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The most successful Top 40 station of all time regularly put out a chart that wasn’t always strictly a weekly 40. In fact most of them consisted of the same 14 songs that made up their shortened playlist, a key to WABC’s successful strategy. (“Just play the hits over and over.”)
They also put out a special Top 100 in 1969. It not only shows the biggest songs of that year, it also gives you a glimpse of that powerhouse line-up that mixed with that powerhouse signal to make ABC not only #1 in New York, but reportedly in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, too. No other station has ever managed to do that.