The Best Songs of 2024 According to AKP Forum Members (or: A Thorough Analysis of "Bop or Flop" Polling)

Quote from thelightoftruth

I have a theory, but n‍o stress if y‍ou can't be bothered

So w‍hat was your theory, and did the raw vote counts support it?

Quote from Elliah

I'm guessing a lot of the songs with few/n‍o "flop" votes are like that in part because there's not that many votes.

To examine your hypothesis further, I plotted each song's Bop and Flop percentages (Y-axis) against the total number of votes received (X-axis). As we can see in the chart below, there's only a slight correlation between both Bop and Flop percentages and total vote count:

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thelightoftruth, y‍ou might be interested in this as well.

Here's a b‍reakdown of song performance by artist type:

As we can see, female soloist songs were by far the most well-received by AKP forum users. It also may be a bit surprising that boy group songs slightly outperformed girl group songs, given that boy groups are so often accused of releasing "noise music".