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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 28, 2022 18:11:27 GMT -5
Going to Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart for the week ending August 31, 1996, Alice in Chains was down to #24 that week with a song they took to #8 in July - "Again".
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 31, 2022 19:47:34 GMT -5
I was listening to an old radio broadcast on YouTube yesterday, from New York's WQHT (Hot 97) in 1992 (back when they were still primarily a dance station instead of hip-hop), and I was reminded of this song by Lidell Townsell and M.T.F. which I probably heard back then but just barely remember. "Get With U" was up to #78 on the Hot 100 this week that year, which is where it ended up peaking. By coincidence, I also found out the song is sampled by Beyoncé on the track "Cozy" from her latest album Renaissance: www.whosampled.com/sample/968575/Beyonc%C3%A9-COZY-Lidell-Townsell-M.T.F.-Get-With-U/ .
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 4, 2022 9:53:01 GMT -5
When Phil Collins left Genesis in the mid-90s, he was replaced as lead singer by Ray Wilson, whose only album with the band was 1997's Calling All Stations. This week that year, "Congo" from the album was at its peak position on the Mainstream Rock chart at #25.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 7, 2022 19:34:18 GMT -5
They were three weeks away from reaching #68 on the Hot 100, but British rock band Gene Loves Jezebel would have been envious of that position on the September 8, 1990 chart, as their hit "Jealous" was just ten notches lower at #78.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 11, 2022 15:10:10 GMT -5
Spending 3 weeks at #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart in June 1999, Buckcherry's "Lit Up" was holding at #16 on the September 11 chart.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 14, 2022 19:56:54 GMT -5
At the top of the Billboard 200 album chart for the third of four weeks in a row, on today's chart date in 1991, was The Black Album (AKA Metallica). For today's pick, I chose a track from that album that did not otherwise chart on Billboard's pop or rock charts - "Don't Tread on Me".
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 18, 2022 11:31:07 GMT -5
Here are two Pearl Jam songs with a weird chart history. Both "Alive" and "Even Flow" hit Billboard's rock charts in 1992; the former reached #16/#18 and the latter reached #3/#21 on Album Rock (Mainstream Rock) and Modern Rock (Alternative) respectively. In 1995, they were released as commercial singles along with "Jeremy" (posted in this thread last year), allowing them to hit the Hot 100/Bubbling Under charts. While "Jeremy" did hit the Hot 100 in 1995, "Alive" and "Even Flow" hit the Bubbling Under chart beginning in 1996, where they eventually spent a total of 61 and 52 weeks on the chart over the next three years, with "Alive"'s 61 weeks holding the record (as of Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2018 book) for the most ever by a song on the Bubbling Under chart. For the week ending September 19, 1998, the two songs were at #16 in its 51st week and #25 in its 42nd; "Alive" was still a month away from its ultimate peak of #107, while "Even Flow" reached #108 way back in February 1997. Their last week "Bubbling Under" was November 28, 1998, one week before Billboard allowed non-singles to hit the Hot 100 and Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles, thereby pushing those two songs off the chart for good.
"Alive" music video (live):
"Alive" album version:
"Even Flow" official video:
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 21, 2022 18:43:34 GMT -5
Reaching #55 during a short seven-week stay on the Hot 100, R. Kelly's "Summer Bunnies" was down to #72 during its sixth week, on the September 24, 1994 chart.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 25, 2022 10:32:23 GMT -5
The first release off Green Day's Nimrod album, "Hitchin' a Ride" (not to be confused with the Vanity Fare hit), was up to #17 on the September 27, 1997 Mainstream Rock chart in its second week. The song reached #9 on that chart, as well as #5 on the Modern Rock chart and #59 on Hot 100 Airplay.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 28, 2022 19:20:50 GMT -5
Latino rapper Kid Frost just missed hitting the Top 40 when his song "La Raza" peaked at #42 on the Hot 100. Sampling "The Jam" by Graham Central Station and "Viva Tirado" by El Chicano, it was down to #66 on the September 29, 1990 chart.
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Post by jlthorpe on Oct 2, 2022 10:49:15 GMT -5
On the Hot 100 this week in 1995 was the double A-side single by Bon Jovi, "Something for the Pain"/"Lie to Me". While "Something for the Pain" did reach #33 on the Radio and Records chart (and #76 on the Hot 100, peaking there this same week), "Lie to Me" was not as lucky, only reaching #88 in Billboard.
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Post by jlthorpe on Oct 5, 2022 6:35:29 GMT -5
Debuting on the Hot 100 the previous week at #86, and climbing to #81 this week in 1993, "Push the Feeling On" by Scottish dance project Nightcrawlers would climb to its peak of #80 two weeks later, but would still spend another eleven weeks on the chart. The first video is the original version of the song and possibly the version which charted in 1993, but the later video is the more well-known Marc Kinchen remix from 1995 which has superceded the original by both fans and by the band itself.
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Post by jlthorpe on Oct 9, 2022 9:50:02 GMT -5
Rock band 311 was down to #125 on the Bubbling Under chart with "Come Original" on today's date in 1999, but they would make a slight rebound and bring the song back up to #119.
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Post by jlthorpe on Oct 12, 2022 19:28:47 GMT -5
On the October 12, 1991 Billboard 200 album chart, an album debuted at #144 that would eventually go to #1 and be considered the greatest album of the 90s. Of course that album was Nevermind by Nirvana. Here are three tracks from that album that did not reach the Hot 100 or Billboard rock charts - "Drain You", "Something in the Way", and "Stay Away".
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Post by jlthorpe on Oct 16, 2022 11:04:05 GMT -5
Hard rock band Rammstein spent their last week on the Mainstream Rock chart on October 17, 1998 with the German language song "Du hast"; at #38 that week, the song peaked at #20.
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