The Final Charts - 12/7/19 - Discord Returns to #1 for Ninth Week, AnNy Tr3e Hits Top 10

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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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2019 Chart Year - 11/23/19 - Week 52/53 - JoinedTheHerd Holds at #1 for Second Week, Feather Debuts in Top 5, JackleApp's Classic Summer Goes Top 5

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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!

2019 Chart Year - 11/9/19 - Week 50/53 - BLACKGRYPH0N & Baasik Top With New Charity Single, Toby Macarony Climbs Into Top 5, and Marcus Warner Debuts in Top 10

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2019 Chart Year - 11/2/19 - Week 49/53 - 4everfreebrony Nabs New Leader and New Top 10, Radiarc Debuts at #2, Toby Macarony and Silva Hound & PegasYs Climb Into Top 10

It seems the brony music scene is in a honeymoon state now that the show's concluded, as this week continues the hot streak of one of the most competitive top 10s of the year, with several songs over the 1,000 point mark, and plenty over 500. At our pole position is another one for the all-time books: Who Knows finally crowns the chart on its 37th week. This places it in a tie with Pegasus Device amongst the songs that took the longest to reach that mark:

37 Weeks, "Pegasus Device", SlyphStorm, 2015 

37 Weeks, "Who Knows", 4everfreebrony feat. MilkyMomo, EileMonty, & MEMJ0123, 2019  

33 Weeks, "Discord", Eurobeat Brony, 2019  

25 Weeks, "Egomania", Silva Hound feat. BLACKGRYPH0N, 2017

24 Weeks, "Soldiers of the Night", SlyphStorm, 2014

22 Weeks, "Spectacular (The Spectacle)", PrinceWhateverer, 2016

20 Weeks, "Come Alive", Silva Hound feat. Eurobeat Brony, 2015

18 Weeks, "Back to You", Luna Jax feat. 4everfreebrony, 2017

18 Weeks, "Wild Fire", Silva Hound & MandoPony, 2015

17 Weeks, "Strangers", Scratch21 feat. EileMonty, 2015

16 Weeks, "In a Rush", Vylet Pony, 2018

16 Weeks, "The Magic Inside (I Am Just a Pony)", BassBeastJD, 2015

13 Weeks, "Entropy", AwkwardMarina, 2014

It was a stacked week to pull it off, as Who Knows nabbed 8,500 chart points fueled primarily its recent animatic against 3 other songs in between 7,000 and 7,200 points, a sum that would guarantee a victory in most weeks. Leading the charge was Radiarc's Always There, re-entering at #2 (blasting past its #31 peak from its original run in 2018) thanks to its feature in a recent animation. Hot on its tail, Friendship is Magic (2019) climbs 4-3 in its second frame, and The Return of Harmony dips 2-4 while holding mostly even in terms of points. There are 3 other big nuggets: Toby Macarony jumps 18-6 with his remix of The Magic of Friendship Grows, Silva Hound and PegasYs (with StealingShad3Z as a feature) get Hands On to surge 58-8 thanks to a feature on a compilation channel, and 4everfreebrony starts his cover of Aviators' Someone Like Me at #9. Check out the full chart past the break!