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Rizzo
 IP: 66.61.105.156 Dec 18, 07 - 10:02 AM |
Curious about the Top 100 50's list...
I would like to find out exactly how this list was compiled. It says according to the Billboard 100, but the list cannot possibly be comprehensive. I don't know what else may be missing, because my interest is in Buddy Holly, but I find it odd that there isn't a single Buddy Holly song on the list. According to my research, Buddy Holly and/or The Cricketts had 12 hits on the Billboard Chart from 1957 to 1959. Five of them; That'll Be The Day, Peggy Sue, Oh Boy!, Maybe Baby, and It Doesn't Matter Anymore; broke the top 20. (#1, #3, #10, #17, #13, respectively.) If this is a list of favorites that were also hits, this omission is completely understandable. I'm just curious. |
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Raven
IP: 72.70.87.77 Jan 18th, 2008 - 5:57 AM |
Re: Curious about the Top 100 50's list...
No - it is not a list of favorites - otherwise I would have called it that. Yes, Buddy Holly had several hits, but just having a hit in and of itself does not qualify it to be on the top 100 for an entire decade. Things like how long it was in that position come into account. Consider how many songs made it to number one over the course 520 weeks. There were certainly more than 100 #1 songs throughout the course of the 1950's. And then all of those songs that made it to number 1 had to be reduced to only 100 songs - again, based on time at #1. Buddy Holly is one of my favorites as well and I have a few of his cds. I would not leave any one off the list simply as a matter of preference. Check any of the books available on the Billboard Top 100 by decade and see for yourself. Raven |
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