AT40 ON XM

[doofus67]

Nov 29, 2018 14:21:59 GMT -5 mkarns said:

Nov 24, 2018 12:37:58 GMT -5 doofus67 said:

Pay close attention about halfway through.  You all know what I mean...

Said Casey, "Didn't you just know this would happen? Here's a case where the chart position and the song title are one and the same. At #18 with a bullet, here's, that's right, 'Eighteen with a Bullet' and moving up. Pete Wingfield".

I wonder if this was entirely a coincidence or "organic" move, or someone in the Billboard chart department decided it would be neat to fudge things a bit to put the song at its titular position; it was moving up from #23 into the top 20 so it didn't look obviously manipulated. The song peaked at #15 the following week.

It's such a good quote, we've posted it twice in five days. ☺

This is not exactly "#9 Dream" from earlier in the same year, but yeah, it has the look and feel of a slight manipulation.

[at40petebattistini]

^For anyone who thought Billboard manipulated Pete Wingfield's ranking on the Hot 100 on November 22, 1975, CashBox played the same game, same week.
web.archive.org/web/20110205163033/http://cashboxmagazine.com:80/archives/70s_files/19751122.html

[johnnywest]

Nov 30, 2018 10:13:15 GMT -5 at40petebattistini said:

^For anyone who thought Billboard manipulated Pete Wingfield's ranking on the Hot 100 on November 22, 1975, CashBox played the same game, same week.
web.archive.org/web/20110205163033/http://cashboxmagazine.com:80/archives/70s_files/19751122.html

And R&R did the same thing:

wweb.uta.edu/faculty/gghunt/charts/Songruns/10.30.14/pwingfield_18.htm

[mkarns]

Record World, meanwhile, just missed making it a four-for. The song was at #19 with a bullet on 11/22/75 there, then moved to #16 with a bullet the next week, and then peaked at #15.

[cachiva]

Always thought that it was a
stunt by Billboard.

[mkarns]

December 2, 1978 this week from Sirius XM.

[mkarns]

This week: December 4, 1971.

[mkarns]

December 11, 1976 now playing.

[mkarns]

SXM 7 began the top 80 of 1970 this weekend; they played #80-41 today, with 40-1 presumably to follow next week.

[doofus67]

Dec 22, 2018 12:02:01 GMT -5 mkarns said:

SXM 7 began the top 80 of 1970 this weekend; they played #80-41 today, with 40-1 presumably to follow next week.

Yes, it's the top 40 of 1970 this week.

[trekkielo]

Nov 30, 2018 16:42:00 GMT -5 mkarns said:

Record World, meanwhile, just missed making it a four-for. The song was at #19 with a bullet on 11/22/75 there, then moved to #16 with a bullet the next week, and then peaked at #15.

18withabullet

[jmack19]

^XM 80s on 8 Big 40 Countdown is from 1/5/80.

[laura]

80s on 8 is featuring the chart AT40 would have done that week if it wasn't pre-empted with that special.

[doofus67]

Now that SiriusXM has completed its trifecta of decade countdowns with Casey's top 50 of the 70s special, it's the 70s' turn to get the comparison treatment.

In this table, column two shows each song's performance on the Casey countdown, as tabulated by the AT40 staff.  In column three, we see Billboard's perspective, pulled from the all-time list that they published in August to mark the 60th anniversary of the Hot 100.  (These are the 70s numbers, not overall.)

The last column shows the placement according to the book Ranking the '70s, by Dann Isbell and Bill Carroll.  They took all of the charted songs in Cash Box throughout the decade and ranked them from #1 to #5350.  Along with a weekly chart position point scale, they added a factor using a process they call normalization.  With this exclusive formula, they were able to adjust a song's score based on the overall chart action for the year in which it came out.  So their rankings tend to favor those records that had a longer run in the upper reaches of the CB chart.

	AT40	BB60	RT70s
YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE	1	1	1 / 11,239 points
BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED...	2	42	27 / 8291
JOY TO THE WORLD	3	22	2 / 10,356
FIRST TIME EVER I SAW...	4	25	23 / 8527
ALONE AGAIN (Naturally)	5	24	11 / 9269
TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT	6	2	46 / 7317
AMERICAN PIE	7	38	3 / 10,352
HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE	8	4	22 / 8540
STAYIN' ALIVE	9	11	19 / 8639
MY SHARONA	10	15	17 / 8758
ONE BAD APPLE	11		35 / 7752
SHADOW DANCING	12	10	4 / 10,066
MAGGIE MAY / REASON TO...	13	32	8 / 9547; 3791 / 122
IT'S TOO LATE	14	47	31 / 8024
MY SWEET LORD	15		14 / 8857
NIGHT FEVER	16	8	9 / 9333
SILLY LOVE SONGS	17	6	34 / 7833
LE FREAK	18	3	5 / 10,002
I'LL BE THERE	19	28	6 / 9964
BEST OF MY LOVE [Emotions]	20	18	164 / 5500
HOW CAN YOU MEND...	21		42 / 7467
A HORSE WITH NO NAME	22		75 / 6631
CLOSE TO YOU	23	48	60 / 6997
BAD GIRLS	24	39	43 / 7437
REUNITED	25		52 / 7111
I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW	26		199 / 5242
TIE A YELLOW RIBBON...	27	9	20 / 8603
MY LOVE	28	23	33 / 7880
YOU'RE SO VAIN	29	13	58 / 7028
AIN'T NO MOUNTAIN...	30		103 / 6173
RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN'...	31	17	7 / 9782
LOVE WILL KEEP US...	32	49	137 / 5787
HOT STUFF	33	12	98 / 6275
WITHOUT YOU	34		53 / 7109
DA YA THINK I'M SEXY?	35	31	21 / 8597
CROCODILE ROCK	36	37	36 / 7708
I WILL SURVIVE	37	21	157 / 5552
AMERICAN WOMAN	38		47 / 7259
LET IT BE	39		28 / 8236
I JUST WANT TO BE...	40	5	54 / 7100
I HONESTLY LOVE YOU	41		102 / 5982
DECEMBER 1963	42		302 / 4662
THREE TIMES A LADY	43		48 / 7257
DON'T GO BREAKING...	44	45	140 / 5752
ME AND MRS. JONES	45		55 / 7075
I THINK I LOVE YOU	46		12 / 9173
THE WAY WE WERE	47	19	162 / 5516
50 WAYS TO LEAVE...	48		91 / 6430
KISS YOU ALL OVER	49	27	18 / 8678
FAMILY AFFAIR	50		30 / 8067
PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC		14	151 / 5621
KILLING ME SOFTLY...		16	90 / 6447
A FIFTH OF BEETHOVEN		20	84 / 6506
A STAR IS BORN		29	139 / 5759
DISCO DUCK		30	96 / 6330
PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM		35	82 / 6531
KEEP ON TRUCKIN'		36	226 / 5073
SHAKE YOUR BOOTY		40	245 / 4942
SEASONS IN THE SUN		41	161 / 5523
I'M SORRY / CALYPSO		44	298 / 4688; 2051 / 586
THE STREAK		50	141 / 5747
ABC			10 / 9272
VENUS			15 / 8842
AFTERNOON DELIGHT			16 / 8818
LET'S STAY TOGETHER			24 / 8515
SPIRIT IN THE SKY			25 / 8420
BRAND NEW KEY			26 / 8365
THEME FROM SHAFT			32 / 7911
TORN BETWEEN TWO LOVERS			37 / 7701
I WANT YOU BACK			38 / 7696
TEARS OF A CLOWN			39 / 7684
HOT CHILD IN THE CITY			40 / 7682
NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE			41 / 7580
ROCKIN' ROBIN			44 / 7353
BAKER STREET			45 / 7330
INDIAN RESERVATION			49 / 7243
WAR			50 / 7205
LET'S GET IT ON		7	67 / 6802
RHINESTONE COWBOY		26	68 / 6800
I WRITE THE SONGS		33	29 / 8120
BOOGIE OOGIE OOGIE		34	63 / 6935
KNOCK THREE TIMES		43	13 / 9172
KISS AND SAY GOODBYE

[doofus67]

"Kiss and Say Goodbye"...

#46 in the Billboard anniversary ranking; #74 in Ranking the '70s, with 6645 points.