Top 10 Lists In Pop Culture and Media

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Just about every mode of media publishes some sort of a list at least once a year, whether to sum up the events of the year or just to provide entertainment for its audiences. Here is a list of the top 10 most popular lists in pop culture and media:

10. Parade Magazine’s What People Earn

Parade’s annual “What People Earn” issue provides an in-depth, and often disturbing, look into how much money both ordinary and extraordinary people make. The publication profiles everyone from high school janitors to high income billionaires, and showcases capitalism at its very finest.

2010’s issue shows high profile celebrities such as Tiger Woods and Taylor Swift. It also profiles more down to earth lives such as that of Kathleen Garret of Kreamer, Pennsylvania who works 20 hours a week at a department store and earns a wage of $7.61 per hour.

This publication serves as a useful barometer of the economic forecast in real world terms; not stock options or 401Ks but the amount of money people earn. This annual list provides an uncompromising look into one of the most ******** issues in our daily lives- how much money we make. It satisfies the question that people have been wondering since the beginning of time: ‘how much do they get paid to do that?’

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9. Maxim Magazine’s Hot 100

Maxim’s Hot 100 features one hundred of the hottest honeys clad in bikinis or otherwise revealing outfits, showing off their private-fitness-club sculpted bods. This may seem chauvinistic- because it is! Yet it is hard to dispute a magazine that has 2.5 million subscribers and dominates the men’s magazine category outselling GQ and Esquire, and you can bet that the male subscribers don’t read exclusively for the articles. The Hot 100 issue is the equivalent to Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit issue; it is a parade of swimsuits, sand, smiles and glitter. The only difference between Maxim’s Top 100 and Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue is that dad won’t try to beat the kids home so he can hide the SI issue from them. He’ll be too busy ogling the Maxim ladies online. Year by year the swimsuits get more revealing and the faces change, but the same creepy guy with the orange plaid horsehair jacket and spare tire gut will always buy this issue from your local gas station. 2010’s winner? Pop music diva Katy Perry.

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7. The Hollywood A-list

The Hollywood “A-list” is a compilation of the best actors and actresses as judged by how much money they make per film. The highest paid entertainers are higher on the list and the lowest paid are on the “B” list or even “C” list. These actors and actresses have huge star power and name recognition. In the Guinness Book of World Records, Harrison Ford is listed as the actor that has accrued the most money from acting in films. For an actor or actress to have their name high on this list, the price of starring in a movie usually carries a hefty price tag. They can negotiate for millions of dollars for a starring role because of their notoriety. Will Smith and Johnny Depp are two of Hollywood’s highest paid actors and have settled in comfortably and cozily on the “A-list.”

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8. People Magazine’s Most Beautiful People

The celebrity obsessed People magazine releases a once yearly publication of the ‘Most Beautiful People.’ This magazine is filled with human interest stories and the weekly sludge of what celebrities are wearing, what their hair looks like and what kind of deodorant they use. Ironically this magazine overwhelmingly publishes their ‘most beautiful people’ within the confines of that narrow corner of the world known as Hollywood. People living vicariously through these celebrities flock to newsstands when this publication is released to see where their favorites rank. Readers then soak up the faces of these famous people and argue about who should have been crowned most beautiful etc. Some names that never seem to escape the list are Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, and George Clooney, who are often ranked near the top of this frivolous yet attention grabbing issue.

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6. Billboard’s Hot 100 Music

The Billboard Hot 100 is the Mecca for mainstream music maniacs. The list takes into account such things as audio airplay, audience impressions and sales to create the list. When DJs say a song is “a number one song in the country!” they are usually referring to this list. The list has been around since 1958 and evidently it is here to stay. The list inadvertently chronicles the shifting paradigm of popular music as it has changed from jazz, to rock, to alternative and hip hop over the decades. The Billboard Top 100 caters to big time artists and easy-to-listen-to gutless mainstream music. Independent musicians and labels have a difficult time breaking into this elite club of music makers. Some prominent reoccurring figures that have been featured on the chart in the last few years have been powerhouse popular music providers Usher, Eminem, Black Eyed Peas, Rihanna and Kanye West. At the time this article was written, the top song is California Gurls by Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg.