January-December year ends (1959-2023)

[mikerivera]

Alright, I am now officially done with the 1988 year end, and I gotta say, I’m really proud of how this came out. I decided to change the format and make it a video, so you can click right here and it’ll take you to it

[Private Dancer]

Jul 26, 2021 21:03:36 GMT -5 mikerivera said:

Alright, I am now officially done with the 1988 year end, and I gotta say, I’m really proud of how this came out. I decided to change the format and make it a video, so you can click right here and it’ll take you to it

Very clever!

[phieaglesfan712]

[mikerivera]

The 1988 list. The year that got Rick Rolled

Rank	Song	Artist	Peak	Top 10	Hot 100	Points
1	Roll With It	Steve Winwood	#1 (4 weeks)	7	18	388,940
2	One More Try	George Michael	#1 (3 weeks)	7	18	380,300
3	Sweet Child o' Mine	Guns N' Roses	#1 (2 weeks)	7	24	377,400
4	Never Gonna Give You Up	Rick Astley	#1 (2 weeks)	7	22	371,720
5	Anything For You	Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine	#1 (2 weeks)	7	23	359,770
6	The Flame	Cheap Trick	#1 (2 weeks)	6	27	354,820
7	Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car	Billy Ocean	#1 (2 weeks)	7	20	353,190
8	Wishing Well	Terence Trent D'Arby	#1	6	25	352,240
9	Wild, Wild West	The Escape Club	#1	7	20	346,980
10	Hands to Heaven	Breathe	#2	6	29	346,530
11	Man in the Mirror	Michael Jackson	#1 (2 weeks)	7	17	341,910
12	Look Away	Chicago	#1 (2 weeks)	7	15	336,080
13	A Groovy Kind of Love	Phil Collins	#1 (2 weeks)	6	18	329,390
14	Could've Been	Tiffany	#1 (2 weeks)	6	15	328,080
15	Father Figure	George Michael	#1 (2 weeks)	6	17	327,270
16	Pour Some Sugar on Me	Def Leppard	#2	7	24	324,630
17	Hold On to the Nights	Richard Marx	#1	6	21	324,150
18	I'll Always Love You	Taylor Dayne	#3	6	30	323,400
19	Where Do Broken Hearts Go	Whitney Houston	#1 (2 weeks)	6	18	323,100
20	Don't Worry, Be Happy	Bobby McFerrin	#1 (2 weeks)	6	23	321,930
21	Love Bites	Def Leppard	#1	6	21	320,830
22	Baby, I Love Your Way/ Freebird	Will to Power	#1	6	17	318,660
23	Simply Irresistible	Robert Palmer	#2	6	20	316,780
24	Shattered Dreams	Johnny Hates Jazz	#2	6	19	316,530
25	Red, Red Wine	UB40	#1	6	21	313,840
26	Foolish Beat	Debbie Gibson	#1	6	20	312,830
27	Kokomo	The Beach Boys	#1	5	18	306,800
28	Monkey	George Michael	#1 (2 weeks)	6	16	306,660
29	Endless Summer Nights	Richard Marx	#2	6	21	303,430
30	Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)	Samantha Fox	#3	6	27	303,080
31	Bad Medicine	Bon Jovi	#1 (2 weeks)	6	15	300,060
32	Angel	Aerosmith	#3	5	25	298,460
33	Seasons Change	Expose	#1	6	15	296,230
34	Together Forever	Rick Astley	#1	6	18	295,540
35	Need You Tonight	INXS	#1	7	15	291,760
36	Make Me Lose Control	Eric Carmen	#3	6	20	288,580
37	She's Like the Wind	Patrick Swayze ft. Wendy Fraser	#3	6	19	286,880
38	How Can I Fall	Breathe	#3	5	17	285,520
39	I Don't Want to Go On With You Like That	Elton John	#2	6	18	283,670
40	Devil Inside	INXS	#2	5	17	281,720
41	The Loco-Motion	Kylie Minogue	#3	6	19	272,180
42	I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love	Chicago	#3	5	21	270,870
43	What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)	Information Society	#3	6	25	269,960
44	Make it Real	The Jets	#4	5	20	265,720
45	Out of the Blue	Debbie Gibson	#3	5	17	264,890
46	Hungry Eyes	Eric Carmen	#4	5	17	263,000
47	Dirty Diana	Michael Jackson	#1	5	14	262,870
48	What Have I Done to Deserve This	Pet Shop Boys ft. Dusty Springfield	#2	5	15	259,380
49	I Get Weak	Belinda Carlisle	#2	5	16	259,080
50	Giving You the Best That I Got	Anita Baker	#3	6	15	256,880
