Talk:List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 2023

The "See also" section
I've been watching changes to this section for a while, and it seems one particular entry "2023 in American music" keeps getting shifted from the top of the list to the bottom and then to the top again, and so on. I've decided not to take any action on this back-and-forth change, but this edit-warring needs to stop! I can see the rationale for it being on the top, as it's in ASCII ("alphabetical") order, but then having it on the bottom, with the various other links to List of Billboard... chart articles having precedence, doesn't look bad either. What guideline/policy should govern here? Please resolve this. MPFitz1968 (talk) 20:01, 26 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Hot 100 is the counterpart of the Billboard 200 and vice versa. On the corresponding 2023 BB200 #1s article, the Hot 100 comes first in the See Also list, and therefore it should be the vice versa here. It was always like that until suddenly a user hiding behind multiple IPs decided to change that.  ℛonherry  ☘  12:11, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
 * MOS:SEEALSO doesn't favor a particular order ... can be "chronologically" ... or "logically", which is your approach, ... or can be "alphabetically", which the IPs are doing. I'm guessing the order here should be determined by consensus; I actually don't mind the List of Billboard ones coming first and feel it's right. "2023 in American music" is broader and covers more than just the Billboard charts. As for how it's done in the other articles, the Hot 100 ones don't have the "xxxx in American music" all coming last - it's first in 2021 and before. The Billboard 200 ones have the broader topic first as well prior to 2020. I didn't go too far back; there may be some that have "xxxx in American music" last well before 2020 or 2021. With the approach being varied in these similarly-related articles, I see lack of consistency in these See also sections is a problem, so might be a good idea to establish a consensus across the whole series, for both the Hot 100 and Billboard 200. MPFitz1968 (talk) 15:40, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Decided to make the same change in List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 2021 and List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 2020, for now. MPFitz1968 (talk) 15:46, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

When counting how many number ones an artist has during the year...
Please do not include songs that originally made it to the top of the Hot 100 in the previous year. It can be seen as double-counting when taking this series of articles as a whole. Taylor Swift's "Anti-Hero" originally topped the Hot 100 in November 2022, and even though it returned to the top in early 2023 (please note the "re" in the leftmost column of the table), it doesn't count as one of her number ones in 2023. Now, the edit made here by Ronherry is slightly better, as it says "... are the only acts to chart two number-one songs in 2023." While a little more accurate (as opposed to saying "the only acts with two number-one songs..."), it can still be disputed as wrong, as another editor reverted Ronherry's edit here. Thoughts? MPFitz1968 (talk) 16:10, 2 November 2023 (UTC)