RPM was a Canadian
music
industry publication that featured song and album charts for
Canada. The publication was founded by
Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported
through its existence by record label owner
Stan Klees.
RPM ceased publication in
November 2000.
RPM stood for "Records, Promotion, Music". The magazine
was reported to have variations in its title over the years such as
RPM Weekly and
RPM Magazine.
RPM
maintained several format charts including Top Singles (all
genres), Adult Contemporary, and Country Tracks (aka Top Country
Tracks) for country music.
The RPM Awards
The modern
Juno Awards had their origins
in an annual survey, the
RPM Gold Leaf Awards,
conducted by
RPM since its founding year. Readers of the
magazine were invited to mail in survey ballots to indicate their
choices under various categories of people or companies.
The RPM Awards were discontinued when these were transformed into a
formal awards ceremony,
The Juno
Awards in 1970.
1964 RPM Awards
The RPM Awards for 1964 were announced in the 28 December 1964
issue:
A column on page 6 of that issue noted that the actual vote winner
for Top Canadian Content record company was disqualified due to a
conflict of interest involving an employee of that company who was
also working for
RPM. Therefore, runner-up Capitol Records
was declared the category's winner.
1965 RPM Awards
The Annual RPM Awards for 1965 were announced in the 17 January
1966 issue, with more country music categories than the previous
year:
See also
References
- See event listing for 21 April 2005.
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