Hence, straightforward bar charts ruled the hour.
With the charts ruled by pop that's increasingly cartoon-like in its sexuality, the funk bubbling up from the underground is raw, rhythmic and downright rude.
(The quirks of Bllboard's chart rules are partly responsible for that big leap.
New US chart rules, which count YouTube views as well as sales, provide an enhanced incentive to produce attention-grabbing videos, creating a kind of outrage arms race.
Because of Billboard's chart rules, though, Mr. Jackson's albums do not qualify for the Billboard 200, its standard albums chart, since they were all released more than 18 months ago.
Almost as soon as his bass-heavy minimalist dance track Harlem Shake was propelled to the top of the Billboard charts last month by a viral dance craze and a change in chart rules that took into account YouTube views he was contacted by representatives for retired reggaeton artist Hector Delgado and Philadelphia MC Jayson Musson.
It has taken the perfect storm of the right act arriving at the right time, social media becoming truly mainstream, significant changes to the chart rules to incorporate streams and the declining importance of both CDs and downloads to deliver something that could change those "paradigms".
A spokeswoman said: "Owing to chart rules which are agreed in partnership with UK record companies and retailers, data relating to the David Bowie single Where Are We Now? cannot currently be counted towards the official singles charts, as the release is linked to an album pre-order promotion and it is not possible to distinguish album sales from track sales from the retail data received.
The 8th House of your birth chart rules death, sex, taxes, investments and transformation.
The 6th House of your birth chart rules all domestic pets and small animals.
