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Post by tokyoguy2021 on May 3, 2022 5:16:45 GMT -5
Thank you. Japan is Golden Week until May 8th. But I work for a shifting company, so must work for this time.
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Post by Mike on May 9, 2022 12:01:32 GMT -5
When I first heard this show way back in 2012, the cue sheet was missing. It's since been posted - as have nearly all of the show's original run - but this week's is still one that's just the countdown. I...think? the drawn-out hour-ending themes might be a tell that this is a copy from a foreign affiliate (thus, why no ads), but I'm not completely sure on that. I think it was more of a tell during Shadoe's run than when Casey was still hosting. For example: 2/18/89, which aired last year, had drawn-out hour-ending themes and no original ads, and my copy of 9/30 is the same way. However, I also have 11/1/86 (also hosted by CVD), which has its ads, but also has drawn-out hour-ending themes.
ODD BULLET BEHAVIOR: "I Don't Mind at All" loses its bullet this week but still clambers up four notches to debut at #38, while two others - "Skeletons" (up two) and "The One I Love" (up three) both lose their bullets while trudging up the final notches to hit their peaks (Bourgeois Tagg are also peaking as well). A fourth, "Hourglass", lost its bullet last week, but also climbs ahead three to peak at #15. (Also peaking this week is "We'll Be Together", but unlike those four, Sting kept his bullet this week.)
Andrew Ridgeley would ultimately release one solo album, Son of Albert, in 1990, which did yield a chart single, "Shake", though that only reached #77.
I'd have to say that the version of "The Power of Love" I prefer the most is Celine Dion's cover from 1994, which is much more similar in terms of vocal/lyrical arrangement to Jennifer Rush's original, but what really drives Celine's home for me is her triumphant ending note, "...the power of LOVE!" Laura Branigan's is more of a remake in that the lyrical arrangement is changed a bit (though the instrumental backing remains similar to Jennifer's), but I'm also less fond of hers in that...I don't know, it almost sounds like she lets herself be overwhelmed by the song. (Oddly enough, maybe it's just me, but if you've seen the single cover to Laura's "Self Control", she looks very similar there to how Jennifer does in her "The Power of Love" video.)
In Pete's 80s book, this week has an anecdote from current AT40 producer Toby James Petty - turns out that in the first LDD, Corey was the daughter who sent in the dedication in memory of her father, who had also been a former science teacher of Toby's. During the next week, his school would play Corey's letter over the P.A. during the morning announcements.
"The Way You Make Me Feel" was this week's Power Pick/Sales (also the highest debut in the Sales Top 40 at #30), while this is also one of those weeks where the Airplay pick was below the countdown - though the pick was hardly a surprise: "Could've Been", making the biggest jump on the Hot 100 (86-52).
Nearby, "Tunnel of Love" was the week's Hot Shot Debut at #57 - second week in a row it landed there. Last week's Hot Shot Debut flew right up to the countdown this week, "Seasons Change". Bruce, however, would take a week longer to get in. (Meanwhile, elsewhere "Tunnel of Love" is #1 on the Album Rock chart for the third week in a row.)
"I Do You" seems like a really strange way to just say a drawn-out "I dooooooo", LOL.
From Billboard (specifically, Paul Grein's Chart Beat):
After multiple weeks where "Don't You Want Me" had its single version played, looks like this was the first week where instead the album version was played. (12/26 has it also.)
Whatever Happened to Anita Ward? would be re-told by Shadoe on 11/23/91 (which we heard in 2020). Not mentioned, was that between that show and this one, Anita would record another album in 1989, Wherever There's Love, though it was only released internationally since it had no U.S. distributor. Ultimately, it didn't make much difference, as it would go nowhere.
Last week in the Hot 100 Singles Spotlight, it was noted that it was unusual for both sales and airplay to agree, with the Top 3 being the same both places (as well as, obviously, on the Hot 100). This week does that one better, as the Top 4 all agree.
