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[koganbot]

Does anyone know if there's a U.S. equivalent for everyhit.com? Allmusic gives the year for chart singles but not the month they peaked (and it's hard interpreting what their year designation means anyway: year it enters or year it peaks?). The reason I'm interested is that the quartet of singles that altered U.S. teenpop - "Everywhere," "Don't Let Me Get Me," "A Thousand Miles," and "Complicated" - in 2001 and 2002 seem to have hit later in Britain than in the U.S., but I'm not sure how much later. "Everywhere" doesn't peak in Britain until April 2002 (at a relatively low 18), whereas its U.S. peak is sometime in late summer or fall of '01 (Wiki gives release date of July 24 but no peak date); "Don't Let Me Get Me" hits number 6 in the UK in May 2002, probably only a couple of months after its U.S. date; "A Thousand Miles" gets to number 6 in August 2002 (my memory says February or March for the U.S. [Wiki says Feb for the release date], but of course that's not at all trustworthy), "Complicated" is number 3 in October 2002 (memory says May or June for U.S., same caveat).

I'm curious because Tom just linked this old NYLPM post from June 2002 (Is Pop Cool?), so I was looking at dates and seeing that what he was hearing as teenpop was already being superseded in the U.S., but in Britain he wasn't likely to be hearing the supersession yet - and anyway I don't know if the supersession ever really happened in Britain (unless you want to call the later retro-quirky singer-songwriter and/or quasi-soul crop of Tashbed-Amy-Duffy "teenpop" and say its ascendance marks a British equivalent to the American shift)(Bedingfield's "Unwritten" did very well on Radio Disney, by the way, but I still don't think she registers as teenpop; Nelly Furtado's "I'm Like A Bird" got on Disney at the same time or earlier than "Everywhere," for that matter, so could make my quartet a quintet except I don't think Furtado was registering as teenpop either, though maybe she was influencing it).

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Think you're giving me too much credit actually - what now looks like transformation was parsed by me as clumsy attempts to grow the form up. Tho I really liked A Thousand Miles at the time.

[brak55.livejournal.com]

The revamped Billboard.com actually has a lot of historical data in their "visualizer". You have to type in an artist name (after you "pull out the tab" on the left) and pick the chart you want their activity from from the drop down box. It will then show you a span of time with bars to indicate when it charted and a dot at the top for each charting record. Click on the dot for what you want and it expands to show the chart position each week. Click on a week and it takes you to the top 10 or so for that week.

It looks like the singles go back into the 50's (although you can't get Chubby Checker or other older artists to come up yet) and the albums go back to 1965.

It's a bit of work to get where you want to go, but there really isn't an equivalent out there right now.

[koganbot]

Thanks to brak55 I've now figured out how to wring data out of Billboard, which shows the U.S. and British peaks for those songs coming closer in time than I'd expected.

Michelle Branch "Everywhere" enters the Hot 100 on September 1, 2001 and peaks at 12 on November 12, 2001.

Pink "Don't Let Me Get Me" enters the Hot 100 on March 2, 2002 and peaks at 8 on May 11, 2002, where it holds for another week.

Vanessa Carlton "A Thousand Miles" enters the Hot 100 on March 2, 2002 and peaks at 5 on May 18, 2002, where it holds for another two weeks.

Avril Lavigne "Complicated" enters the Hot 100 on June 1, 2002 and peaks at 2 on August 3, 2002, drops to 3 for a while, and then returns to 2 on September 7.