What show are you listening to right now?

[woolebull]

Feb 28, 2024 20:35:45 GMT -5 OnWithTheCountdown said:

Yes, Shannon has AT40s from this decade (both CHR & HAC). I'm not sure what the most recent show that he has, though. I got the HAC year-end shows for 2020 and 2021 from him last year (he didn't have 2022 yet then; might have it now). One song I really like on the current chart is Dua Lipa's "Houdini". She's been one of my favorite pop artists this decade (really, going back to late 2017.)

Dua not only is great...she is, IMO, all time great. Amazing voice, lyrics, and musical arrangements on darn near every song.

[dukelightning]

I made a mistake several days ago when I said that the 3/12/94 CT40 was on my radar to hear. So I have this cheat sheet showing the shows I have yet to hear and for the years that have both AT40 and CT40, I had to distinguish between the 2. So for the CT40 shows, I write '3/12C' and for the AT40 shows I write simply '3/12' under the heading for 1994. The cheat sheet says 3/12 so it is not the CT40 but the AT40 from that date. But get this, either way it would have been a guest hosted show. Not only that, David is hosting the show regardless. Because while David Perry did the CT40 show, David Hall is doing the AT40. And while Perry could put you to sleep, Mr. Hall is not of that ilk. For the Breeders, he said they were 'cool, nope beyond cool'. For "Um Um Um Um Um", he said it was Campbells soup good. For Blind Melon, he said that he loved "No Rain", that he really got into the intro. This is the first time that both AT40 and CT40 have guest hosts the same week. It also happened on 7/23/94 btw and my cheat sheet says that I have yet to hear that AT40 either. With AT40 no longer airing in the USA then, 3/12/94 is the only time that people in the states heard guest hosted shows on both countdowns.
Another witty example is when he says that Phil Collins has been charting for 16 years, since "Follow You Follow Me" with Genesis. Says 'that is a really good song, will have to pull that out and give it a listen'. Then in a normal statement in the music news, talks about the ground breaking for the Hard Rock Cafe and Casino in Las Vegas. They mentioned that during the Super Bowl!
Flashback to 1981 which is appropriate seeing as that will be the only year not featured as an A show yet this year as of next week.
David mentions that the top 5 are all sung by women. But does not provide any historical context. It was the same top 5 as the previous week so it happened 2 weeks in a row. Left me to look it up and of course the first time that happened was the week of 6/30/79. The only other time it happened was the week of 5/26/90. Janet was part of both times it happened so far in the 90s.

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Not much to write about for the 3/10/01 AT40. Casey rattles off the artists who had hits with songs titled "Angel" before announcing Shaggy's new #1 hit of that title. 2 of the artists were in this countdown, Madonna and Aerosmith, both of which hit #4 on the R&R chart with those hits. Casey had also mentioned how it took Aerosmith 25 years to hit #1 before playing "Jaded". "Hero" was a LDD which means I heard it in both shows I heard today. Here are my faves..."Look at Us", "Broken Promises", "Ride Wit Me", "One More Time", "Put it On Me", "I'm a Like a Bird", "I Hope You Dance", "South Side", "No More", "Never had a Dream Come True", "Thank You", "It Wasn't Me", "Around the World", "You Make Me Sick", "Ms. Jackson", "Jaded", "If You're Gone", "Independent Women", "He Loves U Not", "Butterfly" and "Love Don't Cost a Thing".

[dukelightning]

Last week I mentioned how Casey finally got it right about Elton's streak after he and Shadoe had repeatedly made mistakes about it. Well guess what?! On the 3/13/93 AT40, Elton debuts with that same song "A Simple Life" and Shadoe......makes the same mistake! Says that after breaking Elvis' record in 1992 by making the top 40 for a 23rd year in a row that he makes it 24 years in a row this week. Says that Elvis had a 22 year streak which is the same mistake he continues to make. Casey got it right the week before when he said it was a 23 year streak. I am guessing Shadoe will never say this correctly.
Another debut is "I Have Nothing", giving Whitney not only back to back songs as it followed "I Will Always Love You" but 3 hits in the top 40. Shadoe gets this one right when he says that she is the 4th woman to do that after Gale Storm in the 50s, Melanie in the 70s and Diana Ross in the 80s. Everything was fine until in the outcue or whatever that is called, he said it was first one of a record tying 3 songs in the countdown for her! Obviously it was the second!!
"Angel" was #1 in the 2001 show I heard last night and Jon Secada's song with that title is in this show. Prefer his other hit "Do You Believe in Us". His pair are also back to back.
One of the latest LDDs...between 3 and 2. IIRC there was a 1980 show when it was either the #2 song or between 2 and 1. Good one...CMB and "Thinking Back".
Factoid at #1. "Ordinary World" was the 35the #1 hit to return to the top. Happened the previous week. I think that is the only returning #1 during the first run of AT40 after "Down Under" 10 years earlier. Happened a lot in the 50s, 60s and 70s.

