BB SHEDS AIRPLAY FACTOR
IN TOP HALF OF HOT 100
NEW YORK-The top half of Billboard's Hot 100 chart
will no longer utilize the airplay ingredient it had been using in the
past because of the number of Top 40 format stations which have
changed the tabulating process of their printed playlists. This part of
the chart is now being tabulated solely from dealers' sales reports
from 21 markets across the country.
For the past several months, Top 40 stations have been leaning
toward a tighter printed playlist. Many records on their way up have
been dropped from station lists making room for stronger new
product, or because the station management decided the sound of the
disk was not what they desired for their audience, despite the fact
that there were sales in the market.
The bottom half of the "Hot 100" and the "Bubbling" chart still
involves the ingredients of dealer sales reports and the Top 40 sta-
tions' printed lists. In this area of the chart, the airplay reflection is re-
quired for the newer product to enable chart movement.
With this change, in the first 50 positions, the "star performer"
rating in that area is now based upon a 25 per cent increase in dealer
sales reports for the individual record from one week to the next.
Similarly, disks in the bottom half of the "Hot 100" chart must reflect
an across-the-board increase of 25 per cent in both dealer sales reports and Top 40 airplay combined.
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