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Post by dukelightning on Apr 17, 2022 20:21:15 GMT -5
I would not count "One Sweet Day" as Boys II Men have equal billing and almost as much if not the same amount of vocals as Mariah in that song. Not sure about "Opposites Attract". But it's a moot point as the second longest streak is in the 1993-94 time frame as you pointed out Mike. So the 63 weeks starting after "One Sweet Day" would be the record. Certainly one of the most significant records in AT/CT40 history(the 58 weeks on CT40).
Time for another Shadoe show and it's the 7/8/89 AT40. Debuting at 37 is one of my fave big hair band hits "Headed For a Heartbreak". Warrant joins Winger in the show from big hair band territory. Got 2 hits from earlier in the 80s that were re-recorded or re-released. "Send Me an Angel '89" is the former and the latter is "Into the Night". Shadoe told a story of how Benny Mardones lost everything a few years after the success of Night. By 1984 all he had was an Elvis signature on a poster that Benny got from Elvis in person several years earlier. Someone offered him $2500 for it but he refused since it was Elvis that ignited his interest in rock. 10 minutes after he declined the offer despite not even being able to afford supper, he got a call from someone in the industry that got things going in the right direction for him. Then a Phoenix station revived "Into the Night". Although that was 4-5 years later so I wonder just how much he was 'making it' in the industry during that time frame or even after this second success with Night for that matter. These one hit wonders must have a hard time making it in the music industry.
For the second time in a row, a guest host debuts on AT40 within 2 weeks of their hosting the show. The last guest hosts during Casey's tenure were Hall & Oates and they debuted the next week. Debbie Gibson was the first guest host for Shadoe and she debuts this week, 2 weeks after she guest hosted. Harrowing experience for Bobby Brown when the flight he was on to Hawaii had a fuel leak causing the pilot to cut the left engine with 450 miles to go. Made the landing with 4 minutes worth of gas left in the tank! The concert he was headed there for went on as scheduled. Have to wonder how performers can perform a day or two after something like that.
Before playing "Batdance", Shadoe played clips of the 5 chart hits having something to do with Batman, all in 1966-67 when the TV show was the craze. One was a novelty hit by Dickie Goodman. Two were different versions of the TV show theme. Prince will easily have the biggest Batman hit as none of those reached the top 10.
6 female artists in the top 10 is a rock era record. Shadoe mentioned that but did not mention how 10 years and a week earlier was when female artists monopolized the top 5, which means that was the previous record (5 in the top 10 which probably happened on other occasions, besides the weeks preceding and following that week in 1979). One of those female artists is Madonna and she moves into a second place tie with the Beatles for consecutive top 5 hits. "Express Yourself" is her 15th. She will break that tie but not catch Elvis' record 21 straight.
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 18, 2022 10:59:59 GMT -5
Have not heard Ed McMann do a show in awhile but he's at the mic on the 7/15/00 AT40. 2 debuts and the highest is a good one by Shaggy, "Dance and Shout" with its' sampling of the Jacksons' "Shake Your Body"(not mentioned by Ed however). Wonder what the percentage of debuts that sampled previous hits had mentions of that sampling. This one is obvious unlike many sampled hits. In the intro to No Doubt's "Simple Kind of Life", Ed mentioned how a critic had reviewed the parent album Return of Saturn saying that it departed from the previous album but also improved on it. He was referring to the 8+ million selling Tragic Kingdom CD from which came "Don't Speak". Well from a chart perspective, there was no improvement. Saturn sold only 1.5 million copies and this is the only hit generated from it and only to #30 at that. Another example of the sophomore slump though Kingdom is not their debut album. They got it figured out on their next album however!
