# Release year of a song **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/release-year-of-a-song/41998 **Category:** Support **Created:** [June 22, 2018, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/release-year-of-a-song/41998 "2018-06-22T16:45:38Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 6
### Author: ![kappclark](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/kappclark/32/5321_2.png) [@kappclark](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kappclark) #### Post date: [July 12, 2018, 10:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/release-year-of-a-song/41998/6 "2018-07-12T10:51:33Z")
I just found this thread, as I too am in search of a good online source for the original release year of many tracks I have from the 60s and 70s... I did try using VLOOKUP in Excel to get years into the list of files from a listing of about 2500 songs, and although it works, it was only 30% or so successful, because of any variation in title names ... I thought I had the solution, but I may be looking at manual entry, or maybe just call the collection "Groovy" and be done with it .. I have Whitburn's Top 40 book as an "official" source of data for singles ..does anyone know of a database of singles that cld be used to correctly populate the year tag for a single ? What a fabulous piece of software... Bill Clark, Windham, VT --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/release-year-of-a-song/41998)._