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Post by woolebull on Mar 28, 2013 8:59:51 GMT -5
Since we are on a bullet/non bullet kick, I noticed something that I never noticed before. "Let's Dance" dropped from the top spot to number 2 but kept its bullet. In fact, it kept its bullet for two weeks at 2 after dropping from 1.
5 years later, almost to the week, Johnny Hates Jazz dropped from 2 to 3 but kept its bullet with "Shattered Dreams". That one, I knew about. It would eventually go back to 2 for two more weeks, but never regained its bullet.
My question is were there any other songs that dropped from 1 or 2 and kept its bullet? Did songs, like, "Le Freak", or "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" keep their bullets when they dropped. I know "Abracadabra" lost its bullet when it dropped from 1, but regained it going back up. Same with Rupert Holmes.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2013 9:09:34 GMT -5
Well, I'm glad David Bowie at least has the same tastes in music as I do although he pretty much sings nothing I like except the "Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth" duet with David Bowie. Actually, seriously....I don't get the title of the thread.
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Post by woolebull on Mar 28, 2013 9:22:56 GMT -5
Well, I'm glad David Bowie at least has the same tastes in music as I do although he pretty much sings nothing I like except the "Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth" duet with David Bowie. Actually, seriously....I don't get the title of the thread. Meshed up David Bowie and Johnny Hates Jazz. I will modify it to clarify. |
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Mar 28, 2013 12:44:41 GMT -5
Well, I'm glad David Bowie at least has the same tastes in music as I do although he pretty much sings nothing I like except the "Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth" duet with David Bowie. Actually, seriously....I don't get the title of the thread. More like a duet with Bing Crosby. |
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Post by woolebull on Mar 28, 2013 14:29:58 GMT -5
"I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" regained its star (or part of a star) two weeks after falling out at 1, but the initial drop to 2 was without a star.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2013 15:41:37 GMT -5
Well, I'm glad David Bowie at least has the same tastes in music as I do although he pretty much sings nothing I like except the "Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth" duet with David Bowie. Actually, seriously....I don't get the title of the thread. More like a duet with Bing Crosby. Yeah. Had Bowie on my mind when I typed it out. |
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Post by mct1 on Mar 29, 2013 8:04:29 GMT -5
I believe that on the week in 1985 when Paul Young's "Every Time You Go Away" was knocked out of #1 by Tears For Fears' "Shout", "Every Time You Go Away" had a bullet.
These typically involve situations where the song in question was still gaining popularity, but was passed by a song that was gaining even faster.
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Post by woolebull on Mar 29, 2013 12:01:24 GMT -5
I believe that on the week in 1985 when Paul Young's "Every Time You Go Away" was knocked out of #1 by Tears For Fears' "Shout", "Every Time You Go Away" had a bullet. These typically involve situations where the song in question was still gaining popularity, but was passed by a song that was gaining even faster. It did! Thanks for the info! It's amazing how rare it happened...hence why I was wondering about "Le Freak" keeping the bullet. There didn't seem to be too many songs as hot as Le Freak was in the whole 1970-1991 era. To note: all three songs that dropped out of the number one spot but returned to the top in the 1980's lost their bullet but regained it the next week (or in Steve Miller's case, two weeks). At least, I think there were only three. |
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Post by mstgator on Mar 29, 2013 20:43:18 GMT -5
To answer your question about "Le Freak", it kept its bullet during its entire non-consecutive run at #1 (meaning it was bulleted at #2 for a week behind "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" and for two weeks at #2 behind "Too Much Heaven"). It finally lost its bullet the week it fell out of #1 for good.
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Post by woolebull on Mar 30, 2013 1:07:41 GMT -5
To answer your question about "Le Freak", it kept its bullet during its entire non-consecutive run at #1 (meaning it was bulleted at #2 for a week behind "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" and for two weeks at #2 behind "Too Much Heaven"). It finally lost its bullet the week it fell out of #1 for good. Thank you! I just couldn't imagine that a song that went up as fast as it did, and still had enough juice to hit number one almost two months after it first hit number one, would have lost its bullet...at least in December. |
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Post by blackbowl68 on Mar 30, 2013 6:17:09 GMT -5
Someone may want to check why, but the #1 position on the Hot 100 always had a bullet/star from the weeks of November 15, 1975 to August 16, 1986. After that, a record automatically receives a bullet in its first week at #1.
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Post by woolebull on Mar 30, 2013 14:26:45 GMT -5
Someone may want to check why, but the #1 position on the Hot 100 always had a bullet/star from the weeks of November 15, 1975 to August 16, 1986. After that, a record automatically receives a bullet in its first week at #1. Just glancing through the 80's charts that seems to be correct. "Papa Don't Preach" ended the run of bulleted number 1's on I believe August 23, 1986. Was that the rule up to that date? |
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Post by giannirubino on Apr 7, 2013 3:27:00 GMT -5
Didn't Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" keep its bullet when it dropped to #2 thanks to "Love You Inside Out" by The Bee Gees, 9 June 1979? I don't have my chart books right in front of me, this is by memory only, and an educated guess.
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Post by woolebull on Apr 7, 2013 11:31:05 GMT -5
Didn't Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" keep its bullet when it dropped to #2 thanks to "Love You Inside Out" by The Bee Gees, 9 June 1979? I don't have my chart books right in front of me, this is by memory only, and an educated guess. I don't know for sure, but I would assume so. That song was about as hot as a song could be and had only been at 1 for 1 week at the time. In fact writing this, I just realized that The Bee Gees on all of their number 1's in 1979 would preempt the reign of three of the most popular songs on the 70's ("Le Freak, "I Will Survive" and "Hot Stuff"). In each case, the three songs would go back to number one after the Bee Gees. I'm not a conspiracy theorist but there are some that will tell you that the Bee Gees hitting number one in 1979 was a foregone conclusion, no matter how strong or weak the song was. Looking back, I can see "Too Much Heaven" and "Tragedy" maybe having the chops to knock off Chic and Gloria Gaynor, but I can't imagine how "Love You Inside And Out", was able to knock off "Hot Stuff" after just one week at the top. I mean, didn't, "Inside and Out" drop out of the Top 5 the next week? I was only 6 at the time, so any insight would be helpful...it is interesting that in the 1980s only three times did a song drop out of number one to go back a week or two later. In 1979, the Bee Gees caused that to happen three times on their own! |
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 7, 2013 11:40:41 GMT -5
NO DOUBT about this conspiracy here. The same act gets knocked out of #1 by the act that they themselves knocked out of #1 3 times in a row? The last one especially considering what a monster hit "Hot Stuff" was. Yes "Bette Davis Eyes" was a monster hit as well and got knocked out of #1 for a week but that was 5 weeks into its run. Plus you may notice how similar sounding "Love You Inside Out" is to Andy Gibb's "Desire". Well first of all, the Bee Gees almost recorded that song for the same LP that LYIO was on. Secondly, "Desire" peaked at #4. And I think that is about where LYIO really peaked if there was not a conspiracy to get a 6th straight #1 for the Bee Gees.
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