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Post by jlthorpe on Feb 23, 2022 19:24:10 GMT -5
The lead singer of Soft Cell, Marc Almond, had a solo hit in 1989. This week that year, "Tears Run Rings" was at #75 on the Hot 100 after having peaked at #67 (included are both the U.S. and U.K. videos; the U.S. video begins with some MTV2 promos because that was the best quality version on YouTube).
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Post by jlthorpe on Feb 27, 2022 17:37:51 GMT -5
Debuting at #79 on the Hot 100 this week in 1983 is the first chart hit for Berlin which only reached #62 - "Sex (I'm A...)".
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 2, 2022 9:54:05 GMT -5
Five years before their only Top 40 hit "I Touch Myself", Divinyls reached the Hot 100 with their song "Pleasure and Pain". This week in 1986, it was in its last week on the chart at #83, after having peaked at #76.
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 6, 2022 16:04:21 GMT -5
With the follow-up single to "Video Killed the Radio Star", The Buggles were at #20 on the British singles chart this week in 1980, after peaking at #16 the previous week, with "Living in the Plastic Age".
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 9, 2022 12:09:27 GMT -5
Spending its second week at its #47 peak on the Hot 100 this week in 1987 was the country rock band Lone Justice with their biggest chart hit "Shelter".
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Post by dth1971 on Mar 9, 2022 22:02:24 GMT -5
Spending its second week at its #47 peak on the Hot 100 this week in 1987 was the country rock band Lone Justice with their biggest chart hit "Shelter". Featuring lead singer Maria McKee! It made the WYTZ Z-95 Chicago survey in early 1987!
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 13, 2022 13:37:01 GMT -5
A first and a second: The first Hot 100 hit for Mötley Crüe was spending its second week at its peak position of #54 this week in 1984 - "Looks That Kill".
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 16, 2022 10:52:11 GMT -5
At its peak position of #77 on the Hot 100 this week in 1985 is the song that kicked off the Roxanne Wars, a series of rap battles based around a character named Roxanne. The original hit - "Roxanne, Roxanne" by UTFO - led to an answer record called "Roxanne's Revenge" by Roxanne Shante (that "Bubbled Under" at #109), which was followed by UTFO putting out their own response "The Real Roxanne" with an act named The Real Roxanne doing the rapping, and the Roxanne Wars took off from there. All three initial songs in the Roxanne Wars are posted.
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 20, 2022 13:49:47 GMT -5
March 21, 1981 (41 years ago this week) was the first Mainstream Rock chart published in Billboard (then known as Top Tracks). Among the Top 40 hits by REO Speedwagon, Styx, and Phil Collins was an airplay-only song that was at #22 that first week and went up to #5. Here's "Message of Love" by The Pretenders.
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 23, 2022 19:46:09 GMT -5
Just in time for the Oscars this weekend: The Oscar for Best Original Song for 1988 went to Carly Simon for the theme from the Melanie Griffith/Harrison Ford/Sigourney Weaver film Working Girl. This week in 1989, "Let the River Run" was up to #60 on the Hot 100 but only reached #49, becoming the first winning song since 1979's ("It Goes Like It Goes" from Norma Rae) to not reach the Top 40.
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 27, 2022 9:54:21 GMT -5
Debuting on the Hot 100 this week in 1982 at #78, and becoming this act's third song to peak at #41 (after "Good Times Roll" and "It's All I Can Do"), here's "Since You're Gone" by The Cars.
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 30, 2022 19:22:23 GMT -5
The Led Zeppelin-esque hard rock band Kingdom Come debuted on the Hot 100 at #93 this week in 1988 but only reached #69 with "Get It On".
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Post by jlthorpe on Apr 3, 2022 10:58:26 GMT -5
Climbing up to its peak position of #81 this week in 1980 before completely falling off the Hot 100, is Vaughan Mason and Crew's roller skating disco anthem "Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll Pt. 1".
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Post by jlthorpe on Apr 6, 2022 18:35:22 GMT -5
Ozzy Osbourne's first solo Hot 100 entry "Shot in the Dark" was at #80 on the Hot 100 this week in 1986 but only reached #68.
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Post by jlthorpe on Apr 10, 2022 15:27:48 GMT -5
It was on its way to #58 on the Hot 100, but this week in 1983, "Mexican Radio" by Wall of Voodoo was just south of the border at #60.
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