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Billboard Publishes the First “Videocassette Top 40” List

by | Nov 17, 1979

As they’ve always done with music sales, Billboard creates a “Top 40” list specially for the sale of videocassettes. It excludes X-rated movies. Much of list for this week is dominated by Magnetic Video titles, with the number one slot going to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.