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Post by debwood1999 on Jul 15, 2008 14:53:18 GMT -5
Does anyone know what song took the biggest leap up the AT40 charts, and which one took the biggest drop? I've been trying to find that answer for months.
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Post by laura on Jul 15, 2008 15:09:05 GMT -5
One of the biggest movers is Heart Attack by Olivia-Newton John, which leaped 26 in 1982
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Post by Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever on Jul 15, 2008 15:16:06 GMT -5
One of the biggest droppers was in the Fall of 1982 (ironically the same year as Heart Attack's chart run). Air Supply's "Even the Nights Are Better" fell totally out of the Top 40 from #6.
I remember that Casey mentioned on one of the shows that "White Christmas" fell off the entire Top 100 (whatever the chart was called at the time) from #1 but that was due to the seasonal nature of the song. Plus this was before AT40 began in July 1970.
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Post by vto66 on Jul 15, 2008 15:52:51 GMT -5
One of the biggest movers is Heart Attack by Olivia-Newton John, which leaped 26 in 1982 According to Pete Battistini's "American Top 40: The 70s", there was one song during the Classic AT40 era that took an even bigger leap up the charts than "Heart Attack." It was Chic's 1978 disco classic "Le Freak," which jumped from number 37 to number 6, a stunning 31-notch surge, in a single week. This is probably the all-time record for big movers during the Classic AT40 era, if not the entire rock era. |
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Post by laura on Jul 15, 2008 15:55:40 GMT -5
Wow. Didn't know that.
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Post by shadster on Jul 15, 2008 21:07:58 GMT -5
The Beatles made, as Casey put it, "A 24 notch pole vault to #1" Jumping from #25 to #1 w/ "Can't buy me love" Casey makes reference to this in a CASEYS Top 40 show in 1989 as the biggest jump to #1. At least I think thats where I heard it. Actually no, I think I might of heard this on one of the AT40 Flashback shows. 2/25/84?
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Post by debwood1999 on Jul 16, 2008 12:02:08 GMT -5
Cool trivia! How about the song that was the biggest dropper that didn't fall out of the top 40? Thanks for all the info, BTW! :-)
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Post by dougray2 on Jul 16, 2008 14:02:59 GMT -5
The biggest mover during the classic AT40 era was Le Freak by Chic, which jumped from 37 to 6 on 11/25/78. I believe the all time biggest mover within the top 40 was Are You Lonesome Tonight? by Elvis, which jumped from 35 to 2 in November 1960. I'm not sure about the biggest dropper, but the biggest one I know of within the classic AT40 era was Chuck E's In Love by Rickie Lee Jones, which fell from 12 to 40 on 7/28/79.
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Post by briguy52748 on Jul 16, 2008 14:30:42 GMT -5
As far as No. 1's dropping from the top of the chart during the classic AT40 era, I believe there were several that fell out of the Top 10. One of the biggest falls came the week of Nov. 2, 1974, when Dionne Warwick and the Spinners' duet "Then Came You" dropped from 1 to 15. Indeed, there were several No. 1 hits in the fall of 1974 that fell from the top to outside the Top 10 in the span of a week ... Billy Preston's "Nothing From Nothing," Stevie Wonder's "You Haven't Done Nothin'" and John Lennon's "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night" immediately come to mind.
On the Hot Country Singles chart, since the debut of American Country Countdown in 1973, there was the week of Aug. 1, 1981, when THREE songs dropped from the top 10 completely out of the Top 40 ... and one of those was the previous week's No. 1 single:
* 6 (to 46 (I believe)) — "Fool By Your Side" by Dave & Sugar; their last major hit.
* 2 (to 55 (I think)) — "Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)" by Tompall and the Glaser Brothers; their last major hit.
* 1 (to 43) — "Feels So Right" by Alabama, and FAR FROM their last major hit. Indeed, it was their fourth consecutive No. 1 hit in a string that would span 21 singles and almost seven years (not counting a 1982 Christmas single).
