(possibly it never had them from the time I got Tom to put the data into special fields instead of in the article)

(there are many popular posts that aren’t actual #1 entries, so the list only shows those with valid score and dates)

unless Tom can remember the score he gave (!) i will have to dig through the database archives to see what it was before whichever accidental data trickery lost us that :-(

If appearances in charity conglomerations don’t count, it’s Mick Jagger with 6.07 – Paint It, Black (8.6) minus Dancing in the Street (2.53).

If you discount all charity records it’s Paul McCartney with 6.01 – Eleanor Rigby/Yellow Submarine (8.92) minus Ebony and Ivory (2.91).

Does this tell us anything other than that charity records aren’t much cop and that McCartney’s quality control isn’t great, which we knew anyway?

i wasn’t sure what to do about the numbering, but the 100th is the worst (as you can see from the score).

the scores column has individual scores comma separated. if i get you right, you’re just after the average score, so i could have just given you the ave score, but i figured you might want to go wild on the stats, so you could get #of10 scores, #of9 scores, etc, and all manner of statpr0n.

if you can’t parse the data and you’d rather just have the ave, let me know.

quick fact: Come On Eileen has the highest number of votes by some distance.

(i have deleted all user ID info, so the scoring given in the file is anonymous BTW.)

My answer (so far at least), if you take a 10-song average, is the stretch which starts inauspiciously with Boney M’s “Mary’s Boy Child” and runs until “Are ‘Friends’ Electric” (#430-439).

But, if you look at my best ERA for pop – defined as a 50-song average – it’s #171-#220 – starting with Roy Orbison’s “It’s Over” and ending with Chris Farlowe’s “Out Of Time” – so mid-64 to mid-66.

I want to do this with the reader marks and will pester the relevant ppl for a .csv file :)

What I think I’ll do is frontpage it for a day or two so the regulars all see it, then it can be plunged back into the Mud.

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/tag/popular-year-poll/

On the subject of the readers poll. I suspect that many of the voters have been swayed by your wise words on a few of the songs. It’s my guess that’s because many readers were simply too young or not even born when certain (high-ranked, on the above chart) tracks were at No.1

I was fortunate to be around to fully enjoy the 60′s “pop boom” and I believe most Beatles fans would not put down Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby as the best of the Beatles No.1′s. For me, personally, “She Loves you” was the true trigger of the wave of musical euphoria that swept the country at that time (I was 9 years old). Hey Jude comes a close 2nd for me. If you had given a high score of your own to these tracks – I’m convinced they would have been in the readers top 10 too.

Just an observation – not taking it all TOO seriously.
Steve