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Post by pointpark04 on Mar 24, 2013 22:04:13 GMT -5
This is a thread whose mission it is to celebrate those classic late 1980s songs that bid farewell to the Top 40 within three weeks or less after peaking in the top 10.
I will kick things off with one of the worst songs of that era to be a top-five song - "Born to Be My Baby" by Bon Jovi. After reaching number three on 2/18/89, the song descended 5-15-30-GONE.
From its peak of number six on 3/11/89, the sweeping love song "Surrender to Me" by Ann Wilson and Robin Zander went 18-29-GONE.
Rod Stewart hit number four on 4/1/89, then tumbled 7-17-30-GONE with "My Heart Can't Tell You No".
REM took a stand at number six for three weeks with "Stand" from 4/8-4/22 of the same year, then went 21-35-GONE.
And, finally for now, Phil Collins spent two weeks atop the charts with "Two Hearts" on 1/21-1/28 of '89, then plummeted 10-22-33-GONE.
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Post by woolebull on Mar 24, 2013 23:56:04 GMT -5
"Where Are You Now"? by Jimmy Harnen with Synch peaked at 10 on 6-24-89 then went 16-32-40-GONE.
"One" by the Bee Gees peaked at 7 on 9-30-89 then went 21-39-GONE. "One" only spent one week in the Top 10, jumping into the top 10 at 7...without a bullet.
But the biggest GONE during that time might be "Kisses On The Wind" by Neneh Cherry. The same week as, "One", "Kisses" jumped into the Top 10 at 8 without a bullet, then went 24-GONE! To stretch it out: It went from 8-24-50-74-GONE OFF TOP 100!
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Post by pointpark04 on Mar 25, 2013 1:52:14 GMT -5
Fantastic additions, woolebull.
I loved "One". Great song. Really, America missed the train and boat there.
Honestly, it's one of the Bee Gees' best.
I'll snowball another Phil Collins led song on top of that. "Tonight Tonight Tonight" peaked at number three on 4/4/1987. After that, it was 4-14-26-GONE.
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Post by woolebull on Mar 25, 2013 8:20:40 GMT -5
Fantastic additions, woolebull. I loved "One". Great song. Really, America missed the train and boat there. Honestly, it's one of the Bee Gees' best. I'll snowball another Phil Collins led song on top of that. "Tonight Tonight Tonight" peaked at number three on 4/4/1987. After that, it was 4-14-26-GONE. Phil/ Genesis had many songs dropping fast at the end of the decade. "One" was a great song...that and "For Whom The Bell Tolls" (1993) were two of their best from that time. I can't imagine another Top 10 where two songs entered without bullets. I wonder how many times, if any, that has happened. Here's some more: "I Drove All Night" - Cyndi Lauper, peaked at 6 on 7-8-89. Then 11-25-GONE "Walk The Dinosaur" Was (Not Was), peaked at 7 on 4-1-89. Then 9-23-GONE |
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Post by mkarns on Mar 25, 2013 10:45:47 GMT -5
Bruce Springsteen's "Brilliant Disguise" peaked at #5 on 11/21/87. From there it dropped 6-26-40-GONE.
Though this is from the early 90s, Madonna's "Hanky Panky" stands out to me. On 7/28/90, it jumped from 17 to 10. Then, about face: 13-24-GONE.
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Post by woolebull on Mar 25, 2013 11:45:00 GMT -5
Bruce Springsteen's "Brilliant Disguise" peaked at #5 on 11/21/87. From there it dropped 6-26-40-GONE. Though this is from the early 90s, Madonna's "Hanky Panky" stands out to me. On 7/28/90, it jumped from 17 to 10. Then, about face: 13-24-GONE. I'd like to see more of the early 90's songs that did this. One song like that, "Fading Like A Flower" peaked at 2 on 8-31-91 then almost went Billy Preston and Dionne/Spinners by going from 2 to 15. It then dropped 24 to 28 to GONE! Also, Europe's "Final Countdown" peaked at 8 on 4-4-87. It then went 11-27-GONE! |
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Post by mkarns on Mar 25, 2013 12:05:12 GMT -5
Bruce Springsteen's "Brilliant Disguise" peaked at #5 on 11/21/87. From there it dropped 6-26-40-GONE. Though this is from the early 90s, Madonna's "Hanky Panky" stands out to me. On 7/28/90, it jumped from 17 to 10. Then, about face: 13-24-GONE. I'd like to see more of the early 90's songs that did this. One song like that, "Fading Like A Flower" peaked at 2 on 8-31-91 then almost went Billy Preston and Dionne/Spinners by going from 2 to 15. It then dropped 24 to 28 to GONE! Also, Europe's "Final Countdown" peaked at 8 on 4-4-87. It then went 11-27-GONE! The same week of Roxette's big drop, Lenny Kravitz' "It Ain't Over Till It's Over" fell from 3 to 19 (it had peaked at 2). It then fell 28-37-GONE. A'me Lorain's "Whole Wide World" peaked at #9 on 4/28/90; from there it fell 19-39-GONE. INXS' "Suicide Blonde" dropped 9-21-37-GONE in November 1990. And on 11/9/91, Jesus Jones' "Real Real Real" peaked at #4; the following week it crashed to 23 and then to 50. Then the Hot 100 switched methodology, at which point I cease to use it as my go-to chart reference (Radio & Records takes over for me then.) |
