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Saturday, November 30, 2019
Sunday, November 24, 2019
The End of the Trot 100
After almost 6 years of charts, I must sadly report that the Equestrian Trot 100 will be ending its run soon. There are several factors at play:
- Overall activity has gone down. While the end of the show has briefly boosted numbers, they are already beginning to regress.
- Incoming COPPA regulations appear to be hitting brony content quite hard with autotags. As of January 1, 2020, Made For Kids content will be unable to added to playlists, which is essential for my tracking system. In addition, other engagement options will be disabled and several channels are pulling or plan to pull their content by the date, meaning the Trot 100 will be rather unrepresentative of what's popular in any case.
- I have more obligations now, namely a day job and a major hobby rhythm game project. Alone that wouldn't be enough, but with the rest, it's the straw breaking the camel's back.
As such, my intent is for the final chart to be the one dated January 4, 2020. After that chart is published, a final version of the all-time list will be published, adding in separately weighted points from 2019 and the stub of 2020.
This won't be the absolute end of everything related to the Trot 100. The CrownNote archives will be completed eventually, and the YouTube channel still has some videos to post (along with a correction for a few months at the beginning of the chart year), but this will be the end of new content. I thank everyone who's followed this chart in all of its avenues and I thank all of the musicians whose works made this chart possible throughout the years, with my best wishes to the ones still going to be able to survive the upcoming YouTube landscape.
2019 Chart Year - 11/30/19 - Week 53/53 - Marcus Warner Tops the Trot 100
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Friday, November 15, 2019
Friday, November 8, 2019
2019 Chart Year - 11/16/19 - Week 51/53 - JoinedTheHerd Debuts at #1, 4everfreebrony Debuts at #2, John Kenza Climbs Into Top 10
After years of success under their current alias, JoinedTheHerd finally adds a ceremonial honor to their name: a #1, and a debut at that! Riding off the end of the show, their remix of Magic of Friendship Grows starts off at the summit, amassing 1,780 likes and 14,400 views in its first week. This was just enough to fend off the other big debut of this week: 4everfreebrony's familial turn on Soldiers of the Night, which he originally featured on, bringing along Lil' Everfree, his brother. That track nabs 1,810 likes and 13,300 views, being defeated by only 1.9% in chart points. Most of the top 10 ends up shifting down pretty uniformly, but one song does climb in: John Kenza's Friendship is Magic, shifting 12-10 for its first week in the zone. Check out the full chart past the break!
Sunday, November 3, 2019
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