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Can somebody help me with some sources with old reggae charts (60s, 70s, 80s, 90s) No mater, Jamaica or UK or US. I just found some UK charts on Tapirs site and at Dancecrasher. Mostly I'm interested in finding some jamaican charts. Thanks in advance!

check out stepping razors excellent thread '1974-1980 current reggae releases review'. plenty of charts on there.
on page 2 at the moment.

ital k

I'd also be interested in Jamaican charts from the 70s. Wonder how much difference there is in taste between UK and JA audience

Well Charge wrote:I'd also be interested in Jamaican charts from the 70s. Wonder how much difference there is in taste between UK and JA audience

Well Charge

It wouldn't be so much about different "taste" as it would be about "who paid who what" to get the song placed on the chart. Different markets, different payers and payees, different results. It would be more interesting to see actual record sales as a barometer of what was moving the people in the various locations.

Dave K wrote:Well Charge wrote :I'd also be interested in Jamaican charts from the 70s. Wonder how much difference there is in taste between UK and JA audience

Well Charge

It wouldn't be so much about different "taste" as it would be about "who paid who what" to get the song placed on the chart. Different markets, different payers and payees, different results. It would be more interesting to see actual record sales as a barometer of what was moving the people in the various locations.

If you read some of the interviews they go into producers paying off people for the record to get in the charts. As for the Black Music Charts they are compiled by 4 or 5 record shops in London and Biringham and not as the whole UK sales.

These interviews and charts & reviews are nowhere else on the web and I have typed them out straight from the Black Music Magazine.

I doubt there is many written charts for JA, they might have had a chart show on JBC & RJR reggae radio stations at the time, so recordings of these shows might have a chart rundown, if you can get recordings of the shows!!!!!

peace

Sometimes the producer would pay off people for it `not` to get in the charts.

peace

... look here: http://s7.zetaboards.com/PAMA_FORUM/topic/8152847/1/

several RJR charts to view

maybe you'll need to register first ... it's worth it, trust me

stepping razor wrote:Sometimes the producer would pay off people for it `not` to get in the charts.

peace

Why would that be?

Survival wrote:stepping razor wrote :Sometimes the producer would pay off people for it `not` to get in the charts.

peace

Why would that be?

the more records you sell the more royalties you have to pay to the artists....