Comments on: Bulls, Bears, And Bullets: 50 Years Of The “Billboard” Hot 100

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By: jaxxalude

jaxxalude — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:36:36 +0000

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.

Chris N. — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:40:58 +0000

Graduations or funerals!

By: Captain Wrong

Captain Wrong — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:34:54 +0000

@Chris Molanphy: Fair enough.

By: Chris Molanphy

Chris Molanphy — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:03:28 +0000

@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

Ned Raggett — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:42:28 +0000

@tigerpop: Brilliant. I know I listened to a couple of Albany top 40 stations in particular, trying to remember the names...

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:57:20 +0000

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?