Welcome. I’m a bit of a statistician at heart, I love just looking at lists all arranged in some way or other. I love just looking at the football league tables on a Sunday, a whole page of football results and tables for all 92 clubs. Beautiful.
The music charts are the same. As a 12 year old I used to write down all the songs from 40 down to 1 while being unveiled on a Sunday afternoon on radio 1. Neatly placing up, down or sideways arrows next to the chart number to show the direction the song was moving in the chart from the previous week.
This website is the first I have ever created, I enjoyed setting it up but I’m looking more forward to adding content to it. Firstly I need to add picture captions to the monthly and end of year charts, and to also the weekly chart from 1965 and onwards.
Secondly I am planning on coming up with a final chart which will include songs from the whole decade – a kind of ultimate chart for 1960’s music. I’m not sure exactly how I will do it yet, maybe 200 songs and have them listed in reserve true countdown fashion. I have used a book not too dissimilar to one in the link below for the basic charts, I have then calculated Month By Month and End of Year charts myself.
Then the even more fun part of the website will be worked on – the reviews, stories and anything connected to the 1960’s pop chart. I think they call it blogging. I would very much like any articles or pictures sent in written by you (yes, you) and they can be as long or short as you like.
I have created a twitter profile which I have been told can be linked to this website, a Facebook account will follow I suppose.
Twitter – @sixtiescharts
email – 60yearsofthe60s@gmail.com
Anyway I hope this site bring you some joy, please leave some feedback (I have a feeling that I’m going to need lots) I hope it stirs the memories of some long forgotten songs, or maybe if your new to sixties music you could use it as a guide to seek out particular tracks. As they say, all modern music stems from all these songs from the 60’s.
I’m not sure what traffic (if any) this website will bring but as I said from the beginning of this post – I just enjoy doing things like this in my spare time.
Thanks – Steven