Year-End Hot 100 Challenge

A guide to my personal challenge of listening to every year-end Hot 100 list since 1957.

Rock and Roll Music: Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1957
Great Balls of Fire: Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1958
Teen Beat: Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1959
Alley Oop: Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1960
I Like It Like That: Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1961
Twistin’ the Night Away: Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1962
It’s My Party: Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1963
Glad All Over: Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1964
Like A Rolling Stone: Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1965
Land of 1000 Dances: Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1966
Groovin’: Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1967
Dance to the Music: Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1968
Time of the Season: Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1969
All Right Now: Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1970
Joy to the World: Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1971
Roundabout: Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1972
Funky Worm: Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1973
Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1974
Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1975
Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1976
Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1977
Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1978
Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1979
Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1980
Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1981
Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1982
Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1983
Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1984
Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1985
Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1986
Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1987
Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1988
Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1989

BEST OF/WORST OF PLAYLISTS:

Since everyone has their own busy schedules, I’ve decided to go back and make playlists for each year. That way, well-intentioned folks who may not have enough time to go through all those blocks of text can instead get a brief snapshot of each year through the music alone. I’m making both “Best of…” and “Worst of…” lists for each year, starting from 1957; the corresponding links are for Spotify playlists. I’ve ranked the “Best of” lists from most great to least great, and the “Worst of” lists from most bad to least bad.