Billboard’s ‘Hot 100’ Changed the Way Pop Music Was Charted
2015-08-03
Fifty-seven years ago this week, Ricky Nelson (top) sat at #1 on Billboard Magazine’s first Hot 100 chart, which offered a new way of tabulating the popularity of music recordings. The Hot 100 was in fact preceded by a chart called “Top 100 Sides” that showed the Perez Prado Orchestra (above)Continue Reading