A ranking system is just to complicated. Just sorting out typed text from 70 posts is enough work.
The real problem is that the best selling/most air-time songs are going to be lowest common denominator appeals enough to almost everybody.
So, you won’t much Chuck Berry, Yardbirds, Frank Sinatra, Shirley Bassey, Supremes, Cream, Tom Jones on these lists. Even though they all did some best of breed popular music, none reached a wide enough segment of the record buying public. You also won’t see any of those 12 minute songs played on FM radio in the 70’s greatest list because they couldn’t be released on 45.
Well, it was just a thought. I could handle doing it. Just a matter of time.
“Chuck Berry, Yardbirds, Frank Sinatra, Shirley Bassey, Supremes, Cream, Tom Jones”
No, most of these appear on the 100 for the YEAR, and multiple times.