[Michael1973]

Feb 28, 2024 16:00:31 GMT -5 woolebull said:

1) I find it almost inconceivable that "Fly" by Sugar Ray and "Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia are that close to each other on this chart. And it shows one of the inerrant problems for me and shows from this time. For me, "Fly" will always be a summer of 97 song. "Torn" late spring, early summer of 98 song. That "Fly" is still in the top 20 at the end of February of 1998 is just wild. And it's not like it was the only song that stayed months in the upper echelons of the charts during that time. I can see why I didn't pay much attention to CT in real time in 1998.

This is a primary reason I feel like I'd never have become a chart addict if I were ten years younger. There was very little excitement in following charts that moved so slowly, and it was even worse if you listened to Casey's other shows based on the AC/HAC charts. This was the result not only of the way the charts were compiled but also the way radio began playing songs more frequently and for longer periods of time.

I remember even when listening to the charts during this era, occasionally hearing a song introduced in the top ten and thinking, "I don't even hear this on the radio anymore. It should have fallen out of the top 40 by now, but it's still number 8?!"

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A few examples of what the last post was referring to in the 3/23/96 CT40. Del Amitri kick off the show with a hit that was in the top 10 7 months earlier as David Perry said. And re-debuting is Sophie B. Hawkins who had originally debuted in July. I think any old hit like that should not be allowed to redebut. I think David said "Breakfast at Tiffany's" had been in the countdown since July too. It's ridiculous to have so many over 6 month old songs in the countdown IMO.
2 Pac has "California Love" and David says that Roger Troutman sings backup. He had hits as Roger in the 80s. This is the B side to the first Hot 100 #1 hit not to appear on AT/CT40, "How Do You Want It" which I prefer.
Bush is a UK band that sounds like more an American grunge band. I don't think I realized they were British because of that sound. "Glycerine" is good but I prefer the alternative hit that follows it "Everything Falls Apart".
There is mention of "Missing" in posts today. That is coming up later in the countdown, much later.
About an hour after David mentioned that it was the #1 song from 10 years ago, he plays "These Dreams" as a R&D.

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It's Shadoe's turn today with the 3/17/90 AT40. After Babyface debuted, he mentioned that a song called "Babyface" was a hit in 1976. Then a couple songs later he went into detail and said there were nearly 50 examples of song titles and artist names being the same. Said the James Last Band had a hit with "The Seduction" before Seduction's "Heartbeat".
Played a medley of the 6 songs with 'Jesus' in their title. Only one I knew was the Doobies' "Jesus is Just Alright". Next clip was another version of that by the Byrds. Never knew they did a version of that song. This preceded "Personal Jesus", good song there. You know just how much you like a song when you're in your car and you listen until it ends after you have reached your destination. I could almost count the number of such songs on one hand in the 1996 show I heard yesterday. Got that many in just the first hour of this show..."You're the Only Woman"(cover of Ambrosia), "A Girl Like You", "Heartbeat", "Personal Jesus", "Without You" and "I Wanna Be Rich".
Did a piece on Milli Vanilli's "All or Nothing" sounding like "Spinning Wheel" which they played a clip of. An interview with Rob of MV revealed that they were subconsciously inspired by that song and ended up paying Blood, Sweat & Tears an undisclosed amount. Of course their transgressions will be a lot worse than that as revealed several months later.
Answered a question about the artist with the most top 40 hits without a top 10. Answer was Ronnie Dove with 11. He had a pair of #14 hits.
Taylor Dayne moves into second place for longest top 10 streak for women from the start of their career with "Love Will Lead You Back". Whitney has the record with 10(then). Love is her biggest hit but I prefer most of her other hits especially "Tell it to My Heart, "Don't Rush Me" and "Can't Get Enough of Your Love".
A similar situation at #1 where Janet sits with "Escapade". Her biggest hit from Rhythm Nation is "Miss You Much". But I prefer most of the other singles including this one.

