Top-spot denials on charts other than the Hot 100

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"I'll Always Love You", by Taylor Dayne, held the #2 spot on the Adult Contemporary Chart for the last two of four weeks that "One Good Woman", by Peter Cetera, was at #1 on the AC chart (September 22 and 29, 1988). "I'll Always Love You" would reach #3 on the main Hot 100 chart for the weeks of September 24 and October 1 of '88, "One Good Woman" peaked one spot lower, at #4, on the latter week.

The Billboard AC chart for May 4, 1985 had "Rhythm of the Night", by DeBarge, at #1, and "Crazy for You", by Madonna, at #2 (and ultimately going no higher than that). "Crazy for You", after having been stuck at #2 for three weeks, would advance to the #1 spot on the Hot 100 the following week (May 11), while "Rhythm of the Night" would only reach #3 during the weeks of April 27 and May 4. Plus, Madonna had to wait until June of 1986 for her first AC number-one ("Live to Tell"). Because this denial was only for a single week, would it have been better if "Crazy for You" had been Madonna's first AC number-one instead (meaning "Rhythm of the Night" stalls at #2)?

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"Let's Get Serious", by Jermaine Jackson, spent six weeks on the Hot Soul chart's number-one spot (May 17-June 21, 1980), ultimately ranking as the best-performing Soul hit of the entire year. For five of those weeks (May 24-June 21), "Funkytown", by Lipps Inc., held the number-two spot of the same chart. The Lipps Inc. "Funkytown" was at number-one on the Hot 100 for four weeks (May 31-June 21, 1980), but "Let's Get Serious" would only reach #9 on the weeks of July 12 and 19. Just for that five-week denial, you just have to wonder: How dare he?

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"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)", by Phil Collins, topped the Billboard Hot 100 on the weeks of April 21, April 28, and May 5 of 1984, and spent six weeks at the runner-up position of the Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart, from August 14 to May 19 of 1984. What made "Against All Odds" fail to reach number-one AC? On the first five of those weeks, "Hello", by Lionel Richie (which would top the Hot 100 on May 12 and 19), was at the AC chart's number one spot, and on the sixth and final week, "The Longest Time", by Billy Joel (which only reached #14 pop on the May 12, 19, and 26 panels) would leapfrog over "Against All Odds".