ProcSort

[harveysarah0]

Report the release dates listed for the 3 highest grossing albums in SAS’s default date

formatting.

Would you use procsort here?

Thought it might be something along these lines:

Proc sort data= Albums;
By ReleaseDate;
Run;

But I know I still need to incorporate the 3 highest grossing albums in there 

[PaigeMiller]

I'll give you a hint. If you ask to sort by ReleaseDate, then you learn which albums were released first, but you learn nothing about the amount of the gross revenue of the album. So, you need to sort by ......

[Reeza]

You should be able to run that and see if it's the right answer. Is it giving you what you want? How would you do it in Excel?

[Patrick]

Besides of Proc Sort using Proc Rank is another option which also deals with ties.