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Post by blackbowl68 on Dec 24, 2014 9:44:59 GMT -5
In relation to AT40 & the song "Send Me An Angel," I greatly disagree with you, Shadoe Fan. The Hot 100 airplay chart was indeed based on audience impressions, but the Top 40 Radio Monitor which AT40 switched to was based on detections (spins). This chart also doesn't take the market share of a radio station into account.
R&R's Top 40 chart does indeed take market share of its reporters into consideration. Therefore, a song ranked at a position on a pop station in large market would accumulate more points than from being ranked at the same position on a pop station in a small market. So R&R does use a weight system.
So for SMAA to reach #23 on CT40 and miss the chart at AT40, the song would be reported more than it was actually played.
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Post by Shadoe Fan on Dec 24, 2014 11:19:14 GMT -5
In relation to AT40 & the song "Send Me An Angel," I greatly disagree with you, Shadoe Fan. The Hot 100 airplay chart was indeed based on audience impressions, but the Top 40 Radio Monitor which AT40 switched to was based on detections (spins). This chart also doesn't take the market share of a radio station into account. R&R's Top 40 chart does indeed take market share of its reporters into consideration. Therefore, a song ranked at a position on a pop station in large market would accumulate more points than from being ranked at the same position on a pop station in a small market. So R&R does use a weight system. So for SMAA to reach #23 on CT40 and miss the chart at AT40, the song would be reported more than it was actually played. The Top 40 Radio Monitor chart that AT40 used when SMAA charted was the Hot 100 Airplay chart at the time (would be renamed Hot 100 Airplay).  As you can see from the image, it used gross impressions. AT40 didn't switch to the Top 40/Mainstream chart, which was based on spins, until January 1993. |
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Post by 80sat40fan on Dec 28, 2014 15:15:32 GMT -5
One good thing about most years in the 1990s... there were no frozen Billboard charts between Christmas and New Year's Day. This week's Lost 90s Classic was at #92 on the 12/31/94 chart and would peak at #54. The song is by Freedy Johnston (born Fred Fatser... I'd probably pick a new stage name with a last name like that  ). He enjoyed some success on the Modern/Alternative charts but this was his lone Hot 100 song... "Bad Reputation": |
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Post by 1finemrg on Dec 31, 2014 18:53:47 GMT -5
It held its #57 peak position on January 3, 1998 in the fourth of nine weeks in the hot 100. It was the third single from an album released in the spring of the previous year, and the last hot 100 chart entry for this legendary trio. Good song with a great R & B groove that sticks in your brain. In this case, that's a good thing. Still Waters (Run Deep) - Bee Gees |
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Post by jlthorpe on Jan 4, 2015 10:29:36 GMT -5
From this week in 1994, here's a song that was in the Top 5 of Billboard's Album Rock Tracks chart but did not hit the Hot 100. Here's "Cold Fire" by Rush.
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Post by 80sat40fan on Jan 4, 2015 14:10:41 GMT -5
First time I can say this in this thread... 25 years ago this week...
On the 1/13/90 Hot 100 chart, the Queen of Reggae, Marcia Griffiths, was holding at #59 on her way to peaking at #51 with a dance hit called, "Electric Boogie." Where I grew up (St. Louis), no station played this song. About a year later, I am chaperoning a middle school dance, and this song starts playing. I asked one of the other chaperones, "What song is this?" He said, "You don't know the Electric Slide? Watch this... the kids love this dance." For as much as this gets played at dances and receptions, I only recall one oldies station playing it (a hot AC station in Detroit which used to have Flashback weekends), and it was only for a short while. I know some of you will say this isn't a Lost 90s Classic but given its lack of Top 40 airplay then and now... here's "Electric Boogie" by Marcia Griffiths:
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Post by seminolefan on Jan 4, 2015 15:56:01 GMT -5
Love that song!
