Songs with longest time between peak on AT 40 & Hot 100

[woolebull]

On the December 22, 2018 Hot 100, Mariah Carey will reach her highest peak yet for "All I Want For Christmas Is You" as it moves up a notch to number 6. What's interesting is that the song reached its peak on American Top 40 (#9) on January 14, 1995, almost 24 years between its highest peak on American Top 40 and its highest peak (so far) on the Hot 100.

At first, I thought that there would be no way that there was any song that would even come close to having this kind of disparity between its peak on the Hot 100 and its peak on American Top 40. The main reason is fairly obvious: The top 40 hits on Billboard's Hot 100 and American Top 40 were the same songs between July 1970 and December 1991. But then I began to think about how Prince almost matched his peak at #1 on the Hot 100 in 2016 with "When Doves Cry" (#4). If he had made it, that would have been almost a 32 year difference. So maybe there are some songs, particularly after an artist's passing, that might be able to give "Christmas" a run for its money.

Are there any other songs with a long period of time between its peak on American Top 40 and the Hot 100?

[jlthorpe]

Not as long a period of time as the Mariah song, but Whitney Houston's "The Star Spangled Banner" peaked at #20 on AT40 in 1991, then at #6 on the Hot 100 in 2001 due to the 9/11 attacks.

In reverse, there's the pre-Hot 100 peak of #1 for "Rock Around the Clock" in 1955, and the AT40 peak of #39 in 1974 (19 years).

[woolebull]

Dec 19, 2018 21:31:34 GMT -5 jlthorpe said:

Not as long a period of time as the Mariah song, but Whitney Houston's "The Star Spangled Banner" peaked at #20 on AT40 in 1991, then at #6 on the Hot 100 in 2001 due to the 9/11 attacks.

In reverse, there's the pre-Hot 100 peak of #1 for "Rock Around the Clock" in 1955, and the AT40 peak of #39 in 1974 (19 years).

Good ones! You could say the same about "Monster Mash" (11 years), "Stand By Me" (25 years), "Do You Love Me" (almost 26 years) and others who peaked on AT 40 way after they peaked on the Hot 100, even though obviously if American Top 40 had been around ten years before, the point would be nil.

A shame the Hot 100 wasn't around when "Shaving Cream" was a hit. Benny would definitely be holding the belt!

[woolebull]

"Bohemian Rhapsody" almost had a long amount of time between its peak on AT 40 and the Hot 100, however the song managed to peak at #9 in 1992 on AT 40, the exact position it peaked at in its first run in 1976. On the Hot 100, it would reach its peak all the way up at #2.

[johnnywest]

In reverse, “A Little Less Conversation” hit #50 in the late 60s and finally made AT40 in 2002.