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Post by pointpark04 on Mar 26, 2013 18:52:43 GMT -5
Steve Winwood spent four weeks at the top of the Hot 100 in the summer of 1988 with "Roll With It", and even though that song would be the longest-running number one of the calendar year, it would only take seven weeks to go from the top spot to off of the entire 100.
"Monkey" by George Michael suffered much the same fate. After a two-week stint following Winwood, the fourth number one from GM's album Faith spent just another seven weeks on the entire 100 before it went bye-bye.
I think that the period between 1986 and 1989 suffered from the new-found reliance upon artists to release no less than four (sometimes five or six) singles from an album. This was kind of rare even up until the mid-80s, but became commonplace once Whitney, Janet, and Genesis established the trend in 1986.
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Post by pointpark04 on Mar 26, 2013 19:52:48 GMT -5
I remembered "Mixed Emotions" by the Rolling Stones had an epic plunge. After two weeks at number five, it dropped to 18 on 10/28/89, then to 34, then GONE. Two weeks later, it was off of the Hot 100 after stops at 57 and 95.
In the same month, Madonna cherished a second week at number two with "Cherish" on 10/14/89, then went 12-23-38-GONE. Three weeks later, it spent just its 15th and final week on the Hot 100 at 99, after going to 52 and 77 in the interim.
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Post by kchkwong on Apr 5, 2013 3:27:45 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. Spending only three more weeks in the top 40 after falling from a peak position in the top 10 was actually very common throughout the 80s. So I found out only the songs that spent one or two more weeks in the top 40 from 1985 to 1989 (many of them were already mentioned by others). Let me know if there's any omission from the list. ONE WEEK: 1985: Sugar Walls, peaked at #9 then #17-GONE 1989: Kisses On The Wind, peaked at #8 then #24-GONE TWO WEEKS: 1985: Valotte Born In The U.S.A. The Old Man Down The Road Relax Private Dancer Missing You Axel F The Goonies 'R' Good Enough Sentimental Street Get It On (Bang A Gong) Pop Life I'm Goin' Down Fortress Around Your Heart 1986: My Hometown Spies Like Us King For A Day Take Me Home Nothin' At All A Different Corner Tuff Enuff Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) The Edge Of Heaven Baby Love Heartbeat True Blue Love Will Conquer All 1987: War Victory Is This Love - Survivor We're Ready The Final Countdown Let's Go! Stone Love I Know What I Like Something So Strong Wot's It To Ya Touch Of Grey Paper In Fire It's A Sin Breakout I've Been In Love Before The One I Love 1988: I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man Don't Shed A Tear Some Kind Of Lover I Saw Him Standing There Prove Your Love Alphabet St. Rush Hour 1989: Smooth Criminal She Wants To Dance With Me What I Am Surrender To Me Don't Tell Me Lies You're Not Alone Walk The Dinosaur Dreamin' Superwoman You Got It Stand Room To Move Cry I Drove All Night The Doctor One Mixed Emotions It's No Crime Didn't I (Blow Your Mind)
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Post by briguy52748 on Apr 5, 2013 7:23:41 GMT -5
I'm surprised nobody mentioned, just FTR, the series of fall 1974 No. 1 hits that plummeted and just kept falling like a rock. (Even though this is a thread for late 1980s quick droppers and this would put things in perspective.)
* "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe" – Barry White (1-12-22 to 42 the following week). • "Rock Me Gently" – Andy Kim (1-12-32 to 48 the following week). • "I Honestly Love You" – Olivia Newton-John (1 (for two weeks)-4-19 then way down to No. 42). • "Nothin' From Nothin'" – Billy Preston (1-15-39 way down to 72). • "Then Came You" – Dionne Warwick and the Spinners (1-15-39 to even worse than Billy Preston ... No. 79!). • "You Haven't Done Nothin'" – Stevie Wonder (1-12-28 to off the top 40). • "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night" – John Lennon (1-12-21-40 to No. 56 the next week).
Reversing the trend, after at first following it to a "T" was "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive, the song immediately preceding Lennon's only No. 1 hit he'd have in his lifetime. The song fell to No. 12, then plummeted to No. 34 before rebounding back to No. 8 for two weeks before falling again.
And I'm sure there were quite a few former top 10 hits in the late summer and throughout the fall of 1974 that also fit this trend, but I'll have to research that when I have a little more time.
Over on the Hot Country Singles chart, quicker-than-normal falls was not unheard of during the 1970s but really common during the 1980s. When "and it's ... GONE!" plunges were at their most common in the 1980s, late 1980 through early 1982 was the most common period for epic plunges from a position within the top 10, including No. 1.
The summer and early fall of 1981, incidentally, was the only year where with known instances since the introduction of the modern Hot Country Singles charts chart in 1958 where a song plummeted from No. 1 right off the top 40:
• "Feels So Right" – Alabama (after two weeks at No. 1, dropped to No. 43!) • "You Don't Know Me" – Mickey Gilley (from the top to No. 47) • "Tight Fittin' Jeans" – Conway Twitty.
The next closest to fit this trend were two songs – 23 years apart – which fell from No. 1 to No. 3 the next week, then right off the top 40:
• The 1980 instance – "Coward of the County" – Kenny Rogers (after three weeks at No. 1, to No. 3 then to No. 41). • The 2003 instance – "Travelin' Soldier" – The Dixie Chicks (No. 1 to No. 3, then off the chart completely! But that was due to the backlash for Natalie Maines' controversial comments criticizing the Iraqi War and President George W. Bush.)
Of those three 1981 songs I mentioned, "Feels So Right," which enjoyed its second week at No. 1 on July 25, was part of a week of infamy for two other songs in the top 10. "Lovin' Her Was Easier Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again" by Tompall and the Glaser Brothers (covering Kris Kristofferson) and Dave & Sugar's "Fool By Your Side" dropped from Nos. 2 and 6, respectively, right off the top 40. If anybody has heard the Aug. 1, 1981, "American Country Countdown" program, I wonder what Bob Kingsley's explanation was for that one?
Getting back to "American Top 40" and the Hot 100, I wonder what Casey Kasem's explanation was for the sudden "resurgence" of popularity of "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" on the Nov. 30, 1974, show?
Brian
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Apr 5, 2013 9:33:28 GMT -5
It wasn't a top ten hit, but Debbie Gibson's "Electric Youth" spent 3 weeks at #11 in the spring of 1989, then "jolted down" (as Shadoe mentioned) to #23, and then it was outta here. 2 weeks after peaking at the highest position possible without entering the top ten, it was gone.
Debbie Gibson would only have two more entries on AT40 before her top 40 appearances were no more. Their peak positions would get lower and lower as they happen. "No More Rhyme" peaked at #17, and "Anything Is Possible" peaked at #26 early in 1991. "Losin' Myself" didn't make it to AT40, though it did make it to CT40 and Rick Dees' WT40 (I think it peaked at #40 on both CT40 and RD's WT40 - someone please clarify?).
Turns out that Debbie reached the peak of her career in 1988, it seems.
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Post by woolebull on Apr 5, 2013 9:48:10 GMT -5
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