Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Billboard Hot 100 & Best Sellers in Stores number-one singles by decade Before August 1958 1940–1949 1950–1958 After August 1958 1958–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2019 2020–2029 US Singles Chart Billboard magazine The Billboard Hot 100 chart is the main song chart of the American music industry and is updated every week by the Billboard magazine. During ...
60 "The House of the Rising Sun" Frijid Pink: 61 "25 or 6 to 4" Chicago: 62 "My Baby Loves Lovin'" White Plains: 63 "Love or Let Me Be Lonely" The Friends of Distinction: 64 "United We Stand" The Brotherhood of Man: 65 "We've Only Just Begun" The Carpenters: 66 "Arizona" Mark Lindsay: 67 "Fire and Rain" James Taylor: 68 "Groovy Situation" Gene ...
60 "Down by the Station" The Four Preps: 61 "Forever" The Little Dippers 62 "Image of a Girl" The Safaris & The Phantom's Band 63 "Kiddio" Brook Benton: 64 "Mission Bell" Donnie Brooks: 65 "I Love the Way You Love" Marv Johnson: 66 "It's Time to Cry" Paul Anka: 67 "Tell Laura I Love Her" Ray Peterson: 68 "Mama" Connie Francis: 69 "Footsteps ...
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music, broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock, from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music.
By 2000, Jammin' Oldies stations had different approaches, with some playing only 60s and 70s music, and others focusing more on the 80s, with still others such as WMOJ playing early rap. KMBX played no 60s music, while WJJJ (which was co-owned with oldies WWSW) added songs from the 80s and 90s and de-emphasized Motown.
"Ue o Muite Arukō" (Japanese: 上を向いて歩こう, "I Look Up as I Walk"), alternatively titled "Sukiyaki", is a song by Japanese crooner Kyu Sakamoto, first released in Japan in 1961. The song topped the charts in a number of countries, including the U.S. Billb
The classic hits format as it is known today began to take shape in the mid 2000s when oldies radio stations started having audience and ratings issues. [10] They believed that they could not be successful with the oldies format and needed to update the music and presentation to stay relevant in the 25-54 demographic on which advertising ...
By 1986, the success of the format resulted in oldies accounting for 60–80% of the music played on album rock stations. [16] Although it began as a niche format spun off from AOR, by 2001, classic rock had surpassed album rock in market share nationally.