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This template returns a billboard.com URL for an artist's history on a particular chart.
Examples
Code | Output | Comments |
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{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=Carly Rae Jepsen|chart=hsi}} | https://www.billboard.com/artist/carly-rae-jepsen/chart-history/hsi | Links to the Billboard Hot 100 chart |
{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=Carly Rae Jepsen|chart=tsl}} | https://www.billboard.com/artist/carly-rae-jepsen/chart-history/tsl | Links to the Top Album Sales chart |
{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=carly rae jepsen|chart=TSL}} | https://www.billboard.com/artist/carly-rae-jepsen/chart-history/tsl | Equivalent to above. Artist and chart are case insensitive. |
{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=Carly Rae Jepsen|chart=all}} | https://www.billboard.com/artist/carly-rae-jepsen/chart-history/ | |chart=all links to Billboard's "main" chart for the given artist (in this case, the Hot 100). |
{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=Carly Rae Jepsen}} | https://www.billboard.com/artist/carly-rae-jepsen | Billboard's landing page for this artist, including their chart history, and recent news and videos relating to the artist. Content at this URL is liable to drift over time. Not recommended. |
Usage
This template is normally used within citations, e.g.
Markup | Renders as |
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It reached no. 32 on the ''Billboard'' Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.<ref>{{cite web | url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=the breeders|chart=rtt }} | title=The Breeders Chart History |access-date=2007-07-31 | work=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]}}</ref> |
It reached no. 32 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.[1] |
- ^ "The Breeders Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved 2007-07-31.
Notes
- For the URL to work correctly the chart name needs to be the three letter code of the chart. For example,
hsi
is the Hot 100 chart. - The artist name used by Billboard may not match Wikipedia's naming. Be especially mindful of artists whose names contain special characters. For example, an article about a song by P!nk needs to use
{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=pnk|chart=hsi}}
to match Billboard's url scheme. Billboard is also inconsistent about the use of a leading "The" in a band's name. For this reason, it's usually a good idea to test any urls generated by this template before adding them to an article.
TemplateData
Generates billboard.com URLs for the chart history of a given artist.
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
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Artist name | artist | The name of the artist, as it appears in billboard.com URLs
| String | required |
Chart name | chart | Three letter code for the Billboard chart
| String | suggested |
bio | bio | Deprecated. No effect. | String | deprecated |