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Ivan
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The database contents on this site appear to be slightly out of sync with one fairly standardized definition of "Top 40", i.e., as characterized by entry in the Top 40 "Billboard" Pop Music charts.
Am I off base, here? Artists like John Valenti, Melba Montgomery, Marilyn Sellars, Travis Wammack (to name a few) do not turn up in a database search, and yet they were responsible for Pop Music Top 40 singles (as defined in this post).
Thanks,
Ivan
Edited by Ivan on 20 January 2006 at 4:00pm
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I seem to recall that Pat's criteria, if I understand it correctly, is that it had to have made the top forty in BOTH Cash Box and Billboard. None of those songs (all of which just grazed Billboard's top forty) quite made the top forty in Cash Box.
I have found exceptions -- Tiny Dancer is listed for Elton John, and it only made the Top 40 in Cash Box and Record World, but not in Billboard.
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Oh, okay... I see. Thanks so much for the response!
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I think it's actually an average of a song's peak chart position on various charts. Let's use your example of Elton John's "Tiny Dancer".
Billboard #41
Cash Box #29
Record World #32
Average #34
I could be wrong about this, but that was my understanding on what qualified a song for inclusion in the database.
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The example above is correct. Chart positions especially in the 50's and 60's were often "purchased" in one way or another and in my opinion, this is the best method of trying to filter out the "purchased" chart positions. As I mentioned several weeks ago, I will in time be expanding the database to include more titles.
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