51	Mercedes Boy	Pebbles	#2	5	18	254,030
52	Sign Your Name	Terence Trent D'Arby	#4	5	21	253,910
53	Girlfriend	Pebbles	#5	5	20	251,500
54	Desire	U2	#3	5	14	249,840
55	1-2-3	Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine	#3	5	19	248,900
56	Waiting For a Star to Fall	Boy Meets Girl	#5	5	17	243,380
57	Perfect World	Huey Lewis & The News	#3	5	15	241,040
58	New Sensation	INXS	#3	5	17	240,960
59	Every Rose Has its Thorn	Poison	#1 (2 weeks)	5	10	240,430
60	If it Isn't Love	New Edition	#7	4	21	240,260
61	A Hazy Shade of Winter	The Bangles	#2	5	14	238,440
62	Rocket 2 U	The Jets	#6	4	22	237,040
63	One Good Woman	Peter Cetera	#4	3	18	232,760
64	Don't Be Cruel	Cheap Trick	#4	5	17	232,680
65	I Want Her	Keith Sweat	#5	5	20	230,240
66	Everything Your Heart Desires	Hall & Oates	#3	5	16	229,800
67	Fast Car	Tracey Chapman	#6	4	21	227,770
68	Electric Blue	Icehouse	#7	3	21	226,880
69	Don't Be Cruel	Bobby Brown	#8	2	24	226,560
70	Pink Cadillac	Natalie Cole	#5	4	17	224,730
71	I Don't Want Your Love	Duran Duran	#4	4	12	224,370
72	Piano in the Dark	Brenda Russell ft. Joe Esposito	#6	2	25	221,380
73	Got My Mind Set on You	George Harrison	#1	5	12	220,990
74	The Valley Road	Bruce Hornsby & The Range	#5	5	16	220,740
75	I Hate Myself For Loving You	Joan Jett & The Blackhearts	#8	3	26	218,220
76	The Way You Make Me Feel	Michael Jackson	#1	5	12	217,970
77	Never Tears Us Apart	INXS	#7	3	21	217,570
78	Always On My Mind	Pet Shop Boys	#4	4	15	213,950
79	I Want to Be Your Man	Roger	#3	5	14	213,430
80	Nite and Day	Al B. Sure!	#7	2	21	211,720
81	When It's Love	Van Halen	#5	3	19	211,240
82	I Don't Want to Live Without You	Foreigner	#5	4	17	208,770
83	Say You Will	Foreigner	#6	4	15	208,210
84	I Still Believe	Brenda K. Starr	#13		26	206,560
85	Don't You Know What the Night Can Do	Steve Winwood	#6	3	17	205,830
86	One Moment in Time	Whitney Houston	#5	4	17	204,170
87	My Prerogative	Bobby Brown	#2	4	11	201,220
88	Wait	White Lion	#8	2	21	198,700
89	Nothin' But a Good Time	Poison	#6	3	19	197,810
90	Just Like Paradise	David Lee Roth	#6	3	16	195,990
91	Walk on Water	Eddie Money	#9	4	14	195,680
92	Prove Your Love	Taylor Dayne	#7	3	18	195,310
93	Can't Stay Away From You	Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine	#6	3	17	190,570
94	I Found Someone	Cher	#10	1	20	188,770
95	So Emotional*	Whitney Houston	#1	4	10	187,520
96	Don't Shed a Tear	Paul Carrack	#9	3	17	187,480
97	Two Occasions	The Deele	#10	1	21	187,060
98	Circle in the Sand	Belinda Carlisle	#7	2	17	186,920
99	Kissing a Fool	George Michael	#5	4	13	184,060
100	Welcome to the Jungle	Guns N' Roses	#7	4	11	182,280

[mikerivera]

Quite a few things stood out to me making this list. The runs at the top of the chart keep getting shorter each year. And yet, this year, the overall chart runs started getting longer. And this chart doesn’t do that justice. For example, Red Red Wine’s total chart run lasted a then-record 40 weeks. Multiple songs started approaching 30 weeks. The end result is a weaker chart than ever at the top, and a very strong chart at the bottom (helped by the 53 week year). But anyways, for the songs that missed

Made 1987
-Don’t You Want Me
-Faith
-Is This Love
-Heaven is a Place On Earth
-Shake Your Love
-Should’ve Known Better
-We’ll Be Together

Caught Between Years:
-Candle in the Wind
-Catch Me (I’m Falling)
-Cherry Bomb
-Tell it To My Heart (sorry Private Dancer)
-Valerie

[gikem]

Only 2 new songs added to the playlist, those being Two Occasions and Circle in the Sand.