Thought there might be another sales and airplay disparity example with "Party-Up Up in Here" by DMX. But it's Hot 100 peak at #27 was only slightly higher than its R&R #33 peak. Ed told a story of how Souldecision was originally called Indecision because the guys were not sure how to describe their sound. Ed mentioned how it was a combination of rock, hip-hop, metal and electronica(wonder how many times that latter term had been used on AT40 to this point as I associate electronica with this century). When they got their first major record deal, the label wanted them to change their name to something more identifiable. So since they were in a soulful, hip-hop phase at the time, they went with Souldecision which allowed them to retain part of their previous name. (And you see why it is spelled as one word too.) "Faded" is in the running with "Bent" as my fave song in the show.
If it's an AT40 from the first 3 years of its second run, there is likely a Rodney Jerkins-produced hit in the countdown. No exception here as he does the honors on "He Wasn't Man Enough" by Toni Braxton. While his production on "The Boy is Mine", "If You Had My Love" and "Say My Name" gave those songs a similar feel, this one does not have that feel. But it's a top 10 hit nonetheless, her last and last hit of any kind.
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Post by Mike on Apr 18, 2022 11:29:40 GMT -5
In the intro to No Doubt's "Simple Kind of Life", Ed mentioned how a critic had reviewed the parent album Return of Saturn saying that it departed from the previous album but also improved on it. He was referring to the 8+ million selling Tragic Kingdom CD from which came "Don't Speak". Well from a chart perspective, there was no improvement. Saturn sold only 1.5 million copies and this is the only hit generated from it and only to #30 at that. Another example of the sophomore slump though Kingdom is not their debut album. They got it figured out on their next album however! I get the sense that there was really not an overt attempt to appeal to "pop" sensibilities with Return of Saturn - I remember at the time being really surprised that "Ex-Girlfriend" (which ties with "Don't Speak" as their biggest Alternative hit, reaching #2) did nothing at pop radio. I can only conclude from that that there was specifically not a push there to pop, like there was for "Simple Kind of Life". Apparently, the band was also divided when, by July 1999, they'd stopped working on the album, figuring it to be done, when Interscope pushed for a more "marketable" single - Gwen was willing to go for that but drummer Adrian Young and guitarist Tom Dumont weren't in favor. But then, of course, they completely deserted Alternative with Rock Steady. Thought there might be another sales and airplay disparity example with "Party-Up Up in Here" by DMX. But it's Hot 100 peak at #27 was only slightly higher than its R&R #33 peak. If I'm reading the Hot 100 charts from 2000 correctly, it looks like that only had a 12-inch vinyl available during its run, so its Hot 100 run would have been from mostly airplay (it reached #22 on Hot 100 Airplay). While it now shows as being certified 2x Platinum, that certification reflects its digital single, which would be entirely after-the-fact. If it's an AT40 from the first 3 years of its second run, there is likely a Rodney Jerkins-produced hit in the countdown. No exception here as he does the honors on "He Wasn't Man Enough" by Toni Braxton. While his production on "The Boy is Mine", "If You Had My Love" and "Say My Mine" gave those songs a similar feel, this one does not have that feel. As it happens, "Say My Name" was one of the two droppers that week, heading off to Recurrent Land. (The other is "Graduation (Friends Forever)".) Also - did you happen to notice how while most songs are at least moving this week, none of them were moving all that much? Nothing more than 4 notches in either direction within the countdown, unless you count "Say My Name" being taken off, or "Dance & Shout" coming in at #34. During Hour 1, Ed tells a story about Wyclef Jean donating 100 guitars to his homeland of Haiti - right before "Better Off Alone", which is from Alice Deejay's album titled Who Needs Guitars Anyway? Based on how they structured Hour 1, the segments go like this: ballads, alternative, rap, foreign acts, Bon Jovi. And "My Love is Your Love" is a rare dedication that was only a dedication on a week where Casey wasn't there.
