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Post by cpastrick on Oct 14, 2013 18:00:26 GMT -5
I, as I'm sure many others, LOVE Google Books for having a lot of the Billboard magazines online for us to peruse. However, there are some gaps in the 80s that are sadly disturbing. There is nothing from April of 1983 until basically the end of 1984. As well as all of 1987 and 1988 and 1989. Does anyone know where (short of paying hundreds of dollars for Joel's chart books) I could get a look at the whole of the Hot 100 charts (in print)  I desperate to see all of the charts....I know...GEEK! |
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Post by JMW on Oct 14, 2013 18:13:46 GMT -5
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Post by yankee44 on Oct 14, 2013 19:37:48 GMT -5
Nice. I like it. I'm not trying to hijack or anything here but is there a site as well that has R+R chart archives pre and after CT40? |
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Post by Shadoe Fan on Oct 14, 2013 19:50:43 GMT -5
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Post by woolebull on Oct 14, 2013 19:58:56 GMT -5
Nice. I like it. I'm not trying to hijack or anything here but is there a site as well that has R+R chart archives pre and after CT40? Not a site that archives charts, but you can follow songs and their movements: wweb.uta.edu/faculty/gghunt/charts/chart.html |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2013 20:01:36 GMT -5
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Post by yankee44 on Oct 14, 2013 20:22:01 GMT -5
Nice. I like it. I'm not trying to hijack or anything here but is there a site as well that has R+R chart archives pre and after CT40? Not a site that archives charts, but you can follow songs and their movements: wweb.uta.edu/faculty/gghunt/charts/chart.htmlYeah, I went to that link on the R+R wiki page. Lots of info there, just too bad there wasn't full charts. what I'm doing is comparing Billboard, Cashbox and hopefully R+R charts to check similarities in chart positions for songs for the 70's and 80's |
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Post by mga707 on Oct 14, 2013 21:02:29 GMT -5
I pull up the UMD charts every week for the AT40 shows, and find them quite handy. BUT (and it's a big but!), beware of some nagging errors on UMD. Two that come to mind are 1) UMD does not show "Please Don't Go" by KC and the Sunshine Band as reaching #1 during the two week period (including the 'dead week') when 1979 turned into 1980, and 2) After a few weeks on the chart in 1976, "Get Closer" by Seals and Crofts is inexplicably replaced by "Love Fire" by Jigsaw. There are other errors as well, but for me these are the two most obvious ones. I tried emailing the UMD website (in the Czech Republic, IIRC) about these two errors but never heard back, and the errors remain. |
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Post by woolebull on Oct 14, 2013 22:45:09 GMT -5
I pull up the UMD charts every week for the AT40 shows, and find them quite handy. BUT (and it's a big but!), beware of some nagging errors on UMD. Two that come to mind are 1) UMD does not show "Please Don't Go" by KC and the Sunshine Band as reaching #1 during the two week period (including the 'dead week') when 1979 turned into 1980, and 2) After a few weeks on the chart in 1976, "Get Closer" by Seals and Crofts is inexplicably replaced by "Love Fire" by Jigsaw. There are other errors as well, but for me these are the two most obvious ones. I tried emailing the UMD website (in the Czech Republic, IIRC) about these two errors but never heard back, and the errors remain. I didn't know what you were saying at first. I thought you were trying to say that "Please Don't Go" should have had two weeks at number one, but I see what you mean now after looking at it. "Please Don't Go" is not listed as going to number one at all on the UMD charts! That needs to be fixed! |
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Post by rayshae3 on Oct 15, 2013 0:06:26 GMT -5
Not the full R&R chart, but you can follow its Top 20 portion week-by-week thru the following site: www.popradiotop20.com/POP/This site’s R&R survey period is from its first issue Oct. 5, 1973 thru and including Aug. 4, 2006 (The following week R&R switched from MediaBase to Nielsen BDS when VNU, the parent company of Billboard took over Radio and Records). But there’s a catch: From 1993 thru Apr. 15, 1994, the site’s webmaster has used Billboard’s Mainstream Top 40 chart (the same chart Shadoe used for its AT40 countdown at the time). Moreover the site’s chart dates during this 16 months actually matches “Airplay Monitor” magazine cover dates. “Airplay Monitor” was a trade sister publication of Billboard that had a cover date of Friday (8 days prior to Billboard for the same radio charts). So as an example the site’s Jan. 29, 1993 Top 20 is what AT40 or Billboard’s Top 40/Mainstream chart was for Feb. 5, 1993. Then the site switches back to R&R for the Apr. 22, 1994 date, when apparently R&R acquires MediaBase chart. NB: The site’s “Yearly Chart”s are not what R&R printed in the year-end issues…basically it’s based on the inverse-point-system of those weekly charts. |
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Post by cpastrick on Oct 15, 2013 5:55:45 GMT -5
These are all great replies, but I'm more focused on finding the Hot 100 charts in Billboard. Mainly during the 1980s.
Any other ideas for these?
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Post by woolebull on Oct 15, 2013 8:55:52 GMT -5
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Post by Shadoe Fan on Oct 15, 2013 12:42:10 GMT -5
You can get Whitburn's compilations on DVD for the computer as well. They're in PDF format and very useful.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Oct 15, 2013 13:59:49 GMT -5
According to Whitburn's site, the CDS are also currently unavailable except on the back-market.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2013 14:53:58 GMT -5
Glad I bought the DVDs when I did. Hopefully I'll have the $$$ to buy the 50s book that is getting released.
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