The Hawaiian Island weekly top 36 charts were weekly charts compiled from tabulations of listener
ballots
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sent into
Honolulu
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-based radio station
Radio Free Hawaii, 102.7 FM. All genres of music were eligible for each week's chart, including current rock, pop and rap, as well as oldies, country, Hawaiian, jazz and classical music.
The system was unique, as the
radio
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playlist
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s were chosen completely by the listeners. The charts existed 1991–1997.
See also
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Record chart
A record chart, in the music industry, also called a music chart, is a ranking of Sound recording and reproduction, recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period. Many different criteria are used in worldwide charts, often ...
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Hawaii
Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only stat ...
External links
Weekly Charts from 1993 onwards can be found here, as well as some charts from 1991 and 1992.
Article on Hawaii Ballots.
Hawaiian music
American record charts
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