Concept in Definition ABC

The term ranking comes from the English language in which it is used to refer to that or that who is in a superior position to another, at the request of a list or in matters of hierarchies.
Meanwhile, as happens with many words in the English language that, due to their phenomenal length, end up being adopted for other languages, with ranking it happened, and this is how today it is used as one more and proper word in the language Spanish.

List that nominates people or things that share some characteristic and that assigns a hierarchy to the most outstanding

Basically we use it to refer to a list in which people or elements who share something in common are nominated and to whom a certain position is awarded, that will go from a place of extreme superiority to other minors, first place, second place, third place, and so on, until the last place proposed by the ranking in question.

A ranking is a list that will establish a relationship between the set of elements that are gathered in it, that is, there is a common characteristic that they share and that makes them belong to that list, while each element will have its own and special characteristic that will make it be above or below the others elements.

Generally, rankings, whatever their type or the elements they relate to, go from highest to lowest. For example, the ranking of the twenty most voted musical themes on the radio, the program whose mission is to transmit and disseminate them will be broadcasting them in decreasing order, that is, from the position n ° 20, n ° 19, n ° 18, so on until reaching the position n ° 1 of the ranking and winner of the same.

Use in music, sports, finance ...

But the ranking is not heritage exclusive of radio or musical themes and although the presence of rankings in the musical universe is practically universal, whether on radio, television or in the written press, it is common to job of the rankings in other areas, of the most diverse, to establish some levels, maximums, means or minimums, or to determine them.

A) Yes in the world of sport it is possible to find an infinite number of rankings, the ranking of the scorers in soccer, of the best tennis players, in this case being in the ranking of the ten first, or top ten, means being one of the best tennis players in the world because precisely that top ten brings together the ten best of the world.

The Association of Professional Tennis Players performs the classification known as ATP ranking, which contains professional tennis players and classifies them according to their performances,

It is updated every week and includes the results obtained in the last 52 weeks.
In addition, this ranking is the one used for the selection of the players of the most outstanding tournaments and the heads of series.

Being in the top ten of this ranking is already a major prize for the tennis player.

On the other hand, in the world of finance and business It is also recurrent to find the rankings of the most successful companies or companies, of the best-selling products in the space of a month, of the richest men in the world; in the latter case the Forbes magazine ranking that establishes each year the richest characters in the world, allowing the rest of the people to meet in figures as they have and therefore, they will have to occupy a place, the first, second or third in the ranking, among others.

And the fashion and beauty They also have the same with the rankings made by specialized magazines about, for example, the best and worst dressed. Many times, being part of any of these, in a first place, or on the contrary, appearing in the last, can lead to the contract, or failing that, the end of the contract that a celebrity maintains with a recognized brand of clothes or accessories.

That is, that the position that someone obtains in a ranking, whatever the motivation of the same, it may imply a place of privilege and recognition among their peers and the public, if we are facing a positive ranking, in which the best are hobbled; or on the contrary, it can represent the end of a race or someone's activity when the position he occupies in it is not good or issues that They are not at all positive, such as the ranking of worst performances, ugliest actors in the world, among others.