Billboard to Launch Weekly Top Songwriters and Top Producers Charts

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8514792/billboard-to-launch-weekly-top-songwriters-producers-charts

June 6, 2019

Billboard is expanding its chart offerings by introducing Top Songwriters and Top Producers rankings based on weekly activity on the Billboard Hot 100 and other “Hot”-named genre song charts that blend streaming, airplay and sales data.

The charts will debut in the Billboard issue dated June 15, and in the Billboard Bulletin email blast delivered to subscribers on June 13. Top 10 charts for Hot 100 songwriters and producers will be featured each week, joined by a rotating set of charts from two other genres among R&B/hip-hop, rap, R&B, country, rock, dance/electronic, Latin, Christian and gospel. (Top songwriter and producer rankings have been presented annually as part of year-end chart menus for various genres and occasionally for special features.)

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The charts are based on total points accrued by a songwriter or producer for each attributed song that appears on the respective charts. As done with Billboard’s yearly recaps, multiple writers or producers split points for each song equally. The dividing of points will lead to occasional ties for some rankings.

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