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Post by johnnywest on Jun 26, 2022 21:39:06 GMT -5
On one of Casey’s year end HAC shows, it seemed anticlimactic that the top song of the year, “Over My Head (Cable Car),” had only peaked at #3. That may’ve also been the case with “Barely Breathing.”
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jun 27, 2022 7:21:05 GMT -5
On one of Casey’s year end HAC shows, it seemed anticlimactic that the top song of the year, “Over My Head (Cable Car),” had only peaked at #3. That may’ve also been the case with “Barely Breathing.” You are correct on "Barely Breathing". In the 1997 HAC year-end, Casey mentions the song debuted in January, fell out the next week, re-entered and was on the chart for 43 weeks, with a peak of #3 for 13 weeks. It's phenomenal when a non-peaking #1 song gathers enough points/spins/whatever to become the #1 song of the year, such as "Everything You Want", "Hanging By A Moment", and the aforementioned two. I can't think of any others; maybe there's more out there. ETA: "Everything You Want" did hit #1 for 13 weeks on AT20 HAC, and was also #1 for the year, while it peaked at #2 on AT40.
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Post by retrodaddy on Jun 28, 2022 11:31:56 GMT -5
October 20, 1984
I Just Called To Say I Love You was in the second of three weeks at #1. Lots of memorable hits in that week's countdown, including two each from Prince, Cyndi Lauper and Tina Turner, and a really strong top 10 outside of the #1 song and Chicago's Hard Habit To Break. I love Stevie's music but IJCTSILY is sappy and repetitive. May have been fitting for The Woman In Red soundtrack but a weak #1 for that time imo.
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Post by UnknownEric on Jun 28, 2022 11:35:21 GMT -5
"Look Away" by Chicago as the #1 song on the year end countdown of 1989. Funny you post this today because there's now another " lost hits" article out that focuses on 1989 and includes this paragraph about Look Away: My friend and I used to change the chorus to: "And if you see me walking by / and I forgot to zip my fly / look away / baby, look away"
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Post by retrodaddy on Jun 28, 2022 11:47:33 GMT -5
I think Look Away was a fitting #1 as '89 was a weak year for pop music imo.
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Post by dth1971 on Jun 28, 2022 17:05:54 GMT -5
Would Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" be a let down since it kept Foreigner's "Waiting For a Girl Like You" out of #1 for 10 weeks?
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jun 28, 2022 20:59:19 GMT -5
Would Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" be a let down since it kept Foreigner's "Waiting For a Girl Like You" out of #1 for 10 weeks? It was only for 9 weeks (her first week at #1, Foreigner was at #3), but still... I'm on the fence with this one. At least Foreigner hit #1 on R&R. But nobody was counting down their charts back then. Personally, my biggest letdown with that happened in the 1/30/1982 show, which I will be getting to in my marathon (on 12/5/1981 currently). I think ONJ had a good song, I like it, always have. (Slightly bigger fan of her follow-up, "Make A Move On Me".)
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jun 30, 2022 6:31:26 GMT -5
Two songs that made it to #1 in Cash Box that didn't make it to the top in Billboard, and so not recognized by most people as #1's (since it wasn't at the top spot on AT40)--The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot (1976) and Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty (1978).
Back in 1976, I used to make a personal weekly Top 10 and was disappointed when Gordon Lightfoot's song didn't make it to #1 and felt the same when Gerry Rafferty's song didn't make it to the top in 1978, I recall hearing AT40 played on the sound system at 6 Flags over Georgia, where I worked during that summer.
Imagine my surprise when years later I learned that both songs reached #1 in Cash Box, although there was no national countdown show featuring their charts at the time, and even though I have recorded shows that feature both songs at #1, it's still not the same as hearing Casey say they were #1 Coast-to-Coast.
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Post by LC on Jun 30, 2022 19:27:58 GMT -5
4/23/1983 was a solid countdown spoiled by the horrid "Come On Eileen" at #1.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jun 30, 2022 19:38:01 GMT -5
4/23/1983 was a solid countdown spoiled by the horrid "Come On Eileen" at #1. That show would be the last with Bill Wardlow as Billboard chart director - gone are the ridiculous policies that kept songs at their peak for several weeks. I admit, I do like "Come On Eileen", however, I would've put either one of the then-current Michael Jackson hits at #1 before it. (MJ would've had a nice 11-week run at the top if not for "Eileen".) The following week, 4/30/1983, is one of my favorite countdowns from the earlier half of the 1980s - I call it the "un-clogging of the arteries", with more free chart movement. And a lot of great music to boot.
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Post by Hervard on Jun 30, 2022 19:58:07 GMT -5
Two songs that made it to #1 in Cash Box that didn't make it to the top in Billboard, and so not recognized by most people as #1's (since it wasn't at the top spot on AT40)--The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot (1976) and Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty (1978). I always recognized "Baker Street" as a #1 song, as it hit the top in R&R and was played as a former #1 on "Countdown America" in 1983, the year that the show started and the year that I found out about R&R. Since the song spent four weeks on top, I was rather surprised when I found out that it never hit #1 on the Hot 100.
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Post by LC on Jul 2, 2022 16:19:05 GMT -5
I should add 7/10-17/1976. "Afternoon Delight" at #1 automatically spoils any countdown....
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Post by retrodaddy on Jul 3, 2022 7:29:54 GMT -5
4/23/1983 was a solid countdown spoiled by the horrid "Come On Eileen" at #1. Loved Come On Eileen back in '83. Now I'm okay with never hearing it again.
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Post by at40nut on Jul 3, 2022 11:07:22 GMT -5
I should add 7/10-17/1976. "Afternoon Delight" at #1 automatically spoils any countdown.... Unfortunately when I made my debut into this crazy world just a few days after this chart date, "Afternoon Delight" is referred to"What was the #1 song on the day you were born?" category. It could have been worse had I been born a few months later with "Disco Duck"!!!!
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jul 3, 2022 14:09:09 GMT -5
I should add 7/10-17/1976. "Afternoon Delight" at #1 automatically spoils any countdown.... Unfortunately when I made my debut into this crazy world just a few days after this chart date, "Afternoon Delight" is referred to"What was the #1 song on the day you were born?" category. It could have been worse had I been born a few months later with "Disco Duck"!!!! I actually thought Afternoon Delight was an appropriate #1 with the line Sky Rockets in Flight, as the song reached #1 around America's Bicentennial--when fireworks displays were plentiful.
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