O/T: Radio & Records AC chart

Very excited by the prospect of the 2010s Hot 100 Decade book, but it begs
the question: what on Earth are you going to do with all those weeks when
Billboard didn't publish a chart? It only prints 19 issues a year these days.

Paul, 2 questions:

* For all the weeks that there was no published Billboard Magazine (and it's been quite a few years now), have you taken note of the chart positions - because obviously when the next printed edition would come out, there could have been peaks in the previous 1 or 2 weeks that you wouldn't know about if the song dropped off the chart. If you've kept track of the charts online each week (or have a way to retrieve all the old issues now), I guess that would solve the problem.

* Also, since you're printing custom charts for those missing weeks, are you going to do the same for all the 2015-2019 charts that were in print but spread out over 3 pages? The book would be incredibly long if you used 3 pages for one chart. But since you're already doing customized 1-page Hot 100 charts for the "non-paper" issues, it seems like it would keep the book more consistent to do it for all issues (and save a lot of paper costs, and keeping the book no thicker than any of the other decade-charts books). And I'm specifically referring only to the years once they started doing the 3 page approach. Obviously, 2010 to early 2014 could be the actual chart.

Edited by EdisonLite

I'm still stunned that BB doesn't have PDF charts for the non-published week
that they can email their subscribers (for consistency.). They obviously have
the templates to do so, and even have the sidebar stories (that usually
accompany Chartbeat articles online.) I guess there aren't that many chart
collectors out there anymore.

I notice that when Billboard IS published, nowadays they only include the Hot
100, Billboard 200 and Artist 100. All the genre and radio charts have been
removed (only sporadically appearing every few months).

Makes me wonder why they even bother!

Billboard still publishes sporadic issues because they make money off of the ad revenue (a full page ad is VERY
expensive). However, that revenue is somewhat offset by the high cost of printing, thus we only get about 20 print issues
per year. Most of their print content is "lifestyle" driven and the charts have unfortunately taken a back seat. When's
the last time you've seen an advertisement for an upcoming album and/or single? It's been years.

Most of their content is now online. It wouldn't surprise me if the print edition went totally extinct in the next few
years. Just the way of the world.