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Post by doofus67 on Feb 24, 2018 17:41:49 GMT -5
One of the ultimate examples of a song brake-slamming while descending the charts has to be the Bee Gees' "How Deep Is Your Love". It spent FOUR weeks at #10 on its way down (one of those weeks happened to be 2/25/1978, which was this week's featured '70's show). Which, coincidentally, enabled it to set a new record for number of weeks in the top 10. Hmmmmm... More important, it's an obvious, if not the ultimate, example of the RSO label's tampering. It put all three of the Bee Gees' Saturday Night Fever songs in the top ten together. And then it wasn't done with the slamming. After renting out the #10 spot for a month, it dropped to #15, then all the way to #35. At that point it set a brand new Hot 100 record for most weeks in the top 40, with 24, breaking the record set just months earlier by --surprise surprise -- Andy Gibb! Magically it bounced back to 33, with a bullet, then inched up to 32 before finally bowing out. The 26-week benchmark stood until the early 90s, when BDS and SoundScan took over. |
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Post by mga707 on Feb 24, 2018 18:00:51 GMT -5
Which, coincidentally, enabled it to set a new record for number of weeks in the top 10. Hmmmmm... More important, it's an obvious, if not the ultimate, example of the RSO label's tampering. It put all three of the Bee Gees' Saturday Night Fever songs in the top ten together. True. And gave the label half of the top 10. Andy Gibb and Eric Clapton as well as the 3 mentioned. |
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Post by doofus67 on Feb 25, 2018 21:43:22 GMT -5
June 11-18, 1977..."Sir Duke" by Stevie Wonder plummeted from #1 to #9, then held steady at #9.
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Post by doofus67 on Feb 28, 2018 1:28:26 GMT -5
"Love Rollercoaster" lived up to its title for part of its chart run. From #1, it dipped to #6, hit a vertical loop and slipped to #7, then went into a dive drop, all the way to #33.
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Post by burcjm on Feb 28, 2018 14:17:27 GMT -5
"Another One Bites The Dust" on its way down: Two weeks at #2, four weeks at #4, two weeks at #3 (yes, after its run at #4), two weeks at #14, then several weeks later, two weeks at #96 and two weeks at #98.
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Post by Michael1973 on Mar 1, 2018 21:39:33 GMT -5
How about "I Love You" by Climax Blues Band? It fell from the upper teens into the upper 30's and then lingered in the Top 40 for over a month after that.
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Post by doofus67 on Mar 2, 2018 5:44:02 GMT -5
Good ones from 1976...
"All by Myself"...2-2-2-4-19-19
"More More More"...4-20-20
"Kiss and Say Goodbye"...1-8-9-8-11; also held at #34
"Moonlight Feels Right"...3-18-34-34
"Shake Your Booty"...1-2-4-9-9-8-7
"Lowdown"...4-25-33-33
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Post by doofus67 on Mar 29, 2018 5:47:06 GMT -5
March 20, 27 and April 3, 1982...
"Spirits in the Material World" 11-31-34
"Leader of the Band" 15-32-35
"Take It Easy on Me" 16-33-36
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Post by at40petebattistini on Mar 29, 2018 6:26:45 GMT -5
Just two weeks in the Top 40 for "Time To Get Down" by the O'Jays. But it was more like "time to GO down" after a respectable climb within the countdown (#40 - #33; on July 7, 1973) and then a huge drop.
Here's the complete chart run--
90-81-77-64-50-45-40-33-60-59-59-63-off
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Post by mga707 on Mar 29, 2018 9:47:37 GMT -5
Just two weeks in the Top 40 for "Time To Get Down" by the O'Jays. But it was more like "time to GO down" after a respectable climb within the countdown (#40 - #33; on July 7, 1973) and then a huge drop. Here's the complete chart run-- 90-81-77-64-50-45-40-33-60-59-59-63-off That was the 'summer of odd chart runs' as I like to call it. After Billboard changed their chart methodology in June (which led to the infamous 'wrong' show with the incorrect positions) a lot of songs had weird chart runs for awhile. That 33-60 plunge followed by three more weeks with little movement is a prime example. |
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Post by Hervard on Mar 29, 2018 9:59:25 GMT -5
March 20, 27 and April 3, 1982... "Spirits in the Material World" 11-31-34 "Leader of the Band" 15-32-35 "Take It Easy on Me" 16-33-36 I remember that first week in 1982 had several slow moves down in the lower reaches of the Top 40. The week after that, there were eight debuts on AT40 and I seem to recall that all of the songs that dropped out (surprisingly, none from inside the Top 20) fell quite far. Makes me wonder if there was some sort of computer malfunction on the week of 4/3/82. I doubt that those small drops would have anything to do with their arbitrary bullet rule. |
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Post by doofus67 on Feb 18, 2019 1:32:05 GMT -5
"Maneater": After its four-week run at #1, it dropped to #4, then to #6, held there for four weeks, then plummeted to #25. Weird.
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Post by mga707 on Feb 18, 2019 12:30:13 GMT -5
"Maneater": After its four-week run at #1, it dropped to #4, then to #6, held there for four weeks, then plummeted to #25. Weird. Again, 1982. I treat all 'Billboard' Hot 100s from that year with a healthy skepticism. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 20, 2022 9:39:08 GMT -5
Another weird 1983 movement by Joan Jett and the Blackfarts. Everyday People lost 25 after being bulleted the prior panel
40*-37*-62-87-off
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 5, 2023 12:24:31 GMT -5
Pete Townshend got whiplash from slamming on the brakes so hard. Let My Love made a massive top tenner move 9-19 on 8/16/80 only to hold right there unbulleted for 2 more panels before rolling backwards.
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