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 18, 2022 12:02:13 GMT -5
4/8/89 has four songs each going up nine notches ("Iko Iko", "Cult of Personality", "Forever Your Girl", "Sincerely Yours"), though Shadoe doesn't point out the tie. I quote this in reply to your comment about the 2000 show. I had not noticed that about this chart in part because I normally do not look at the part of the chart that I have not heard yet to keep it a surprise. But also because Ed never mentioned anything about biggest movers. You had a made another comment on the same date as the quoted comment that 4 way ties for biggest movers are not normally mentioned. (Shadoe had done just that on the show that spurred this discussion, the 6/1/91 AT40). Anyway, it is a 4 way tie for biggest mover on this 2000 show. "Doesn't Really Matter", "Kryptonite", "I Will Love Again" and "I Think I'm in Love With You" are all up 4 notches. I seem to remember another show in June I heard a month or 2 ago that had a similar scenario as this show with no big moves, from the 90s or 2000s. So it seems that slower chart movement in the middle of the year was more prevalent on an airplay based chart than on the Hot 100. No Doubt seemed to embrace the increased popularity in hip-hop for their Rock Steady album. Or they realized that the lack of success on Saturn meant they needed to go in a different direction. I also don't think Ed mentioned the droppers either.
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Post by Mike on Apr 18, 2022 13:07:54 GMT -5
I also don't think Ed mentioned the droppers either. He didn't. No Doubt seemed to embrace the increased popularity in hip-hop for their Rock Steady album. Or they realized that the lack of success on Saturn meant they needed to go in a different direction. Apparently the change in direction just...kind of happened? During the tour for Return of Saturn, every night they'd throw after-show parties where people danced to Jamaican dancehall music - which led them to, more or less, decide "hey, let's do that for our next album!" They did also apparently reach out to Timbaland and Dr. Dre, only for the tracks they worked on with them to get left out due to them not fitting in with the rest of the album. ("Hella Good" was co-written with The Neptunes, but the song was actually co-produced with Nellee Hooper. Co-produced as in the band themselves had hands in producing the entire album.) Essentially, my take on it is that CHR's own change in direction combined with the sound they decided to explore on the album seemed to come together at just the right time for them.
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 18, 2022 17:36:14 GMT -5
That type of thing happens a lot more than people are aware, artists going in a different direction that coincided with a change in the CHR landscape along those lines. The opposite has happened a lot more, artists trying to continue their past success with the same formula but the pop landscape changing. Think big hair/metal bands in the early 90s or disco artists a decade earlier for a couple examples.
I was about to hear the 4/22/95 CT40 but it was guest hosted by David Perry. My rule is that I won't hear back to back shows by guest hosts. So I went back a week to the 4/15 show. The 3 year period when there was CT40 and no AT40 was a time of many major artists of the 70s and 80s having their last hits. Off the top of my head, I can think of Van Halen , Journey, Tom Petty(had his last top 10 hit in this show but was not done hitting the top 40), the Bee Gees, Bryan Adams and a couple in this show that had their last hits then. Foreigner had their last hit debut and "Until the End of Time" made for a nice bookend of song titles for their first and last hits. They could have said it "Feels Like the First Time" that we have a hit in 1977. But in 1995, they had to say I hope you enjoy all of our hits until the end of time, because we won't have anymore. The Eagles also were in with their last hit "Love Will Keep Us Alive". Of course they had a huge hiatus between hits that only the Bee Gees also had among the artists I listed. And I am sure I missed a few.
These mid to late 90s CT40 shows have a mid to late 70s feel to them when it comes to lengths of songs. "Rhythm of the Night" was edited down to 2 minutes and several songs were in 2:30 to 3:00 range. Another show with a harrowing story about an artists travels. This time is was John Popper of Blues Traveler who was on his motorcycle and hit a car head on, getting tossed quite a ways. He of course survived but suffered several broken bones. He was in a wheelchair for a year. He was back to playing shows while still in the wheelchair with roadies on each side to keep him corralled as otherwise he would get into his playing his harmonica so much that he would roll all over the stage.
Van Halen will squeak into the top 40 one more time after "Can't Stop Loving You". Casey told on a story about how the Van Halen brothers had been learning classical piano in Holland. But when their parents moved them to Pasadena, everything changed as they were exposed to rock causing them to drop piano in favor of the guitar and drums.
