|
Post by burcjm on Dec 13, 2021 3:04:08 GMT -5
Prediction for next show:
This depends on what kind of show it is. If it's a regular show I predict 12/20/86. If not then the first part of the 1987 year-end special.
|
|
|
Post by dth1971 on Dec 13, 2021 6:59:22 GMT -5
Prediction for next show: This depends on what kind of show it is. If it's a regular show I predict 12/20/86. If not then the first part of the 1987 year-end special. We'll find out what KOLA says later today or this week. I think KOLA may be safe to play the Christmas weekend AT40: The 80's entry since Sunday is the day after Christmas and AT40: The 80's will still air while on Christmas Day KOLA will play Christmas music.
|
|
|
Post by dth1971 on Dec 13, 2021 7:00:47 GMT -5
And that's the same chart that "Physical" did not get to #1 on right? Correct. Upon checking, Gavin (the other known airplay-only chart) had a nearly identical result - Foreigner got 5 weeks on top instead of 6. Can't speak to "Physical" 's result except to say that it didn't reach #1 there either (its archives pre-1983 are almost nonexistent, but the 25th anniversary issue from 1983 with the list of #1s is available). "Physical" did hit #1 on Cash Box.
|
|
|
Post by matt on Dec 13, 2021 9:34:54 GMT -5
Prediction for the weekend of December 25th:
1st Guess - Top 100 of 1987 Part 1 (1/2/88 #100-51) 2nd Guess - Top 100 of 1986 Part 1 (1/3/87 #100-51)
All of the proverbial "tea leaves" point to 1987 as the year-end special. But if I had to make a second guess, I'll go with 1986...
|
|
|
Post by Hervard on Dec 13, 2021 15:16:08 GMT -5
And that's the same chart that "Physical" did not get to #1 on right? Correct. Upon checking, Gavin (the other known airplay-only chart) had a nearly identical result - Foreigner got 5 weeks on top instead of 6. Can't speak to "Physical" 's result except to say that it didn't reach #1 there either (its archives pre-1983 are almost nonexistent, but the 25th anniversary issue from 1983 with the list of #1s is available). "Leather And Lace" was #1 for two weeks on Gavin - the final week that Foreigner was #1 on R&R, as well as first of six weeks that Hall & Oates topped R&R.
|
|
|
Post by matt on Dec 13, 2021 18:36:18 GMT -5
"Waiting For A Girl Like You" by Foreigner peaked at # 2 in Billboard,Cash Box & Record World-However,it spent six weeks at # 1 in Radio & Records. And that's the same chart that "Physical" did not get to #1 on right? "Physical" somehow topped out at #2 on R&R (which dropped it all the way to #106 on Slammin' Sam's countdown of the top songs from 1973-82). Not sure how it didn't get enough airplay to be #1 on R&R -- I remember hearing it on the radio ad nauseum during the winter of 1981-82.
|
|
|
Post by Mike on Dec 13, 2021 19:53:48 GMT -5
"Physical" somehow topped out at #2 on R&R (which dropped it all the way to #106 on Slammin' Sam's countdown of the top songs from 1973-82). Not sure how it didn't get enough airplay to be #1 on R&R -- I remember hearing it on the radio ad nauseum during the winter of 1981-82. Then you may have had, shall we say, one of the "enlightened" stations who didn't object to the song in the slightest - whereas others wouldn't have touched it with a ten-foot pole. Either that, or (surprise surprise!) it was one of those cases where stations actually played the song a lot more than they said they did - I.E. if airplay monitoring had been a thing in 1981-82, it could have been an easy #1. Still, it lasted 14 weeks on R&R (and that's with R&R only being a Top 30 then - and that straddled the holiday break, include those two weeks and she lasted for 16), so perhaps it really was just that radio was willing to play the song enough...but they were willing to play Foreigner even more. I'll give a comparable example for the last one: Madonna's "Justify My Love" vs. Janet's "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" in 1990-91. Both hit #1 even in R&R, but Madonna flew up the chart fast and hit #1 on R&R's last week of 1990. When they returned from holiday break, Janet hit #1 and lasted 3 weeks there. On Billboard's playlist-based airplay chart, Madonna was actually held to #2 for 3 weeks - the first two behind Stevie B, then Janet leapfrogged her. On the Top 40 Radio Monitor, Janet spent 7 weeks at #1 while Madonna only hit #5.
