Do we champion International Music? Billboard Year-End Single Chart From 2002–2019.
I was born in 1998 and in 2002 I remember seeing BET and getting glimpse of me — yes me on television. Now it wasn’t actually me — I was four — but I remember seeing a young boy who looked like me in Sean Paul’s Get Busy. The young boy, wearing pajamas, go downstairs only to see a Caribbean party going on. Very different from regular parties, Caribbean parties involve soca and dancehall music or remixes of popular pop music. The party I saw was in Bedstuy, Brooklyn, and when thinking about this time I always go back to the music, and to this day, I guess from this time I mostly listen to global music. The point of this project was to see if music not originated from America or Europe was seen in Billboard’s Year End Chart (usually meaning the popular in United States.)
In the first graph, we find Jamaica have 18 singles charting on Billboard from 2002–2019, meaning that music from Jamaica is highly charted — due in part because of Sean Paul’s 11 singles. Tied for second is Puerto Rico, and surprisingly California, with 14 singles. For California most of the artists are featured artists, such as Katy Perry and Michelle Branch, both of which used for Latin artists Daddy Yankee (“Con Cola Remix”) and Santana (“The Game of Love”). For Puerto Rico, it the rise of Latin nationality within music where music can be spoken in Spanish and still be played on 100.3 — such as Cardi B’s 2018 single “I Like It”.
In the second, we see which years genres played significant role in Billboards Year-End Chart alongside countries or states flag. While the final show how the amount and which genre charted for each year.
Do we champion international music? No, but it looks like it’s heading that way.
