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The list was promoted by PresN via FACBot (talk) 21:16:37 25 April 2019 (UTC).

List of German airplay number-one songs of 2018

 * Nominator(s):  Lirim  |  Talk  03:28, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

Relatively new list, but I think it meets the criteria.  Lirim  |  Talk  03:28, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Quick question - why does it use "chart week" (a number) rather than the date, as all other chart lists do? If I look at the list and see that, say, "Shotgun" was number one in "week 37", it's really not apparent (without doing a lot of mental arithmetic) when exactly that was...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:53, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see now that that is how it shown on the official website. Is there no way of converting a week number to a date?  I look at "week 37" and think "ah, so George Ezra got to number 1 in September....no, wait, October.....or was it September...?"......? -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 13:15, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
 * It seems that the charts are published simultaneously with the single and album charts each friday. I compared other sources who give accurate dates and it matches with the official dates.  or  . The problem is that sources which show specific dates don't have proper archives. I could change the calender weeks to the dates, based of the official charts.-- Lirim  |  Talk  14:19, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Is it going to be possible to do it without needing OR....? -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 20:54, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

Good job with this article!-- N Ø  18:13, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Comments from MaranoFan
 * There's a typo in the opening sentence and "broadcastet" should be changed to just "broadcast" (preferred) or "broadcasted".
 * "Lost Frequencies' & Zonderling's "Crazy", dethroned P!nk after her two-week reign and topped it for five consecutive weeks" -- The comma after the song name is unnecessary, optional but I would also try to remove the excess repetition of the word "it" in this area.
 * "The number-one single of the year was "Flames" by French DJ David Guetta and Australian singer Sia." -- This sentence is a bit confusing since the phrase "number one single of the year" is vague. I'd give preference to "best-performing single of 2018" as you've done for the key.
 * Done. Thank you very much for your comments.-- Lirim  |  Talk  20:25, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Support - Great list overall!-- N Ø  20:30, 30 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Further comments from me
 * "In 2018, 19 different songs by 18 different artists reached the top" - I count way more than 18 artists here. Presumably this refers to only the "lead" artist?  If so, that needs to be made clearer.  Also, how are you counting instance like Lost Frequencies & Zonderling or Liam Payne & Rita Ora, where there doesn't seem to be a clear "lead" artist?
 * "first number-one of the year" - don't need the hyphen there
 * " "Flames", released in March,[4] reached the top in the 19th week" - need to say who it was by (I know it's in the image caption, but it should be in the prose too)
 * "Namika's "Je ne parle pas français (Beatgees Remix)", featuring Black M, was the only German and French song atop the chart in 2018" - could do with a source for the German element (the French element is obvious from the title)
 * "The year concluded with Ava Max "Sweet but Psycho"" => Ava Max' "Sweet but Psycho" (or "Sweet but Psycho" by Ava Max)
 * Neither entry in the key is a complete sentence, so remove the full stops
 * As the table is sortable, I would link artists and songs that appear more than once every time they appear, as the linked instance might not always be the first
 * Think that's it from me -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 21:02, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Done and i checked System description of the BVMI again and apparently charts are always conducted between fridays and thursday and published the following friday. This means that the airplay issue dates are the same as the official single/album ones. i'm gonna to change it.-- Lirim  |  Talk  21:52, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Have your concerns been adequately addressed?-- Lirim  |  Talk  10:38, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I completely forgot about this one. My only issue is that you still don't have artists who appear in the list multiple times linked each time -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 19:36, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Should be fixed now, unless I'm blind.-- Lirim  |  Talk  19:43, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I made a couple of minor changes but now happy to support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 20:02, 17 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Questions regarding notability. The German airplay chart is severely lacking any significant coverage in reliable third-party sources, so what makes reaching number one on it significant? This only seems to review what occurred on the charts during the year, and the only sources seem to be the charts themselves, meaning there's really no difference between what's number one on the chart or number 99, they're are just one song on the chart along with 98 others. Thanks. Star cheers peaks news lost wars Talk to me 00:46, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Airplay charts are one of the oldest official charts in Germany. Since 1989, airplay plays an immense role for the weekly single charts. 27% of music consumption in Germany is through radio. There are sources and I'm definitely going to work on German airplay chart later on.-- Lirim  |  Talk  01:15, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Lists of number ones of the weekly singles charts make sense because it compiles from 100% of music consumption and songs often receive independent coverage when it reaches number one on the main chart. When a song reaches number one on this chart, is it significant, and if so, where is it discussed in independent reliable sources? To me, this is just having a list for list's sake because they are easy to do. Star cheers peaks news lost wars Talk to me 02:12, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
 * For e.x. .-- Lirim  |  Talk  13:26, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you for those Lirim.Z, although two of the links were the same. I'm just disappointed these featured lists of number one songs don't incorporate references more like these into the prose, rather than x number of songs reached number one this year, with such and such being the first, then this one, and then this one which stayed at number one for y number of weeks. If that's the criteria for featured lists, so be it, but I would want more than just music chart trivia and a summary of what songs reached number one, when and for how long. Nothing against the writing and effort done to put these together, but such lists are very cookie cutter and don't tell me anything that the list itself doesn't already tell me. Star cheers peaks news lost wars Talk to me 00:50, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I added more independent sources to the lead and two numbers of plays in evaluated stations. For whatever reason, they didn't publish any numbers for the number one song.-- Lirim  |  Talk  22:08, 1 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Also, please note that per Help:Tables, use of "scope" in tables is not designed to provide/add emphasis to a certain row or column but to distinguish the top row or the first column from the rest of the information listed. This should be fixed. Star cheers peaks news lost wars Talk to me 20:06, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Done.-- Lirim  |  Talk  21:57, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Have your concerns been adequately addressed?  Lirim  |  Talk  00:28, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
 * They appear to be addressed but if this is all that it takes to meet featured list status, the criteria is rather flimsy. Not meant as a slight to the amount of work you put into it. Star cheers peaks news lost wars Talk to me 06:40, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

Support
Great list overall. These are of triviality, but some of my concerns are: — HĐ (talk) 01:51, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Lacking retrieval date for ref#5
 * Germancharts.de should not be italicised since it's a non-print source
 * Lacking work/publisher for ref #2
 * Done and Germancharts.de is in italics, because the template cite web does this through the |website= parameter.-- Lirim  |  Talk  02:29, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Source review passed, I don't think this list needs to justify further the notability of the German airplay charts, promoting. -- Pres N  21:16, 25 April 2019 (UTC)


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