hornet61 said:
firepoint525 said:
"Rapper's Delight" would have had to be issued as a 7" 45 single in order to have made it onto the Billboard Hot 100 as per policy in effect at the time. Although the 12" single that you referenced was eligible to make the R&B charts. I remember a similar situation in which a Village People song that was big on either the r&b or dance charts (can't remember which) was ineligible to make the Hot 100 due to never having been released as a 45.
As I recall, the 12 "inch single was accepted by the time Rapper's Delight was issued, which is why it made the hot 100. Sugarhill label I believe never issued a 7inch 45 of RD, they all popped up in Europe.
Wow, if that's true, that had to suck for the Village People, because the example that I gave above was only about a year or so earlier. Of course, the VP had bigger problems by then, since their career was basically
over by the time this change took place!
