Last update: 3/9/24
Why? To merge three pages into one and make a few minor adjustments due to the merger of the COUNTRY and ROOTS Chart back into one single Fan-Voted Chart
WHAT TO KNOW
In this section, I attempt to give you the basics that you should know to have an understanding of how the Fan-Voted Chart works.
Overall
The voting and the chart are two separate things; where a song places in the voting is not its rank on the chart
The voting is used to determine how many points to give to a song that week.
The chart is all of the songs together sorted by Lifetime Points (the sum of all points a song earns during every voting it has been a part of).
Voting
There is one survey consisting of one poll where every song on the chart is on that poll.
Voting runs from 6am Eastern US Time on Tuesdays until 6am Eastern US Time on Thursdays (for my Australian voters, depending on the time of year that is either 8pm, 9pm or 10pm on the same days of the week).
Chart Eligibility
There are 10 sources songs come from:
—80s #1 (a #1 from Billboard and/or Radio Records from the 1980s to celebrate one of the greatest decades in Country Music history)
—90s #1 (a #1 from Billboard and/or Radio Records from the 1990s to celebrate another one of the greatest decades in Country Music history)
—Americana (one of Country’s “relatives”)
—Artist Tribute (any song that is added to chart to remember a recently deceased country artist or an already deceased Hall-of-Famer).
—Australia (songs from artists who chart on a certain national Country Music Chart in Australia)
—Bluegrass (another one of Country’s “relatives”)
—Canada (songs from artists who chart on the Billboard Canada Country Music Chart who are from Canada)
—Indie (for the independent artists out there whose songs I come across)
—Texas Regional (songs from artists who chart on one of the major charts for the Texas Country Music scene)
—United States (this is for those who are major artists in the US but also for those who are fortunate enough to be able to release music to the secondary US markets and chart on the major charts for that)
An artist is allowed to have multiple songs in the voting at the same time from any series their song qualifies from.
Points
Songs are given Points based on the number of votes they get and how many weeks they have been on the chart (in short, Points = Votes * Weeks)
The Chart
After the voting has finished, the Points each song has earned are added to the total they have accumulated prior to that voting.
The chart is then sorted by the number of points a song has earned during its chart run, with the #1 song each week being the song with the most points accumulated.
The Hits
The top 40 songs on the Chart, called the Fan-Voted 40, are considered hits.
The Hits are posted here on the blog every week.
The entire chart is posted on the Fan-Voted Chart Website
CHART FAQ
Help me fill up this section by e-mailing me a question that you might have! Please send an e-mail to fanvotedchart@gmail.com if you have a question.
How do I vote? Where do I vote?
I post a link here, on Twitter and on Facebook each week for the voting. Click on that link, vote for the required number of songs, and click submit.
How do songs get added to the voting and therefore the chart?
I use a variety of websites, mostly airplay charts, to find songs for each of the 8 categories (90s #1, Australian, Canadian, Indie, Roots, Texas Regional, “Tribute” and United States).
Can I request a song to be in the voting?
Of course! I just need to know the song and the artist and I will determine which of the categories it fits into best.
How do you decide that a song is no longer to be in the voting (I call it “Retirement”)?
I have a list of conditions that if a song meets one of those conditions, it will be removed from the voting and the chart. See more information here.
Can an artist have multiple songs in the voting at one time?
Yes! Beginning in 2020, I now allow artists to have more than one song in the voting..
More questions to come soon…
Got a question? Ask me at fanvotedchart@gmail.com and I will answer it. If I deem it worthy enough, I will add your question to this page!
OTHER
In this section, I list links to pages from my website that apply to the Fan-Voted Chart for you to read if you are interested.
The Fan-Voted Chart 