I am on a panel of 61 radio hosts that selects the top 100 for a national US Magazine in a niche music genre. You might be interested in how our system works in the "real world".
We pick the top 10 songs in order, giving them values from 1 to 10. Each song gets scored 10 points for a "1 placing", 9 points for a "2 placing", 8 points for a "3 placeing" ... etc totalling up the points ranks the songs in order. We score by putting the numbers 1 to 10 in checkboxes next to the songs we want. We're voting on songs for a top 100 but we only have to pick 1 to 10. In our case we can add in songs too if we want subject to the following rules: Songs must be on current release (i.e. no writing in old favourites). No more than two songs for any artist I dont know how that sits with your strategy but thats how we do it in this niche music genre. We have radio hosts picking the songs because in our music style, a large porportion of the sales of CDs are through bands at their gigs Billboard magazine gets its chart rankings from retail store sales figures (through a company called SoundScan) but in our case those figures would only account for less than half the total sales. Bands just dont report their sales figures to SoundScan so building a chart from their figures wouldn't give a reasonable result except in the case of the biggest artists in the world in our genre. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On 8/2/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just as an addition to that, put in a flag for each song and when it's > voted on, flag it. > > Have your querry only pull unvoted songs up in the random order. > > Once all of them get voted on, clear all the flags. > > This will allow for randomness and still make sure that every song gets > voted on an equal number of times (if that's important to you). > > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: Jim Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 17:11:51 -0400 > To: cf-talk@houseoffusion.com > Subject: Re: Hey, does anyone have any ideas regarding a top 40 voting > system? > > > > > > Any suggestions, both from an interface standpoint, and the pure > tabulations > > standpoint? > > > > One thought is to just have a simple interface that shows the song, > with a yes or no button. When they click on a button, it records the > vote and shows the next song. Display the songs in a random order > (random for each session, not the same random list for everyone). > Rank would be based on yes votes/total votes for that particular song. > They may get tired after 20, but since it is random, all the songs > should get around the same level of exposure. > > -- > Jim Wright > Wright Business Solutions > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 919-417-2257 > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:248584 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
