Talk:List of number-one singles in Australia

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"Singles" vs "songs"

Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars has been moving pages in Category:Lists of number-one songs in Australia from titles like List of number-one digital singles of 2015 (Australia) to ones like List of number-one digital songs of 2015 (Australia), the justification given being that "any song can be number one not just singles". That's fair enough, I suppose, except that, if this this the kind of argument we're making, any piece of music could be number one, not just songs.

I'm going to have to revert these page moves. It's not so much that I reckon "any song can be number one not just singles" is a pissy argument. I'm not actually terribly concerned whether it's "singles" or "songs". The problem I have is with the sporadic way in which these moves were made. Only about half a dozen of the articles in the category were moved leaving the vast majority with "singles" in their names.

Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars, if you want to do this, please move all of the pages so that we maintain a consistent naming style, also please discuss it with the major contributor(s) to these articles (if you haven't already) so that there is a consensus on what to name them to avoid page-move wars and so that future articles will be named consistently. Jimp 21:17, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand, it looks like I had moved all the digital and streaming chart lists, which as everyone knows you can typically purchase or stream any track from an album not just singles. "Tracks" would be an alternative since that is the actual term used in the name of these charts. --Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 00:54, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think you got all of them but I was also hoping for consistency in naming style for all the articles in the Lists of number-one songs in Australia category. That is, if we've got lists of urban singles, dance singles, top 50 singles, etc., then why not digital singles and streaming singles? After all, a track may appear on both an EP and an LP, so does being on an album make it not a single? Moreover, a track downloaded or streamed is kind of more a single than one on an EP since there is no B side. On the other hand, consistency across the entire category isn't necessarily the be all and end all, if, as you say, "tracks" is the term actually used ~~(Does that go for the urban, dance, club, etc. tracks too?)~~, why not use that? Jimp 19:10, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've just answered my own question ... well, not I but ARIA. So, the official terms (as used by ARIA) seem to be "single", "dance single" and "urban single" on one hand and "digital track", "streaming track" and "club track" on the other. So, let's go with these terms if that's what ARIA uses. This would also mean moving List of Australian Club Chart number-one singles of 2015 etc. to List of number-one club tracks of 2015 (Australia) etc. Jimp 20:02, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Jimp 01:03, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox

I'm working on an infobox for these pages. Something I'm wondering about, though, is how far the charts go back. For example, according to ARIA Digital Track Chart, the digital track chart started in 2006. How about the other charts? Jimp 03:26, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]