Biggest drops from #2 or #3

[classicat40fan]

What were the biggest drops from #2 or #3 during the July 1970-
August 1988 Casey era?

[freakyflybry]

I can remember these in particular:

12/4/1982: Olivia Newton-John "Heart Attack" (3-16)
2/19/1983: Marvin Gaye "Sexual Healing" (3-23)

[humbleheavy]

as I know , these cases were happened (however no checked specificically)
#2->#19 Float On / Floaters (1977)
#3-> #21 Love So Right/ BeeGees (1976)

[briguy52748]

On the Hot Country Singles chart, we had at least one song peak at No. 2, and then the next week fall completely out of the top 40.

The song earning the dubious honor: "Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)" by Tompall and the Glaser Brothers. Their version of the Kris Kristofferson-penned song peaked the weekend of July 25, 1981. The next week (Aug. 1, 1981), "Loving Her Was Easier ..." and two other songs that hit their peaks in the top 10 — Alabama's "Feels So Right" (which was No. 1!!!) and Dave & Sugar's final hit of note, "Fool By Your Side" (at No. 6) — all fell totally out of the top 40. Alabama fell to No. 43, and while I don't remember the Glasers' new position (I don't have the chart by my side), Dave & Sugar I think fell 40 notches to land at No. 46.

This is one of the few, if only, times that three songs that peaked one week on the Hot Country Singles chart totally dropped out of sight. It would be interesting to hear (or have heard) how Bob Kingsley explained this one on American Country Countdown.

Brian

[Hervard]

Not sure about Billboard, but I know that in 1988 and early 1989 there were several huge falls from #2 on the R&R chart.

Shattered Dreams - Johnny Hates Jazz (2-11)
One More Try - George Michael (2-12)
Bad Medicine - Bon Jovi (2-13)
Two Hearts - Phil Collins (2-13)
Perfect World - Huey Lewis & The News (2-14)

Ironically, the biggest of them all wasn't during that period:
Save The Best For Last - Vanessa Williams (2-16)

That one, however, looks sort of suspicious. Two weeks before, it had fallen from the #1 spot after four weeks and held at #2 the next week which, back then, was very unusual. I'm wondering if a statistical error might have occurred.

The biggest fall from #3 on the R&R chart I can't remember. I know that several songs ("Say Say Say" by Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson, "Alone" by Heart and "Kokomo" by the Beach Boys) all fell from #3 to #15. I can't remember any bigger falls than that, though.

[mkarns]

While this is in the Shadoe era, on 9/7/91 Roxette's "Fading Like a Flower" fell from 2 to 15 and Lenny Kravitz' "It Ain't Over Til It's Over" from 3 to 19. Not the all time biggest drops, but two huge falls at the same time from such high positions was unusual. (This was during the last few months of AT40's use of the Hot 100.)

[humbleheavy]

They are over 10 notches-faller from No.2 from Jul/70 to Dec/79
77/3/12 New kid In Town / Eagles 2 to 14
77/10/1 Float On / Floaters 2 to 19
78/4/22 Staying alive /Bee Gees 2 to 13
They are over 12 notches-faller from No.3 from Jul/70 to Dec/79
74/8/17 Annie's Song /John denver 3 to 18
75/5/31 Jackie Blue /Ozark Mt.Daredevils 3 to 17
75/6/14 How Long/ Ace 3 to 18
76/8/14 Moonlight Feels Right/Starbuck 3 to 18
76/12/18 love So Right/ Bee Gees 3 to 21

[bandit73]

Dec 17, 2009 18:16:33 GMT -5 freakyflybry said:

I can remember these in particular:

12/4/1982: Olivia Newton-John "Heart Attack" (3-16)
2/19/1983: Marvin Gaye "Sexual Healing" (3-23)

Someone mentioned earlier that there were a lot of weird things going on in late 1982 and early 1983. Namely, songs would hold their position for many weeks longer than they should have, then make a huge drop.

I think Billboard had some policy at the time that said songs couldn't drop if they were in a "holding period", whatever that is. Somehow the record labels took advantage of this in an attempt to stage-manage the charts, so Billboard changed its policy.

[jlthorpe]

"Don't Talk to Strangers" by Rick Springfield dropped from 2 to 14 the week of 6/19/82.