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Post by Michael1973 on Sept 4, 2021 21:25:46 GMT -5
Look Out Any Window this week becomes the latest song to be played on the Big 40 for the first time ever.
Happy to see 1986 is coming next. I agree that it's likely to be 9/13 (a chart whose AT40 show was significant in my listening history).
It almost seems like whoever was picking the shows between spring and fall 2020 is back in business.
Meanwhile, as noted above, 1990 comes up on the 90s countdown for the first time since May and -- you guessed it -- it's a repeat from two years ago.
However, it was nice to get a regular chart over a holiday weekend. That's fairly rare for the 90s show.
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Post by Michael1973 on Sept 5, 2021 17:17:34 GMT -5
Another benefit to getting 1986 next week is that we won't get 1980 from the VJs and Premiere the same week.
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Post by mkarns on Sept 10, 2021 20:03:52 GMT -5
This week's show is actually September 13, 1986.
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Post by laura on Sept 10, 2021 20:12:18 GMT -5
I just found out that the 90s will finally be doing 1994 for the first time in months. I'm hoping they don't wait as long to play it again. Or 1990 at that matter.
Also is this the first time that "Velcro Fly" has been played?
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Post by Mike on Sept 10, 2021 21:07:50 GMT -5
Also is this the first time that "Velcro Fly" has been played? It is indeed.
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Post by laura on Sept 10, 2021 23:13:06 GMT -5
Three hours+, is this show ever gonna end? You should have heard last week's. It must have clocked out at nearly 3:10 (which you can blame a couple songs being well over 5 minutes long). This one didn't feel quite as long. Next week's shouldn't be too bad, considering it's 1980.
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Post by Mike on Sept 10, 2021 23:42:35 GMT -5
1980 has the same calendar considerations as 1986 at this point of the year, but since 86 was 9/13, 80 should be 9/20.
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Post by jgve1952 on Sept 11, 2021 13:05:41 GMT -5
Three hours+, is this show ever gonna end? You should have heard last week's. It must have clocked out at nearly 3:10 (which you can blame a couple songs being well over 5 minutes long). This one didn't feel quite as long. Next week's shouldn't be too bad, considering it's 1980. The late 80's tend to be over 3 hours, pretty much 1987 to 1989. Today's show was 2:58.
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Post by laura on Sept 11, 2021 13:35:48 GMT -5
You should have heard last week's. It must have clocked out at nearly 3:10 (which you can blame a couple songs being well over 5 minutes long). This one didn't feel quite as long. Next week's shouldn't be too bad, considering it's 1980. The late 80's tend to be over 3 hours, pretty much 1987 to 1989. Today's show was 2:58. That seems reasonable. Then we have the early 80s shows that typically run a bit shorter than 3 hours because songs tended to be shorter around that time it looks like.
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Post by Michael1973 on Sept 11, 2021 14:56:47 GMT -5
Both the 80s and 90s shows are new charts this week. The 1986 show breaks up a cluster of three previously unplayed charts, while the 1994 show marks only the third time in ten years that any September 1994 chart has been featured. (Meanwhile, 10/8/94 has been played four times.)
After 1980, the year with the longest gap is 1983. Playing that next would give us a repeat from 2018, but I'll accept that given the next best option would be yet another show from September 1987 and nobody wants that.
This week's 1986 show features a chart that is significant in my radio listening history. The AT40 show featuring that chart was the last time my local station aired the show before changing formats a few weeks later. I wouldn't hear Casey's voice on the radio for nearly a year and wouldn't resume being a regular AT40 listener until the last weeks of 1987.
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Post by laura on Sept 12, 2021 12:08:11 GMT -5
If 1983 is next, then that would be funny for me because last time it played I went to a wedding that weekend and I will just so happen to be going to another wedding next weekend.
On another note, are there any more songs that have never been played on the Big 40 before, considering we have had two weeks in a row where we had a song was featured only for the first time?
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Post by jgve1952 on Sept 12, 2021 15:42:19 GMT -5
1983 would play for the fifth time in 2021. Most likely it would play one more time this year for a total of 6 times! There are 51 Fridays in 2021 not counting 12-31 (which could be a New Year's Special). If you take away a 6th play for 1983, that would leave 45 weeks, and if you divide that by the 9 remaining years, each year would be played five times.
Here are the remaining Fridays after next Friday, 9-17-21: 9-24, 10-1, 10-8, 10-15, 10-22, 10-29, 11-5, 11-12, 11-19, 11-26, 12-3, 12-10, 12-17 ad 12-24. (New Year's Special 12-31?)
Since they do Billboard Charts anyway, I just don't know why they can't do a particular Top 40 Of The Year episode for New Years Weekend (hopefully one that AT 40 the 80's wouldn't do that same weekend.
Comments and criticism welcome!
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Post by laura on Sept 12, 2021 16:24:25 GMT -5
Two years ago they played the top 100 of every year in the 80s, so I don't know if they will do something like choosing a particular year end chart to use.
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Post by jgve1952 on Sept 12, 2021 18:04:48 GMT -5
I do remember that and it was an extended play of several days. Very enjoyable, but many people on here might object to an encore.
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Post by Michael1973 on Sept 12, 2021 20:37:47 GMT -5
On another note, are there any more songs that have never been played on the Big 40 before, considering we have had two weeks in a row where we had a song was featured only for the first time? I can think of one, and it's on target to be featured later this year if they stay on track. The song is Downtown Life by Hall & Oates. There may be others.
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