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Billboard number-one singles charts preceding the Billboard Hot 100 were updated weekly by Billboard magazine and the leading indicator of popular music for the American music industry since 1940 and until the Billboard Hot 100 chart was established in 1958.
Cherry Red Records (formerly Cherry Pop Records) is a British independent record label founded in Malvern, Worcestershire by Iain McNay in 1978. The label has released recordings by Dead Kennedys , Everything but the Girl , The Monochrome Set , and Felt , among others, as well as the compilation album Pillows & Prayers .
Pillows & Prayers (subtitled Cherry Red 1982-1983) is a compilation album released at Christmas 1982, featuring artists on the Cherry Red record label. The record was originally sold at 99 pence (in fact, "pay no more than 99p" was printed on the original sleeve), which helped ensure that the album peaked and remained at number 1 on the UK Indie Chart for five weeks and sold over 120,000 copies.
Prior to the creation of the Billboard Hot 100, Billboard published multiple singles charts each week. In 1950, the following four charts were produced: Best Sellers in Stores – ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country.
Elvis Presley had five songs on the year-end top 50, the most of any artist in 1956, including "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Don't Be Cruel", the top two songs of the year. The Platters had three songs on the year-end top 50.
Automatically Saturday was remixed by the DJ Arc Vel: and the digital single, "She Pulls the Petal From the Flower", was released on 2 June 2014 on Cherry Red Records, remixed in one dub version by Score and, in another, by the Birmingham, UK, instrument inventors, The Juneau Brothers.
Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White" by Perez Prado was the number one song of 1955. "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets was the number two song of 1955, and a breakthrough hit for rock and roll. This is a list of Billboard magazine's top 30 singles of 1955 according to retail sales. [1]
In 1955, Pérez Prado's "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" was number 1 on the "Best Sellers in Stores" chart for 10 weeks. Additional notes: Before the use of Nielsen SoundScan and Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems to compile the Hot 100 in late 1991, the most number of weeks a single spent at number one on the Hot 100 was 10.