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Post by Mike on Jan 24, 2022 15:11:21 GMT -5
"Honestly", if I'm not mistaken, seemed to happen more often than not. That one may not have been exclusive to AT40.
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Post by Mike on Jan 24, 2022 17:17:48 GMT -5
I'd love to know why they opted to do a Top 3 recap of 1987's Top 3 of the year, rather than of the Top 3 of the last weekly countdown of '87...recapping last year's Top 3 hadn't been done since 1981 kicked off by playing 1980's Top 3 at the beginning of 1/10. While it wouldn't be a "woman's world" in terms of debuts this week, both Cher and Gloria Estefan would arrive the following week. The Cover Girls wouldn't show up until 1/30 - as they were #49 this week, the delay is from them just taking their sweet time getting there. As to the one song that did debut this week? Well, it makes for quite a subject for this week's - ODD BULLET BEHAVIOR: And it is quite a doozy, I must say! Actually, two songs each moved up one bulletless notch this week, and the second was in the Top 10, with "Cherry Bomb" climbing one more notch to #8. But as to the debut record, "Just Like Heaven"...you might want to sit down for this one, as this may be the single craziest one I've ever told for this category. You see, it's not merely that The Cure spent just this one week in the countdown at #40, bulletless - in fact, they originally lost their bullet SEVEN WEEKS ago, on November 21 - and never ever regained it! That's right: They've been climbing all this time - just over half of those 14 weeks needed to reach the countdown - without a bullet. On 11/21, it was up from #53 to #51. Its bulletless run has been: 53-51-49-44-43-46-41-41-40. Ordinarily, just the bullet loss at #51 would be enough to be a kiss of death - yet here it was! And notice the zig-zag in that run in the 40s there - apparently, it must have been a thing for modern British bands to zig-zag on the chart at this point: Look no further than New Order, down six this week, who will go back up next week. Since they're falling this week, guess what they also don't have, nor will they regain? (They lost theirs on the last week of 1987.) And for good measure, another modern British band has another SUPER-odd bullet on the Hot 100 this week: Making the biggest move on this week's chart is Depeche Mode, taking "Never Let Me Down Again" up 13 notches from #96 to #83 - bulletless! And enroute to a peak of #63, they would nearly make it three British bands to go on odd unbulleted chart runs - but for one week, they'd get it back (1/23, two weeks later, at #69). In Charlie's story on Dusty Springfield, one of the songs he mentioned may sound familiar - coming up in a few months in Shadoe Land could be Samantha Fox's remake of her debut hit, "I Only Want to Be With You". (I say "could be" due to its short countdown run, just 4 weeks.) And that's one of two Dusty singles to have Shadoe era remakes - the other is "Am I the Same Girl?", though Dusty's own release is also a remake (the original is by Barbara Acklin). "Don't Shed a Tear" is one of those songs that sounds so ubiquitous to me that I'd have thought it was an even bigger hit than it was. It's also one of a few Top 40 hits written or co-written for singers other than themself, by one of those "forgotten names" that will be in tomorrow's MERC. In this case - Spoiler Alert! - the man will kick off that countdown: Eddie Schwartz, with his own hit being "All Our Tomorrows" - two other hits he wrote/co-wrote could be heard inside of one week toward the end of last year: 12/16/89 had another hit for Paul Carrack, "I Live By the Groove" (Paul and Eddie wrote that one together), and then just days after that, Premiere's offering came from the opposite end of the decade - 12/20/80, which had "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" (which was written entirely by him). Gee, that story of how to learn how to "dirty dance" sounds so much like a product of the times, doesn't it? (By that I mean that it's practically antiquated - all except the club dancing part, maybe.) SNEEK PEEK? If we end up visiting 1994 for this week in Shadoe Land, then this show contains a hit we'll hear from there as well, "The Power of Love" (recorded here by Laura Branigan as just "Power of Love"). And that, of course, is not the only hit in this week's countdown to be remade and turned into a countdown hit again in another era - the other, we heard back in September: "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man". (We could also count "Candle in the Wind" if more 1997 is forthcoming this year.) Yet another hit, "I Want to Be Your Man", would be sampled in a hit we heard back in August (8/24/02), "Down 4 U". Incidentally, "I Want to Be Your Man" is also this week's Power Pick/Airplay on the Hot 100, though I'm not sure how much that distinction is worth this week with many radio stations having frozen their playlists for the holidays. The Power Pick/Sales, meanwhile, is "Tunnel of Love". As it happens, the chart might only look slower this week due to just the one debut that lasted just one week - Shadoe's first two weeks in August don't look too much better in terms of movement, with only having plenty enough debuts to give him cover (both 8/13 and 8/20 have four debuts apiece). I didn't realize this until consulting Pete's book on the 80s, but the story on the origins of "Here Comes the Bride" is one that Casey had already told himself, back on 2/26/83 (heard last year as a "B" show). "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" was originally inspired by...Motley Crue, of all people! In Walk This Way: The AutobiogCraphy of Aerosmith, Steven Tyler states: "One day we met Mötley Crüe, and they're all going, 'Dude!' Dude this and Dude that, everything was Dude. 'Dude (Looks Like a Lady)' came out of that session." Co-writer Desmond Child has also said that Tyler came up with the idea for the song while at a bar and mistaking Vince Neil for a woman with long blonde hair. NICE STORY - BUT THAT DON'T MAKE IT TRUE: Gee, seems like 1988 ended with one of these, didn't it? In any case, yikes were the AT40 staff way off on this one - though I guess it's possible that Bobby Lewis's true age wasn't widely known as of 1988. He wasn't 18 when "Tossin' and Turnin' " spent 7 weeks at #1 - actually, he was exactly twice that age! Not too long before that concert where John Fogerty finally began dusting off CCR hits himself, his frequently bitter battles with his (former) record company - Fantasy Records - were turning a rather absurd corner. You may or may not have heard about where Fantasy sued Fogerty, accusing him of plagiarising - himself, with "The Old Man Down the Road". Only a month before that July 4 concert, that case had been decided in Fogerty's favor. (The Supreme Court case you're likely to find easier to read about, Fogerty v. Fantasy, Inc., deals with Fogerty's counter-suing for attorneys' fees.) Charlie introed John Cougar Mellencamp as being a rock & roller who wasn't too keen on seeing and hearing old songs turned into commercials - Shadoe would tell us a little more about that some years later, on 11/27/93. Incidentally, it would be even longer before Mellencamp would finally break that, not until 2006's "Our Country", which was featured in Chevy Silverado ads and was a brand new song at that time. (It's also his last Hot 100 appearance to date, spending a week at #88 - but his last countdown appearance came before then: 2004's "Walk Tall", which reached #36 on the Hot AC version of AT40, which itself had just been started.) Michael would be the Jackson that won the 80s Black Singles chart race in the end, with two more to come later in 1988 - "Man in the Mirror" and "Another Part of Me" - that ultimately put him out of reach. Freddie would have two more himself in 1988, but a goose egg for 1989 left him one short of tying Michael again.
