First Billboard Chart Jan 04, 1936?
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Topic: First Billboard Chart Jan 04, 1936?
Posted By: Chatfan MA
Subject: First Billboard Chart Jan 04, 1936?
Date Posted: 05 February 2016 at 7:14am
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Who knows more? I just read that the first Billboard music
chart was issued on Jan 04, 1936. Who knows more about the character of the chart? Definitely it was no sheet music chart and no best-selling singles chart ... (that started Jul 27, 1940), and the "Record Buying Guide (precursor of the Juke Box Chart) started in 1938. Was this the Radio Plug Chart? Does anyone have this Billboard edition and can describe its content/appearance? |
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Posted By: Paul C
Date Posted: 05 February 2016 at 3:27pm
| I don't know if this is what you're referring to, but from late 1935 until early 1938 Billboard published sales charts for each major label (that is, a separate chart for each label) based on information supplied by the labels themselves. |
Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 06 February 2016 at 5:57am
This was also my first thought. According to our records, the very first "10 Best Records of the Week" chart was dated November 2, 1935. It showed the Top 10 for three different record labels, RCA-Victor, Brunswick and Columbia. They later added other labels and cut it down to a Top 5 listing. This info was supplied by the labels themselves, so take that for what it's worth. |
Paul C wrote:Posted By: Chatfan MA
Date Posted: 06 February 2016 at 3:41pm
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Interesting ... however, there are several publications
that report Billboard's first chart from Jan 4, 1936, for example: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/number-one-with-a- bullet-the-rise-of-the-billboard-hot-100 Does anyone have one issue of Billboard from 1936 to check? |
Posted By: Chatfan MA
Date Posted: 03 January 2018 at 4:37pm
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Finally I got it (page 66) :
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive- Billboard/30s/1936/BB-1936-01-04.pdf For me then, the information in the article is misleading reagarding that what we understand about a chart since e.g. July 27, 1940: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/number-one-with-a- bullet-the-rise-of-the-billboard-hot-100 |