Cash Box ’80’s Pop Charts

Glad to see it was fixed! I know the Cash Box charts
diverged often especially in later years from
Billboard and Record World. But, when I saw that
first chart and hardly recognized some of the songs, I
knew something was not right! :-)

Although the Adult chart book has not been updated for
14 years, there have been so few songs charting every
year at AC that a more timely update was not really
warranted. Pity how that format has become so
stagnant.

I would love to see the next version expanded to
include peaks in R&R (1973-2006) and Record World
(1967-1972, 1980-1982). (Of course, R&R and Billboard
were the same from 2006 until R&R's end in 2009.)
There were some interesting disparities among the
publications. R&R's AC chart was initially more Pop
than Billboard's. Even when the R&R chart became
softer, there were still some major differences
between the two like Billboard Number Ones by Al
Stewart ("Time Passages" - 10 weeks) and Maxine
Nightingale ("Lead Me On" - 7 weeks) both only peaking
at No. 2 in R&R. Of course, the charts really
diverged in the mid-90's when R&R was the first to
split the AC and Hot AC charts. Many R&R AC hits
never charted in Billboard since those songs did not
have any or sufficient Hot AC airplay. It would be
nice to see those songs get some recognition as well.