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Jan 24, 2022 19:58:50 GMT -5
Is there a shortage of shows for the Depot because I got some Backtrax USA with Kid Kelly that Tokyoguy has sent us that I would share & 3 other 3 1/2 mix shows of 70's-90's R&B & Dance called Kool Mix Urban Jam.
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Post by Mike on Jan 24, 2022 21:01:21 GMT -5
I suspect, for this week at least, that Adam was inspired by...shall we say, recent show airings.
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Jan 24, 2022 21:46:59 GMT -5
Yes I think so too. I have a copy of said airing if anybody would like too hear it.
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Post by adam31 on Jan 25, 2022 7:02:58 GMT -5
Is there a shortage of shows for the Depot because I got some Backtrax USA with Kid Kelly that Tokyoguy has sent us that I would share & 3 other 3 1/2 mix shows of 70's-90's R&B & Dance called Kool Mix Urban Jam. All Shares are welcome! Put em in the Depot!
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Post by roadrunner on Jan 26, 2022 4:38:36 GMT -5
Hi, I wanted to put the Walt Baby Love lists earlier in here (I don´t have lists from 1996) - people in power have gone more and more insane here and standing on my soul: I can´t breathe under this mental CCrape. Normally I like more old music than new - that´s why I love the X: But in this case it´s soooooooooooooooo different: Thank you Kid Rock - we are all human with fundamental rights!!!
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Post by tokyoguy2021 on Feb 8, 2022 0:07:49 GMT -5
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Feb 8, 2022 1:19:42 GMT -5
I hope you are fine with me sending these I just figured they would be perfect for the Depot so I sent them.
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Feb 8, 2022 1:21:45 GMT -5
Hi, I wanted to put the Walt Baby Love lists earlier in here (I don´t have lists from 1996) - people in power have gone more and more insane here and standing on my soul: I can´t breathe under this mental CCCCrape. Normally I like more old music than new - that´s why I love the X: But in this case it´s soooooooooooooooo different: Thank you Kid Rock - we are all human with fundamental rights!!!
A perfect 7 inch vinyl single would be a picture disc with the song on both side one side being a Biden photo & the other a Fauci photo with middle fingers over both.
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Post by tokyoguy2021 on Feb 8, 2022 5:32:45 GMT -5
I hope you are fine with me sending these I just figured they would be perfect for the Depot so I sent them. No problem. I hope that Listeners loves Backtrax USA -The 80's version.
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Post by antrock17 on Feb 8, 2022 16:13:50 GMT -5
Is it possible on Listener's Depot to add some ye specials such as CK, Da Shado, or RDs shows? Just to add some music more variety on one of the days throughout the week or weekend? Your internet station rocks thank you.
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Post by adam31 on Feb 8, 2022 22:08:14 GMT -5
Is it possible on Listener's Depot to add some ye specials such as CK, Da Shado, or RDs shows? Just to add some music more variety on one of the days throughout the week or weekend? Your internet station rocks thank you. Thanks for the awesome post! Listener Depot runs Monday 8a/8p only, we will throw in some RD from time to time.
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Post by tokyoguy2021 on Feb 14, 2022 6:27:25 GMT -5
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Post by Mike on Feb 14, 2022 22:53:21 GMT -5
DROPPERS: "Starting All Over Again" (LW: 20) and "Power of Love/Love Power" (LW: 16) I don't think I'll ever stop being intrigued that "Too Many Walls" made it all the way to #1 - it's a great song, but given her much dancier history, it's a bit surprising that her first AC-friendly song ended up going the distance. (And because it did, that makes "Just Another Dream" her only Pop Top 10 to not end up with a #1 credit on any US chart - "C'Mon and Get My Love" and "Touch Me (All Night Long)" were both Dance #1s, and the latter also topped CT40, while "Dream" had to settle for three weeks at #2 behind two different #1s, the second being "Gonna Make You Sweat".) Two weeks ago, there were just three hits in this countdown that never made it onto a Pop countdown - with Hall & Oates dropping out, this week there's just two. And with Amy Grant moving up to #2 on CT40 this week, that means the Top 2 on both the AC and Pop countdowns are the same. Randomly, we nearly had a third song match rank both places - "Time, Love, and Tenderness" is #8 here and #9 on CT40 (but last week, it was #12 both places). Is it just me, or did that sound like a cover of the instrumental to "Gloria" in the background when Dick was answering the question where the answer related to Ghost/"Unchained Melody"? "I Don't Need You" would finish as the #2 AC song of 1981, behind the song that unseated it from #1 on the weekly chart. It shouldn't be that hard to guess what song that was... That said, "Need" only spent 3 weeks at #1 on the AC chart, not 4 - and 4 is definitely not a Billboard stat, as: 1) Dick, it seems, rarely if ever cited those, 2) On Billboard, it spent 6 weeks on top AND was #1 for the year. For this next bit, I'm going to once again commandeer a segment from another "American" countdown that we know so well. So let's stop into the ol' Comparison Corner... First, take a listen to a verse from "Can You Stop the Rain" (which was #9 here). Then, take a listen to the chorus from Janet Jackson's "Any Time, Any Place", from three years later. Notice anything? To be sure, "Papa Don't Preach" was not exactly a big AC hit - those 3 weeks at #13 were as high as it got there. Is it just me, or does it seem like Cher sang a lot of hits that she personally didn't seem to like that much? "Just Like Jesse James" is another - though despite the squabble with Desmond Child, his co-writing partner on that one Diane Warren had no shortage of arguments with Cher herself. And "Theme From 'Dying Young'" would not have even reached Casey's Countdown had it existed at this point - it would only sputter up to #26 two weeks later. (His discogCraphy on Wiki says it didn't even chart on Billboard, but that turns out to be wrong - it reached #32 there.) And, of course, the other debut this week is one that we DID hear reach the countdown, Ronnie Milsap's cover of "Since I Don't Have You".
