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Post by dth1971 on Jul 31, 2021 6:04:49 GMT -5
Ooh la la look at the 8/1/81 country chart: Alabama fell 43-1. Other tunes dropped 45-2 and 46-6. So dropping from #1 to #43 is the biggest drop for a #1 song on Billboard's Country Chart, what about a big drop from #1 on Billboard's Soul/R&B chart? |
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Post by Hervard on Jul 31, 2021 6:17:15 GMT -5
Were there country countdowns yet in 1981? That would be very interesting how they would mention that - certainly everyone would be wondering what happened to the previous week's top two songs!
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 31, 2021 8:29:51 GMT -5
Were there country countdowns yet in 1981? That would be very interesting how they would mention that - certainly everyone would be wondering what happened to the previous week's top two songs! American Country Countdown is one of these. |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jul 31, 2021 9:08:42 GMT -5
ACC started on 10/6/1973.
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Post by Mike on Aug 12, 2021 22:45:13 GMT -5
Even in this era with "concrete" numbers, sometimes chart movement defies logic. On 10/21/17, Taylor Swift dropped from 4 (at the time her peak position) to number 5, with "Look What You Made Me Do". The next week, it jumped from 5 all the way to number 1. Last week, it dropped to 2. Guess what? It's not the first time a song appeared to have peaked within the Top 5, only to suddenly reverse course and jump straight to #1. In 1994 - also using "monitored" airplay - Big Mountain's remake "Baby, I Love Your Way" spent four weeks at #3 from 4/16-5/7, losing its bullet on that fourth week there. Then it dropped to #4 on 5/14. Then: It suddenly regained a bullet, and leaped straight to #1 on 5/21. Then, it lots its bullet again, this time for good, and dropped right back to #4 on 5/28. A curious chain of events, wouldn't you say?  I'd say, the only reason this otherwise doesn't attract very much attention, is that they'd go for 26 weeks in the countdown. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 30, 2022 10:18:56 GMT -5
I think 1982 is an interesting year. You had repeated patterns of gargantuan falls out of the top 40. None more evident than this week. Santana was Holding On at #15. But on the next 11/6 panel it was all the way down at #73, But that was nothing. Don't Fight It fell 76-17. They made Air Supply's Young Love plummet of 80-38 look pedestrian.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 1, 2023 14:12:37 GMT -5
One thing that puzzles me to this day; the 1977 year ender had 'Everything at #1, Emotions #3. Yet the decade ender Best of My Love ranked #20 and Andy Gibb was way down at #40.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jan 1, 2023 14:19:10 GMT -5
One thing that puzzles me to this day; the 1977 year ender had 'Everything at #1, Emotions #3. Yet the decade ender Best of My Love ranked #20 and Andy Gibb was way down at #40. This has been the case for every single decade-end countdown dating back to the 1970s. When you put the year-end rankings and compare them to the decade-end rankings, many times they don't line up (a song ranked lower vs. another on a year-end, gets ranked higher than that same song on the decade-end). It all depends on whatever methodology is used for each. But I would agree, it is puzzling. |
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Post by LC on Jan 1, 2023 14:22:21 GMT -5
One thing that puzzles me to this day; the 1977 year ender had 'Everything at #1, Emotions #3. Yet the decade ender Best of My Love ranked #20 and Andy Gibb was way down at #40. Perhaps those songs hadn't completed their entire Hot 100 chart runs (and point-gathering) by the cutoff date for the 1977 year-ender? |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 1, 2023 14:27:39 GMT -5
One thing that puzzles me to this day; the 1977 year ender had 'Everything at #1, Emotions #3. Yet the decade ender Best of My Love ranked #20 and Andy Gibb was way down at #40. Perhaps those songs hadn't completed their entire Hot 100 chart runs (and point-gathering) by the cutoff date for the 1977 year-ender? Nope, both were Summer songs that wrapped up 11/12 for Emotions and 11/19 for Gibb. |
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Post by Mike on Jan 1, 2023 14:32:09 GMT -5
Perhaps those songs hadn't completed their entire Hot 100 chart runs (and point-gathering) by the cutoff date for the 1977 year-ender? AT40 compiled the 1977 year-end countdown rather than using Billboard's, with the cutoff date being November 12. That would be the final week on the Hot 100 for The Emotions, with Andy Gibb only going one more week past that (dropping to #97, at that). I doubt very much that that one single week would make all the difference.  |
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Post by Hervard on Jan 2, 2023 7:43:18 GMT -5
One thing that puzzles me to this day; the 1977 year ender had 'Everything at #1, Emotions #3. Yet the decade ender Best of My Love ranked #20 and Andy Gibb was way down at #40. That is simply because that decade ender was a joke. Even with artificial weighting to fairly rank songs from the early half of the 1970s, when the charts moved very quickly, with songs from the latter half, when songs tended to stick around for longer, no way would Andy Gibb have ranked so low, and certainly not so far below "Best Of My Love". I have no idea how they figured that countdown. A dartboard would be the only logical explanation. |
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Post by vince on Jan 2, 2023 19:02:26 GMT -5
AT 40 obviously did not use the same methodology to compile the year end countdown in 1977 and their 70's decade end countdown. I question if they even used a mathematical methodology to do the 70's decade countdown. There are all kinds of discrepancies in that countdown, not just IJWBYE and BOML. I think Hervard stated it very well.
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Post by LC on Jan 3, 2023 11:39:32 GMT -5
Did Billboard do its own 1970s decade-end chart?
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Post by vince on Jan 3, 2023 21:03:41 GMT -5
Did Billboard do its own 1970s decade-end chart? BB did not do an end of the decade ranking at the end of the 1970s. A number of years later possibly to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Hot 100 they did do decade rankings. |
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I'd say, the only reason this otherwise doesn't attract very much attention, is that they'd go for 26 weeks in the countdown.
