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Post by LC on Apr 30, 2023 17:00:09 GMT -5
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Post by doofus67 on Apr 30, 2023 18:38:07 GMT -5
Thank you, LC. I didn't even have to ask! My educated guess would be that the chart in the frame is 11/16/74, when "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night" struggled to hit #1. (That's sarcasm, Sheldon.)
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jun 16, 2023 20:28:32 GMT -5
I don't know if there was ever a stat kept on most total positions dropped in a single week but this one 1982 has to be close!
The guys lost 49 with Did It In A Minute 71-22 and that was only 3rd most that week!
'65 Love Affair 70-18
Run For the Roses 73-23
Others 40+
When He Shines 75-30, Fantasy 76-32, that Wascally Wabbitt 79-35, Friends In Love 84-38, Murphy's Law 85-39
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Post by Hervard on Jun 17, 2023 6:24:51 GMT -5
I don't know if there was ever a stat kept on most total positions dropped in a single week but this one 1982 has to be close! The guys lost 49 with Did It In A Minute 71-22 and that was only 3rd most that week! '65 Love Affair 70-18 Run For the Roses 73-23 Others 40+ When He Shines 75-30, Fantasy 76-32, that Wascally Wabbitt 79-35, Friends In Love 84-38, Murphy's Law 85-39 The most total positions - are you talking about the most songs taking huge drops, or the song that took the biggest drop on the Hot 100? If it's the latter, then it would be the Beatles Movie Medley, falling 20-92, which was around the same time as this (two weeks before, in fact). But the situation you described very well could be the former, as there were eight songs falling 40+ spots. 1982's other eight debut week was remarkable in the fact that six songs fell from the 30s all the way down to the 90s - five of them falling at least 60 spots (and the remaining one falling 59). The songs and huge drops are as follows: Tonight I'm Yours - Rod Stewart (31-92) Mirror Mirror - Diana Ross (33-93) Spirits In The Material World - The Police (34-94) Leader Of The Band - Dan Fogelberg (35-95) Take It Easy On Me - Little River Band (36-96) Just Can't Win 'Em All - Stevie Woods (38-97) The two other songs that dropped out of the Top 40, both from the 20s: On The Way To The Sky - Neil Diamond (27-60) Shake It Up - The Cars (29-68) I often wonder what the Hot 100 would look like had Bill Wardlaw not come up with the psycho chart rule that caused all these huge chart drops. |
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Post by chrislc on Jun 17, 2023 14:24:01 GMT -5
Yikes look at that hair! What were we thinking back then? Who was responsible for this? Oh wait I remember now. It was the man on the right. |
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 16, 2023 8:09:15 GMT -5
How about this for a chart manipulation: If the "Stars on 45 Medley" didn't replace for a week at #1 "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes, would Kim have had stayed at #1 for 10 straight weeks and tied the record with Perez Prado and Debby Boone?
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Post by mga707 on Jul 16, 2023 9:50:15 GMT -5
How about this for a chart manipulation: If the "Stars on 45 Medley" didn't replace for a week at #1 "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes, would Kim have had stayed at #1 for 10 straight weeks and tied the record with Perez Prado and Debby Boone? Yes, almost certainly. But I don't think Radio Records (Stars On 45's U.S. label) was pressuring 'Billboard' to get their single to #1. |
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Post by laura on Jul 16, 2023 10:14:11 GMT -5
How about this for a chart manipulation: If the "Stars on 45 Medley" didn't replace for a week at #1 "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes, would Kim have had stayed at #1 for 10 straight weeks and tied the record with Perez Prado and Debby Boone? Yes, almost certainly. But I don't think Radio Records (Stars On 45's U.S. label) was pressuring 'Billboard' to get their single to #1. The same thing happened on Cashbox where it replaced "Bette Davis Eyes" for two weeks before Kim returned to the top again. |
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Post by doofus67 on Jul 16, 2023 12:59:57 GMT -5
Yes, almost certainly. But I don't think Radio Records (Stars On 45's U.S. label) was pressuring 'Billboard' to get their single to #1. The same thing happened on Cashbox where it replaced "Bette Davis Eyes" for two weeks before Kim returned to the top again. And the medley also was #1 in Record World for the week of June 13. "Bette" had been at the top for two weeks, then would bounce back and stay there for three more weeks. |
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jul 16, 2023 14:21:01 GMT -5
The same thing happened on Cashbox where it replaced "Bette Davis Eyes" for two weeks before Kim returned to the top again. And the medley also was #1 in Record World for the week of June 13. "Bette" had been at the top for two weeks, then would bounce back and stay there for three more weeks. I am almost certain that the Stars on 45 medley was a bona fide #1 hit, reaching the top on three of the 4 charts at the time; only making it to #3 in Radio & Records. I recall being bored with friends at 6 Flags over Ga once making our way through a line to ride a roller coaster, and we began to sing the Stars on 45 medley and a few other poeple in line joined in (this happened in the mid 1980's).  |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jul 17, 2023 5:26:39 GMT -5
And the medley also was #1 in Record World for the week of June 13. "Bette" had been at the top for two weeks, then would bounce back and stay there for three more weeks. I am almost certain that the Stars on 45 medley was a bona fide #1 hit, reaching the top on three of the 4 charts at the time; only making it to #3 in Radio & Records. I recall being bored with friends at 6 Flags over Ga once making our way through a line to ride a roller coaster, and we began to sing the Stars on 45 medley and a few other poeple in line joined in (this happened in the mid 1980's). That's awesome! 😁 |
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jul 21, 2023 17:26:45 GMT -5
Just found an unusual fall out of the Top 10 on a Cash Box chart--The Other Woman by Ray Parker Jr. spent two weeks at #2, then down to #3, Down to #5, down to #7, then #8 and then plummets to #42.
Billboard chart action saw the song spend two weeks at #4, then down to #10, next to #14, down to #30, exited the Top 40 to #48 the following week.
Maybe CB was trying to catch up to BB--or it might have been weird chart action about that time that led Dick Clark to drop Cash Box as their chart provider.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 24, 2023 14:15:34 GMT -5
From the 1976 show... funky chart movement or Supersized manipulation for Get Closer:
16*-6*-6-13-11*-9*-9-14
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Post by doofus67 on Jul 25, 2023 0:25:29 GMT -5
From the 1976 show... funky chart movement or Supersized manipulation for Get Closer: 16*-6*-6-13-11*-9*-9-14 Hard to say...
| BB | CB | RW | R&R | | July 17 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 5 | | July 24 | 6^ | 12 | 7 | 4^ | | July 31 | 6^ | 10 | 5 | 4^ | | Aug 7 | 13 | 8 | 4^ | 9 | | Aug 14 | 11 | 7^ | 8 | 9 | | Aug 21 | 9 | 14 | 11 | 14 | | Aug 28 | 9 | 24 | 12 | 16 | | Sept 4 | 14 | 26 | 12 | 23 |
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Post by mga707 on Jul 25, 2023 0:46:19 GMT -5
From the 1976 show... funky chart movement or Supersized manipulation for Get Closer: 16*-6*-6-13-11*-9*-9-14 Not the only post-6/2/73 mid-70s song that did that same 'double dip' in/out/back into the top 10. Long Train Running, Sweet Home Alabama, Philadelphia Freedom are some others. Not to mention the one that WAS really suspicious, "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet". |
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