Yeah, that's it - pretty much every other song made Billboard's official 1988 or 1989 YEs.

[mikerivera]

And for the next closest 10

Rank	Song	Artist	Points
101	The Promise	When in Rome	181,890
102	Just Got Paid	Johnny Kemp	179,210
103	Rush Hour	Jane Wiedlin	178,500
104	Please Don’t Go Girl	New Kids on the Block	176,260
105	I Saw Him Standing There	Tiffany	173,700
106	Forever Young	Rod Stewart	172,850
107	Kiss Me Daddy	Lita Ford	171,460
108	It Would Take a Strong Man	Rick Astley	171,270
109	Love Will Save the Day	Whitney Houston	170,460
110	Some Kind of Love	Jody Watley	170,300

I was really hoping Hysteria would at least make the top 110 (this year really could’ve used some more Def Leppard), but alas, despite peaking in the top 10, it wasn’t meant to be

[phieaglesfan712]

At least Welcome to the Jungle made it.

What happened to Don’t Rush Me? Is it going to make 1989 or does it get caught between years?

[mikerivera]

Don’t Rush Me had 104k points in 88. It’ll most likely get caught between years. And if you think that song getting caught is bad...well, I guess you’ll just have to wait and see what else misses

[inverse]

Jul 29, 2021 7:28:36 GMT -5 phieaglesfan712 said:

mikerivera's impact!

[gikem]

Forgot to mention, I'm surprised there's only one song in this entire new YE for 1988 that didn't crack the top 10. That period must have had a lot of top 10 turnover, even moreso than most other years of the '80s we've covered.

[inverse]

Jul 29, 2021 14:17:19 GMT -5 mikerivera said:

 For example, Red Red Wine’s total chart run lasted a then-record 40 weeks.

That wasn't quite the record at the time. "I Go Crazy" was also 40 weeks and "Tainted Love" had 43 a few years before

It is absolutely insane though that there was literally not a single song with more than 7 weeks in the top 10. Not even sure how that happens!

[mikerivera]

I forgot about Tainted Love. Just goes to show that I forget all of these little facts right after entering them. In any case, my point about overall chart runs starting to last longer remains. It’s weird to me that it didn’t translate to the top 10 whatsoever. I’d really love to find out what drove the short runs. My guess is that MTV started cycling through songs at a very rapid rate (hence why this started after 1983), but I can’t say for sure. And what caused ‘88 to be the point when overall runs started lasting longer again-to the point that Billboard would introduce the 20/50 recurrent rule just a few years later

[mikerivera]

Oh and one more point. I’m pretty sure Billboard changed their inverse formula for this year end chart, getting away from the 90-1 inverse for 11-100 that had existed previously. Otherwise, even with a peak of only #19, Push It by Salt-n-Pepa would have made the original list. It had 1,390 points through that system and started charting in late November, which means it easily would have made any of the early 80s lists and even the mid 80s

[phieaglesfan712]

Jul 29, 2021 14:58:34 GMT -5 mikerivera said:

And what caused ‘88 to be the point when overall runs started lasting longer again-to the point that Billboard would introduce the 20/50 recurrent rule just a few years later

Could it have been The Rockafeller Skank by Fatboy Slim that caused the recurrent rule to be added? I believe the song came out around this time, and just continued to chart in the bottom quardrant for like 25+ weeks.

[mikerivera]

That song came out in 1998, not ‘88. Which means it Billboard let it dodge recurrency. Just in case y’all think One Too Many is anything new

[inverse]

Jul 29, 2021 15:03:46 GMT -5 mikerivera said:

Oh and one more point. I’m pretty sure Billboard changed their inverse formula for this year end chart, getting away from the 90-1 inverse for 11-100 that had existed previously. Otherwise, even with a peak of only #19, Push It by Salt-n-Pepa would have made the original list. It had 1,390 points through that system and started charting in late November, which means it easily would have made any of the early 80s lists and even the mid 80s

Ooh I would have loved to see this hit the year end. I guess it got a bit caught between years but how much points would its full run have had?

