Pretty information, hooray! Any chance you’ll squeeze these together for a more broad view? Obviously you’d lose subgenre granularity but it would look goshdang awesome.

Spoken word? In 1977? I’ve been puzzling over that one and I can’t figure it out.

Oh god, I just spend 20 minutes trying to figure it out, looking things up online… let go of it, man, let go…

i am just happy that disco is nowhere near the top

i don’t think you understand how this graph works

I’m with Tony – I can’t find a single spoken-word track on the Cash Box chart for ‘77…

77 spoken word – Shatner?

My mistake, now corrected. The only hit spoken word record of the 1970s was in 1974 – Byron MacGregor’s “The Americans.”