Comments on: Bulls, Bears, And Bullets: 50 Years Of The “Billboard” Hot 100 http://idolator.com/399692/bulls-bears-and-bullets-50-years-of-the-billboard-hot-100 Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 26 May 2012 18:17:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bernarda Granizo http://idolator.com/399692/bulls-bears-and-bullets-50-years-of-the-billboard-hot-100/comment-page-1#comment-8609002 Bernarda Granizo Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:56:14 +0000 http://cfd2751d190c783fd1ffc9a13cf81064#comment-8609002 Hypnotic (Marketing Strategies) – Marshall Sylver Hypnotherapist ... Hypnotic (Marketing Strategies) – Marshall Sylver Hypnotherapist …

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]]> By: arrorgows http://idolator.com/399692/bulls-bears-and-bullets-50-years-of-the-billboard-hot-100/comment-page-1#comment-1003381 arrorgows Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:07:14 +0000 http://cfd2751d190c783fd1ffc9a13cf81064#comment-1003381 What's up everyone, I'm new to the forum and just wanted to say hey. What’s up everyone, I’m new to the forum and just wanted to say hey.

]]> By: OxycleCleal http://idolator.com/399692/bulls-bears-and-bullets-50-years-of-the-billboard-hot-100/comment-page-1#comment-1001532 OxycleCleal Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:48:09 +0000 http://cfd2751d190c783fd1ffc9a13cf81064#comment-1001532 Hey pepole I would like to maintain hello i like meet new pepole, and share stuff with them Hey pepole I would like to maintain hello i like meet new pepole, and share stuff with them

]]> By: jaxxalude http://idolator.com/399692/bulls-bears-and-bullets-50-years-of-the-billboard-hot-100/comment-page-1#comment-660992 jaxxalude Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:36:36 +0000 http://cfd2751d190c783fd1ffc9a13cf81064#comment-660992 <p><a href="#c7009684">Chris Molanphy</a>: It's not just <i>Radio & Records</i> that isn't defunct - in fact, vNU (the company which owns <i>Billboard</i>) bought it two years ago and fused it with <i>Billboard Radio Monitor</i>. Cash Box also rose from the dead on the Internet.</p> <p><a href="http://www.cashboxmagazine.com/">Cash Box</a></p> Chris Molanphy: It’s not just Radio & Records that isn’t defunct – in fact, vNU (the company which owns Billboard) bought it two years ago and fused it with Billboard Radio Monitor. Cash Box also rose from the dead on the Internet.

Cash Box

]]> By: Chris N. http://idolator.com/399692/bulls-bears-and-bullets-50-years-of-the-billboard-hot-100/comment-page-1#comment-661002 Chris N. Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:40:58 +0000 http://cfd2751d190c783fd1ffc9a13cf81064#comment-661002 <p>Graduations or funerals!</p> Graduations or funerals!

]]> By: Captain Wrong http://idolator.com/399692/bulls-bears-and-bullets-50-years-of-the-billboard-hot-100/comment-page-1#comment-661012 Captain Wrong Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:34:54 +0000 http://cfd2751d190c783fd1ffc9a13cf81064#comment-661012 <p>@<a href="#c7009684">Chris Molanphy</a>: Fair enough.</p> @Chris Molanphy: Fair enough.

]]> By: Chris Molanphy http://idolator.com/399692/bulls-bears-and-bullets-50-years-of-the-billboard-hot-100/comment-page-1#comment-661022 Chris Molanphy Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:03:28 +0000 http://cfd2751d190c783fd1ffc9a13cf81064#comment-661022 <p>@<a href="#c7006370">Captain Wrong</a>: In terms of both musical quality and graduation-appropriateness, I'll take "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" over "End of the Road" any day.</p> @Captain Wrong: In terms of both musical quality and graduation-appropriateness, I’ll take “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday” over “End of the Road” any day.

