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Post by jgve1952 on Mar 13, 2021 18:05:08 GMT -5
Even if it's nine weeks later that we hear an inverted show, that's not too bad. Hopefully there won't be any episodes that repeat in three or four weeks as in past years.
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Post by Michael1973 on Mar 14, 2021 19:40:45 GMT -5
The programming staff have more interest in what was played ten weeks ago, not three years ago. If you look at trends, they seem to play the ten different years at the start of the year, but sometimes alter the repetition a bit. This has typically been the case all along, however they made enough exceptions to this pattern in 2020 that it almost seemed deliberate. Quite a few 1987-1989 shows ended up being played way off schedule, but they all ended up being unusually good picks. Hard to imagine it was all random. But now we seem to be back to "pick whatever year is due." To the best of my recollection, repeating years within 3-4 weeks has only happened a handful of times over the past nine years.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Mar 14, 2021 22:24:58 GMT -5
If only they took some notes from Premiere. Granted, their show scheduling can be head-scratchers at times, but at least there aren't the repeats to the degree that is being posted about in here. If they're doing new voice tracks/scripts for a repeat chart done in the last couple of years, they're just wasting their time. Granted, I don't claim to know all of what's going on, but clearly things are wacked with this production. There shouldn't be any repeats within 4-5 years of the previous airing, if I had any say in it. So what if the same year airs 4-6 weeks after the previous airing, just to avoid any repeats? If I'm doing the schedule, I'd look at that versus what aired in each of the last 10 weeks...clearly, looking at the latter (which appears to mostly be the way they do it) is creating quite a stir, evidenced by this thread.
*steps off soapbox, exits stage left*
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Post by Michael1973 on Mar 15, 2021 13:01:58 GMT -5
If only they took some notes from Premiere. Granted, their show scheduling can be head-scratchers at times, but at least there aren't the repeats to the degree that is being posted about in here. If they're doing new voice tracks/scripts for a repeat chart done in the last couple of years, they're just wasting their time. Granted, I don't claim to know all of what's going on, but clearly things are wacked with this production. There shouldn't be any repeats within 4-5 years of the previous airing, if I had any say in it. So what if the same year airs 4-6 weeks after the previous airing, just to avoid any repeats? If I'm doing the schedule, I'd look at that versus what aired in each of the last 10 weeks...clearly, looking at the latter (which appears to mostly be the way they do it) is creating quite a stir, evidenced by this thread. *steps off soapbox, exits stage left* I think most of us here agree with you, but I suspect we're in the minority. They could probably repeat the same charts every year and the majority of listeners wouldn't notice. That doesn't change the fact that it's utterly absurd to pay everyone involved to create a new show for a chart they're already counted down (multiple times in some cases). I consider this the equivalent of a TV sitcom cast returning to the studio to re-record each episode for the purpose of showing reruns. And yet the pattern never changes. The process of simply picking whatever year is next due has been a constant for nearly a decade. Unless they get some new management (not likely), I don't expect anything to change. And don't get us started on the number of mistakes and misinterpreted Wikipedia references they make during each show...
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Post by Mike on Mar 15, 2021 22:49:02 GMT -5
As it stands, a tight, strict 10-week rotation will produce this: (All airdates are Friday night premieres) 3-26: 3/26/83 (which aired in 2017) 4-2: 4/5/80 (which aired in 2016) 4-9: 4/8/89 (which would be new) 4-16: 4/13 or 4/20/85 (the former a FOURTH time airing last done in 2018, the latter done in 2019) 4-23: 4/24/82 (which aired in 2014) 4-30: 4/26 or 5/3/86 (the former a third time airing last done in 2019, but the latter would be new) 5-7: 5/9/81 (which aired in 2015) 5-14: 5/16/87 (which would be new) 5-21: 5/19/84 (which would be a FOURTH time airing, last done in 2019) In other words, some decidedly mixed results to say the least. Two guaranteed new charts with a chance of a third...but also one fourth-time play with a chance of a second. The best way to sum this up is with a sentiment that just escaped the decade.
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Post by laura on Mar 19, 2021 23:00:30 GMT -5
Next week it'll be all about 1983.
