Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Billboard Mainstream Top 40 top 10 singles


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The result was no consensus. postdlf (talk) 00:17, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

List of Mainstream Top 40 top 10 singles in 2017
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Fails WP:LISTN. There is no coverage of what songs reach the top ten of Billboard's Mainstream Top 40/Pop Songs chart in third-party sources as a group or set. It's a secondary, airplay-only chart and the only place this information will be found is in Billboard itself, and if that's OK to keep for that reason then so would compiling the history of the entire top 40 of this chart in this manner.

Note that similar lists for the Alternative chart were deleted in AfD (see Articles for deletion/List of Billboard top 10 Alternative singles in 2016). The Hot 100 top ten lists have also been nominated for AfD and the consensus was to keep (see Articles for deletion/List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2004 (2nd nomination)). The Hot 100 has a long history and has become iconic in its own way so discussion of what songs have made the top ten may exist in some independent sources. That's not the case for charts like this one. -- Star cheers peaks news lost wars Talk to me 00:20, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions.  WC  Quidditch   &#9742;   &#9998;  00:01, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
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Keep for 1992-1998 Billboard used to have a rule that a song had to have been released as a single to be considered for the Hot 100. Record companies stopped caring about this in the 1990's, so Mainstream Airplay was the only chart a lot of radio hits could get on, which makes the Mainstream charts for these years Notable. In 1998 Billboard removed that requirement, so after that the mainstream charts more or less reflected the Hot 100. List of Billboard Mainstream Top 40 number-one songs of the 1990s explains this really well. See also ′Top Pop Singles 1955-2000′ by Joel Whitburn. Listmeister2 (talk) 15:56, 22 June 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * That doesn't explain how a list of top 10s is notable. Why stop at top 10 if it is notable? There are already lists of #1s for this chart and no top ten lists for secondary charts. Anyway, you seem to be confusing this with Hot 100 Airplay, which focuses entirely on the radio airplay of popular songs across multiple formats and serves as the airplay component to the Hot 100. Mainstream Top 40 rankings come only from airplay on top 40 (ie. pop) radio stations in the US and nothing more. There is no discussion in general or otherwise about what reaches the top 10 on this chart in third-party sources. -- Star cheers peaks news lost wars Talk to me 16:20, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ad Orientem (talk) 23:32, 22 June 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 04:27, 29 June 2017 (UTC)


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