What is Top 10?
Top 10 list
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For the comic book, see Top 10 (comic). For the Estonian record label, see TOP
TEN.
A Top 10 list is a generic term used to indicate a list of items, usually ten in
number, which are considered to be best, worst, or notable in some other way,
typically a record chart. Often, the lists are written or announced in reverse
order starting with Number 10 and finishing with ...and The Number 1....
Top 10 lists are a regular segment of the television program The Late Show with
David Letterman, as they were on Letterman's NBC show Late Night with David
Letterman. On September 18, 1985, the very first Top Ten List, "The Top Ten
Things That Almost Rhyme With Peas." was broadcast.
Top 10 lists were not originally a regular segment of the show, but they were
added as a way of mocking People magazine, which routinely featured such lists
(as well as 'Worst 10' lists). David Letterman had made an off-hand remark on
his show that he found the lists to be annoying, and began his own lists as a
way of ridiculing what had by then become an increasingly recurring trend in
other periodicals and magazines. Ironically, the satirical Letterman Top 10
lists had become so popular that they became a signature feature of the show,
and were even released for sale in books.
The lists were usually given humorous titles such as Top Ten Signs Your Kid Had
A Bad First Day At School or Top Ten Rejected James Bond Gadgets. Often the
lists were based on topics from the news and contemporary pop culture. A
drumroll often accompanies the reading of the list. Sometimes a guest, or
guests, would appear to read the list or act it out in some way.
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