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Post by woolebull on Sept 12, 2013 16:00:50 GMT -5
Just to start another thread that does not deal with remodeling my kitchen. I heard "Love Power" on the 1987 show and it made me think about the chart career of Jeffrey Osborne. He had 8 top 40 hits without hitting the top 10. Did any other artist get close to that?
Some might throw an asterisk on it because he did hit the top 10 as lead singer of LTD, and that's fine. It just amazes me he had so many Top 40 solo hits and no top 10 hits. Of course, it amazes me that Maze never really made a dent in the Hot 100 much less hit AT 40, but hit the R and B top 40 over twenty times between the late seventies and mid nineties.
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Post by 1finemrg on Sept 12, 2013 22:29:25 GMT -5
Don't know if you're talking about any era, but Kenny Chesney has had 16 Top 40 hits, but none of them reached higher than #22.
I am amazed at Joe Simon having 35 songs reach the Hot 100, without a Top 5. Only "Get Down, Get Down, (Get On The Floor)" made the Top 10.
Also The Who had 16 Top 40 songs. Only "I Can See For Miles" made it to the Top 10.
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Post by woolebull on Sept 13, 2013 8:16:32 GMT -5
Actually talking about AT/CT 40 and not Billboard after 1991. So still put Osbourne's feat over Cheseney's...interesting to know, however.
It is also interesting to note that Maze essentially took over for Joe Simon on the "no crossover" watch.
I didn't realize that about The Who either!
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Post by 1finemrg on Sept 13, 2013 8:26:09 GMT -5
Only other one that I can see who comes close is Boz Scaggs with 8 Top 40 hits. Only "Lowdown" made the Top 10.
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Post by mstgator on Sept 15, 2013 19:31:42 GMT -5
Another one that doesn't count but is worth noting... during AT40's run (beginning in July 1970), James Brown had 15 Top 40 hits miss the Top 10 before finally hitting with "Living In America". (Of course, he did have six Top 10s during the 1960s.)
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Post by doomsdaymachine on Sept 17, 2013 22:12:36 GMT -5
If you want to go back to the '60s, Ronnie Dove had 11 Top 40 hits but never rose higher than #14.
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Post by mga707 on Sept 17, 2013 23:15:10 GMT -5
If you want to go back to the '60s, Ronnie Dove had 11 Top 40 hits but never rose higher than #14. Thanks for doing the legwork for me! I thought of Mr. Dove last night but was too lazy to look it up in Whitburn. On a related note, I remember a listener question from the early AT40 era about the artist with the most chart (Hot 100) appearances without ever hitting the top 40. According to Casey, at that time (1972?), the record was held by Steve Alaimo. I wonder if that dubious honor still holds? |
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Post by doomsdaymachine on Sept 21, 2013 3:18:59 GMT -5
On a related note, I remember a listener question from the early AT40 era about the artist with the most chart (Hot 100) appearances without ever hitting the top 40. According to Casey, at that time (1972?), the record was held by Steve Alaimo. I wonder if that dubious honor still holds? I think Buddy Miles surpassed it. Don't have the chart data readily available, though. |
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Post by freakyflybry on Sept 21, 2013 21:53:23 GMT -5
On Mediabase, the Jonas Brothers have had six top 40 hits on the CHR chart but none have made the top 10 so far.
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Post by mga707 on Sept 21, 2013 23:55:54 GMT -5
On a related note, I remember a listener question from the early AT40 era about the artist with the most chart (Hot 100) appearances without ever hitting the top 40. According to Casey, at that time (1972?), the record was held by Steve Alaimo. I wonder if that dubious honor still holds? I think Buddy Miles surpassed it. Don't have the chart data readily available, though. According to Whitburn, Miles has 10 Hot 100 appearances while Alaimo has 9. One of Miles' records, "Them Changes", charted twice (1970 and 1971), but there is another thread on here that says that they are not the same recording. So I guess Buddy Miles is the 'winner', at least in the pre-SoundScan era! |
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