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Another complication that we've discussed that does not come into things like ranking baseball players is some fuzziness about what makes someone a "one hit."
If an artist has a pretty decent and critically successful career in another genre or another country, and manages to make one pop song that gets onto the American Billboard Top 100, then they meet the technical definition. But they don't feel as pure to me as some guy who basically had one pop song that took off and never did anything else of note in another country or another genre.
I'm not sure at all how to account for that, but it does add to some sense of the difficulty in trying to nail this down.
I do like Radii's idea of cutting the bottom votes (maybe even the bottom two) and giving a bonus for making the top 10 of any given list.
And, yeah, Breeze is da real MVP for creating such an awesome thread. Sad that we are almost to the end of it.
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