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Post by adam31 on Feb 15, 2022 7:37:36 GMT -5
DROPPERS: "Starting All Over Again" (LW: 20) and "Power of Love/Love Power" (LW: 16) I don't think I'll ever stop being intrigued that "Too Many Walls" made it all the way to #1 - it's a great song, but given her much dancier history, it's a bit surprising that her first AC-friendly song ended up going the distance. (And because it did, that makes "Just Another Dream" her only Pop Top 10 to not end up with a #1 credit on any US chart - "C'Mon and Get My Love" and "Touch Me (All Night Long)" were both Dance #1s, and the latter also topped CT40, while "Dream" had to settle for three weeks at #2 behind two different #1s, the second being "Gonna Make You Sweat".) I really liked "Too Many Walls" it set her apart from just being a "dance" artist.Is it just me, or did that sound like a cover of the instrumental to "Gloria" in the background when Dick was answering the question where the answer related to Ghost/"Unchained Melody"? BizarreTo be sure, "Papa Don't Preach" was not exactly a big AC hit - those 3 weeks at #13 were as high as it got there. Strange choice, thought I was listening to "another" countdown for a minute Is it just me, or does it seem like Cher sang a lot of hits that she personally didn't seem to like that much? "Just Like Jesse James" is another - though despite the squabble with Desmond Child, his co-writing partner on that one Diane Warren had no shortage of arguments with Cher herself. She turned down a lot of songs too, as we heard on another countdown quite a bit. Even turned down being on the X-Files.screenrant.com/x-files-cher-cameo-frankenstein-episode-reject-reason/
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Post by tokyoguy2021 on Feb 28, 2022 5:33:22 GMT -5
Mon - Listener Depot - Dick Clark Countdown America 3/5/93 Sorry, I do not have cue sheets episodes of 1993.
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Post by Mike on Feb 28, 2022 10:42:20 GMT -5
Dick sounds like he's been in need of some of those Cepacol throat lozenges during this one.
Meanwhile, this was also the week where Infinity Broadcasting assumed control of Unistar - as we know, that wouldn't actually affect Countdown America at all, not until being merged with Westwood One. There's not really anything else interesting about it, though.
DROPPER: Kurt Howell's "Does Love Not Open Your Eyes" (LW: 17)
Unusual for a song to make a big drop within the Top 20 like "Love Can Move Mountains" did - but IIRC, there were a few sizable drops around this time. (Another was Wilson Phillips's "Flesh and Blood" dropping right off the entire chart from somewhere around the mid-teens.)
On the flipside, this would be the final week on Countdown America for "Heal the World", but it would hang around in the 20s on Casey's Countdown for another month.
In any case, this countdown looks a lot like the heavily-CHR ones from the summer of 1991 in terms of composition - just three songs here wouldn't reach that chart at all: "Somebody Love Me", "Hope of Deliverance", and "Reach Out I'll Be There", and Paul McCartney was still a Weekly Top 40 Sure Shot back in January (1/23).
Paul Simon as this week's Spotlight is really going back, in that "You Can Call Me Al" was his last hit of any consequence, and by this point that'd be six years ago. (Shadoe had a story, I think it was on 1/5/91, where he mentioned Paul still going with chart singles, with "The Obvious Child" being on the Hot 100 - but it would only reach #92, and would be his last to chart there. On AC, he might have had "Father and Daughter" from 2002's Wild Thornberrys movie reach AT20 briefly [it hit #20 on Billboard's AC chart] - but if it did, then that was his last countdown appearance of any kind.)
I'm not sure if there'd be any uncertainty, but 10 years ago this week for "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" was definitely an AC stat.
Incidentally, 10 years ago this week was the final week where the National Music Survey was using Cash Box before switching to R&R. (The AC show didn't start until sometime in mid-1984, though.)
"Love Is" makes the biggest move here, but on Casey's Countdown it's tied with "I Have Nothing" (which leaped seven to debut here), and on the entire chart they're both tied with "Tell Me What You Dream" (which leaps 30-23).
"You Can Call Me Al" had two releases, as we know, but apparently only the first one reached Countdown America (where it reached #11) - I'm not seeing that it returned to R&R's AC chart at all. (It did, however, do that on Billboard, only to peak lower the second time - #22, versus #15 in 1986.)
Unusual extra choices strike again - in this case, "Make it Happen", which would be her one and only hit to not even go Top 10 at AC in the first half of the 90s. (Her next miss wouldn't be until "Fantasy", which only reached #15.)
And Expose's two AC #1s were both Billboard-only - "Seasons Change" needed THREE songs to keep it out here: "Hungry Eyes", "She's Like the Wind", and "Father Figure". (On Billboard, only Patrick Swayze also hit #1 there, following Expose.) As for "I'll Never Get Over You (Getting Over Me)", it was blocked by "Have I Told You Lately", and at first, that same thing also happened on Billboard - that is, until they converted their AC chart to monitored airplay on 7/17/93, which planted Expose right at #1. (And based on the test charts, which are listed in the two prior weeks' columns, they unseated Rod outright the week before the change was installed - on the official chart, Rod was followed by Kenny G/Peabo Bryson and then the change was made.)
