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Post by jgve1952 on Jun 25, 2022 7:16:21 GMT -5
Looks like 1987 is repeated as much as 1983 was in 2021. Now comes the dreaded wait for the show on 7-8-22--it should be 1980 by all indications, but I just hope they move forward to 7-12-80 as they have a couple of times this year to avoid a repeat of the 7-5-80 show!
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Post by laura on Jun 25, 2022 9:05:18 GMT -5
Looks like 1987 is repeated as much as 1983 was in 2021. Now comes the dreaded wait for the show on 7-8-22--it should be 1980 by all indications, but I just hope they move forward to 7-12-80 as they have a couple of times this year to avoid a repeat of the 7-5-80 show! I suggest you read this: Quite frankly, the more that week gets mentioned the more I think it's going to get "Beetlejuiced" into happening. (For those who don't get the reference: Saying his name three times summons him. Apply that to 7/5/80, and if it gets said enough times - or just gets brought up AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN - that will force it into being so.)
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Post by jimjterrell4210 on Jun 25, 2022 14:56:30 GMT -5
Well... something like this just had to happen, I suppose, sometime this decade. I mentioned in January of 2021 that the June 23, 1984 Billboard Hot 100 panel (which the is this week) does not feature the number-one R&B-chart song or the number-one adult-contemporary-chart song for that week. "Lovelite", by O'Bryan (this week's Hot Black Singles number-one), would peak on the "Bubbling Under the Hot 100" chart at #101 the weeks of July 7 and 14 of 1984; and "Believe in Me", by Dan Fogelberg (this week's Adult Contemporary number-one), would exit the Pop Chart after June 23 after having reached #48 the week of May 25. Why an occurrence like that? Also, not helping matters for "Lovelite" was that its music video was one of the first R&B videos to be banned from MTV, because of extensive nudity.
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Post by jgve1952 on Jun 25, 2022 15:39:27 GMT -5
Looks like 1987 is repeated as much as 1983 was in 2021. Now comes the dreaded wait for the show on 7-8-22--it should be 1980 by all indications, but I just hope they move forward to 7-12-80 as they have a couple of times this year to avoid a repeat of the 7-5-80 show! I suggest you read this: Quite frankly, the more that week gets mentioned the more I think it's going to get "Beetlejuiced" into happening. (For those who don't get the reference: Saying his name three times summons him. Apply that to 7/5/80, and if it gets said enough times - or just gets brought up AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN - that will force it into being so.) I am remaining optimistic that it will be 7-12-80, if 1980 is scheduleded for 7-8-22. This may be why 1987 was placed for 7-1-22 so that they could in fact go with 7-12-80 on 7-8-22. Now after all this, watch it not even be 1980!
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Post by mkarns on Jun 25, 2022 15:49:41 GMT -5
Well... something like this just had to happen, I suppose, sometime this decade. I mentioned in January of 2021 that the June 23, 1984 Billboard Hot 100 panel (which the is this week) does not feature the number-one R&B-chart song or the number-one adult-contemporary-chart song for that week. "Lovelite", by O'Bryan (this week's Hot Black Singles number-one), would peak on the "Bubbling Under the Hot 100" chart at #101 the weeks of July 7 and 14 of 1984; and "Believe in Me", by Dan Fogelberg (this week's Adult Contemporary number-one), would exit the Pop Chart after June 23 after having reached #48 the week of May 25. Why an occurrence like that? Also, not helping matters for "Lovelite" was that its music video was one of the first R&B videos to be banned from MTV, because of extensive nudity. Not sure why “Lovelite” didn’t cross over to the Hot 100, but it’s worth mentioning that MTV hardly played R&B videos at all until “Billie Jean”. “Believe In Me” was a ballad similar to those that Fogelberg had pop hiis with a few years earlier, but by 1984 pop radio was increasingly shunning. He did have a hit that year by rocking out in “The Language of Love”.
