Sirius XM 80s on 8's Big 40 Countdown

[laura]

Jun 23, 2022 17:41:14 GMT -5 Mike said:

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 changed that accordingly

[laura]

Next week it'll be all about 1987! More than likely 7/4 to fit with the weekend ahead. What I don't get though is why they waited less than 10 weeks again to play that year. This would mark the fourth time this year that it's featured. Thankfully it's not a repeat of 7/25. At this rate there is still a chance we could get an August 1987 show.

[jgve1952]

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!

[laura]

Jun 25, 2022 7:16:21 GMT -5 jgve1952 said:

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:

Jun 23, 2022 17:41:14 GMT -5 Mike said:

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.)

[jimjterrell4210]

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.

[jgve1952]

Jun 25, 2022 9:05:18 GMT -5 laura said:

Jun 25, 2022 7:16:21 GMT -5 jgve1952 said:

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:

Jun 23, 2022 17:41:14 GMT -5 Mike said:

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!

[mkarns]

Jun 25, 2022 14:56:30 GMT -5 jimjterrell4210 said:

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”.