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This is a list of songs in the music industry that have peaked at number-one on the Radio & Records singles chart.It was created in 1973, and monitored the most popular singles in terms of popular radio play that were based on and/or compiled from a panel consisting of Top 40/CHR stations in the United States (and Canada during the Radio & Records years from 1973 to 1994) that served as reporters.
Radio & Records (R&R) was a trade publication providing news and airplay information for the radio and music industries. [1] It started as an independent trade from 1973 to 2006 until VNU Media took over in 2006 and became a relaunched sister trade to Billboard , until its final issue in 2009.
List of record charts. A record chart, also known as a music chart, is a method of ranking music judging by the popularity during a given period of time. Although primarily a marketing or supermarketing tool like any other sales statistic, they have become a form of popular media culture in their own right. Record charts are compiled using a ...
January 17. "That's What Friends Are For". Dionne & Friends ( Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder) January 24. January 31. "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going". Billy Ocean. February 7. "How Will I Know".
Roxette. June 22. "Step by Step". New Kids on the Block. June 29. July 6. "She Ain't Worth It". Glenn Medeiros featuring Bobby Brown. July 13.
On January 4, 1936, Billboard magazine published its first pop chart based on record sales. [7] Titled "Ten Best Records for Week Ending", it listed the 10 top-selling records of three leading record companies as reported by the companies themselves. In March 1937, the "Songs with the Most Radio Plugs" chart debuted with data from a separate ...
On October 21, 2000, American Top 40 began using an unpublished chart on a weekly basis for the first time in its history. The chart seemed to be a variant of the CHR/Pop chart provided by Mediabase, the data provider to Radio & Records. The most noticeable feature of this new chart was its ambiguous recurrent rule.
January 24. January 31. February 7. "Black Water". The Doobie Brothers. February 14. February 21. "Have You Never Been Mellow". Olivia Newton-John.