Talk:List of Billboard Mainstream Rock number-one songs of the 2010s

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Chart Format

So, I've decided to redesign the chart list of the number one rock songs, but it seems like we are in a dispute here.

First of all, I want to change the table from this:

Contents
← 2000s · 2010 · 2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018

† – Number-one mainstream rock song of the year

Issue date	Song	Artist(s)	Weeks at number one
2010
February 27	"Your Decision"	Alice in Chains	8
April 24	"Cryin' Like a Bitch"	Godsmack	5
May 29	"The Good Life"	Three Days Grace	5
July 3	"Let Me Hear You Scream"	Ozzy Osbourne	4
July 31	"The Crow & the Butterfly"	Shinedown	1
August 7	"Another Way to Die"	Disturbed	8
October 2	"Say You'll Haunt Me"	Stone Sour	8
November 27	"Porn Star Dancing"	My Darkest Days featuring Zakk Wylde and Chad Kroeger	2
December 11	"World So Cold"	Three Days Grace	5

To this:

Contents
← 2000s · 2010 · 2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018

† – Number-one mainstream rock song of the year

Issue date	Song	Artist(s)
2010
January 2	"Break"†	Three Days Grace
January 9
January 16
January 23
January 30
February 6
February 6
February 13
February 27	"Your Decision"	Alice in Chains
March 6
March 13
March 20
March 27
April 3
April 10
April 17
April 24	"Cryin' Like a Bitch"	Godsmack
May 1
May 8
May 15
May 22
May 29	"The Good Life"	Three Days Grace
June 5
June 12
June 19
June 26
July 3	"Let Me Hear You Scream"	Ozzy Osbourne
July 10
July 17
July 24
July 31	"The Crow & the Butterfly"	Shinedown
August 7	"Another Way to Die"	Disturbed
August 14
August 21
August 28
September 4
September 11
September 18
September 25
October 2	"Say You'll Haunt Me"	Stone Sour
October 9
October 16
October 23
October 30
November 6
November 13
November 20
November 27	"Porn Star Dancing"	My Darkest Days featuring Zakk Wylde and Chad Kroeger
December 4	"Porn Star Dancing"	My Darkest Days featuring Zakk Wylde and Chad Kroeger
December 11	"World So Cold"	Three Days Grace
December 18
December 25

So How do you think it will turn out? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70Jack90 (talk • contribs)

Yes, I objected to the change. Your versions adds a huge amount of blank space in any entries that span many weeks (which happens frequently on the chart.) I think it looks worse. The only counter-argument you’ve provided so far was in the name of “standardization”, but I haven’t seen any real effort on that other than you doing it to a couple of charts recently, and I’m not aware of any WP:CONSENSUS supporting one format over another. Sergecross73 msg me 01:51, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I am in agreement with Sergecross73 here. You've got a full decade of songs in the list, so conciseness should be heavily considered. This is not as big of a deal for "by year" lists of number ones. I'm reverting the 90s and 2000s lists that were changed. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 00:18, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]