April 30, 1994

[bcaf1977]

I unfortunately missed this chart (April 30, 1994), as this was right around when WHTZ moved the show to 6 am on Sundays and then latr cancelled it. I know this is the show that the methodolgy changed. I was just curious; what were some of the oddoties that occured that week?

Thanks!!

[freakyflybry]

There were 6 debuts that week... and out of the droppers, three of the songs ("Regulate", "I Wish" and "Disarm" eventually re-entered. Had the chart always been a PPW chart, I doubt those 3 would've debuted as soon as they did.

Rebounds:
Richard Marx "Now and Forever", up 20-9
Janet Jackson "Because of Love", up 26-15
Ace of Base "The Sign", up 4-1
Celine Dion "The Power of Love", up 30-10
Gin Blossoms "Found Out About You", re-entered at #17 (and fell off the week after!)

The biggest victim of the rule change was Tevin Campbell "I'm Ready", which dropped 7-23; it would eventually rebound to #13.

There were a few temporary blips too, like All-4-One fell 35-36 with "I Swear" and Toni Braxton "You Mean The World To Me" fell 14-18.

[corey]

Hi !
That week, Casey didn't mention the most of the songs' chart movement.
Gin Blossoms's "Found Out about You" suddenly re-entered at number 17,but Casey didn't say re-enter.
He just said "At number 17,..."

[jefferyc4]

I have this show. It might of been odd that week. But its one of my favorite shows. Casey told story about Otis Redding, when Michael Bolton singing his song.

[Hervard]

I remember this show. The show was run at 8:00 on Sunday mornings on WBUS (Joliet, IL). I didn't generally listen to it, since that station didn't come in too well, so instead, I listened to Rick Dees, whch was on at 9:00 on U93. Well, the thing was, he was doing the same show that Casey did the week before, so I tuned into WBUS to hear at least the Top 30. When they were playing "Bump N' Grind" by R. Kelly, I was thinking, oh shoot, they moved the show back to 6:00, because the song was at #12 the week before and I thought it was at or around #10. Well, Casey outroed the song and it was #28. I couldn't believe that people had gotten tired of the song so fast. Then, I realized he hadn't mentioned the chart movement of that song, or any other songs on the countdown. That was when I realized that the chart monitoring system that I'd heard a few months before that R&R was gearing up for, must have been put into place. Sure enough, I was right. The PPW era had begun!

[corey]

On April 30,1994, the PPW era had began ,and also Radio & Records' Pop chart (CHR chart) split into two formats. Pop CHR chart and Rhythmic CHR chart.
Casey's Top 40 and Rick Dees' weekly Top 40 began to use Pop CHR chart.
Generally speaking, on the new Pop CHR chart, R&B songs don't get as high position as before.
So Tevin Cambell's "I'm Ready" and R. Kelly's "Bump N' Grind" ranked down the chart.
On the other hand, Rock songs began to chart on much higher positions as before.
For example, Gin Blossoms' "Found Out about You" which falled off the top 40 few weeks earlyer suddenly re-entered at #17.

[Hervard]

Oct 19, 2008 6:29:14 GMT -5 corey said:

On April 30,1994, the PPW era had began ,and also Radio & Records' Pop chart (CHR chart) split into two formats. Pop CHR chart and Rhythmic CHR chart.
Casey's Top 40 and Rick Dees' weekly Top 40 began to use Pop CHR chart.
Generally speaking, on the new Pop CHR chart, R&B songs don't get as high position as before.
So Tevin Cambell's "I'm Ready" and R. Kelly's "Bump N' Grind" ranked down the chart.
On the other hand, Rock songs began to chart on much higher positions as before.
For example, Gin Blossoms' "Found Out about You" which fell off the top 40 few weeks earlier suddenly re-entered at #17.

That same week, the Hot AC chart debuted in R&R. This affected some songs on the AC chart. The week before, "The Sign" by Ace Of Base, which had been maintaining a moderately paced climb up the chart, had moved 14-10. It became evident that the Hot AC stations, which were figured into the AC chart until April 22, were instrumental in how well the song was doing. The week the Hot AC format got a chart of its own, "The Sign" fell back to #16, and never really got back into the Top Ten (while it sailed straight into the Top Five at Hot AC). Also, "Because The Night" by 10,000 Maniacs had been heading down the chart at a rather slow pace. The week the Hot AC entered stage left, it tumbled straight off the chart,, but took a flying leap back into the Top Ten on the Hot AC chart.
On the other side of the coin, some of the softer songs got a boost on the AC chart. "In Your Eyes" by Dan Hill & Rique Franks had been struggling on the chart, never really moving up more than two places per week, and on April 15, the song had actually moved down to #14 (though it had retained its bullets). With the Hot AC stations that didn't touch this now gone from the reporting panel, the song got a second chance, and it actually did make it into the Top Ten. "Even If My Heart Would Break" by Aaron Neville had debuted on the 4/15 chart at #28. Had the two formats continued to combine to form the AC chart, the song might have peaked around the mid-chart area like Neville's previous hit, "I Owe You One". But with the split charts, the song sailed into the Top Ten within a month (while it only got as high as #27 at Hot AC). The only other case I can find is "Oh No, Not My Baby" by Linda Ronstadt. On the 4/15 chart, it had fallen 18-29. Had the chart continued on like it was, the song would have fallen off, but instead, it got an extra week on the chart.

But that's basically what happened with the Pop chart. The Rhythmic stations were what helped songs like "Bump N' Grind" and "I'm Ready" to hit the upper half of the chart. With them separated from the reporting panel of Pop stations, those two songs felt the impact, falling out of the Top 20.

The odd thing about "Found Out About You" by the Gin Blossoms is that it was the only song to re-enter in the Top 20 and even odder, it was gone the next week! I'm wondering if a statistical error may have been involved (since, during the first few weeks of the new chart system, there were bound to be a few kinks that needed to be ironed out). Moreover, I don't even remember hearing the song on the countdown that day - I had to check the chart to see what the heck was at #17. I'm wondering if the station skipped the segment with that song, though I had heard the songs adjacent to it on the chart. Perhaps the segment cut out before they got to "Found Out About You".

[johnnywest]

IMO, this show was very badly written. There was a huge missed opportunity for Casey to mention that R&R had started using a new way to compile the charts and that some radical chart movements were about to happen. Sadly though, none of this was mentioned.

[Michael1973]

Sept 22, 2018 17:24:37 GMT -5 johnnywest said:

IMO, this show was very badly written. There was a huge missed opportunity for Casey to mention that R&R had started using a new way to compile the charts and that some radical chart movements were about to happen. Sadly though, none of this was mentioned.

I've always felt the same about the Shadoe-era AT40 shows whenever they switched charts. I actually wrote in to AT40 to question the chart changes and got a form letter in response. So apparently it made more sense to spend a ton of money on printing and postage than to just explain it on the show...