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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2016 16:31:06 GMT -5
Really?! I thought Norm was always in control during those years.
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Post by palmer7 on May 20, 2016 21:07:24 GMT -5
Who is in charge of WW1 now?
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2016 6:41:31 GMT -5
Really?! I thought Norm was always in control during those years. So Mel is the hand of death to creativity. At least in my world. He led to the end of the one show from WW1 I listened to and he oversaw the "merge" of XM and Sirius that ruined both IMO. |
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Post by caseyfan4everryanfan on May 31, 2016 23:24:14 GMT -5
Mel is a jinx to himself and every company in which he works.
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Post by DJ Particle on Jul 12, 2016 8:51:28 GMT -5
"The current AT40 is merely a continuation of Casey's Top 40" Premiere rep: Heh? That much was obvious. I noticed on the second AT40 Casey era, on the year-end charts, when he'd name #1 songs from years past, he'd use AT40 through 1988, then switch to CT40 starting with 1989. Which led to some talking back to the playback on my part.... "...in 1990, the #1 song was "Vision of Love" by Mariah Carey..." ME: "No it wasn't! AT40's #1 was "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinéad O'Connor!!"  |
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Post by adam31 on Jul 12, 2016 9:10:45 GMT -5
"The current AT40 is merely a continuation of Casey's Top 40" Premiere rep: Heh? That much was obvious. I noticed on the second AT40 Casey era, on the year-end charts, when he'd name #1 songs from years past, he'd use AT40 through 1988, then switch to CT40 starting with 1989. Which led to some talking back to the playback on my part.... "...in 1990, the #1 song was "Vision of Love" by Mariah Carey..." ME: "No it wasn't! AT40's #1 was "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinéad O'Connor!!" He may have done this initially especially during CT40 to stay far away from any infringing of Billboard/AT40 (all the litigation), but I thought he backtracked on this a bit after 2000-2001, when he would say X years ago, the #1 song on "our survey" was.... |
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Post by dukelightning on Jul 12, 2016 17:00:45 GMT -5
It is sometimes very challenging trying to figure out what chart he is referencing when he plays a #1 song from some year in the past. Especially on the AC and HAC countdowns. i.e., on the CH20 show I am listening to, he is playing "Dancing in the Dark" as a #1 hit from 1984. But many times when he does this, I am wondering whether it is #1 on the pop chart or the Hot AC chart or its equivalent, if it even existed then. I thought Hot AC charts did not begin until the 90s. I do know that it is R&R and not Billboard however, that he is referencing.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2016 18:12:09 GMT -5
I don't believe HAC existed in 84. So he is I assume rederencing R&R CHR which I believe that song did reach #1 on.
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Post by dukelightning on Jul 12, 2016 18:19:12 GMT -5
"7 years ago, that was the #1 song in the USA...'Good Thing' by Fine Young Cannibals.", is what he just said. That must be the same thing as you just wrote Paul because I don't think HAC existed in 1989 either. I think it is harder to figure out on Casey's Countdown and then AT20/10, because the AC chart at least in Billboard goes back to the 60s. And he does reference Billboard if it is before the inception of R&R in 1973.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2016 19:15:43 GMT -5
You have to go back to the origin of HAC. HAC was really a format that splintered off of CHR in the same timeframe as the Rythmic CHR format. HAC was CHR just with no rap and no hard rock. So it makes sense when he refers to a number 1 previous he would be referring to CHR. It's also possible several of those early affiliates were former CHR stations or listed themselves as CHR but the HAC format was closer to their station format.
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Post by mkarns on Jul 12, 2016 19:18:01 GMT -5
"7 years ago, that was the #1 song in the USA...'Good Thing' by Fine Young Cannibals.", is what he just said. That must be the same thing as you just wrote Paul because I don't think HAC existed in 1989 either. I think it is harder to figure out on Casey's Countdown and then AT20/10, because the AC chart at least in Billboard goes back to the 60s. And he does reference Billboard if it is before the inception of R&R in 1973. There were some Hot AC stations in 1989, and the format was by all indicators growing, but there wasn't yet a separate chart devoted to it in either Billboard or Radio & Records. |
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Post by Shadoe Fan on Jul 13, 2016 3:09:06 GMT -5
As far as charts go, R&R published their first Hot AC chart in April 1994. Billboard published its first Adult Top 40 chart in March, 1996.
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Post by DJ Particle on Dec 29, 2016 11:28:23 GMT -5
That much was obvious. I noticed on the second AT40 Casey era, on the year-end charts, when he'd name #1 songs from years past, he'd use AT40 through 1988, then switch to CT40 starting with 1989. Which led to some talking back to the playback on my part.... "...in 1990, the #1 song was "Vision of Love" by Mariah Carey..." ME: "No it wasn't! AT40's #1 was "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinéad O'Connor!!" He may have done this initially especially during CT40 to stay far away from any infringing of Billboard/AT40 (all the litigation), but I thought he backtracked on this a bit after 2000-2001, when he would say X years ago, the #1 song on "our survey" was.... Except the year-end charts of AT40 from 1990-94 were based on ABC's own algorithm. They didn't use any specific Billboard year-end charts. |
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Post by adam31 on Dec 30, 2016 8:45:04 GMT -5
He may have done this initially especially during CT40 to stay far away from any infringing of Billboard/AT40 (all the litigation), but I thought he backtracked on this a bit after 2000-2001, when he would say X years ago, the #1 song on "our survey" was.... Except the year-end charts of AT40 from 1990-94 were based on ABC's own algorithm. They didn't use any specific Billboard year-end charts. True, but Billboard's #1 song of 1990 was "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips. |
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Post by DJ Particle on Dec 30, 2016 12:30:03 GMT -5
Except the year-end charts of AT40 from 1990-94 were based on ABC's own algorithm. They didn't use any specific Billboard year-end charts. True, but Billboard's #1 song of 1990 was "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips. Hence why I said *AT40*'s #1 of 1990.... 😊 |
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