Rock Analytics

Who takes #1 in 2026?

Model: gradient-boosted trees on 24 years of rank trajectories, artist strength and airplay; probabilities calibrated on 20 backtest years. History's caveat: shock events (deaths, reunions, finales) decide the crown about as often as trajectory does; that's the "field".

Predicted top 100 (returning songs)

PredictedSongArtist2025 rank