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Post by retroguy on Jun 27, 2015 14:22:38 GMT -5
I have the idea of creating a complete list of all Top 40 songs by year. I was thinking a good way to keep it organized would be to look at the first Hot 100 chart of a particular year and list only the top 40 debut songs. Then move to the second week and only add the top 40 debut songs to the list and so on until the last week of the year. With an average of around 5 or 6 debut songs per week you would then have a list of around 250-300 songs for the year in order of their debut weeks.
Before I would endeavor to do this I want to know if this or something very similar has been done already?
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Post by 1finemrg on Jun 27, 2015 14:53:22 GMT -5
I have the idea of creating a complete list of all Top 40 songs by year. I was thinking a good way to keep it organized would be to look at the first Hot 100 chart of a particular year and list only the top 40 debut songs. Then move to the second week and only add the top 40 debut songs to the list and so on until the last week of the year. With an average of around 5 or 6 debut songs per week you would then have a list of around 250-300 songs for the year in order of their debut weeks. Before I would endeavor to do this I want to know if this or something very similar has been done already? There's this website that lists songs in order of Hot 100 peak position by year... web.archive.org/web/20040407080139/http://www.gramble.com/music/70speak.html |
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Post by retroguy on Jun 27, 2015 15:31:24 GMT -5
Thanks Much! I didn't know that website existed. I see where they do list the songs in debut order. It looks like their is a missing date at the end of each year. Would billboard skip a week and not publish the Hot 100 sometimes?
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Post by jmack19 on Jun 27, 2015 15:54:47 GMT -5
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Post by retroguy on Jun 27, 2015 16:02:01 GMT -5
Awesome... I knew I would get an answer by someone. I am amazed at the vast amount of chart knowledge by the members on these threads! |
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Post by mitchm on Jun 27, 2015 17:21:38 GMT -5
I sure wish I had found this at40fg.proboards website earlier. I just found it a little over 2 months ago and it has been tremendously useful to me. But anyhow, back in about 10/2011, I came up with the brilliant idea of starting a list of every song I had ever heard and logging them in an Excel file. This file now has almost every song that made Billboard's Hot 100 top 40 between about 1966 and 1997. Those songs probably account for about 60% of the songs in the file, which now has just over 14,600 different songs listed. I've also got about 1,000 songs pre-1966 in the file, and maybe 3,000 post-1997 in the file, and maybe 1,500 album cuts that weren't eligible for most Billboard charts until more recently. All the previous numbers except for the 14,600 songs are just rough estimates. I don't have debut dates listed in the file - I prefer the date the song peaked - so that is what I use. I also have the peak position of each song on Billboard's Hot 100. The spreadsheet has about 30 columns, but most of the other columns would be useless to most anyone but me (how well I like the song, which local radio stations it is still played on, etc). I am now retired (for about 2 months now) so I have been filling in some more songs mainly from 1965 to 1969 and some songs that did really well in England but were more or less ignored in the US. I'll bet I've added 800 songs in the last 2 months. The file is still a work in progress, but it covers the Casey Kasem and Shadoe Stevens years very well.
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Post by doofus67 on Jun 28, 2015 2:15:53 GMT -5
I have the idea of creating a complete list of all Top 40 songs by year. I was thinking a good way to keep it organized would be to look at the first Hot 100 chart of a particular year and list only the top 40 debut songs. Then move to the second week and only add the top 40 debut songs to the list and so on until the last week of the year. With an average of around 5 or 6 debut songs per week you would then have a list of around 250-300 songs for the year in order of their debut weeks. Before I would endeavor to do this I want to know if this or something very similar has been done already? Another suggestion:
Try BullfrogsPond.com. Click on "Chart Information." In the drop-down box, click on "Whitburn Year End." From there, you can look at the top songs of any calendar year from 1960 to 2012, ranked by their peak position, according to the Joel Whitburn method. I know it's not a straight chronological list, but it is organized, because you get all the songs you need in one place.
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Post by retroguy on Jun 28, 2015 10:18:11 GMT -5
I have the idea of creating a complete list of all Top 40 songs by year. I was thinking a good way to keep it organized would be to look at the first Hot 100 chart of a particular year and list only the top 40 debut songs. Then move to the second week and only add the top 40 debut songs to the list and so on until the last week of the year. With an average of around 5 or 6 debut songs per week you would then have a list of around 250-300 songs for the year in order of their debut weeks. Before I would endeavor to do this I want to know if this or something very similar has been done already? Another suggestion:
Try BullfrogsPond.com. Click on "Chart Information." In the drop-down box, click on "Whitburn Year End." From there, you can look at the top songs of any calendar year from 1960 to 2012, ranked by their peak position, according to the Joel Whitburn method. I know it's not a straight chronological list, but it is organized, because you get all the songs you need in one place.
Thanks! I like how it goes through the whole Hot 100 because there were a lot of great songs that were under appreciated and didn't crack the top 40. |
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Post by davewollenberg on Jun 28, 2015 20:59:22 GMT -5
Then, there's BobbyMagicRadio, which plays the songs from each year, in the order they debuted in the top 40, from January, thru December.
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Post by doofus67 on Jun 30, 2015 2:20:13 GMT -5
Never mind. Just now, while I was looking up some stuff on BullfrogsPond.com, the darn thing shut down! Now it's just a home page, with a message about a big corporation stepping in to put a stop to another site that dared to display an alphabetical list of all the songs that made the Hot 100. (And that's putting more nicely than the webmaster did!) I hate to think the Ultimate Music Database is next.
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Post by renfield75 on Jun 30, 2015 16:04:00 GMT -5
Joel Whitburn's "Pop Annual" book lists, year-by-year, every Hot 100/Bubbling Under hit ranked by peak position (ties are broken by weeks at peak, weeks top 40, weeks top 10, weeks at #1). Peak date is also included. This book is an invaluable resource, and one that I keep handy at all times! www.recordresearch.com/pop/pop_annual_1955-2011_hardcover.php |
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