Young, huh?
It doesn’t matter. If anyone wants to play, they can look up the song (likely YT) and listen for comparison’s sake.
I was really miffed years ago when a very cool nostalgia site I frequented (which soon after went defunct) held a play-off pool. Do not know where they got the songs to start, but it included just a couple songs I never even heard of - and 1 of those WON “best of the ‘80s” over an actual charted #1 song of the YEAR. This song technically had charted - but at #17 for 1 week was the peak. Preposterous.
That has stuck with me since and while I love to do these contests (done it for other issues, too), I figure if I am going to do it, the songs will ACTUALLY represent what was truly popular and typical and in vogue at the time. Not go by someONE’s whim about what were good songs.
Like them or not, I would use the charts. (And yes, there are some top songs I do not like. But not many.)