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Post by mkarns on Aug 13, 2022 0:40:04 GMT -5
At least we won't get any of the over-repeated September 1981 or 1987 charts. The two years that stick out as currently in "drought" status are 1982, last played the first weekend of June, and 1985, last played the first weekend of May. We've heard 1981, 83, 86, and 89 twice and (unless they change next week's show) 1987 three times since they last did 1985. 1985 was done in the middle of July (7/13/83 to be exact). Indeed 1982 is stuck in the drought position again, though next quite as bad as the last. It could be featured the week after (and it will be new I think). Even though I'm glad August 1987 is getting attention, this is the FIFTH time 1987 has been done this year. Meanwhile 1982 and 1984 have only been done TWICE. I don't get the 1987 favoritism, you know? I was looking at the wrong list of dates for the third weekend in July; I got this show mixed up with Premiere's AT40, which did 7/12/86 that week. Which leads me to say that 1986 ranks just behind 1982 in the Big 40 "drought" category; 1981 and 1987 have both been played twice since SXM last did 1982 or 1986. And 1984 isn't far behind, though not playing it next weekend is fine as we get a 1984 Casey show then.
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Post by laura on Aug 13, 2022 14:47:32 GMT -5
I think 1982 followed by 1986 would be a great route too. I do say the chart selection has improved quite a bit over the past couple of months. The first half of the year was rather rough.
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Post by Michael1973 on Aug 13, 2022 17:10:15 GMT -5
I'm thrilled to be seeing August 1987 on the agenda, given how many times they've gone out of their way to avoid it.
On the other hand, we seem to be back to having the VJs and Premiere play the same years right on top of each other. We had consecutive 1983 charts in late July, and we just got 1981-1987 in consecutive weeks from Casey. At least that's likely to stop after next week, given Premiere's 1980 overdose.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 19, 2022 22:56:38 GMT -5
Next week's not AT40...1984
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Post by laura on Aug 19, 2022 23:04:42 GMT -5
Thus the 1982 drought continues. 1986 as well but off by one week. At least with 1984 being done now, hopefully that means there's a good chance that it'll pop back up in early November.
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Post by Mike on Aug 20, 2022 0:12:11 GMT -5
On the other hand, we seem to be back to having the VJs and Premiere play the same years right on top of each other. We had consecutive 1983 charts in late July, and we just got 1981-1987 in consecutive weeks from Casey. At least that's likely to stop after next week, given Premiere's 1980 overdose. Guess what? We're both wrong. Blegh. With a perfectly good path right in front of them, they do what they do best and **** it all up. The next two weeks for 1982 consist of 9/4 (done in 2017) and 9/11 (done twice, second time in 2020) - so expect either of those to go. The one silver lining is that there'd still be room for 9/6/86 (not yet done) to drop in there.
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Post by laura on Aug 20, 2022 13:58:51 GMT -5
At least if 1986 were to be done the next week, it will be new regardless of which date will be chosen. Has anyone figured out why there have been such long gaps between 1982 shows this year? Does it have to do with them playing 1987 so much?
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Post by jgve1952 on Aug 20, 2022 15:15:56 GMT -5
Is it possibly to avoid play Do I Do which is like a 9 minute plus song (don't know why they can't do the standard single)?
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Post by Mike on Aug 20, 2022 15:29:19 GMT -5
There may, possibly have been a switch somewhere - and then they just forgot to account for putting 1982 back in sooner. The gap between the first two 1987 shows this year was 11 weeks, from 1/10 to 3/28. The gap between the last 1982 of last year (in December) and the first one of this year was 10 weeks, from 12/11 to 2/20. Here's where it gets weird. 10 weeks forward from when 2/20/82 was done, should have landed on the week that 4/26/80 was done. With 5/16/87 only two weeks after that, it's quite possible that 1982 was originally supposed to go there instead. (That would have been 5/15, a week only done once before, in 2013.) But then, get this: Go 10 weeks forward from 3/28/87...and we land on when 1982 finally did come back, for 6/5. Going forward from 5/16/87 doesn't explain anything, however, as 10 weeks from that lands on the week 7/23/88 was done. 11 weeks forward from 6/5/82, lands on this week's 8/22/87. Let's go back to 4/26/80. 9 weeks forward from that, lands on the week 7/4/87 was done. If we go 10 weeks forward from then, that will put us on the second week of September. So maybe, there was a switch done somewhere (probably April/May), and the result is there's been two sets of year-tracks that have been more-or-less twisting around each other. Or maybe none of this means anything, I don't really know. I only know that to even try and boil this down into something that makes half-sense...this is all I've got.
