Chart Beat

Chart Beat

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Chart Beat episodes

  • Mike Curb
    Curb Records founder and Curb/Word chairman Mike Curb chats with Billboard's Jim Asker about Curb's more than 50 years of making hits in Nashville, how artists get signed and why his labels will never leave the city's historic Music Row.

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    1 hr 17 min
  • Anne Donohue
    Host Gary Trust chats with Anne Donohue, faculty advisor of Boston University's student-run radio station, WTBU, about rebuilding after a recent fire. Also discussed: the changing state of journalism and the legacy of WTBU alum, and station fan, Howard Stern."

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    39 min
  • Fred Bronson



    On the second edition of Billboard's Chart Beat Podcast, Billboard co-director of charts Gary Trust chats with Fred Bronson about the latter's renowned career, which includes 16 years writing Billboard's "Chart Beat" column, as well as his "The Billboard Book of Number One Hits" and contributions to Fox's "American Idol."


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    44 min
  • Paul Grein



    Welcome to Billboard's new Chart Beat Podcast, where host Gary Trust, Billboard's co-director of charts, and other members of Billboard's charts department analyze the numerous factors that go into making a Billboard chart hit. First up: longtime Billboard journalist Paul Grein, who discusses why music fans love following the charts. He also shares memories of his many years covering the business, including an interview with a shy, then-budding superstar, Michael Jackson.


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    38 min

About Chart Beat

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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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