No 31st Top 10 hit for Elt with "Believe" as Casey suggested in the outro but he did win an Oscar for what ended up being his last top 10 hit "Can You Feel the Love Tonight". Casey told a story about how 3 of the songs from The Lion King were nominated so his chances were pretty good going in.
The artist with the most #1 hits in R&R CHR chart history is Madonna with 15. And her 14th and 15th are in this show with "Take a Bow" still in the top 10 and "I'll Remember" a R&D.
So I live in North Carolina and let's see if people agree with this statement. First of all, the states that border NC to the north and south are Virginia and South Carolina. Are the most successful bands from those 3 states, Dave Matthews Band (VA), Daughtry (NC) and Hootie & the Blowfish (SC)? Dave had the highest debut with their first hit "What Would You Say" and Hootie had a pair of hits in the show, though I'm not a fan of them. Btw, Firehouse who have roots in 2 of the 3 states (Charlotte, NC where they got their big break through Jon Bon Jovi as Casey mentioned in the show and Richmond, VA), were at #9.
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Post by Mike on Apr 18, 2022 19:49:04 GMT -5
The 3 year period when there was CT40 and no AT40 was a time of many major artists of the 70s and 80s having their last hits. Off the top of my head, I can think of Van Halen , Journey, Tom Petty(had his last top 10 hit in this show but was not done hitting the top 40), the Bee Gees, Bryan Adams and a couple in this show that had their last hits then. Foreigner had their last hit debut and "Until the End of Time" made for a nice bookend of song titles for their first and last hits. They could have said it "Feels Like the First Time" that we have a hit in 1977. But in 1995, they had to say I hope you enjoy all of our hits until the end of time, because we won't have anymore. The Eagles also were in with their last hit "Love Will Keep Us Alive". Of course they had a huge hiatus between hits that only the Bee Gees also had among the artists I listed. And I am sure I missed a few. Of note: Had a Mainstream AT40 continued, the Bee Gees and Foreigner would come off that list, as neither "Alone" nor "Until the End of Time" made it onto the Mainstream chart. The latter is particularly striking as it ties Nelson's "All Shook Up", a couple months later, as a #30-peaking R&R hit that was a complete no-show on Billboard. Meanwhile, had Bryan Adams either gone just another month or two, or been able to have just one more hit after, then he'd have made it into Casey's second run. Though, he would end up having one more on AT20 (the regular AC countdown), 2002's "Here I Am". The Eagles and Journey would also hit that countdown after they'd stopped hitting The 40 as well - the former hitting both AT20 and AT10, the latter just AT10.
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Post by woolebull on Apr 18, 2022 22:49:10 GMT -5
So I live in North Carolina and let's see if people agree with this statement. First of all, the states that border NC to the north and south are Virginia and South Carolina. Are the most successful bands from those 3 states, Dave Matthews Band (VA), Daughtry (NC) and Hootie & the Blowfish (SC)? Dave had the highest debut with their first hit "What Would You Say" and Hootie had a pair of hits in the show, though I'm not a fan of them. Btw, Firehouse who have roots in 2 of the 3 states (Charlotte, NC where they got their big break through Jon Bon Jovi as Casey mentioned in the show and Richmond, VA), were at #9. Oh you know I am all about this, lol! Let's start with the easiest one, in my opinion: Hootie and South Carolina. I don't think anyone would come close. In fact, second is probably going to be Edwin McCain (who is playing in High Point here in the next week or so I believe). As for Virginia, I was going to actually recommend another group from the 95 show you listened to: Blessid Union of Souls over DMB. Then I remembered that BUoS was actually from Ohio even though they hit the top 40 with an ode to Virginia. I think you are correct with DMB, though a shout out to Everything just because I went to undergrad at JMU. As for North Carolina, I am going to agree with you, but a special mention should go out to Jodeci/KC and Jojo. They had about as many hits as Daughtry, including a huge number two song in "All My Life", but part of their hits were as a group, part were as a duo, and at the end of the day I don't think their stats match Daughtry. So yup, I would agree with all three of your choices. As for Firehouse, when I was heading off to college in 1991, I remember people in Charlotte claiming Firehouse, while people from Richmond were doing the same. By 1995, the Charlotte people were trying to claim they were from Richmond and vice versa, lol. However, I will happily admit that I was a big fan, and love hearing them on the 95 shows, along with Adam Ant, Londonbeat, Foreigner, Stevie B...the last hits of prominent acts not only from the 70's or 80's, but also the early 90's as well.
