Talk:Billboard charts
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People, it's "THE Billboard Hot 100." It's part of the title - look up any artist on billboard.com, and it'll be shown like that. (unlike the other charts, which are simply "Hot 100 Airplay," etc.)
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[edit] Bubbling
I know that there is a Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles but is there also a "Bubbling Hot 100 Airplay" ??? It seems to be mentioned on the Billboard site.
[edit] Clarification
Nowhere on this page does it specify *where* shops and radio stations which contribute to the charts are located. This may sound like a stupid complaint, but I'm unfamiliar with the chart, and so wouldn't know whether its just within the USA, within the USA and Canada, or possibly including Mexico, Puerto Rico, etc. This is an issue as I'm moving some musical 'records' from the list of world records to list of records of the USA, and hence assuming that this country is the only domain in which registered sales and airplay count. --Neo 12:31, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Copyrights?
Anyone know about the copyright status of these charts? If so, could you respond to Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Hot_100_Airplay_number-one_hits_of_1997_(USA) ? Corpx 17:32, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] What's a Black Album chart?
In the article about the soundtrack album Saturday Night Fever, there is a reference to "Billboard Music Chart's Pop Album and Black Album charts". I can't find any explanation to this use of the phrase Black Album. (I thought all albums where black in the vinyl age...) -Ulla — 12:43, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] A question about other US pop charts
I'm very aware that the Billboard charts are now the "standard" US charts, but also that in earlier decades there were other charts produced by Cash Box, Variety etc. We have the Whitburn books for Billboard, but do any tabulations of these alternative charts exist, and if so, where ? The reason I ask is that, in writing the article on Julius Dixson, I got into correspondence with his son, who among much else wrote : "I will say this much, the Variety Charts were a more prestigious chart than Billboard. It was already 49 years old by 1955. It only had one main chart when it came to record sales. The bottom line, who is selling the most records out of the top 25. So whether you were Black or white it didn't matter. It was much harder to get on that chart. Billboard came late and had to compete with Variety so it needed to split the music up and create distinction. Hence, you got more people on the charts and people were more interested if they had an opportunity to get notoriety. "Dim Dim The Lights" being # 10 on Variety is more important than it being #11 on Billboard back then. The top ten in Variety is not the same as the top ten in Billboard during the time "...the lights" were on the charts. Some of the latter could not make Variety's Top ten." When there were strong differences between the different charts, what were the reasons ? Has anything been written up on this ? Any advice would be gratefully received. Ghmyrtle 14:25, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Online stores that count toward the Billboard
Can there be a section for this? Maybe we can start a list. I know that Amazon.com counts toward the charts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.16.138.113 (talk) 22:48, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
