Hit Parade: The B-Sides Edition
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia
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The Secret Sauce of Billboard's Hot 100
By 1965, the Beatles had invented the idea of the double A side, it's single. Billboard decided at the end of the 1969 chart year to begin combining A and B sides of 45s into a single hot 100 position. This artificially boosted hit was unusual even for the Beatles because it included a George Harrison song as an A side. The change in policy billboard made in late 1969 was not quiet. It gave the Beatles a number one single they wouldn't have had without the rule change.
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