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Post by Mike on Mar 2, 2021 1:46:35 GMT -5
And I'll be a little more optimistic RE: what would come after 1984 if that goes next. Entirely possible that they don't stick strictly to rotation, and no reason that something from the ends of the decade (1980/89) couldn't go instead. Just no more 3/25/89, please. 1980 for the last weekend of March would be fine as there's no Casey show from that week (3/29/80 was the first of many AT40s guest hosted by Charlie Van Dyke). 84-89-80 would work out well, as neither that week nor 3/18/89 have been done. Working with the flip side of the coin, an alternate scenario would best consist of 84-80-88.
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Post by jgve1952 on Mar 2, 2021 17:49:40 GMT -5
Looking ahead to Friday's show: if I reviewed both charts correctly (12-6-86/3-7-87), I believe the only repeat song from both episodes is "At This Moment." I think if 1984 is played on 3-12-21, there won't be any songs repeated from the late 2020 1983 episode when 3-10-84 is featured.
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Post by mjl677 on Mar 2, 2021 23:09:11 GMT -5
The BITDR is featuring 1991 this weekend. While it was great to hear this 1991 countdown, the app always messed up (for me anyway). 1st playing: it stopped at number 17 and went all the way back to beginning. 2nd playing today: it stopped at number 18 and went all the way back to beginning. Never got to hear the final hour of show. Wish the SiriusXM app wouldn’t have a restriction of skips allowed.
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Post by Mike on Mar 3, 2021 3:32:33 GMT -5
Looking ahead to Friday's show: if I reviewed both charts correctly (12-6-86/3-7-87), I believe the only repeat song from both episodes is "At This Moment." I think if 1984 is played on 3-12-21, there won't be any songs repeated from the late 2020 1983 episode when 3-10-84 is featured. I'm seeing...the only song that would even have been on the Hot 100 that's in the Top 40 is "Talking in Your Sleep". On 10/29/83, it was #66. As it stands, 3/10/84 is its last week in the Top 40. The last song from the 10/29/83 Top 40 ("Say Say Say") departed on 2/18/84, so it's been a few weeks since that mark was crossed. "Let the Music Play", "Joanna", and "Owner of a Lonely Heart" all debuted on the following week's (11/5) Hot 100. As for 86/87, correct - "C'est La Vie", which fell out on 3/7, misses doing the same by one week.
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Post by jgve1952 on Mar 3, 2021 5:55:55 GMT -5
It's the same thinking that led us to have years that were too close early this year--such as 1987/1988 with over 30 of the same songs. I believe their thinking is "a different year, so we are playing it." We know that it also means, as in this case it's 37 years ago when 2020 rolls into 2021! I just hope that 1984 will be played in an even rotations unlike a few years back when it was months before that year (84) was played.
As far as what comes after 1984 (assuming it is played on March 12th), it would be 1983, but rarely do they do back to back shows. I guess we'll find out soon.
Jeff
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Post by jimjterrell4210 on Mar 3, 2021 12:54:01 GMT -5
You know how Nina announces chart movements of singles during her talk-breaks? Well, "Waiting on a Friend", "I Love Rock n Roll", and "We've Got the Beat" had big pole-vaults into the Top-40 (34, 24, and 33 spots, respectively), but Nina didn't mention such movements during the last Countdowns for the '81/'82 season. Why that?
In the past, we've seen Nina mention the hugest falls within the Top-40 (for example, a 22-spot fall for The Alan Parsons Project's "Time" on an August 1981 countdown). What are the biggest-ever rises and falls you have heard Nina mention on the Big 40?
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Post by mkarns on Mar 3, 2021 13:14:26 GMT -5
You know how Nina announces chart movements of singles during her talk-breaks? Well, "Waiting on a Friend", "I Love Rock n Roll", and "We've Got the Beat" had big pole-vaults into the Top-40 (34, 24, and 33 spots, respectively), but Nina didn't mention such movements during the last Countdowns for the '81/'82 season. Why that? In the past, we've seen Nina mention the hugest falls within the Top-40 (for example, a 22-spot fall for The Alan Parsons Project's "Time" on an August 1981 countdown). What are the biggest-ever rises and falls you have heard Nina mention on the Big 40? I don't know, but if their last 1982 show had been a week later she might have been able to announce 27 and 28-notch drops for "Waiting For a Girl Like You" and "Cool Night", and "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" making another big, 21-point leap.
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Post by doofus67 on Mar 3, 2021 15:39:32 GMT -5
They never mention big moves into the top 40.
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Post by collegepartyboy on Mar 4, 2021 10:49:57 GMT -5
right out of the chute, "1981 Best Picture Oscar went to Chariots of Fire". Nope that was '82, Ordinary People won in '81
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Post by Mike on Mar 4, 2021 16:21:49 GMT -5
It depends on your definition of "1981 Best Picture".
Lately, award show listings - particularly, the ones on Wikipedia, which is ostensibly where the random person who actually works on this show got the info - have taken to listing awards by the year that was being reflected. So, while a ceremony that awarded the best in movies from 1981 would have taken place in the early part of 1982, it will still be listed as the awards of 1981 rather than of 1982.
It's definitely not the way we used to think about "when" given awards were from, but it's not black-and-white objectively wrong as, say, saying that a song hit #5 when it hit #3 or that a song was so-and-so's 15th Top 40 hit when it was only their 12th.
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Post by mkarns on Mar 4, 2021 16:25:17 GMT -5
Personally I refer to things like Oscars, Grammys, and Golden Globes by the year of release of the films or music being considered, or most of it (Grammys, like Billboard year end charts, don't go by exact calendar year), not the year early in which the award was given and ceremony held.
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Post by collegepartyboy on Mar 4, 2021 20:49:11 GMT -5
If they said Ordinary People won the Oscar in 82,you could argue it did, as the ceremony for an 81 movie actually occurred in 82. There is no way you can argue that a movie that came out I was the spring of 82, won the Oscar for best picture in 81. Cannot defend their laziness.
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Post by jgve1952 on Mar 5, 2021 8:17:01 GMT -5
Today is Friday, so tonight just before Midnight we find out if the VJs are starting 2021 on the right foot by giving us 1984 on 3-12-21. This would make all 10 different years featured completed. Who knows their thinking--would they do the following in pretty much that order: 88, 83, 80, 89, 85, 82, 86, 81, 87 and IF tonight is 84 follows 87? If you go back to late 2020, you will notice that the last 9 years were almost identical to the first 9 of 2021, with the exception of 1985 and 1989 being reversed.
I also don't think the programmer (or whoever decides what year is being played) is going to go back years ago to find out if that particular episode was aired in a specific year. For example if 1988 is played on 3-19-21, was it aired near the 19th of March 2020, March 2019, March 2018, etc.--it would be played regardless if they keep even rotation for 2021.
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Post by laura on Mar 5, 2021 21:32:17 GMT -5
You know how they would play that weird live version of "That Ain't Love"? Well they're finally playing the normal album version.
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Post by laura on Mar 6, 2021 0:03:13 GMT -5
Next week it'll be all about 1984, meaning all 10 years have been featured at least once so far this year.
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