The chart lives!
March 8, 2008
For months now, I’ve been hoping to finish designing and programming a web application that would let me make the maintenance of my Top 25 Dance Chart easier. Making them manually is a pain in the butt, frankly, and it’s way more subjective than I’d like it to be. Since the dance music industry has enough politics going on inside of it to make the presidential election season look tame in comparison, I really wanted to try and remove as much subjectivity from the process as I could. And yes, I acknowledge, at the end of the day, a lot of what I choose to spin is based on my personal preferences, as it is with any DJ; but I wanted it to be as accurate and removed from “who do I like this week?” as I could.
While I’m weeks late in delivering it, I finally did, this week. You can see the results at http://www.djwesley.com/chart/.
The chart is based solely on play frequency data from the past six week period, which I selected because it’s a decent sized sampling, and it would help damp some of the “I got this new song this week and I love it so I play it all the time” effect. Play frequency is obviously based on my choices, but that’s also a reflection of audience response, and also factored-in are specific audience requests.
Throughout the week, I’ll upload playlist history data straight from my DJ’ing software of choice. Then each Friday, the web site will automagically generate an updated chart. So make the above URL one of your weekly stops.
At some point, I’ll see about putting it all into an RSS feed for those of you who are as web-geeky as I obviously am.
Anyway, thanks for your patience, and I hope you enjoy the fruits of my labor.
Entry Filed under: Chart Updates, DJ Wesley Personal, Dance Music. Tags: dance chart, top 25.
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Dakota Rosca | March 10, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Oh. My. God. History is upon us. And a possible RSS feed of the chart too? Sweet!
Your laborious fruits are indeed tasty, Chartley Spenglemaker.
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DJ Wesley | March 11, 2008 at 1:29 am
LOL Good to hear from ya, Dakota. And yeah, check back. And promise me you’ll kick my ass if I come-up with any new reasons not to update it weekly.
Wes
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Dakota Rosca | March 11, 2008 at 4:33 am
Does your average top ten plays really differ that much in a week? Most other DJ playlists I’ve followed tend to do it monthly. But if you want to give it a weekly run, more power to you. Always good to know what’s new or moving up the charts out there to pick up.
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DJ Wesley | March 11, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I guess we’ll find out, won’t we?
I’m not surprised that most DJs would do this monthly. As I said in the original post, it’s a pain in the butt if you do it by hand. Since there’s really no more effort involved at this point to do it whenever, I picked weekly, primarily because cumulative charts (Billboard and record pools) do it weekly.
But no, I don’t really expect huge fluctuations week-over-week. They happen that way on the Billboard charts (things debuting high on the list, or other large movements) because of the way the charts are build and what data feeds them. Which is why record pool charts are more accurate… They reflect what DJs are actually playing and not what they were “influenced” (I’m being nice here) to report.
Anyway, you gave me an idea… Since I hadn’t really planned for presenting historical data in the application I wrote (although it’s inherently in the database that drives it), I think I might cross-post the charts here in the blog so I can actually see how much they move each week.
I’m a bit obsessed, aren’t I?
Wes