Your Own Personal AT40 Chart

[pizzzzza]

Feb 15, 2010 22:23:45 GMT -5 canat40fan said:

I cant believe I found this thread. I thought that I was the only one in the world keeping my own charts back in the day!
Mine were favourite tunes that I either liked or would stick in my mind all week long.
Although I considered myself more of a Rock fan, I did not discriminate against pop, disco or soul tunes and there may have been Canadian tunes included that did not chart south of the border.

I still have my charts and consider them somewhat of a treasure keeping memories from the 70's alive.

My chart run was over 4 years starting Jun 17, 1977 and it ran until Oct 17, 1981.
It ended once I was in College and suddenly found that my study time was eating away at many former leisure activities.

I kept them in coat sized pocket day time calendars that my Dad had bought. Each booklet contained 31 pages and I ended up with 8 booklets containing a total of 227 weekly charts and yes each one was numbered!
Talk about being a geek. After chart 31, I expanded from keeping a Top 30 to a Top 40.

Anyway heres a top 10 sample from week of Mar 17, 1978

TW|LW|W |Song-Artist

1|5|7| I Go Crazy - Paul Davis
2|2|7| Happy Anniversay - Little River Band
3|4|4| Can't smile Without You - Barry Manilow
4|15|4| Runnin on Empty - Jackson Brown
5|17|5| Thunder Island - Jay Ferguson
6|6|9| The Circle is Small - Gordon Lightfoot
7|8|7| Name of the Game - ABBA
8|15|3| Jack And Jill - Raydio
9|20|4| The Goodbye Girl - David Gates
10|3|7| Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton

I think all of us, to an extent, did some "type" of chart growing up - I just wish I had kept mine!

And the earlier thread about listening to the radio and keeping track of number of times played - I did that too - LOL.

[reachinforthestars]

Feb 15, 2010 22:23:45 GMT -5 canat40fan said:

I cant believe I found this thread. I thought that I was the only one in the world keeping my own charts back in the day!
Mine were favourite tunes that I either liked or would stick in my mind all week long.
Although I considered myself more of a Rock fan, I did not discriminate against pop, disco or soul tunes and there may have been Canadian tunes included that did not chart south of the border.

I still have my charts and consider them somewhat of a treasure keeping memories from the 70's alive.

My chart run was over 4 years starting Jun 17, 1977 and it ran until Oct 17, 1981.
It ended once I was in College and suddenly found that my study time was eating away at many former leisure activities.

I kept them in coat sized pocket day time calendars that my Dad had bought. Each booklet contained 31 pages and I ended up with 8 booklets containing a total of 227 weekly charts and yes each one was numbered!
Talk about being a geek. After chart 31, I expanded from keeping a Top 30 to a Top 40.

Anyway heres a top 10 sample from week of Mar 17, 1978

TW|LW|W |Song-Artist

1|5|7| I Go Crazy - Paul Davis
2|2|7| Happy Anniversay - Little River Band
3|4|4| Can't smile Without You - Barry Manilow
4|15|4| Runnin on Empty - Jackson Brown
5|17|5| Thunder Island - Jay Ferguson
6|6|9| The Circle is Small - Gordon Lightfoot
7|8|7| Name of the Game - ABBA
8|15|3| Jack And Jill - Raydio
9|20|4| The Goodbye Girl - David Gates
10|3|7| Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton

Cool chart excerpt. Nice to see that "I Go Crazy" went right up to #1 on your chart since it struggled so hard on AT40 to make it to #7. And great to see the excellent Gordon Lightfoot song in your top 10.

Over in the Personal Chart section of the Pulse Music Board, there is a thread that may interest you. It's called "Post Your Chart from 1980 - 1991". Many contributors post charts before and after that timeframe as well. In fact, spotlighting personal charts for various dates in the late 70's pop up periodically. You should read through the history & post your charts for the prior dates you missed to get everyone caught up with your charts.

[canat40fan]

Feb 17, 2010 0:12:21 GMT -5 reachinforthestars said:

Cool chart excerpt. Nice to see that "I Go Crazy" went right up to #1 on your chart since it struggled so hard on AT40 to make it to #7.

I think the fact that it was very slow to be picked up in a lot markets back in '78 hurt it from achieving a higher peak position on AT40...but then again if it didn't rise up so slowly at the time, it may have gone up to #2 with a lot fewer weeks and it would have been long forgotten instead of being a favourite conversation piece of AT40 fans that it is today :-)

Feb 17, 2010 0:12:21 GMT -5 reachinforthestars said:

And great to see the excellent Gordon Lightfoot song in your top 10.

Wow what a coincidence...there was a report today in the media that he passed away..The rumor started on Twitter and then a few newspaper media sites in Canada reported that he had died. But...he was alive and well, driving in his car to his office when heard news of his untimely demise! Glad he's still around.
www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/767612--gordon-lightfoot-alive-and-well?bn=1

Feb 17, 2010 0:12:21 GMT -5 reachinforthestars said:

Over in the Personal Chart section of the Pulse Music Board, there is a thread that may interest you. It's called "Post Your Chart from 1980 - 1991".....

Thanks a lot for pointing out the web site/thread. I went through it and it's very interesting involving mostly 80's charts. Since I have some from 80/81, I'll wait until an appropriate week comes up and post mine too.