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Post by chrislc on Jun 22, 2011 20:42:30 GMT -5
10/29/77 through 7/22/78
39 weeks
I Go Crazy debuts in Top 40 10/29/77
You're The One That I Want debuts 4/8/78
I Go Crazy out of Top 40 4/22/78
You're The One That I Want out of Top 40 7/29/78
Oops I almost missed this one
47 weeks
I Just Want To Be Your Everything/I Go Crazy
5/28/77 - 4/15/78
Wow! 47 weeks in a row with one song or the other or both in the Top 40!
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Post by 80sfan on Jun 22, 2011 21:47:18 GMT -5
What do the songs you mention have to do with each other  |
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Post by chrislc on Jun 22, 2011 22:48:03 GMT -5
What do the songs you mention have to do with each other Other than having appeared in the same Top 40 at some point, nothing necessarily. I was wondering if the Gibb/Davis stretch was the longest of the 70s and figured if anyone knows the answer they probably are on this forum. |
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Post by reachinforthestars on Jun 23, 2011 1:04:20 GMT -5
47 weeks I Just Want To Be Your Everything/I Go Crazy 5/28/77 - 4/15/78 Wow! 47 weeks in a row with one song or the other or both in the Top 40! It's going to be tough to find a two-song combo longer than this one. I think it beats the combo of "I Just Want To Be Your Everything" and "How Deep Is Your Love" by one week. |
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jun 23, 2011 11:02:27 GMT -5
I couldn't resist checking out another pair of songs -- Kris Kristofferson's "Why Me" and "The Way We Were" by Barbra Streisand -- which together stretched from August 1973 to April 1974. And while combined, they only totaled 34 continuous weeks in the Top 40.
And for those of you keeping track, Kris Kristofferson celebrated his 75th birthday yesterday.
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Post by at40john on Jun 23, 2011 21:38:29 GMT -5
In the 80s there was a longer stretch of 41 weeks for a pair of songs.
Keep on Loving You by REO Speedwagon 12/27/80-5/09/81
Jessies Girl by Rick Springfield 5/09/81-10/03/81
Here I Am by Air Supply dubuted on 10/3/81 and ran until 1/09/82 so Jessies Girl was on the top 40 for 1 week with a song that debuted in 1980 and 1 week with a song that finished its run in 1982. I doubt that happened very often.
John
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Post by mkarns on Jun 23, 2011 23:47:20 GMT -5
In the 80s there was a longer stretch of 41 weeks for a pair of songs. Keep on Loving You by REO Speedwagon 12/27/80-5/09/81 Jessies Girl by Rick Springfield 5/09/81-10/03/81 Here I Am by Air Supply dubuted on 10/3/81 and ran until 1/09/82 so Jessies Girl was on the top 40 for 1 week with a song that debuted in 1980 and 1 week with a song that finished its run in 1982. I doubt that happened very often. John I can't think of another pair that spent that long in the top 40 in the 80s with at least one week on the countdown together, though if Human League's "Don't You Want Me?" had hung on for one more week on 9/4/82, it and Laura Branigan's "Gloria" would have had a 43 week stretch. "Don't You Want Me" and J. Geils Band's "Centerfold" do have a 40 week stretch (11/28/81 to 8/28/82, meeting on 4/10/82). |
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Post by 80sfan on Jun 24, 2011 1:13:08 GMT -5
A more likely question for AT40 would be: What's the most consecutive weeks a single artist has spent on the chart with a string of hits?
It's interesting that when I googled the question, a response that came back said Singer Katy Perry has become the first artist in the history of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart to spend 52 consecutive weeks in the Top 10. Perry has accomplished the feat with a string of hits over the last year, including "California Gurls," "Teenage Dream," "Firework" and, most recently, "E.T."
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 24, 2011 10:26:05 GMT -5
A more likely question for AT40 would be: What's the most consecutive weeks a single artist has spent on the chart with a string of hits? It's interesting that when I googled the question, a response that came back said Singer Katy Perry has become the first artist in the history of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart to spend 52 consecutive weeks in the Top 10. Perry has accomplished the feat with a string of hits over the last year, including "California Gurls," "Teenage Dream," "Firework" and, most recently, "E.T." That question was asked and answered several times on AT40 as far as the top 40. The record is held by Pat Boone in the 50s with 169 consecutive weeks in the top 40. Elvis came in second and Michael Jackson was in third place as of 1986. |
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Post by Shadoe Fan on Jun 24, 2011 12:32:25 GMT -5
Just as an interesting aside... I believe that the Backstreet Boys tied the 169 weeks in 2000 using the Radio & Records chart. This counts the 2 week holiday breaks that R&R took. Without the holiday breaks, it's 163 weeks. Now back to the discussion of the Hot 100...  A more likely question for AT40 would be: What's the most consecutive weeks a single artist has spent on the chart with a string of hits? It's interesting that when I googled the question, a response that came back said Singer Katy Perry has become the first artist in the history of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart to spend 52 consecutive weeks in the Top 10. Perry has accomplished the feat with a string of hits over the last year, including "California Gurls," "Teenage Dream," "Firework" and, most recently, "E.T." That question was asked and answered several times on AT40 as far as the top 40. The record is held by Pat Boone in the 50s with 169 consecutive weeks in the top 40. Elvis came in second and Michael Jackson was in third place as of 1986. |
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