Talk:Kent Music Report

A fact from Kent Music Report appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 May 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Kent Music Report was a weekly table of Australian music singles and albums which was the primary record chart in that market from 1974 to 1988?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/May.

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Confused much?

OK. The Kent Music Report did not actually begin publishing record sales officially until May of 1974. Any of David Kent's records before that were just 'retro-calculated' from local sales, whereas the Go-Set charts were the official national charts for Australia related popular music. Go-Set was the official chart from 1966 to August of 1974, meaning if a song got to number one, it officially counted. It ran concurrently with the Kent Music Report for 3 months, because his records started before Go-Set's abandonment. So anything published in the Kent Music Report before 1974 should not be counted. But for example, Daddy Cool's "Eagle Rock" was not published in Kent Music Report in 1971 as it never existed, but it got to #1 on the Go-Set charts. While Wikipedia states it's a number one hit, Wikipedia should probably be acknowledging Go-Set as the reference.PeterMan844 (talk) 03:56, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]