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This year, we celebrate a solid decade of tabulating your all-time favorites songs with our TENTH annual All-Time Top 77. We’re excited about doing it again, with the help of our new homes, Bob Shannon’s “Behind the Hits “ and Ron Kovacs’ “RadioMaxMusic”. You’ll find all the links and pages you need to vote and see the results at these sites.
I started this project in 1998 in an attempt to keep the feel and excitement of the Top 40 radio stations’ "Top Hits" year-end countdowns, especially MusicRadio WABC in New York. And I was also curious to determine how a true and unbiased calculation would compare to "All-Time" surveys that are featured on many radio stations during the year and especially during the holiday season.
Once again, this year, we’re taking votes on your top SEVEN favorites. We found that voting for seven favorite songs results in a greater variety and an even more accurate reading of your favorite hits. Through statistical samples and "dry runs", we determined that asking for your favorite seven songs would yield the most accurate list based on the projected number of voters.
Although the era that inspired these countdowns basically ran from 1955 through the 1990's, you can vote for any songs you like. Having Bob Shannon's Behind the Hits web site and Ron Kovacs' RadioMaxMusic web site as our new “hosts” helps balance the list of voted songs from the pre-50's and 50's right through the most recent years.
Your response continues to be fantastic each year with thousands of votes coming in. What started out as a project that I could handle completely on my own has now turned into a labor of love that I could not complete without the help of Tom Natoli and several others that we will be crediting over the next few months.
So, vote today before time slips away. Votes will be counted through Sunday, December 16 at midnight. Vote ONLY for up to SEVEN of your favorite songs, preferably in numbered order from #1 to #7. The results will be published Christmas Week (just like WABC used to do with its "Top 100 Of The Year"). Please VOTE ONLY ONCE! Duplicate votes or any other attempts to unfairly affect the results will be disqualified. Thanks to our staff of internet sleuths, cheating has become quite easy to track after doing this for nine years. So, please, show respect to yourself, other voters, and the sites by not attempting to stuff the ballot box.
Have fun...and may the best songs win!
--Mike Riccio (MusicRadio77.com "Survey Guy")