"Born to Be Alive" - Patrick Hernandez

That's interesting, Paul, and it definitely helps explain why some of
those disco records had significantly higher peak positions than on
Billboard than on R&R.

Re: diferences between R&R & Billboard

People also seem to forget that the way the R&R charts were tabulated back then, there seemed to be a heavy weighting on records that a large amount of stations were playing (or "on"). Therefore a bland record that was inoffensive & easy to get many stations to try would get high up the charts before the program directors realized the audience had no passion for the record, while an active disco or rock record that people had real passion for if played might not get on the majority of stations due to perceived polarization & not chart highly if at all.

Billboard never had a problem with active, polarizing hit records because of their chart methodology & the fact that most of their charts included sales info (most active, polarizing hits sell well).

Andy


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