When I was a kid, these charts were available at a department store at a new mall called "Shoppers World". It was located at Victoria Park & Danforth beside the railroad yard just south of same.

I want to say it was an "Eatons", but my memory is fading badly lately. Sears? Naw, I'm pretty sure it was Eatons.

Anyway, they had a record dept that got all the latest 45s & LPs (I got my first Beatles LP there, and I'd never seen an LP disk before I was amazed!) and they had a lttle slot box next to the cash where you could grab the latest chart.

And I used to grab them regularly. CHUM was a big deal back then.

I swear, it all went down hill after that prick dropped the tower across Yonge St  You just don't mess with an icon like that. Bad

Anyway, happy NY everyone, espc D Marsden & D Elwell  

You guys are the reason I'm here 

I noticed that on a lot of the charts, they're advertising the annual countdown of the top songs of the year. I always used to tune in for these, but since I rarely listen to music radio these days, I'm asking those who do - do any GTA stations still do this on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day?

Here are few other charts celebrating New Year's from my collection.

WQAM Miami, Jan. 2, 1965




WLCY, Tampa, Jan. 2, 1972




WGTO Cypress Gardens, Fl. 1972
(Not sure why part of this chart is upside down, but that's how they printed it.)




WMBM Miami, Jan. 2, 1971

Here's the inside of the Chart. (Mine is blue, too. Never did see a green version.)



And here's something similar one year later from a station elsewhere on the dial. 

I still have that CKFH 1970 Countdown chart as well but unfortunately it tore at the fold but is unharmed otherwise. 

Here is another countdown chart that I discovered in a tape  box along with the entire countdown, WKNR AM's top 113 of 1968. The only song missing from the tape was Fever Tree's San Francisco Girls. A Song I remember mainly from hearing on Buffalo Prog stations. Can't remember if Andy Frost played it on psyche Sunday. Also fun to note that The Camel Drivers actually beat the Beatles on the chart. Also the person who recorded the tape played Blue Cheer's Summertime Blues himself along with  an intro but I did not include that.

You can hear some of the  countdown here along with a CHFI new years show from 1988.

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RadioActive wrote:

 For most of its existence, Toronto's famous CHUM Chart paid tribute to the turning of the calendar year. Here's a look back at those first-of-the-year remembrances. 

(All charts courtesy The CHUM Tribute site.)

1960


 
1961
 

 
1962
 

 
1963
 

 
1964
 

 
1965
 

 
1966
 

 
1967


 
1968
 

 
1971
 

 
1972
 

 
1973
 

 
1974
 

 
1975


 
There were no more charts issued after April 26, 1975, with Top 30 listed in the Toronto Sun, instead.

6-7, 6-7
 

ERP 0W wrote:

When I was a kid, these charts were available at a department store at a new mall called "Shoppers World". It was located at Victoria Park & Danforth beside the railroad yard just south of same.

I want to say it was an "Eatons", but my memory is fading badly lately. Sears? Naw, I'm pretty sure it was Eatons.

Anyway, they had a record dept that got all the latest 45s & LPs (I got my first Beatles LP there, and I'd never seen an LP disk before I was amazed!) and they had a lttle slot box next to the cash where you could grab the latest chart.

And I used to grab them regularly. CHUM was a big deal back then.

I swear, it all went down hill after that prick dropped the tower across Yonge St  You just don't mess with an icon like that. Bad

Anyway, happy NY everyone, espc D Marsden & D Elwell  

You guys are the reason I'm here 

Correct. Eaton's was the anchor store at Shopper's World when it was built in 1962. Previously the Ford Motor Company operated here from 1921-53 before moving to Oakville.

Shorty Wave wrote:

Thanks to all who posted charts here, it is interesting to go through them and the different formats, like some listing the label they’re on. I used to look forward to stations playing their year end top “hit parades”, tape recorder at the ready! Thanks again SOWNY contributors.

Here's a real rarity in this part of the world. Someone brought these back to me after they visited the Land Down Under, a media world we were shut out of until streaming began. But they had good old Top 40 radio just like we did.

It's interesting to see songs that were big hits there that we've never heard of here. That may be because of Australian Content rules, similar to CanCon - they have to play at least 25% Aussie music between 5 AM and midnight. The edicts went into effect in 1974, which means these charts reflect that change. 

I'm guessing 2SM was the CHUM of Sydney.

Here's a great site I just discovered. It features Top 40 charts from all over Canada, most from the 50s and 60s and some from the 70s.

Among the Toronto and Ontario samples you can see - very early CKFH (1957), CFGM's country listings, CKLW, CKOC, CJIQ (Hamilton, the former calls of CHAM, which is also there) CHML, CFOR Orillia, CKLB Oshawa, CHLO (when it was in London), more London listings from CJOE and CFPL, a CHYM Chart from Kitchener and even one from CHWO in Oakville.

CKBB is there as is CFCO, CJOY and CJBQ.

There's one from CFRB (yes CFRB had a listing once, with "hits" chosen by Wally Crouter) and even more unlikely, a "chart" from then still English CJBC. 

The others from across the country provide a snapshot of what each radio station was doing at the time. The quality varies but it's quite an amazing time capsule.

Top 40 Radio Charts In Canada

That has got to be a very rare page Fitz!  Looks to be in great shape.  And taken from the Toronto Telegram makes it even more uncommon and a real gem. Well done!