whitburn’s 2016 pop annual book question

paul haney,

need a little help here....the pop annual book has the
jordan smith song 'mary did you know?' as the 86th
ranked
song for 2015, peaking on 12-26-2015....according to
the
billboard website it peaked at number 24 on 1-2-2016
9the
following week) for one week only....so it should be
the
number 107 song for 2016.....your thoughts?

here's the link to billboard

https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/2016-01-02




Edited by edtop40

Those Pop Annuals shunt all Xmas titles that peak after Dec 31st to the
proceeding calendar year to reflect the proper Holiday time frame. A little
confusing and date-inaccurate, but I understand the policy.

New Kids On The Block's "This One's For The Children" is another example of this. It's listed as peaking at #7 in December 1989, but didn't actually reach #7 until the first week in January 1990. I'm guessing its designation as a Christmas song is solely because of its inclusion on their Christmas album, but if you really listen to the lyrics, the word "Christmas" is never actually used and there's really nothing to indicate that they're singing about anything referring to the holidays.

edtop40 wrote: that's at least a proper explanation, inaccurate, but understandable.....was this what Whitburn decided unilaterally or was there some deliberation over it?

There was plenty of discussion about it among the staff,
but at the end of the day, it was Joel's decision.

Paul,

Going forward with xmas hits charting and peaking in January and then recharting again in the same calendar year in December how will the pop annual look for 2019 for example? Will it include both times the song peaked in the hot 100 or the highest peak?