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Post by cachiva on Sept 3, 2020 12:24:10 GMT -5
So, no AT40 this weekend. They are going to replay the Top 700
countdown special from July 4 weekend all through the Labor Day
weekend. If you listened then, you may recall they interrupted
the special to play the regular airings of AT40 throughout the
weekend. But, they did not plan their time very well, and at
2am Monday morning, they skipped ahead about 300 songs so that
the special would end in time for Magic Matt to start on time.
It doesn't get much stupider than that!
...except that it does!
Tonight, Thursday, Sept. 3, they are playing a show from 1970!
If they do what they usually do, it will be the Sept. 5, 1970
show.
Maybe this is in their contract that they must air a show at
least once a week.
You have been warned! Or, alerted!
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Post by mkarns on Sept 3, 2020 15:13:21 GMT -5
Thanks, I'd have probably missed it if not for this heads up.
Looking at the SXM website, AT40 will air at 9 PM tonight, and that will apparently be the only airing of this week's show.
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Post by skuncle on Sept 3, 2020 20:03:47 GMT -5
Sept. 3, 2020: Now lets go back to this week in 1970 - Gino Vannelli , September 5, 1970
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Post by cachiva on Sept 6, 2020 4:14:12 GMT -5
Off topic, but is anyone listening to the SiriusXM Top 700
Countdown? I can't say much good about it, as it simply
sounds like their normal playlist. But the big thing that
stands out about this is, that as I type this, it's just
past 4am in Houston, and they are at #3, and will get to #1
around 4:15 in the morning. That's 5am on the East coast,
and 2am on the West coast.
Did they really plan this out so that the apex of the countdown
would occur when the least amount of people possible could hear
it?
I've clocked it at just over 41 hours to play the 700 songs, or,
17 songs per hour, which sounds right to me. (I was curious to
know if maybe they were already playing it for the second time,
but, no, there is no way they could have done that!)
My takeaway is that it's no surprise how badly they present AT40
to the public, as they can't even manage to get their own in-house
production on the air to get to #1 when people are, I don't know,
AWAKE?
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Post by skuncle on Sept 6, 2020 9:54:05 GMT -5
I heard a bit of the Top 700 earlier this morning (on the east coast) and they apparently are just running the countdown on a loop. They were at 640 or something when I heard it. So my guess is the show is just programmed to run around the clock and start over once it ends.
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Post by laura on Sept 10, 2020 20:06:55 GMT -5
For anyone interested, the top 700 is up on demand so if you missed some parts, you can listen there.
Also they are playing the 3/3/79 show right now. Every Thursday they will play a random AT40 show at 8 PM central time.
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Post by Michael1973 on Sept 11, 2020 13:25:49 GMT -5
I heard parts of the top 700, and read some comments on a another forum suggesting that some hugely popular songs weren't even on the list at all. Apparently, whatever list people voted from wasn't put together very well, which to me invalidates the entire final result.
As far as the oddities of the schedule, it reminds me of the 80s on 8 "Big 1000" which always started at the exact same tine and always with 1980, so no matter how many times it played the same segments aired at the same general time of day.
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Post by skuncle on Sept 12, 2020 5:04:01 GMT -5
Sept. 12-13, 2020: Now lets go back to this week in 1972 - Ann Wilson, September 9, 1972
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Post by laura on Sept 12, 2020 10:50:32 GMT -5
I heard parts of the top 700, and read some comments on a another forum suggesting that some hugely popular songs weren't even on the list at all. Apparently, whatever list people voted from wasn't put together very well, which to me invalidates the entire final result. As far as the oddities of the schedule, it reminds me of the 80s on 8 "Big 1000" which always started at the exact same tine and always with 1980, so no matter how many times it played the same segments aired at the same general time of day. I think the only eligible songs for that countdown hit the top 10 on Billboard from what I had seen around the time the voting was open. |
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Post by laura on Sept 17, 2020 20:05:09 GMT -5
Right now they are playing 5/29/76.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Sept 18, 2020 17:00:37 GMT -5
Right now they are playing 5/29/76. I wonder what is prompting them to play AT40 on Thursday nights? |
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Post by skuncle on Sept 19, 2020 5:05:06 GMT -5
Sept. 19-20, 2020: Now lets go back to this week in 1978 - K.C. of The Sunshine Band, September 16, 1978
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Post by d**ndirtyape on Sept 19, 2020 7:34:24 GMT -5
Sept. 19-20, 2020: Now lets go back to this week in 1978 - K.C. of The Sunshine Band, September 16, 1978 Wow, that was weird, they cut the whole Phil Rizzuto section out of Paradise by the Dashboard Light - never heard that before. Probably just done for length. |
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Post by mkarns on Sept 19, 2020 9:55:08 GMT -5
Sept. 19-20, 2020: Now lets go back to this week in 1978 - K.C. of The Sunshine Band, September 16, 1978 Wow, that was weird, they cut the whole Phil Rizzuto section out of Paradise by the Dashboard Light - never heard that before. Probably just done for length. Tom Rounds prefaced that week's cue sheet with a somewhat snarky note about PBTDL suggesting that stations could cut it if they wished. www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/1978-0916.pdfThis was the first of two weeks it was on AT40; had it charted a few weeks later, when the show went to four hours, they could have played more of it but may not have particularly wanted to. |
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Post by papathree on Sept 19, 2020 11:04:57 GMT -5
I apologize if this has been answered before, but on that Cue Sheet: 1. What do the letters in parentheses after each song signify? I noticed at least one entry where the parentheses were typed with nothing inside. 2. Is there any significance to the underlining beneath the titles of some of the songs? |
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