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Post by 80sfreak on Feb 5, 2010 19:52:26 GMT -5
Another interesting question I thought of. Any songs that fell off the top 4o only to come back again. I cant think of any in the 80s when I listened. I am not referring to songs like Red Red Wine that charted one year and then returned to the Top 40 years later. Thinking of songs that fell out of the Top 40 only to come back a week or 2 later.
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Post by humbleheavy on Feb 6, 2010 6:32:02 GMT -5
for examble:
Ecstasy / Ohio Players(73) 34-> fall -> 34-->fall ->34 ( comeback twice)
One Hell Of a woman/mac Davis (74)
As / stevie wonder (77)
spring rain /silvester (77)
Ariel/ dean Friedman (77)
Way Down / Elvis Presley(77)
One Way or Another /Brondie (79)
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Post by Hervard on Feb 6, 2010 7:07:59 GMT -5
It did not happen at all in the 1980s at all. "One Way Or Another" was the last song to perform such a feat for about eleven years. The next song to do it was "Always And Forever" by Whistle, in June, 1990. Shadoe Stevens mentioned the last time it happened the week it returned.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Feb 10, 2013 1:56:03 GMT -5
One song not listed here is 1973's "I'll Always Love My Mama" by the Intruders. It first debuted on June 30, 1973, fell out on August 4 and climbed into the Top 40 again on August 11. And then there's another one, a true chart oddity from Paul McCartney. This is a post from another thread. And speaking of Junior's Farm..............what's up (and down) with its Hot 100 ride? If you followed its brief chart life, along with Sally G, you'd know the single lived a double life. But Billboard's Hot 100 tracking, frankly, didn't make sense. And as far as I can recall, no explanation was ever provided. Which song was the A side? What happened in 1975 between the January 25 and February 1 charts? One week, it's a double-sided hit in the Top 40 at #17, the next week, Junior's Farm was gone and Sally G debuted in the Hot 100. If you remember the late 1974 scenario when #1 records were dropping like flies, I believe that this is another example that the chart department at the time was a little screwy.  |
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Post by mct1 on Feb 10, 2013 16:56:57 GMT -5
IINM, "Papa Don't Take No Mess" by James Brown also did this, in 1974.
My AT40 listening days were in the '80s, and I'm not surprised to hear that it never happened then. For much of that decade, it was virtually unheard for songs to even "yo-yo" within the Top 40. You have to wonder if there was some change in Billboard's chart methodology that made this so more common in the '70s than it was in the '80s.
Elvis Presley's "Way Down" reversed course due to Presley's death. It had apparently peaked at #31 and had dropped out of the Top 40 for a few weeks when Presley died. It then started climbing again, re-entered the Top 40, and rose to #18. (Note: due to the lag time in compiling the charts in those days, "Way Down" actually fell out of the Top 40 the week Presley died, and didn't turn around until two weeks later, but it's obvious that the latter was the first chart reflecting data from the period after Presley's death.)
IINM, Blondie's "One Way Or Another" climbed the charts to #35, fell to #41, then bounced back up to #29. It almost looks like there was some error in its chart compilation the week it fell to #41 -- if not, then something happened that caused it to suddenly surge in popularity that week, even though it had been dropping the previous week, and would never get all that much higher than the position it landed at that week.
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Post by tarobe on Feb 11, 2013 23:36:02 GMT -5
"Why Me" by Kris Kristofferson debuted in the Top 40 at #37 on July 7, 1973 (in its 14TH week on the Hot 100!), climbed up to #35 the following week and then fell off for five weeks (during which time it got as low as #52). On August 25, it rebounded from #45 to #32 and slowly began moving up, reaching #23 on September 15 before dropping to #31, then jumping back to #23 on September 29. The next week it rose to #21, but fell back down to #23 on October 11, only to climb BACK to #21, where it stayed for two weeks. On November 3 it climbed to #19 then peaked at #16 on November 10. From there it slowly began its descent down the Top 40. It finally fell off on December 22, the week AT40 aired its Christmas special. It ended up as the #2 song on AT40 year-end countdown. Amazing!
