Charts

Top Tracks and Albums as determined by Pitchforkmedia.com. Genre determined by the Itunes store.

First names appearing in the lyrics of the top five songs of every
year from 1891 to present. Top five songs determined by the
Billboard Pop ME charts. Lyrics determined by sheet
music archives and various song lyric websites offering great
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Number of band/artist members determined by wikipedia.
Locations of artists determined by their myspace pages and,
when more specificity was required, wikipedia or Pitchfork’s own reviews.
Genre was determined by allmusic.com.

Commercially available formats determined by itunes, amazon.com and record label web pages.
Reality television ties are as recorded by wikipedia.