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Chris's Billboard Top 3000 Countdown Podcast

Chris's Billboard Top 3000 Countdown Podcast

By: Christopher Williams
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My name is Chris, and this is a fun and informative discussion of Billboard's Top 3000 songs of all-time, based on rankings from the first Billboard U.S. Hot 100 chart in 1958 until the end of the year 2022. Each episode will have me talking about a set of 20 songs in countdown fashion, Casey Kasem style.

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Episodes
  • Season 2 - Episode #13 - Songs #1760-#1741
    Jun 12 2026

    Episode #63 (Season 2, Episode 13) discusses songs #1760-#1741, as we inch closer and closer to the #1 song in Billboard History. Artists featured include:

    | Simon & Garfunkel
    | Bananarama
    | Pet Shop Boys
    | Elvis Presley
    | Faith Hill
    | TLC
    | Mariah Carey
    | Jay-Z

    The 90's are well represented in this latest episode, with massive hits from heavyweights Jay-Z, Faith Hill, TLC and Mariah Carey. Don't count out the 80's, though, as Bananarama makes their countdown debut and Air Supply scores with what one critic calls the 'worst summer song of all time'. Really? A classic coronation song from American Idol, and one of the most significant #1 hits in the great career of Elvis Presley.

    Our discovery into the years of rock and roll lands on the year 1966, as we continue our Greatest Years segments. So many of the absolute greats in classic rock, Motown and the British Invasion are pushing each other to great heights in 1966. And so many songs that year hit the Top 40, 2nd most in rock era history!

    Please join the greatest countdown podcast ever! Listened in over 100 countries and over 1300 cities worldwide.

    I am not affiliated with Billboard nor with American Top 40. Just a huge fan that loves to talk about pop music.

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    59 mins
  • Bonus Companion Episode - Montage of Songs Clips #2000-#1761
    Jun 5 2026

    Hello. This is a supplement to Chris's Billboard Countdown podcast, playing a montage of all songs ranked from #2000 through the current episode. For more information and a review of each song, please listen to Chris's Billboard Countdown Podcast, where I go into detail on each song, in sets of 20 per episode, along with many special features.


    I hope you enjoy.

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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Season 2 - Episode #12 - Songs #1780-#1761
    May 29 2026

    Episode #62 (Season 2, Episode 12) discusses songs #1780-#1761, as we inch closer and closer to the #1 song in Billboard History. Artists featured include:

    | Usher
    | Lionel Richie
    | Madonna
    | The Jets
    | Linda Ronstadt
    | Creedence Clearwater Revival
    | Chicago
    | John Mellencamp

    Pop music in all its different forms is here in our latest and greatest episode as we move 20 songs closer to #1. We have singing vocals, rap vocals, spoken vocals and even no vocals at all! We have a sample of a sample of one of the greatest alternative riffs in the rock era. Find out which one! Creedence with ANOTHER of their agonizing #2 hits, as they could never quite hit #1. And Linda Ronstadt belting one of her best songs ever, a #1 hit. And ANOTHER remake that out-charted its original, even though the original hit Top 5.

    Our discovery into the years of rock and roll lands on the year 1994, as we continue our Greatest Years segments. Where pop music starts becoming more segmented but with super smash hits that are breaking records at the top of the charts.

    Please join the greatest countdown podcast ever! Listened in over 100 countries and over 1300 cities worldwide.

    I am not affiliated with Billboard nor with American Top 40. Just a huge fan that loves to talk about pop music.

    Leave me fan mail message!

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    59 mins
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