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Post by jlthorpe on May 31, 2023 19:23:28 GMT -5
Back-to-back during their last week on the Hot 100 this week in 1983 are two songs which each spent five total weeks on the chart. First, at #97, is Todd Rundgren with his last Hot 100 chart hit, "Bang the Drum All Day", a song which only peaked at #63 despite being one of Todd's more well-known songs.
Then, at #98, was the first of two Hot 100 hits for the band The Call, "The Walls Came Down" (their second hit, "Let the Day Begin", was posted here last year). "Walls" reached #74 during its short chart run.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 4, 2023 12:05:36 GMT -5
On the Dance/Disco Top 80 chart from the date of my fifth birthday (June 5, 1982) is a song from a Scottish act that had to wait almost three years before charting on the Hot 100 with "Don't You (Forget About Me)". That week, "Promised You a Miracle" by Simple Minds spent its second week at its peak of #65.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 7, 2023 20:06:11 GMT -5
Pink Floyd's follow-up to "Another Brick in the Wall Part II" didn't manage to hit #1 or even the Top 40 like its predecessor did. "Run Like Hell" only peaked at #53, and dropped down from that position to #75 on the June 7, 1980 Hot 100.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 11, 2023 13:38:07 GMT -5
Up a notch from #60 to its peak of #59 on the Hot 100 this week in 1985, here's Klymaxx with "Meeting in the Ladies Room".
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Post by trekkielo on Jun 14, 2023 12:03:00 GMT -5
This past week's lost 80's classic from June 12th, 1982, was at #105, it peaked one week before, 6/5/1982 at #103, for its now 3/4 week stay! Here's Buckner & Garcia's follow-up to "Pac-Man Fever" and the album's 2nd single, "Do the Donkey Kong"... PS-The duo performed both of their singles on American Bandstand, March 20th, 1982!
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Post by matt on Jun 14, 2023 15:27:15 GMT -5
Here's one from the Hot 100 of this week's 6/21/86 show: it was at #45 and would climb one more notch to peak at #44. Great song by the S.O.S. Band that was produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, who of course were all over top 40 radio throughout 1986.
A band that was worthy of much more success on the Hot 100 than just one top 40 hit.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 14, 2023 20:17:07 GMT -5
Here's the first single released in the U.S. from The Cure's album Disintegration. While the follow-up "Love Song" was a #2 Hot 100 hit, "Fascination Street" didn't do as well, peaking at #46 this week in 1989. It was a success on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, however, staying at #1 for seven weeks, the last of those weeks also being this week in 1989.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 18, 2023 11:43:24 GMT -5
On the Album Rock Tracks chart this week in 1986, Judas Priest's "Turbo Lover" climbed from #47 to #44, but did not have the extra power to get any higher than that peak.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 21, 2023 19:33:14 GMT -5
From the album The Joshua Tree comes a song that U2 took to #14 on the Album Rock Tracks chart. Spending its second week at that position the week ending June 20, 1987, here's "Bullet the Blue Sky".
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Post by matt on Jun 22, 2023 10:59:20 GMT -5
For the week of June 25, 1983 - this song dropped to #65 after peaking at #49 the previous week. Jane Wiedlin's first trip into the Hot 100 without the Go Go's, this with the group the Sparks whose lead singer (Russell Mael) was dating Jane at the time:
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 24, 2023 17:07:09 GMT -5
For the week of June 25, 1983 - this song dropped to #65 after peaking at #49 the previous week. Jane Wiedlin's first trip into the Hot 100 without the Go Go's, this with the group the Sparks whose lead singer (Russell Mael) was dating Jane at the time: Nice! One of many 1983 songs I was planning on posting at some point in the future (there are so many on the Hot 100 in the spring and summer of 1983 that I've started posting 2-3 at a time to cover them all). Thankfully, I can cross this one off the list.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 25, 2023 14:45:10 GMT -5
Debuting on the June 25, 1988 Hot 100 were two teen idol acts with their first chart hits. One was New Kids on the Block at #92 with "Please Don't Go Girl", while the other was a British band who was successful in their home country and elsewhere but not in the U.S. At #96 that week and soon to reach #83 with their only Hot 100 single, here's Bros with a question they could still ask Americans today - "When Will I Be Famous?"
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 28, 2023 20:25:02 GMT -5
Answer: This song debuted at #83 on the June 30, 1984 Hot 100, peaked at #81 a week later, and was a parody of "Jeopardy" by Greg Kihn Band.
Question: What is "I Lost on Jeopardy" by "Weird Al" Yankovic?
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Post by trekkielo on Jun 28, 2023 21:06:06 GMT -5
Answer: This song debuted at #83 on the June 30, 1984 Hot 100, peaked at #81 a week later, and was a parody of "Jeopardy" by Greg Kihn Band. Question: What is "I Lost on Jeopardy" by "Weird Al" Yankovic? Fun facts Greg Kihn has a cameo at the end of that video when "Weird Al" Yankovic is thrown into the back seat of his car from "Jeopardy"! 3rd and final week on Billboard's Hot 100... July 14, 1984 at #97 Jeopardy! with Alex Trebek would premiere two months later on September 10th, 1984!
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Post by jlthorpe on Jul 2, 2023 11:41:29 GMT -5
It's not often that there are two "Q" acts on the Hot 100 at the same time, but that's how it was on the July 1, 1989 chart.
First at #71 is possibly the most successful "Q" act of all time, Queen, with their former #50 hit "I Want It All".
Then at #81 is another British act, Q-Feel, which featured frontman Martin "In the House of Stone and Light" Page. Their song "Dancing in Heaven (Orbital Be-Bop)" originally reached the Bubbling Under chart in 1983 and peaked at #110, but was one of a number of older songs that re-charted in 1989, this time hitting #75.
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