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Post by mkarns on Dec 23, 2023 1:13:02 GMT -5
Can't wait to get what'll essentially be a repeat of 12/24 last year followed by a repeat of 1/5/80 to kick off the new year. At least we don't get a Casey countdown matching either of those, though this week's 12/22/79 Premiere show comes close. It would have been nice to hold off on 1988 for a couple more weeks. SXM rarely if ever has played January 1988, and it wouldn't have closely followed a late 1987 show (1987 was last played in early November.)
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Post by laura on Dec 23, 2023 11:42:23 GMT -5
It's either that or 1988 is actually going to be two weeks from now with that New Years #1s special being played next week instead.
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Post by mkarns on Dec 23, 2023 12:48:45 GMT -5
It's either that or 1988 is actually going to be two weeks from now with that New Years #1s special being played next week instead. If so I'd prefer the latter, as that would kick 1988 into January (January 9, 1988 would most likely be featured the weekend of Jan. 5-7), rather than hearing December 24-31, 1988 for seemingly the umpteenth time, even though that's from a period not covered by Premiere's AT40s. It is also possible that we don't get 1988 at all, as it could be superseded by a special next weekend, with some other year chosen for the first weekend of 2024.
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Post by Michael1973 on Dec 23, 2023 17:43:11 GMT -5
This week's chart (12/28/85) was last featured by the VJs in January 2014 in perhaps the most boneheaded incident in the show's history. I presume most of you remember what I'm talking about.
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Post by Michael1973 on Dec 27, 2023 11:57:48 GMT -5
The biggest problem this countdown has going for it is the stubborn adherence to the ten-year rotation (with only rare exceptions). With 52 weeks in a year, and at least one of them devoted to a "special" countdown, that causes the individual years to pop up during the same time frame over and over. Then you get a mishap like playing 1988 twice in three weeks and you end up with tons of repeats from last year.
It's a shame these shows are programmed by corporate radio people instead of die hard music chart fans. I'd bet anyone on this forum would do a better job with the scheduling and I, for one, would do it for free.
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Post by laura on Dec 27, 2023 13:16:19 GMT -5
Turns out we are going to have a regular Big 40 this week and the New Years #1s special will air on New Year's Eve. I'm hoping they do something crazy like go with the 1/2/88 frozen chart (12/26/87) because you know if that happens they'll say 1/1/88, but knowing them that probably won't happen and we'll essentially have yet another repeat of last year under a different date.
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Post by jgve1952 on Dec 27, 2023 18:14:15 GMT -5
I think they are going with the "frozen" chart of 12-31-88, which is a duplicate of the 12-24-88 chart. It should be their "New Year's" edition.
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Post by laura on Dec 29, 2023 21:04:55 GMT -5
I think they are going with the "frozen" chart of 12-31-88, which is a duplicate of the 12-24-88 chart. It should be their "New Year's" edition. Why did you have to say it? Great, they're going to say every song is holding its position, aren't they?
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Post by mjl677 on Dec 29, 2023 21:11:04 GMT -5
No complaints from me. I loved the music from late December of 1988. I would much rather listen to this than a year end countdown from any year.
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Post by laura on Dec 30, 2023 0:01:29 GMT -5
Next week it'll be all about yet another repeat of last year (as in 2023, which is weird because it's not done yet), 1980. I really hoped they would shake things up a bit but nope.
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Post by jgve1952 on Dec 30, 2023 6:03:38 GMT -5
Mkarns got his wish!
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Post by laura on Dec 30, 2023 10:08:36 GMT -5
At least if they continue with the usual year order, after next week, there won't be any repeats from last year through the rest of January.
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Post by jgve1952 on Dec 30, 2023 17:28:29 GMT -5
1987 after 1980--great choice, since it's been several weeks by then since 1986 was played. After that 1984, great again, since 1983 also played weeks ago. 1989 after that--can't win them all, but four weeks after this week's 1988 isn't the worse we've ever seen.
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Post by jgve1952 on Dec 30, 2023 17:54:53 GMT -5
This week's chart (12/28/85) was last featured by the VJs in January 2014 in perhaps the most boneheaded incident in the show's history. I presume most of you remember what I'm talking about. Worse than 1988 being played twice in a two week period earlier this year?
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Post by mkarns on Dec 30, 2023 18:22:08 GMT -5
This week's chart (12/28/85) was last featured by the VJs in January 2014 in perhaps the most boneheaded incident in the show's history. I presume most of you remember what I'm talking about. Worse than 1988 being played twice in a two week period earlier this year? At least there was a week between the two countdowns with most of the same songs (though we got 1988 from Casey during that week.) The blunder of ten years ago was playing December 1985 and January 1986 in back to back weeks. I don’t know if it was my “wish” to get January 1980 again the first weekend of 2024, but I don’t mind it especially as we don’t get that week from Premiere (which did however play a similar December 1979 AT40 last week.) What would be neat is if January 1980 is the first show of the year, the last is from December 1989.
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