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Post by lasvegaskid on May 21, 2014 16:25:12 GMT -5
Also new this week! Michael Jackson sets new record with time between first and latest top 10 hits, a record-breaking 42 weeks, six months and one week.
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Post by briguy52748 on May 21, 2014 17:10:37 GMT -5
Also new this week! Michael Jackson sets new record with time between first and latest top 10 hits, a record-breaking 42 weeks, six months and one week. How about longest span for a songwriter between first and most recent top 40 hits. That would be Paul Anka, who is co-writer of "Love Never Felt So Good." Fifty-seven years ago (i.e., 1957), it was his ode to "Diana." Wonder if Ryan Seacrest would play even so much of a snippet of "Diana"? If that happens, would that make "Diana" (at 57 years old) the oldest recording to be played on a current AT40 show at the time of its first airing? I know back in the 1970s (maybe 1973 or 1974), Casey Kasem played a bit of Italian opera singer Enrico Caruso's songs from the 1910s, and they weren't yet 60 years old at the time a snippet of them was played. Brian |
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Post by briguy52748 on May 21, 2014 21:16:25 GMT -5
Or, with the rise of electronic, electro-dance instrumentals, the 27-plus year span between instrumentals topping the Hot 100? From the "Miami Vice Theme" by Jan Hammer in 1985 to "Harlem Shake" by Baauer a year ago, there were zero No. 1 instrumental songs. On the flip side, the 1970s were rarely without instrumentals, and every year from 1974 to 1977 had at least two topping the chart.
Incidentally, only one instrumental ever topped the Hot Country Songs chart, at least since 1958 with the all-encompassing chart -- "Buckaroo" by Buck Owens and the Buckaroos in December 1965.
Brian
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Post by freakyflybry on May 22, 2014 0:33:19 GMT -5
New this week! Michael Jackson becomes only artist to notch a top 10 Hot 100 hit in each of five decades! Actually, I believe "I Want You Back" by the Jackson 5 entered the top 10 at the very end of the 60's, so if you count that alongside his solo work, he'd have top 10's in SIX straight decades! |
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Post by pgfromwp on May 22, 2014 7:22:15 GMT -5
Just over 50 years ago, the Singing Nun (a/k/a Jeanine Deckers) charted at #1 for four consecutive weeks (in December 1963) with "Dominique". I can't envision any catholic nun from any religious order breaking that record. That phenomenon was largely due to its timing, just preceding The Beatles chart dominance in 1964 and the overall British invasion's impact on American popular music.  |
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Post by briguy52748 on May 22, 2014 7:55:38 GMT -5
I made a typo correction to Enrico Caruso (note the correct spelling), the Italian opera singer who had a piece of one of his recordings from the 1910s played on an AT40 program in the early-to-mid 1970s. Does anyone remember what that song was, specifically?
Brian
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Post by woolebull on May 22, 2014 12:45:33 GMT -5
Or, with the rise of electronic, electro-dance instrumentals, the 27-plus year span between instrumentals topping the Hot 100? From the "Miami Vice Theme" by Jan Hammer in 1985 to "Harlem Shake" by Baauer a year ago, there were zero No. 1 instrumental songs. I wouldn't consider "Harlem Shake" an instrumental. There were words to the song. Not many, but there were words. |
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Post by marathon69 on May 22, 2014 16:14:39 GMT -5
On this week's 1985 show, Casey mentioned that in 1 year ONJ hit the top 40 solo, with 2 different duet partners, & with a group. In a calendar year, or just a 52 week period? If it's the latter, Stevie Nicks did that as well, in '81-'82. |
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on May 22, 2014 19:21:27 GMT -5
On this week's 1985 show, Casey mentioned that in 1 year ONJ hit the top 40 solo, with 2 different duet partners, & with a group. In a calendar year, or just a 52 week period? If it's the latter, Stevie Nicks did that as well, in '81-'82.I'm not sure Fleetwood Mac counts since she is a member of said group whereas the question applies to "______ and ______". But "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" was a duet with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers which counts as a group and thus she charted with just one solo duet partner (Don Henley). |
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Post by johnnywest on Jun 26, 2014 20:33:42 GMT -5
A female rapper (Iggy Azalea) having the top 2 songs in the USA both in Billboard and AT40.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Jun 27, 2014 8:52:58 GMT -5
Or, with the rise of electronic, electro-dance instrumentals, the 27-plus year span between instrumentals topping the Hot 100? From the "Miami Vice Theme" by Jan Hammer in 1985 to "Harlem Shake" by Baauer a year ago, there were zero No. 1 instrumental songs. I wouldn't consider "Harlem Shake" an instrumental. There were words to the song. Not many, but there were words. Much as I hate the song, sounds like a bad case of flatulence, there's not much more in the way of words as there is on several instrumental hits like Fly Robin Fly, Gonna Fly Now & TSOP. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 26, 2014 10:59:54 GMT -5
Not sure if anybody else did this in classic era. Probably has post 1991 with "featuring" or with a guest rapper. Not sure if that counts.
In 1984 Kim Carnes charted solo (Heart Beat Faster, I Pretend), as a duo (Make No Mistake w/Barbra Streisand), and as a trio (What About Me w/Kenny Rogers and James Ingram).
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Post by johnnywest on Sept 8, 2014 21:11:14 GMT -5
Recently on AT40, "Stay With Me" went 7-6-5-4-3-2-1. I don't think that's ever happened before on CHR.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Sept 8, 2014 22:29:58 GMT -5
Olivia Newton-John did it in 1980, in a way. Solo (Magic), duet with Andy Gibb (I Can't Help It) & duet with a band ELO (Xanadu).
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Post by renfield75 on Sept 9, 2014 11:32:21 GMT -5
Prince did it within a year's span in '84-'85: "When Doves Cry" was credited to him solely, his next three hits were credited to Prince & The Revolution, and the final single from Purple Rain, "Take Me With U," was credited to Prince & The Revolution with Apollonia.
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