The way we consumed music was completely, utterly different on November 12, 1955, the date in which Billboard magazine first published its all-encompassing Top 100 chart.
(It’s also, side note, the date in which some strange thingshappened in the fictional town of Hill Valley, California, but I digress.)
Back then, the American public wasn’t exposed to new music by social media, streaming, or taste-making websites. Instead, it was driven by the radio, television, touring musicians, jukeboxes, and maybe whatever was on store shelves at the time. That’s it. Large-scale concerts weren’t even a phenomenon until the 1960s. The chart, as a result, reflects a simpler time.
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