Back In The Day: The Billboard Modern Rock Charts From 35 Years Ago

[jamieanderson1968]

Long live the CD-5! Death to the cassingle. Damn these coke head record execs were geniuses. No wonder Napster came along.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Long live the CD-5! Death to the cassingle. Damn these coke head record execs were geniuses. No wonder Napster came along.

Was that this?

Mini CD - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

These never caught on in the west but they were a bit more popular in Japan.

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Was that this?

Mini CD - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

These never caught on in the west but they were a bit more popular in Japan.

Never really saw to many of the CD-5 (actually about 4.75in) in North America. I remember seeing and owning several CD-3s which were obviously 3in in diameter. Lots of cd players couldn’t play the CD-3 without a special adaptor to hold it in place in the cd drawer. Talk about a stupid design.

 

[Bohnjaggs]

Was that this?

Mini CD - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

These never caught on in the west but they were a bit more popular in Japan.

I had a Japanese PM Dawn single on CD 3 with an exclusive bonus track

 

[imtheocean]

a few interesting articles from that week, including an update to the Modern Rock radio panel…

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Interesting insight into the methodology here, with the different stations ranked. Radio certainly isn't driving sales and discovery anymore, if anything the script has flipped and they are programming to the rankings I would think.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Interesting insight into the methodology here, with the different stations ranked. Radio certainly isn't driving sales and discovery anymore, if anything the script has flipped and they are programming to the rankings I would think.

It was certainly more akin to the cmj methodology but I think by this time top 40 radio wasn’t necessarily dictating trends anymore.