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Post by lasvegaskid on Mar 10, 2013 11:34:58 GMT -5
On this week's 1973 show, Casey said Carly had the oldest song on the coundown at thirteen whopping weeks. Flash ahead 40 years and it is not hard to find tunes on the Hot 100 for 30 or even 40+ weeks. Why the longevity difference?
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Post by chrislc on Mar 10, 2013 12:01:53 GMT -5
On this week's 1973 show, Casey said Carly had the oldest song on the coundown at thirteen whopping weeks. Flash ahead 40 years and it is not hard to find tunes on the Hot 100 for 30 or even 40+ weeks. Why the longevity difference? Because for every fifty good songs released 40 years ago, there is about one now. Just my opinion, of course. And it makes that song's skyrocket to #1 all the more impressive. Today we have The Harlem Shake. Good Lord. |
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Post by saltrek on Mar 10, 2013 12:58:00 GMT -5
It has mostly to do the corporate ownership of radio stations and spins counts used to determine song rankings.
The corporate mantra is to not take chances. Keep playing the same songs that everybody is familiar with week after week rather than add new music.
Hundreds of radio stations following the corporate policy + spin counts now driving the record charts = lack of movement.
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Post by canat40fan on Mar 10, 2013 13:44:32 GMT -5
Adding to what chrislc said,....40 - 50 years ago there was a lot more activity and much more competition in the music industry. It was the time when the first group of the post WWII baby boom population explosion were in their early to mid twenties and they were a much higher percentage of the population than that age group is today. Bottom line...lots of great musicians fighting to get to the top.
Back in those days, I remember Casey saying something like "of the hundreds of single released every week, these are the Top 40".
I really miss those days because it was such an exciting time. When bands of the day like the Beatles, Stones, Three Dog Night etc. had singles at the top of the charts...it seemed like every child, teenager, parent and grandparent knew about the song due to the omni presence of top 40 pop music industry of the time. Today, most people can't even recognize what songs are at the top of the charts.
They were special times that no longer exist and it's too bad that the young people of today never got to experience it.
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Post by doomsdaymachine on Mar 10, 2013 20:19:08 GMT -5
In 1991, Billboard changed its chart methodology to Soundscan. Not long after, we had records routinely staying at #1 for 10+ weeks and spending a year or more on the Hot 100.
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Post by adam31 on Mar 11, 2013 22:38:24 GMT -5
On this week's 1973 show, Casey said Carly had the oldest song on the coundown at thirteen whopping weeks. Flash ahead 40 years and it is not hard to find tunes on the Hot 100 for 30 or even 40+ weeks. Why the longevity difference? Because for every fifty good songs released 40 years ago, there is about one now. Just my opinion, of course. And it makes that song's skyrocket to #1 all the more impressive. Today we have The Harlem Shake. Good Lord. Amen, Billboard including You Tube as part of their methodology? Ridiculous! If this had happened any sooner, Justin Bieber would be challenging the Beatles or Elvis for Billboard chart records.  |
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