Talk:CHUM Chart

Chart Figures
The putative records given in the Chart Figures section have to be wrong. There have been CHUM charts since the 1950s, and I'm pretty sure that there are, for example, Beatles tunes that spent longer than 4 weeks at number 1. Tom Duff 18:27, 3 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Not to mention Elvis Presley...and looking at the 1986 list alone, both Madonna's "Live to Tell" and Jennifer Rush's "The Power of Love" matched four weeks, to boot. Bearcat 08:42, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Sure enough, I checked here and The Beatles have at least two tunes that were #1 for 7 weeks. I bet there are lots more examples like this. If no one wants to do any serious research, the Chart Figures section should be deleted. I'll leave it for now and do it myself next time I think to look... Tom Duff 18:33, 3 May 2007 (UTC)


 * For what it's worth, I've killed the "chart figures" section as being far too biased to recent charts, and I've also killed the utterly OR speculation about chart patterns (like how a song that stalls at #2 never makes it to #1 after that, as if that phenomenon were at all unique to CHUM...) Bearcat 08:42, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

The unknown artists
Don't know if this fits in the article, but the "Unknown Artist" who had a hit with "I'm Gettin the Message Alright" was most likely Jeril Deane, who released a single by this title on Solo Records (Solo #106) in 1957.

Faye Adams released a single called "Teenage Heart" (Herald #470) in 1956 --it could have charted a year later at CHUM. However, the CHUM hit version could also have been a cover. Author of this song is Alan Freed!

"Lonesome Heart" remains a mystery...

172.133.227.74 22:21, 16 September 2007 (UTC)


 * One possibility could be they put records on their charts on the base of airplay. Perhaps they obtained an early release of James O'Gwynn's 1958 release "Talk to me oh lonesome heart" on Sun Records 89. 94.208.18.185 (talk) 20:47, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Chum Chart TV show
Rather than obliterating this article, will the person who keeps putting forth the data on the CHUM Chart TV show please consider creating a separate article called, perhaps, "CHUM Chart (TV Show)"? Thanks!


 * How is this "obliterating [the] article]"? They are very similar things. --  Zanimum 14:01, 10 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Some person kept completely removing this entire article, and replacing it with an entry about the recent CHUM Chart TV show. The recent CHUM Chart TV show is not the same thing as the original CHUM Chart.  It would best be dealt with in a separate article.

CP24
This is to inform you that the CHUM chart archives are no longer available online now that the station has converted to "Toronto's Breaking News." Somebody had better alert Craig Smith to this situation so the charts can be restored.

In the meantime, we'll just have to be content with the RPM archives as an alternative, although those charts were national and not just Toronto.198.236.192.210 (talk) 01:17, 27 March 2009 (UTC)