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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 20, 2023 16:00:22 GMT -5
The hard rock band Bulletboys only charted twice on the Hot 100, both times in 1989. Their second hit, "Smooth Up" (also known as "Smooth Up in Ya"), was holding at #74 on the August 19 chart, and peaked at #71 a week later.
Their first hit, a cover of The O'Jays' "For the Love of Money", peaked at #78 in May.
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 23, 2023 19:44:30 GMT -5
The last Bubbling Under chart in Billboard (prior to its 1992 revival) was in the August 24, 1985 issue. That week, rap group The Boogie Boys spent their second week at their #102 peak with "A Fly Girl", a song later sampled by Sly Fox for their Top 10 hit "Let's Go All the Way".
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 27, 2023 14:10:39 GMT -5
Deniece Williams was climbing the August 29, 1981 Hot 100 with her song "Silly". Up from #78 to #71 that week, it eventually stopped at #53.
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 30, 2023 16:35:47 GMT -5
At #106 on the Bubbling Under chart this week in 1982 is the British duo Yaz - Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke - with "Situation". That same week, it was at #1 on Billboard's Dance/Disco Top 80 chart and would debut on the Hot 100 two weeks later, reaching #73.
Also from the same album (Upstairs at Eric's), and debuting on the dance chart the following week, was another #1 dance hit - "Don't Go".
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Post by mga707 on Aug 30, 2023 16:44:28 GMT -5
At #106 on the Bubbling Under chart this week in 1982 is the British duo Yaz - Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke - with "Situation". That same week, it was at #1 on Billboard's Dance/Disco Top 80 chart and would debut on the Hot 100 two weeks later, reaching #73. "Situaton" had 'Alf's' (Alison Moyet's nickname) much-sampled laugh.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Aug 31, 2023 5:49:53 GMT -5
At #106 on the Bubbling Under chart this week in 1982 is the British duo Yaz - Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke - with "Situation". That same week, it was at #1 on Billboard's Dance/Disco Top 80 chart and would debut on the Hot 100 two weeks later, reaching #73. "Situaton" had 'Alf's' (Alison Moyet's nickname) much-sampled laugh. That laugh was later sampled in the Bayside Boys remix of "Macarena", from 1996.
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 31, 2023 7:15:56 GMT -5
At #106 on the Bubbling Under chart this week in 1982 is the British duo Yaz - Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke - with "Situation". That same week, it was at #1 on Billboard's Dance/Disco Top 80 chart and would debut on the Hot 100 two weeks later, reaching #73. Also from the same album ( Upstairs at Eric's), and debuting on the dance chart the following week, was another #1 dance hit - "Don't Go". Yaz, the British dance group, had no relation to late 1980's British female singer Yazz, who had a 1988 song called "The Only Way Is Up".
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Post by doofus67 on Aug 31, 2023 13:36:00 GMT -5
"Situaton" had 'Alf's' (Alison Moyet's nickname) much-sampled laugh. That laugh was later sampled in the Bayside Boys remix of "Macarena", from 1996. And Samantha Fox's "I Wanna Have Some Fun."
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 3, 2023 11:03:41 GMT -5
Grateful Dead had two songs in the Top 10 of Billboard's Album Rock Tracks chart for September 5, 1987. While the former #1 "Touch of Grey" was down from #2 to #6, "Hell in a Bucket" climbed from #4 to its peak of #3. And in honor of Jimmy Buffett's death, here's a link to his song " Volcano" posted this past New Year's Day.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 6, 2023 20:40:05 GMT -5
Still shocking people today, Alice Cooper provided the theme song to the film Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, released in August 1986. "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)" also appeared on his album Constrictor that September, which would reach #59 on Billboard's album chart.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 10, 2023 11:59:32 GMT -5
A re-recording reached #37 on the Hot 100 in 1989, but on the September 13, 1980 chart, the original version of Whitesnake's "Fool for Your Loving" climbed from #54 to its peak of #53.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 13, 2023 20:05:58 GMT -5
San Francisco hard rock act Y&T (which stands for Yesterday and Today) spent their 10th and final week on the Hot 100 for September 14, 1985 with "Summertime Girls"; the #55 hit was down to #97 that week.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 17, 2023 11:03:20 GMT -5
On the September 16, 1989 Hot 100, Indigo Girls spent their last week on the chart with "Closer to Fine"; the #52 hit was down to #86 in its ninth week.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 20, 2023 20:02:54 GMT -5
The 1987 version of Depeche Mode's "Strangelove" was previously posted here back in 2013. In 1988, a remix of the song re-entered the Hot 100; while the original reached #76, the new version surpassed that on the September 24 chart by hitting #69. Eventually, "Strangelove '88" (as it's informally called) peaked at #50.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 24, 2023 13:51:56 GMT -5
Holding at its peak of #60 on the Hot 100 for September 24, 1983 was "Bad Boys", the first chart single for Wham!
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