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Rolling Stone charts

@Nice4What compiled some useful advice regarding the new Rolling Stone Top 100 and Top 200 that can be found at WP:RSCHART. I'd recommend anybody contributing to the WikiProject give it a look. Thanks TheKaphox T 14:14, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Billboard Year-End Top Singles 1946-1949

Is there a reason these pages don't exist? There are pages for 1950 on, but these four years are unaccounted for. Jtbrubak (talk) 18:38, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Probably because either nobody has ever bothered to create the pages, or they don't have access to the sources to add as references, or both. Richard3120 (talk) 18:47, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Jtbrubak, a pretty complete archive of Billboard can be found at AmericanRadioHistory.com if you want to see if the year-end charts are there. You could definitely make them yourself if you wanted to. Toa Nidhiki05 14:20, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Canadian RPM charts

Does anyone have access to a book or database archive of the Canadian RPM charts? I’ve been working on some discographies recently and some of the artists have extensive numbers of entries, making it hard to find the peak dates and all charting songs using the manual archive search. Specifically I am looking for the Top Singles and Adult Contemporary charts. Toa Nidhiki05 13:28, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Scans of almost all the charts are available at the Canadian Archives at http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/search.aspx, but you will have to have some idea of the year and the month that the record charted, because they are scans and you can't search by artist or title, only by issue date. Richard3120 (talk) 14:05, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

That’s what I’ve been using, I’m more specifically asking if anyone knows of or has access to a book with these results. It’s certainly fine to use that method (it just takes a bit of work), but if it were in a book everything could be cited to one source as opposed to many individual sources. Toa Nidhiki05 14:18, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Ah, I see, my apologies. No, as far as I know, no book has ever been produced of the RPM charts, and that database is the only one in existence. Of course, not being from either Canada or the US means I'm no authority on the matter, and I could be wrong. Richard3120 (talk) 14:37, 9 July 2019 (UTC)