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Post by woolebull on Mar 5, 2018 19:17:38 GMT -5
On the January 27, 2018 American Top 40 show, Justin Timberlake debuted at number 20 with, "Filthy". The song would go 20-14-14-15-18 before falling out of the Top 40 this week. A short run, but a run that puts it in a distinct category. As far as I know, there are only two other songs that spent their entire run on American Top 40 in the top 20: "A Horse With No Name", and "Eye of the Tiger". Of course, I'm sure I am missing some others. Are there any other songs besides those three that have pulled this distinction off in the AT40 era? Also, dropping from number 18 off of the chart is pretty impressive as well. Kudos, Mr. Timberlake, for this dubious achievement  |
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Post by Hervard on Mar 5, 2018 19:50:12 GMT -5
"Old Days" by Chicago - debuted at #17, the same position at which it spent its last AT40 week.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Mar 5, 2018 20:52:55 GMT -5
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Mar 5, 2018 23:30:12 GMT -5
The songs in that older thread may have a distinction, but not a "Filthy" distinction. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Mar 6, 2018 12:39:48 GMT -5
BTW, JT's Hot 100 run
9-29-33-51-34-90
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Mar 6, 2018 14:40:05 GMT -5
^Imagine doing a countdown show with those movements.
"In its second week in the survey, it tumbles from 9 to 29..."
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Post by burcjm on Mar 6, 2018 20:17:20 GMT -5
^Imagine doing a countdown show with those movements. "In its second week in the survey, it tumbles from 9 to 29..." Other phrases you wouldn't have heard 30 years ago: "Debuting in the #1 position...." "In it's fiftieth week on the chart, the song moves back up...." |
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Post by woolebull on Mar 6, 2018 22:14:41 GMT -5
Thanks! I must have totally missed that back in the day. Interesting that there really aren't that many songs. What makes "Filthy" more interesting to me, as others commented or made reference, is we live in a time where songs spend tons of time on the top 40. Even songs that do not make it out of the 40-31 slots spend more time on the 40 then "Filthy" did. "Filthy", like Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do", reminds me of back in the day when big artists would release the first single off an album to signal, "I'm back", and then release something else really soon after. Prince used to do that some ("Gett Off!" off of "Diamonds and Pearls", "My Name is Prince" off of the symbol album). |
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Post by johnnywest on Mar 8, 2018 6:30:36 GMT -5
BTW, JT's Hot 100 run 9-29-33-51-34-90 And on Rick Dees Weekly Top 40: 22-15-13-13-14-40-off |
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Post by woolebull on Dec 22, 2018 23:16:27 GMT -5
I was perusing through, "Casey Kasem's American Top 40 Yearbook" for 1978 (I really wish this book had caught on annually. This book is absolute gold), and noticed that "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" had a run that was all in the top 20: 20-10-6-4-3-2-1-3-5-14-20. An interesting run for a #1 in 1978 when hit songs going up and down quickly were much fewer than what we saw in the early 70's (at least the going down part...hot songs still made crazy leaps, particularly from "Le Freak" until the end of the decade). I wonder if anyone said when they realized it disappeared so quickly, "Guess it's over, call it a day. Sorry that it had to end that way". |
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Post by dth1971 on Dec 23, 2018 9:40:02 GMT -5
I was perusing through, "Casey Kasem's American Top 40 Yearbook" for 1978 (I really wish this book had caught on annually. This book is absolute gold), and noticed that "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" had a run that was all in the top 20: 20-10-6-4-3-2-1-3-5-14-20. An interesting run for a #1 in 1978 when hit songs going up and down quickly were much fewer than what we saw in the early 70's (at least the going down part...hot songs still made crazy leaps, particularly from "Le Freak" until the end of the decade). I wonder if anyone said when they realized it disappeared so quickly, "Guess it's over, call it a day. Sorry that it had to end that way". If there was an AT40 Yearbook for 1982, it would have shown the odd chart runs for songs that held positions for a small number of weeks and falling out of AT40 from high positions. |
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