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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2012 9:18:16 GMT -5
Wouldn't it be best to support them in August and September? The fiscal year closes Sept 30 and I would assume that's when they start determine ad budgets and directions for the coming year. That said, other than any rights fees they pay Billboard, these shows are probably very cheap to produce so as long as its not deemed "more trouble than its worth in return" and enough stations air it I doubt it goes anywhere.
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Post by johnnywest on Dec 2, 2012 11:45:45 GMT -5
I'm absolutely shocked that Premiere slighted 1975 like it did this year, then doesn't even offer it as an option for the year-end shows. First, every single optional show so far has been a repeat, so that shouldn't come as a shock. Second, we don't know what XM is going to air. I don't think they've repeated any yearend shows either. Can you imagine the b!thcing if Premiere and XM both aired 1975 at the same time? Third, since the yearend 1970 show hasn't been aired yet, I can't complain. There's always next year for 1975.
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Post by Mike on Dec 2, 2012 14:40:40 GMT -5
Wouldn't it be best to support them in August and September? The fiscal year closes Sept 30 and I would assume that's when they start determine ad budgets and directions for the coming year. That said, other than any rights fees they pay Billboard, these shows are probably very cheap to produce so as long as its not deemed "more trouble than its worth in return" and enough stations air it I doubt it goes anywhere. Given all the new stations added this year, I'd say this has been a great year for the series. As to December... This is a bit surprising; I wonder how the rest of December will play out? I'm thinking that they'll all be early 1980s, since 1984-1986 were just recently done and 1987 will likely be passed over, since they're running year-end shows. I think that the John Lennon show will be run sometime in the next two weeks (most likely next week, since that's the anniversary date of his murder), and then 1981 and '82 or '83 the other two weeks. Ideally, it'd be best to hold '83 over to January, since that's the most recent of the three (81-82-83) to have aired. Although, I forgot for a moment that 12/17/83 hasn't yet aired - so if 12/13/80 is next week, then I'm thinking the '83 show for the week after, and either 12/19/81 OR 12/18/82 for the week after. If the '82 show had already aired and the '81 had not, then...maybe. There is one other possibility I'm thinking of for the last weekly show, but I'm keeping that one to myself.
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Post by briguy52748 on Dec 2, 2012 19:40:56 GMT -5
I'd really love it if some stations ran part 2 of both of the 1970s shows. That is, the top 40 of 1970 one week and the top 50 of 1978 the following week.
Brian
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 31, 2012 20:43:25 GMT -5
Having heard the original Watermark/ABC recordings of the top 100 of both 1977 and 1987 over the last few days, I could not help but notice the differences in editing. It's an irony actually when compared to the regular shows of those years. Whereas the regular shows of 1977 feature a lot of edited songs and the regular shows of 1987 have a combined total that you could count on one hand, the year end shows are the opposite. Of course in 1977, they are still at 3 hours for the regular shows so editing is necessary. But in the year end shows, it is a different ballgame. 40 songs in 3 hours averages out to 13+ songs an hour in 1977 but in the 8 hour year end show, that's 12+ songs an hour. So as a result, songs like "Year of the Cat" that were edited almost every regular show were played in their entirety. In 1987, with 1 or 2 LDDs per show, that's 41 or 42 songs in 4 hours for a 10+ song per hour average while it's the same 12+ song per hour average in the year end show as in 1977(both featured a montage of #1s..actually twice in 1977). So they had to edit about half the songs in the year end show. Of course most of this is a function of how much longer songs were in 1987 than 1977. Most 80s year end shows and 90s for that matter had a lot of editing for the same reason. Not so much in the 70s ironically.
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Post by mayberrymiles on Jan 2, 2013 19:22:40 GMT -5
This may be a bit off-topic, but we all know how the Gibb family dominated the year-end countdown for 1978 on AT 40. I was just looking at some year-end charts from various radio stations and noticed that Elton John dominated the WLS Top 80 for 1975 in a similar fashion with 4 solo hits among the top 10 and singing back-up on a 5th (Bad Blood). I'm sure there are other instances of local stations riding one artist to a stronger degree than AT 40. If you check out the WLS chart, note the #2 song, which I don't believe was ever a single and thus never charted on AT 40.
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Post by Hervard on Jan 2, 2013 22:10:04 GMT -5
^Ah yes, Pinball Wizard. Though not released as a single, it did chart on R&R, though it did have an erratic chart run. It wasted no time climbing up to #9 in its fifth week on, then dropped back to #16 and had a second wind, moving back up to #11, remaining there for another week, then moved back down. In all, it spent fifteen weeks on the chart.
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