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Post by laura on Jan 16, 2021 0:01:26 GMT -5
Wouldn't you know it, they go with one of the only two new options for next week.
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Post by mkarns on Jan 16, 2021 0:03:23 GMT -5
Wouldn't you know it, they go with one of the only two new options for next week. Probably 1/19/80, which of course we just got from Casey last week. At least they're not at the same time.
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Post by Mike on Jan 16, 2021 3:02:55 GMT -5
Wouldn't you know it, they go with one of the only two new options for next week. For that matter, it had also been the one with the longest drought (all other years have gone once since the last 1980, in November). One word of caution: Technically, due to the way the calendar falls, the exact chart won't be confirmed until next Friday (they don't mention exact dates in advance, do they?). I say this because next Friday is January 22, which is close enough that they could decide to do 1/26 if they felt like it. It should be 1/19 that happens, but doing the later week as a curveball wouldn't be out of the question. (1985 and 1986 will both be like this too, this year.)
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Post by Michael1973 on Jan 16, 2021 13:46:33 GMT -5
Happy to hear early 1983 this weekend. Looking ahead at when we might hear that year again, it's unclear. Ten weeks later is late March and a big cluster of charts we've already heard. I somehow doubt they'd wait until 4/16.
Hoping next week is 1/19/80, which would continue the streak of new charts so far this year. It would also be a very rare occurrence of the VJs and Premiere giving us the same chart two weeks apart.
As previously stated, either 1982 or 1989 would be a good choice to follow 1980. Either would be new. Whichever one isn't chosen could play the second week of February, where it would be a repeat that hasn't played in 7+ years.
I talk often about songs that are played on this countdown for the first time. So far this year, we've had a number of songs being played for the second time only. Last week there was Honestly. This week there's Memory and Does It Make You Remember.
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Post by Mike on Jan 16, 2021 14:02:59 GMT -5
Happy to hear early 1983 this weekend. Looking ahead at when we might hear that year again, it's unclear. Ten weeks later is late March and a big cluster of charts we've already heard. I somehow doubt they'd wait until 4/16. I'm seeing the cluster of 3/12-4/9 have all aired only once, with the longest-ago being 4/9 done in 2014. Then: 3/19 in 2015, 3/12 in 2016, 3/26 in 2017. It may just be that 1983 draws a repeat for its next one - but, depending on what gets picked, it may not be one done that recently. I do think we'll start to see this this year, where years that they've done better on spreading the wealth, so to speak, have fewer and fewer charts still left to do. Then again, this being the 10th year of Billboard-only charts on Big 40, that shouldn't be surprising. Hoping next week is 1/19/80, which would continue the streak of new charts so far this year. It would also be a very rare occurrence of the VJs and Premiere giving us the same chart two weeks apart. Has that ever actually happened before? I don't have any prior instances noted, but then I might have just not bothered to. (Then again, when would it really be likely outside of December/January?) I talk often about songs that are played on this countdown for the first time. If 1987 waits until all other years have been played since the last '87, it would land on 3/7, which would give us another one-week-wonder ("Don't Leave Me This Way"). So far, there's been 84, 88, 83, and now 80.
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Post by laura on Jan 22, 2021 21:05:51 GMT -5
The Big 40 went with 1/26 it looks like.
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Post by Mike on Jan 22, 2021 21:43:35 GMT -5
The Big 40 went with 1/26 it looks like. Because, of course they did.
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Post by jimjterrell4210 on Jan 22, 2021 23:06:23 GMT -5
The Big 40 went with 1/26 it looks like. Because, of course they did. Oh, horseshoes. I was also expecting the 19th. Why does the 80s on 8 staff spite their listeners so much (whether it's on the Countdowns, their "Lost Hit" selections, etc.)? How many times in the history of the VJ Big 40 did they go with a chart date that was not closer to the date of the countdown's fist airing?
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Post by laura on Jan 22, 2021 23:32:34 GMT -5
Because, of course they did. Oh, horseshoes. I was also expecting the 19th. Why does the 80s on 8 staff spite their listeners so much (whether it's on the Countdowns, their "Lost Hit" selections, etc.)? How many times in the history of the VJ Big 40 did they go with a chart date that was not closer to the date of the countdown's fist airing? I know they did last year when they went with 10/13/84 instead of 10/6.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 22, 2021 23:51:30 GMT -5
Next week's Copycat Casey, won't repeat Premiere...1989
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Post by laura on Jan 22, 2021 23:54:43 GMT -5
Nice to have another January 1989 chart that's not 1/7. So that can mean that 1985 will kick February off beings that 1989 followed '85 last time, with 1982 after that, but a switcheroo of those two years can happen too.
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Post by Mike on Jan 23, 2021 1:08:16 GMT -5
How many times in the history of the VJ Big 40 did they go with a chart date that was not closer to the date of the countdown's fist airing? If you're looking for a way to gauge how often they're likely to do that, well...don't waste your time. Best answer I can give is just that every so often a week will randomly come up and they'll throw that curveball. In 2016 it happened 3 times (albeit the 3rd was 1982 on the last airing of the year). (I stopped checking farther back than this.) In 2017 it happened 5 times, including a back-to-back pair. In 2018 it happened 3 times. In 2019 it didn't happen at all - in fact, that 10/13/84 airing last year was the first time since 2018. So, seemingly up until then they'd been working on not doing that, but now it seems they're loosening up on it again. So that can mean that 1985 will kick February off beings that 1989 followed '85 last time, with 1982 after that, but a switcheroo of those two years can happen too. Nah, you have it right the first time. 1982 would be better landing after Valentine's Day.
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Post by laura on Jan 23, 2021 11:25:19 GMT -5
90s on 9 did 1990 today, so there were tons of 1989 leftovers still on there. Not to mention it took them another 3 1/2 months before they featured that year again. I wish the droughts for that year weren't so huge.
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Post by Michael1973 on Jan 23, 2021 15:20:59 GMT -5
This week’s 1980 chart was previously played in 2016. Not a terrible choice, but not nearly as good as if they’d gone with the expected choice of 1/19. As Laura said, it’ll be good to hear a later January 1989 chart, particularly since it also means we’re spared from hearing 1/26/85 yet again. The next 1989 show would then fall on 4/8/89 if they go in order. Since they played 4/15 last year, I’m hopeful this is how it plays out. Why does the 80s on 8 staff spite their listeners so much (whether it's on the Countdowns, their "Lost Hit" selections, etc.)? I wonder about this too. Even their regular playlist leaves a lot to be desired. They’ll play a handful of hits by a given artist over and over while never touching some of the others. What’s the reasoning? It clearly can’t be the same reasoning used by terrestrial radio. 90s on 9 did 1990 today, so there were tons of 1989 leftovers still on there. Not to mention it took them another 3 1/2 months before they featured that year again. I wish the droughts for that year weren't so huge. Not to mention, it’s the second week in a row with a new chart. For 90s on 9, that’s pretty rare these days.
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Post by mkarns on Jan 23, 2021 16:24:42 GMT -5
90s on 9 did 1990 today, so there were tons of 1989 leftovers still on there. Not to mention it took them another 3 1/2 months before they featured that year again. I wish the droughts for that year weren't so huge. Not just from SXM: last Saturday Rick Dees briefly put up a January 1990 show on his app, then soon changed it to January 1997.
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