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Post by Michael1973 on Aug 7, 2023 14:40:19 GMT -5
I was thinking about this thread while listening to Casey from 8/6/88 describe how the Beatles held the record for most hits in the top 40 at the same time. Yeah, once upon a time that sort of thing was impressive. Now it happens once a month or so.
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Post by rayshae3 on Aug 16, 2023 21:09:34 GMT -5
This year of 2023 has seen the most non-English language Top 10 on the Hot 100 since the chart started in 1958: six Top 10s (and the year isn’t over yet). Previous record holder years: 2022 (with 4 non-English-language Top 10s), and tied 2019 and 2020 (with 3 non-English-language Top 10s each). As for languages themselves, current leaders for the most Top 10s on the Hot 100: Spanish (with 19 songs) and yes Korean in the runner up position with 8. More stats from Xander Zellner, chart analyst writing the following BB Chart Beat item with help from P. Haney of Record Research + a look at all of the 35 non-English Top 10 titles as of latest Hot 100 chart date which came out this week: www.billboard.com/lists/non-english-songs-hot-100-top/ |
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Post by rayshae3 on Sept 7, 2023 23:53:11 GMT -5
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Post by jgve1952 on Nov 13, 2023 16:43:56 GMT -5
12 songs from Taylor Swift debut in the Top 20 on the Hot 100. In the past, they have dropped quickly from the top spot, but we shall see.
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Post by mitchm on Nov 13, 2023 21:16:05 GMT -5
12 songs from Taylor Swift debut in the Top 20 on the Hot 100. In the past, they have dropped quickly from the top spot, but we shall see. On this week's Hot 100 (dated 11/18/2023), Taylor knocked herself out of #1 because "Cruel Summer" moved back into the top spot. |
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Post by rayshae3 on Dec 5, 2023 0:18:38 GMT -5
With Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree topping the new Hot 100 for the week of December 9, 2023, it shatters some important records in history.
Longest wait for #1 after the song’s release: 65 years. Previous champ, another Xmas song: 25-year gap between 1994 and 2019 for Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You”
Longest climb to #1 after the song’s debut on the chart: Dec.12, 1960 to Dec. 9, 2023
Longest breaks between any two #1s: between “I Want to Be Wanted” (Oct. 1960) and “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”. Previous champ: Cher ‘s #1s “Dark Lady” (March 1974) and “Believe” (March 1999)
Longest Span (first and latest) between #1s: 63 years, 4 months, 3 weeks between “I’m Sorry” (July 1960) and this week’s #1. Previous record: 32 years, 5 months for Mariah Carey between “Vision of Love” (Aug. 1990) and 2022 Xmas’s #1 “All I Want for Christmas Is You”
But most significantly, topping the record for the oldest artist ever at 78-years-old with #1 besting Louis Armstrong who had a #1 in 1964 at 62 (with “Hello, Dolly!).
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Post by doofus67 on Dec 5, 2023 0:45:28 GMT -5
I love longevity.
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Post by jgve1952 on Dec 5, 2023 6:32:41 GMT -5
This story was featured on the nightly news (ABC) as well. Brenda Lee still looks great at 78 (see the rhyme)?
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Post by Michael1973 on Dec 5, 2023 14:45:29 GMT -5
Now the classic Christmas songs are showing up in the year-end Hot 100 list as well. Just when you thought the charts couldn't get any more absurd.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Dec 5, 2023 16:11:44 GMT -5
Year-End as in the Top 100 songs of the year? Or the last weekly charts of the year... because that's been the case for a few years now.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Dec 5, 2023 16:45:42 GMT -5
Now the classic Christmas songs are showing up in the year-end Hot 100 list as well. Just when you thought the charts couldn't get any more absurd. I totally agree that the way the Hot 100 is compiled now makes comparing this current era of music and the era of the 1950's-1990's completely irrelevant. When you wanted to own your favorite tunes back then (1950's-1990's) you had to travel to a store and purchase the music you liked and play it on equipment you had to purchase. Today you just need a smart phone (or some other device) to listen to it on YouTube or Spotify (or whatever). Certainly comparing the charts of today with the charts of yesteryear is certainly an apples and oranges comparison. I really wish the media (and Billboard) would stop and smell the roses (a nod to a Mac Davis song from the 1970's). |
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Post by chrislc on Dec 5, 2023 17:00:52 GMT -5
Now the classic Christmas songs are showing up in the year-end Hot 100 list as well. Just when you thought the charts couldn't get any more absurd. I totally agree that the way the Hot 100 is compiled now makes comparing this current era of music and the era of the 1950's-1990's completely irrelevant. When you wanted to own your favorite tunes back then (1950's-1990's) you had to travel to a store and purchase the music you liked and play it on equipment you had to purchase. Today you just need a smart phone (or some other device) to listen to it on YouTube or Spotify (or whatever). Certainly comparing the charts of today with the charts of yesteryear is certainly an apples and oranges comparison. I really wish the media (and Billboard) would stop and smell the roses (a nod to a Mac Davis song from the 1970's). Joe, are you sure you don't mean wake up and smell the coffee?  Folgers should have hired Mac. Missed opportunity. |
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Post by Michael1973 on Dec 6, 2023 11:50:32 GMT -5
Year-End as in the Top 100 songs of the year? Or the last weekly charts of the year... because that's been the case for a few years now. I'm talking about the top 100 songs of the year 2023. There are roughly five oldie Christmas songs on the list, including Mariah, Brenda and Wham! These are your biggest hits of this past year. |
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Post by michaelcasselman on Dec 6, 2023 13:17:09 GMT -5
{shrug} I don't have an issue with it. If you figure that from the first of November to Christmas (about one sixth of the year) you generally hear nothing but Christmas songs on the radio, on iTunes, Spotify, Tik Tok, malls and shopping centers galore, etc., they should have just as much eligibility as any other song.
And lets not twist it that they're the 'biggest'... Mariah comes in at #55 on that Top 100, Brenda at 60, Bobby Helms at 68, Burl Ives at 71 and Wham! at 84. Considering how much saturation they get over an 8 week stretch of any given year, that's a modest placement. If we want to start disqualifying different genres from the Top 100, we're in the same place we were when genre fragmenting took it's toll in the 1990s.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Dec 6, 2023 15:55:19 GMT -5
I totally agree that the way the Hot 100 is compiled now makes comparing this current era of music and the era of the 1950's-1990's completely irrelevant. When you wanted to own your favorite tunes back then (1950's-1990's) you had to travel to a store and purchase the music you liked and play it on equipment you had to purchase. Today you just need a smart phone (or some other device) to listen to it on YouTube or Spotify (or whatever). Certainly comparing the charts of today with the charts of yesteryear is certainly an apples and oranges comparison. I really wish the media (and Billboard) would stop and smell the roses (a nod to a Mac Davis song from the 1970's). Joe, are you sure you don't mean wake up and smell the coffee? Folgers should have hired Mac. Missed opportunity. Chris, I am not a coffee drinker  ; my comment was addressed to Billboard trying to compare chart feats today with chart feats of the past. Joe |
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; my comment was addressed to Billboard trying to compare chart feats today with chart feats of the past.