]]> By: Ned Raggett http://idolator.com/399692/bulls-bears-and-bullets-50-years-of-the-billboard-hot-100/comment-page-1#comment-661032 Ned Raggett Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:42:28 +0000 http://cfd2751d190c783fd1ffc9a13cf81064#comment-661032 <p>@<a href="#c7005009">tigerpop</a>: Brilliant. I know I listened to a couple of Albany top 40 stations in particular, trying to remember the names...</p> @tigerpop: Brilliant. I know I listened to a couple of Albany top 40 stations in particular, trying to remember the names…

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/399692/bulls-bears-and-bullets-50-years-of-the-billboard-hot-100/comment-page-1#comment-661042 Anonymous Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:57:20 +0000 http://cfd2751d190c783fd1ffc9a13cf81064#comment-661042 <p>Excellent post! I've been a chart geek for almost thirty years now, and you summed up my thoughts perfectly. The first copy of Billboard that I purchased was May 10, 1980. And thanks to Ebay, I now own a copy of the August 1958 Billboard that includes the first Hot 100.</p> <p>But I do feel that the pre-Soundscan/pre-BDS Hot 100 suffers from one serious flaw: it mostly reflected sales and airplay in the "pop" marketplace. R&B and Country radio stations were excluded, along with many record retailers that specialized in those genres. From the point of view of the music industry this made perfect sense, given the segregated nature of the industry. But for most of it's history, I'd say that the Hot 100 has not been an accurate reflection of the most popular songs in the nation. It might be better to consider it a reflection of the most popular songs in "mainstream" America.</p> <p>By the way, Radio & Records isn't defunct yet. Perhaps you meant to say Record World?</p> Excellent post! I’ve been a chart geek for almost thirty years now, and you summed up my thoughts perfectly. The first copy of Billboard that I purchased was May 10, 1980. And thanks to Ebay, I now own a copy of the August 1958 Billboard that includes the first Hot 100.

But I do feel that the pre-Soundscan/pre-BDS Hot 100 suffers from one serious flaw: it mostly reflected sales and airplay in the “pop” marketplace. R&B and Country radio stations were excluded, along with many record retailers that specialized in those genres. From the point of view of the music industry this made perfect sense, given the segregated nature of the industry. But for most of it’s history, I’d say that the Hot 100 has not been an accurate reflection of the most popular songs in the nation. It might be better to consider it a reflection of the most popular songs in “mainstream” America.

By the way, Radio & Records isn’t defunct yet. Perhaps you meant to say Record World?

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/399692/bulls-bears-and-bullets-50-years-of-the-billboard-hot-100/comment-page-1#comment-661052 Anonymous Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:15:16 +0000 http://cfd2751d190c783fd1ffc9a13cf81064#comment-661052 <p>Since 1984 is up your alley, this weekend's AT40:The 80's features August 4, 1984.</p> <p>(links to the webcasters with the show:<br> <a href="http://radio.nenad.net/?action=true&y=AT40CK80&Submit=show">[radio.nenad.net]</a>)</p> Since 1984 is up your alley, this weekend’s AT40:The 80′s features August 4, 1984.

(links to the webcasters with the show:
[radio.nenad.net])

]]> By: Captain Wrong http://idolator.com/399692/bulls-bears-and-bullets-50-years-of-the-billboard-hot-100/comment-page-1#comment-661062 Captain Wrong Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:13:07 +0000 http://cfd2751d190c783fd1ffc9a13cf81064#comment-661062 <p>@<a href="#c7002514">Ned Raggett</a>: Me three. In fact, I used to have cassettes around of the year end top 100 countdowns. Man, I wonder what happened to those?</p> <p>Also, "End of the Road" isn't schlock, though DJing at that time meant you were gonna have to play that anywhere there was a senior class about to graduate.</p> @Ned Raggett: Me three. In fact, I used to have cassettes around of the year end top 100 countdowns. Man, I wonder what happened to those?

Also, “End of the Road” isn’t schlock, though DJing at that time meant you were gonna have to play that anywhere there was a senior class about to graduate.

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/399692/bulls-bears-and-bullets-50-years-of-the-billboard-hot-100/comment-page-1#comment-661072 Anonymous Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:08:20 +0000 http://cfd2751d190c783fd1ffc9a13cf81064#comment-661072 <p>Are you still tuning into American Top 40: The 80's these days? Many 80's music radio stations forget about half of the music in these countdowns.</p> <p>Coincidentally, since you were interested in it during '84, this weekend's broadcast is from August 4, 1984.</p> <p>And the showtimes for your favorite stations:<br> <a href="http://radio.nenad.net/?action=true&y=AT40CK80&Submit=show">[radio.nenad.net]</a></p> Are you still tuning into American Top 40: The 80′s these days? Many 80′s music radio stations forget about half of the music in these countdowns.

