The Holland song chart

Song chart Holland

The weekly top 40 in Holland (This data originally came from //www.radio538.nl/web/show/id=44685). The web site used to list the weekly Dutch charts starting in 1965, many of the entries were truncated and have had to be expanded by other sources.

Attributes

This chart has the following attributes:

artist: The artist
name: The name of the track
position: The peak position that the song reached
date: The month when it first entered the chart
weeks: The total number of weeks that the song was in the chart

artist

There are a wide range of ways to assign scores to artists in order to work out which artists are most significant. By assigning a score to each song that combines its peak position with the number of weeks in the Dutch chart we can calculate the "top artists" for each decade:

Decade	Number 1 Artist	Number 2 Artist	Number 3 Artist	Number 4 Artist	Number 5 Artist
1960s	The Beatles	The Rolling Stones	Bee Gees	The Kinks	Cats
1970s	Abba	Boney M	George Baker Selection	Cats	The Sweet
1980s	Madonna	Michael Jackson	UB40	BZN	George Michael
1990s	2 Unlimited	Marco Borsato	Snap	Michael Jackson	Mariah Carey
2000s	Robbie Williams	Marco Borsato	Anouk	Kane	U2

Another approach is to assign each song a score based on one divided by the year position (so number 1 is 1.0, 2 is a half and so on). If we then total each artist's songs we get a rough idea of how significant they are.

#	Artist	Entries	Biggest Hit	Year	Year Position
1	Marco Borsato	23	Dromen Zijn Bedrog	1994	1
2	The Rolling Stones	50	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	1965	2
3	The Beatles	32	Help!	1965	3
4	Julio Iglesias	10	Quiereme Mucho (Yours)	1979	1
5	Boney M	20	Ma Baker	1977	1
6	Golden Earring	45	Back Home	1970	1
7	Madonna	52	Hung Up	2005	4
8	Queen	37	Bohemian Rhapsody	1975	1
9	The Vengaboys	10	Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom	1998	1
10	Cats	37	Lea	1968	3
11	Abba	26	Dancing Queen	1976	2
12	Whitney Houston	22	I Will Always Love You	1992	1
13	The Black Eyed Peas	11	I gotta feeling	2009	1
14	Coldplay	11	Viva la Vida	2008	1
15	Elton John	23	Nikita	1985	1
16	Guus Meeuwis & Vagant	7	Het Is Een Nacht (Levensecht)	1995	1
17	Meat Loaf	6	Paradise By the Dashboard Light	1978	1
18	Bruce Springsteen	19	Dancing in the Dark	1984	1
19	Billy Ocean	9	When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough get going	1986	1
20	Bryan Adams	11	(Everything I Do) I Do It For You	1991	1

name

A number of song titles have been hits for more than one artist. Here are the twenty titles that have spent the most weeks in the Dutch charts.

#	Song Title	Total Weeks	Num Versions
1	Mama	75	8
2	Tonight	72	9
3	Heaven	63	5
4	It's My Life	60	5
5	Crazy	57	6
6	Holiday	54	5
7	Freedom	51	8
7	Help!	51	4
9	My Love	50	6
10	Why?	48	5
11	Fire	47	6
11	Hurt	47	4
11	La Danse De Zorba	47	1
11	Woman	47	7
15	Jump	46	5
16	Il Silenzio	45	1
16	Somebody To Love	45	4
16	This Strange Effect	45	1
19	Save Me	44	5
20	My Way	43	7
20	Nothing Else Matters	43	3
20	Saturday Night	43	5

position

The peak position that each song reached in the top 40.

date

The month in which a song first entered the Dutch chart.

weeks

The number of weeks that the average song spends in the Dutch charts has remained fairly steady for the whole duration of the charts.

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28 Jun 2018

Holland year end charts since 1965

I think it will be great to use the year end charts from this site. They used a special way to make year end charts harts, you shall see the rules on https://www.top40.nl/bijzondere-lijsten/top-100-jaaroverzichten https://www.top40.nl/bijzondere-lijsten/decenniumlijst-70-s And top 1000 https://www.top40.nl/pdf/archive/1989-top-1000-25jr-top-40-december.pdf (before 1989)