Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Billboard 200 top 10 albums in 2013


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The result was delete. Killiondude (talk) 08:51, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

List of Billboard 200 top 10 albums in 2013

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Looking at these lists, they're really full of indiscriminate info, including when the album was released, when it peaked on the chart (even if it was not in the year of that specific list), total weeks spent in the top 10 (again regardless of year it did so), and the date it entered and left the actual chart (the entire chart, not just the top 10). With that said, even if all the extraneous info is cleaned up and parsed out, what does it actually mean to have a top ten album on the Billboard 200? Probably just as much as it to have an album reach the top 100 of the chart. Beyoned the primary source of Billboard magazine itself, there's really no coverage of either as an achievement. Plus there is so much turnover, many albums make a high debut and will fall rapidly in the weeks afterwards. Joel Whitburn's books covers entire chart placement and if anything will just have a summary of all numbers ones later in his books (similar to what Wikipedia's lists of number ones show). Reaching number one can be seen as an achievement in and of itself (even in a time when album sales are not near the numbers they used to reach) and those lists already exist (see List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1999, for example). Lists of #2s have been deleted for other charts (see Articles for deletion/List of Billboard Hot 100 number-two singles of 2015, so why have a 2-10 list? And if top 10 is ok, why not top 20? Putting these together is just someone going through Billboard's chart archives without finding any coverage in any independent sources. Star cheers peaks news lost wars Talk to me 08:05, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Baby miss  fortune 14:04, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete - per nomination, WP:NOT. Becoming more active in the various chart articles like this in the last year, I've often wondered the same thing about these articles, and had considered starting the same sort of discussion about them. List of chart toppers? That's an accomplishment that largely gets reported on in reliable sources, both in a weekly and yearly retrospective basis. But top 10 stuff like this? Yeah, sometimes, but usually more in passing. This all seems like a violation of NOT - excessive stat-tracking not tracked elsewhere on a whole like this. Sergecross73   msg me  15:37, 8 January 2018 (UTC)


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