{"id":168,"date":"2003-10-03T10:42:09","date_gmt":"2003-10-03T15:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/further-defining-the-top-of-the-curve\/"},"modified":"2003-10-03T10:42:09","modified_gmt":"2003-10-03T15:42:09","slug":"further-defining-the-top-of-the-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/further-defining-the-top-of-the-curve\/","title":{"rendered":"further defining the top of the curve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>today,  i was inspired to put together a little chart to help further define the &#8220;top of the power curve&#8221; in the business of music.  note that this is &#8220;just one chart&#8221; &#8211; but it&#8217;s the pop singles chart for the united states, and purports to represent sales and airplay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/images\/2002Charts_No1s_l.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"2002Charts_No1s_s.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/images\/2002Charts_No1s_s.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"428\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(click for larger version)<\/p>\n<p>i think this largely speaks for itself, but i do want to spell out a few points&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>a total of 8 performers hit #1 on this chart during 2002<\/p>\n<p>one of them (nelly) had two different (and back-to-back) #1 singles.<\/p>\n<p>one of them (kelly clarkson) had a song debut at #1.<\/p>\n<p>no real point to make with this, but the data was available, so i thought i&#8217;d give everyone some common reference points&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>today, i was inspired to put together a little chart to help further define the &#8220;top of the power curve&#8221; in the business of music. note that this is &#8220;just one chart&#8221; &#8211; but it&#8217;s the pop singles chart for the united states, and purports to represent sales and airplay. (click for larger version) i [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}