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Post by mkarns on Jun 27, 2022 13:04:26 GMT -5
Looks like 1987 is repeated as much as 1983 was in 2021. Now comes the dreaded wait for the show on 7-8-22--it should be 1980 by all indications, but I just hope they move forward to 7-12-80 as they have a couple of times this year to avoid a repeat of the 7-5-80 show! Though if 7/12/80 were played the weekend of July 8-10, it would have the extra demerit of being the same as Premiere's Casey entry for the weekend. So they could backdate it to keep it different...to 7/5/80 (when Casey hosted the Book of Records special but no regular AT40.) Or, better yet, they could wait on 1980 for another week or two. We're about (past?) due for 1988, for one thing.
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Post by Mike on Jun 27, 2022 15:05:23 GMT -5
With 1987 going this coming weekend, that pushes 88 into being overdue (88 going instead of 87 would have been right on schedule), and pushes a monkey wrench into the works, if they steer away from doing 87 and 88 consecutively. 88 going after 87 wouldn't be so bad (7/9 has been done, but only once, in 2014), but something like 87-80-88 would be much less preferable, as that would land on 7/16/88, which would be the third time for that one (the second being just three years ago).
Unfortunately, I wouldn't be surprised if 87-80-88 is how it goes.
(Sidebar: In pushing 88 to being overdue, they also missed the opportunity to do consecutive record-breaking 88 charts, as 4/23 had Whitney hitting #1 for her 7th time in a row, and 7/2 has MJ scoring the 5th #1 off Bad.)
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Post by Michael1973 on Jun 27, 2022 21:46:36 GMT -5
7/4/87 was previously played in 2015, so not too bad as far as repeats go. Since August looks unlikely now (gee, what a shocker!), I hope they at least wait until the second half of September before returning to '87.
And I suppose it's too much to hope that 1988 holds off until 7/23/88. Anything else in later July would be a three-time repeat.
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Post by mkarns on Jun 27, 2022 21:56:04 GMT -5
I'd like the next four weeks to be 87-85-80-88. This would avoid either playing 7/5/80 yet again or duplicating Casey with 7/12, and would give us 7/23/88 instead of one of the more replayed weeks from that month.
1985 is the year other than 1980 or 88 that hasn't been played in the longest; doing so the second weekend in July would likely mean 7/6/85. I don't know how long it's been since SXM last played that show, but I do know Premiere's never played that AT40 due to guest hosting.
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Post by laura on Jun 27, 2022 23:59:19 GMT -5
I also had 1985 down as a decent option for next week. I don't remember the last time that was featured but it's probably been a while since that particular month got any attention thanks to them lollygagging around mid to late-June over the past few years.
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Post by Mike on Jun 28, 2022 9:36:27 GMT -5
7/6 would be fine - it's been done, but only in 2012.
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Post by laura on Jun 28, 2022 22:15:44 GMT -5
It looks like for July 4th they're doing a Kenny Loggins Artist Confidential in honor of his new memoir. He has popped up quite a bit on Sirius XM in general as he recently did a concert with Christopher Cross on board a yacht that aired on their Yacht Rock Radio channel and hosted a show on The Bridge this past weekend. I'd much rather that than them playing those blocks of songs every hour like they did last year.
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Post by Mike on Jun 28, 2022 23:39:54 GMT -5
Is that just on the 4th itself, or is the idea that that would supplant 1987 over the course of the next week?
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Post by laura on Jun 29, 2022 0:07:53 GMT -5
Is that just on the 4th itself, or is the idea that that would supplant 1987 over the course of the next week? I meant the whole July 4th weekend. They have the schedule up and it appears not to get in the way of any of the Big 40 airings. Speaking of which I wouldn't be surprised if they'll have an extra airing or two of the countdown on July 4th or even Friday morning.
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Post by Michael1973 on Jun 29, 2022 9:12:28 GMT -5
I forgot to point out that this past weekend saw another song appear on the Big 40 for the first time ever -- Obscene Phone Caller.
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