[mikerivera]

Well on my list, it never had a shot. It only got 158k total points (although that would have gotten it onto the earlier lists). I was moreso talking about the official Billboard lists, where the cutoff for the earlier lists was usually in the 900 point range. Push It was well above that threshold, and would have had all its weeks count toward one year. So even if it didn’t hit a year end, I’d still call it a hit

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Jul 29, 2021 14:29:45 GMT -5 mikerivera said:

Don’t Rush Me had 104k points in 88. It’ll most likely get caught between years. And if you think that song getting caught is bad...well, I guess you’ll just have to wait and see what else misses

Let me guess, Smooth Criminal is getting caught between years. It barely made the 1989 list, and removing its weeks from December of '88 would likely kick it out completely.

[Private Dancer]

Awww man I was hoping that Taylor Dayne would have 4 on the YE# and I really wanted to see where Tell It To My Heart would end up

[Private Dancer]

And Tell It To My Heart had the most weeks on the chart for any sing out of the 80s

[inverse]

Here's 1962! This is honestly a really jarring shift from doing a bunch of years in the mid 60's because the longevity is all of a sudden way higher in part because there used to be a recurrent rule that dropped songs off if they were below 50 and going down but now they can just drift down. The other big difference is in quality, like we went from some of the greatest years of all time (at least before 2009 blew them all away) and now there's at least three actually terrible songs in the top 10 & just nothing at all in terms of classics or really anything people would care about. But hey these years need chronicling too and also we got an upgrade at song #1

