Talk:Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1975

1975 errors

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According to the Some Kind of Wonderful article there was an error that placed Some Kind of Wonderful by Grand Funk Railroad at #6, when really it should be #74, this error is reflected in this article citing Casey Kasem's Countdown from that year. Looking on Billboards site Some Kind of Wonderful never reached #1 on the charts in 1975 which would make placing it at #6 erroneous but I do not have a source other than longboredsurfer and other blogs to verify. Does someone have access to the Billboard site to view the full chart for 1975 to cite what is correct? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gimpboy76 (talk • contribs) 17:49, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

The actual chart as published in the December 27, 1975 Billboard magazine can be found here: http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/70s/1975/Billboard-1975-12-27.pdf (on page 38). Also, the same chart aired on American Top 40 during the weeks of December 27, 1975 and January 3, 1976. The cue sheet for the 1/3/76 show is here: http://www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/01-03-76.pdf (see page 4). Both of these show "Some Kind of Wonderful" as the #6 song of 1975. It was such an egregious error (a song can peak at #3 and be ranked that highly at the end of the year, but it would have had to spend a lot longer on the Hot 100 than 13 weeks, which is what the Grand Funk song did) that it must have been corrected at some point, but I'm still researching to see if I can find when (or if) Billboard admitted it messed up the chart. Cheemo (talk) 19:06, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Note: records that never reached particularly high positions on weekly Hot 100s have peaked high on the end-of-the-year chart. Witness, for example, Patsy Cline's "I Fall to Pieces", which peaked at #12 on 4 September 1961, but ranked at #2 for all of 1961, or Kris Kristofferson's "Why Me", which peaked at #16 on 10 November 1973, but ranked at #6 for all of 1973. However, such records also had a significant total point counts, allowing for high end-of-the-year positions. Not so with Grand Funk's "Some Kind of Wonderful", whose 67-38-29-23-19-15-12-10-6-4-3-5-30 run could not have racked up such a significant total point count.98.149.97.245 (talk) 16:07, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

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