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Post by DJ Particle on Jan 16, 2017 21:04:28 GMT -5
How about in 1993 when Shadoe Stevens AT40 which was in its first year of the Top 40/Mainstream format put "Two Princes" by The Spin Doctors as the #1 song of 1993 rather than Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You"? It actually does make sense. The Top 40 Mainstream format had reduced R&B and Hip-Hop influence. It was AT40's attempt to lessen the effect of rap on the chart. Among stations that embraced this format, "Two Princes" was a HUGE hit, stuck around for an insane number of weeks, and was #1 for many weeks on the Billboard T40M chart. I admit it caught me by surprise as well until I looked back in my Billboard issues and saw the chart performance for myself.
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Post by Mike on Jan 16, 2017 23:17:36 GMT -5
It also doesn't even fit the premise of this topic!
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jan 17, 2017 11:57:47 GMT -5
"Everything You Want" was #1 the week of 7/15/2000. To note, AT40 had abandoned the BB Hot 100 almost nine years before that chart week, so any chart references as far as the current AT40 or CT40 goes (or really AT40's original run, after 11/23/1991) would not refer to the Hot 100. Just looking at the Hot 100 charts for 2000, interesting to note, "Everything You Want" shot up to #1 from #6 on 7/15, after descending for a few weeks from a previous peak of #2.
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Post by jmack19 on Jan 17, 2017 12:13:12 GMT -5
On Billboard Hot 100:
"One Hell Of A Woman" Mac Davis peaked at #11 - #10 for 1974 "Angel In Your Arm" Hot peaked at #6 - #5 for 1977(#8-AT40)
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Post by pointpark04 on Jan 17, 2017 12:14:35 GMT -5
During its Radio & Records chart run in 1996, Joan Arden's "Insensitive" only reached a peak of #12 on the weekly chart. However, when the Top 100 of 1996 was played by Casey's Top 40, the song was #13 for the year. I guess the 33 weeks it spent riding the survey helped quite a bit, but still - a #12 song coming in at #13 for the year. Oh, how the 1990s charts differed greatly from the 1980s.
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Post by Hervard on Jan 17, 2017 12:28:34 GMT -5
^That's the one I can't stand. "Two Princes" does not sound like a #1 song of the year to me for one thing. I know that is subjective but it has a lot to do with the fact that it stopped well short of the #1 spot on the Hot 100. Yes I know the Hot 100 meant nothing then. But look at the other year end #1 songs from the Shadoe post Hot 100 years, "End of the Road" and "The Sign" both were many week #1 hits on the Hot 100. To this day, I am still burned out on pretty much anything by the Spin Doctors, but especially that song. It did not hit #1 on the Hot 100 or R&R, but it might as well have, since it was played ad nauseum for pretty much the entire year, especially the first half. Indeed, that is one of the songs that, as soon as it starts up, you find me diving for the tuner (or the volume button, if I'm listening to the radio on my computer).
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Sept 12, 2021 22:17:47 GMT -5
So I was listening to the AT40 year-end for 2001, and while it's previously been noted that the #1 song of the year, "Hanging By A Moment" by Lifehouse, did not reach #1 on the weekly charts, there's yet more to the year-end rankings. The songs at #2 and #3 also did not reach #1, those hits being "Again" by Lenny Kravitz, and "Follow Me" by Uncle Kracker. The highest ranked #1 hit was at #4, "Angel" by Shaggy featuring Rayvon. That's got to be the lowest highest-ranked #1 hit in a year-end chart (at least in the AT40/CT40 realm). For three songs that didn't reach the summit to outrank all the #1's in a given year, they had to rack up some serious points/have a lot of staying power to pull that off.
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Post by vince on Sept 13, 2021 2:25:39 GMT -5
So I was listening to the AT40 year-end for 2001, and while it's previously been noted that the #1 song of the year, "Hanging By A Moment" by Lifehouse, did not reach #1 on the weekly charts, there's yet more to the year-end rankings. The songs at #2 and #3 also did not reach #1, those hits being "Again" by Lenny Kravitz, and "Follow Me" by Uncle Kracker. The highest ranked #1 hit was at #4, "Angel" by Shaggy featuring Rayvon. That's got to be the lowest highest-ranked #1 hit in a year-end chart (at least in the AT40/CT40 realm). For three songs that didn't reach the summit to outrank all the #1's in a given year, they had to rack up some serious points/have a lot of staying power to pull that off. That is not the first time this happened. Going back to before AT40, BB's originally published year end singles chart for 1963 had "Surfin' USA" at #1, "The End of the World" at #2 and "Rhythm of the Rain" at #3. None of which hit #1 on the weekly surveys. The highest ranking #1 song was "He's So Fine" at #4. BB did later revised the 1963 chart and putting "Sugar Shack" at #1.
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