Historical Billboard Charts Online?

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I've wondered the same thing and from what I've found, you've got to shell out for a book. They make decent money off book sales and licensed usage of the charts, and I think that they must have decided that to put all the info online for free made no sense.

― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Monday, 16 May 2005 03:50 (eighteen years ago) link

The Billboard Hot 100, Top Country, and Top R&B are all available as playlists on iTunes, sorted by year, available through 1946... dunno how they sorted them exactly, since didn't the R&B and country ones change names several times?

― Brandon Mitchell (A.H.), Monday, 16 May 2005 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link

oh, I didn't look closely though.
Those charts are of course incomplete because iTunes doesn't have all the tracks in its database (often about 60-70% there).

― Brandon Mitchell (A.H.), Monday, 16 May 2005 04:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know why Billboard (or Guinness in the UK) don't develop an online package - buy it in the shop, install it and all the data's on there, automatically updated weekly. On a basic research level it would be useful to have individual weekly charts from the past available in this way; the Guinness week-by-week Top 40 book doesn't seem to have had a reprint since 1995.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 16 May 2005 07:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Alternatively, get the service provided (again with weekly updates) for a small monthly sum. Would probably make a lot more money than the books.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 16 May 2005 07:02 (eighteen years ago) link

they do that already

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 16 May 2005 07:09 (eighteen years ago) link

this is a useful link for chartz

http://www.alaskajim.com/

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

50 years of the Hot 100!

― What a broad smile! It is like a delta! (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 21 November 2008 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm horrified to be reminded of "Smooth", I think I've actually managed to make it 6 months without hearing it. Sad to think that Rob fucking Thomas is second only to Chubby Checker on an all time pop chart list.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 21 November 2008 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link

nine years pass...

Is there a way to access historical billboard charts that are not just the top 100? like the R&B chart from any particular year, or maybe charts from non-anglophone countries (is there such a thing?)
i am looking especially for the 70s-80s-90s

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 15 April 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link

https://www.billboard.com/archive/charts/1988/r-b-hip-hop-songs

― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 15 April 2018 22:32 (six years ago) link

thank you! bonus: i have been reminded of "da butt" and that i have the 12" single of "da butt" somewhere on my shelves

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 15 April 2018 23:44 (six years ago) link

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