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Post by bobbo428 on Oct 29, 2018 12:39:56 GMT -5
I never heard of this Wayne Newton song until it was discussed on these boards a few years ago. I listened to Dick Clark's "Countdown America" regularly in the early 1990s, but it was strange that it never made that chart. I could see the tune making the AC chart in 1992, but a song like this would have had a hard time making it on pop radio after about 1983. I never heard of this song until I started looking at the Cash Box charts a few years ago and I think this was a case of total payola (or maybe somebody at Cash Box was either a huge Wayne Newton or Elvis Presley fan). I agree with you this might have been either a Top 20 A/C or Country hit but no way it should have made it to #1 on the pop chart. Since the song was never issued as an official single, it is difficult to know the 'real story' of how this thing ever charted at all. I would think the chart run of this song probably cost Cash Box what ever credibility they had at the time--notice just a year later they didn't publish every week in 1993 and struggled to make it through the mid '90's before they went under in 1996. Y'know when Record World quit publishing in 1982, Cash Box didn't pick up much of the advertising from the industry--and it probably didn't help them when both Dick Clark and Rick Dees dropped their charts from their countdown shows in the 1980's. Thanks for the info--I was wondering why I seldom heard about Cash Box after sometime in the '90s. For a long time, I thought Radio & Records was simply Record World under a different name. Because I heard of the Billboard Hot 100 chart first (and Casey always claimed it was the most authoritative one0< I considered the Hot 100 "the chart that counted." However, I now use the phrase "the chart that counts" rather snarkily in the modern era when referring to the Hot 100.
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Post by johnnywest on Sept 30, 2022 13:32:42 GMT -5
"Running Up That Hill"
39-36-33-35-off for 37 years-31-27-18-17-10-8-6-5-5-5-6-6-9
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Post by lasvegaskid on Sept 14, 2023 15:21:04 GMT -5
Here's another oddity from 1974. It's not too often when one artist debuts with two songs the same week in the Top 40. It happened September 7, 1974 with the Mac Davis songs Stop & Smell The Roses and One Hell of a Woman. Of course, One Hell of a Woman was in its 24th week in the Hot 100 then and, for the second time, debuted on AT40. By the way, are there other examples where an artist debuted the same week in the Top 40 with more than one song? I'll bet there are but I can't think of another one. Not only that Peteski but 'Hell had fallen to #49 on the 8/17 panel only to begin climbing 44-41-36, all unbulleted.
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Post by mga707 on Sept 14, 2023 16:39:03 GMT -5
Here's another oddity from 1974. It's not too often when one artist debuts with two songs the same week in the Top 40. It happened September 7, 1974 with the Mac Davis songs Stop & Smell The Roses and One Hell of a Woman. Of course, One Hell of a Woman was in its 24th week in the Hot 100 then and, for the second time, debuted on AT40. By the way, are there other examples where an artist debuted the same week in the Top 40 with more than one song? I'll bet there are but I can't think of another one. Not only that Peteski but 'Hell had fallen to #49 on the 8/17 panel only to begin climbing 44-41-36, all unbulleted. 'Heluva Woman' did indeed have an odd chart run. It had peaked at #11 on the 7/13 chart before that re-entry into the 40 after two weeks out. That second run inside the 40 only lasted two weeks, 36 and then dropping a bit to 38. 28 weeks total on the Hot 100 which gave it a 'punching well above its chart peak' position on the year-end chart. Reminiscent of "Why Me" a year earlier.
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Post by doofus67 on Feb 28, 2024 16:31:11 GMT -5
#1 songs that spent more weeks at another position outside the top five than they spent at #1: "Top of the World" | 2 wks at #1 | 3 wks at #7 | "I Honestly Love You" | 2 wks at #1 | 4 wks at #69 (1 wk in 1977, 3 wks in 1998) | "December, 1963" | 3 wks at #1 | 4 wks at #14 (3 wks in 1976, 1 wk in 1994) | "How Deep Is Your Love" | 3 wks at #1 | 4 wks at #10 | "I Will Survive" | 3 wks at #1 | 4 wks at #95 | "Tragedy" | 2 wks at #1 | 3 wks at #100 | "Rise" | 2 wks at #1 | 3 wks at #96 | "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" | 2 wks at #1 | 3 wks at #6 | "Celebration" | 2 wks at #1 | 4 wks at #17 | "Rapture" | 2 wks at #1 | 3 wks at #6 | "Arthur's Theme" | 3 wks at #1 | 4 wks at #9 | "Private Eyes" | 2 wks at #1 | 3 wks at #6 | "Truly" | 2 wks at #1 | 4 wks at #10 |
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