Sunday, February 18, 2007

CHART SWEEP! No. 2, 1959

In addition to being very proud to present the second installment of my ongoing chart sweep project, I can now say that I have a very definite goal for its completion. August 3, 2008 will be the 50th anniversary of the Hot 100 chart -- and hopefully it will be commemorated on my end by a roughly two hour video of the entire history of that chart.

It'll be pretty difficult to get it all done by then, but if I find myself with any spare time after I'm done here at the University of Chicago, I can certainly see myself devoting a fair portion of that time to this project.

Ladies and gentlemen, nineteen fifty-nine: