Show from Jan 7, 1978 - Question

[papathree]

I'm listening to the show from Jan 7, 1978 now on XM-7, and I have a question about Casey's statements about "how many weeks records on this chart have been in the survey."

He said records that debuted on Dec 17, 1977 "have been on the chart for three weeks" and he said records that debuted on Dec 24, 1977 "have been in the survey for two weeks."

By my math, a record that debuted on Dec 17 would have been in its 4th week in the countdown as of 7 Jan, and records that debuted on Dec 24 would have been in their 3rd week in the countdown.

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance if you can help clear this up for me.

Cheers,

Mitch

[mstgator]

Billboard's chart was frozen the week of 12/31/77 (no issue published), so apparently AT40 decided not to count that frozen week in their chart totals (at that time, anyway... AT40 seemed to switch back and forth on that through the years, sometimes counting the frozen week and sometimes not).

[papathree]

Thank you very much! ;D I guess that clears it up!

Cheers,

Mitch

[k1465]

I think it's more the fact that the Jan. 7th edition of Billboard didn't count the frozen week, but then they corrected it with the Jan. 14th edition.