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Post by woolebull on Sept 5, 2013 16:00:07 GMT -5
Listening to the show from 8/30/86, we had a phenomenon that I think didn't happen much in the 1980's. "Rumors" moved up a notch to number 8 after falling from 8 to 9 the week prior. How many songs in the 80's through 11/30/91 went back up in the Top 10 after it looked like they were done ascending up the charts. Here are the ones I know:
"Escape" - Rupert Homes. Went back to 1 after falling to 2 on 1/12/80
"Another One Bites The Dust" - Queen. Went to 3 after falling to 4 on 12/6/80
"Bette Davis Eyes" - Kim Carnes. Went back to 1 after falling to 2 on 6/27/81
"Abracadabra" - Steve Miller Band. Went back to 1 after falling to 3. Went up from 2 to 1 on 9/25/82
"Shattered Dreams" - Johnny Hates Jazz. Went back to 2 after falling to 3 on 5/28/88
"Fast Car" - Tracy Chapman. Went back to 6 after falling to 7 on 9/10/88
"Bust A Move" - Young MC. Went to 8 after falling to 9 on 10/28/89
I don't have the date, but I'm pretty sure "Epic" by Faith No More actually reentered the Top 10 in 1990.
Are there any others from this time?
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Post by blackbowl68 on Sept 5, 2013 16:20:18 GMT -5
"Epic" climbed up to #9 on 9/08/90 after falling out from #10 the previous week.
Conversely, "Knockin' Boots" climbed back up to #10 on 11/24/90 after falling out from its #9 peak the previous week.
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Post by jimmyg on Sept 5, 2013 18:45:07 GMT -5
9 to 5 returned to number one after two weeks at number two. (3/14/81) Down Under returned to number one after one week at number two. (3/12/83)
The climb Another One Bites the Dust made back to number three was pretty impressive considering it happened seven weeks after the song dropped from number one.
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Post by Hervard on Sept 5, 2013 19:00:07 GMT -5
I don't have the date, but I'm pretty sure "Epic" by Faith No More actually reentered the Top 10 in 1990. This song has the distinction of surpassing its peak with its resurgence. All of the other songs mentioned either fell short of or equalled their peak and as far as I know, no other songs peaked higher after moving back up.
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Post by woolebull on Sept 6, 2013 9:41:26 GMT -5
I don't have the date, but I'm pretty sure "Epic" by Faith No More actually reentered the Top 10 in 1990. This song has the distinction of surpassing its peak with its resurgence. All of the other songs mentioned either fell short of or equalled their peak and as far as I know, no other songs peaked higher after moving back up. Totally forgot about that. I remember jumping back in at 9 (I guess it dropped to 11) but didn't realize that the peak had been 10. Did it "rebullet" or just go back up?
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Post by woolebull on Sept 6, 2013 9:42:04 GMT -5
9 to 5 returned to number one after two weeks at number two. (3/14/81) Down Under returned to number one after one week at number two. (3/12/83) The climb Another One Bites the Dust made back to number three was pretty impressive considering it happened seven weeks after the song dropped from number one. It absolutely was. A song that wouldn't live up to its name
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Post by woolebull on Sept 6, 2013 9:44:44 GMT -5
"Epic" climbed up to #9 on 9/08/90 after falling out from #10 the previous week. Conversely, "Knockin' Boots" climbed back up to #10 on 11/24/90 after falling out from its #9 peak the previous week. Didn't "Always And Forever" in 1990 reenter the Top 40 after falling out? So after a long time of songs not going up after falling, we had quite a few do so, including three in the top 10 within almost a year's time frame. IIRC, "Always And Forever" was the first song since "One Way Or Another" in 1979 to reenter the Top 40 after dropping out (during its initial run...not including songs like "Into The Night" and such).
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Post by beegee3 on Sept 6, 2013 13:48:06 GMT -5
I don't have the date, but I'm pretty sure "Epic" by Faith No More actually reentered the Top 10 in 1990. This song has the distinction of surpassing its peak with its resurgence. All of the other songs mentioned either fell short of or equalled their peak and as far as I know, no other songs peaked higher after moving back up. If you go back to the 1970s, there was another song like that. Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" peaked at #9 in early October 1974, then fell to #19, then moved back up and eventually hit #8 at the end of October before dropping again. That was a few weeks before BTO jumped from #34 to #8 with the rebounding "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet," so that kind of overshadowed the rebound Skynyrd made.
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Post by frente on Sept 6, 2013 14:12:24 GMT -5
In 1990, Sending all my love by Linear peaked at #5, dropped to #8 and moved back to #7 before dropping out of the top 10.
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Post by jebsib on Sept 6, 2013 15:16:12 GMT -5
There is a reason for all the craziness in 1990 and 1991.
On May 12th, 1990, Billboard changed their sales pool of info significantly. I don't know whether this was in preparation for the BDS era in 18 months, but you will notice a surprising number of reverse-course chart action during this time period.
Note that on that date, a series of hip-hop oriented singles leapt up the chart, despite resistance from top 40 radio.
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Post by woolebull on Sept 9, 2013 15:10:07 GMT -5
There is a reason for all the craziness in 1990 and 1991. On May 12th, 1990, Billboard changed their sales pool of info significantly. I don't know whether this was in preparation for the BDS era in 18 months, but you will notice a surprising number of reverse-course chart action during this time period. Note that on that date, a series of hip-hop oriented singles leapt up the chart, despite resistance from top 40 radio. You know, of all the changes that happened before 11/30/91, this was the first time I've ever heard this particular date in regards to changes. I do recall that such songs as "The Power", and "The Humpty Dance" peaked much lower on R and R than they did on Billboard and both of those songs would come in the summer of 1990. That makes sense. Still, not to much upward movement after a song began its descent as you might think from 5/12/90 to 11/30/91. More than the years before, but not that much more.
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Post by pizzzzza on Sept 9, 2013 16:17:28 GMT -5
I know this thread is about the 80s, but Elton John's "Philadelphia Freedom" did the same thing - don't have the numbers handy - but I'm sure someone on here knows them.
I "think" it was after he appeared on "Soul Train" (if memory serves me correctly)
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Post by woolebull on Sept 9, 2013 17:10:24 GMT -5
I know this thread is about the 80s, but Elton John's "Philadelphia Freedom" did the same thing - don't have the numbers handy - but I'm sure someone on here knows them. I "think" it was after he appeared on "Soul Train" (if memory serves me correctly) No, including all of AT (or CT) is fine. I'm fascinated that a song can go back "up" in popularity. Like "Stayin' Alive", or the various songs that went to number one in that span of little over a year after dropping from one starting with "Le Freak" and ending with "Escape". It's interesting to see that after "Down Under" all of that stopped until, as far as I can tell, "Rumors" in 1986.
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Post by woolebull on Sept 9, 2013 17:11:58 GMT -5
In 1990, Sending all my love by Linear peaked at #5, dropped to #8 and moved back to #7 before dropping out of the top 10. Was the date for that, by chance, May 12, 1990? I know it was around that time it was in the Top 10.
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Post by mstgator on Sept 9, 2013 20:26:56 GMT -5
In 1990, Sending all my love by Linear peaked at #5, dropped to #8 and moved back to #7 before dropping out of the top 10. Was the date for that, by chance, May 12, 1990? I know it was around that time it was in the Top 10. "Sending All My Love" made its rebound the week of 6/9/90. However, on the week of 5/12/90, it did make a healthy jump of 14-7 (leaping past Janet Jackson's "Alright", which moved 10-8 and would ultimately out-peak Linear).
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