--- title: Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record», a lesson of the arts course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A music chart is a weekly list of the most popular songs, counted from real numbers: sales, streams and, in the US, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / Charts, number ones and famous musicia… # Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record Lesson 6 of the arts course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/0/) — A music chart is a weekly list of the most popular songs, counted from real numbers: sales, streams and, in the US, radio plays; no judge picks number one. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/1/) — Public record means things anyone can check, like release dates, chart positions, sales estimates and awards; "the best band ever" is not on that list, because "best" is an opinion and only counts and dates are facts. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/2/) — Picture Grandad slamming the table about the Beatles: that they sold hundreds of millions of records is a fact you can check; that they were the best is his taste, and other people argue for other bands. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/3/) — Big numbers grow as they are passed around, rumours spread faster than proof, and songs often come from long before the film where you first heard them, so the wise move is to check before you repeat. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/4/) — A "fave" is a favourite, "end of" in British slang means no more argument, and "Shchedryk" is a Ukrainian New Year song whose tune the world now knows as "Carol of the Bells". - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/5/) — The UK Official Charts count sales and, since 2014, streams; the US Billboard Hot 100 counts sales, streams and radio plays. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/6/) — The Beatles are one of the best-selling music acts in history, with sales estimated in the hundreds of millions; whether they were "the best" is an opinion. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/7/) — Michael Jackson's album Thriller, from 1982, is widely reported as the best-selling album of all time, usually estimated at around 70 million copies, not a billion. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/8/) — Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, from 2023 to 2024, was reported to be the highest-grossing concert tour ever, taking over 2 billion US dollars; "gross" means the total before costs, and crews, venues and travel are paid from it. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/9/) — Many people say modern K-pop began in 1992 with Seo Taiji and Boys; BTS became the first K-pop act to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100, with "Dynamite" in 2020. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/10/) — Ukraine has won Eurovision three times: in 2004 with Ruslana, in 2016 with Jamala and in 2022 with Kalush Orchestra. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/11/) — Not only European countries take part in Eurovision: Australia has competed since 2015, and Israel takes part too. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/12/) — The Grammy Awards are voted on by members of the Recording Academy, people who work in music, not by fans. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/13/) — A rumour is a story passed around without proof; it is not a fact just because many people repeat it. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/14/) — Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" came out in 1994 and first reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 2019, 25 years later. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/15/) — Number one means a song was bought, streamed or played most that week; it shows popularity, not quality, and many songs critics love never reached number one. - ← previous: [The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/) - next →: [How a song is made: writing, recording, producing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/7-how-a-song-is-made-writing-recording-producing/) - ↑ back to [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/)