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Moved 10 years and 2 weeks forward in time from the last show to the 4/1/00 AT40. Only song I did not know was "Waste" by Smash Mouth. Casey said the first 2 releases from their latest CD had made the top 10.."All-Star" and "Then the Morning Comes". A couple great songs there though their first hit a couple years earlier is my fave of theirs..."Walkin on the Sun". Anyway, "Waste" did not come anywhere near the top 10. It stopped right there at 38 where it was debuting. They toned it down and you might call that a waste of their time!
A couple of X rated songs in this show. Well, actually only one. Amber's "Sexual" looks like it could be X rated but it's not and is a fave. The one that is X rated is "The Bad Touch". Lyrics need not be written here but here's one that takes some figuring out. "To make me rise early just like daylight savings time'. Confused me at first but he is referring to rising early maybe on the first day because you forgot to change your clocks. We will be dealing with that in a few days. Btw, does everyone remember that in 2000, the date for daylight savings time beginning was the day after this show date? The current change to it on the second Sunday of March started in 2005 IIRC. Before that, it was done on the first Sunday of April.
Biggest mover is only up 5 to 13 but it's a great one. Another Rodney Jerkins production..."Say My Name". A couple songs later Casey spells out "Everything You Want". Girl is looking for the perfect man and never seems to find him. He is right there in front of her. No surprise that a song like this is such a huge hit. Can certainly relate to that. Only up a notch this week however!
There you go. Got a theme going here. Casey says that the #1 song "Bye Bye Bye" is a song answering hits like 'Bills Bills Bills" and "No Scrubs" which are complaining about men. N'SYNC are saying that the gals are the problem. Indeed. So the hit that spends the most weeks at #1 in 2000 is pointing out a problem that gals are responsible for; while the hit that ended up #1 for 2000, the aforementioned "Everything You Want" is an example of gals being the problem. Hmmm!

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The show after the one that made woolebull's day when "One More Try" hit #1, this is the 3/30/91 AT40. Shadoe says that back to back songs feature samples of Chic songs and plays clips of each. First is "How to Dance" by the Bingo Boys which samples "Dance, Dance, Dance" followed by C&C Music factory's "Here We Go" which does not really sample but has the 'aw freak' line from "Le Freak" a couple times. Would not have recognized that had Shadoe not mentioned it. But with "Rapper's Delight" sampling "Good Times", that means 3 of Chic's 4 top 10 hits were sampled by top 40 hits. The only one not sampled as far as I know is "I Want Your Love". It ended up being 3 songs in a row sampling 1978 disco hits because the next song was Father MC's "I'll Die 4 You" which has an obvious sampling of "Got to be Real" by Cheryl Lynn.
Wow, the last 1991 show I heard I had commented that I wished Robert Palmer had made "I Want You" the first and third verses and "Mercy Mercy Me" the second verse in his medley. Kind of got my wish in this show. They played a long version which I only vaguely remember ever hearing before and not on a countdown. The "I Want You" verse is extended by 30 seconds and after the second Mercy verse, it goes back to Want. Will have to hear that again on YouTube. The longer version is about 2 minutes longer than the single version.
Almost a prophetic statement by Shadoe at the end of a story about how Mariah got her career going. Said 'with a little luck, some talent and knowing the right people, things can happen'. Not quite "Make It Happen" but close!
Shadoe says that "One More Try" was the 9th hit to predict its success by hitting #1. 9 songs with 'one' in their title hit the top. The last two such hits both being "One More Try" with George Michael doing it in 1988. Played a medley of the first 8 all of which were in the 70s and 80s. My fave..."One of These Nights".

[dukelightning]

Rainy day means another show and it's the second show in the reincarnated AT40, from 4/4/98, having already heard the first one a few years ago. At 39 is "It's Your Love" by She Moves and it seemed familiar so I thought it was a cover. But it's not. Turns out the 'it's your love' line that caught me is from the same titled but different song by Tim McGraw & Faith Hill which was a huge country hit a year earlier. The next hit was a cover and it was INOJ with "Love You Down". Surprised that it went on for over 6 minutes and with a Hanson story and 3 songs in the segment, the whole thing was 17:27. Makes it one of the longest segments in an AT40 or CT40 that Casey hosted.
When Paula Cole's "Me" was played, I tried to remember all the 2 character or less song titles in AT/CT40 history to that point, excluding any that have subtitles. Came up with "If" and "Be" in the 70s, "99", "17" and "19" in the 80s(all numbers in that decade), "7" and "If" in the 90s. Probably forgot at least one. The next hit was "I'll Be" ironically. A lot of 3 character titles over the years and one of them is coming up..."3AM".
The first chuckling by Casey in the reincarnated AT40 occurred when he said 'that was Chumbawamba with "Amnesia" and in case you forgot, they had "Tubthumping" earlier'!
This is going to be the second time today that "Gettin Jiggy Wit It" is mentioned on this board today. With the George and Weezy reference in the songs mentioning TV shows being the first, I mention it since it is yet another song sampling a top 10 hit that either Chic or its main members were responsible for. In this case, Will Smith has sampled "He's the Greatest Dancer".
What do "Mama Told Me Not to Come", "When I'm With You" and "Torn" have in common? Answer: they were the first new #1 hits once Casey started hosting his CHR countdowns. Mama occurred on the first AT40, When occurred on the second CT40 and Torn did not hit #1 until the 5th AT40. (#6 this week after being at #9 on the first AT40 in this second run and my fave of the 3 songs).

