Hi, I’m George.
I’m just a regular guy who never got over his love of charts.
It started back in the mid-to-late 1960s when I was a teenager obsessing over sports stats in the morning paper.
By the summer of 1969, that same obsession had found a new home — Billboard magazine.
From that point on, I was a chart guy through and through. Producers, songwriters, week-over-week movement, who was climbing and who was falling — I studied it all.
That passion eventually led me to a fifteen-year career managing stores for Camelot Music, from the mid-1970s through the early 1990s.
I wasn’t drawn to that job for the title. I was drawn to it because it put me as close to the charts as a person could get without actually working at Billboard.
Every Monday I was placing product orders. Every Thursday, I was running a touch list to make sure we were stocked for the weekend.
Charts weren’t just something I followed — they were something I worked with, hands-on, every single week.
That’s the “why” behind this site.
What America’s Top 10 Albums Is All About
This site covers the years 1965 through 1995 — thirty years of American music that I lived through, worked with, and loved deeply.
Each month, I’ll be walking through the chart highlights from that era, spotlighting the albums that defined their moment and sharing the stories behind them.
And along the way, I’ll be folding in my own experiences — what it was actually like to be behind the counter during some of the most exciting decades in music history.
You’ll find things like:
Monthly chart highlights from 1965 through 1995, tracing how American musical taste shifted year by year
Album spotlights covering the records that dominated sales, surprised everyone, or quietly became classics
Real music store stories from someone who watched these albums move off the shelves in real time
The people behind the music — the producers, songwriters, and artists I came to know through years of studying Billboard
A Note on Where the Site Is Headed
When I launched in July 2025, I had one vision for this site.
I’ve since retooled the format, and what you’ll find going forward is something more personal and more focused — monthly chart coverage woven together with the real-world perspective of someone who spent fifteen years in the music retail business during exactly this era.
I’m not a music critic. I’m not a journalist. I’m just a guy who loved Billboard, loved the Monday order sheet, and never really stopped caring about which albums Americans were buying and why.
Thanks for being here. Pull up a chair, and let’s dig into thirty years of great music together.
America’s Top 10 Albums — Chart history told from the sales floor.