The BILLCS Music Blog began in 2009 as the BILLCS Is Tuned-On! blog, and is the online home of the BILLCS Top 30 chart, my personal chart (once called the Tuned-On! Top 30), which began in 1998! The blog contains regular posts about the chart, but you’ll also read my views on all things music and entertainment from the past and the present. There’ll continue to be listings which show my unique perspective on music and how it got to be what it is today. Here’s hoping you’ll check in regularly! The blog has been mentioned in Entertainment Weekly’s Popwatch column and is read and followed by many music industry performers, producers, managers, and tastemakers. – Bill Smith
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Bill Smith is a historian, researcher, chart phile, former college radio station programmer/manager, author, and most of all, MUSIC FAN, from the Toronto, Ontario, Canada area. Bill has been following contemporary pop music since age 9 when he began collecting local radio station music charts. He became a college radio programmer at age 18, managed the station at 20, still graduated from university at 22, wrote two self-published books in his late 20’s… you get the picture. Time out in the 90’s to start a family didn’t stop Bill from following music. With the advent of the Internet, personal chart making and connecting with music buffs all over the world started an entirely different revolution. The BILLCS Music Blog is the latest piece of the evolution and continues to keep Bill busy.
Bill resides in east Toronto and is the proud father of Ryan and Victoria. He is a retired human resources manager who worked for more than 35 years in the education field. Bill has contributed to the book and website The Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia by Jaimie Vernon, who kindly says Bill “has the greatest set of ears in the biz”.
Bill also “The MAPL Tapes”, an all-Canadian hour which began in March 2026 and currently airs Mondays at 6pm and Saturdays at 7pm ET on Halton Hills Radio Online, as well as on four other online stations. He is also the voice of “Your Weekend New Music Mix”, which currently airs Saturdays and Sundays from 8pm till Midnight ET. He previously was the announcer for “The Big 20”, a new music show which was played by several online stations for 283 episodes from late 2020 to May 2026. The show played countless songs by many artists from around the world that you wouldn’t otherwise hear on the radio.
Bill began his “New Music Pick of the Week” segment on Planet Radio Canada’s 3D Variety Show back in 2014, and it was relaunched when the 3D Variety Show returned online in 2020. It is now played on “Your Weekend New Music Mix” and several other stations, including many which air DJ Hunter’s show “Modern Hype”. In late 2022, Bill launched his “Retro Pick of the Week”, which plays on The 3D Variety Show after 7pm ET Tuesdays.
You can find links to the affiliate radio stations to the right, and schedules for The MAPL Tapes and the Picks of the Week at the bottom of the home page!
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