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Post by blackbowl68 on Jan 4, 2015 18:02:30 GMT -5
Love it, too. At that time, US top 40 radio stations were very cold to records with strong Carribean rhythms. But "Electric Boogie" was watered down enough to get some support from Rhythmic top 40 stations. Oldies stations like WCBS-FM now give this track a few spins today when they're in a party mood.
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Post by seminolefan on Jan 6, 2015 15:04:46 GMT -5
Offering up a lost hit from 1/11/1992, this song had hit #2 on the R&B chart, but was a week away from reaching its peak position of #62 on the Hot 100. Vanessa Williams - The Comfort Zone |
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Post by 1finemrg on Jan 8, 2015 10:59:06 GMT -5
From January 13, 1990, this one debuted at its #92 peak position. It would chart for five weeks. A jaunty little number, we're going to go with the re-recorded longer single mix. Figure Of Eight - Paul McCartney |
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Post by 80sat40fan on Jan 11, 2015 10:28:17 GMT -5
For my Lost 90s Classic pick this week, we take a look at the Hot 100 for the week ending 1/18/92. Blur is best know for their alt-rock classic from 1997, "Song 2"... or for fans who attend lots of games, that's the song where you yell, "WOOOO OOOOOO" a few times during the song along with songs like "Seven Nation Army" and "Hip Hop Hooray". Anyway, Blur had an alt-rock hit in 1992 which was at #90 on this week's chart, but it would only get as high as #82 on the Hot 100. It's a catchy song with a cool guitar riff. Here is, "There's No Other Way" by Blur:
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Post by 1finemrg on Jan 16, 2015 21:02:50 GMT -5
For all the haters of the Hot 100 charts in the 90s, sharpen your claws for this lost 90s classic. It was this band only Hot 100 single, a cover of a song written by Robyn St. Claire originally recorded in 1990. On January 15, 1994, it was 10 weeks into a 14 week chart run that peaked at #67. On the Modern Rock Tracks chart, it was quite a different story. It peaked at the top and stayed there for 9 weeks. Come On Feel... Into Your Arms - The Lemonheads |
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Jan 17, 2015 3:46:57 GMT -5
I'll give this a shot & go with the debut single by The Black Eyed Peas "Joints & Jam" from 1998 it made #39 on Billboard's Rhythmic Chart & charted on the Billboard Rap Chart based on 12 inch single sales. Listen to it & you'll notice 2 things 1) no Fergie (big improvement) & 2) how much more of a Hip-Hop sound they had instead of the overplayed pop crap they put out in the late 2000's. Also check out their 2001 #63 8 week Hot 100 run of "Request Line" with Macy Gray.
Joints & Jam www.youtube.com?watch?v=z84xWDbj1h0
Request Line www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH8FctYMM80
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Post by 80sat40fan on Jan 18, 2015 6:50:43 GMT -5
My pick for this week's Lost 90s Classic debuted on the 1/23/93 chart at #88. Peter Cetera had some success singing duets with Amy Grant and Cher, so a duet with Chaka Khan should have been a smash, right? Well... this song got no higher than #71 on the chart but it should have done much better. Have to love the video as there are so many elements of early 90s style and visuals (and it looks like Peter and Chaka recorded their scenes at different times, maybe?). Anyway, it's not quite a power ballad, it's not quite a mid-tempo song... but it's a great one that did well on Hot AC stations. Here is, "Feels Like Heaven" by Peter Cetera & Chaka Khan:
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Post by seminolefan on Jan 18, 2015 16:58:48 GMT -5
Offering up a lost hit from 1/27/1990, it's from Sybil, who hit the Top 40 a couple of months earlier with a remake of Dionne Warwick's "Don't Make Me Over". She debuts with a remake of another Dionne classic, and would get as high as #74 on the Hot 100. Sybil - Walk On By |
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). He enjoyed some success on the Modern/Alternative charts but this was his lone Hot 100 song... "Bad Reputation":
