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Post by ivanzero on Apr 29, 2015 21:03:03 GMT -5
Etta James! Man, that's depressing. 8 top 40s, 28 hot 100s & she never even cracked the Top 20!
"At Last", what most would these days call her trademark, peaked at #47!
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Post by adam31 on Apr 30, 2015 5:21:08 GMT -5
On 17 March 1990, Shadoe answered the question for solo acts with the most top 40 hits without a top 10: Etta James, Ronnie Dove (Ronnie is the overall leader as well) On 19 May 1990, Shadoe answered the same question, but for groups: Four Coins and Foghat On 22 February 1992, Shadoe said that Salt-N-Pepa are tied with the Four Coins, Cinderella and Foghat for the most hits without a top 10. On 9 April 1994, Shadoe said that Salt-N-Pepa have the most top 40s without a top 10, but that changed on 7 May 1994 when they reached the top 10 with "Whatta Man". On 21 May 1994, Shadoe states that there are 3 groups tied for most acts without a top 10, the Four Coins, Cinderella and Foghat Great info, Shadoe Fan! I mistakenly thought "Whatta man" peaked at #11 because it fell to 12 on 4/9/94, then #16 on 4/16/94. I didn't look into it any farther. Talk about some weird movement. 11(4/2/94)-12-16-14-12-10 (5/7/94)-11-16-16-21. It's almost like someone felt bad for Salt-N-Pepa and said hey let's squeeze em in!
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Post by johnnywest on Apr 30, 2015 12:32:55 GMT -5
Going by AT40 alone and not Billboard, Coldplay has had 7 or 8 hits since 2001 and none of them have reached the Top 10.
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Post by mkarns on May 3, 2015 22:39:49 GMT -5
Going by AT40 alone and not Billboard, Coldplay has had 7 or 8 hits since 2001 and none of them have reached the Top 10. According to R&R/Mediabase, Coldplay has charted 9 hits since 2001 (one charted twice, so you could say 10), and none went top 10. The closest they've gotten thus far were "Viva la Vida" (#11, 2008) and "A Sky Full of Stars" (#12, 2014.)
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Post by woolebull on Mar 18, 2017 11:49:36 GMT -5
Going by AT40 alone and not Billboard, Coldplay has had 7 or 8 hits since 2001 and none of them have reached the Top 10. According to R&R/Mediabase, Coldplay has charted 9 hits since 2001 (one charted twice, so you could say 10), and none went top 10. The closest they've gotten thus far were "Viva la Vida" (#11, 2008) and "A Sky Full of Stars" (#12, 2014.) Will be interesting to see if they keep their futility streak going with "Something Just Like This". It might be the song to break it.
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Post by dth1971 on Mar 18, 2017 13:02:11 GMT -5
On 17 March 1990, Shadoe answered the question for solo acts with the most top 40 hits without a top 10: Etta James, Ronnie Dove (Ronnie is the overall leader as well) On 19 May 1990, Shadoe answered the same question, but for groups: Four Coins and Foghat On 22 February 1992, Shadoe said that Salt-N-Pepa are tied with the Four Coins, Cinderella and Foghat for the most hits without a top 10. On 9 April 1994, Shadoe said that Salt-N-Pepa have the most top 40s without a top 10, but that changed on 7 May 1994 when they reached the top 10 with "Whatta Man". On 21 May 1994, Shadoe states that there are 3 groups tied for most acts without a top 10, the Four Coins, Cinderella and Foghat Did "Whatta Man" make the Top 10 on R&R used for Casey's Top 40 and Rick Dees' Weekly Top 40 (I bet "Shoop" also did).
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Post by freakyflybry on Mar 18, 2017 15:01:58 GMT -5
On 17 March 1990, Shadoe answered the question for solo acts with the most top 40 hits without a top 10: Etta James, Ronnie Dove (Ronnie is the overall leader as well) On 19 May 1990, Shadoe answered the same question, but for groups: Four Coins and Foghat On 22 February 1992, Shadoe said that Salt-N-Pepa are tied with the Four Coins, Cinderella and Foghat for the most hits without a top 10. On 9 April 1994, Shadoe said that Salt-N-Pepa have the most top 40s without a top 10, but that changed on 7 May 1994 when they reached the top 10 with "Whatta Man". On 21 May 1994, Shadoe states that there are 3 groups tied for most acts without a top 10, the Four Coins, Cinderella and Foghat Did "Whatta Man" make the Top 10 on R&R used for Casey's Top 40 and Rick Dees' Weekly Top 40 (I bet "Shoop" also did). Both "Shoop" and "Whatta Man" peaked at #4 on R&R.
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Post by woolebull on Apr 27, 2017 8:43:08 GMT -5
According to R&R/Mediabase, Coldplay has charted 9 hits since 2001 (one charted twice, so you could say 10), and none went top 10. The closest they've gotten thus far were "Viva la Vida" (#11, 2008) and "A Sky Full of Stars" (#12, 2014.) Will be interesting to see if they keep their futility streak going with "Something Just Like This". It might be the song to break it. You can now officially take Coldplay off the list. Over 16 years since they first hit the top 40, Coldplay finally cracked the top 10 of American Top 40 on April 22, 2017 with "Something Just Like This".
