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Post by laura on May 31, 2019 17:52:14 GMT -5
I just heard Nina say that they're doing 1982, a repeat from last year.
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Post by jgve1952 on May 31, 2019 18:19:25 GMT -5
So we get 1982, which was played the furthest time ago of the ten years, and the first to amass a 3rd airing in 2019. Only one song featured on last weekend's special of Summer #1's, "Don't You Want Me" will be played this evening.
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Post by mkarns on May 31, 2019 21:49:46 GMT -5
So we get 1982, which was played the furthest time ago of the ten years, and the first to amass a 3rd airing in 2019. Only one song featured on last weekend's special of Summer #1's, "Don't You Want Me" will be played this evening. And only one song from 1983 made that special at all, "Every Breath You Take", and we wouldn't have gotten that if 1983 had been done this week as they would have done 5/28/83 and EBYT debuted 6/4. And why isn't a song that hit #1 on Memorial Day weekend and stayed there for all of June a "summer" hit? "Flashdance" was robbed....and it would have been #3 or #4 if included. Similarly, "Bette Davis Eyes" might have been #1 in that show if it had been played, but was apparently excluded because it #1 in mid-May 1981, never mind the fact that it was on top for nine non-consecutive weeks that included most of June and about half of July. (Yet "Endless Love" gets included as it topped the charts that August, never mind that it stayed there until October, making it a fall as well as summer hit.)
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Post by laura on May 31, 2019 22:46:22 GMT -5
Next week's show was not announced for some reason.
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Post by doofus67 on Jun 1, 2019 2:02:08 GMT -5
Here's a second opinion on that "summertime" countdown (which I, for what it's worth, didn't bother listening to).
Bill Carroll is a chemist by day and a chart fanatic by night and weekend. He came up with a unique and complex ranking formula for all the songs of the Rock Era.
His book, Ranking the Rock Writers, lists his chart scores for every song that charted between 1955 and 1991. He based these scores on the songs' action on all the major sales-oriented charts, not just Billboard, which made them more accurate and more realistic.
From these listings, I've pulled out the top #1 summer hits of the 80s -- including those that first hit the top spot in May and carried over into June and July, and regardless of who were the coolest artists or who made the coolest videos!
1. "Endless Love" (10,664 chart points) 2. "Every Breath You Take" (10,116) 3. "Flashdance...What a Feeling" (9574) 4. "Eye of the Tiger" (9112) 5. "Bette Davis Eyes" (8923) 6. "Ebony and Ivory" (8546) 7. "Funkytown" (8061) 8. "When Doves Cry" (7299) 9. "Don't You Want Me" (7286) 10. "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" (7270) 11. "Magic" (6599) 12. "Coming Up" (6470) 13. "Jessie's Girl" (6373) 14. "Ghostbusters" (6188) 15. "On My Own" (5145) 16. "Let's Hear It for the Boy" (5139) 17. "The Reflex" (5082) 18. "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" (4971) 19. "The One That You Love" (4945) 20. "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" (4874) 21. "Time After Time" (4828) 22. "Sailing" (4811) 23. "Alone" (4753) 24. "Shout" (4675) 25. "La Bamba" (4652) 26. "The Power of Love" (4627) 27. "Shakedown" (4602) 28. "Higher Love" (4547) 29. "Roll with It" (4539) 30. "Live to Tell" (4537) 31. "One More Try" (4517) 32. "Head to Toe" (4435) 33. "Always" (4301) 34. "There'll Be Sad Songs" (4280) 35. "Papa Don't Preach" (4241) 36. "Glory of Love" (4132) 37. "Sledgehammer" (4081) 38. "Everytime You Go Away" (4062) 39. "A View to a Kill" (4032) 40. "Everything She Wants" (4018)
Did you notice? If this were a countdown, the radio gods would frown upon it for sure. The first three songs would be from 1985, then the next four would be from 1986!
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Post by laura on Jun 5, 2019 20:54:11 GMT -5
Any word on this weekend's show? I hope this time they announce the one for the next week at the end of it.
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Post by mellongraig on Jun 6, 2019 16:24:45 GMT -5
I think what might be happening is that they like the 70s AT40 show, are going to hold off on what year is featured until they advertise what they are featuring. In this case, it will likely be on the day when the show is first broadast, with the advertising around Friday morning/early afternoon.
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Post by jgve1952 on Jun 6, 2019 19:05:43 GMT -5
I have just gotten so accustomed at the end of the show to hear about the replay coming soon and "Next Week It Will Be All About (insert year)." I would hate to lose that tradition, and I think Laura would also? Laura always lets us know what the following week's show will be. Just guessing for tomorrow's episode, but 1989 is the year that hasn't been played for the longest period of time. Mark Goodman usually announces the year during Friday evening, but this is one spoiler alert I won't mind receiving earlier than Mark Goodman gives.
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Post by mkarns on Jun 6, 2019 19:23:44 GMT -5
I have just gotten so accustomed at the end of the show to hear about the replay coming soon and "Next Week It Will Be All About (insert year)." I would hate to lose that tradition, and I think Laura would also? Laura always lets us know what the following week's show will be. Just guessing for tomorrow's episode, but 1989 is the year that hasn't been played for the longest period of time. Mark Goodman usually announces the year during Friday evening, but this is one spoiler alert I won't mind receiving earlier than Mark Goodman gives. If so, then it would probably be June 3, 1989, for the third consecutive year. Then again, we not only don't get 1989 from Casey but even Rick Dees hasn't featured that year in forever, so I'll take the songs anyway.
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Post by benster72 on Jun 7, 2019 8:05:55 GMT -5
Mark Goodman mentioned tonight's countdown will be 1987. Once we see the ad for "Partland Brothers, Herb Alpert and more!" we will know it's true.
Also, via Mark Goodman on Facebook - it will be 1989 NEXT Friday night, June 14. Again, you can't believe everything posted on Facebook, and my intentions are not to provide lazy reporting, but wanted to provide this to our general music discussion.
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Post by laura on Jun 7, 2019 14:02:40 GMT -5
If that's the case, I figured they would switch 1987 and 1989 around, because if they would have gone with '89 tonight, they would have more than likely gone with 6/10, which would be kinda awkward considering this is the first Friday of June. Hopefully they include the promo at the end to confirm this.
As of now they haven't updated with the advertising yet. This is getting a little ridiculous.
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Post by laura on Jun 7, 2019 22:58:15 GMT -5
And again, no announcement about next week's show.
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Post by benster72 on Jun 8, 2019 8:25:08 GMT -5
The ad is the same as last week as well. If you go to the On Demand page, you see the same ad listed twice: Big 40 hits of each week in the 80s.
The changes made are really irritating.
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Post by laura on Jun 8, 2019 10:52:57 GMT -5
Yeah I don't get why they're getting lazy all of a sudden. I mean the other decades' channels have their respective countdowns advertised, so it doesn't make sense.
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Post by laura on Jun 8, 2019 14:14:36 GMT -5
Yeah I don't get why they're getting lazy all of a sudden. I mean the other decades' channels have their respective countdowns advertised, so it doesn't make sense. There are 60 pages of errors listed. The laziness of the Interns and their production staff didn't just start with failing to advertise the year of the upcoming show. At this rate one week they may even forget to play the actual show.
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