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Post by at40petebattistini on Feb 12, 2013 6:34:13 GMT -5
"Why Me" by Kris Kristofferson debuted in the Top 40 at #37 on July 7, 1973 (in its 14TH week on the Hot 100!), climbed up to #35 the following week and then fell off for five weeks (during which time it got as low as #52). On August 25, it rebounded from #45 to #32 and slowly began moving up, reaching #23 on September 15 before dropping to #31, then jumping back to #23 on September 29. The next week it rose to #21, but fell back down to #23 on October 11, only to climb BACK to #21, where it stayed for two weeks. On November 3 it climbed to #19 then peaked at #16 on November 10. From there it slowly began its descent down the Top 40. It finally fell off on December 22, the week AT40 aired its Christmas special. It ended up as the #2 song on AT40 year-end countdown. Amazing! Ah, yes, the mother song of all zigzag chart records during the 70s. |
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Feb 12, 2013 18:18:34 GMT -5
On the final broadcast of the original AT40 on January 28, 1995, "Shame" by Zhane re-entered the top 40 that week. There were "technically" no debuts that week, but one song did fall off that week due to that re-entry. "Shame" may have repeatedly dropped off and re-entered until after the show was cancelled, so any surviving AT40 fans would never know when "Shame" would have been off the top 40 for good. Talk about a low down dirty shame.
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Post by bigal on Feb 12, 2013 18:34:00 GMT -5
on SPRING RAIN by Silvetti , it debut at #39, fell off the next week, then re appeared at #40, and again at $40, then falling off. i dont recall much airplay for this tune in my town, i always figured it wasa goof that it fell off the first time?
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Post by Mike on Feb 13, 2013 20:24:35 GMT -5
On the final broadcast of the original AT40 on January 28, 1995, "Shame" by Zhane re-entered the top 40 that week. There were "technically" no debuts that week, but one song did fall off that week due to that re-entry. "Shame" may have repeatedly dropped off and re-entered until after the show was cancelled, so any surviving AT40 fans would never know when "Shame" would have been off the top 40 for good. Talk about a low down dirty shame. Let's put that mystery to rest right now: "Shame" fell out of the Top 40 again the following week, and would not return after that. The week it re-entered (on what was the final original show) was in fact also its last week in The 40, and not just in the sense of that being the last original show. |
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Feb 17, 2013 0:06:23 GMT -5
On the final broadcast of the original AT40 on January 28, 1995, "Shame" by Zhane re-entered the top 40 that week. There were "technically" no debuts that week, but one song did fall off that week due to that re-entry. "Shame" may have repeatedly dropped off and re-entered until after the show was cancelled, so any surviving AT40 fans would never know when "Shame" would have been off the top 40 for good. Talk about a low down dirty shame. Let's put that mystery to rest right now: "Shame" fell out of the Top 40 again the following week, and would not return after that. The week it re-entered (on what was the final original show) was in fact also its last week in The 40, and not just in the sense of that being the last original show. And I don't think Shadoe even mentioned the lone dropper that week. It was "Something's Always Wrong" by Toad The Wet Sprocket. |
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Post by johnnywest on Dec 25, 2014 16:13:48 GMT -5
Over longer periods of time, there was "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "December 1963 (Oh What A Night)."
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Post by johnnywest on Nov 25, 2018 10:29:50 GMT -5
Larry Morgan mentioned in an optional that “1999” by Prince hit the Top 40 in 3 different decades.
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Post by johnnywest on May 31, 2022 23:40:12 GMT -5
One of the most successful would have to be "Heat Waves" by Glass Animals. It charted in 2021, fell off, returned and hit #1 in 2022. More impressive, this happened on both the CHR and HAC versions of AT40.
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Post by Mike on Jun 1, 2022 1:54:30 GMT -5
Over longer periods of time, there was "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "December 1963 (Oh What A Night)." Larry Morgan mentioned in an optional that “1999” by Prince hit the Top 40 in 3 different decades. One of the most successful would have to be "Heat Waves" by Glass Animals. It charted in 2021, fell off, returned and hit #1 in 2022. More impressive, this happened on both the CHR and HAC versions of AT40. I am not referring to songs like Red Red Wine that charted one year and then returned to the Top 40 years later. Thinking of songs that fell out of the Top 40 only to come back a week or 2 later. |
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