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Post by bandit73 on Feb 25, 2013 23:49:08 GMT -5
I've been looking at the top 40 of the Hot 100 again in recent months, and each week I wonder what it would be like if AT40 still used the Hot 100, and still had most of its basic elements from the Casey/Shadoe era in place. (I've never heard the Ryan Seacrest version, since I don't know if any station here has it, so I don't really know how many of the old elements still exist.)
Does anyone have any insight as to how AT40 would sound today under a Hot 100 regime? Seems there was a song that had a bad word in the title that recently made the top 10. How would stuff like that be handled?
What about the Hot 100's policy on re-entries, which may come into play each time a famous singer dies?
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Post by mkarns on Feb 26, 2013 0:27:34 GMT -5
I think it would sound ridiculous, or at least hard to get excited about what would once have been huge chart feats ("Harlem Shake" debuts this week at #1! The Glee Cast has the most charted singles in history!), especially as few listeners would be hearing evidence of such supposedly phenomenal achievements on their radios. Re-entries flooding the chart might present a similar issue, though it would provide a good opportunity for the host to offer an extended tribute to artists who died or otherwise merited recharting hits.
As for profanity in titles, it probably would be edited from the song and not mentioned by the host, as has happened at times. Recently several hit songs with offensive language in their titles had shortened or alternate titles used on AT40.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2013 5:00:51 GMT -5
I've been looking at the top 40 of the Hot 100 again in recent months, and each week I wonder what it would be like if AT40 still used the Hot 100, and still had most of its basic elements from the Casey/Shadoe era in place. (I've never heard the Ryan Seacrest version, since I don't know if any station here has it, so I don't really know how many of the old elements still exist.) Does anyone have any insight as to how AT40 would sound today under a Hot 100 regime? Seems there was a song that had a bad word in the title that recently made the top 10. How would stuff like that be handled? What about the Hot 100's policy on re-entries, which may come into play each time a famous singer dies? I think the show would sound like crickets chirping because it wouldn't exist. Few, and by few I mean small handful would be airing it now if the Hot 100 were the chart of choice.
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Post by mstgator on Feb 26, 2013 21:25:30 GMT -5
"Debuting at #1 this week is a monotonous song that you've never heard on the radio, but you may know from endless homemade YouTube videos. I'm so very sorry."
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Post by blackbowl68 on Feb 27, 2013 11:08:17 GMT -5
If such a show existed, it would only be aired on satellite or radio. Those are the only places where there is no limitation based on radio format, radio fragmentation, lyrical content, and affiliations with certain companies. I also think it would have to have more than one host.
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Post by Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever on Feb 27, 2013 11:55:24 GMT -5
The Internet radio service, Radioio (http://www.radioio.com) has a station "Billboard Hot 100" that plays songs from the Hot 100, don't know if it's a countdown or not? SXM's 90s on 9 has a "Back In the Day" countdown that uses the Hot 100 for a given week in the 1990s, so if you check these out, you could get some idea how a Hot 100 based countdown would have sounded after Nov 23, 1991.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2013 12:03:30 GMT -5
The Internet radio service, Radioio (http://www.radioio.com) has a station "Billboard Hot 100" that plays songs from the Hot 100, don't know if it's a countdown or not? SXM's 90s on 9 has a "Back In the Day" countdown that uses the Hot 100 for a given week in the 1990s, so if you check these out, you could get some idea how a Hot 100 based countdown would have sounded after Nov 23, 1991. I heard like 15 minutes of the show on 90s on 9 this past weekend. It was from 1995. What I heard was awful.
