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Thanks. — Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 09:36, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

Album Top 100

Template:Album chart should links to Album Top 100 instead of MegaCharts like in singles case. Eurohunter (talk) 10:47, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

@Eurohunter:  Done. I also piped the dutch compilation albums to Compilation Top 30. --Muhandes (talk) 08:31, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Canada's Chart Archives (RPM Magazine)

It would be fantastic to find some like minded individuals dedicated to the preservation of Canada's rich musical history. As a concert lighting engineer as well as a regular DJ since the 80's, I find myself working frequently with a good number of classic rock artists. Loverboy, Streetheart, Harlequin, The Headpins, Prism, Chilliwack, Doug & The Slugs, Haywire, Trooper, Queen City Kids, Helix, April Wine, Platinum Blonde, Honeymoon Suite, 54-40, Big Sugar, are all band/artists I've worked with in the past year alone. My focus pre & post concert has always been on Canadian content.

I've spend a good portion of the last 25 years archiving charts. This began with Whitburn books in 1995 & compiling them into a single complete Excel spreadsheet from 1956-present. This led to me taking on the position as a music director for a prominent background music company in Canada, where this information was embedded into the meta tags of .flac files as well as well as .mp4 files.

When this project began, online access to Canadian charts from RPM & The Record were non existent. As a result US based Billboard serves as the reference point for basically the entire music library. More recently, a number of online sources have appeared for RPM Magazine, none of which are complete. I've yet to see anything from the Record other than print copies I own. With that said these current sources have provided an excellent starting point.

One tool has been Canada's Library of Archives on-line resource, all poorly scanned .pdf's. Over the past year I've used spare time to embed chart information into my music library. This began with Year End chart positions into an open field within my Tag Editor and have recently began entering in each tracks peak position. Finding lots of errors with the print publication & what's listed on Wikipedia.

In addition there are a great number of charts from LAC either missing or cross referenced very poorly. I've made some contacts who are working in the background to make this information more readily available and improve on the current product. Earlier today the long missing 1972 Year End RPM chart was forwarded my way from the Library of Archives & I've already used it to make a few alterations on Wikipedia. In doing I've found things can get rather tedious when editing, and this is from someone whose been physically entering chart information for 25 years, so thought I'd turn here for some help.

Anyways, here I am. If anyone can offer any insight that would be great. Perhaps someone has experience with the creation of another countries chart history, so even if you have no interest in Canadian content, your input may prove invaluable.

Perhaps there a whole group of people already engaged in this task. If so I'm here to help. Feel free to reach out to me.

With that said, I currently have zero idea how to check correspondence or if anyone will even see what I've wrote.

Just noticed I can "watch this page", so I'm waiting! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Djjamesfalk (talk • contribs) 06:40, 7 February 2019 (UTC)