I was reading some comments near the beginning of the Pazz & Jop thread about how the charts are more indie-dominated or rock-dominated these days and I started looking for some statistics.
Basically I thought it would be instructive to look at (say) the top 10 singles of each year from 1985 to 2005 and see what you can see.
I feel that in the late 80s and early 90s there was a lot more dance music in evidence (number ones such as MARRS, Steve Silk Hurley, Black Box etc etc) but memory plays tricks.
It would be interesting to compare charts for the UK and US as well, I'm sure dance was a lot bigger in the UK while rock kept its grip in the US until hip hop and RnB exploded at the end of the 90s. But maybe new jack swing was big, I duno.
Anyway, the thing is I can't find a website with this kind of data on it anywhere.
Anybody?
I would be well interested....
Basically I thought it would be instructive to look at (say) the top 10 singles of each year from 1985 to 2005 and see what you can see.
I feel that in the late 80s and early 90s there was a lot more dance music in evidence (number ones such as MARRS, Steve Silk Hurley, Black Box etc etc) but memory plays tricks.
It would be interesting to compare charts for the UK and US as well, I'm sure dance was a lot bigger in the UK while rock kept its grip in the US until hip hop and RnB exploded at the end of the 90s. But maybe new jack swing was big, I duno.
Anyway, the thing is I can't find a website with this kind of data on it anywhere.
Anybody?
I would be well interested....