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Post by Mike on Mar 7, 2022 11:48:15 GMT -5
Ah, yes - another one of those lovely shows where someone edited out the original ads and did it badly. It was also, evidently, a bit of a rough copy, what with "Ready or Not" having an odd false start, "Dare to Fall in Love" and "U Can't Touch This" having abrupt drops (pretty sure those are the show copy, not the station), and Rick's closing also ending abruptly. (I think Basia and Wilson Phillips also skipped a bit too.) "Vision of Love" was the second-most added at radio this week - behind only "When I'm Back on My Feet Again", though it's perhaps not surprising that Rick opted to give the Sure Shot to someone who wasn't also currently in the countdown this week. If "Getting Away With It" sounds sort of Pet Shop Boys-esque, it's not just you - that was Neil Tennant on prominent backing vocals there, one of two songs on Electronic's album that he contributed vocals to. "Cradle of Love" was the Sure Shot three weeks ago. Of the four droppers this week, "Room at the Top" and "Whip Appeal" also fell off AT40, "Don't Wanna Fall in Love" tied for the week's Biggest Dropper over there, and "Save Me" fell off there last week - all of which besides the last, we heard last year. AT40's other three droppers this week were a mixed bag as well: "All Around the World" fell off the R&R countdowns last week, we of course heard "Getting Away With It" still sticking around here for one more week, while it appears that Faster Sideways Smilecat's "House of Pain" never reached R&R at all! That surprised me - but maybe it shouldn't have, as AT40 also had Slaughter ("Up All Night") debuting over there this week, and they never reached R&R at all until just one time in 1992 (for one week at that). In a nod to last week, apparently both "Your Baby Never Looked Good in Blue" and "I'll Never Get Over You (Getting Over Me)" were up for being recorded for Expose's What You Don't Know - Clive Davis indicated that only one of the two could go on the album, and although Jeanette Jurado liked "Never" better, producer Lewis Martineé picked "Blue". Heart themselves would probably agree with the first two listeners with regards to finding "All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You" degrading: -Ann Wilson, in the liner notes for the 1995 live album The Road Home The band has since all-but-disowned it, save for something of a one-off in 2017 when Ann did perform it on a solo tour (albeit with changes to the song). And indeed Janet Jackson could not knock off Madonna, not this time - "Alright" would have to settle for three weeks at #2. (But as we heard back in January, the next time the two would go head-to-head, Janet would win, knocking off "Justify My Love" - she did that in both Billboard and R&R.)
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Post by Mike on Mar 28, 2022 23:59:27 GMT -5
Part of me wonders whether this and the final Top 40 Countdown were more or less an audition of sorts in an attempt to keep these shows going by Westwood One. The only reason that might not be as applicable to the final AC show was that that one was hosted by John Tesh, who got to count himself down over there (#6) - I doubt very much that that dynamic would have been left ongoing. In any case, in a somewhat hilarious twist, AT20 Hot AC will kick off with a debut-less week the following week, the only one of the three where that was so. This week, the entire R&R chart (a Top 30) had a debut-less week. In the meantime, it's times like these where it's pretty clear that the format was not merely "'Hot' Adult Contemporary", that it also doubled as Adult CHR - and actually, R&R used to employ both format names, but by now, they were only calling it Hot AC. Billboard, in contrast, called their chart Adult Top 40 all the way up to when it was re-imaged to Adult Pop Songs (much like their other airplay charts were renamed to X Songs) - that's how they've looked at the format, as even prior to separating it out from overall Adult Contemporary in 1996, they considered that side as Top 40/adult airplay. (So, Adult Top 40 took over that role upon its own launch, but the overall AC chart was thought of that way up until then - basically from 1993 to early 1996.) But the real reason I say so is, well...just look at this chart: Every single song here was also a Pop hit - actually, just one song missed the Top 20 there (and not by much: That one is "Bitter Sweet Symphony", which stopped at #22). Only two songs in the countdown are not also currently taking up residence in the final Top 40 Countdown - those are "If You Could Only See" and "I Don't Want to Wait". Tonic went recurrent off CT40 the first week of February and would last just one more week here, while Paula Cole went recurrent off CT40 just last week, and would remain here through 5/2. Actually, there would have been three such songs, but the third, "Sweet Surrender", drops out here. ODD BULLET BEHAVIOR: This countdown kicks off with it - actually, it kicks one out the door with it. One of the three droppers, "As Long As You Love Me", backward-bulleted out of the countdown (though it would come back two weeks later, and go to #15 in May). Up inside the countdown, "I Don't Want to Wait" regained a tiny bullet as it slipped one to #12, while "Kiss the Rain" barely held onto its bullet as it was pushed back one to #7 (it peaked at #6 last week). Pretty crazy that these last Westwood One shows were advertising a Kodak sweepstakes, if you ask me - though it's just one instance of how it's clear that they intended to try and keep these going. Also, I notice that 1998's CBS TV voiceover sounds...a lot like 1991's Sam Goody voiceover. I feel like I've heard this Sugar Ray story of them delivering their album master tapes in their boxers in a football march before, though I'd have to dig for what week that would have been. (First thought was it was an ATH story - but, no.) Worth noting: This story was NOT also told concurrently on The Top 40 Countdown - they didn't get a story over there. (For that matter, neither did Third Eye Blind - but in their case, they kicked off the final hour of The Top 40. The Rob Thomas story for Matchbox 20, however, was also told there at #3.) R&D updates, I'd gather, were the same for every countdown each week. (Or, at least, the same update could also be heard in this week's Top 40.) First R&D "Always Be My Baby" had somewhat strange lead-ins both on The Top 40 and here - it's a dedication about giving a daughter up for adoption, and here it's put right after a song about dealing with getting an abortion. Less strange is its Top 40 placement, if also creating another hilarious twist, as "Time of Your Life (Good Riddance)", itself destined to be a mis-interpreted LDD song, ends the Westwood One run as the first R&D lead-in over there. As we heard last year, "Nobody Knows" would return as an America's Top Hit (2/23/02, which had a different story). At CHR, in a follow-up to the 1996 show from the beginning of this month, this week two years ago it became THE Biggest Hit over there - on Casey's Hot 20, it reached #6. Similarly, "You Were Meant For Me" became THE Biggest Hot AC Hit a year ago this week (on CT40 - heard back in October - she was still #2, behind the song from that same year heard later on within this show), and it too would return as an America's Top Hit (6/5/99, and with the