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Post by saltrek on Nov 29, 2015 20:48:43 GMT -5
Ha ha. I heard that one too. Never made the top 10. Peaked at #11 on 1/30/82.
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Post by doofus67 on Nov 30, 2015 1:27:10 GMT -5
Ha ha. I heard that one too. Never made the top 10. Peaked at #11 on 1/30/82. Right! The only way I can explain this is, for some bizarre reason, someone managed to confuse this song with Soft Cell's "Tainted Love." We all know the latter debuted on the Hot 100 the week of 1/16/82, then didn't make the top 10 until 7/10/82, its 26th week on the chart.
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Post by mellongraig on Dec 5, 2015 16:10:55 GMT -5
These errors just won't stop, will they?
At it again on the 1986 show, they said in the weeks to come, this would become Carly's 12th top 40 hit. Huh? It's already in the 40...
And in the previous week for the 1981 show, the medley craze was going on and Nina said this tune would be the one that would set that fad in motion. Nope - Royal Philharmonic only followed the trend started by Ritchie Family and already amped up earlier this year by Stars on 45 and The Beach Boys.
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Post by doofus67 on Dec 7, 2015 21:01:23 GMT -5
Also during the 12/6/86 countdown, they introduced Kool & the Gang's "Victory" at #28 by calling it the fourth single from the Emergency album. Nope. Those singles were "Misled", "Fresh", "Cherish", and the title track. "Victory" came off the follow-up album, Forever. Fun fact: It was the last in their string of seven top-40 hits in a row with one-word titles.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Dec 19, 2015 15:55:28 GMT -5
On the 1985 show after 'Zoomin they said Aretha would be back on the countdown as one of Dionne's "Friends". Her and Dionne might be buds but Warwicks's Friends were Elt, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Dec 19, 2015 22:52:42 GMT -5
Do they not know anything or are they sheep who just read what they are given without questioning it?
This is disgusting sometimes how glaring the errors are!
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Post by skuncle on Dec 22, 2015 5:45:23 GMT -5
You know, I do believe they just read what is given to them. That's what they did at MTV as well. MTV just had better researchers. Also I don't think they are big fans of 80's music, the MTV era stuff probably, but anything else not so much. What's interesting is during their own shows thruout the day, they are fine. It's the countdown where things fall apart.
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Post by Michael1973 on Dec 25, 2015 11:51:17 GMT -5
On the 1985 show after 'Zoomin they said Aretha would be back on the countdown as one of Dionne's "Friends". Her and Dionne might be buds but Warwicks's Friends were Elt, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder. I was going to post about this, but since you already did I will mention that in the very same segment, Alan Hunter refers to "Burning Heart" as the song that revived Survivor's career after "Eye of the Tiger." You know, except for the 4 top 20 hits they had in between...
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Post by mellongraig on Jan 9, 2016 2:18:58 GMT -5
New year and still the same old mistakes:
This time they introduced Breathe as a "2 hit wonder" (Hands To Heaven, How Can I Fall) - oops! They had 5 top 40 songs altogether during their career in the US.
EDIT: Another error, saying that Taylor Dayne had 18 top 10s - too much! 7 is the actual number. Also, they said Sheena Easton had the #1 song around this point in 1980 - wait until spring 1981 to get one.
Do these guys not care? If this keeps up I think subscribers at some point will be lost.
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Post by JMW on Jan 9, 2016 18:07:32 GMT -5
Do these guys not care? If this keeps up I think subscribers at some point will be lost. I'm willing to bet that 99.9% of Sirius XM subscribers don't care.
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Post by skuncle on Jan 10, 2016 15:09:11 GMT -5
Do these guys not care? If this keeps up I think subscribers at some point will be lost. I'm willing to bet that 99.9% of Sirius XM subscribers don't care. I wouldn't say 99% of listeners, but q good deal of them probably don't even notice. It's only the obsessives among us that pick out these mistakes. I don't usually pick up on which hit was which for the artist, but I do pick up hem they get album or song titles wrong, or which year certain songs came out. But I doubt most people driving around ever notice this stuff.
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Post by mellongraig on Feb 6, 2016 0:41:34 GMT -5
Seems like almost every week now the show appears to feature errors by the VJs one way or another, most commonly during the pre-MTV days.
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Post by mellongraig on Feb 27, 2016 2:42:27 GMT -5
Here they go again - broken record every week:
Martha said Lover Girl was heading for #1 - I guess I could call this a jinx as it fell short, peaking at #4.
Also, they said Wheels Are Turnin' was their follow up to Hi Infidelity - only that they missed Good Trouble in between.
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Post by doofus67 on Feb 28, 2016 14:00:33 GMT -5
Also, they said "Too Late for Goodbyes" was Julian Lennon's first hit. That would be "Valotte." Thought we had this problem fixed...
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Post by doofus67 on Mar 14, 2016 2:42:02 GMT -5
Oh, boy. Here's a doozy for you. On this week's show for 3/12/83, "Down Under" was referred to as "Men at Work's debut"! My family first got hooked up for cable in the summer of '82, when one of MTV's most popular, and most played, video clips was the one for "Who Can It Be Now." All that song did on the Billboard charts was go all the way to #1.
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