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Post by dukelightning on Dec 6, 2023 17:21:11 GMT -5
Billboard got a lot of flack for not taking into account the different charts from the 50s to the 80s as compared to the 90s when they did the top hits of the Hot 100 on the 40 year anniversary of it in 1998. The 90s had all the top hits. So when the 50 year anniversary came up in 2008, they made some adjustments to the apples and oranges situation and had a listing that made a lot more sense IMO. It is still a difficult task given how streaming has taken off even since 2008.
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Post by chrislc on Dec 6, 2023 18:03:22 GMT -5
One song I keep hearing this year is This Christmas. It's annoying hearing it every time I turn on the local Christmas music station. There are so many Christmas songs to choose from, and it seems like it's always that song, or Mariah Carey or a Mariah wannabe screaming some awful treatment of a Christmas song. Yikes you'd think it's The Star Spangled Banner the way they refuse to hit a traditional note. Yes I'm old but this objectively sucks.  |
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Post by Michael1973 on Dec 7, 2023 14:49:15 GMT -5
One song I keep hearing this year is This Christmas. It's annoying hearing it every time I turn on the local Christmas music station. There are so many Christmas songs to choose from, and it seems like it's always that song, or Mariah Carey or a Mariah wannabe screaming some awful treatment of a Christmas song. Yikes you'd think it's The Star Spangled Banner the way they refuse to hit a traditional note. Yes I'm old but this objectively sucks. I agree with the sentiment here. There's a wide variety of Christmas songs out there, but stations will have 3-5 versions of the same song in rotation all month long while ignoring many others. You mean to tell me that all 5 versions of Song A are preferred by listeners over one version of Song B? |
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Post by rayshae3 on Dec 18, 2023 16:02:47 GMT -5
Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is the No. 1 for the 5th holiday season in a row in the new Hot 100 for the week of Dec. 23, dethroning Brenda Lee after 2 weeks.
Other festive songs in the new Hot 100 Top 10:
2(1) Brenda Lee-Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
3(3) Bobby Helms-Jingle Bell Rocks
4(4) Wham!-Last Christmas
5(6) Burl Ives-A Holly Jolly Christmas
7(8) Andy Williams-It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
8(14) Ronettes-Sleigh Ride
10(12) Dean Martin-Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 18, 2023 17:27:53 GMT -5
Before these last 5 years hitting #1, this is how Mariah fared on the Hot 100...1994..12; 1995..35; 1996..35; 1999..83; 2012..21; 2013..28; 2014..35; 2015..11; 2016..16; 2017..9; 2018..3. So it's only in the last 10 years or so that Christmas music made an impression.
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Post by rayshae3 on Dec 26, 2023 18:08:54 GMT -5
Based on last season's 2022 Xmas activity on the Hot 100 ONLY as the bar, the new chart (dated Dec. 30, 2023 w/survey period Dec16-Dec22) for this year should now have its most intense Christmas activity. Hence, we should see the festive songs in the chart drop significantly over the next few weeks and reduce to zero…until this time 11 or 12 months from now (unless methodology of the chart changes before then?!).
New Hot 100 Top 10 with 9 older Xmas songs:
1(1) Mariah Carey-All I Want for Christmas Is You
2(2) Brenda Lee-Rockin’
3(3) Bobby Helms-Jingle Bell Rocks
4(4) Wham!-Last Christmas (current UK#1)
5(5) Burl Ives-A Holly Jolly Christmas
7(7) Andy Williams-It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
8(10) Dean Martin-Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!
