Radio & Records Top Pop Hits 1973-2009

BTW Paul, How long will this book be at the pre-sale price? With lots of big sales for Xmas and your mailer going out today, I'm just hoping I can wait for the mailer while still getting this book on sale.

The sale price will be good until at least the end of
January. If you're on the mailing list, you should get
your mailer by the end of next week.

The first issue of Radio & Records was dated October 5,
1973. On the first chart, they had a "last week" column,
but since that was just an in-house, unpublished test
chart, we chose not to include it (besides, we couldn't
reconstruct a full Top 20 because we had no idea what
might have fallen off that test chart to make room for
any new entries).

The Record World Singles charts 1973-82 will HOPEFULLY be
out early next year (2019).

Thanks for the info Paul.

RoknRobnLoxley wrote: Paul, now that you and Joel are branching out into other charts for your Record Research books, how about the possibility of producing a singles chart book for Your Hit Parade, or Variety? I would guess slim and none, ha, but I sure would be interested, as I'd guess others would be, too. Cheers!

We've discussed the possibility of Variety, not sure there
would be enough demand. There already was a book done by
someone else for Your Hit Parade several years ago.

Chartman wrote: I always used this site: https://wweb.uta.edu/faculty/gghunt/charts/chart.html Not as pretty as your book - plus no B-side or Label & Number data but he does show nifty graphs of the song's chart run.

A few thoughts....

1. I've uncovered some data errors on that site. Our
book corrects those errors.

2. For some reason, that site doesn't count the frozen
week(s) at the end of each year. They really should be
counted and our book will include them in the totals.

3. As of August 2006, they stopped following the charts
published in R&R. Our book will include the data as
published in R&R for 2006-2009 (the publication ceased
with the 6/5/09 issue).

Edited by Paul Haney