[dukelightning]

Been trolling on the 70s show with my posts today because I am listening to something else entirely, the 1/22/05 AT40. So when OnWithTheCountdown posted that "Cold" by Crossfire was the heaviest song to be played on AT40, I looked it up and saw that it debuted the last week of October 2004 and was on the chart for 26 weeks. So figured I would hear it in a show and picked this one since it was halfway through its chart run. Alas that chart data is from R&R which AT40 was no longer using. So with the top 10 on the horizon and no sign of that song, it appears that it has already fallen off after less than half the R&R chart run. Go figure! I'll go to YouTube to hear it.
With Ryan saying that Nelly & Tim McGraw are going for their 11th week at #1 and me not knowing whether they did or not, I am glad I picked this show. It's like it was back in the day when I did not have access to the charts and listened to a show wondering whether history would be made like when "Bette Davis Eyes" was going for a 10th week at #1. Ryan said that the last hit to spend 11 weeks on top was "Torn". Did not say that "Bye Bye Bye" and "How You Remind Me" each spent 10 weeks at #1 as the longest runs on top in the 2000s. So Nelly & Tim are going for the longest run at #1 in the 2000s.
That 1978 show featured 3 songs by the Bee Gees and it's the only one with all 3 being in the top 10. This show has an artist who has 3 songs but none of them were in the top 10. And I did not know any of them. Not sure I will ever hear another show with 3 songs by an artist in which I don't know any of them(and I know most of the songs in this show). Eminem has hits in hours 1, 2 and 3. "Just Lose It" does have a line from a song of his that I do know...back to reality, from "Lose Yourself".
Ryan also reviewed song titles with days of the week in them. Said "Manic Monday", "Ruby Tuesday", "Waiting for Wednesday", "Friday I'm in Love", "Saturday in the Park" and "Sunday Morning", the latter in the countdown. No Thursday song titles! That was followed by "1985". So back to back songs with titles referring to something in a calendar, probably a first for AT40.
Ryan talked about how Destiny's Child had reunited and played a clip of Beyonce saying that she would enjoy it for as long as it lasted, implying that it would not last long. Lasted long enough for them to play a concert at the amphitheatre here that summer which I worked. "Lose My Breath" is up there with "Say My Name" as my faves by them.
10 weeks is all they get with "Over and Over"! Then an interview with new #1 artist Gavin DeGraw was played. And he was in a Raleigh parking lot! Looked it up and he played a gig here on January 12th. 2 minute interview and Ryan revealed to him right then and there that he had taken over the #1 spot. Way cool!

[OnWithTheCountdown]

I knew the answer to your #1 question on 1/22/2005. 😁 Of course, there would be a hit later in 2005 that would stay on top for more than 10 weeks. What was it? 🙂

Your post is getting me to think about listening to a classic Ryan show, probably from 2004 or 2005. Good times.

Now into October in my 1995-1996 marathon, currently on 10/7/1995. This show is "new" to me, as this was during the 1993-1995 period I wasn't catching CT40 nearly as often. I think it was around Thanksgiving 1995 I started listening regularly again.

ETA: "Cold" began its AT40 chart run on 6/4/2005, almost ten months after its release to CHR, peaking at #25. Its final week on AT40 was 9/24.

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Not surprised you knew that "Over and Over" had spent 10 weeks at #1 OnWithTheCountdown. Sounds like you were either listening to AT40 then or simply are more aware of chart activity from that time frame that I am. I did grab my R&R chart book once it was played so I could determine whether or not there was a frozen week accounted for in its 10 weeks. Unlike the 90s, they did count the frozen week which probably was not frozen at all since it was Mediabase that AT40 was based on then and the monitoring went on every week regardless of the holidays. Yes I know the R&R chart book does not directly correlate to AT40 in the 2000s since they were using Mediabase. But as far as #1s are concerned, there are only a couple discrepancies IIRC. Anyway, in looking at the book, I saw that Mariah stayed on top for 11 weeks which I actually already knew since I was more aware of her chart activity being the superstar that she is.
I had to look into what happened with "Cold". Could not understand how it debuted in October 2004 at least in R&R but did not reach AT40 until 8 months later. I see that it entered the chart at #50 on 10/30/04, then fell off. So it re-entered the chart in June 2005. Record Research should have indicated that the 26 weeks charted were not consecutive or that this hit re-charted at some point. Surprised they would not account for that as precise as their books are.

