2023 is coming to an end, and what better way to celebrate than with BillboardThe end-of-year charts? But what are the year-end graphics? When did they start and how were they created? Billboard sits down with Charts CEO Keith Caulfield to explain how we create these year-end tallies.
Alyssa Caverley:
That's right Billboard explains the year-end charts. Billboard first released annual year-end charts back in the 1940s, and they have been published every year since. What exactly are these graphs? They represent aggregate metrics for every artist, title, label, and music collaborator on the weekly charts from November 19, 2022 to October 21, 2023.
Keith Caulfield:
That's a complicated way of putting it, if you look at our lists and add them all up, at the end of the year, we reveal who the best artists, songs and albums are.
Alyssa Caverley:
Charts have evolved in different ways over the decades thanks to technological advances, including how year-end charts are determined. BillboardKeith Caulfield, General Manager of Charts and Data Operations, explains.
Keith Caulfield:
The best simple answer I can tell you is that you take the entire combined performance of all the artists' albums of the songs on a particular chart along that chart here, add them all up, and then you get a bunch of numbers. And this is, broadly speaking, what the year-end version of that chart would look like.
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