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    [OC] How old were the shooting stars of the musical industry at their first peak 🌋

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    1. nankainamizuhana on

      Expected the y-axis to be like, “red giant, white dwarf, blue giant, etc” and was very confused

    2. corpulentFornicator on

      I know Hip-Hop is a young man’s game (or young women’s game) but I’m slightly surprised no old-timers hit number-one with their debut.

      And by old-timers, I mean 35-year-olds.

    4. sea_monkey_do on

      Santana was way better when he was young. I wouldn’t say his collab with Rob Thomas was his peak.

    5. Beehous on

      *Modern* stars “flare up” when the machine that cranks them out says it’s time. It has nothing to do with actual talent or consumer requests. It’s all by design at this point. might’ve been different decades ago, but not now.

    8. YakEvery4395 on

      What does the thickness means ? Why is it thick at the tail of several curves ?

    9. tuckernuts on

      Eh, Billboard #1 might be too stringent for what you’re trying to measure. You’re getting more of a “what genre’s singles are at #1 the most?” graph. That leads to more of a “for each genre, which age range tends to make hits?”

      Like you have Santana there at 51 for Smooth w/ Rob Thomas, but Santana has been legendary since the 60s. Evil Ways hit #10 when he was 22.

      Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, The Who.. many all-time bands from an earlier era just didn’t chart singles, they charted albums.

      Pink Floyd’s first and only #1 single was Another Brick in the Wall in 1979, after Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, and Animals which charted at #1, #1, and #3 on the album charts.

      6 out of all 9 Led Zeppelin albums charted #1, and the other three were #2, #6, and #7.

    10. DidUSayWeast on

      This is very confusing and will only ever be understood by people good at data visualization or very invested people.

    11. PunchSploder on

      This is cool, thanks for making this. I’m envious of your R skills. I’m sorry some commenters are being negative and/or nit-picky. But that’s Reddit these days unfortunately.

      Question for you: what’s going on with the hip hop distro >30?

    14. NathaNRiveraMelo on

      This is pretty interesting and I think we would see that older stars were able to chart in the 1900s more easily than nowadays. That could be a different visualization.

    15. mirror_in_reverse on

      It’s not perfect, but I really like this concept and visualization. Inspired me to look up Nobel Prizes By Age. Or Monarchs by age inheriting throne. Or Athletes winning their first major. Because now that I’m over 40, it doesn’t look like I’ll be getting a Billboard #1 hit …