The Best Of Whatever

I often wonder what is so affacinating about charts. Why are we bombarded with every kind of possible charts on tv, newspapers and magazines? The best 100 works of art you must see before you die, the best 100 songs ever written, the 100 albums of all times...
Who writes the charts in the first place?
I ask myself, who's the author of these charts?
Journalists of course, probably some kind of experts.
Why bother? I guess it is a sort of "must" to call the atention of readers (or viewers).
We want to check if our favourite song is in it. We want to check if our taste matters.
Secretly we do. Maybe making comments like "I knew my favourite song was on the first five!". Or maybe secretly complaining it's not there.
We should stop making charts, we should stop reading them.
To list and squeeze a series of "masterpeces" into a chart, with a top "winner", it's using the same language of sports: a podium where only the best can rise their flags.
It's not even fair that a masterpiece can't write a list of the best 100 people that "really" undestood it.
Anyway, let's check who really rock!