Re: Rick Dees Year End Countdown -- American Top 40: The Countdown of the Century

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Date Posted: 09:38:21 01/05/03 Sun
Author: Florida Paul
Subject: Re: Rick Dees Year End Countdown
In reply to: Aaron McCracken 's message, "Re: Rick Dees Year End Countdown" on 08:23:43 01/05/03 Sun

>>I just went to rick.com and checked out the year end
>>countdown (mainly so I could double check my AT40 list
>>I wrote out during the show) and noticed Rick's
>>countdown is nowhere close to Casey's year end. I went
>>to rronline.com, and Casey followed R&R exactly, and
>>Rick's was nowhere close. Did Rick get his chart from
>>somewhere else, or did he just pull one of his 'make
>>up my own chart'?
>
>Rick Dees' chart was inaccurate? Say it ain't so!! ;-)
>
>From what little I understand, Rick did use Mediabase
>data for his top 100, but with some differences from
>what was heard on AT40. I think the start/end dates of
>his "chart year" data were different, and he included
>several recurrents from 2001 that were ineligible for
>the official R&R chart used by AT40. And of course
>there's always the possibility that Rick switched some
>songs' positions around (although we know he'd never
>do that, would he?).

I don't know that this was the case, but it could also be his production staff did their own calculations similar to what AT40 did several times in the 70's-90's.

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