Talk:RPM (magazine)

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I recently was able to view a few mid-1960s copies of RPM. It seems their annual awards were called simply The RPM Awards rather than the Gold Leaf Awards, at least during 1964-1966. While the first awards were published in December 1964, following years did not announce the awards until at least a January issue. Still need to do some follow-up hardcopy research on this, but would suggest changing the RPM Gold Leaf Award stub (lack of citations and all) to redirect here. Dl2000 (talk) 04:20, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

From the Library & Archives Canada: The RPM Story "From the very beginning RPM recognized that handing out awards would raise public awareness of Canadian music and musicians. Initially they created an annual readers' poll. (In 1964, the first year of the poll, the first top male vocalist was Terry Black, the top female singer was Shirley Matthews and the top vocal instrumental group was The Esquires.) In 1969, RPM started work on its own awards ceremony. In February 1970 the first RPM Gold Leaf Awards were presented at a ceremony in Toronto with singer Diane Leigh as the first recipient."

Kamishiro (talk) 03:39, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The article says RPM was started in '64. Several older songs (including "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Crying" have been added to the Category:RPM Country Tracks number-one singles. How is this possible? The only answer I can think of is that the categorization refers to a later cover version, in which case the inclusion of the category on a main song article is misleading. How to fix? Jgm (talk) 15:38, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A search of the Library & Archives Canada Database reveals that "Heartbreak Hotel" was indeed a cover by The Scoundrels at #98 on the RPM 100 Top Singles - Volume 6, No. 13 Nov 21, 1966. The entry for "Crying" may be a typo - the RPM 100 Top Singles - Volume 2, No. 7 Oct 12, 1964 includes the entry of "I'm Crying" by The Animals (Capitol Records), which goes on to chart. There is a mention on the Roy Orbison Wikipedia page of a Del Shannon remake in 1964, though I haven't seen a chart entry for that in RPM. Kamishiro (talk) 03:40, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Scoundrelz version of "Heartbreak Hotel" reached #60 in December 1966. [1].

Since Collections Canada don't have the complete RPM archives of 1967 and a part of 1968. I wonder if there another source to check for those missing years?--Sd-100 (talk) 17:59, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The only other source would likely be hardcopies of RPM which very few libraries will have (Library and Archives Canada, Toronto Reference Library, perhaps some private libraries associated with the music industry). Dl2000 (talk) 04:55, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Search results for those year may not show much because of the quality of the scans from those years. See also [2] and [3]. AMCKen (talk) 07:03, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If anyone has hardcopy's of the Canadian RPM magazine from October 1988 to April 1989, can they please fill in peaks of various songs on all the charts chart and add the number one songs from those dates. They are missing from the online archives. Thanks. Canadaolympic989 (talk) 14:10, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

baclac seems to be missing those issues. Try [4] or [5]. AMCKen (talk) 07:08, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Charts now shown as 'Adult Contemporary" sometimes show "GMP" as the chart title. Anyone know what that really stands for? AMCKen (talk) 07:14, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]