whitburn’s 2016 pop annual book question

Now that the same Christmas songs return annually to
the charts, how many times will they be included in an
artist's chart history in any Record Research
publication? For example, will Mariah's "All..." be
listed in each year that it charted on the Hot 100 or
just once with a No. 1 peak in 2019 with the Weeks On
Chart reflecting all the years the song appeared on
the Hot 100? Since the Hot 100 is now a song, not
record, chart, I would think the latter is more
appropriate. I recall older Hot Country Songs books
listed the same Christmas song in every year that it
charted which I felt inflated the number of chart
entries and points of artists that were more popular
from the '90's forward.

With even nonseasonal songs and albums returning to
the charts, has Record Research considered adding a
peak date column in addition to the Chart Entry date
for both its songs and albums books? Most of these
songs sadly return when an artist passes as most
recently shown by Kenny Rogers on Hot Country Songs.    
But, albums will often chart higher than when
originally released. For example, "The Very Best Of
Donna Summer" and "Whitney - The Greatest Hits" both
returned to the Billboard 200 and surpassed their
original peaks when released after both artists passed
away. Online discounts also used to create new peaks
as it did for hits collections by Phil Collins and the
Bee Gees.

Top Pop Singles 2018 does it right (given the current re-entry behavior
patterns)

Scanner wrote: Thanks, Paul. Do current or future Albums books also note the peak year if it is not the first entry or following year? Using my earlier example, Whitney's album was released in 2000, but peaked in 2012. How, if at all, does the Pop Albums book indicate this?

Because catalog albums can now re-renter the Top 200 at
any time, we just update the peak position and weeks
charted as necessary. We don't show peak dates in that
book, so there's really no way to tell what year it truly
peaked in.

jebsib wrote: Have you guys ever considered peak dates in your singles books, or is it too much info to display?

We've always kept the peak dates exclusive to our Annual
books. I suppose they COULD be shown, but not sure how
that would layout would work.