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Post by jgve1952 on Oct 7, 2023 5:06:12 GMT -5
The On Demand feature as of this writing has SIX shows--the brand new 82, and the previous five weeks of 83, 86, 81, 89 and 84. I am pretty sure that 84 will momentarily drop off.
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Post by jgve1952 on Oct 7, 2023 6:03:44 GMT -5
Two songs that spent 5 months in the countdown are on this show--"Hurt So Good" from 5-22-82 to 10-16-82, and "Gloria" from 9-4-82 to 1-29-83. Neither song reached #1, both peaking at #2.
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Post by Michael1973 on Oct 7, 2023 17:00:52 GMT -5
I don't have very high hopes for the next two weeks after 1985. In an ideal world, we'd get 10/18/80 followed by 10/29/88, which would both be new, but I know all too well how these guys operate.
First, if 1980 comes next they will certainly jump forward to 10/25 which aired last year. Second, they always go way out of their way to avoid playing new 1988 charts, which means we're far more likely to get a recent repeat of 10/22, followed in a few months by 1/9, which would repeat the only January chart ever featured.
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Post by jgve1952 on Oct 9, 2023 4:47:12 GMT -5
After the worst mishap IMO when 1988 was played twice in two weeks, the VJ Countdown did correct itself and for the next 10 weeks played all different weeks. But it is very remiss to repeat a show from one year ago, and that is just poor planning.
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Post by laura on Oct 9, 2023 9:54:00 GMT -5
I remember last year they planned on doing 1985 at the end of September and then for some stupid reason they changed their minds and went with 1981 instead, pushing 1985 to the week after where they did 10/12.
This won't be the first time they repeat a show from a year ago as they did 7/4/87 again earlier.
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Post by Michael1973 on Oct 9, 2023 10:31:13 GMT -5
After the worst mishap IMO when 1988 was played twice in two weeks, the VJ Countdown did correct itself and for the next 10 weeks played all different weeks. But it is very remiss to repeat a show from one year ago, and that is just poor planning. The best part is, it's not a "repeat show" but in fact a newly recorded show featuring the exact same songs in the same order. That's what makes it especially absurd to me.
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Post by mkarns on Oct 9, 2023 15:25:47 GMT -5
I don't have very high hopes for the next two weeks after 1985. In an ideal world, we'd get 10/18/80 followed by 10/29/88, which would both be new, but I know all too well how these guys operate. First, if 1980 comes next they will certainly jump forward to 10/25 which aired last year. Second, they always go way out of their way to avoid playing new 1988 charts, which means we're far more likely to get a recent repeat of 10/22, followed in a few months by 1/9, which would repeat the only January chart ever featured. That would at least be better than 12/24/88 (and 12/31) for the umptyth time, not to mention the similarly overplayed 1/7/89 with most of the same songs. January 1988 would be good so long as we don’t get December 1987 shortly before, rendering it redundant. Since we last heard 1987 in late August, I think late October or November would be a good time for the next 1987 countdown, quite possibly the last of the year.
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Post by jgve1952 on Oct 12, 2023 8:53:38 GMT -5
1988 should follow 1985, and that would allow another cycle of 10 different years to occur before the end of 2023.
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Post by laura on Oct 13, 2023 20:10:08 GMT -5
Good news: No repeat of last year. Bad news: They're duplicating next week's Premiere.
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Post by laura on Oct 13, 2023 23:01:20 GMT -5
Next week it'll be all about 1988.
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Post by jgve1952 on Oct 14, 2023 5:25:47 GMT -5
Let's just hope they don't do 1988 two weeks after next week!
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Post by laura on Oct 14, 2023 11:55:46 GMT -5
It's more than likely going to be 1980 next, but I wouldn't count 1987 out because of them doing 1983-1982 recently.
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Post by jgve1952 on Oct 15, 2023 8:24:46 GMT -5
Agreeing that 1980 would be in the order of dates they were currently going with. The date could be a "Halloween Special" as they would use 10-31-80 from the 11-1-80 chart.
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Post by laura on Oct 16, 2023 11:47:50 GMT -5
Agreeing that 1980 would be in the order of dates they were currently going with. The date could be a "Halloween Special" as they would use 10-31-80 from the 11-1-80 chart. That would make sense. Beats repeating last year.
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Post by jgve1952 on Oct 18, 2023 5:32:37 GMT -5
Very shocked this morning to see SEVEN episodes ON DEMAND. I remember when it was just two, so this is just SUPER!
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