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Post by Mike on Aug 20, 2022 15:36:07 GMT -5
Is it possibly to avoid play Do I Do which is like a 9 minute plus song (don't know why they can't do the standard single)? They have only managed to do that twice - this year and last. And last year, they did 6/12 and 8/21/82 - the week before it hit the Top 40, and the week it fell out. Those two are also 10 weeks apart. Last year almost certainly comes down to their choice of weeks aligned perfectly by chance. This year, they're going light on 1982 altogether - that song wouldn't account for the long gap between 2/20 and 6/5. But my standard answer for when anyone opines that, "oh, they're doing this to avoid X" - NO! Why do people here insist that these show providers are putting that much thought into avoiding random songs? Geez Louise.
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Post by laura on Aug 20, 2022 16:00:19 GMT -5
Wasn't 1982 featured six times last year? Maybe that has to do with it? The reasoning is pretty dumb if you look at it but it's possible.
I'm thinking September will be a mix of 80-82-85-86-88 (of course not in that order). I don't know how many chances we could get new charts from that bunch of years but I know September 1980 has been done a lot.
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Post by Michael1973 on Aug 20, 2022 21:38:38 GMT -5
So not only do we continue with the pattern of "years recently played by Premiere," we also avoid September 1984 yet again. I guess the pain of playing August 1987 was too much to bear. September 1984 continues to join January and June 1988 as one of the least featured months ever on this show.
Since we're getting 1985 from Premiere next week, that either means the VJs will either play 1985 over Labor Day or the exact same year as whatever Premier is playing that weekend.
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Post by laura on Aug 20, 2022 21:56:15 GMT -5
Since we're getting 1985 from Premiere next week, that either means the VJs will either play 1985 over Labor Day or the exact same year as whatever Premier is playing that weekend. I don't think they will because of them doing 1984 next week and they rarely do consecutive years.
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Post by Mike on Aug 21, 2022 1:06:48 GMT -5
I'm thinking September will be a mix of 80-82-85-86-88 (of course not in that order). I don't know how many chances we could get new charts from that bunch of years but I know September 1980 has been done a lot. September 80: Zero (month was exhausted in 2018) September 82: Technically two, but probably zero (at this point, by-passing both 9/4 AND 9/11 - the two already done - would be completely out there) September 85: Two (9/7 and 9/28 - your guess is as good as mine as to whether a curveball 9/7 or patiently-awaited 9/28 is more likely) September 86: One (but it may be the best chance of any, as it's 9/6) September 88: One (but probably zero, as it's 9/10, which isn't likely unless 88 really cuts in front of the line) I don't think they will because of them doing 1984 next week and they rarely do consecutive years. Plus also, even though Premiere's doing 8/31, 9/7 wouldn't be likely here until the week after Labor Day. (85 over Labor Day weekend would likely mean duplicating 8/31.) So at best, it'd be 84-X-85...unless X is 86, in which case 85 would still have the consecutive years problem.
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Post by Mike on Aug 21, 2022 1:29:25 GMT -5
September 1984 continues to join January and June 1988 as one of the least featured months ever on this show. March 1980: One (2017) August 1980: One (2015) October 1980: One (2016) 1981 actually has a pretty good spread - all but one month have between three and five playings. The outlier is the perhaps overplayed August, which notched its seventh last week (albeit with a week that was getting its first play). And 1982, despite its relative dearth of playings this year, has between three and six playings for every single month. (With one of the 3s, September, likely to get its 4th.) 1983 is like a heftier version of 81-82, where the year spans from three to eight playings depending on month. (3: January, February, April, September; 8: March) January 1984: Two (and not since 2018) April 1984: One (2020) September 1984: Two (and not since 2015) November 1984: Two (ditto) December 1985: Two (and not since 2016) (Unless you count the two playings of the frozen 12/28 chart, both of which were done on the first weeks of 2013 and 2014) February 1986: Two (second was last year) November 1986: Two (and not since 2017 - though if we get 9/6, odds of #3 go up dramatically) February 1987: Two (and not since 2013! ) August 1987: Two (this week being the second) January 1988: One (last year) June 1988: Two (second was last year) November 1988: Two (ditto) May 1989: Two (second was 5/27) July 1989: Two (second was in 2020) December 1989: Two (second was last year - though they might be trending to get #3 this year) On the opposite end, 8 is the most for any month, and there's a big tie for that right now: April 1980 (8th was 4/26, and the month was exhausted in 2020) July 1980 (8th was 7/12, and the month was exhausted in 2017) September 1980 (which means if we do get this month, this will take the Overplayed Crown all to itself with #9) March 1983 (8th was 3/19, and the month was exhausted in 2017) March 1984 (8th was 3/31, while 3/24 STILL hasn't been done) January 1987 (8th was 1/10, albeit that was new - which exhausted the month of "active" charts, as the only week remaining is the frozen 1/3) June 1989 (8th was last year, the month was exhausted in 2019)
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