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Post by 80sat40fan on Sept 1, 2014 15:10:33 GMT -5
With AT40 playing just the Top 40 of the Hot 100, some songs got the benefit of both debuting on AT40 at #40 and spending their last week on the countdown at #40, like "Eternal Flame" by The Bangles. Meanwhile, other songs got the shaft by moving up to #41 before moving into the Top 40, and then falling to #41 to leave AT40. Case in point: "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham which moved 48 - 41 before debuting at #32 on the 10/5/84 chart, and falling 27 - 41 on the 1/12/85 chart. WMUBYGG could have spent 15 or 16 weeks on AT40 instead of 14 weeks. The songs which kept Wham! out of the top 40 for those weeks? "Shine Shine" by Barry Gibb, and "Mistake No. 3" by Culture Club.
Whether a song spent one week in the top 40 but three weeks in the Top 41 like "Any Other Way" by Celine Dion charting 41 - 35 - 41, or a #1 hit like Wham!'s first top 40 song spending 14 weeks on AT40 but 16 weeks on AT41, what are some of your favorite hits which hit #41 on their way up and down the chart?
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Post by jmack19 on Sept 3, 2014 15:59:59 GMT -5
ELO - Don't Bring Me Down debuted @ #41 on the Hot 100 & fell to #41 from #39 after dropping out of the Top 15.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Sept 3, 2014 22:31:25 GMT -5
Here are a few:
*Overture From Tommy -- Assembled Multitude
*Lonely Days -- Bee Gees
*She's All I Got -- Freddie North
*Wild Night -- Van Morrison
Freddie North's hit moved from 41 to 39 to 41, just one week in the Top 40.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Sept 3, 2014 22:57:58 GMT -5
Perhaps someone has mentioned this before...
Neil Diamond may be the artist with the most stops at #41 on the way out of the Top 40. It happened to:
*Solitary Man (October 3, 1970)
*I Am...I Said (May 29, 1971)
*Play Me (October 21, 1972)
*Walk On Water (January 20, 1973)
*Be (December 15, 1973)
*Desiree (February 25, 1978)
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Post by renfield75 on Sept 4, 2014 13:12:14 GMT -5
It was on the Hot 100 after AT40 stopped using it, but I remember C+C Music Factory's 1994 song "Do You Wanna Get Funky" spending 4 straight weeks at #41, lifting to #40 for two weeks, then dipping back to number 41. 7 weeks between #s 40 and 41!
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Post by jmack19 on Sept 4, 2014 16:35:58 GMT -5
Chicago did it twice with:
Lowdown(1971)
I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love(1988)
When Lowdown fell from #41, Graham Nash moved into #41. This meant the group Chicago was replaced by the song Chicago.
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Post by mkarns on Sept 4, 2014 19:00:05 GMT -5
Chicago did it twice with: Lowdown(1971) I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love(1988) When Lowdown fell from #41, Graham Nash moved into #41. This meant the group Chicago was replaced by the song Chicago. And the next week (7/10/71) both entered the top 40 simultaneously; the Graham Nash song moved up to 39, while the band jumped from 59 to 37 with "Beginnings"/"Colour My World". |
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Post by 80sat40fan on Sept 4, 2014 20:38:26 GMT -5
Just noticed that "Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake pulled off this feat, rising 41 - 34 in their first week on AT40, and falling 28 - 41 on their way down the Hot 100. "Is This Love", their follow up, almost did the same thing. ITL jumped from 41 - 30 to enter the Top 40, but the song fell 31 - 42 on its way down the chart.
And another one... Scritti Politti's "Perfect Way" from late '85 jumped 41 - 35 to debut in the Top 40, then dropped out of the Top 40 going 25 - 41. It was rare for a non Top 10 hit to spend 13 weeks on AT40 around that era.
Here are three songs from late 1986 which suffered from 41-itis:
"Velcro Fly" by ZZ Top... 41 - 35 going in, 39 - 41 going out
"Sweet Love" by Anita Baker... 41 - 35 on her way in, 29 - 41 on her way out
"You Give Love A Bad Name" by Bon Jovi... 41 - 29 going up, 29 - 41 going down
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