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 19, 2022 8:25:22 GMT -5
Yes I know that you should be all over that one! You went to undergraduate school at JMU in VA and graduate school at Duke in NC. Daughtry is the only one of those bands who did not chart while Casey was hosting either CT40 or AT40 though he announced them on AT20. For the CT40/AT40 years when Casey hosted, Firehouse would replace Daughtry as the most successful NC band. And they did originate in Richmond but moved to Charlotte before they got their big break or had their first hit.
Now it's a show from one of the 9 dates during those CT40/AT40 years when there were 3 shows available. In chronological order, those dates are 5/27/89, 7/1/89, 11/25/89, 3/17/90, 5/26/90, 6/30/90, 7/7/90, 9/1/90 and 7/6/91. In each case, there was a regular AT40, a regular CT40 and a special. The last of those dates is where I'm at listening to the top 40 American acts of the last 10 years on AT40. I have not heard any of the 3 shows from this date. Nice to hear all the soldiers comments throughout the show. This is also the third of an every 4 years special on AT40 counting down the top 40 artists of some kind. In 1983, it the top 40 acts of the 80s and then in 1987, it was the top 40 newcomers of the 80s. Thought there might be an artist that was in all 3 specials but that is not the case. Joan Jett probably came the closest to pulling that off.
Interesting situation when it came time to play a hit by Chicago as they were not playing any ballads. Chose "Saturday in the Park", the first and probably only hit from the 70s played. When it comes to their 80s hits, the only non-ballad is "Stay the Night". But that is a rather forgotten hit for them so I am not surprised they played Saturday.
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Post by Mike on Apr 19, 2022 9:45:00 GMT -5
Now it's a show from one of the 9 dates during those CT40/AT40 years when there were 3 shows available. In chronological order, those dates are 5/27/89, 7/1/89, 11/25/89, 3/17/90, 5/26/90, 6/30/90, 7/7/90, 9/1/90 and 7/6/91. In each case, there was a regular AT40, a regular CT40 and a special. 7/1/89 and 9/1/90 are the two I have questions on. I know AT40 didn't have specials either of those weeks - and I'm not seeing that CT40 did either? Or if they did, then they're not accounted for in listings.
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 19, 2022 9:55:23 GMT -5
You are right about 7/1/89. The file I have which someone else created has 2 show files for that date. One says 'original' show and the other says '19th anniversary' show. I assumed that it was a special but upon opening the file, I see that it is simply another copy of that original show. Not sure why the person who created the files did it that way. As to 9/1/90, it is a CT40 special the top 40 British hits of the 80s. So scratch 7/1/89 and make it 8 such dates with 3 shows.
Interesting that they chose to play "You Make My Dreams" for Hall & Oates at #2. This special covers the last 10 years and that was at its peak position exactly 10 years earlier. (They have played a couple hits from earlier in 1981 btw, or just before the 10 year period.) Madonna bookends the special with "Holiday" kicking it off as it kicked off her career. A medley was played at #1 which included a clip from "Into the Groove" which did not chart. Good choice to go out of the box like that IMO.