1	Ray Charles	I Can't Stop Loving You	568800	1 (x5)	18	11
2	Acker Bilk	Stranger On The Shore	534551	1	21	11
3	Bobby Vinton	Roses Are Red (My Love)	506574	1 (x4)	15	10
4	The Four Seasons	Sherry	461340	1 (x5)	14	7
5	Dee Dee Sharp	Mashed Potato Time	459252	2	18	9
6	Shelley Fabares	Johnny Angel	458993	1 (x2)	15	9
7	Chubby Checker	The Twist	458121	1 (x2)	14	9
8	The Shirelles	Soldier Boy	440543	1 (x3)	14	8
9	The Four Seasons	Big Girls Don't Cry	439711	1 (x5)	11	9
10	Gene Chandler	Duke Of Earl	436759	1 (x3)	15	8
11	Bruce Channel	Hey! Baby	431527	1 (x3)	15	8
12	David Rose	The Stripper	431158	1	17	9
13	Joey Dee & The Starliters	Peppermint Twist	424244	1 (x3)	12	9
14	The Crystals	He's A Rebel	407526	1	17	7
15	Little Eva	The Loco-Motion	406410	1	16	7
16	Nat King Cole	Ramblin' Rose	403587	2	16	8
17	Neil Sedaka	Breaking Up Is Hard To Do	401332	1 (x2)	14	7
18	Bobby "Boris" Pickett	Monster Mash	395921	1 (x2)	14	7
19	Elvis Presley	Return To Sender	389414	2	11	9
20	Elvis Presley	Good Luck Charm	379023	1 (x2)	13	7
21	Tommy Roe	Sheila	373117	1 (x2)	14	6
22	Chubby Checker	Limbo Rock	372662	2	17	8
23	The Orlons	The Wah-Watusi	347442	2	14	6
24	Connie Francis	Don't Break The Heart That Loves You	345624	1	13	6
25	Dion	The Wanderer	333483	2	14	7
26	Brenda Lee	All Alone Am I	327856	3	14	7
27	Kenny Ball	Midnight In Moscow	325958	2	14	7
28	Freddy Cannon	Palisades Park	325035	3	15	7
29	Chubby Checker & Dee Dee Sharp	Slow Twistin'	323022	3	14	7
30	The Contours	Do You Love Me	314181	3	18	5
31	Booker T. & The M.G.'s	Green Onions	312383	3	16	6
32	Johnny Tillotson	It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin'	311530	3	14	6
33	The Sensations	Let Me In	305269	4	18	4
34	Marcie Blane	Bobby's Girl	296321	3	11	7
35	Elvis Presley	Can't Help Falling In Love	295106	2	10	7
36	Brian Hyland	Sealed With A Kiss	294915	3	14	6
37	Sue Thompson	Norman	294886	3	12	7
38	Gene Pitney	Only Love Can Break A Heart	289830	2	14	4
39	Dickey Lee	Patches	279147	6	14	7
40	Barbara George	I Know (You Don't Love Me No More)	276212	3	12	6
41	Claude King	Wolverton Mountain	275364	6	16	4
42	Brenda Lee	Break It To Me Gently	275132	4	13	7
43	Bent Fabric	Alley Cat	265175	7	18	3
44	Ray Charles	You Don't Know Me	261319	2	11	5
45	Chris Montez	Let's Dance	256523	4	14	5
46	Mary Wells	The One Who Really Loves You	247894	8	17	3
47	The Orlons	Don't Hang Up	245897	4	12	6
48	The Tokens	The Lion Sleeps Tonight	245871	1	8	5
49	Jay & The Americans	She Cried	245578	5	14	3
50	The Marvelettes	Playboy	242228	7	15	5
51	Rick Nelson	Young World	240249	5	13	4
52	Ketty Lester	Love Letters	235623	5	14	3
53	Pat Boone	Speedy Gonzales	234972	6	13	5
54	Claudine Clark	Party Lights	234597	5	15	3
55	Gary U.S. Bonds	Dear Lady Twist	234122	9	13	3
56	The Everly Brothers	Crying In The Rain	234095	6	13	5
57	Gene Pitney	(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance	230594	4	13	5
58	Sam Cooke	Twistin' The Night Away	230202	9	15	2
59	The Tornados	Telstar	228047	1 (x2)	9	4
60	Dion	Lovers Who Wander	227969	3	12	4
61	Clyde McPhatter	Lover Please	227168	7	14	4
62	Ray Stevens	Ahab The Arab	227149	5	11	5
63	Bobby Darin	Things	226926	3	12	5
64	Tony Bennett	I Left My Heart In San Francisco	222975	19	21
65	Joanie Sommers	Johnny Get Angry	220144	7	14	2
66	Emilio Pericoli	Al Di Là	220042	6	14	3
67	Johnny Mathis	Gina	218824	6	12	5
68	The Shirelles	Baby It's You	217098	8	12	2
69	Don & Juan	What's Your Name	216011	7	13	4
70	Neil Sedaka	Next Door To An Angel	215424	5	11	5
71	Ernie Maresca	Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out)	214256	6	14	3
72	Roy Orbison	Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)	213477	4	12	3
73	Elvis Presley	She's Not You	212191	5	10	5
74	Burl Ives	A Little Bitty Tear	210645	9	12	2
75	The Beach Boys	Surfin' Safari	208662	14	17
76	Joey Dee & The Starliters	Shout	207253	6	12	4
77	Jimmy Clanton	Venus In Blue Jeans	203951	7	13	1
78	Richard Chamberlain	Theme From Dr. Kildare	203901	10	14	1
79	The Highwaymen	Cotton Fields	200016	13	13
80	Walter Brennan	Old Rivers	198208	5	11	4
81	Dee Dee Sharp	Ride!	196896	5	11	4
82	Brenda Lee	Everybody Loves Me But You	196748	6	11	3
83	Frank Ifield	I Remember You	194803	5	11	4
84	Rick Nelson	Teen Age Idol	193395	5	11	4
85	The Isley Brothers	Twist And Shout	191268	17	16
86	The Duprees	You Belong To Me	190874	7	13	2
87	Johnny Crawford	Cindy's Birthday	187999	8	13	2
88	Ace Cannon	Tuff	187695	17	15
89	Joe Henderson	Snap Your Fingers	187121	8	12	1
90	Chubby Checker	Popeye (The Hitchhiker)	185894	10	13	1
91	Dave "Baby" Cortez	Rinky Dink	185542	10	14	1
92	Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass	The Lonely Bull (El Toro Solitario)	185514	6	10	3
93	Mary Wells	You Beat Me To The Punch	184143	9	12	2
94	Jimmy Dean	PT-109	181330	8	11	3
95	Barbara Lynn	You'll Lose A Good Thing	181032	8	13	1
96	James Darren	Her Royal Majesty	180465	6	11	3
97	The Corsairs	Smoky Places	179457	12	14
98	Mike Clifford	Close To Cathy	177729	12	13
99	Sam Cooke	Having A Party	175965	17	15
100	Larry Finnegan	Dear One	175024	11	14

I'm not 100% sure The Lion Sleeps Tonight made 1961 it had 183k that year so if the cutoff is insanely high then this might be its only year. The Twist is repeating from the 1960 year end list but could it have made 1961 as well? Stay tuned 0.o

[inverse]

So Billboard did their cursed 44 week year shtick again so you know the rules, anything from the bottom 20 gets bounced! Mass destruction of a bunch of Twists

