#14: The Phantom Hit “Ready ‘N’ Steady” (1979)
How can a song make the Billboard charts if it doesn’t exist? That’s the mystery of “Ready ‘N’ Steady.” In 1979, this track by a supposed group named D.A. showed up on the “Bubbling Under” chart, which lists songs just below the Hot 100. The only problem was that no one had ever heard it. No radio station ever played it, and no physical record was ever pressed. For nearly 40 years, music historians have debated what it was. An accounting error? A copyright trap? A complete ghost in the machine?
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