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Post by mga707 on Nov 13, 2016 10:19:35 GMT -5
I wonder who has the most during the Ford era. B.T. Express? Silver Convention? Gary Wright? The Sylvers? Orleans? Ohio Players? Bad Company? Average White Band? Freddy Fender? For top 10 hits during Jerry Ford's presidency, it's someone much more obvious. Elton John had seven of them during the roughly two and a half years between August 1974 and January 1977, from "The B**** Is Back" to "Sorry Seems To Be the Hardest Word".
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Post by freakyflybry on Nov 13, 2016 13:03:33 GMT -5
I wonder who has the most during the Ford era. B.T. Express? Silver Convention? Gary Wright? The Sylvers? Orleans? Ohio Players? Bad Company? Average White Band? Freddy Fender? For top 10 hits during Jerry Ford's presidency, it's someone much more obvious. Elton John had seven of them during the roughly two and a half years between August 1974 and January 1977, from "The B**** Is Back" to "Sorry Seems To Be the Hardest Word". But he also had top 10's under Nixon, Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush and Clinton. This topic is about those who had top 10 hits under just one presidential administration.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Nov 13, 2016 13:14:26 GMT -5
Corey Hart had at least one top ten hit, and if any other top ten hits they all occurred during the Ronald Reagan era.
Human League would have qualified if (going by AT40/CT40) "Tell Me When" didn't make the top ten in 1995 during Bill Clinton's presidency - their other top ten hits were all during Reagan's presidency.
Going by CT40, all three of the top ten hits by Spice Girls occurred during Bill Clinton's presidency.
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Post by freakyflybry on Nov 13, 2016 14:34:00 GMT -5
Corey Hart had at least one top ten hit, and if any other top ten hits they all occurred during the Ronald Reagan era. He had two - "Sunglasses At Night" and "Never Surrender", both under Reagan.
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Post by mga707 on Nov 13, 2016 14:53:32 GMT -5
For top 10 hits during Jerry Ford's presidency, it's someone much more obvious. Elton John had seven of them during the roughly two and a half years between August 1974 and January 1977, from "The B**** Is Back" to "Sorry Seems To Be the Hardest Word". But he also had top 10's under Nixon, Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush and Clinton. This topic is about those who had top 10 hits under just one presidential administration. Sorry, thought it was the artist with the most...adding the qualification that said artist could not have hit the top 10 under any other administration, I concur that the nine already mentioned are all tied with two each during the short Ford era.
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Post by doofus67 on Nov 13, 2016 15:27:30 GMT -5
For top 10 hits during Jerry Ford's presidency, it's someone much more obvious. Elton John had seven of them during the roughly two and a half years between August 1974 and January 1977, from "The B**** Is Back" to "Sorry Seems To Be the Hardest Word". But he also had top 10's under Nixon, Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush and Clinton. This topic is about those who had top 10 hits under just one presidential administration. Creedence Clearwater Revival racked up nine top-tens, all within the Nixon administration. "Suzie Q" made it to #9 on the Cash Box chart, but that was on Johnson's watch.
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Post by woolebull on Nov 13, 2016 17:01:58 GMT -5
If we are naming acts who hit in just one Presidential administration, let me offer Blessid Union of Souls for your consideration during the Clinton administration:
Based on Radio and Records: 8 Top 40, 3 Top 10, and a number 1.
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Post by jlthorpe on Nov 13, 2016 17:12:45 GMT -5
If you count the Hot 100 only, he has 6. Ke$ha has 10 (as both lead and featured artist). Bruno Mars has 13 (as lead and featured), but he'll probably be disqualified if he has more hits after Trump becomes President.
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Post by dukelightning on Nov 13, 2016 17:20:21 GMT -5
If we are naming acts who hit in just one Presidential administration, let me offer Blessid Union of Souls for your consideration during the Clinton administration: Based on Radio and Records: 8 Top 40, 3 Top 10, and a number 1. Staying with that one Presidential administration theme and just looking at top 10 hits, Paula Abdul has a tough number to beat. 10 top 10 hits all within the HW Bush administration. Have to go by CT40 IMO since AT40 changed charts and she actually hit the top 10 for the first time the week of Bush's inauguration which also happens to be the first week of CT40. The week ending 1/21/89 she climbed 7 'hearty' notches as Casey said in his first show in the series, to #8 with "Straight Up".
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Post by mga707 on Nov 13, 2016 20:59:58 GMT -5
But he also had top 10's under Nixon, Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush and Clinton. This topic is about those who had top 10 hits under just one presidential administration. Creedence Clearwater Revival racked up nine top-tens, all within the Nixon administration. "Suzie Q" made it to #9 on the Cash Box chart, but that was on Johnson's watch. Funny--just as they had five records reach #2 on Billboard, but no #1s, they wind up second to Three Dog Night in this (admittedly obscure) category, with two less than the Doggies!
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Post by woolebull on Nov 13, 2016 21:10:42 GMT -5
Just top 10 hits under the Clinton administration? It was mentioned Toni Braxton had six. Hootie and the Blowfish did it as well, having six during the first term of the Clinton administration.
But the queen so far in the Clinton administration would be Alanis Morrissette: 7 top 10's, 5 number 1's.
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Post by woolebull on Jan 21, 2017 22:46:31 GMT -5
I'd say Paula Abdul for the George H.W. Bush era - 8 of them. (Going by R&R, her total goes up to 10.) "Straight Up" did debut while Reagan was president though, but by the time it hit the top 10, it was Bush. Another good one for the H.W. Bush administration is Roxette. They had six top 2 hits during his term.
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