Billboard Top Pop Hits is a series of compilation albums released by Rhino Records in 1994 and 1995, each featuring ten recordings from the easy listening charts from a specific year in the 1960s. Ten albums in the series were released, one each for the years from 1960 to 1969.
The tracks compiled for the series represented the "lighter" side of popular music in the 1960s. All of the tracks were major hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the year as well as its new Easy Listening chart, which debuted in 1961.
The series follows chronologically from the previous Rhino series of pop standards from the 1920s through the 1950s called Billboard Pop Memories. It continues on in a series of soft rock hits from 1970 through 1974 with Billboard Top Soft Rock Hits.
Read more about Billboard Top Pop Hits: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969
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