Soft Rock Week: Four Compilations [1993-2007]

For HERC, there's a fine line between soft rock and love songs.  Not every soft rock song is a love song but a lot of them are and not all love songs are soft rock but most of them are.  The line between the two is arbitrary and constantly shifting in HERC's head.  For the most part, the compilations featured below are mostly soft rock.

release date: June 27, 2005

range of years: 1977-1983

average year of release: 1980

#1 Pop songs: 4

#1 Adult Contemporary songs: 7

number of movie theme songs: 5

number of James Bond film theme songs: 2

number of 45RPM singles HERC owns from this collection: 1

release date: April 3, 2007

range of years: 1971-1995

average year of release: 1978

#1 Pop songs: 2

#1 Adult Contemporary songs: 5

number of songs that failed to chart on AC chart: 5

number of 45RPM singles HERC owns from this collection: 5

For HERC's once hard-earned money, Easy '70s is the superior soft-rock compilation featured on today's post.  It offers a near ideal yearly range (1970-1980) with an optimal average year of 1975 - arguably soft-rock's golden year.  With a ridiculous 17 Number One songs from Billboard's Hot 100 chart, it carries on Razor & Tie's hit slugging percentage.

release date: 1993

range of years: 1970-1980

average year of release: 1975

#1 Pop songs: 17

#1 Adult Contemporary songs: 11

number of 45RPM singles HERC owns from this collection: 1

NOTE: this compilation is available as 
a 17 track single disc or 32 track double disc 
release date: October 23, 2001

range of years: 1975-1983

average year of release: 1979

#1 Pop songs: 5

#1 Adult Contemporary songs: 6

number of 45RPM singles HERC owns from this collection: 2

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