As the advent of a singles music chart spawned chart historians and chart-watchers and greatly affected pop culture and produced countless bits of trivia , the main purpose of the Hot 100 is to aid those within the music industry : to reflect the popularity of the `` product '' ( the singles , the albums , etc. ) and to track the trends of the buying public .
As the advent of a singles music chart spawned chart historians and chart-watchers and greatly affected pop culture and produced countless bits of trivia , the main purpose of the Hot 100 is to aid those within the music industry - to reflect the popularity of the `` product '' ( the singles , the albums , etc. ) and to track the trends of the buying public .