|
|
|
Post by dth1971 on Dec 13, 2021 21:01:13 GMT -5
Nothing from KOLA yet on Christmas weekend. But I hope it's part 1 of the top 100 of 1987.
|
|
|
Post by Hervard on Dec 14, 2021 10:55:28 GMT -5
Prediction for next show: This depends on what kind of show it is. If it's a regular show I predict 12/20/86. If not then the first part of the 1987 year-end special. We'll find out what KOLA says later today or this week. I think KOLA may be safe to play the Christmas weekend AT40: The 80's entry since Sunday is the day after Christmas and AT40: The 80's will still air while on Christmas Day KOLA will play Christmas music. That could be why they haven't yet listed the show - since they'll be playing Christmas music, that would pre-empt the countdown for that weekend, so there's no point in listing it. Of course, it could very well also be that they just haven't gotten around to posting the show yet - a few weeks back, they posted the show for two weeks ahead before the one for the week before. Pretty much a wait and see situation.
|
|
|
Post by burcjm on Dec 14, 2021 11:52:01 GMT -5
We'll find out what KOLA says later today or this week. I think KOLA may be safe to play the Christmas weekend AT40: The 80's entry since Sunday is the day after Christmas and AT40: The 80's will still air while on Christmas Day KOLA will play Christmas music. That could be why they haven't yet listed the show - since they'll be playing Christmas music, that would pre-empt the countdown for that weekend, so there's no point in listing it. Of course, it could very well also be that they just haven't gotten around to posting the show yet - a few weeks back, they posted the show for two weeks ahead before the one for the week before. Pretty much a wait and see situation. What radio station will be listing it if KOLA doesn't?
|
|
|
Post by caseyfan100 on Dec 14, 2021 11:58:45 GMT -5
That could be why they haven't yet listed the show - since they'll be playing Christmas music, that would pre-empt the countdown for that weekend, so there's no point in listing it. Of course, it could very well also be that they just haven't gotten around to posting the show yet - a few weeks back, they posted the show for two weeks ahead before the one for the week before. Pretty much a wait and see situation. What radio station will be listing it if KOLA doesn't? Many radio stations post on their website what they will air. No one I know,except KOLA does the two week posting that KOLA does.
|
|
|
Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Dec 14, 2021 12:14:03 GMT -5
My money has been on 1987 for the year-end. Speaking of, that's the only year-end that I know of where #1s of prior years in the decade are played before the countdown starts.
|
|
|
Post by Mike on Dec 14, 2021 13:23:38 GMT -5
Here's a fun fact about a show we got last month: Fresh from the desk of Everything You Ever Wondered - And Dared Ask. Anyone else notice all the one-word titles in the countdown on 11/13/82? There were eleven, which was said to be the all-time record (at least, as of mid-1991, it's the record). Those were (in ascending order): Heartbreaker, Athena, Gypsy, Pressure, Nobody, Mickey, Maneater, Muscles, Heartlight, Gloria, Truly.
|
|
|
Post by mkarns on Dec 14, 2021 13:34:37 GMT -5
Here's a fun fact about a show we got last month: Fresh from the desk of Everything You Ever Wondered - And Dared Ask. Anyone else notice all the one-word titles in the countdown on 11/13/82? There were eleven, which was said to be the all-time record (at least, as of mid-1991, it's the record). Those were (in ascending order): Heartbreaker, Athena, Gypsy, Pressure, Nobody, Mickey, Maneater, Muscles, Heartlight, Gloria, Truly. Later iterations of AT40 have had more one-word titles; in some Ryan Seacrest shows in the last decade about half the songs did. 12/4/82 had what is probably the first ever AT40 top 5 with all one word titles (though two were compound words): from #5 to #1, they were Heartlight, Maneater, Mickey, Gloria, and Truly.
|
|
|
Post by Mike on Dec 14, 2021 14:05:34 GMT -5
Later iterations of AT40 have had more one-word titles; in some Ryan Seacrest shows in the last decade about half the songs did. Even just recently, I see there were 12 two weeks ago (not counting "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)"), though with two of them dropping out this past week with no replacements.
|
|