same story). Among the week's Biggest Hits, "So Far Away" replaces "Here We Go (Let's Rock & Roll)" which was used for The Top 40 Countdown (but which, of course, would stick out like a sore thumb here). As to the week's Biggest Hits that were within the show...I mean, the (impromptu) Extras that were also hits X years ago this week - the selection of "Mary Jane's Last Dance" as an in-countdown extra is proof of how much this format was carving its own identity up to this point, as that song would not have been caught dead at this format four years ago this week. At that point in 1994, it was still much more Adult Contemporary (I.E. having a softer sound) than Alternative-lite. The picks of "Poison Arrow" and "Save a Prayer" are more interesting for neither one of those being very big hits themselves, with the latter also throwing a curve for them playing the live version. Though in another interesting twist, so too did AT40 themselves, 13 years ago this week (3/23/85). "My Father's Eyes" tied for the biggest move on the entire R&R chart, with the other two four-notch jumpers being two of the three countdown debuts ("I'll Be", 23-19, and "Frozen", 21-17). But none of those had the week's biggest spin gain - that instead went to "Torn". Second R&D "How Do I Live" was still in The AC countdown, and would remain there through 5/2. (It was #12 - consequently, it was the first R&D over there instead of the second.) Something very interesting I found out only recently - "The Mummers' Dance" as heard as a hit is in fact not the original version of the song. Now, singles being remixed as hits is hardly a surprise, but who's doing the remixing just might be! In this case, it was remixed by a pair of British DJs named Nick Batt and Neal Slateford - but we know them better as: DNA. Yes, seven years after their one known smash hit "Tom's Diner", it turns out that they had another! (Another remix of a third hit, "Lily Was Here", could also be heard on the Weekly Top 40 during at least part of its run in 1991.) TRIFECTA: "Truly Madly Deeply" was #2 on all three countdowns this week - but this is the only one of the three where it would not reach #1. Actually, this was Savage Garden's biggest Hot AC hit; they never made it to #1 here. (They'd go for three more weeks at #2 before giving it up.) And it should also perhaps not be a surprise to learn that every countdown song heard here, as well as the three that dropped out this week, plus also the second R&D, would all be heard in AT20's Top 60 of 1998 at the end of the year. (LeAnn Rimes, barely hanging on into 98, ranked the lowest at #56, with the next song up from her being the fast-rising, fast-falling "Frozen" at #47.) Jeff didn't read other #1s on The Top 40 Countdown, either - actually, I kind of wonder if they just stopped doing that for the Casey-less weeks. If I had to guess what would have been read, my bet would be... #1 on the Country chart: "Nothin' But the Taillights" by Clint Black #1 on the R&B chart: "No, No, No" by Destiny's Child #1 on the Pop chart: "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion As it happens, there was a reminder of what was missed for those who tuned in late this morning - "I'll Be" was the third song played after the show finished. MEANWHILE, IN BILLBOARD LAND... - Just one new song in their Top 20 this week, "Sex and Candy", while "Sweet Surrender" also drops out of the Top 20 here. BSB were actually still down at #26 over here, and wouldn't go Top 20 until 5/9, while "Tubthumping" was hanging on for one more week at #20.
- As for the Hot 20 debuts, they were three of the next four songs right below #20 over here - "Frozen" was #21, "I'll Be" was #22, and "Me" was #24. ("Sweet Surrender" slid to #23.) The first two would hit the Top 20 next week, then Paula Cole got there two weeks after that.
- As to what was keeping the newer songs back - what else? Super oldies! "Semi-Charmed Life" was at #19 in its 46th (and as it turns out, final) week, while "All For You" was still up at #14 in its 47th week - making it the oldest song on the entire chart. But unlike R&R's chart, Billboard's was, of course, a Top 40 - and this had multiple ways of affecting the contrast between the two. R&R's recurrent rule was losing spins or having no gain for three consecutive weeks and being below #15, while Billboard's was the same as on Mainstream - being older than 26 weeks and below #20. Sister Hazel did just go recurrent off R&R last week, while Third Eye Blind went the first week of February. But, chew on this: Sister Hazel wouldn't go recurrent off Billboard until the end of August!! That's right: They would re-write the existing chart longevity record at 69 weeks, not going recurrent until August 29.
- Back to this week - right below the first four I mentioned, at #25, was "Something About the Way You Look Tonight", in its 26th and final week. That fell off on Casey's last Hot 20 that he hosted himself (2/21).
- "I Do" was an R&R-only #1 - it stopped at #3 here, and actually, the week it hit #1 on Casey's Hot 20, it was still down at #6 here.
- Over here, the week's Biggest Mover was "Brick", which leaped five to #11. (And believe it or not, that was also the biggest jump in the entire Top 40.) The bad news for Ben Folds Five? They leaped right to what would be their peak position, the same position they'd jump to and peak at on next week's first AT20. (Eric Clapton, meanwhile, was actually still down at #15 here.)
- Some other facts and figures: Sarah McLachlan was already in the midst of having a near-constant presence on this chart over the next three years, largely consisting of all the same hits she had at Pop, but with additional songs both at the beginning and end - her run begins with "Possession", which was evidently released to Hot AC around the end of 1996, though I can only guess as to why. Anyways, that debuted on 1/18/97 and ended up lasting 26 weeks, with "Building a Mystery" then debuting on its 26th and final week. From there, "Mystery", "Sweet Surrender", and "Adia" would then connect chart runs, though she fell one week short of making her three years a fully-consecutive run - "Adia" went recurrent on 10/17/98, while "Angel" didn't debut until the week after. From there, "Angel" and the live "I Will Remember You" would then connect runs, as would her live single for "Ice Cream", whose last week on the chart would be 2/26/00.
- But someone else on the chart was also in the midst of their own constant presence here - one that would last longer than Sarah's, and would be fully-consecutive: It should be no surprise that this someone was Rob Thomas, and in his case, the hits involved are obvious - he would string together all the Matchbox 20 hits from "Push" through "Last Beautiful Girl", with "Smooth" connecting the two albums' worth of hits, over a 4 & 1/2 year run. "Push" debuted the same week as Sarah's "Mystery" (7/12/97), while "Last Beautiful Girl" would last through 2/23/02. For those counting, that's 242 consecutive weeks. During this run, "Smooth" would break the longevity record by lasting 72 weeks (7/10/99-11/18/00), though that would itself be surpassed in 2001-02 by "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" lasting 75 weeks (2/24/01-7/27/02). I will note for Train that Billboard would change the Adult Top 40 recurrent rule to #15/26 weeks, perhaps driven to do so by songs lasting longer and longer - much as Train did.
