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Post by jlthorpe on Jul 31, 2022 14:52:51 GMT -5
It failed to hit the Hot 100, but Glenn Frey's "Partytown" was down to #11 on Billboard's Top Tracks rock chart on today's date in 1982. The song previously peaked at #8, but would rebound the following week and reach a new peak of #5.
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 3, 2022 19:17:35 GMT -5
New Edition reached #51 on the Hot 100 with "With You All the Way". On the August 2, 1986 chart, it dropped from its peak position to #61.
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 7, 2022 10:10:33 GMT -5
This weekend is the 34th anniversary of Casey's last American Top 40 countdown before being replaced by Shadoe, and on the August 6, 1988 Hot 100 from that weekend, Cyndi Lauper was spending her second week at her peak of #54 with a song from her movie Vibes that could describe fans' reaction to Casey's last show - "Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)".
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 10, 2022 19:38:03 GMT -5
"Still Loving You" by Scorpions was in its last week on the Hot 100 for August 11, 1984; the former #64 power ballad was down to #92 before dropping off.
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 14, 2022 11:01:47 GMT -5
Hearing this song played on the radio in the early-to-mid-90s, years after it hit the Hot 100, I thought it was by the then-popular rock band Soul Asylum; the word "soul" is even in the group's name. But The Plimsouls were a California band whose "A Million Miles Away" was at #98 on the August 13, 1983 Hot 100, down from its peak of #82 the previous week.
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 17, 2022 19:48:51 GMT -5
It's unfair to consider this a lost classic, since it's probably this artist's best known solo song. Despite that, it only reached #44 for John Fogerty in 1985, with its last week on the Hot 100 at #100 on today's chart date that year. Maybe MTV audiences at the time weren't interested in a music video with stock baseball footage.
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Post by 80sat40fan on Aug 18, 2022 10:51:42 GMT -5
^ I checked the Cashbox and Radio & Records archives. "Centerfield" also peaked at #44 on Cashbox, and it did not make R&R's Top 40. That's pretty amazing given the amount of airplay the song receives today. "Centerfield" peaked at #4 on the Top Rock Tracks chart.
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 19, 2022 20:13:21 GMT -5
There are probably three reasons why the song did so poorly during its original release, or why it's more well-known and played today:
1. The song was the third release from the Centerfield album, after "The Old Man Down the Road" and "Rock and Roll Girls". It may have done better being the first or second. 2. The song was originally the B-side to "Rock and Roll Girls" and for some reason, it charted separately instead of as a tag-along B-side. I wonder if that affected its chart performance at the time (maybe its sales were better during the A-side's run and fell off as "Centerfield" was getting airplay). 3. Being played at baseball games in the years since its release may have helped increase its popularity, such that it's remembered more than the first two songs.
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Post by retrodaddy on Aug 20, 2022 10:07:37 GMT -5
I was a huge baseball fan as a kid. Couldn't get enough of Centerfield and the accompanying video.
I also like the first two singles from that album, and the video for The Old Man Down The Road is pretty cool imo.
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 21, 2022 16:25:41 GMT -5
Debuting at #88 on the August 23, 1980 Hot 100, "I Got You" by Split Enz would reach #53 and become this Crowded House precursor's only Hot 100 hit.
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 24, 2022 19:33:11 GMT -5
The official video was a live recording, so the studio version of "Anotherloverholenyohead" is also posted below. Prince and The Revolution took the song to #63, and it was down to #68 on the August 23, 1986 Hot 100.
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 28, 2022 18:50:44 GMT -5
Although it wouldn't hit the Hot 100 until mid-October 1982, the rap classic "The Message" by Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five featuring: Melle Mel and Duke Bootee was already up to #102 on the Bubbling Under chart on today's date that year, reaching #62 once making it to the big chart.
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 31, 2022 20:19:40 GMT -5
It peaked at #51 on the Hot 100 the previous week, but on the September 2, 1989 chart, "Let the Day Begin" by The Call dropped 22 notches to #73. This was possibly due to, according to Wikipedia, a shortage of printed copies of the single while the band's label MCA was in the middle of changing record pressing plants, which ended up halting its success.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 4, 2022 10:06:25 GMT -5
A Flock of Seagulls' last Hot 100 hit, "The More You Live, the More You Love", was at its peak position of #56 on the chart this week in 1984.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 7, 2022 19:58:51 GMT -5
This week in 1988, the first Alternative Rock Tracks chart (then known as Modern Rock Tracks) debuted in Billboard. The first #1 on that chart was "Peek-a-Boo" by Siouxsie and the Banshees, a #53 Hot 100 hit, but today I'm going to focus on a song that did not reach the Hot 100 at all. It's a song that I previously posted last year in the Lost '90s Classic thread as a remix version from the film Dumb and Dumber, but the original version of "Crash" by The Primitives debuted at #3 on that first chart, then fell from that peak after that. If the chart debuted a little earlier, who knows if it would have gotten higher.
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