Talk:List of Billboard number-one singles of 1945

Typo on Best Sellers chart in Billboard magazine dated June 9, 1945
Dear Wikipedians:

I just now edited this page. Specifically, I removed "There! I've Said It Again" by Vaughn Monroe from the June 9, 1945, line in the Best Sellers column. Prior to my edit, that title appeared on this page as one of two songs tied for number 1 on June 9, 1945. PLEASE... DO NOT REVERSE OUT THIS EDIT. The reason for my edit is because this Wikipedia page ignores the fact that there is a blatantly obvious typographical error on the Best Sellers chart in the Billboard issue dated June 9, 1945. Specifically, on the second line of that chart, the entry "There! I've Said It Again" by Vaughn Monroe appears with a "1" in the column titled "This Week", making it appear as if that entry tied for the top position with the entry shown on the line above it, namely "Sentimental Journey" by Les Brown. However, the "1" shown on that chart for "There! I've Said It Again" was almost definitely a typographical error and should have been typed as a "2" instead, leaving "Sentimental Journey" as the sole number 1 song for that week. Here are three reasons for my above assertion:

1. In the Best Sellers chart which appears in the subsequent issue of Billboard (i.e. dated June 16, 1945), the "Last Week" column for "There! I've Said It Again" indicates a value of "2".

2. Prior to 1948, Billboard utilized a "strange" numbering system on all of its music charts. Specifically, whenever two or more entries were tied at a given chart position, the position number for the next entry below the set of tied entries would appear as the next position number sequentially. For example, if two entries were tied at number 3 on a given chart, the entries on that chart would be numbered as follows: 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5. (Note: Starting in January, 1948, Billboard fine-tuned its numbering methodology so that, in the above example, the entries would instead appear as 1, 2, 3, 3, 5, 6.)  Therefore, according to the primitive numbering system that was in place on June 9, 1945, if "There! I've Said It Again" had indeed been tied for the number 1 position on that date, one would expect the entry listed immediately below that entry (i.e. "Bell-Bottom Trousers" by Tony Pastor) to be numbered with a "2". However, it is numbered with a "3".

3. Joel Whitburn, who was often referred to as America's foremost pop music chart authority, published several books covering the pop charts of the 1940's.  In each one of those books, including "Top Pop Singles, 1940-1955" and "Pop Hits 1940-1954", "There! I've Said It Again" by Vaughn Monroe is listed as peaking on the Best Sellers chart at number 2.

In sum, here I've listed three valid reasons why I removed "There! I've Said It Again" by Vaughn Monroe from the Best Selling Popular Retail Records column on this Wikepedia page. Plain and simply, in spite of what appears in the June 9, 1945, Billboard issue, that song never truly reached number 1 on the Best Sellers chart.

I hope you will not delete my revision. It is CORRECT!!!! 2601:152:4F00:1D10:5A47:E1E7:6E55:F794 (talk) 20:59, 18 June 2024 (UTC)