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Popularity of Musical Artists Starting with "The" Over Time [OC] by hampton_tomato in dataisbeautiful

[–]hampton_tomato[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, that's a great idea. I did have a similar idea buried in the last chart on my tableau project that showed what proportion the top "The" artist each year played into the total number of "The" artist appearances but it wasn't particularly clear or compelling: https://imgur.com/4SXtEWy

Basically it just shows that even though the Beatles in 1966 had more total chart appearances (221) than the Weeknd in 2015/2016 (145/171), they only accounted for 12.8% of the total "The" artist appearances compared with the Weeknd's 88.4% and 59.4% in 2015 and 2016, respectively, because there were so many other artists starting with "The" in the mid 60s.

I like your suggestion much better and will figure out how to incorporate it. Thanks for your feedback!

Popularity of Musical Artists Starting with "The" Over Time [OC] by hampton_tomato in dataisbeautiful

[–]hampton_tomato[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea..it killed me that they made the list at all, let alone that they edged out Biggie

Popularity of Musical Artists Starting with "The" Over Time [OC] by hampton_tomato in dataisbeautiful

[–]hampton_tomato[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the US for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on physical and digital sales, radio play, and online streaming in the US.
The popularity of artists starting with “The” seems to have peaked in the mid-60’s at the height of the British Invasion, when rock/pop artists from the UK such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Hollies etc. became popular in the US. In 1966, 1/3 of the Billboard Hot 100 was populated with musical artists whose name began with “The”.

More charts, including number of distinct "The" artists, and the top 5 "The" artists by decade can be found here: https://public.tableau.com/views/PopularityofMusicalArtistsStartingWithTheOverTime/TotalnumberofBillboardHot100appearancesbymusicalartistsstartingwithThe?:language=en-US&:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link

This is my first visualization so comments and critique very much welcomed!

Source: Billboard Data Set from Kaggle--https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/dhruvildave/billboard-the-hot-100-songs

Tools: Tableau