Songs Holding Their Position (10/2/82)

[saltrek]

I was listening to the VJ Big 40 Countdown on SXM 80's on 8 last week and they used the BB chart of 10/8/82. They don't always mention the movement the songs made from the previous week, but whenever they did, it seemed like the songs were in the same position. So, I pulled up the chart, and the following songs held their spot from the previous week:

3,4,5,6,7,8,16,17,18,19,20,22,23,24,25,28,29,30,31,37 & 40.

That's 21 songs with no movement. I know we've had weeks where the top 14 and the top 12 (I think) stayed the same, but I don't know how close 21 for the whole show ranks as far being most. Seems like an awful lot.

[woolebull]

Oct 12, 2013 18:57:56 GMT -5 saltrek said:

I was listening to the VJ Big 40 Countdown on SXM 80's on 8 last week and they used the BB chart of 10/8/82. They don't always mention the movement the songs made from the previous week, but whenever they did, it seemed like the songs were in the same position. So, I pulled up the chart, and the following songs held their spot from the previous week:

3,4,5,6,7,8,16,17,18,19,20,22,23,24,25,28,29,30,31,37 & 40.

That's 21 songs with no movement. I know we've had weeks where the top 14 and the top 12 (I think) stayed the same, but I don't know how close 21 for the whole show ranks as far being most. Seems like an awful lot.

Also of note: the biggest droppers on the countdown that week dropped one notch: "Abracadabra" plunged all the way from 1 to 2 and "Hurts So Good" free fell from 9-10

Of course, there were some songs that took massive drops out of the 40 like "Take It Away" (66 from 11) and "Love Is In Control" (59 from 10). Crazy countdown, for sure!

[80sat40fan]

saltrek... I checked the three most obvious countdowns to see if any of these would match the 21 songs holding steady. One came close:

* 8/19/78... While the top 14 held steady, only #s 17, 20 and 36 stayed at their same positions elsewhere within the top 40.
* 8/28/82... While the top 12 held their same positions from the week before, only #s 21 and 25 held steady during the remainder of the countdown.
* 4/2/83... In addition to #s 1 - 11 holding steady, so did these songs: 13, 17 - 20, 25, 29, 30 and 39. That means that 20 songs held steady that week... close to the 21 songs on the 10/2/82 countdown but not quite.

[Hervard]

Oct 12, 2013 19:34:55 GMT -5 woolebull said:

Oct 12, 2013 18:57:56 GMT -5 saltrek said:

I was listening to the VJ Big 40 Countdown on SXM 80's on 8 last week and they used the BB chart of 10/8/82. They don't always mention the movement the songs made from the previous week, but whenever they did, it seemed like the songs were in the same position. So, I pulled up the chart, and the following songs held their spot from the previous week:

3,4,5,6,7,8,16,17,18,19,20,22,23,24,25,28,29,30,31,37 & 40.

That's 21 songs with no movement. I know we've had weeks where the top 14 and the top 12 (I think) stayed the same, but I don't know how close 21 for the whole show ranks as far being most. Seems like an awful lot.

Also of note: the biggest droppers on the countdown that week dropped one notch: "Abracadabra" plunged all the way from 1 to 2 and "Hurts So Good" free fell from 9-10

Of course, there were some songs that took massive drops out of the 40 like "Take It Away" (66 from 11) and "Love Is In Control" (59 from 10). Crazy countdown, for sure!

A few weeks later, on the October 30 chart, there was only one song dropping on the countdown - "Jack & Diane" fell from #1 to #2. Would have been interesting if it had stayed at #1 for another week, making for a countdown on which no songs moved down.