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Re:Every top 5 song from 1958 to 2016 by dbalan on Friday May 06, 2016 @08:54AM (#11643595)
Its quite easy tracking song popularity down to number plays, thanks to the streaming services, but thats now. Any idea where the old data is coming from? Couldn't find any links on the site.
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Re:Every top 5 song from 1958 to 2016 by danielsf on Friday May 06, 2016 @09:08AM (#11643665)
i made this. you can get much of it from billboard, though i used the whitburn project.
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Re:Every top 5 song from 1958 to 2016 by plasticxme on Friday May 06, 2016 @09:08AM (#11643667)
It use to be tracked by radio song requests and sales of singles.
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