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Mar 29, 2022 10:52:51 GMT -5
Jeff also mentioned the address to send R&D's. I wonder how long they kept getting then despite no longer having a show?
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Post by Mike on Apr 4, 2022 22:42:14 GMT -5
Countdown America under John Leader seemed more...I don't know, dry? Like, more direct and straight-forward. Or maybe it's more that John Leader didn't have as many full-length stories, that that kind of info would be more compact but would come in his intros for songs. The exception of course being the Spotlight, but then that was its own feature anyway. Then again, I also sense an overall presentation tone positioning more or less right between Casey and the up-and-coming Rick (who'd only have had the Weekly Top 40 for ~9 months to this point), having some info like Casey but also some humor (if not really in Rick's style of humor). DROPPERS: Phil Collins - Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) (LW: 40) Icicle Works - Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly) (LW: 38) Lionel Richie - Hello (LW: 34) Howard Jones - What is Love (LW: 32) Van Halen - I'll Wait (LW: 31) Irene Cara - Breakdance (LW: 28) Of those, all except Lionel Richie and Icicle Works also fell off AT40 this week. Icicle Works fell off there the week before while Lionel had the week's biggest dropper, plummeting 18-40. Besides Lionel, the only other song differences between the two are that "Run, Runaway" hangs on one more week here while falling off AT40, and then of course there's "Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming" being here while "Farewell My Summer Love" was on AT40. 5 Biggest Songs of the Past 10 Summers: #5 - Gerry Rafferty "Baker Street" (1978) #4 - Survivor "Eye of the Tiger" (1982) #3 - Irene Cara "Flashdance...What a Feeling" (1983) #2 - The Captain & Tennille "Love Will Keep Us Together" (1975) #1 - The Police "Every Breath You Take" (1983) Oof, definite record sticking at #29 "Breakin'...There's No Stopping Us" and #14 "Legs". I'm pretty sure the censor was also asleep at the wheel near the end of the latter, with the line "sh!t I got to have her". John said that Paul Kantner was the only remaining original Airplane member in Jefferson Starship - but in truth, by this time he'd probably already just left, as he departed shortly after the release of the Nuclear Furniture album, which was May 30. This was actually the second time "Doctor! Doctor!" had at least tied for the week's biggest jump - it had that all to itself two weeks ago, jumping 40-29 (but, that same week "When Doves Cry" sailed in at #25), only to peak at #10 two weeks later; it spent just 9 weeks on the chart altogether. From "If You Leave Me Now" through "What Kind of Man Would I Be", "Stay the Night" would be one of two Chicago hits that would narrowly miss the Top 10 (the other was "If She Would Have Been Faithful", which stopped at #12 for 3 weeks). The #1 AC, Black/Urban, and AOR hits are concurrently in the CHR Top 10 for the second straight week - AOR was "Dancing in the Dark" both weeks, and hit the Pop Top 10 last week, AC was "Time After Time" last week, and this week loses both that and the Pop #1s, losing the former to "Almost Paradise", and "When Doves Cry" takes over the Black/Urban #1 from "Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming". This week's three would all hold onto their respective crowns next week (with Bruce also taking the CHR crown), but then the triad would be broken when Peabo Bryson took over the #1 AC spot for two weeks, a month before making it into the Pop Top 10.
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Apr 4, 2022 23:25:46 GMT -5
Love those Dr. Pepper & Cannonbal Run II (What A Guy) ads.
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Post by Mike on Apr 11, 2022 11:23:01 GMT -5
Small wonder how Bruce Vidal came to be Rick's regular guest host, given how much his voice sounds like Rick's. All things considered, he comes off as slightly more serious than Rick, though not by much - which is probably the point. In any case, due to there being no ads here, this goes by very fast. "(Everything I Do) I Do it For You" debuted on the AOR Tracks chart up at #18 - befitting of someone of his stature, closer to average for A-listers than for overall, but it wasn't the week's highest debut over there. That went to another movie song, "You Could Be Mine", which rocketed in at #9. But neither one would make it to the top there - Bryan would top out at #10 (same as on Billboard's Album Rock chart), while the Gunners stopped at #3, behind this week's new #1 over there, "Learning to Fly". DIMINISHING RETURNS: Nothing personal against the songs that did debut this week, but this week's debut crop makes for diminishing returns - though to be fair, they had a VERY high bar to clear, as all four droppers this week were Top 5 smashes. Having said that, not one of the replacements would make it that far - heck, only one even reached #10! And not to put too fine a point on the droppers setting a very high bar...BUT they include a pair of #1s: C&C Music Factory - Here We Go (Let's Rock & Roll) (LW: #37) [which gets played immediately after the show, of course ] Amy Grant - Baby, Baby (LW: #36) Rod Stewart - Rhythm of My Heart (LW: #32) Cathy Dennis - Touch Me (All Night Long) (LW: #31) "Wind of Change", of course, is the one debut that makes it to #10. But if four debuts seems low compared to AT40's eight from this same week (as heard last year)...actually, the R&R countdowns had seven debuts the previous week, so they had their big batch dealt with already. (Then again, even AT40's eight still yielded diminishing returns much as these four do here, so apparently the size of the debut crop doesn't mean all that much, eh?) Daryl Braithwaite's album Rise, which "Higher Than Hope" comes from, features his recording of "Don't Hold Back Your Love" - the same song that Hall & Oates just missed AT40 with back in February, and much as they did, he would follow up with that here. Much as theirs did, however, his didn't exactly smash - "Higher Than Hope" is his only charting single here in the US, but even in his native Australia, it fared poorly, only reaching #55. Cher's recording of "Does Anybody Really Fall in Love Anymore?" was on Heart of Stone, along with another countdown hit that would turn up in short order, "Love on a Rooftop". Rick would eventually switch to playing the Gatica Mix of "Fading Like a Flower" - as