[OnWithTheCountdown]

Mar 11, 2024 6:25:34 GMT -5 dukelightning said:

Not surprised you knew that "Over and Over" had spent 10 weeks at #1 OnWithTheCountdown. Sounds like you were either listening to AT40 then or simply are more aware of chart activity from that time frame that I am. I did grab my R&R chart book once it was played so I could determine whether or not there was a frozen week accounted for in its 10 weeks. Unlike the 90s, they did count the frozen week which probably was not frozen at all since it was Mediabase that AT40 was based on then and the monitoring went on every week regardless of the holidays. Yes I know the R&R chart book does not directly correlate to AT40 in the 2000s since they were using Mediabase. But as far as #1s are concerned, there are only a couple discrepancies IIRC. Anyway, in looking at the book, I saw that Mariah stayed on top for 11 weeks which I actually already knew since I was more aware of her chart activity being the superstar that she is.
I had to look into what happened with "Cold". Could not understand how it debuted in October 2004 at least in R&R but did not reach AT40 until 8 months later. I see that it entered the chart at #50 on 10/30/04, then fell off. So it re-entered the chart in June 2005. Record Research should have indicated that the 26 weeks charted were not consecutive or that this hit re-charted at some point. Surprised they would not account for that as precise as their books are.

Yes, I was listening to AT40 regularly back then (from the CT40 days in late 1995 to early 2007, I caught just about every show in that time period), and I remembered the chart activity as well. Then my work schedule got crazy and I stopped recording the shows cuz I didn't have time to listen to/edit them. I made sure to catch the year-end shows, however. But I knew back in 2005 about "Over And Over". And I remembered "Cold" charting on AT40 in 2005, though I had to look when it charted (thought it was in the spring, a little earlier than I thought, but my recollection wasn't far off).

I've always felt frozen weeks (or weeks in which a chart wasn't counted down) should be counted, or at least accounted for. I just had a hard time with, for example, the "weeks at #1" in the shows coming off the holidays, because the weeks at #1 weren't either mentioned, or accurately reflected (when they were mentioned). I had posted about this in recent months, upon listening to how Casey handled those situations from year to year.

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Don't get me started on how Casey handled the frozen weeks! When he reverted to saying a hit had been in the countdown for x number of months to avoid having to divulge the number of weeks, that drove me crazy. In fact, the 1992 show I heard recently he said that "Remember the Time" with its 3 weeks at #1 was his biggest hit since "Man in the Mirror" had also spent 3 weeks on top in 1988. That is an example of not counting the frozen weeks. Because "Black or White" according to Casey had only 2 weeks at #1. But the R&R chart book does include the frozen weeks and so lists it as a 4 week #1 which makes it his biggest solo hit, even bigger than "Billie Jean", on that chart. ("Say Say Say" spent 7 weeks at #1.)
Your period of listening to CT/AT40 regularly is a great period for pop music. Heard another show from that time frame last night, the 4/26/03 AT40. Casey played a different version of a song. After saying that movie producers had interest in "Big Yellow Taxi" even though it was only briefly on the Counting Crows CD, it was resurrected and a single with Vanessa Carlton providing backup vocals was recorded and released. Casey played the album version of it that she did not sing on.
This is an example of a show in which the same song title both debuts and drops out. "Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera dropped out but Snoop Doog debuted with his own song with that title. Interesting part of this is that Casey said that Snoop had last been in the top 40 in 1994 when "Gin and Juice" peaked at 28. Well, guess what, Casey just said essentially the same thing on today's show. Said after spending 2 weeks at #28 where he peaked, Snoop drops to 34 with "Gin and Juice". That's because it's the 4/9/94 CT40.
It's a show with a Latino flavor. Casey did a whatever happened to piece on Gerardo who had "Rico Suave" in 1991. Said that he had stopped recording and starting acting, with the movie he acted in set to open later that year. Then at #31 was Cuban Rosco Martinez with "Neon Moonlight". A couple songs later was "Hey DJ" by Lighter Shade of Brown. They are the Mexican duo who Casey said were inspired by Malo("Suavecito", my input and a great song), Tierra and War. DJ is a great song too especially with that riff that Mariah sampled for "Honey".
A lot of posts in the Casey Kasem jinx thread. No jinx when he says moving up 18 to 18 with this week's biggest mover is Madonna with "I'll Remember". This could be her 14th #1. Yep it was though I preferred her next hit "Secret" which did not hit #1.