AT40 and "top selling singles"

All of this maybe true (and if there are any other stories about this please post!!), but when you look at the singles that were certified gold or platinum, they were almost always songs that made it near the top of the charts; so maybe they weren't as accurate as they are today, but they couldn't have been that far off in EVERY case.

Even if the charts were somewhat inaccurate, they're still the best we've got, right! :)

Edited by torcan

Brian W. wrote: The George Michael/Elton John duet of "Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me" would likely never have hit #1 on the Hot 100, either... I think it peaked at #4 in both sales and airplay. And "I Wanna Sex You Up" probably would have been a #1 hit.

"Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" was #1 in early 1992 (February?) under the new chart methodology. Even though it was ranked at #4 in airplay and sales, The three songs above it in airplay were below it in sales, and the three songs above it in sales were below it in airplay, so when all the points were tallied, DLTSGDOM came out on top. It was probably one of the tighter top 5 clusters in Billboard history.

Edited by fratboy96