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Post by woolebull on Sept 12, 2014 16:45:56 GMT -5
In my mind, Slaughter had four Top 40 hits. However, according to Billboard (and AT 40), Slaughter had three hits, while CT 40 or Dees would say they had one hit.
The interesting thing: Slaughter never had a single hit BOTH AT and CT (and by default Dees as well). They had three hits on American Top 40 (Up All Night, Fly To The Angels, and Spend My Life) that never hit the Top 40 on R and R. In return, "Real Love" hit the Top 40 on R and R but not on AT 40 or Billboard.
Did any other act with more than one Top 40 single hit one chart but fail to hit the other chart with every hit they had?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2014 17:38:32 GMT -5
I never got why Up All Night and Fly to the Angels weren't bigger radio hits. Both were big on MTV and it wasn't hardcore rap or heavy metal.
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Post by woolebull on Sept 12, 2014 23:30:18 GMT -5
I never got why Up All Night and Fly to the Angels weren't bigger radio hits. Both were big on MTV and it wasn't hardcore rap or heavy metal. I'm with you. I have a hard time particularly believing that Fly To The Angels on made it to #35 on Billboard's airplay. As for R and R, I never heard "Real Love" on the radio, whereas the other three I heard quite a bit.
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Post by freakyflybry on Sept 12, 2014 23:35:01 GMT -5
Mac McAnally hit the Billboard top 40 with "It's A Crazy World", which missed R&R. Consequently, "Minimum Love" made R&R yet missed the Billboard top 40 (and hence AT40).
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Post by freakyflybry on Sept 13, 2014 13:09:42 GMT -5
L.A. Guns also did this. "The Ballad of Jayne" was their Billboard hit and "It's Over Now" was their R&R hit.
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Post by woolebull on Sept 13, 2014 14:33:32 GMT -5
L.A. Guns also did this. "The Ballad of Jayne" was their Billboard hit and "It's Over Now" was their R&R hit. I literally thought about them when I was thinking about Slaughter, but I thought that maybe "The Ballad of Jayne" hit on R and R. Another example of a song I hear quite a bit on the radio not making R and R vs. a song I had never heard making it. It's funny how many songs on R and R charts from 1992 through 1993 I NEVER heard on the radio.
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Post by freakyflybry on Sept 13, 2014 17:24:18 GMT -5
Lisette Melendez hit AT40 with "Together Forever" and "A Day In My Life (Without You)", both in 1991. On R&R, her only hit was "Goody Goody" in 1994.
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Post by Shadoe Fan on Sept 14, 2014 9:18:10 GMT -5
It's funny how many songs on R and R charts from 1992 through 1993 I NEVER heard on the radio. It's the opposite for me, especially for 1992. When AT40 was using the Top 40 Radio Monitor (Hot 100 Airplay) chart, there were songs on that chart that I never heard on local radio. However, Casey's Top 40 and Dees played more of the songs I actually heard, since they used R&R.
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Post by dukelightning on Sept 14, 2014 10:55:34 GMT -5
I am glad they used that chart. Heard a 92 show the other day and was quite surprised to hear Shadoe say there were 16 R&B songs in it. That is early 70s like in the number of R&B songs and it wasn't a bunch of rap songs padding the total. These were what I would call typical R&B songs even if I was not familiar with all of them either. Apparently they blamed the bad ratings for AT40 on the preponderance of R&B songs in the survey and changed charts in 1993. We all know how that move turned out....not that it would have made a difference in the end.
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Post by adam31 on Oct 24, 2014 13:50:36 GMT -5
I worked at a R&R reporting CHR station in the Midwest during the early 90s and more of the songs in our playlist were hair metal (like Slaughter, LA Guns, Warrant, etc) than R&B (Toni Braxton, Boys II Men, Babyface, etc). "Angels", "Up All Night", and the Ballad of Jayne were some of the most requested and played tunes on our station.
Part of the reason CHR had its downfall, stations were split on what should be played and most had an identity crisis. The charts also had this crisis as a result.
Hence the station I worked at flipped to Country in 1993 and everyone knows what happened to AT40.
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