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Billboard's retro-Christmas chart dominace (pro/con)

gregg75

gregg75

I'm sure most here are fans of lots of retro Christmas songs in December. Billboard sure is! It dominates their December Hot 100 chart. I know I'm probably in the miniority on this (I do like Christmas music), but with 50% or more of the chart in retro-Christmas music mode, that doesn't leave much room for new artists to debut. THIS SPACE IS TAKEN. Artist that were rising on the chart in November are suddenly pushed down 10 position or more (even though popularity is rising) in order to make room for the RETURN of never ending Christmas loop. Maybe Billboard is trying to send a message: Best not to come out with your new song in December unless you can withstand the 4 weeks of retro Christmas bombardment. Maybe the Christmas songs should be given their own chart (with radio monitoring of the Christmas stations only) instead of stifling and strangling the Hot 100 one month out of the year.
 
gregg75 said:
that doesn't leave much room for new artists to debut. THIS SPACE IS TAKEN. Artist that were rising on the chart in November are suddenly pushed down 10 position or more
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Keep in mind that the labels and artists know this. So they don't release new music or debut new artists during this time because they know all the attention is on Christmas. As for the songs rising in the chart, yes, for a few weeks things will slow down. But once again the labels are aware of this, and in their weekly calls, they make sure the spins for their priority artists are not affected by the Christmas music. So that on December 26, when all the holiday music is dropped, they are still at about the same place they were, and can continue their march to #1.

BTW, the Christmas songs DO have their own chart. It's the Billboard Holiday Songs chart. But the amount of action the Christmas songs get in streaming overwhelms that chart. Thus impacting the Hot 100.
 
Still don't like it. Where would TV be if a lot of stations only aired The Simpsons in January? And Nielsen gave them 20 of the top 25 programs? Who would that be helping other than The Simpsons?
 
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