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The new chart was billed as a "trade service feature," based on the "10 best selling records of the past week" at a selection of national retailers from New York to Los Angeles. Shown is a list of songs that topped the National Best Selling Retail Records chart.
The jukebox chart ceased publication after the June 17, 1957, issue, the disk jockey chart after July 28, 1958, and the best-seller chart after October 13, 1958. [13] After July 28, 1958, the composite chart the "Top 100" chart was also discontinued; [ 14 ] and the "Hot 100" began the following week on August 4, 1958, listing " Poor Little Fool ...
July 21 – Release of the musical film Stormy Weather starring Lena Horne, "Bojangles" Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, the Nicholas Brothers and other African American performers. July 24 WWII: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian airplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of the operation in November ...
Erskine Hawkins and his orchestra had the year's longest-running chart-topper. In 1943, Billboard magazine published a chart ranking the "most popular records in Harlem " under the title of the Harlem Hit Parade. Placings were based on a survey of record stores primarily in the Harlem district of New York City, an area noted for its African American population which has been called the "black ...
4. 1943-S Lincoln Cent Struck on Bronze — $282,000. The U.S. transitioned away from bronze pennies in 1943. But a few bronze planchets, a blank coin with no design, may have been left behind ...
The data is considered likely un-comprehensive but still used the same definition of strikes as later periods. For this era, all strikes with more than six workers or less than one day were excluded. [3]: 2–3, 36 No concrete data was collected for the amount of strikes from 1906 to 1913 federally. [3]: 2-3, (8-9 in pdf)
Prior to incorporating chart data from Nielsen SoundScan (from 1991), year-end charts were calculated by an inverse-point system based solely on a title's performance (for example a single appearing on the Billboard Hot 100 would be given one point for a week spent at position 100, two points for a week spent at position ninety-nine, and so forth, up to 100 points for each week spent at number ...
1943 in the United States by state or territory (50 C) 1943 events in the United States by month (11 C) 1943 disestablishments in the United States (24 C, 12 P)