9(12) Jose Feliciano-Feliz Navidad
10(8) The Ronettes-Sleigh Ride
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Post by Michael1973 on Jan 23, 2024 11:08:13 GMT -5
I just caught a glimpse of the Hot 100 dated 1/13/24, AKA the week when all the Christmas songs fall off. I couldn't help hearing Casey Kasem's voice in my head: "Well, we've got thirty-two big debuts this week..."  |
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Post by Shadoe Fan on Mar 25, 2024 8:42:58 GMT -5
Sorry to change the subject a bit, but Miley Cyrus' "Flowers" has now spent a record 40 weeks at #1 on the Mediabase AC chart (and similar on the Billboard). When it reached 39 weeks on BB, it broke the record for most weeks combined at all radio formats: www.billboard.com/lists/miley-cyrus-songs-most-weeks-number-one-airplay-charts/ I could never imagine Casey saying "#1 for its 40th week..." |
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 25, 2024 9:06:00 GMT -5
And I can't imagine Casey telling a story about the song or artist for 40 weeks in a row. Because for those that are not familiar, once CT40 began, Casey has a told a story before the #1 song in every show in all countdowns. There were a couple exceptions to this when there was a long running #1 hit and a story was told before the #2 song instead, presumably because they ran out of stories to tell about #1.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Mar 25, 2024 21:18:51 GMT -5
Perfect example, on 1/30/1982, the final segment consists of the top three. Usually it's the top two, but Casey outroed the previous segment by giving away the #2 song via teaser, which I'm sure my six year-old self would have been disappointed to hear, because I would have hoped that "Waiting For A Girl Like You" finally reached #1. It's one of those rare opportunities that I feel got botched.
Funny this whole topic is mentioned, as I've been listening to Casey's Top 40 from 1996, and I'm most of the way through the longest run at #1 in the 1990s (and really, going back to AT40's debut in 1970). It's "I Love You Always Forever" by Donna Lewis. I'm pretty sure I've heard repeat stories already through the first ten weeks, or at the very least, many parts of stories repeated in this run. And I've still got two more weeks to go (11/2 and 11/9).
In the near future, I'll be listening to 1997-1999, and there's several long-running #1's I'll be paying attention to the stories told in the intros.
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Post by Michael1973 on Mar 30, 2024 13:20:46 GMT -5
And I can't imagine Casey telling a story about the song or artist for 40 weeks in a row. Because for those that are not familiar, once CT40 began, Casey has a told a story before the #1 song in every show in all countdowns. There were a couple exceptions to this when there was a long running #1 hit and a story was told before the #2 song instead, presumably because they ran out of stories to tell about #1. My brother and I used to joke, back when we listened to Casey's HAC show where songs often spent several months at #1, that the staff was constantly calling the artists' management begging for new stories for Casey to tell. |
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Post by jgve1952 on Apr 6, 2024 5:28:18 GMT -5
Maybe not a record, but "Lose Control" by Teddy Swims taking 32 weeks to reach #1 on the Hot 100 chart on 3-30-24. I remember back in 1976 when "Love Machine" by the Miracles took 20 weeks to hit #1 on 3-1-76, which I think was the record then. Was the 20 week record to reach #1 broken after 1976, unless "Lose Control" broke the record as longest time to reach #1?
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Post by djjoe1960 on Apr 6, 2024 6:22:19 GMT -5
Maybe not a record, but "Lose Control" by Teddy Swims taking 32 weeks to reach #1 on the Hot 100 chart on 3-30-24. I remember back in 1976 when "Love Machine" by the Miracles took 20 weeks to hit #1 on 3-1-76, which I think was the record then. Was the 20 week record to reach #1 broken after 1976, unless "Lose Control" broke the record as longest time to reach #1? Hot Child In the City by Nick Gilder reached the Top of the Billboard chart the first week of November , 1978 (its 21st week on the survey). |
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 7, 2024 7:47:06 GMT -5
Maybe not a record, but "Lose Control" by Teddy Swims taking 32 weeks to reach #1 on the Hot 100 chart on 3-30-24. I remember back in 1976 when "Love Machine" by the Miracles took 20 weeks to hit #1 on 3-1-76, which I think was the record then. Was the 20 week record to reach #1 broken after 1976, unless "Lose Control" broke the record as longest time to reach #1? Hot Child In the City by Nick Gilder reached the Top of the Billboard chart the first week of November , 1978 (its 21st week on the survey). Robert John's "Sad Eyes" also hit #1 in its 21st week and then a hit in this week's 80s show did so in its 22nd week..."Chariots of Fire". |
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Post by jgve1952 on Apr 7, 2024 8:19:26 GMT -5
Thanks. So "Chariots Of Fire" broke the record. Is "Lose Control" the new record, or were there any songs between 1982 and 3-30-24 taking longer than 22 weeks to reach #1?
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