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Post by laura on Apr 23, 2022 0:41:14 GMT -5
Well I got 3 out of the 5 charts for this month right (or 3.5 because I got the year right for one of them at least). Here is what I'm hoping for May.
5/6: 5/8/82 (A new chart. Fingers crossed that it actually happens.) 5/13: 5/13/89 (Another chart that hasn't been done) 5/20: 5/18/85 (Another 2017 repeat but at least there's a good chance of us getting a May 85 chart regardless.) 5/27: 5/28/83 (Yet another date they hadn't touched yet.)
I could also see them switching 89 and 82 around. The first would still be new (5/6) but I don't remember the last time 5/15/82 was done. Same could be said if they were to switch 85 and 83, making 5/25/85 a new chart date. There's also the chance of a Memorial Day special though, unless they relegate it to On Demand only like that Women's History Month countdown.
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Post by mkarns on Apr 23, 2022 0:45:39 GMT -5
There's also the chance of a Memorial Day special though, unless they relegate it to On Demand only like that Women's History Month countdown. Let's just hope that they don't do 5/27/89 that weekend yet again. And in a roughly 10 week rotation there is the chance that 4/26/80 next week means that the next we hear of that year is....7/5/80 for the umpteenth time. (At least there's no regular AT40 for that date.)
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Post by Mike on Apr 23, 2022 8:36:10 GMT -5
When was the last time they did May 8 or 15, 1982? Because that year's due and those shows would fit the first two complete weekends of May (with April 29-May 1 being taken up with 1980.) 5/15/82 was done in 2013, and not since. Let's just hope that they don't do 5/27/89 that weekend yet again. Er...I don't have that one as having been done? 6/3 has, twice - actually all of June 89 have been done twice. But 5/27? Not at all. (The only May so far is 5/20, which was done in 2015.)
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Post by mkarns on Apr 23, 2022 10:26:00 GMT -5
Maybe I got my 1989's mixed up. In any case, 1/7, 3/25, 8/19, and 10/28/89 are in the all-time overplayed club. At least we managed to avoid the first two this year.
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Post by Mike on Apr 23, 2022 11:15:07 GMT -5
I only have 10/28 as going twice (2016 & 17) - the other three are all three or more (four for 3/25).
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Post by mkarns on Apr 25, 2022 20:36:37 GMT -5
And it should be 1980 this time. I really hope that May has less dates that have been done over the past five years. When was the last time they did May 8 or 15, 1982? Because that year's due and those shows would fit the first two complete weekends of May (with April 29-May 1 being taken up with 1980.) At least they didn't do 1982 this week which would have duplicated Casey, but it's interesting to note that the last few weeks we've one service play 1988 with the other following and, before that, 1981/86 with SXM doing one year and Premiere the other, and the two services switching years the following week. So I wouldn't be surprised to see Premiere play May 3 or 10, 1980 on May 7-8. And surely as night follows day, or day follows night, Premiere will follow 1988 with 1980, in each case one week after SXM does the same year. (Though Premiere's 1980 show will be from 5/10/80, which is two weeks after SXM's likely presentation.) This pattern of each service being one week ahead or behind the other, which we've seen for most of the last month, should be broken soon. A SXM 1989 countdown would obviously do that, as would 1982 which Premiere featured this past weekend, and both years are nearly due.
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Post by jimjterrell4210 on Apr 29, 2022 14:27:04 GMT -5
Have either of the Hot 100 panels that featured The Isley Brothers' "Don't Say Goodnight (It's Time for Love)" (at #39 for both the weeks of May 24 and 31 of 1980) ever been counted down on the VJ Big 40? The week of the next VJ Big 40 (April 26 of 1980) was the second of four weeks at #1 on the Hot Soul chart for "Don't Say Goodnight", but it obviously will not be around on the show because it was at #66 that week.
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Post by Mike on Apr 29, 2022 17:26:59 GMT -5
They have not. In fact, the stretch of May 17-June 14 is currently the biggest "blackout period" remaining of the entire decade - none of those weeks have been done. (That dubious distinction used to belong to the end of 1987 and first month of 1988, until both 12/19/87 and 1/9/88 were done in 2020-21, which leaves a four-week stretch of 1/16-2/6 undone, among big stretches. In contrast, nothing from this late Spring 1980 period has been done since 2017, when 5/10 shrank the drought a little.)
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Post by mkarns on Apr 29, 2022 18:50:34 GMT -5
They have not. In fact, the stretch of May 17-June 14 is currently the biggest "blackout period" remaining of the entire decade - none of those weeks have been done. (That dubious distinction used to belong to the end of 1987 and first month of 1988, until both 12/19/87 and 1/9/88 were done in 2020-21, which leaves a four-week stretch of 1/16-2/6 undone, among big stretches. In contrast, nothing from this late Spring 1980 period has been done since 2017, when 5/10 shrank the drought a little.) Which means one of my favourite lower charting songs, Spider's "New Romance", has never been played. It was at #39 for the weeks of June 7 and 14, 1980. (I think it might have been a bigger hit a couple of years later.) For either that or the Isleys' song to appear this year they'd have to revisit 1980 no more than seven weeks from now. OTOH, time and again they've aired the one top 40 chart (July 5) with Alice Cooper's "Clones (We're All)", which was never played on AT40 as Casey hosted the Book of Records special that week.
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Post by laura on Apr 29, 2022 21:59:23 GMT -5
WHY did they have to pull out that weird long version of "Hold On To My Love"?
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Post by laura on Apr 29, 2022 22:48:50 GMT -5
Next week it'll be all about...1985? Looks like they skipped over a couple years but 5/4 will be a new chart at least.
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Post by Mike on Apr 29, 2022 22:58:49 GMT -5
From there, it should be 1989 and 1982, in that order - not as big a deal if 1982 instead goes next and repeats, but it would be a big deal if 1989 did, as that would land on the one May chart that's already been done (5/20).
Whereas, 1985-1989-1982 would yield three new charts in a row.
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Post by laura on Apr 30, 2022 15:50:23 GMT -5
This would also make 1985 the first year to be featured three times in 2022, with still three years that have been done just once so far, though one of them was just first played a month ago.
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Post by Michael1973 on Apr 30, 2022 21:28:34 GMT -5
Some good news with 1985, as not only is 5/4 new but the entire month has been seriously underplayed. In eleven years, this will only be the third time we've heard any chart from that month.
That's compared to April 1980 which has now been played eight times during the same span, with March only having one of its five charts featured.
Agree with Mike that we need 1989 to come next, not only to avoid a repeat but because if that year waits much longer, we can probably say bye-bye to July 1989 yet again.
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Post by Mike on Apr 30, 2022 21:41:36 GMT -5
Some good news with 1985, as not only is 5/4 new but the entire month has been seriously underplayed. In eleven years, this will only be the third time we've heard any chart from that month. The interesting thing there is, of the three, not one was a re-play. Actually, between 2/16 and 5/18, of the charts that have been played, just one has been repeated - 4/13, which of course is in the Four Times Played Club. (And only 3/16 and 3/30 have not been done in that stretch.)
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