Songs with weird chart runs

[cdman71031]

there was a mistake 1985 was indeed from Billboard making it 10 BB's and 8 of AT40's own surveys. I remember clearly because Sugar Walls By Sheena Easton was 1100 and I was surprised that AT40 went back to BB from the chart. i think if They had not used BB then Jungle Love by The Time would not have made the list and Careless Whisper By Wham Featuring George Michael would not have been number one. If AT40 had done it's own survey Like A Virgin By Madonna would have definitely been #1

[saintfan]

Yes, I stand corrected 1985 looks like BB, this is also why there's so many repeaters from 1984 in 1985, eg: Out Of Touch, I Feel For You, Wake Me Up Before You GO-Go, Penny Lover, Strut, All Through The Night.

Still though 10 BB 8 AT 40 it still doesn't look like Casey's staff was that adament of using BB only. They would use their own at times. (1988, 1989, 1990 was BB) (1991 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 AT 40) so in the shows original run all together Casey/Shadoe 13 were BB, 13 were AT40. Back to 50/50 again.

[bandit73]

saintfan said:

1982 included Donna Summer (Love Is In Control), Steve Miller Band (Abracadabra), Diana Ross (Muscles), and the champ Air Supply (Even The Nights..)

I always thought it was nifty how "Even The Nights Are Better" ruined Air Supply's top 5 streak.

Someone on another board a few years back said the charts were really in flux around late 1982/early 1983 because of MTV. The AC music of the early '80s was quickly being replaced by the new wave music of the mid-'80s. So you had a lot of songs holding at their peak position for a very long time, then suddenly dropping really fast.

[jedijake]

Ah, but Even The Nights Are Better did actually hit #5.

I think weird chart runs have a whole new definition post-Soundscan charts. In the computerized days of charting, songs had extremely odd chart runs.

And, of course, the weeks that countdown shows went from traditional to soundscan (December, 1991 for AT40 and March, 1994 for CT40) must be the oddest of all.

That being separated from the fact that in these days, a song can spend 20 weeks on AT40 and only hit #30.

[bandit73]

jedijake said:

Ah, but Even The Nights Are Better did actually hit #5.

I thought for sure it only hit #6. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't happen to have all the charts from the '80s here to verify it.

I do remember Air Supply having a streak ruined somehow.

Something similar happened in the late '80s with Michael Jackson. The King of Pop had his top 10 streak ruined when "Another Part Of Me" only hit #11. ("Farewell My Summer Love" was never officially counted in that streak, because it was not a new recording.)

[bandit73]

bandit73 said:

I do remember Air Supply having a streak ruined somehow.

Now that I think about it, I think "Even The Nights Are Better" did hit #5. I think "Young Love" was the song that ruined their top 5 streak, though it only got to #38 or #39 or something.

[coldcardinal]

bandit73 said:

bandit73 said:

I do remember Air Supply having a streak ruined somehow.

Now that I think about it, I think "Even The Nights Are Better" did hit #5. I think "Young Love" was the song that ruined their top 5 streak, though it only got to #38 or #39 or something.

Yep, 2 weeks at #5 (and 4 non-consecutive weeks at #6, so the confusion is understandable).

I remember when Another Part of Me broke MJ's streak. I was actually quite happy at the time -- but I like Bad a lot more in retrospect.

[jefferyc4]

Please Don't forget "Chariots Of Fire". It took awfully long time to get to # 1. Went up 1 week after the next to get there.

[BROWNJB1]

In the beginning of 1982, there were several songs that were in the Top 10 didn't even reach their peak position until 3 months after they debuted in the Top 40. For example:

Harden My Heart by Quarterflash debuted in the Top 40 the week of November 7, 1981, and peaked at No. 3 the week of February 13, 1982

The Sweetest Thing by Juice Newton debuted in the Top 40 the week as "Harden" and peaked at No. 7 the same week as "Harden".

Couple of example of songs that took a long while to reaching their peak positions.

[benster72]

As I recall, Air Supply did hit #5 with "Even the Nights Are Better", then slipped to #6, and then set a record by dropping all the way to #42 - the largest drop out of the top 40 in AT40 history at that time.

Their streak of top 5 hits ended with "Young Love", and "Two Less Lonely People in the World", both only made it to #38.

[Josh Joel's Top 40]

I just noticed a rather unusual occurrence on the Hot 100 back in late 1984 up to the spring of 1985. This happened 25 years ago this week back in 1985. It was Diana Ross' dedication to the late Marvin Gaye on her #10 smash "Missing You".
The ex-Supremestress debuted at #82 way back on December 1, 1984 then it climbed to 72-60-56-54-51-50-46-51-51-59-54-48-34, taking her 15 long weeks to make the top 40 and that's not even a record. About a couple months prior to this, he was talking about General Public's steadiness when "Tenderness" took a mere 11 weeks.

[donwa001]

I would call this chart run unusual rather than weird or strange. The song made a pretty fast climb to the Top 10 (84-58-29-21-7), then look what happened.

Just 5 wks to reach the Top 10, then the upward movement slowed down to a crawl.

04/23/77 84-58-29-21-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-4-11-19-28-47-46-54-63-79

For the Rock & Roll era, I believe this still remains the only song to climb from #7 to #1, one notch at a time. Do you know what song I'm talking about?

Gonna Fly Now (Theme From "Rocky") - Bill Conti

[pizzzzza]

This really isn't about a particular song with a wierd chart run, but more about a particular time period that I thought was "strange/wierd/unusual" - whatever you wanna call it.

I remember back in the fall of 1974...

From October 19, 1974 to November 23, 1974, all the songs went from #2 to #1 the following week, only to plummet from #1 the following week:

Oct 15: Nothing from Nothing - Billy Preston - goes from #2 to #1; the following week - drops to #15

Oct 26: Then Came You - Dionne Warwick & Spinners - goes from #2 to #1; the following week - drops to #15

Nov 2: You Haven't Done Nothin' - Stevie Wonder - goes from #2 to #1; the following week - drops to #12

Nov 9: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive - goes from #2 to #1; the following week - drops to #12

Nov 16: Whatever Gets You Thru The Night - John Lennon - goes from #2 to #1; the following week - drops to #12

I don't know why, but I have always remembered what I considered a very usual chart occurrence all those years ago - this thread brought it to my attention once again.

[number39]

Other strange aspects of the above songs' chart runs from Oct/Nov '74:
- Both BILLY PRESTON & DIONNE WARWICK fell 1-15-39.
- BTO had an even stranger fall from the AT40: 1-12-34-8-8-12-23-off. It's brief and sudden resurgence to the Top 10 seems to be due to the addition of airplay on the B-side "Free Wheelin'". Did "Free Wheelin'" ever get played on AT40?
-As mentioned on other posts, JOHN LENNON was free-fallin', when his hit suddenly held at #40 on the way down, allowing all 4 solo Beatles to be in the AT40 at the same time!!!

[number39]

I'm sure this has been gone over before - but my favorite chart run (because I remember it at the time!) was "I GO CRAZY" by Paul Davis. It's HOT 100 run was amazing, but even limited to it's AT40 run - it's amazing how many stops n' starts it had:
10/29/77: (*37-34-*31-*29-28-*25-*23-23-(no chart)-*21-21-*19-*18-*16-*14-*12-*11-*9-*8-*7-7-7-28-35-off).

Also - talking about slow climbers to their peak position - anybody remember HOT with "Angel of Your Arms"?
4/2/77: (*40-*35-*29-*25-*23-*21-*20-*18-*13-*12-*11-*10-*9-*8-*7-*6-6-16-21-off) - climbed one notch a week for 7 consecutive weeks!!