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Post by mga707 on Aug 28, 2021 10:24:56 GMT -5
I think "Electric Youth" by Debbie Gibson deserved to be top ten, but while it did take a jump from #16 to #11 in May 1989, it stalled at #11 for three weeks in a row, and then jolted out of the top 40 two weeks later. This was perhaps a telltale sign that Debbie Gibson's popularity was beginning to fall out of favor by that point, due to New Kids on the Block becoming the new obsession by young people. Her career hit a wall pretty hard. She went from her biggest hit ever to "unable to hit the top ten again" in no time flat. Arch-rival Tiffany's career hit the same 'brick wall' at the same time--she also went from a #6 hit to a #35 'miss' to 'Tiffany who?' in that same 1989 time frame. |
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 28, 2021 20:01:57 GMT -5
Go West "We Close Our Eyes" #41 1985 "Don't Look Down The Sequel" #39 1987 "What You Won't Do For Love" #55 1993 The Kane Gang "Motortown" #36 1987-This song reminds me of Steely Dan Soulsister "Way To Your Heart" #41 1989-one of Billboard's biggest travesties of 1989. This act must have got little to no promotion. It worked for FYC's "Good Thing", but I liked this 60's Motown style song better. The Soulsister song ("The Way To Your Heart") did make R&R's top 40 then used by Casey and Rick Dees, but was locked out of reaching Shadoe Stevens AT40 territory (The top 40 portion of Billboard's Hot 100, of course) thanks to 2 Live Crew's sales on a "Me So" single! |
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Post by retrodaddy on Aug 29, 2021 15:04:20 GMT -5
Her career hit a wall pretty hard. She went from her biggest hit ever to "unable to hit the top ten again" in no time flat. Arch-rival Tiffany's career hit the same 'brick wall' at the same time--she also went from a #6 hit to a #35 'miss' to 'Tiffany who?' in that same 1989 time frame. While the pop scene and those two singers' audience were changing, I think Tiff's chart decline had more to do with her material than Deb's decline. I heard Radio Romance for the first time since '89 on KZOY (they sure play an eclectic mix of songs, which I really dig), and I had fortunately forgotten how bad of a song RR is. Even for '89 Top 40 radio it was bad. Maybe it deserved a better fate given Tiff had been cranking out hits since her debut single, but RR wasn't top 10 or even top 20 material imo. Electric Youth peaking at #11 wasn't bad, imo. And her next single, No More Rhyme, peaked at #16. NMR is a good but not great song imo, and a peak of 16 was a fairly respectable spot for that song. I think where we saw the decline was the release of the fourth single from Electric Youth, We Could Be Together. It's a decent song but it came and went in a hurry, peaking at 71. In comparison, Deb's fifth single from Out Of The Blue, Staying Together, peaked at #22. The songs are fairly comparable in quality, imo, but certainly didn't fare the same. Part of it can be attributed to ST following a #1 song, but not all of it. Deb's next single, Anything Is Possible, came out about a year later and peaked at #26. Given how quickly the pop world was changing and Deb's audience was getting beyond OOTB and EY material, I think she did well to score a top 30 hit with AIP. It's a bummer she couldn't keep it up, especially since I really liked some of the songs on her 4th album, Body Mind Soul. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 29, 2021 15:38:01 GMT -5
Arch-rival Tiffany's career hit the same 'brick wall' at the same time--she also went from a #6 hit to a #35 'miss' to 'Tiffany who?' in that same 1989 time frame. While the pop scene and those two singers' audience were changing, I think Tiff's chart decline had more to do with her material than Deb's decline. I heard Radio Romance for the first time since '89 on KZOY (they sure play an eclectic mix of songs, which I really dig), and I had fortunately forgotten how bad of a song RR is. Even for '89 Top 40 radio it was bad. Maybe it deserved a better fate given Tiff had been cranking out hits since her debut single, but RR wasn't top 10 or even top 20 material imo. Electric Youth peaking at #11 wasn't bad, imo. And her next single, No More Rhyme, peaked at #16. NMR is a good but not great song imo, and a peak of 16 was a fairly respectable spot for that song. I think where we saw the decline was the release of the fourth single from Electric Youth, We Could Be Together. It's a decent song but it came and went in a hurry, peaking at 71. In comparison, Deb's fifth single from Out Of The Blue, Staying Together, peaked at #22. The songs are fairly comparable in quality, imo, but certainly didn't fare the same. Part of it can be attributed to ST following a #1 song, but not all of it. Deb's next single, Anything Is Possible, came out about a year later and peaked at #26. Given how quickly the pop world was changing and Deb's audience was getting beyond OOTB and EY material, I think she did well to score a top 30 hit with AIP. It's a bummer she couldn't keep it up, especially since I really liked some of the songs on her 4th album, Body Mind Soul. You gotta remember radio in 88/89. You had stations still playing Hall & Oates, Chicago and Elt, Others playing Pebbles, Lisa Lisa, Bobby Brown and whatever Madonna clone, still others Guns 'N Roses, White Lion, and Poison, all trying to exist under the pop umbrella and a shrinking number of artists that could bridge the gap between the three. Debbie and Tiffy couldn't. Neither could Tina, Cyndi, Belinda, etc whose 89 albums didn't come close to matching prior efforts. |
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Post by Hervard on Aug 31, 2021 9:23:41 GMT -5
That's too bad "We Could Be Together" flopped - that was one of the best songs from the album - an upbeat, feel-good type of song that definitely deserved a higher peak than #71. Had it been the first or second single from Electric Youth, it would likely have peaked a lot higher. I was also hoping she'd release "Should've Been The One", but after "We Could Be Together" bombed so bad, I should have known that there would be no further singles from Electric Youth.
