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Post by smokeyb on Jun 28, 2018 23:15:17 GMT 1
Raliverpool - Rolling Stones - 229 points
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Post by smokeyb on Jun 28, 2018 23:16:40 GMT 1
Whitneyfan - Otis Redding 349 points
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Post by smokeyb on Jun 28, 2018 23:18:10 GMT 1
Smokeyb - Love Affair - 318 points
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Post by smokeyb on Jun 28, 2018 23:19:36 GMT 1
Shireblogger - Aretha Franklin - 321 points
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Post by smokeyb on Jun 28, 2018 23:21:02 GMT 1
Popchartfreak - Nancy Sinatra - 366 points
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Post by smokeyb on Jun 28, 2018 23:23:07 GMT 1
Andy - The Beatles - 394 points
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Post by smokeyb on Jun 28, 2018 23:24:45 GMT 1
Darkstar79 - The Delfonics - 557 points
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Post by Whitneyfan on Jun 29, 2018 6:01:24 GMT 1
Interesting that we all had different artists at #1.
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Post by Shireblogger on Jun 29, 2018 10:24:14 GMT 1
Really fascinating analysis. Thanks so much for putting in the hours on this.
A couple of observations:-
Almost all of the longest running songs on the chart are American. Probably caused by the fact that some of us chart the songs when they appear on Billboard, and some of us wait for their UK chart entry. This will often spread the impact of American singles which usually had a few months head start across the pond, meaning they do not peak so high, but still accumulate the points towards their year end position.
Conversely, almost all of the highest new entries are British acts, where the British release would have preceded or, at least, coincided with the American release. This will maximise their short-term impact, but reduce their overall duration on the chart.
I love the fact that we all have different #1 artists of the year so far. I'm certainly going to have to listen to more Delfonics. But we are nearly unaminous in scoring Dock Of The Bay in our YTD Top 10s, which just underlines what a magnificent and appealing legacy it was and still is.
I don't think anything will overhaul Otis in the second half of 1968, but there are two summer releases to come which I predict could challenge for the runners-up spot.
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Post by o on Jun 29, 2018 10:29:15 GMT 1
Fab info. many thanks. My chart is very slow as I only know and like so many songs, and there weren't so many new songs back in the day, hence some songs accruing lots of points from me. I do try and refresh my memory of some songs, and have discovered songs I didn't know which has been fun.
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Post by rubcale on Jun 29, 2018 11:27:37 GMT 1
Fascinating read.
I'd love to do a weekly chart but it wouldn't be fair when you're unfamiliar with a lot of the songs to have the time to do it.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 29, 2018 14:16:30 GMT 1
Your list and where they finished in my actual chart of the year:
(27) 10 105 Mony Mony - Tommy James & The Shondelles (26) 9 106 Lady Madonna - Beatles (15) 8 109 (Sittin' On The) Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding (18) 7 122 Captain Of Your Ship - Reparata And The Delrons (8) 6 136 Lazy Sunday - Small Faces (10*) 5 137 Delilah - Tom Jones (9*)4 146 Sky Pilot - Eric Burdon And The Animals (2)2 147 Nights In White Satin - Moody Blues (4)3 147 Congratulations - Cliff Richard (7)1 150 Mrs Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
My numbers 1, 3 an 5 of the year have not yet appeared, "My Name Is Jack" is 6th of the year and has only just shown up. For the retro-chart I swapped the positions of Sky Pilot and Delilah one week which could potentially affect their scores but actually wouldn't really as Sky Pilot was given the extra week at #1 on the retro chart.
Other songs from the first half of the year that are higher than #27 don't appear on your list, e.g. "Fire Brigade" by the Move.
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Post by popchartfreak on Sept 30, 2018 10:00:12 GMT 1
fascinating rundown, thanks for the listings! I think my taking the "streaming" approach to allow a single worldwide release date (wherever it is released first) has def affected the weeks on chart and peak positions of tracks in favour of US acts. Nancy Sinatra as my fave act of the first half year is a surprise, though The Beatles should be chasing, along with Dave Dee and co by year end.
My top 10 is amusingly hippy trippy cult, largely because they are fresher than the vast majority of tracks I knew at the time and have overdosed on in the 50 years since. It's also not such a priority for me to rate the biggest hits as high as they have had massive chart runs in the years since in my personal charts, but tracks like White Horses, Sundown Sundown haven't, so they have had more favour from me on re-doing and discovering the wealth of fab tracks from 1967/8 that I had never heard. My original charts show what I liked at the time (more or less) but I'm not 10 anymore, I'm 60, and I love the unexpected surprise that I can very easily do a weekly top 75 (rather than a top 20) cos there's so much brilliant stuff around then - in fact I'd say tracks exit my chart far too early just because there is so much competition, and they chart much lower than they deserve for the same reason.
1969 was the year I went chart obsessive - only to have it utterly taken away from me in September when we moved to Singapore, so that's going to be a voyage of discovery and rediscovery to some extent. I had to reduce my charts to a top 10 as there were so few records I got to hear (and mostly on 2-way family favourites or US variety shows).
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