heard on Countdown America - starting on either 7/27 or 8/3. (I have 7/20 and 8/3 - the original is played on 7/20, the Gatica on 8/3.) Playing #1 songs from X years ago this week as extras seems to have been a semi-regular thing around this time...three weeks later on 7/20, he'll also go back three years to play "Pour Some Sugar on Me", while on 9/7, he'll go back to last year to play "Release Me". That said, "Dirty Diana" was, of course, not #1 on the last weekend of June (that was only true in the magazine), instead on the first weekend of July. MISS IT EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T BLINK: Anyone notice how #24, Another Bad Creation's "Playground", was not even mentioned? I missed it at first as I was a bit distracted around that point, but when I looked back at the chart to catch up, I immediately noticed something off there. Two weeks ago, I mentioned that DNA's remix of "Lily Was Here" could be heard on the Weekly Top 40 - lo and behold, here it is! (But that in turn makes me wonder if he played that for its whole run, as I wouldn't have expected it in only its 4th week.) Knoxville's I-100 (WOKI) must have carried both the Weekly Top 40 and AT40 - Shadoe would interview Ray Edwards from the station (not who we heard here) back in February, as he'd created a "Desert Shield" version of Styx's "Show Me the Way", which then got played right after. But both shows would be gone from there by 1993, as that's when they went Country. It took a good deal of digging to track down the "Strike it Up" remix we heard here - it appears to be a radio edit of the DJ Lelewel remix. Both the original remix and a "revamp" of that are on YouTube, but what we heard here exactly is not, which complicated things. CT40 would also play this at least once, in the year-end Top 100. "Walking in Memphis" was definitely more of a less-populous radio hit - it's Top 10 among both smaller- and secondary-market stations, but among major-market stations, it only reached #34. (Not surprisingly, it also failed to reach the top 40 on Billboard's Top 40 Radio Monitor, stopping at #42 there.) Those terms all come from R&R's parallel chart listings - P1 is major (large) markets, P2 is secondary (medium) markets, P3 is small. "A Better Love" has a similar fate, only reaching #25 on the major-market chart but going Top 10 on the other two. (Though that did hit the top 40 on the Monitor, reaching #31.) In contrast, "Playground" was a big-city hit, reaching #9 on the major-market chart and #31 on the secondary, and not hitting the small-market chart at all. Meanwhile, currently "Place in This World" appears to have a similar airplay spread as Marc Cohn and Londonbeat do, but in his case it's more that it just took longer for big cities to pick it up. This week, he's #23 on the major-market chart - he'd reach #14 there. On the other two, however, he'd go Top 5. The actual story of how Jesus Jones named themselves is apparently a little more interesting...in late 1988, Mike Edwards, Gen, and Al Doughty decided to leave the band they were in at the time, and form their own band - while sitting on a beach in Spain, they realized that they were three "Jones"es surrounded by people called Jesus. (But with that explanation, shouldn't they instead be Jesús Jones [pronounced Hey Zuce]?)
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Post by tokyoguy2021 on Apr 18, 2022 5:05:57 GMT -5
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Post by Mike on Apr 18, 2022 9:46:49 GMT -5
DROPPER: One four-man vocal group replaces another, as Boyz II Men send All-4-One packing ("I Swear" was #19 last week). In double-checking "This Night Won't Last Forever" against R&R from this time in 1979, I found that their "adult contemporary" chart was regarded as Pop/Adult Airplay at that time, AND it went down to 40. Yet, their "National Airplay" (CHR) chart only went down to 30. Why? It was once suggested - maybe just as a popular tale to tell - that when Carly Simon's and James Taylor's marriage was at the height of its strain at the start of the 80s, she wanted him to spend more of his time with her and not so much on his career. His response? 1981's Dad Loves His Work (which spawned his final Top 40 hit, "Her Town Too"). I'm not sure whether there's much truth (if any) to that but I do remember reading it spelled out that way some years back. Kind of funny that "You Belong to Me" followed Anita Baker - Anita would cover the song herself on Rhythm of Love. "Body & Soul" was the first single off that, and apparently she would release "Belong" as its fourth single, only it didn't chart anywhere. RE: "Anytime You Need a Friend" going to #1 on the Dance chart - we heard that week back in August (8/27). Elsewhere in Westwood One Land, one of Casey's Biggest Hits was another smash from 1989, and oddly enough it would hit the AC chart the following week - "Listen to Your Heart". "The Color of the Night" was the theme to Color of Night, which would go on to win the Golden Raspberry for Worst Picture - the second of four consecutive Worst movies that all seem to have themes in common. With the others being Indecent Proposal, Showgirls, and Striptease...I'm guessing you can figure out what those themes are, LOL. "The Color of the Night" did receive a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song, though (losing to the obvious winner, at #6). In 2015, Carly would reveal outright that the second verse of "You're So Vain" was in fact about Warren Beatty. She'd already denied that any of the men it was about was Mick Jagger, and followed that up with a line in 2001's "Son of a Gun" ("...nothing in the words refer to Mick."). Incidentally, Dick's mentioning it topped the survey for two weeks could be taken from either Cash Box (which, of course, he started out with) or Billboard's AC chart. (R&R didn't yet exist until this exact time in 1973, and it spent three weeks atop the Hot 100.) Believe it or not, "I Just Had to Hear Your Voice" did not chart at all on Billboard's AC chart (same story as Gloria Estefan's "If We Were Lovers" only weeks later), which is especially noteworthy with theirs now being a monitored chart AND going down to 40. Actually, she never came back there after the title track to Circle of One followed up "Get Here". Another surprise? Despite the act in question, the remix of "December, 1963" would also fail to hit the AC countdowns at all, not making it to the Top 20 on either of R&R's AC charts. (And on Billboard's still-combined AC chart, it stopped at #22.)