Coincidentally, since you were interested in it during ’84, this weekend’s broadcast is from August 4, 1984.

And the showtimes for your favorite stations:
[radio.nenad.net]

]]> By: tigerpop http://idolator.com/399692/bulls-bears-and-bullets-50-years-of-the-billboard-hot-100/comment-page-1#comment-661082 tigerpop Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:32:15 +0000 http://cfd2751d190c783fd1ffc9a13cf81064#comment-661082 <p>@<a href="#c7004393">Ned Raggett</a>: Hells yeah. That station was the soundtrack to my youth.</p> @Ned Raggett: Hells yeah. That station was the soundtrack to my youth.

]]> By: Chris N. http://idolator.com/399692/bulls-bears-and-bullets-50-years-of-the-billboard-hot-100/comment-page-1#comment-661092 Chris N. Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:24:13 +0000 http://cfd2751d190c783fd1ffc9a13cf81064#comment-661092 <p>I remember being very disappointed when my station switched from 'AT40' after Kasem left and went to 'Casey's Top 40.' I didn't consider any non-Billboard chart worth bothering with.</p> I remember being very disappointed when my station switched from ‘AT40′ after Kasem left and went to ‘Casey’s Top 40.’ I didn’t consider any non-Billboard chart worth bothering with.

]]> By: Ned Raggett http://idolator.com/399692/bulls-bears-and-bullets-50-years-of-the-billboard-hot-100/comment-page-1#comment-661102 Ned Raggett Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:13:50 +0000 http://cfd2751d190c783fd1ffc9a13cf81064#comment-661102 <p>Maybe? Were you living in the Albany area from 1982 to 1985 or so?</p> Maybe? Were you living in the Albany area from 1982 to 1985 or so?

]]> By: tigerpop http://idolator.com/399692/bulls-bears-and-bullets-50-years-of-the-billboard-hot-100/comment-page-1#comment-661112 tigerpop Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:01:25 +0000 http://cfd2751d190c783fd1ffc9a13cf81064#comment-661112 <p>@<a href="#c7003006">Ned Raggett</a>: I remember that! Assuming you're talking about Fly 92, right?</p> @Ned Raggett: I remember that! Assuming you’re talking about Fly 92, right?

]]> By: Ned Raggett http://idolator.com/399692/bulls-bears-and-bullets-50-years-of-the-billboard-hot-100/comment-page-1#comment-661122 Ned Raggett Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:34:09 +0000 http://cfd2751d190c783fd1ffc9a13cf81064#comment-661122 <p>(I also still remember when the station I was listening to -- this was upstate New York -- switched from Kasem's countdown to Rick Dees's. I was not amused.)</p> (I also still remember when the station I was listening to — this was upstate New York — switched from Kasem’s countdown to Rick Dees’s. I was not amused.)

]]> By: Ned Raggett http://idolator.com/399692/bulls-bears-and-bullets-50-years-of-the-billboard-hot-100/comment-page-1#comment-661132 Ned Raggett Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:33:09 +0000 http://cfd2751d190c783fd1ffc9a13cf81064#comment-661132 <p>@<a href="#c7002750">Chris N.</a>: Did THAT as well. On graph paper and everything. I remember that for a while I could only hear the first two hours precisely because we had to go to church after that point. Very frustrating (but I usually was able to catch the top five).</p> @Chris N.: Did THAT as well. On graph paper and everything. I remember that for a while I could only hear the first two hours precisely because we had to go to church after that point. Very frustrating (but I usually was able to catch the top five).

]]> By: Chris N. http://idolator.com/399692/bulls-bears-and-bullets-50-years-of-the-billboard-hot-100/comment-page-1#comment-661142 Chris N. Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:24:59 +0000 http://cfd2751d190c783fd1ffc9a13cf81064#comment-661142 <p>I'll third that, except I listened on Sunday mornings instead of going to church. I used to follow along and draw up my own charts approximating the Billboard layout.</p> I’ll third that, except I listened on Sunday mornings instead of going to church. I used to follow along and draw up my own charts approximating the Billboard layout.

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