In recent years, Billboard magazine has redefined their charts slowly taking the early innovators of Rock and Roll off of the "all time lists".

This started a few years ago when they revised what a #1 song was dropping Elvis to 17 letting Mariah Carey take the lead with 18 number one singels by a solo act. More recently, the top 100 hundred has been changed to exclude any song before 1960. For many artists this pretty much removes them from the "history books". Chuck, Elvis, Little Richard, Jerry Lee, Ray Charles...pretty much everyone there at the big bang of modern music, have had their singles removed from the historic lists.

To me, it seems that, if they are going to retool the charts to favor modern acts, then they should specifically create an alltime modern era chart to prevent the erasing of the achievements of the people who helped reshape the charts into the melting pot they have been since the 1950s. And maybe the all time chart should list actual sales to put what a top ten record really is...

Shame on Billboard magazine. I guess they have to do something since there are no real sales to count anymore...

That's just stupid. Number 1 is number 1, what does it matter at what time it was released?