#60 - Moon River
#72 - Uptown
#76 - Love Me Warm And Tender
#78 - She's Got You
#82 - Funny Way Of Laughin'
#83 - A Swingin' Safari
#84 - Tell Me
#86 - Little Diane
#87 - Percolator (Twist)
#88 - Twist, Twist Senora
#89 - Twistin' Matilda
#90 - Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes)
#91 - Walk On The Wild Side
#92 - Soul Twist
#93 - I'll Never Dance Again
#94 - I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song)
#95 - Where Have All The Flowers Gone
#96 - (Girls, Girls, Girls) Made To Love
#97 - Town Without Pity
#98 - If I Had A Hammer
#99 - I Wish That We Were Married

Next closest 10

101	Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd	Desafinado	174779
102	Peter, Paul & Mary	If I Had A Hammer	173227
103	Bobby Rydell	The Cha-Cha-Cha	173051
104	Paul Anka	Love Me Warm And Tender	172808
105	Bobby Vee	Run To Him	171931
106	Dion	Little Diane	171259
107	Gary U.S. Bonds	Twist, Twist Senora	171002
108	Sammy Davis Jr.	What Kind Of Fool Am I	170084
109	Dee Dee Sharp	Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes)	169611
110	The Crystals	Uptown	167666

[inverse]

Good lord this year was an experience. I do actually listen to the songs a lot while i'm doing these and going from the mid 60's to this was such a drop that I'm thinking I should have started in 1960 and then just gone linearly. It's just crazy to think that the music explosion that happened in the mid 60's was such a fever dream at this point (we're at the point where the Everly Brothers were having top 10 hits lol) Also there were a ton of ripoff songs this year. I guess I should have seen it coming because there were 9 different Twists on the original year end and five on mine but looking at the weekly charts there were so many more. Like every single week there would be one or two Twists debuting that would then leave quickly. And it wasn't just Twists, like every single time that a somewhat unique song hit there'd be a few people jumping on the bandwagon, sometimes the original artist themself (see song #109). It's probably because there was just so little for anyone to care about that the longevity was so much higher this year. Limbo Rock by Chubby Checker had a 23 week chart run which would have been at #3 on this list if all its weeks were in one year and is the longest I've seen so far not counting a couple songs with two separate runs.

[gikem]

Finally got around to updating the playlist. 19 new songs added for 1962, which I think might be a record for these revised YEs (maybe close with 1965, I haven't checked too thoroughly).

[Clode]

I would like to see someone on here do the January-December Year-Ends of 1970-1979, I'll be curious to know which Songs from those years end up on top. 

[phieaglesfan712]

Yeah, I want to see mikerivera do 1979 next.

Also, even if it does not make the 1961 list, The Lion Sleeps Tonight will make another appearance in the early 1970s.

[mikerivera]

I’ve been thinking about that. And I’ve decided that I’m going to do the 1970s after finishing the 1991 list. That said, I think I’m going to take a break and get to it next year. I’m gonna have a busy schedule coming up after August, so using this as an off period would be nice. But rest assured, I will be getting to it. In fact, if I have some extra time, I might just begin working on them during my off period, and depending on how many I end up making, I could post the charts on weekly basis in 2022 instead of biweekly (we’ll have to see). And yes, I will post a 2021 chart in December as well.

[gikem]

Jul 31, 2021 18:32:36 GMT -5 Clode said:

I would like to see someone on here do the January-December Year-Ends of 1970-1979, I'll be curious to know which Songs from those years end up on top. 

I'm most interested to see what an updated 1974 YE would look like, especially as there were several #1 hits toward the end of that year like Whatever Gets You Through The Night and You Haven't Done Nothin' that missed the YE entirely.

[Private Dancer]

Jul 31, 2021 19:01:22 GMT -5 mikerivera said:

I’ve been thinking about that. And I’ve decided that I’m going to do the 1970s after finishing the 1991 list. That said, I think I’m going to take a break and get to it next year. I’m gonna have a busy schedule coming up after August, so using this as an off period would be nice. But rest assured, I will be getting to it. In fact, if I have some extra time, I might just begin working on them during my off period, and depending on how many I end up making, I could post the charts on weekly basis in 2022 instead of biweekly (we’ll have to see). And yes, I will post a 2021 chart in December as well.

What format are you using and how are you calculating the YE#? Also,Thanks for your hard work and enjoy your break. These lists are very nice to look at.