Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Black Singles number ones of 1983/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by Giants2008 via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 8 January 2024 (UTC).

List of Black Singles number ones of 1983

 * Nominator(s): ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:22, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi everyone, here's the latest offering in this series. In this year, or at least in the first half, it was all about MJ..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:22, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Pseud 14

 * Not until 1994 would another song spend as long atop the chart. -- since this is mentioned, maybe it is worth mentioning the song? or perhaps maybe saying it was tied by that song, or the record was broken by that song (whichever applies)
 * ''Done -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 20:37, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Could not find any fault. Great job as usual. A history-making year this was! Pseud 14 (talk) 19:24, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * - done! -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 20:37, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Support. Pseud 14 (talk) 20:43, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

NØ

 * Image review - pass: The images are all appropriately licensed.
 * Source review - pass: Thriller could be italicized in the title of ref 7 to match ref 5. All sources used are reliable and formatting is consistent.
 * "Gaye's track was replaced at number one in the issue dated January 15" - Just "the track" should work since it is the only song mentioned in the paragraph until this sentence.
 * "It was the first of three number ones for Jackson in the first half of the year" - Maybe "the latter" instead of "it" here since two songs are alluded to in the preceding sentence.
 * "regarded as the worldwide best-selling album of all time" - Since the sales figures are factual, do we need to say "regarded"?
 * "Jackson's "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" also topped Billboard's pop singles chart" - "Jackson's" could be removed since these are already mentioned as his songs earlier.
 * That sentence could be worded as ""Billie Jean", "Beat It", and Lionel Richie's "All Night Long (All Night)" also topped Billboard's pop singles chart, the Hot 100" after Jackson's name is eliminated, for simplification.
 * That's it! Really great work on this series as usual.--NØ 22:47, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * - thanks! All done apart from point 5 - I would prefer to keep "regarded as", as I don't think that sales figures, especially those from past decades and certain territories, are 100% as clear cut as "factual" -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:31, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Support--NØ 09:05, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Aoba47

 * I have a quick comment on this part, (The track has been included on various lists of the greatest songs of all time). I would repeat the song title, "Billie Jean", to avoid any potential confusion as the previous sentence is about "Bump n' Grind".
 * I have a quick question about "Juicy Fruit". Since the lead mentions further details on Thriller and "Billie Jean" (i.e. being the worldwide best-selling album of all time and one of the greatest songs of all times), would it be worth briefly mentioning just how much "Juicy Fruit" has been sampled? This source from Sound on Sound calls it "one of the most sampled songs in music history". Obviously, further sources would be needed to substantiate that, but I was curious if that's worth a brief mention?
 * I have a question about this part, (also topped Billboard's pop singles chart, the Hot 100). Isn't the Hot 100 chart more of a general chart and not just a pop-specific one? After all, the longest-running/best-selling single of 2023 is a country song (i.e. "Last Night"). Is it that the Hot 100 was considered a pop chart at the time (i.e. in 1983)?
 * The image captions should be consistent on whether or not they include the year that the photo was taken.

Wonderful work as always. Once all of my comments have been addressed, I will be more than happy to support this FLC for promotion. I hope you are having a wonderful end of the year. Aoba47 (talk) 04:06, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
 * - thanks for your review, all done. My understanding re: the Hot 100 (and admittedly I have only seen this mentioned in sources which are probably unreliable, but I can believe it) is that in the 80s songs were only eligible for the Hot 100 if they were being played on pop music radio and the airplay element was weighted towards plays on those stations, hence how you sometimes saw a song that was #1 in R&B but only got to, like, #80 on the Hot 100, or in some cases didn't even enter it at all -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:28, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for addressing everything. Your explanation about the Hot 100 makes sense to me. I support this FLC for promotion based on the prose. Aoba47 (talk) 13:26, 21 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Hey man im josh

Support. You make it very difficult to find things to criticize. I'm going to have to start getting to these sooner just to get credit for the source reviews lol. Hey man im josh (talk) 15:44, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Giants2008 ( Talk ) 23:18, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
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