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Post by Jessica on Oct 16, 2021 20:07:43 GMT -5
Love “Holiday” by The Other Ones. Shame it only peaked at #29.
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Post by at40nut on Oct 18, 2021 10:31:35 GMT -5
Love “Holiday” by The Other Ones. Shame it only peaked at #29. 1987 seemed to be the year where the songs the didn't even make the Top 20 were the best songs from that year. Someone mentioned that Loverboy's "Notorious" should have been a bigger hit, and I agree with that assessment also. There should be a thread dedicated to 1987 alone with songs that should have been bigger hits, but that obviously would be redundant. |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Oct 18, 2021 13:45:43 GMT -5
Love “Holiday” by The Other Ones. Shame it only peaked at #29. 1987 seemed to be the year where the songs the didn't even make the Top 20 were the best songs from that year. Someone mentioned that Loverboy's "Notorious" should have been a bigger hit, and I agree with that assessment also. There should be a thread dedicated to 1987 alone with songs that should have been bigger hits, but that obviously would be redundant. There are a few that don't care much for 1987 musically, or part of that year. Not me. I'm definitely on board with a thread for 1987. Thinking it would best belong in the "General Music Discussion" folder, though. When looking back upon my life, if I could pick any year to go back to or re-live, 1987 would be one of my top choices. |
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Post by Jessica on May 25, 2022 21:56:00 GMT -5
From this week’s 1987 show. I just love “Heartbreak Beat” by Psychedelic Furs. It only got up to #26 and should have charted much higher IM0.
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Post by retrodaddy on May 25, 2022 22:13:06 GMT -5
From this week’s 1987 show. I just love “Heartbreak Beat” by Psychedelic Furs. It only got up to #26 and should have charted much higher IM0. It's such a great tune. There were a lot of terrific new wave / alternative songs which peaked in the lower half of the top 40, and I get why that happened. They just didn't sound mainstream enough to pop audiences to get into the top 10 imo. Ship of Fools from a little earlier in '87 falls into the same category imo. |
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Post by friarboy on May 26, 2022 7:11:05 GMT -5
Love “Holiday” by The Other Ones. Shame it only peaked at #29. Loved that when it came out. IMO though We Are What We Are should have been a massive hit for them, and I remember it being big at college radio. |
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Post by Jessica on Apr 20, 2023 5:54:05 GMT -5
“Mama Used To Say” by Junior. Should have been a huge song IMO. It’s a shame it only peaked at number 30 on the charts. It’s a very catchy and hummable song, wonder why it didn’t chart higher.
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Post by LC on Apr 21, 2023 8:18:57 GMT -5
Sometimes songs become bigger in a "second life." "Genius of Love" by Tom Tom Club peaked at #31, but the groove has been sampled by more than 170 other songs, including Mariah Carey's #1 "Fantasy."
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Apr 21, 2023 9:38:42 GMT -5
Sometimes songs become bigger in a "second life." "Genius of Love" by Tom Tom Club peaked at #31, but the groove has been sampled by more than 170 other songs, including Mariah Carey's #1 "Fantasy." Last year, we could add "Big Energy" by Latto to that list, which like "Fantasy", hit #1. |
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Post by secretman on Aug 26, 2024 16:16:22 GMT -5
Taking a time to read this thread and couldn't find "Just Like Heaven" - The Cure, #40 for one week, 01-09-1988. |
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