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Post by seminolefan on Feb 17, 2015 12:23:59 GMT -5
Offering up a lost hit from 2/22/1992, this song spent 13 weeks on the Hot 100 and got as high as #55. Van Halen - Right Now
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Post by JessieLou on Feb 17, 2015 21:40:44 GMT -5
That only got to #55? Wow, I thought that was a bigger hit for them!
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Post by jlthorpe on Feb 18, 2015 18:43:19 GMT -5
"Right Now" did better on Radio and Records, peaking at #23. The song was also used in Crystal Pepsi commercials back in 1993 or so. I remember Z100 in New York seemed to play the song after it was used in those commercials.
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Post by mga707 on Feb 18, 2015 20:19:55 GMT -5
"Right Now" did better on Radio and Records, peaking at #23. The song was also used in Crystal Pepsi commercials back in 1993 or so. I remember that radio/TV ad well. Ooooh, a cola that looks like 7Up/Sprite! The product was a total sales flop, even though it tasted pretty much the same as regular, caramel-colored Pepsi.
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Post by 80sat40fan on Feb 18, 2015 20:28:06 GMT -5
"Right Now" did better on Radio and Records, peaking at #23. The song was also used in Crystal Pepsi commercials back in 1993 or so. I remember that radio/TV ad well. Ooooh, a cola that looks like 7Up/Sprite! The product was a total sales flop, even though it tasted pretty much the same as regular, caramel-colored Pepsi. Here's the commercial for Crystal Pepsi featuring Van Halen's "Right Now": I was amazed this song didn't hit AT40... but then again, a lot of rock songs and/or artists which had no problem charting on AT40 before the Soundscan era started no longer enjoyed that same success... at least in 1992 and 1993. Once alternative rock broke big in 1994, rock started enjoying some success on Billboard's charts.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Feb 18, 2015 20:38:59 GMT -5
The "Right Now" video was in heavy MTV (and VH1, possibly) rotation at the time. Seems like it was on every other hour for a while!
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Post by dukelightning on Feb 18, 2015 20:56:58 GMT -5
I'm even more amazed "Smells Like Teen Spirit" did not make it onto AT40. A Top 10 hit on the Hot 100 and on the R&R chart and thus, CT40 but not even in the top 40 of the chart AT40 was using? Not so big a deal with "Right Now" but that should have also at least made the top 40 of an airplay chart. I mean how can R&R and AT40 both be using airplay only charts and have a song make the top 10 on one and not even the top 40 on the other?
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Post by michaelcasselman on Feb 18, 2015 21:25:21 GMT -5
How close did SLTS make it to the Top 40 before AT40 switched in 1991? Was AT40's airplay-reporting stations leaning that heavily towards the AC-ish and Urban-ish stations that it would have skewed (and screwed!) songs like 'Right Now' and 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'? Only months before, songs like 'Enter Sandman' managed to break into the top 40, and it would be two years until you even had Soul Asylum, Gin Blossoms and Blind Melon hit with anything that had more of a rock... edge? (and even then, softer, quirkier songs at that) to it.
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Post by 1finemrg on Feb 19, 2015 13:52:14 GMT -5
This one did make the Top 40 (barely), but since it's one of my personal favorites of the 90s I'm going to include it anyway. This lost 90s classic was holding its #46 position on February 17, 1996 after 5 weeks on the Hot 100. It would creep into the Top 40 and peak at #39 during a 20 week chart run. It topped the Mainstream Rock charts. Cumbersome - Seven Mary Three
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Post by adam31 on Feb 19, 2015 16:35:43 GMT -5
I'm even more amazed "Smells Like Teen Spirit" did not make it onto AT40. A Top 10 hit on the Hot 100 and on the R&R chart and thus, CT40 but not even in the top 40 of the chart AT40 was using? Not so big a deal with "Right Now" but that should have also at least made the top 40 of an airplay chart. I mean how can R&R and AT40 both be using airplay only charts and have a song make the top 10 on one and not even the top 40 on the other? It debuted at #40 on the Hot 100 two weeks after AT40 stopped using that chart (12/7/91), and peaked at #6. Unfortunately, I can't see the Hot 100 Airplay Charts without subscribing lol: www.billboard.com/biz/charts/1991-11-30/hot-100-airplay
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Post by blackbowl68 on Feb 19, 2015 17:51:13 GMT -5
I think I can attribute the airplay chart performance of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" to a wonderful radio practice known as dayparting. This is when a record gets zero or minimal airplay during daytime hours, usually when kids are in school. Many radio programmers that reported playing it saw the record as risky so they likely only played it between 6pm & 12am. This practice would impact Soundscan's ranking.
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Post by 80sat40fan on Feb 22, 2015 11:51:13 GMT -5
For my Lost 90s Classic pick for this week, we not only travel back to a leap year chart but a leap day chart... 2/29/92. Enya had experienced some chart success in America in 1988 with "Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)" hitting #24. On the 2/29/92 chart, she debuted at #89 with this song but would get no higher than #72 on the Hot 100. It's amazing the song didn't chart higher as the album it's from, "Shepherd Moons", spent a phenomenal 177 weeks on the album chart in its first run, then charted for an additional 50+ weeks throughout the 1990s. This song also peaked at #3 on the Alternative Rock chart... who would have thought of Enya as an alt-rock artist?! Anyway, I feel like I'm 50 feet off the ground whenever I hear this song... probably my favorite song I have featured among my Lost 90s Classic picks so far. Here is Enya with "Caribbean Blue":
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Post by saltrek on Feb 22, 2015 14:23:45 GMT -5
Nice song. I wonder - did this do well on HAC? I wasn't following the HAC charts back then, but the HAC station in West Palm Beach played this with some regularity, so I am fairly familiar with it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2015 14:59:21 GMT -5
My pick for this week's Lost 90s Classic comes from the 2/14/98 chart. Mono was a band from the UK whose musical style was described as "trip hop". Their lone entry onto the Hot 100 debuted at #92 this week and would eventually top out at #70, enjoying a 15 week run. In the same group and song title vein as "In A Big Country" by Big Country or "Living In A Box" by Living In A Box, here is Mono with "Life In Mono": I love this song!
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Post by freakyflybry on Feb 22, 2015 15:56:50 GMT -5
Nice song. I wonder - did this do well on HAC? I wasn't following the HAC charts back then, but the HAC station in West Palm Beach played this with some regularity, so I am fairly familiar with it. The Hot AC chart didn't exist until 1994.
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