Post by Love Machine on Oct 14, 2008 14:14:24 GMT -5
Music Lists 1940-1999
PLEASE READ ALL CAREFULLY!!
The purpose of this blog is to cultivate a community of music lovers everywhere. My background in music is unimportant, but I will say that I am a big lover of most types of music. The vast majority of the songs from these lists I already have, and am passionately seeking out the other songs I do not have. I chose to include all the decades from the 1940's-1990's to encourage people of all ages to check out and participate in my blog.
This blog will list the top songs of each year from the 1940's, 1950's, 1960's, 1970's, 1980's & 1990's. Each decade has a specific criteria for song inclusion which I will outline.
*Each years songs all charted in the Billboard Hot 100, except where noted.
*Each song has been assigned a point value based off of it's performance on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. (I cannot legally reproduce the Billboard Hot 100 charting information, but I can list each songs point value based off of a formula I devised from it's chart performance). I feel this formula is a much better way of determining the top songs ranking from each year, as it relies more on overall performance as opposed to specific hard numbers.
*To be included on the main set list, each song much have garnered at least 2500 RG Points, or achieved a specific peak position threshold for each decade:
1940-1954 = Top 10
1955-1999 = 2500 RG Points
Feedback and suggestions are welcome, but I will tell you that I have ran over dozens of different scoring options, and this one is by far the most fair and logical. That being said, I'm very comfortable, and pretty set, on the ranking system.
If anyone is interested in trading some music, I am always open for that. Just give me a holler and we can discuss what is on our need lists.