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Post by ronnie21 on Dec 20, 2012 19:09:50 GMT -5
I wonder if this song ever went to number 1 in 1995 as much as it was overplayed. Whos with me here? i still hear this song almost everyday on the radio, iam in philly, what is it about this song why its so overpalyed. To me. the song is terrible and extrmely overrated , when there is so many better songs that dont get the exposure this trash gets. The song is like 16 yrs old and is still played everywhere you go...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2012 19:28:28 GMT -5
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Post by Mike on Dec 20, 2012 19:34:42 GMT -5
I and several others would probably debate this point with you extensively, not that you'd likely listen. I don't "love" the song by any means, but with the long chart run that it had...sorry, but the numbers just don't lie. With the chart run Dionne Farris had though, no way was she losing out to anyone.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2012 19:40:35 GMT -5
I and several others would probably debate this point with you extensively, not that you'd likely listen. I don't "love" the song by any means, but with the long chart run that it had...sorry, but the numbers just don't lie. With the chart run Dionne Farris had though, no way was she losing out to anyone. I don't dispute the results based on the chart run. I dispute the chart run!
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Post by ronnie21 on Dec 20, 2012 19:45:59 GMT -5
so are you with me that song really stinks and was really thrown in our faces. I hated when i would go out to eat and it would come on over the resturants music system. as soon as i ordered, had to endure this song so many times.. It just got to me.. iam just saying that there is and was a ton of underrated songs still out there that dont get the reconition this song still gets..
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Post by ronnie21 on Dec 20, 2012 19:47:51 GMT -5
People will suck up bad music only cause its thrown at them.. if radio stations promoted certain other songs. they may have been bigger hits. For example. in 1995 also, tears for fears ha d a 1 week only song called god's mistake. really good song, but only got a few plays.. should have been a bigger hit..
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Post by mstgator on Dec 25, 2012 14:09:51 GMT -5
I feel like there was already a thread about this a year or two ago... song must really stir up some hate to keep inspiring new topics. As for me, I don't mind it. Don't love it, but have no reason to hate it (and I was a big Top 40 listener in the mid '90s).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2012 14:25:57 GMT -5
I feel like there was already a thread about this a year or two ago... song must really stir up some hate to keep inspiring new topics. As for me, I don't mind it. Don't love it, but have no reason to hate it (and I was a big Top 40 listener in the mid '90s). It does seem like this comes up way more on this board than any other song and 95 in general comes up more than any other year. As for your opinion of the song, I expect nothing less from you Pinellas county folk. J/k of course! ;D
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Post by Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever on Dec 25, 2012 18:14:53 GMT -5
Run Around stuck around because there was not much to challenge it on the playlists of many radio stations at the time it was out there (March 1995-Feb 1996)--that playlist data was reported to RR and at the time there was no recurrent rule (that came in the summer of 1996---songs that had been on the charts for 26 or 27 weeks and were below #25 were removed). Had Top 40 radio not been in a slump with tight playlists, "Run Around" probably would not have done as well.
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Post by adam31 on Dec 26, 2012 14:20:40 GMT -5
Excellent observations. Amazing how many songs of that era stayed in the top 40 for almost a year at a time. Stale and not much chart movement.
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Post by woolebull on Dec 26, 2012 14:39:25 GMT -5
I'm still baffled that a song that peaked at 46 and was in the Top 50 a grand total of 3 weeks hit the Top 100 for the year that year. I mean, it didn't even spend like 13 weeks going up and down between 46 and 50. It spent three weeks TOTAL in the top 50, didn't come close to 40, and ended up 97.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2012 14:50:13 GMT -5
In the 1996 Year End survey "Waterfalls" by TLC was on it. One problem, IIRC it wasn't even in the top 40 on its way down or anything else in 1996.
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Post by Hervard on Dec 26, 2012 17:42:19 GMT -5
The song that peaked at #46 was "Close To You" by Fun Factory. That was on the charts around the time that the chart extended from 40 positions to 50 positions. So it could easily have been bubbling under the chart when it still only went down to 40.
As for "Waterfalls", that song was #41 on the first chart week of 1996, so that explains how that song made it .
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Post by ronnie21 on Dec 26, 2012 19:09:02 GMT -5
i remmeber in jan of 94. when the counting crows debuted with mr . jones.. Everyone really freaked and loved it. it was an instant smash the minute it was first played. They were a new group and Mr jones was the most over played song for the rest of the next 3 yrs.. I always hated that song.. I was getting into a song by Rush at the time called time stand still, even though it was from late 87, it should have been a big hit. but nope. it wasnt. but all the people i played it for all said its better than mr jones..
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Post by ronnie21 on Dec 26, 2012 19:11:36 GMT -5
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