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August 11, 2015
Number One With A Bullet: The Rise of the Billboard Hot 100
The magazine that now tells you that more people enjoyed Justin Bieber than Ed Sheeran that week started out as a circus trade rag in the 19th century, and spent the following decades undergoing more loop de loops and drops than a Skrillex song.| Atlas Obscura
Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 11, 2015 8:35 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Aw, that Billboard stuff is a bunch of hooey.
My uncle Letsgo The Bantam King Lozko once had a quartet of chickens that lip-synched Beatles tunes. They did alright but couldn't hold instruments.
They were rated at 732 on the Billboard Hot 100. Letsgo thinks the game was rigged by the anti-chicken people that work there.
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at August 12, 2015 6:34 AM
At least Billboard adapted, as opposed to Sears, GM, Montgomery Ward and others a few decades back.
Posted by: BillH at August 12, 2015 7:38 AM
They don't make Studebakers any more.
Placenta Juan and the Afterbirth Kings are not even listed.
Posted by: chasmatic at August 13, 2015 9:45 PM