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Post by bobbo428 on May 12, 2017 22:22:29 GMT -5
Country/pop singer Sandy Posey reached the top 20 three times in the mid-to-late 1960s, and I believe that all three of her singles reached #12 or close to it.
Speaking of country/pop--or close to it, Gene Cotton reached the top 40 four times--all in the late-1970s--without ever reaching the top 20. I had always hoped that he would make the top 10.
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Post by johnnywest on Jul 5, 2018 8:04:25 GMT -5
Since Coldplay finally had a Top 10 hit, it looks like the 21st century champ could be 5 Seconds of Summer. They've had six Top 40 hits on AT40 with their highest reaching #14, and they have an up-and-comer titled "Youngblood" that could be their 7th Top 10 miss.
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Post by retrodaddy on Jul 5, 2018 8:30:02 GMT -5
I wrote in and Shadoe answered this question for me on air in 1990. Which acts have the most top 40 hits without hitting the top ten. For the guys its Ronnie Dove with 11. For groups, at the time, it was Cinderella and Foghat with 5. I do not recall who the female act is. Anybody know? Salt N Pepa (6) might be the female group leader for this question at least on AT40 if not the Hot 100. They had four Top 40's before the Hot 100 change in 1991, and two after (Shoop and Whatta Man, the latter peaked at #11 on AT40 4/2/94). It's hard for me to fathom Push It peaked at # 19. It got extensive play on any station playing pop, dance or R & B / urban in South Florida, and wasn't hurting for airplay on music video channels. Push It's one of those songs synonymous with my jr year of HS as I seemed to hear it being played at events, stores, practically anywhere I went for at least a few months.
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Post by Michael1973 on Jul 5, 2018 8:38:05 GMT -5
It's hard for me to fathom Push It peaked at # 19. It got extensive play on any station playing pop, dance or R & B / urban in South Florida, and wasn't hurting for airplay on music video channels. Push It's one of those songs synonymous with my jr year of HS as I seemed to hear it being played at events, stores, practically anywhere I went for at least a few months. At the time it was popular, rap music in general was frowned upon by many CHR stations. If they played rap at all, it was usually late at night only.
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Post by bobbo428 on Jul 5, 2018 10:49:21 GMT -5
If you go by the Hot 100, John Mayer has had nine top 40 hits with 2008's "Say" being his biggest. My book only goes through the end of 2015, so I don't know if his late-2016 single "Love on the Weekend" made the top 40. I doubt it, because he is probably considered an AC/Triple A act now.
Chart trivia: Mayer was born on Oct. 16, 1977, and the first song I heard on AT40 that day was Judy Collins' "Send In the Clowns," which was also the first song I heard when I tuned in on July 27, 1975, the day that baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez was born. As a big MLB fan, I had to add that!
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Post by briguy52748 on Jul 5, 2018 11:23:30 GMT -5
On the country chart, Carl Smith -- he was June Carter's first husband, and father of Carlene Carter -- reached the top 10 33 times between 1950-1958.
Between 1959 and 1972, Smith had 31 singles reach the top 40, with just two -- 1959's "Ten Thousand Drums" and from 1967 "Deep Water" -- making the top 10. Notable in that the Billboard country chart expanded twice during that span (to 50 spots in 1964 and 75 positions in 1966), and several of his songs were barely reaching the lower reaches of those expanded charts.
A few more recent examples:
* Con Hunley, from Knoxville, Tennessee, released 11 singles in a row from 1978-1982 that made the top 20 ... but not one of them made the country top 10. His biggest hits were "What's New With You" (1980) and a cover of the Chi-Lites' "Oh Girl" (with backing vocals by the Oak Ridge Boys) (1982), which peaked at Nos. 11 and 12, respectively. Con, by the way, was sometimes confused with two other performers of the era that had similar names: John Conlee and Earl Thomas Conley.
* Steve Holy had two No. 1 hits, with 2002's "Good Morning Beautiful" and 2006's "Brand New Girlfriend." Of his remaining releases 16 since 2000, just one so much as made the top 20 ("Love Don't Run," in 2011). A Dallas native, he's still around and performing today.
Brian
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Post by giannirubino on Jul 5, 2018 13:17:24 GMT -5
Regarding Push It ...
Help me out ... isn't it one of the top 5 biggest sellers for singles in the 1980s, along with We Are The World, Physical and Wild Thing? I don't remember where I saw this in Billboard in very late 1989 or very early 1990. All had sold over 2 million, if I remember correctly, with WATW selling over 4 million. It might have been in Paul G.'s "Chart Beat?"
What I'm trying to say is, Push It was strong in sales all over, but not every town or state had great AIRPLAY for the song. Not sure if it was geography, or cities versus small towns or what.
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