Chart Beat

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Chart Beat episodes

  • Billboard Chart Historian Joel Whitburn
    Chart fans around the world surely have libraries of Joel Whitburn Billboard chart reference books. On a recent visit to New York, Whitburn chatted with Billboard's Gary Trust and Alex Vitoulis about his hobby that led to his becoming Billboard's longest-running licensee, a partnership that now dates back nearly 50 years.

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    44 min
  • Lionel Richie on 'Endless Love' & How 'Love Never Goes Out of Style'
    Lionel Richie joins Billboard's Trevor Anderson to chat about the R&B/pop icon's legendary career, including the including the whirlwind recording of "Endless Love" with Diana Ross. There were "so many moving parts," as, due to deadlines, the recording needed to be turned around in just 12 hours. "I had to get the whole song done that night," Richie recalls. "Make or break, you follow me?"

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    49 min
  • Chubby Checker on the Hot 100's All-Time No. 1, 'The Twist'
    On the latest episode of the Billboard Chart Beat Podcast, the iconic Chubby Checker joins host and Billboard co-director of charts Gary Trust, in honor of "The Twist" reigning as the Billboard Hot 100's all-time No. 1 song. Its appeal, says Checker? "It's a sexy song."

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    35 min
  • WFUV Radio's Rita Houston
    On the latest episode of the Billboard Chart Beat Podcast, WFUV New York program director Rita Houston joins host and Billboard co-director of charts Gary Trust, and Billboard's rock charts manager Kevin Rutherford, to chat about her 22-year legacy of music discovery at the station. "Growing up in New York, progressive radio loomed large," Houston says. "That informed me and, at WFUV, it's a part of our DNA to keep that kind of radio alive."

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    58 min
  • Perez Hilton on Justin Bieber, Madonna, Taylor Swift & More
    Celebrity blogger, and celebrity himself, Perez Hilton chats with host and Billboard co-director of charts Gary Trust about his longtime love of music and the Billboard charts, as well as his personal redemption. "I have tons of regrets," Hilton says of his perhaps too-snarky professional past. But, he muses, "With age comes confidence. When you know better, you do better."

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    32 min

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On Billboard's Chart Beat podcast, Gary Trust and Trevor Anderson of Billboard's charts department look at why what's on the charts is on the charts. With discussions with artists, record label…

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