How were Radio & Records Year End calculated?

[Private Dancer]

So I'm on this website www.popradiotop20.com/Year/RR.htm
And I'm looking at the year end on r&b and pop and things aren't adding up.

1. How in the hell in 1984 did Jump make the #1 year end. I couldve sworn they were bigger songs than that year

2. Crazy For You by Madonna...I know nobody was playing it that much to make it #1 on the year end.

3. You mean to tell me Stuck With You was a bigger radio hit than On My Own, That's What Friends are For, and When I Think Of You? How is it On My Own is #4 on the BB YE but #16 on R&R

4. Who in the hell was playing Get Out Of My Dreams more than the other songs that year?

5. I love Mariah but I know vision if love wasnt the most played 1990.

6. In 1993, I know damn well If I Had No Loot was not getting major pop airplay like that

7.Also, how Gladys get to #2 with Neither One Of Us and it peaked outside the top ten on the radio charts?

How are these year end charts calculated? And can someone explain my 7 questions cause I am genuinely confused.

[imbondz]

Jump and Crazy For You were played non stop back then. I don’t remember Stuck With You being that huge but Huey Lewis and the News were like Maroon 5-ish back then. Anything they put out in that 5 year span was played on the radio constantly.

I always thought Jump should have stayed at #1 longer. Crazy For You was from a great movie and was probably played all year long.

[imbondz]

Also, I’m guessing since that was pre-soundscan, radio reporting wasn’t as accurate but those songs you listed were huge.

[imbondz]

The weirdest one I’ve seen so far on that list is I Will Always Love You only being #16. That song was played every hour without fail.

[Private Dancer]

Sept 17, 2020 8:05:40 GMT -5 imbondz said:

The weirdest one I’ve seen so far on that list is I Will Always Love You only being #16. That song was played every hour without fail.

Exactly! Something not adding up

[Private Dancer]

Sept 17, 2020 15:14:52 GMT -5 @bobpatience said:

I Will Always Love you just had a very short chart run. In November 1992 it got three weeks (23 - 9 - 1), and then from December 1992 on (which is the start of tracking for 1993 YE) it got a further 11 weeks, 6 of those being at the top. Compared to other 1993 YE songs 11 weeks is a very low amount, and even if its full run of 14 weeks, 7 at No. 1, counted, I think it still would have been No. 8 at most on the 1993 YE chart.

Is this R&R year end counted by points or spins?

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

It wouldn’t be based on spins until April 1994.

[Private Dancer]

Think I understand it now. I swear 70s, 80s, and early 90s so inaccurate.

[degen]

Sept 17, 2020 15:14:52 GMT -5 @bobpatience said:

I Will Always Love you just had a very short chart run. In November 1992 it got three weeks (23 - 9 - 1), and then from December 1992 on (which is the start of tracking for 1993 YE) it got a further 11 weeks, 6 of those being at the top. Compared to other 1993 YE songs 11 weeks is a very low amount, and even if its full run of 14 weeks, 7 at No. 1, counted, I think it still would have been No. 8 at most on the 1993 YE chart.

IWALY chart run was split between 2 years. This is why I never really measure a songs year end placement to its overall success. It’s not looking at the whole picture.