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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2013 14:36:31 GMT -5
In chronologically listening to the shows like I have been this year I've noticed this on occasion throughout and it happens around the same weeks. There will be an unusually high number of debuts. The average seems to be 4-6. But on the 11/12/83 show there were 7 new songs in the Top 40 and the 11/13/93 Caseys Top 40 there were 8. So my question is did stations routinely around the same time every few months purge their playlists of more songs than usual that had been around awhile causing them to drop off the chart all in a week or is this just a coincidence?
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Post by torcan on Nov 13, 2013 17:02:38 GMT -5
I wondered about that too. We know the record companies would push the latest single after the previous one had peaked. Presumably they didn't care how fast the old one dropped off as long as you added the new one so it would get on the charts. Since they figured out a way to manipulate the country chart that when a song hit No. 1, it dropped off most playlists and quite frequently could drop out of the top 20, they probably figured out a way to manipulate the pop chart as well. There were certain times of the year where there'd be "superstar" releases (like the fourth quarter), so this probably happened more at that time of year.
Keep in mind that after the early '80s, the charts moved a lot faster. Radio stations were always looking for the new hit and probably stopped reporting the old one as soon as the new one was released - this could also lead to songs dropping fast once they peaked, and several songs dropping off the same week.
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Post by torcan on Nov 13, 2013 17:02:48 GMT -5
I wondered about that too. We know the record companies would push the latest single after the previous one had peaked. Presumably they didn't care how fast the old one dropped off as long as you added the new one so it would get on the charts. Since they figured out a way to manipulate the country chart that when a song hit No. 1, it dropped off most playlists and quite frequently could drop out of the top 20, they probably figured out a way to manipulate the pop chart as well. There were certain times of the year where there'd be "superstar" releases (like the fourth quarter), so this probably happened more at that time of year.
Keep in mind that after the early '80s, the charts moved a lot faster. Radio stations were always looking for the new hit and probably stopped reporting the old one as soon as the new one was released - this could also lead to songs dropping fast once they peaked, and several songs dropping off the same week.
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Post by torcan on Nov 13, 2013 17:03:21 GMT -5
...sorry...duplicate post...
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Post by mkarns on Nov 13, 2013 18:20:09 GMT -5
This November we've had 2 80s AT40s so far with 7 debuts, so you may be onto something. November 1978 also had several huge drops, which probably weren't everyone stopping buying the singles at once.
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