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Post by Mike on Apr 19, 2022 11:10:14 GMT -5
As to 9/1/90, it is a CT40 special the top 40 British hits of the 80s. Then, as I said, this is one that is not accounted for in listings - it doesn't currently have a cue sheet posted, and the archived Old Radio Shows listing doesn't list it either. Must be a particularly rare special for this to be so. As to 7/6/91, here's a factoid. Journey's selection in the special was "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)", which would also be played in the regular countdown that week as the week's LDD. 5/27/89 had that same thing happen - "Like a Prayer" was #18 in the regular countdown and was played for Madonna's ranking in the special countdown (American Top 40 World Tour).
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Apr 20, 2022 11:22:58 GMT -5
I wonder what stations aired that British Hits special from Labor Day weekend 1990. I listened to it a few years ago; really enjoyed it. The rankings are listed here. Today, going back 26 years ago to the CT40 show from today's date. Yikes...1996 was 26 years ago?!?!
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 25, 2022 14:14:13 GMT -5
Falling out of the top 40 that week was "California Love". That is part of a 2 sided hit and I prefer the flip side "How Do You Want It", which I did not become familiar with until this year. So today is a double dose of 4/22/95. Heard the SiriusXM 90s on 9 presentation of the top 30 from that date earlier. Now it is the CT40 with David Perry guest hosting. I have now heard 3 90s on 9 countdowns recently. Interesting that I knew all the songs in the 1994 countdown but in the 1995 and 96 countdowns, there were about 6 songs in each that I did not know. Most of these are by black artists. So one of two things must have happened starting in 1995. Either black artists started being bypassed on radio stations(because most of these songs did not reach CT40) or hits by black artists started selling more, allowing them to chart in the top 30 of the Hot 100). So what are the songs I did not recognize? First was a song that I first thought was "Sukiyaki" though the words did not really match up. But later upon looking at Joel Whitburn's pop book, I see why I thought that. It contains the melody of "Sukiyaki". Talking about "Ask of You" by Raphel Saadiq who is a former member of Tony! Toni! Tone!. Did not realize any of those guys had a solo hit. Btw, this and "Sukiyaki" were in the top 40 together the previous 2 weeks. Next unknown song for me was by the quenn of hip-hop as Julie Brown said, Mary J Blige and "I'm Going Down". Next such song was "This Lil' Game We Play" by Subway and 702. The former are a teen group and the latter had a big hit a few years later with "Where My Girls At". The next song I did not know was one I just heard last week! It's "Baby" by Brandy. Heard it on the 4/15/95 CT40 and that was almost certainly the first time I ever heard that song as it was spending its' only week on CT40 at #40 plus I was not listening to stations that played that song back in the day. (listening to a song once is not enough for me to say I know it ) Btw, that completed the 'baby' triple play in the 90s. "Amy Grant" had "Baby Baby" and TLC had "Baby Baby Baby". TLC also had the next hit in that countdown, "Creep". They also had "Red Light Special" at #2. Interesting that out of 8 hits on CT40 from 1992 to 1999, these are their only hits which did not reach the top 10(or the top 6 for that matter) whereas they spent a combined 7 weeks at their peak positions of #1 and #2 on the Hot 100. The last song I did not know was "Keep Their Heads Ringin" by Dr. Dre. On this CT40, David has mentioned that Boyz II Men have the most million sellers in the 90s with 5. "On Bended Knee" is one of them. TLC had 3 and 8 acts including Mariah had 2. Mariah and Boyz each ended up with 8 million sellers in the 90s, according to the aforementioned pop book. Not sure if anyone else topped that total. Another harrowing story. This time it's Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam who survived something. He was surfing in Australia while they were on tour. Just before sunset, he went out for one more surf run and came across a wave that was too big. Got tossed into turbulent waters. But luckily the lifeguards were watching it all and rescued him. He did not panic which was the key to his being saved. After playing "Better Man", David mentioned how John Popper gave some 'high spirited harmonica help' on DMB's "What Would You Say". Just heard a harrowing story about him last week, must have been on the previous week's CT40! David said about John when Blues Traveler came up in the show that it was Jimi Hendrix' "Voodoo Child" that got him hooked on rock 'n roll. (No pun intended, "Hook" is their next hit). 