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The magazine's title referenced the popular music "hit parade", a list of current hit singles determined either by sales or airplay. In its early years, the magazine largely consisted of lyrics to the hit songs of the day, a practice that remained until 1975 when licensing of the rights became too expensive.
The Your Hit Parade chart was established in April 1935, which operated under a proprietary formula to determine the popularity of a song based on five factors, including 1) record sales (divided between a) retail and b) wholesale), 2) sheet-music copies of the song (both retail and wholesale), 3) number of radio plays, a category that is sub ...
The Frank Sinatra Your Hit Parade cardboard fan, designed like a tobacco leaf, is a rare collectible. Your Hit Parade began on NBC April 20, 1935, as a 60-minute program with 15 songs played in a random format before presenting the number 1 song. Initially, the songs were more important than the singers, so a stable of vocalists went uncredited ...
A hit parade is a ranked list of the most popular recordings at a given point in time, usually determined either by sales or airplay.The term originated in the 1930s; Billboard magazine published its first music hit parade on January 4, 1936.
UK singles chart number ones UK singles chart 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Other charts Melody Maker – 1956–1969 Melody Maker – 1970s Melody Maker – 1980s NME – 1960s NME – 1970s NME – 1980s Record Mirror (1955–1962) Miscellaneous charts 1952–1969 Miscellaneous charts 1969–1988 Related Official Charts Company Christmas number one Melody Maker was a ...
Since Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" in 2009, every video that has reached the top of the "most-viewed YouTube videos" list has been a music video. In November 2005, a Nike advertisement featuring Brazilian football player Ronaldinho became the first video to reach 1,000,000 views. [1] The billion-view mark was first passed by Gangnam Style in ...
This is a list of the number-one hits of 1971 on Italian Hit Parade Singles Chart. [1] Issue Date Song Artist January 2 "Anna" Lucio Battisti: January 9 January 16
The CHUM Chart is a long-running Canadian hit parade countdown radio show, originally aired on Toronto radio station CHUM AM then later revived on its sister station CHUM-FM. It consisted of 50 top tunes from May 1957 to July 1968, but in August 1968, the top 50 song list was reduced to 30 top songs until the final hit parade was issued in June ...