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NightAire
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Topic: Entire Year (or decade) charts?Posted: 15 November 2023 at 11:21pm |
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I understand that Billboard put out a Hot 100 for each year, but has anyone ever taken EVERY song that hit the charts in a particular year and put them in order?
This chart might be 500 songs long, but I'd like to be able to look at songs that didn't make the year-end charts but maybe didn't miss them by much. Another alternative would be every Hot 100 song of the decade, in popular order. (Now we're talking a list thousands of entries long.) I'm looking specifically for the 1980s as that's what my station plays, but I'm sure other decades would be fascinating, too. I have the weekly charts but the effort involved in calculating chart positions for all those songs is completely overwhelming to me. Does anybody know if anyone who's already done "the hard work" for me, or do I need to fight through this project by hand? |
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Paul Haney
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Posted: 16 November 2023 at 2:31am |
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Gene, if you need entire yearly rankings, our Pop Annual does that job. Of course, it's based on Joel's "unique" system of
ranking songs based mainly on peak position, not "chart points." We've published decade rankings up to a point, but not every song of each decade. However, there are a series of books by Dann Isbell and Bill Carroll that do rank the 60s, 70s and 80s using their point system that may interest you. You can easily search for those books online. |
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Posted: 16 November 2023 at 6:51am |
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Yes, the Pop Annual has been one of my go-to Record Research books for years.
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Posted: 16 November 2023 at 9:04am |
This is the way. |
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Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD."
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NightAire
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Posted: 16 November 2023 at 11:59pm |
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Paul, Aaron, PopArchivist, it appears my path forward is clear. :-)
Thank you so much for the advice! These publications look like they would be very helpful. |
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Posted: 17 November 2023 at 6:37am |
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This seems like a good time to mention that our next Record Research project will be an updated Pop Annual. We are talking about perhaps starting it
in 1950 instead of 1955. It would go all the way thru 2023. |
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Posted: 17 November 2023 at 10:10am |
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That sounds like an excellent idea. Would starting in 1940 add too much to
it? I can easily see that more pages does really add a lot to the size, but that may just be another 35 pages, assuming all those from Pop Hits 40-54 were included. |
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Posted: 17 November 2023 at 11:10am |
We're still talking it over. The 1940s really were a different animal than even the early 1950s with all the big band stuff. And yes, page count is always an issue. Don't forget we're adding 7 years from 2017-2023 and I'm sure you know how many charted songs there are per year in recent years. |
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Posted: 18 November 2023 at 2:47am |
Count me in. I'd love to have the rest of the 50s added to the book to round out the decade. |
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Posted: 18 November 2023 at 6:53pm |
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Just out of curiosity, didn't record companies keep records
of how many singles (and albums) were pressed/shipped/sold? That would be the true representation. I always prefer to rank via "chart points" rather that just peak position if true sales numbers weren't available, but I guess if the companies did keep that info they'd probably never release it publicly, would they? |
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