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Post by woolebull on Sept 14, 2012 22:12:25 GMT -5
I saw something that I thought was a little different studying the 1987 charts: On 2/28/87, "Livin' On A Prayer"" spent its third week at number one, losing its bullet. The same week, "Jacob's Ladder" climbed to number 2, with a bullet. The next week, both songs stayed at the same spots with "Prayer" having no bullet and "Ladder" maintaining its bullet.
Maybe I'm just looking at it wrong, but doesn't that seem a bit odd? Has a song without a bullet held at number one with a number two (with a bullet) not being able to overtake it?
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 15, 2012 5:25:52 GMT -5
I would think that's possible if the song at #1 was so far ahead of the song at #2 in terms of airplay/sales that it can lose its bullet and still remain at #1.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Feb 4, 2024 21:36:12 GMT -5
On this week's Supersized 1974 only two of #31-40 were bulleted. Was there ever a ten song stretch with more blanks?
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Post by djjoe1960 on Feb 5, 2024 3:17:26 GMT -5
Bullets (or stars) indicate a song improving its point total over the previous week. A song may still move up the chart , even if it doesn't gain points, because of the point total of the songs surrounding it. Although, as indicated, it is an unusual situation.
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Post by pizzzzza on Feb 5, 2024 20:03:21 GMT -5
Wow - just noticed this thread is almost 12 years old!
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Post by mga707 on Feb 5, 2024 21:13:25 GMT -5
Wow - just noticed this thread is almost 12 years old! '...Night Of the Living Thread'...  |
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Post by woolebull on Feb 6, 2024 17:28:34 GMT -5
Wow - just noticed this thread is almost 12 years old! I was actually thinking of this thread when I listened to 1/31/87 the other day and "Jacob's Ladder" debuted at number 40. Lol, wild this thread was started twelve years ago. |
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Post by mstgator on Feb 8, 2024 21:19:46 GMT -5
On this week's Supersized 1974 only two of #31-40 were bulleted. Was there ever a ten song stretch with more blanks? On 6/23/73, there were no bulleted songs in the Top 40 (the highest bullet was at #51). Of course, that was during a four week stretch where Billboard drastically reduced the number of bullets awarded, so it's probably not fair to include any of those weeks as an answer to your question. 🙂 |
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Post by dth1971 on Feb 9, 2024 21:28:12 GMT -5
Was there a time in 1982-1983 when the bullets were both black/colored stars and white stars?
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Post by mga707 on Feb 10, 2024 0:52:39 GMT -5
Was there a time in 1982-1983 when the bullets were both black/colored stars and white stars? Yes. And for part of 1980 ans all of 1981 as well. The use of both solid-colored stars and white stars with black or colored outlines began the week ending October 11, 1980, and continued through the week ending June 18, 1983. You can see for yourself here: www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard-Magazine.htm |
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