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Post by mkarns on Feb 27, 2013 13:08:22 GMT -5
The Internet radio service, Radioio (http://www.radioio.com) has a station "Billboard Hot 100" that plays songs from the Hot 100, don't know if it's a countdown or not? SXM's 90s on 9 has a "Back In the Day" countdown that uses the Hot 100 for a given week in the 1990s, so if you check these out, you could get some idea how a Hot 100 based countdown would have sounded after Nov 23, 1991. I heard like 15 minutes of the show on 90s on 9 this past weekend. It was from 1995. What I heard was awful. The countdown itself isn't bad, though stuff like the "And here's #2--um, no, #1" jingle doesn't need to be repeated each week. But it does show how out of touch the post-1991 Hot 100 had gotten from what most people were hearing; I listened to the 1995 countdown as well and there were a lot of songs that I never heard on the radio even then, let alone as recurrents since. Meanwhile, a lot of songs that were played a lot and helped to sell lots of albums weren't released as singles and thus ignored by the Hot 100. A better 1990s countdown could be had by using Radio & Records or some other radio-based source IMO. To make a decent sampler of top 40 music of the time, I pulled up the Casey's Top 40 list from that week and interspersed the included songs from the SXM 9 countdown with recordings of hits not included in it from You Tube and elsewhere.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2013 13:59:16 GMT -5
I heard like 15 minutes of the show on 90s on 9 this past weekend. It was from 1995. What I heard was awful. The countdown itself isn't bad, though stuff like the "And here's #2--um, no, #1" jingle doesn't need to be repeated each week. But it does show how out of touch the post-1991 Hot 100 had gotten from what most people were hearing; I listened to the 1995 countdown as well and there were a lot of songs that I never heard on the radio even then, let alone as recurrents since. Meanwhile, a lot of songs that were played a lot and helped to sell lots of albums weren't released as singles and thus ignored by the Hot 100. A better 1990s countdown could be had by using Radio & Records or some other radio-based source IMO. To make a decent sampler of top 40 music of the time, I pulled up the Casey's Top 40 list from that week and interspersed the included songs from the SXM 9 countdown with recordings of hits not included in it from You Tube and elsewhere. It's not the actual show itself, that's fine. It was the chart as you pointed out.
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Post by albe on Feb 27, 2013 16:30:17 GMT -5
AT40 simply died after Nov 23, 1991 regardless of the chart used.
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Post by Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever on Feb 27, 2013 21:56:50 GMT -5
Would have been better if 90s on 9 broadcast Rick Dees or Casey's Top 40. They did have Rick Dees for a short time before and just after the merger. As for Casey's Top 40, they either think Casey's not cool enough for 90s on 9, don't want to spend the money, can't obtain the show, or some other reason known only to SXM management.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2013 6:29:25 GMT -5
Would have been better if 90s on 9 broadcast Rick Dees or Casey's Top 40. They did have Rick Dees for a short time before and just after the merger. As for Casey's Top 40, they either think Casey's not cool enough for 90s on 9, don't want to spend the money, can't obtain the show, or some other reason known only to SXM management. Dees would be the best bet. Of course the ENTIRE 80s AT40 show would best for the 80s station and you see what they do now instead. I'm shocked its still on the 70s station honestly. I've been expecting AT40 to disappear from there for 3-4 years now. Sometimes I wonder if those in charge of programming forget its on and that's why it stays. But I doubt that's why.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Feb 28, 2013 8:59:51 GMT -5
I heard like 15 minutes of the show on 90s on 9 this past weekend. It was from 1995. What I heard was awful. I'm with you as well. 1995 was, by far, the worst year for music, IMO. Not to mention I was going through a rough period during that time and 1995 was the peak year of my rough period. You couldn't listen to the radio in 1995 without hearing "Runaround" by Blues Traveler.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2013 10:19:04 GMT -5
I heard like 15 minutes of the show on 90s on 9 this past weekend. It was from 1995. What I heard was awful. I'm with you as well. 1995 was, by far, the worst year for music, IMO. Not to mention I was going through a rough period during that time and 1995 was the peak year of my rough period. You couldn't listen to the radio in 1995 without hearing "Runaround" by Blues Traveler. You had to mention that song didn't you?!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2013 10:31:13 GMT -5
Ok, before people misinterpret what I was saying, I was NOT implying I hated all the songs on this show. 1995 is by no means anywhere near my favorite year musically. And for some odd reason on December 31, 1995 at about 11:50am I developed a complete and total hatred for all harmonicas worldwide. But there were songs I really liked from 95 (I Know, In the House of Stone & Light, and Believe are 3 from remotely around this time) and in looking at the Hot 100 a lot I would have liked on this show. But there were things I'd never heard in my life on it and other songs that did not appear to be where I remember them. This goes back to other discussions. When for 20 years you've thought of a song reaching 1 position or being in a certain area on the chart at a certain point of the year and then you hear something else that tallys differently and it's somewhere else, it seems odd. This is the case listening to AT40s from 92 and 93 for me now, and its the case hearing anything from the Hot 100 as the decade progressed. As it went on the chart resembled almost nothing like what you heard on a radio countdown. That's what was turning me off. The songs I never heard of and to a lesser extent the positions they were in. Not the music as a whole.
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