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Post by Michael1973 on Mar 20, 2021 21:10:25 GMT -5
It occurred to me that if they continue to simply rotate through the ten years in the same order, then we're in for a 4th helping of 8/6/88 and 10/15/88 later this year. All they had to do to avoid this was play either 1/23/88 or 1/30/88, which also would have put some distance after 12/19/87. There's no really good alternative to this either, because even if they hold off on 1988 an extra week somewhere along the line, that will just give us repeats from last year.
They sure love repeating those late 80s charts, don't they?
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Post by mkarns on Mar 20, 2021 21:19:31 GMT -5
As long as we don't get 8/26 or 10/28/89, or 1/7/89 next January, especially if it comes after a December 1988 chart, I don't care. And since we won't get 3/25/89 yet again this year (if we did it would be next week), an April 1989 show is fine with me.
Oh, and in September can we not get 9/12/87 or 9/19/81 (which incidentally was my 6th birthday), as that's a pair of shows that was repeated almost like clockwork for a few years.
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Post by laura on Mar 20, 2021 22:26:47 GMT -5
Pop2K has been avoiding 2005 and 2006 for like months now, and BITDR went several months without playing 1990 last year (which sucked because it's my birth year) so it wouldn't hurt them to go just a little bit longer without playing the later years after their next airings (1989's turn looks like it'll be either the next week or the week after, as long as they don't repeat last year). Maybe just waiting a few weeks more than usual for those years in particular?
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Post by Michael1973 on Mar 21, 2021 10:56:54 GMT -5
As long as we don't get 8/26 or 10/28/89, or 1/7/89 next January, especially if it comes after a December 1988 chart, I don't care. And since we won't get 3/25/89 yet again this year (if we did it would be next week), an April 1989 show is fine with me. Oh, and in September can we not get 9/12/87 or 9/19/81 (which incidentally was my 6th birthday), as that's a pair of shows that was repeated almost like clockwork for a few years. Interesting. I'm almost exactly two years older than you. My birthday is 9/17. Totally agree about September 1987 (the entire month, not just that one chart). We really need to get more charts from August.
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Post by Mike on Mar 21, 2021 13:17:53 GMT -5
As long as we don't get 8/26 or 10/28/89 You must have meant 8/19, as 8/26 has actually not been done.
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Post by laura on Mar 26, 2021 10:10:01 GMT -5
I wonder if next week we'll get either the first or the last year of the decade. If we do end of getting 1989 next week, we will be hearing yet another one-week wonder, Tiffany's "Radio Romance".
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Post by benster72 on Mar 26, 2021 11:26:40 GMT -5
I wonder if next week we'll get either the first or the last year of the decade. If we do end of getting 1989 next week, we will be hearing yet another one-week wonder, Tiffany's "Radio Romance". Thankful for Slammin' Sam and his Flashback 50 countdown every Thursday of 1989, where Tiffany's "Radio Romance" will not be a one-week wonder, but also probably not get anywhere close to #35, like it's Billboard peak.
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Post by laura on Mar 26, 2021 23:03:08 GMT -5
Next week it'll be all about 1980! Thankful for Slammin' Sam and his Flashback 50 countdown every Thursday of 1989, where Tiffany's "Radio Romance" will not be a one-week wonder, but also probably not get anywhere close to #35, like it's Billboard peak. It's definitely going to be on next week, and possibly even the one after that depending on how the songs that would chart below it would do, because it when up to 35 from 41 and then the next week it went back down to 41, so it can be a three-week wonder if the songs below it were at 42 or so on 4/8. Speaking of 4/8/89, hopefully the next week on the Big 40 will end this month-long dry spell of new charts.
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Post by Michael1973 on Mar 27, 2021 20:28:50 GMT -5
The chart run of Radio Romance was odd for sure, and then two years later a Celine Dion song also spent its one week in the top 40 at #35. In between a song by Snap went 40-35-off.
And yet, despite all this nothing ever went 35-40-off, which would have seemed even more bizarre.
Back to the topic at hand, it seems like they're back to playing the ten years in a set order over and over again. I guess the past year was just a fluke.
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