The Elephant In The Room

[koganbot]

Posted this on a Freaky Trigger comment thread:

The elephants in the room of popular music, the ones who not only don't get talked about by critics and who (as far as I know) don’t get paid attention to on news or entertainment sites either, but who also get undercounted on Billboard and are mostly excluded from the Brit singles chart and

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[koganbot]

My favorite fact about the U.S. "Adult Contemporary" chart is that from June 6 to December 12, 2009, the number 1 spot was held by females under the age of 21. What happened in mid December wasn't that the top song was displaced, but that Taylor Swift had her 21st birthday. [UPDATE: Whatever the elephant in the room is, I hope it can do arithmetic better than I can. From June 6 to December 12, 2009, the number one spot on the U.S. adult contemporary singles chart was held by teenagers. On December 13, 2009, Taylor Swift, born Dec. 13, 1989, turned 20. "You Belong With Me" held on at number one through the week of January 23, 2010; on January 30 it was displaced by Michael Bublé's "Haven't Met You Yet," the week after by Colbie Caillat's "Fallin' For You," then "You Belong With Me" returned for a final week on top. Back in 2009, prior to "You Belong With Me," the top song on AC was 16-year-old Miley Cyrus's "The Climb" (week of July 18-week of October 24), before that Taylor Swift's "Love Story" (week of June 6-week of July 11).]

(Of course, I do think and write about Taylor, despite her being on the AC chart. But she has appeared on other genre charts, as well.)