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Post by laura on Aug 29, 2023 12:05:30 GMT -5
As skeptical as I am of any logical decisions coming our way, I am hoping for several things in the coming weeks: For 1984, they really need to play the closest chart to the calendar date instead of leaping ahead a week as they've been doing. Then, they need to *not* play 1986 the following week. Oh, who am I kidding? I'd bet money neither of these things happen. I've been doing this way too long... I can see them going with 9/1 to coincide with Labor Day weekend (even if they will say it's August 31st). Then if it is 1986 next week, then we can only hope they will go with 9/6.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Sept 1, 2023 22:54:42 GMT -5
Next week's Casey lite... won't repeat Premiere 1989!
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Post by laura on Sept 1, 2023 23:01:49 GMT -5
OK they're definitely experimenting with the year order now as 1989 gets another spin before 81, 82, or 86. At least we won't be risking getting 9/13/86 while Premiere airs it next weekend. But I'm not ready for butchered Tears For Fears and the weird version of Katrina and the Waves' other hit.
I wish they would have made special Labor Day bumpers for the show like they did for Memorial Day and the 4th of July though.
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Post by jimjterrell4210 on Sept 2, 2023 1:06:53 GMT -5
^^I'll tell you something we'd better get ready for next week: A "Lost Hit"/Treasure Chest recurrent at the very end of next week's Big 40 show.
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Post by jgve1952 on Sept 2, 2023 5:31:55 GMT -5
With the recent advancing of the show's dates, next week will likely be 9-12-89. Is that a frequent flyer for a show's date?
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Post by laura on Sept 2, 2023 9:18:14 GMT -5
With the recent advancing of the show's dates, next week will likely be 9-12-89. Is that a frequent flyer for a show's date? It will most likely be 9/9, which was last featured 10 years ago.
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Post by mkarns on Sept 2, 2023 9:42:04 GMT -5
9/12/89 was a Tuesday, so I guess they meant 9/16. While SXM has lately been willing to go ahead in terms of dates when the chart date falls in midweek, the 2023 and 1989 calendars are identical so it should be 9/9/89 (which was my first week of high school.)
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Post by jgve1952 on Sept 2, 2023 16:10:08 GMT -5
Thanks for the correction-you do stay on top of all this!
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Post by Michael1973 on Sept 5, 2023 9:48:31 GMT -5
The best option to follow 1989 would be 1982. Nothing from the second half of September has ever been played.
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Post by woolebull on Sept 5, 2023 21:38:27 GMT -5
9/12/89 was a Tuesday, so I guess they meant 9/16. While SXM has lately been willing to go ahead in terms of dates when the chart date falls in midweek, the 2023 and 1989 calendars are identical so it should be 9/9/89 (which was my first week of high school.) To add to date confusion...and I am not sure if someone has already answered this, but why do they give the incorrect dates for the chart being counted down? It seems like it is always the day before the actual chart date. Copyright issues? Because the first airing is on a Friday? Something else?
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Post by jgve1952 on Sept 6, 2023 3:52:18 GMT -5
Correct--every Saturday's date gets backed up a day to Friday, changing the date by one day. I think this started earlier this year. In a rare instance with a holiday, like Labor Day, they made last week's 1984 a "Labor Day" episode.
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Post by Mike on Sept 6, 2023 7:48:06 GMT -5
At least that was, at least, accurate - in instances when Labor Day is early enough (when it's either the 1st or 2nd of September), the "Labor Day weekend chart" ends up being not the first one of September, but instead the last one of August. This is the case with 1980, 1985, and 1986 - and in the present day, this dynamic will come up for the next two years, as 2024 is a leap year with that part of the calendar mimicking 85 (and, for that matter, is fully-identical to 1996), and 2025 is identical to 1986.
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Post by laura on Sept 6, 2023 17:05:52 GMT -5
For some reason, the 1980 show from two weeks ago hasn't been removed yet.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Sept 8, 2023 23:01:08 GMT -5
Next week's not AT40...1981!!
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Post by laura on Sept 8, 2023 23:12:26 GMT -5
Really hoping they'll go with the 12th, because we've had the week after how many times?
Also I'm hoping for 1986 followed by 1982 for the last Fridays of September.
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