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Post by Mike on Apr 25, 2022 10:12:01 GMT -5
It should perhaps not be a surprise that Rick was way off in saying that "Forever" would be #1 in less than a month - I'm not seeing that it went any higher than #5. "Forever More" would not hit CT40, as it only reached #45 on the R&R chart. "C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)" was still a week away from turning up there as well. Kind of funny that Rick played "I'm Gonna Get You" by request, since that spent just two weeks at #39 on the Weekly Top 40 in 1993 - whereas, it lasted a bit longer on AT40, reaching #33 this week back in '93. Rick's droppieces from 1955/1965/1975/1985 actually do all check out, with 1965's "Satisfaction" coming from July 10. (Often, at least one would not match the date.) "Change the World" wasn't simply the highest debut of the week - it was the only debut of the week. (Dropper: No Doubt - Just a Girl, from 38.) There was precious little movement in Hour 1, nothing more than "Be My Lover" sliding four to #40. Later on, "Who Will Save Your Soul" having the week's biggest jump at just four notches is also very telling. (In contrast, Foo Fighters dropped six and Gin Blossoms dropped ten.) The "Miss You Much" request was pretty much Rick's version of a LDD/R&D, without actually being able to call it either of those (not that he necessarily would have anyway). Had Shadoe's AT40 been able to continue a bit longer, then "Your Loving Arms" would have been read as a Dance #1 - a full year before it was a Pop hit, as it spent two weeks atop the Dance chart in March 1995. I was listening to 4/24/04 last night, which contains Sarah Connor's "Bounce" - which, apparently, became a hit in an old-school kind of way: A station here in the States picked it up as an import and started playing it, leading to its spreading elsewhere. That station was the affiliate for where Rick called this week's Countdown Challenge winner - K-Hits in Tulsa. Incidentally, had the winner's Challenge been this week's new Countdown Challenge instead, then I would not have gotten it, as I am not that familiar with the Mary Tyler Moore show at all, at least not at any level of detail. While "Macarena" would bounce in and out of the Top 10 on the Weekly Top 40 and spent three non-consecutive weeks at #10 on CT40/R&R, it would have easily been a bigger hit under a Mainstream countdown, as it reached #5 on Billboard and spent three months in the Top 10 there. (In fact, this was also the week it hit the Top 10 there.) "She Used to Be Mine" was the only single that charted anywhere from Spin Doctors' album You've Got to Believe in Something - and while the beginning and ending were definitely "unplugged", I suspect that the middle was from the studio version of the song. While "Home" was, in fact, the new #1 Country song this week, "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart" would not top a Rock chart until a few weeks later (R&R's Active Rock chart), and "One By One" would not even sniff the top of the Dance chart. Rick said "Head to Toe" was the last #1 by a trio consisting of one woman and two men - but he obviously forgot about Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam's follow-up, "Lost in Emotion".
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Post by tokyoguy2021 on May 2, 2022 4:03:11 GMT -5
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Post by adam31 on May 2, 2022 19:42:07 GMT -5
Happy "Golden Week"
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Post by Mike on May 2, 2022 23:11:33 GMT -5
Scorecard: Because since we've now heard the shows from 10/1, 10/8, and 10/15 (10/8 being today's show)... Progression is left-to-right, ranked countdown-style starting with 10/1. 20 18 16 Melissa Etheridge - Come to My Window 19 12 06 Boyz II Men - I'll Make Love to You 18 XX XX Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories - Stay (I Missed You) 17 17 17 Joshua Kadison - Beautiful in My Eyes 16 16 19 Edie Brickell - Good Times 15 13 09 Anita Baker - Body & Soul 14 19 XX Richard Marx - The Way She Loves Me 13 09 07 Huey Lewis & The News - But It's Alright 12 15 15 Wet Wet Wet - Love is All Around 11 14 14 Mariah Carey - Anytime You Need a Friend 10 05 04 Babyface - When Can I See You 09 11 13 John Mellencamp & Me'shell Ndegeocello - Wild Night 08 08 08 Lauren Christy - The Color of the Night 07 10 11 Toni Braxton - You Mean the World to Me 06 07 10 Elton John - Can You Feel the Love Tonight 05 06 12 Bonnie Raitt - You 04 04 05 Jon Secada - If You Go 03 03 03 Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey - Endless Love 02 02 01 Elton John - Circle of Life 01 01 02 Amy Grant - Lucky One -- 20 XX Harry Connick, Jr. - (I Could Only) Whisper Your Name -- -- 20 Kathy Troccoli - If I'm Not in Love -- -- 18 Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do Many AC chart comparisons from this period (say, July 1993 through February 1996) between Billboard and R&R would certainly yield some big peak disparities. But how about "Spooky" in 1979? It indeed was peaking at #11 in R&R this week that year...but on Billboard, that only reached #23 on their AC chart! The only way that makes sense is if the difference in charts in 1979 was really not all that unlike how it was in the 90s - just, with the script flipped: In 1979, R&R would have had the "pop"-leaning Adult chart, while Billboard would have had a more singular focus on the "Adult Contemporary" format. At this point in 1994, however, Billboard would have had the more "pop"-leaning Adult chart, since theirs would be the combined Adult Contemporary and Hot AC/Adult CHR - R&R, in contrast, had already split their Adult charts. From 10/1: Elsewhere in Westwood One Land, one of Casey's Biggest Hits was another smash from 1989, and oddly enough it would hit the AC chart the following week - "Listen to Your Heart". ...was it something I said? Unlike the Oleta Adams pick from 10/1, Darden Smith's "Loving Arms" did hit the monitored Billboard chart, reaching #24 in a 14-week run. (Kenny Loggins's live "This is It", the pick from 10/15, did too, but only reached #31 and lasted just a month.) Of the three preview tracks from this stretch, "Picture Postcards From L.A." would be the biggest countdown hit, reaching #3 for four weeks. ("Secret", the pick from 10/15, also hit #3, but didn't stay up there that long, and also came and went at a much brisker pace than Joshua Kadison did.) Those four weeks, incidentally, would straddle the holidays, thus it both ended Countdown America and began the U.S. Music Survey there. Oddly enough, Joshua Kadison was one of two debuts on the R&R chart this week - Kathy Troccoli was the other, and as the above scorecard points out, she clearly didn't need the preview slot to zoom right into the countdown next week. Lastly - it turns out that they played two different versions of "Lucky One". Kicking off the show, as Last Week's #1, was the AC Rhythm Mix. Closing the show as this week's #1, however, was the album version.
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