Most weeks in top 40 never having bullet

[lasvegaskid]

This piggyback's off another thread. I remember Flames Of Paradise by Jennifer Rush & Elt went 41-38-36-37 all with no bullet. Has a song ever spent more than three weeks in top 40 never bulleted?

[woolebull]

"Me, Myself, and I", fittingly hit for three week (34-35-35) with no bullet. I guess one week for each pronoun I don't know of any that went more than that, however.

If I counted right, there were at least four songs that hit AT 40 in 1989 without a bullet. (None of them ever reclaimed it either). I don't think that number was reached in any other year in the 80's

[OldSchoolAT40Fan]

I know "It's No Secret" by Kylie Minogue debuted at #38 on the 2/4/1989 show, and the following week it inched to #37, and by 2/18/1989 it was off the top 40.

I think another such example is "It Takes Two" by Rob Base & DJ EZ-Rock. In October 1988, it spent 3 weeks on AT40, debuting at 38, then rising to 37, to 36, and as entered November, it was gone from the top 40.

[donwa001]

I don't know what the record is, but I picked the year 1973 and found this song:

Good Morning Heartache - Diana Ross

It moved into the Top 40 on March 3rd. Here is the chart movement:

41-39-36-34-37-53

So there are 4 weeks in the Top 40 and it didn't have a bullet in those weeks.

[OldSchoolAT40Fan]

I think one song significantly outlasts all of what was mentioned so far:

"Object of My Desire" by Starpoint.

I have the full Top 100 of 1986 in my collection, and Casey mentioned that it spent 24 or so weeks in the top 40 yet only peaked at #25. So it may have spent 24 or 25 weeks - almost half a year - on the top 40 without a bullet.

So it may be possible that "Object of My Desire" may be the record holder, unless something else can top that.



I also think "Love Don't Love You" by En Vogue spent a great number of weeks on AT40 without a bullet as well, though nothing compared to "Object of My Desire". It may have barely made the top 30, but it did manage to make it onto the top 100 of 1993 for some weird reason.

Also, I remember learning on America's Top 10 back in the day that "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell spent the most weeks climbing up and falling down the top 40. Then again, there may have been jumps and drops by at least 2 notches at a time.

[woolebull]

Mar 28, 2013 4:17:02 GMT -5 OldSchoolAT40Fan said:

I think one song significantly outlasts all of what was mentioned so far:

"Object of My Desire" by Starpoint.

I have the full Top 100 of 1986 in my collection, and Casey mentioned that it spent 24 or so weeks in the top 40 yet only peaked at #25. So it may have spent 24 or 25 weeks - almost half a year - on the top 40 without a bullet.

So it may be possible that "Object of My Desire" may be the record holder, unless something else can top that.



Also, I remember learning on America's Top 10 back in the day that "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell spent the most weeks climbing up and falling down the top 40. Then again, there may have been jumps and drops by at least 2 notches at a time.

"Object Of My Desire" only spent 9 weeks in the Top 40 (one of those being frozen). And for the first three weeks it had a bullet. It spent 24 weeks in the Hot 100, which you are correct in that they made that a big deal, because it made the Top 100 for the year. But from having a bullet kind of standpoint, no, "Desire" made it all the way up to 29 before losing its bullet.

Even if you were looking for something like number of weeks in the Top 40 without a bullet, it was only 6. I'm sure the record is much longer than that. The first song I just happened to look at, "Say You, Say Me" had six weeks without a bullet as well in the Top 40.

[at40petebattistini]

I believe I counted 12 weeks in the Top 40 without a bullet for "Behind Closed Doors" by Charlie Rich.

[woolebull]

Mar 28, 2013 7:28:30 GMT -5 at40petebattistini said:

I believe I counted 12 weeks in the Top 40 without a bullet for "Behind Closed Doors" by Charlie Rich.

12 weeks never having a bullet during its run in the Top 40, Pete? Or 12 weeks in the Top 40 after having the bullet at some point in the Top 40.

[at40petebattistini]

^The song was bulleted multiple times *before* it reached the Top 40 but never while in it.

[woolebull]

That's awesome! I think there is your winner. I dare say you could find many songs that spent 12 weeks in the Top 40 without a bullet that had a bullet during its Top 40 run.

[donwa001]

Pete B. is correct about "Behind Closed Doors", although I think I would put an asterisk after that achievement. The week that Behind Closed Doors moved into the Top 40 (June 9, 1973) was the week that Billboard changed their methodology. The new rules said that any song in the Top 30 was a hit and didn't get a bullet. Thus there was only 1 bulleted song in the entire Top 40 that week.

Over the next month, Behind Closed Doors moved 38-31-28-20. Those chart moves would have earned bullets on the HOT 100 prior to the change. Finally on July 7,1973, Billboard changed again (I think due to the letters/complaints they got) and now there were 14 bullets in the Top 40.

[mkarns]

Mar 28, 2013 4:17:02 GMT -5 OldSchoolAT40Fan said:

I think one song significantly outlasts all of what was mentioned so far:

"Object of My Desire" by Starpoint.

I have the full Top 100 of 1986 in my collection, and Casey mentioned that it spent 24 or so weeks in the top 40 yet only peaked at #25. So it may have spent 24 or 25 weeks - almost half a year - on the top 40 without a bullet.

So it may be possible that "Object of My Desire" may be the record holder, unless something else can top that.



I also think "Love Don't Love You" by En Vogue spent a great number of weeks on AT40 without a bullet as well, though nothing compared to "Object of My Desire". It may have barely made the top 30, but it did manage to make it onto the top 100 of 1993 for some weird reason.

Also, I remember learning on America's Top 10 back in the day that "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell spent the most weeks climbing up and falling down the top 40. Then again, there may have been jumps and drops by at least 2 notches at a time.

With "Tainted Love", as with "Object of My Desire", they may have confused the top 40 and Hot 100 when that was said, assuming Casey said what you say he did about "Object" (if so, it should have been corrected prior to airing.)

"Tainted Love" spent a then-record 43 weeks on the Hot 100 in 1982; its top 40 run was 15 weeks, during which it peaked at #8. That's a good run, but 15 weeks in the top 40 isn't spectacularly long, especially at that time.

"Love Don't Love You" went 40-35-34-33-32-32-30-29-28-33-38-off in 1993 on AT40 (then using the Billboard Top 40 Mainstream Radio Monitor.) It did better in Radio & Records, peaking at #14.

[lasvegaskid]

Elvis had another long unbulleted climb. Moody Blue/She Thinks I Still Care last bullet week was 1/22/77 at #46. From there it would climb 42-39-37-35-33-31 before falling outta the top 40.