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Post by mkarns on Sept 30, 2024 14:19:39 GMT -5
1984 should be next, and if 1982 follows 1984 the following week, then all ten different years will be played without a repeat. This would be the order for the last eight weeks: 89,80,86,83,88,85,87(this Friday). Can we be that lucky? I'd strongly advocate for switching those two years, and going with 1982 first. Otherwise, we will get heavily-repeated charts in both cases. (Also, 1984 seems like a probable choice for Premiere that weekend so there'd be another overlap.) Premiere has 10/13/84 scheduled for the second weekend in October, so 1982 or some other year not played in a while by SXM (like 1980, 86, or 89, all last played in August) would be preferable. |
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Post by jimjterrell4210 on Oct 1, 2024 12:48:44 GMT -5
Here is something worth noticing: The main intro for the VJ Big 40 Countdown has been dropped in favor of the in-show bumper that says "The Big 40 on the Big 80s. It's 198X....".
I apologize to this forum for not being active in terms of regularly listening to the Big 40 Countdown simply because of the disappearance of that skip-to-the-desired-segment function from the SXM App.
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Post by laura on Oct 1, 2024 14:58:40 GMT -5
Actually it's only for the On Demand versions of the shows. When it airs regularly, it plays the usual intro.
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Post by laura on Oct 4, 2024 21:16:42 GMT -5
They finally played the correct version of "Say Goodbye To Hollywood" today. Will they do the same for "Mony Mony" next week? I guess not. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 4, 2024 23:03:16 GMT -5
Next week's not AT40, 1982
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Post by laura on Oct 4, 2024 23:13:07 GMT -5
And they're repeating last year. Great.
Meanwhile the 90s have been using all new charts. This is kinda embarrassing.
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Post by jgve1952 on Oct 5, 2024 5:03:47 GMT -5
I think we have concluded that they don't care.
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Post by jblues on Oct 5, 2024 11:18:19 GMT -5
And they're repeating last year. Great. Meanwhile the 90s have been using all new charts. This is kinda embarrassing. Someone woke DTJB up---at least for a while --- lol! |
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Post by jgve1952 on Oct 5, 2024 15:30:12 GMT -5
Here are some of the absolute nonsensical things I have observed in my nine years of listening to the VJ Countdown:
1-7-89 was played three consecutive years: 2015, 2016 and 2017.
1989 was played twice in March 2016
1988 was played two weeks apart last year
One of the worst: lack of 1984 shows from August 2016 until February 2017.
Many of the years as one year transitioned into the next, repeats of many of the songs heard just a few weeks before.
If I missed any outlandish programming of the years selected for play, please feel free to amend.
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Post by jgve1952 on Oct 5, 2024 17:42:31 GMT -5
7-4-87 also played three years in a row IIRC--2022, 2023, 2024
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Post by laura on Oct 5, 2024 19:26:55 GMT -5
I wonder if they'll go with 10/16/82 next week instead of the 9th. They haven't done that sort of thing in a while.
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Post by mkarns on Oct 5, 2024 19:46:52 GMT -5
7-4-87 also played three years in a row IIRC--2022, 2023, 2024 And this weekend was the first time they did 1987 in the three months since. But that's a month less than it's been since 90s on 9 last played 1991 (the first weekend of June.) This week's show from them was from 1995--a good musical year IMO, but one that's been done a lot lately. |
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Post by Michael1973 on Oct 5, 2024 21:13:47 GMT -5
And they're repeating last year. Great. I'm not happy about that either, but I'd have been more annoyed with 1984, which would have been a fifth-time repeat *and* a copy of Premiere. If I missed any outlandish programming of the years selected for play, please feel free to amend. There was another instance, years earlier, where they played two 1988 shows really close together. I think one was from April and one from May. I remember someone from SiriusXM chalked it up to a "clerical error." Also, don't forget when they played a late December 1985 countdown in January, followed by the very next week's chart. They justified that by insisting it was two different years. |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Oct 6, 2024 4:49:22 GMT -5
Also, don't forget when they played a late December 1985 countdown in January, followed by the very next week's chart. They justified that by insisting it was two different years. In that case, I'd rather have them play the same year. Won't get any song repeats. The stuff I read in this thread is a bit comical, yet a bit frustrating, too. |
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Post by Michael1973 on Oct 7, 2024 20:57:33 GMT -5
In that case, I'd rather have them play the same year. Won't get any song repeats. The stuff I read in this thread is a bit comical, yet a bit frustrating, too. Agreed. Nobody at SiriusXM has been able to figure out that repeating a year in December and January is not the same as any other time of the year. And I doubt they ever will. |
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