Hit Parade: I Got Five on It Part 2

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🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Five years ago this month, Hit Parade launched on the Slate podcast network. What have we learned in that half-decade? And what episodes did you love the most? We asked you to vote—and the results may surprise you. Sure, you enjoyed our shows about Madonna, Nirvana, Whitney, Mariah, Bruce, Stevie and Janet. But even more than that, you loved our nerdy deep dives about the producers behind “Le Freak”…the rules for One-Hit Wonders…the college-rockers from Athens, Ga.…the man behind Meat Loaf…the smooth players behind Yacht Rock…and that explainer about why you had to pay top dollar for CDs in the ’90s with only one good song. Join host Chris Molanphy as he shares his founding principles for Hit Parade, and counts down your 20 favorite shows. Happy fifth birthday to us! We’re finally old enough for kindergarten. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Alex met Sam at nursery. They were first loves. They built forts together, shared sandwiches in high school and were each other's first kiss.
0:12.0	They were the dream couple until Sam got into EDM music.
0:18.0	While Alex enjoyed folk, first loves are kind of like your current account. If they aren't working for you anymore,
0:26.5	maybe it's time to switch with the current account switch service.
0:47.5	Welcome back to Hip Parade, a podcast of pop chart history from Slate magazine about the hits from Coast to Coast.
0:55.5	I'm Chris Malanfee, chart analyst, pop critic and writer of Slate's Why is the Song No. 1 series on our last episode.
1:03.5	We started the celebration of Hip Parade's fifth birthday with a recap of some core principles of our show and a spin through some of your favorite artists and musical factoids.
1:15.5	Now it's time for the moment of truth, the official countdown of your favorite episodes.
1:26.5	A few words about our survey. We are not Billboard magazine, or Nielsen, or MRC, or Luminate, or any of the other data collectors throughout chart history.
1:41.5	Our tally was not all that rigorous. Some of you gave us a solid top five episodes list, exactly what we asked for.
1:51.5	Some provided, generously, a top 10, more than we asked for.
1:56.5	Many of you forced yourself to limit your lists to just five episodes, but then you included a handful of honorable mentions.
2:05.5	I like to think of these as the bubbling under votes of our survey.
2:10.5	Kind of like that Gary Newman hit after cars in 1980 that bubbled under the hot 100 at number 105.
2:22.5	What's up friends? You're electric!
2:28.5	Basically, when it came to the voting, we counted it all.
2:33.5	I played with the math to accommodate everything and everyone.
2:37.5	We were more interested in including every vote you gave us somehow than limiting voters to a strict top five.
2:45.5	If you only ranked five episodes, that counted more than if you ranked 10.
2:51.5	If you gave your list in no particular order, we assigned them all the same point value.
2:57.5	And if you had honorable mentions, those counted but less than your ranked episodes did.
3:04.5	Call our methodology a little slip shot, but I compare it to that week in 1969 when Billboard changed the hot 100 rules to count A and B sides together in the same position,
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