Those MP3 Collections of Billboard Top 100 Singles

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...are incredible. Even if the sound quality is usually pretty bad, and the songs are occasionally latter-day remakes and stuff. This is the kind of thing that basically couldn't exist in a legit form, right? Negotiating the licensing rights would be nightmarish, the price would be outrageous.

Anyway, I've downloaded all of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Now I'm working on the 60s and 50s. This stuff is almost all that I listen to now.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

what is this?

― matt2 (matt2), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Go to any big bittorrent site and search for "billboard." You'll find collections of billboard's top 100 singles by year. They're about 500 megs per year.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

These are probably on Soulseek too. Bittorrent is usually faster.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

grouped together in order or something?

― matt2 (matt2), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah. By year. So you can get the top 100 singles of, say, 1964.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd just link to them, but that's probably against the rules.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

http://books.google.com/books?id=-A4EAAAAMBAJ

― Long, helmet-defying hair (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 17:36 (seventeen years ago)

Wow. Nice find, forks.

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/aparsonseye.jpg

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 17:42 (seventeen years ago)

For those who can't be bothered to click, googlebooks has scanned in every issue of Billboard.

― Long, helmet-defying hair (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 17:45 (seventeen years ago)

or well, most of them at least.

― Long, helmet-defying hair (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 17:47 (seventeen years ago)

most of the '80s are missing, but yeah, this is incredibly nice

― Matos W.K., Wednesday, 29 April 2009 18:01 (seventeen years ago)

rookie question. I'm hoping to find a free online repository of the hot 100 from 2001 onward, but I'm out of google terms. I need to construct a list of not the #1 songs, but the #2 & #3 songs. If a link is easily posted, I'd be grateful / feel free to send email to this user etc.

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 18:55 (seventeen years ago)

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