Dubious Hot 100 Chart records

[brownjb81]

Earlier this week, Kobe Bryant broke the NBA record for the most missed shots of any player in NBA history. I also heard about other dubious records in sports. It got me thinking about some of the dubious records in chart history. Here is just a few:

Most weeks at No.2 (without hitting No. 1)
10 weeks
"Waiting For A Girl Like You"--Foreigner (1981-1982)
"Work It"--Missy Elliot (2002)

Most weeks in the Top 10 without Hitting No. 1
32 weeks
"How Do I Live"--LeAnn Rimes (1997-1998)
That is also the overall record for most weeks in the Top 10

Biggest drop off the Hot 100
"We Might Be Dead Tomorrow"--Soko (2014)
It dropped off the Hot 100 from the No. 9 position and it also holds the record for the highest charting song that was on the Hot 100 for only 1 week.

Most Hot 100 singles without Hitting No. 1
James Brown--91

Most Top 40 singles without Hitting No. 1
James Brown--44

Most Top 10 singles without Hitting No. 1
Bruce Springsteen--12

Most Number 2 hits without Hitting No. 1
Creedence Clearweater Revival--5

Most Top 40 hits without Hitting the Top 10
Ronnie Dove--11

Most Top 40 hits by a group without Hitting No. 1
Electric Light Orchestra--20

Most Top 40 hits by a female artist without Hitting No. 1
Pat Benatar--15

Most Hot 100 hits without hitting the Top 40
Steve Alaimo--9

Biggest drop from the Number 1
"Nothing From Nothing"--Billy Preston
"Then Cane You"--Dionne Warwick & The Spinners
Both songs spent one week at No. 1 and then dropped to No. 15 the week after they hit No. 1. "Then Came You" replaced "Nothing From Nothing" at No. 1 in October 1974.

Biggest drop out of the Top 40
"Red"--Taylor Swift (2012)
The song dropped out of the Top 40 from No. 6 and fell to No. 54. It also had the biggest drop from Top 10.

The song "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons holds 2 dubious records:
Most week on the Hot 100 witout Hitting No. 1 (87 weeks)
Slowest rise to the Top 5 (42 weeks)
It also holds the record for the most weeks on the Hot 100 overall.

Longest climb to No. 1
"Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)--32 weeks (1996)

Biggest single week drop within the Hot 100
"Stitch By Stitch"--Javier Colon (2011)
It dropped from No. 17 to No. 96

[Hervard]

Nov 15, 2014 0:36:48 GMT -5 brownjb81 said:

Earlier this week, Kobe Bryant broke the NBA record for the most missed shots of any player in NBA history. I also heard about other dubious records in sports. It got me thinking about some of the dubious records in chart history. Here is just a few:

Biggest drop out of the Top 40
"Red"--Taylor Swift (2012)
The song dropped out of the Top 40 from No. 6 and fell to No. 54.

Don't you mean the biggest drop out of the Top 10?

[seminolefan]

Longest climb to No. 1
"Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)--32 weeks (1996)

Keep in mind that "Macarena" had two separate chart runs and that it hit #1 in its second run.

[giannirubino]

"Biggest drop from the Number 1
"Nothing From Nothing • Billy Preston
"Then Cane You" • Dionne Warwick & The Spinners
Both songs spent one week at No. 1 and then dropped to No. 15 the week after they hit No. 1. "Then Came You" replaced "Nothing From Nothing" at No. 1 in October 1974."

I have a question. Wasn't there some instance in the 1940s where a song was #1 one week and entirely off the chart the next? I'm thinking it was a Christmas song, maybe Gene Autry? I think Casey mentioned it in a December 1981 show. I don't have the facts at hand at this moment, but I thought I'd post and ask.

Also ...

"Most Top 40 hits without Hitting the Top 10
Ronnie Dove--11"

I have it in my head that Shadoe answered this in the late '80s. Wasn't it Buddy Miles, the voice of "The California Raisins?" Another website mentions Steve Alaimo with nine Hot 100, non-top 40 hits. Again, I don't have all the facts to make an informed post.

Does anyone know for sure? Or, if not, what do you think?

Thank you.

[mkarns]

Nov 24, 2014 16:46:58 GMT -5 giannirubino said:

I have a question. Wasn't there some instance in the 1940s where a song was #1 one week and entirely off the chart the next? I'm thinking it was a Christmas song, maybe Gene Autry? I think Casey mentioned it in a December 1981 show. I don't have the facts at hand at this moment, but I thought I'd post and ask.

This was before the Hot 100 existed, but in January 1950 Gene Autry's "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" fell right off the chart from #1, as Casey mentioned, I think more than once. "Rudolph" recharted a year later, hitting #3.

[1finemrg]

Mosr hot 100 songs without hitting the Top 5: Joe Simon - 31

[bobbo428]

I was always curious as to who had the most top-40 hits without hitting the top 10. I surmised that it was Ronnie Dove after I had bought "The Billboard Book of Top-40 Hits" back in 1983. I am familiar with only one of two of Ronnie Dove's songs--he was a bit maudlin (MOR/teen idol) if I remember correctly. I recall the name from my childhood. However, it is possible that a country singer may be approaching Dove's record. From December 1998 on, when Billboard allowed album cuts to chart, several big names in country music charted many songs in the 20s or 30s of the Hot 100. I'd guess that Alan Jackson, George Strait, Kenny Chesney, or Miranda Lambert would have a chance at equaling or breaking Dove's record. However, with the changing face of mainstream country music, Jackson, Strait, or other longtime stars may have trouble making the top 40 of the Hot 100 again. Fellow member Briguy would have a better idea because he knows so much about country music.

Interesting fact about Joe Simon--underrated artist who gets almost no recurrent airplay.

[prenatt1166]

Nov 29, 2014 11:00:48 GMT -5 bobbo428 said:

However, it is possible that a country singer may be approaching Dove's record. From December 1998 on, when Billboard allowed album cuts to chart, several big names in country music charted many songs in the 20s or 30s of the Hot 100. I'd guess that Alan Jackson, George Strait, Kenny Chesney, or Miranda Lambert would have a chance at equaling or breaking Dove's record. However, with the changing face of mainstream country music, Jackson, Strait, or other longtime stars may have trouble making the top 40 of the Hot 100 again. Fellow member Briguy would have a better idea because he knows so much about country music.

As of the chart dated August 15, 2015 the following acts (including Ronnie Dove) have has at least 11 top 40 hits on the Hot 100 without reaching the top ten.

(# of top 40 hits, artist, highest charting hit, peak and year)

24 Kenny Chesney "Our Last Night" (#16, 2009)
17 Brad Paisley "Remind Me" (#17, 2011)
16 Keith Urban "Kiss A Girl" (#16, 2009)
16 Toby Keith "Red Solo Cup" (#15, 2012)
14 Blake Shelton "Boys 'Round Here" (#12, 2013)
13 Luke Bryan "That's My Kind Of Music" (#15, 2013) and "Play It Again (#15, 2014)
12 Alan Jackson "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" (#17, 2003)
11 George Strait "She'll Leave You With A Smile" (#23, 2002)
11 Ronnie Dove "Right Or Wrong" (#14, 1964) and "One Kiss For Old Time's Sake" (#14, 1965)