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Post by woolebull on Mar 25, 2013 12:42:57 GMT -5
I'd like to see more of the early 90's songs that did this. One song like that, "Fading Like A Flower" peaked at 2 on 8-31-91 then almost went Billy Preston and Dionne/Spinners by going from 2 to 15. It then dropped 24 to 28 to GONE! Also, Europe's "Final Countdown" peaked at 8 on 4-4-87. It then went 11-27-GONE! The same week of Roxette's big drop, Lenny Kravitz' "It Ain't Over Till It's Over" fell from 3 to 19 (it had peaked at 2). It then fell 28-37-GONE. A'me Lorain's "Whole Wide World" peaked at #9 on 4/28/90; from there it fell 19-39-GONE. INXS' "Suicide Blonde" dropped 9-21-37-GONE in November 1990. And on 11/9/91, Jesus Jones' "Real Real Real" peaked at #4; the following week it crashed to 23 and then to 50. Then the Hot 100 switched methodology, at which point I cease to use it as my go-to chart reference (Radio & Records takes over for me then.) What are the biggest drops from 2 and 3 on AT 40? Surely Roxette and Kravitz have to be up there. Granted "Over" wasn't at its peak position, but "Flower" was. For that matter, "Real" probably the biggest dropper from 4 as well. |
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Post by jebsib on Mar 25, 2013 16:08:59 GMT -5
Important to remember that all of these enormous falls were with songs that peaked bulletless. That is, they 'backed into" their peaks, and had been losing points for at least a week before. Thus, a particularly weak song was 'ready' to plummet under the right conditions.
'Real Real Real' goes one better by being bulletless at #7, then climbing to #4 bulletless before it crashed to #23. It took a similarly steep fall on r&r's chart.
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Post by torcan on Mar 26, 2013 15:46:06 GMT -5
I can't imagine another Top 10 where two songs entered without bullets. I wonder how many times, if any, that has happened. One of the reasons is that the criteria for bullets changed during the '80s. By the late '80s, songs only received bullets if they increased their sales and airplay totals by a certain percentage. I didn't matter where they were on the charts. By contrast, early '80s charts bullets (or "stars" as they were then) significed upward movement on the chart, regardless of whether they were actually increasing or not. That's why the late '80s saw some weird chart moves. As much as I like the music from 1989, for example, songs spent hardly any time at all in the top 10 that year. They raced up, and raced down pretty quickly. Maybe the fact that 45s were on their way out that year had something to do with it. If radio stations are hearing local sales reports that the songs aren't selling well, they probably dropped the record from their playlist quicker than they might have otherwise. |
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Post by torcan on Mar 26, 2013 15:49:42 GMT -5
The same week of Roxette's big drop, Lenny Kravitz' "It Ain't Over Till It's Over" fell from 3 to 19 (it had peaked at 2). It then fell 28-37-GONE. [/quote] I remember reading in Chartbeat that week that the top 10 was very soft around that time. In other words, most of the records had reached their natural peak around the same time, were bunched up and weren't really gaining, so when Roxette and Lenny Kravitz took a fall, they fell a long way. They were certainly the biggest drops from those positions in the '90s. I don't know what the story was with Madonna's "Hanky Panky". I heard it on the radio a lot around here but didn't like it much. I was surprised at how fast it raced up the Hot 100. Obviously it didn't have staying power, because I don't think I've heard it on the radio since 1990. |
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Mar 26, 2013 16:35:11 GMT -5
I think, on April 4, 1987, "Respect Yourself" by Bruce Willis took an epic plunge on its final week on AT40. It fell from #18 the previous week all the way down to #40, and by April 11, 1987, the song was outta here!
But to replace Bruce Willis's song and others, we get the return of Fleetwood Mac on AT40 with "Big Love" and a few other great songs that debuted on April 11, 1987.
BTW, did Premiere air the April 4, 1987 episode yet?
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Post by pointpark04 on Mar 26, 2013 17:21:09 GMT -5
OSAT40fan, negative. That 4/4/87 show has not yet been aired, not on the 80s series. Maybe on XM or Sirius, I don't know.
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Post by Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever on Mar 26, 2013 17:39:57 GMT -5
Neither 4/04/87 nor 4/11/87 has ever been rebroadcast. Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" was #1 both weeks.
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Post by JMW on Mar 26, 2013 18:31:31 GMT -5
I wanted to see if Donny Osmond's comeback hit Soldier of Love would fit this thread, and it does: it went from a #2 peak on 6/3/1989 to 8-19-37-GONE (disappearing from the Hot 100 by the end of July).
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