OK so its time for another Long Read RADDEST METADATA column, and holy smokes, if you thought things were indulgent up to this point, get ready to cringe your face off! Were looking earnestly inwards today, at how this Raddest 100 poll compares to past ones. Weve been running these polls for a few years, but its really been since 2012 that weve taken on yearly themed polls. And weve mentioned a few times how much stronger this years poll is, so today were going to take a completely transparent look at what we mean by that. Remember, you can stop reading at any time! One of the biggest changes this year was that more of you voted. We received 112 lists from our friends this year, up from 77 for the 2000s poll (2013) and 63 for the 1990s poll (2012). Theres always a concern that the more people who vote, the more generic the results end up being - but one of the biggest strengths is that everyone who voted, no matter how varied, came from real music fans whod put the thought & effort in. No by the numbers totally predictable lists, so thanks! So thats great, we have more votes than ever before, we just nagged you better this year, right? Well sure, probably. But more important than the sheer numbers is this poll has the strongest consensus results. It seems when you ask people for their favourite Australian songs, they tend to choose from a comparatively smaller selection palate than when you ask for their favourite songs from a decade. In the 90s poll, 717 different songs received votes - thats an average of 11.3 unique songs to each Top 20 list. That blew out with the 2000s poll to 1028 different songs getting a vote, or each list averaging 13.3 unique songs. This year, even as the number of voters jumped 45%, the number of different songs receiving votes only increased 3% to 1061, with only 9.4 unique songs in each list. Diversitys great in most forms obviously, but it makes for statistically weakened polls, with less definitive winners. This year the entire list is far stronger in its consensus. Lets look at it another way: In the 2000s poll, the act to accumulate the most points overall was The Strokes, who amassed 325.51 points. In the 90s poll it was Radiohead with 255.25 pts. In this years poll, the most voted act racked up 641.5 points, and those previous years points would rank them 12th and 18th in the most voted acts. Even if we adjust for the difference in number of votes, still neither The Strokes nor Radiohead would make this polls Top 5 acts. This is also reflected in that this years Raddest 100 songs has 21 artists featured multiple times, compared to 15 acts in each of the previous polls. Far more votes, for a smaller number of acts. Theres a lot more consensus that these are the songs weve chosen. Individual numbers throughout the poll show this too, starting at #1 all the way down. On raw data, our #1 has the most points compared to other polls, but even adjusting points for the same amount of voters, the 90s winner 1979 would come in at #3, and the 00s Wolf Like Me comes in at #2. This is the most popularly voted #1 in our polls history. And it just blows out as we go down the list from there. For instance, this years #100 song would have, with those same points, been at #53 in the 90s poll, and #43 in the 2000s poll. When we countdown the songs next Saturday, its with greater confidence than ever before we can go Well, heres the results, and there ARE the 100 raddest songs, according to these 112 folks. Good work yall. Of course, whether we have shit taste or not is another matter, so tune in to find out. For today, were going to leave you with two songs, both left out of the top 100. These came in at #120 and #121, tied on points, and its the exact same number of points that got Ryan Adams Shakedown On 9th Street to #50 on the 2000s poll last year. At #120 its Dumb Things by Paul Kelly & the Coloured Girls, and...
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 03:34:01 +0000
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