Pop Annual (1950-2023)

Some of those re-entries are accounted for in the latest Pop Annual. I got ambitious and compared the current version (1950-2023) with the counts
in Ron's Library and found the following discrepancies:

1970 - Ron (636) / Annual (634) - Ron has "Superstar" by Murray Head (#437) and "Maggie" by Redbone (#472)
1971 - Ron (620) / Annual (619) - Ron has "Layla" by Derek & The Dominos (#303)
1972 - Ron (584) / Annual (583) - Ron has "That's The Way God Planned It" by Billy Preston (#377)
1973 - Ron (531) / Annual (530) - Ron has "Lucky Man" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer (#292)
1974 - Ron (493) / Annual (492) - Ron has "Love That Really Counts" by Natural Four listed twice at #491 & #492
1975 - Ron (559) / Annual (558) - Ron has "Send In The Clowns" by Judy Collins (#235)
1976 - Ron (527) / Annual (527)
1977 - Ron (469) / Annual (469)
1978 - Ron (451) / Annual (450) - Ron has "Crazy On You" by Heart (#332)
1979 - Ron (475) / Annual (475)

By my count, that's only 8 differences, not 14 (and one of those is a duplicate by Ron).

So I'm not sure where you came up with 14???

If anything, this proves that counting the hits is an inexact science at best. I wish Joel would've just picked
a formula for re-entries and stayed with it, but it seemed like he changed his mind with each subsequent
edition. I didn't want to make any changes for the most recent Pop Annual, because I wanted the info to match
the 2-volume set of Top Pop Singles books that we recently did.

JMD1961 wrote: Before I ask my question, let me first say that how much the new volume has helped me catalogue my CD track collection. My main reasons for buying was the inclusion of the check off boxes. Thanks for bringing them back. Now, the question. I'm going through my CDs from the various Bill Buster labels and I've noticed something. On a CD titled "Rare Pop Instrumentals Of The Fifties", two tracks are listed as being released in 1953. The first is "The Typewriter" by Leroy Anderson, which the CD says peaked at #21. The second is "Melancholy Serenade" by Jackie Gleason, which peaked at #22. The only problem with this is that the Annual only goes to #20 for 1953. Another track not listed in the Annual is "Look Sharp - Be Sharp" by the Boston Pops Orchestra, which went to #27 in 1954, but that one is clearly listed as being a Cash Box peak. Neither of the other tracks is listed that way. So, where did the 1953 chart positions come from? Was there a sub-chart, like a bubbling under, that went below the 20 position chart? Just curious.

Those peak positions came from the original Pop Memories
1890-1954 book. That book used Cash Box and Billboard
Regional charts, so the positions come from one (or both)
of those. Joel never cared for that, which is why he did
the Pop Hits 1940-54 book, which just reflects the actual
Billboard charts (and where the 1950-54 Annual rankings
came from for the latest edition).

music4life75 wrote: I’m a little confused as to the total number of songs that charted in the 1970’s. The numbers are different than what’s represented on Ron’s Hot 100 library. I’m just wondering if recharts are handled differently, as in any song that recharted with the same version, only count as one.

Doesn't Ron also have multiple versions of certain songs in his library (i.e. a non-hit original rendition by another artist or LP and 45 versions)? That could account for
the difference in numbers.

LunarLaugh wrote: music4life75 wrote: I’m a little confused as to the total number of songs that charted in the 1970’s. The numbers are different than what’s represented on Ron’s Hot 100 library. I’m just wondering if recharts are handled differently, as in any song that recharted with the same version, only count as one. Doesn't Ron also have multiple versions of certain songs in his library (i.e. a non-hit original rendition by another artist or LP and 45 versions)? That could account for the difference in numbers.

When I decided to list every 1980's song that charted, I saw an error that Ron immediately corrected. The count him and I have is 4,172. This includes all re-charts.