was pretty meh. "Bleeding Love" is probably my favourite song from her as well, though "Run" and "Happy" aren't far behind.

I've listened to three Plain White T's songs in the last six years: "Our Time Now", "Hey There Delilah", and "1,2,3,4". "Our Time Now" is my favourite from them.

Britney Spears is one of my great musical love affairs. I'm not blind to her obvious shortcomings, but there hasn't been a better pure pop act in the last 20 years for me. Her music helped me through some rough times, and she's an inspiration of sorts for me. I adore her.

Zayn has put out some impressive singles as a solo act, and may prove to be the best of the 1D guys. Harry and Niall have potential, too, but Zayn's "Pillowtalk"-"It's You"-"I Don't Wanna Live Forever"-"Dusk Till Dawn" series is a tough one to beat.

I grew up listening to Snoop Dogg's music, not of my own volition, but because hip/hop is inescapable where I live. "Drop It Like It's Hot" is a classic that I can get into, though.

[cheapthrills]

Thanks for the comments, JSparks <3

I think Zayn has so much potential. I hope he continues to challenge people.

As for Britney, she's definitely a blind spot on my charts. I had come around on her by the time Womanizer came out but by then she was a decade into her career and I had missed most of the best part of her musical career. One of my great chart regrets was not charting Toxic.

[cheapthrills]

I was going to post three artists a day, but I can see some days, it will be good to just get something posted. My eyes are burning from lack of sleep, so I will just give this a soft start with the #100 artist

[JSparksFan]

One of my great chart regrets was not charting Toxic.

Does your chart have a rule about songs being ineligible after a certain point past its release date?

I've heard of Chris Cornell, and Soundgarden, but I'm not sure I've seen the name Audioslave before, and I'm close to positive I haven't actively listened to a song of theirs. I'll check out "Doesn't Remind Me" later.

[cheapthrills]

One of my great chart regrets was not charting Toxic.

Does your chart have a rule about songs being ineligible after a certain point past its release date?

I've heard of Chris Cornell, and Soundgarden, but I'm not sure I've seen the name Audioslave before, and I'm close to positive I haven't actively listened to a song of theirs. I'll check out "Doesn't Remind Me" later.

Yes, generally a song has to be released in the last six months to chart, though I have made exceptions for various reasons.

Audioslave existed for only a short time. I think I read on Wiki that Cornell had issues with the other band members (who I think were all from Rage Against the Machine?) and so they disbanded. The remaining members went on to form another band. Apparently they reunited for one performance just a few months before his death.