Brian
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Post by vto66 on Jul 16, 2008 14:35:31 GMT -5
The biggest mover during the classic AT40 era was Le Freak by Chic, which jumped from 37 to 6 on 11/25/78. I believe the all time biggest mover within the top 40 was Are You Lonesome Tonight? by Elvis, which jumped from 35 to 2 in November 1960. I'm not sure about the biggest dropper, but the biggest one I know of within the classic AT40 era was Chuck E's In Love by Rickie Lee Jones, which fell from 12 to 40 on 7/28/79. That dubious record set by Rickie Lee Jones would be equaled nearly three years later when Paul Davis' "Cool Night" tumbled from its peak position of No. 11 all the way down to No. 39. |
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Post by debwood1999 on Jul 16, 2008 15:22:29 GMT -5
The biggest mover during the classic AT40 era was Le Freak by Chic, which jumped from 37 to 6 on 11/25/78. I believe the all time biggest mover within the top 40 was Are You Lonesome Tonight? by Elvis, which jumped from 35 to 2 in November 1960. I'm not sure about the biggest dropper, but the biggest one I know of within the classic AT40 era was Chuck E's In Love by Rickie Lee Jones, which fell from 12 to 40 on 7/28/79. That dubious record set by Rickie Lee Jones would be equaled nearly three years later when Paul Davis' "Cool Night" tumbled from its peak position of No. 11 all the way down to No. 39. I think I remember that! Thanks everybody!  |
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Post by mstgator on Jul 16, 2008 19:55:48 GMT -5
On the Hot Country Singles chart, since the debut of American Country Countdown in 1973, there was the week of Aug. 1, 1981, when THREE songs dropped from the top 10 completely out of the Top 40 ... and one of those was the previous week's No. 1 single: * 6 (to 46 (I believe)) — "Fool By Your Side" by Dave & Sugar; their last major hit. * 2 (to 55 (I think)) — "Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)" by Tompall and the Glaser Brothers; their last major hit. * 1 (to 43) — "Feels So Right" by Alabama, and FAR FROM their last major hit. Indeed, it was their fourth consecutive No. 1 hit in a string that would span 21 singles and almost seven years (not counting a 1982 Christmas single). Brian Wow... country stations back then must have just stopped reporting songs completely once they peaked (whether they were still playing them or not)! Guess that helps explain the high turnover at #1 during that decade. Digging out Joel Whitburn's Country Annual (which gives full chart runs for all Top Five hits on the Country chart), there were some really volatile moves in 1981, with three number ones falling completely out of the Top 40 from the top spot, and the rest not taking much longer to disappear. Anne Murray's "Blessed Are The Believers" fell from #1 to #11, and was off the entire Top 100 the following week (with no recurrent rules back then). |
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Post by briguy52748 on Jul 16, 2008 21:23:45 GMT -5
mstgator:
Not to stay too far off the subject, but we had Alabama's "Feels So Right," and later on in 1981, Conway Twitty's "Tight Fittin' Jeans" falling from 1 to 43 in a single week. So what was the third song?
Also, I think that Earl Thomas Conley's "Fire & Smoke" was about the only former No. 1 song to remain in the Top 40 for more than two weeks (I think it stayed three, by my research).
Brian
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Post by vince on Jul 16, 2008 22:21:32 GMT -5
The song that took the biggest leap on BB's Hot 100 was "Harper Valley PTA" by Jean C. Riley in 1968. It leaped from 81 to 7 on 8/31/68. The biggest Hot 100 leap in the classic AT40 era "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison going from 72 to 13 on 12/5/70.
The biggest drop within the top 40 I know of is "There Coming To Take Me Away" by Napoleon XIV dropping from 5 to 37 on 8/27/66.
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Post by dougray2 on Jul 16, 2008 23:57:45 GMT -5
You're right, bigguy. Then Came You and Nothin From Nothin are the biggest droppers from thee #1 spot, falling from 1 to 15. The biggest jump to #1 in the AT40 era was Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey by Paul and Linda McCartney which jumped from 12 to 1. The all time record was set by the Beatles Can't Buy Me Love which jumped from 27 to 1 on 4/4/64.
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