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Post by johnnywest on Mar 24, 2022 22:20:23 GMT -5
For 2017 I would say “Look What You Made Me Do” by Taylor Swift.
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Post by woolebull on Mar 25, 2022 12:56:02 GMT -5
For 2017 I would say “Look What You Made Me Do” by Taylor Swift. It had a wild run for sure. Debuted in the top 10, got to number one, and then bottomed out. On Dees I think it had a drop from number 3 to like 28.
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Post by johnnywest on Sept 15, 2023 15:51:17 GMT -5
Looking at this decade on AT40:
2020 - Falling - Trevor Daniel 2021 - Lonely -Justin Bieber & benny blanco 2022 - Bad Habit - Steve Lacy 2023 - Karma - Taylor Swift
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Post by chrislc on Sept 15, 2023 16:17:40 GMT -5
Wow seeing this thread again almost 11 years after it started is melancholy at best. So many of these #1 songs of the 70s and 80s are totally unfamiliar to so many people now! It's a little scary.
Are a few of the hits that the consensus considered "most forgotten" in 2012 now having achieved the status of "so forgotten that they're remembered"? I'm thinking of My Ding-A-Ling, for example. And Stars On 45. Maybe still not played on the radio, but then what IS anymore?
Sooner or later we're going to get to the point at which there is ONE hit from the 1960s and ONE hit from the 1970s, etc., that people hear with any frequency at all. What will those hits be?
Off the top of my head, I can't name one hit from the 1910s or 1920s that fit that description anymore.
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Post by mga707 on Sept 15, 2023 17:34:32 GMT -5
Off the top of my head, I can't name one hit from the 1910s or 1920s that fit that description anymore. 1920s: "Mammy" (also known as "My Mammy") by Al Jolson, 1927. From "The Jazz Singer", the movie that was a sensation because it was the first 'talkie' (barely, at that--Just the songs and a few dialogue lines were heard. The rest was on good old dialogue cards, like any other silent film). Made a ton of money for Warner Bros. and made Jolson a superstar, with that as his 'signature' song. And yes, in the film he sings it in blackface. Saw it not too long ago on TCM. Way better than the 1980 remake! The Happenings had a #13 hit in the summer of 1967 with a remake of the song.
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Post by chrislc on Sept 15, 2023 19:05:00 GMT -5
Off the top of my head, I can't name one hit from the 1910s or 1920s that fit that description anymore. 1920s: "Mammy" (also known as "My Mammy") by Al Jolson, 1927. From "The Jazz Singer", the movie that was a sensation because it was the first 'talkie' (barely, at that--Just the songs and a few dialogue lines were heard. The rest was on good old dialogue cards, like any other silent film). Made a ton of money for Warner Bros. and made Jolson a superstar, with that as his 'signature' song. And yes, in the film he sings it in blackface. Saw it not too long ago on TCM. Way better than the 1980 remake! The Happenings had a #13 hit in the summer of 1967 with a remake of the song. I remember back in the 1960s and 1970s very often hearing and seeing Jolson singing that song. There's one example of a film clip that has been seen less and less and for an understandable reason other than merely the passage of time. I think by now for that decade it must be Rhapsody In Blue. But I needed Google to remind me of that. For decades I'm sure Over There must have been the most remembered song of the 1910s. But what percentage of Americans know it now? Maybe 5%?
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Post by mkarns on Sept 17, 2023 10:53:01 GMT -5
Looking at this decade on AT40: 2020 - Falling - Trevor Daniel 2021 - Lonely -Justin Bieber & benny blanco 2022 - Bad Habit - Steve Lacy 2023 - Karma - Taylor Swift I can agree with most of those. I can't even remember how "Falling" goes and it's only three years old. "Lonely" is one of umpteen Bieber hits over the past several years (he was never once out of the top 40 for over three years from 2019-22) and inevitably some will quickly fade. I like "Bad Habit" but it feels like a random hit, and it's too soon to say about "Karma" but it is one of three #1 hits for Taylor so far in 2023 so could be the one that ends up falling through the proverbial cracks.
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