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Post by woolebull on Dec 14, 2012 12:42:00 GMT -5
Listening to CT 40 dated 12-16-95 and the song "I Wanna B With U" by Fun Factory was spending its 21st week in the Top 40 without hitting the Top 20. It would end up spending an amazing half a year altogether in the Top 40, finally bowing out with the 2-9-96 show. I would think that would be a record.
Trivia: a song in 1997 spent 24 weeks on CT 40 never getting past number 29...any guesses? One hint: a movie was made two years ago about the artist.
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Post by Hervard on Dec 14, 2012 21:44:46 GMT -5
"Mo Money, Mo Problems" by Notorious B.I.G.
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Post by woolebull on Dec 14, 2012 23:06:12 GMT -5
Yup! That's it...that is crazy to me. I would listen to a show from September of '97 and then, say, December of '97 and because of its ranking on Billboard I thought it was just naturally progressing down the chart...turns out I could have listened to the first hour of the show for almost six months and, with the exception of a few weeks, would have always heard that song!
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Post by Hervard on Dec 15, 2012 12:24:08 GMT -5
Yup! That's it...that is crazy to me. I would listen to a show from September of '97 and then, say, December of '97 and because of its ranking on Billboard I thought it was just naturally progressing down the chart...turns out I could have listened to the first hour of the show for almost six months and, with the exception of a few weeks, would have always heard that song! Yeah, this one sure had endurance. I wonder how long it would have stayed on if not for the recurrent rule. Rick Dees actually played this one on the Top 98 of 1998, which is this week's feature show. |
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Post by woolebull on Dec 15, 2012 22:15:42 GMT -5
Was RD still using R and R at that time? I thought he was, but something someone said on here a while back made me think differently.
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Post by freakyflybry on Dec 16, 2012 12:02:44 GMT -5
Was RD still using R and R at that time? I thought he was, but something someone said on here a while back made me think differently. For the most part he was, though his chart often had switched positions. He used R&R or variations until 2004. |
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Post by Hervard on Dec 17, 2012 9:51:16 GMT -5
Yeah, when "Mo Money, Mo Problems" hit the charts, he had just switched back to R&R two months earlier (before, since June, 1995, he had been using a chart that used both Pop and Rhythmic airplay stats.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Dec 17, 2012 10:34:01 GMT -5
Was RD still using R and R at that time? I thought he was, but something someone said on here a while back made me think differently. Rick Dees did get to play "Spice Up Your Life" by Spice Girls in the fall of 1997, and I know it was at least #40. Casey Kasem never got to play it. Maybe the song at #40 on R&R that week was deemed controversial and questionable, and Rick Dees chose to replace it with "Spice Up Your Life" for some weird reason? If so, Casey Kasem might have got his hands on an edited version of the so-called controversial song. I can see why the song "My Love Is The Shhh!" by Something For The People may be deemed controverisal - the "Shhh!" may have been used to replace a swear word or something. |
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Post by freakyflybry on Dec 17, 2012 11:42:15 GMT -5
I can see why the song "My Love Is The Shhh!" by Something For The People may be deemed controverisal - the "Shhh!" may have been used to replace a swear word or something. Ironically, Rick played that one normally during its chart run! However, that might've been a delayed reaction as I don't recall hearing it on Rick's show until 1998. As for "Spice Up Your Life", I also remember it being a chart song for Rick back then, it probably was replacing a declining song, or he could've used a midweek chart that week. |
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Post by woolebull on Dec 17, 2012 17:57:25 GMT -5
Was RD still using R and R at that time? I thought he was, but something someone said on here a while back made me think differently. Rick Dees did get to play "Spice Up Your Life" by Spice Girls in the fall of 1997, and I know it was at least #40. Casey Kasem never got to play it. Maybe the song at #40 on R&R that week was deemed controversial and questionable, and Rick Dees chose to replace it with "Spice Up Your Life" for some weird reason? If so, Casey Kasem might have got his hands on an edited version of the so-called controversial song. Could be...it seems weird that a song that didn't hit the R and R top 40 would be played by Dees, if he was using R and R. |
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Post by freakyflybry on Dec 17, 2012 23:59:19 GMT -5
Rick Dees did get to play "Spice Up Your Life" by Spice Girls in the fall of 1997, and I know it was at least #40. Casey Kasem never got to play it. Maybe the song at #40 on R&R that week was deemed controversial and questionable, and Rick Dees chose to replace it with "Spice Up Your Life" for some weird reason? If so, Casey Kasem might have got his hands on an edited version of the so-called controversial song. Could be...it seems weird that a song that didn't hit the R and R top 40 would be played by Dees, if he was using R and R. These are ones I can think of that did make it from 1997-present that weren't in the Mediabase top 40 (not merely as a sure shot, but have to be an actual countdown song on Dees): Blues Traveler - Most Precarious Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life Mister Jones - Destiny Tatyana Ali - Daydreamin' Billie - She Wants You Hanson - If Only Sonique - Sky Joy Enriquez - Tell Me How You Feel Green Day - Minority 98 Degrees - The Way You Want Me To Eden's Crush - Love This Way Ryan Adams - New York, New York Westlife - World Of Our Own Korn - Word Up Caesars - Jerk It Out American Hi-Fi - The Geeks Get The Girls Daddy Yankee - Like You Ricky Martin f/Amerie & Fat Joe - I Don't Care Aly & A.J. - Rush David Guetta f/Chris Willis - Love Is Gone |
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Post by woolebull on Dec 18, 2012 12:56:32 GMT -5
What was the highest position of these songs? Not every song...just the one that charted highest.
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