What does "topped the chart" mean?

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Google uses this algorithm to count the number of incoming links to a webpage, because pages that are linked to by a lot of other sites are likely to be important. Eom applied the algorithm to 24 separate language editions of Wikipedia to see if different cultures rated different historical figures as the most important.

Linnaeus topped the chart across all languages because there are so many Wikipedia pages with scientific names in every edition, and they all eventually lead back to him. Looking at just the English edition, the top three were Napoleon, Barack Obama and Linnaeus.

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25703-jesus-and-hitler-beaten-in-wikipedia-influence-list.html#.U5kzaZSSxYA

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[+3] - Lordyaswas - 06/12/2014In music parlance, to "top the chart" means to sell the most records over a period of time (usually a week). It therefore denotes the most popular music recording at that time. For...

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@oristarA,

In music parlance, to "top the chart" means to sell the most records over a period of time (usually a week). It therefore denotes the most popular music recording at that time.
For instance, The Beatles "topped the charts" many, many times.

It therefore illustrates popularity or amount of usage, etc.

Nowadays it could also mean the amount of "hits" something receives on the internet, to which I think your piece is alluding.

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@Lordyaswas,

Lordyaswas wrote:

In music parlance, to "top the chart" means to sell the most records over a period of time (usually a week). It therefore denotes the most popular music recording at that time.
For instance, The Beatles "topped the charts" many, many times.

It therefore illustrates popularity or amount of usage, etc.

Nowadays it could also mean the amount of "hits" something receives on the internet, to which I think your piece is alluding.

To add a bit more detail, the "chart" is a ranked list, with the most popular song that week being at the top of the list, the second most popular song that week being second on the list, etc.

Note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_charts

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