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Post by jlthorpe on Feb 18, 2024 11:18:33 GMT -5
Tomorrow is Presidents' Day, and to celebrate, here are The Presidents of the United States of America with their cover of The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" from the film The Wedding Singer, released in theaters in mid-February 1998.
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Post by jlthorpe on Feb 21, 2024 18:35:14 GMT -5
Before 1993's "Insane in the Brain" reached the Top 40, Cypress Hill hit the Hot 100 with their first chart single - the two-sided "How I Could Just Kill a Man" and "The Phuncky Feel One". On the February 22, 1992 Hot 100, the "Phuncky" B-side was on top at its peak of #94, while the A-side would overtake it and climb to #77 two weeks later.
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Post by jlthorpe on Feb 25, 2024 16:28:01 GMT -5
Up to #56 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart for this week in 1997, "Santeria" by Sublime only made it to #43 the week ending April 5. The song spent a total of 22 weeks on the 75-position chart.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Feb 25, 2024 20:22:21 GMT -5
"Santeria" is one of the most often played songs on radio back then that didn't hit the top 40.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Feb 25, 2024 21:18:03 GMT -5
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Post by jlthorpe on Feb 25, 2024 21:54:04 GMT -5
"Santeria" is one of the most often played songs on radio back then that didn't hit the top 40. What's odd is that it didn't hit Radio and Records. "What I Got" and "Wrong Way" did, but neither got past the 40s. All three hit the Hot 100 Airplay chart, but only "What I Got" hit the Top 40.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Feb 26, 2024 8:08:31 GMT -5
"Santeria" is one of the most often played songs on radio back then that didn't hit the top 40. What's odd is that it didn't hit Radio and Records. "What I Got" and "Wrong Way" did, but neither got past the 40s. All three hit the Hot 100 Airplay chart, but only "What I Got" hit the Top 40. I thought it was odd as well. I was in PA at the time, and I would hear Casey's Top 40 on WSBG and WAEB (the latter also aired Casey's Hot 20, and later AT20 HAC). WSBG is the station I mostly heard "Santeria"; surely I thought it would crack the 40, but it didn't.
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Post by jlthorpe on Feb 28, 2024 19:19:10 GMT -5
Pearl Jam re-entered the Hot 100 Airplay chart at #75 with "Corduroy" this week in 1995; it would take until mid-July for the song to reach its peak of #53. On the Modern Rock Tracks and Album Rock Tracks charts, it reached #13 and #22 respectively.
Today's runner-up: "Plowed" by Sponge.
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 3, 2024 10:44:29 GMT -5
Peaking at #61 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart the week before, "Dammit (Growing Up)" by Blink-182 dropped down to #64 for the week ending March 7, 1998. Note that the drummer in the video isn't Travis Barker but Scott Raynor, the band's original drummer.
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 6, 2024 18:48:32 GMT -5
The previous week it debuted at #98; on the March 9, 1991 Hot 100 it was up to #84; the following week it peaked at #82. The song was "Made Up My Mind" by Sa-Fire, her last of five Hot 100 entries.
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 10, 2024 10:29:45 GMT -5
Debuting on the first Bubbling Under chart of 1993 (January 2), "Dizz Knee Land" by the alternative rock band dada (spelled with a lowercase "d") peaked at #102 in early February, and on the March 13 chart it was down to #114 in what would be its final week.
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Post by mga707 on Mar 10, 2024 12:23:33 GMT -5
Debuting on the first Bubbling Under chart of 1993 (January 2), "Dizz Knee Land" by the alternative rock band dada (spelled with a lowercase "d") peaked at #102 in early February, and on the March 13 chart it was down to #114 in what would be its final week. Spelled that way in part, at least, to thwart the Disney Co.'s legion of lawyers always on the lookout for copyright infringement...
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 13, 2024 17:53:16 GMT -5
From their album Flood, "Birdhouse in Your Soul" by They Might Be Giants spent two weeks at #3 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1990 and was their biggest hit on that chart. For the week ending March 17, it was down to #7.
Also from the album were two songs that did not hit the Billboard rock charts - "Particle Man" (whose only official video was aired as part of the cartoon Tiny Toon Adventures) and their cover of The Four Lads' "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)".
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 17, 2024 9:14:16 GMT -5
From the Hot 100 for March 19, 1994 are two hip-hop songs:
At its peak of #67, climbing from #81, is the Brooklyn duo Gang Starr with "Mass Appeal"...
... and debuting at #76 was A Tribe Called Quest with "Electric Relaxation (Relax Yourself Girl)", which got as high as #65.
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 20, 2024 18:09:35 GMT -5
Two versions of "We Will Rock You" were on the Hot 100 in 1992. In addition to the original by Queen, which finally charted as a medley with "We Are the Champions" that summer* and hit #52, a cover by Warrant debuted at #98 on the March 21 Hot 100. From the film Gladiator, the song was the only chart hit for the band following the success of Nirvana and reached #83.
* The two songs did chart as a medley in Radio and Records and went to #4 in 1978.
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