4 artists had a pair of hits on that SiriusXM countdown, one of which is Real McCoy. The 2 hits are their pair of #3 peaking hits. "Run Away" spend a week at #3 but "Another Night" spend 11 weeks there. That was the record at the time for most weeks at #3 for a hit that peaked at that position. Wonder if that record still stands. Similar story that Casey told in the 80s of how Philip Oakey hired 2 waitresses in 1980 when he was in a pinch. Amazing part of this story is that 15 years later, those 2 gals were still part of Human League. Kind of a strange factoid given about "You Gotta Be" having the most weeks charted in the 90s to this point with 33 weeks, 1 more than "Another Night". Both were still in the countdown. Meaning this could change the next week or soon thereafter. It was the latter as Gotta logged 37 weeks before falling out while Night topped it with 40 weeks. I think David made the same mistake Casey made many times. Saying something that was really for the AC countdown. In the outro to the R&D "Hero" by Crosby and Collins, he said 'it was a big hit in 1993'. On the AC chart yes but not the CHR chart. Of course the "Hero" that was a big hit on the CHR chart was played many times as a dedication.
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Post by Mike on Apr 25, 2022 14:51:31 GMT -5
First was a song that I first thought was "Sukiyaki" though the words did not really match up. But later upon looking at Joel Whitburn's pop book, I see why I thought that. It contains the melody of "Sukiyaki". Talking about "Ask of You" by Raphel Saadiq who is a former member of Tony! Toni! Tone!. Did not realize any of those guys had a solo hit. Btw, this and "Sukiyaki" were in the top 40 together the previous 2 weeks. Definitely sold more than it was played - it was already a top 20 seller by this point, but had yet to crack the top 40 on the Airplay chart (which it would do, but would not last long - going for only three weeks in the top 40, reaching #30). Next unknown song for me was by the quenn of hip-hop as Julie Brown said, Mary J Blige and "I'm Going Down". Technically also true, but this one warrants explaining. It had an okay run in the top 40 on the Airplay chart, lasting for 3 months up there and reaching #22, due in large part to Rhythmic airplay (where it reached #7, this very week). It was just outside the top 10 on the Sales chart this week - but, the single had also just recently been released: This is only its third week on both that chart and the Hot 100. (In contrast, by this time it's on the way down on the Airplay chart.) Next such song was "This Lil' Game We Play" by Subway and 702. The former are a teen group and the latter had a big hit a few years later with "Where My Girls At". Similar stats to Mary J. aside from the single had been out for some time now; it's #10 on the Sales chart. Airplay-wise, it didn't last quite as long as she did within the top 40, but did reach #25 (and #4 on the Rhythmic chart, two weeks ago). The next song I did know was one I just heard last week! It's "Baby" by Brandy. Heard it on the 4/15/95 CT40 and that was almost certainly the first time I ever heard that song as it was spending its' only week on CT40 at #40 plus I was not listening to stations that played that song back in the day. (listening to a song once is not enough for me to say I know it ) Much the same scenario, once again - went up to #19 on the Airplay chart and was on the way down by now, was #8 on the Sales chart this week, and went to #4 on the Rhythmic chart three weeks ago. However, unlike Mary J. and Subway/702, Brandy went Top 5 on the Hot 100, reaching #4 - it was a #1 seller for five weeks in late February and March. (But because airplay couldn't catch up fast enough, she could not compete with ones like "Take a Bow" and "Creep", which were top 5 in both Sales and Airplay at that same time.) The last song I did not know was "Keep Their Heads Ringin" by Dr. Dre. Easily sold more than it was played, which is to be expected of rap. It's sitting at #6 on the Sales chart, having not yet reached the top 40 on the Airplay chart (it would get there, but only for two non-consecutive weeks).
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