Mariah Carey 90′s Billboard Artist of the Decade
Sat, Dec 6, 2008
Hi Keith,
I would like to know how does Billboard determines the Artist of the Decade.
I was reviewing some articles about Mariah Carey and I found one that says Billboard uses the same methodology for Artist of the Decade that they do for yearly top pop artist list.
However I would expect this to have changed since then since Billboard revises its methodology to reflect the times. Can you clear this up for me?
Quinn Michaels,
Chicago Illinois
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Hi Quinn,
You’re referring to when we gave Mariah Carey the Artist of the Decade award at the 1999 Billboard Music Awards?
We compiled the list of the top artists of the 1990s using a recap point system that combined chart performance data from the Billboard 200 albums chart and the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. This system awarded points, based on a complex, inverse relation to chart position, for each week a title appeared on the pertinent charts. The decade recap reflected chart performance from the start of 1990 through the end of the 1999 chart year.
I’m unsure what you mean by your methodology question. When we did our recent all-time Hot 100 anniversary charts, we did have to look at how the Hot 100 was compiled over the past 50 years and take that into account. You can read more about that here.
But, for the 1990s recap, that was printed in our Dec. 29, 1999 issue (which resulted in Carey getting her award on the Billboard Music Awards TV show that year), we didn’t have to do a Hot 100 50th-like computation to come up with the list.
Oh, and here is the roundup of the 10 top pop artists of the ’90s:
1 Mariah Carey
2. Janet Jackson
3. Garth Brooks
4. Boyz II Men
5. Celine Dion
6. Madonna
7. TLC
8. Whitney Houston
9. Michael Bolton
10. Toni Braxton
Source: Billboard
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