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Post by at40fansince1984 on May 9, 2022 15:12:46 GMT -5
Did anyone else notice the record skip during Charlie talking about Sam Cooke in the question before #27?
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Post by Mike on May 9, 2022 16:47:58 GMT -5
What question before #27? (#27 "Candle in the Wind" had a segment all to itself, the closest Question Letter would have been before #25 - and Sam Cooke wasn't mentioned there...)
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Post by adam31 on May 10, 2022 6:38:46 GMT -5
Must've been your psychedelic 'shrooms
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Post by at40fansince1984 on May 10, 2022 9:45:20 GMT -5
You're right it was Jackie Wilson & it was before #25 but CVD did say "It Was Probably This One" 4 times in the skip.
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Post by agrc1985 on May 22, 2022 20:17:52 GMT -5
Here is a preview of the American Gospel Rock Countdown that was taped off the radio 37 years ago this week....
Number 10 kicks off the show from a band that appears to have had a single album release as it seemed the many new record labels began dropping out just months after starting.
At #9 is Defective Youth by the established AC/DC - Def Leppard of Christian Rock called Rez Band that originally went by Resurrection Band which is the ministry that founded the Christian Festival called Cornerstone. You should check out their covers of Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane), Bargain (The Who) and Presence of The Lord (Blind Faith) for just a sample of their 100+ recordings.
The Extra after #9 is called Tell The Truth by Philadelphia which was one of tbe beginning of Heavy Metal groups along with Stryper that began at this time.
The next two songs switch over to the 1980's dance/pop sound of Madonna or Sheila Easton popular at the time with Pied Piper & DOA by Connie Scott from Canada
No 6 by the Imitators delivers a song similar to the New wave sound at the time like REM or the Cure.
Number 5 is from the Christian Rock Group AD which was formed by Kerry Livgren of Kansas. So if you are a fan of Kansas, you should most check out the releases from AD and solo releases by Kerry.
Number 4 is an interesting story pop song by Scott Roley which is yet another Christian artist that appeared and was gone.
Number 3 is a song by the leading Christian satire artist with songs in the vein of Randy Newman or Frank Zappa with the sound of David Bowie.
The Runner-up at Number 2 Carried Away is an up beat pop song from a debut release by Morgan Cryar who continued on with several successful CCM releases through the years.
So at the Top of the AGRC this week back in 1985 would be Beat The System by Petra which many would consider to be the World's most popular Christian Rock band, especially back in the 80's. You might consider their sound at this time to be similar to REO Speedwagon as it turns out their lead singer Greg X Volx had actually turned down an offer to join REO. With over 22 studio album releases that began in 1972, their music style evolved over the years adapting to the style of the time. So if you had never heard the AGRC BEFORE, THIS WOULD BE A GOOD representation of the music at that time.
If you like what you heard and would like to hear more, let The X know and I will upload some additional shows I was able to digitize from Cassette Tapes recorded over the air 37 years ago.
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Post by tokyoguy2021 on May 30, 2022 3:38:13 GMT -5
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Post by Mike on May 31, 2022 0:42:19 GMT -5
Because this is preferable over trying to scorecard this one out: worldradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1991/RR-1991-09-20.pdf(Chart is on the last page.) DROPPERS: "Love and Understanding" by Cher (LW: 20) and "Lily Was Here" by David A. Stewart & Candy Dulfer (LW: 16). "Somewhere in My Broken Heart" was an R&R-only Country #1 - it stopped at #3 on Billboard (#3 was also as high as he ever got there). It would also be his one and only AC countdown appearance. For the previous week's countdown I mentioned how "Since I Don't Have You" would be either a last hit or a next-to-last hit for multiple people. How appropriate, then, that this week we got a montage of versions? Here's also a scorecard of AC success for the versions we heard here: - The Skyliners - N/A (there actually was no AC chart until July 1961; this is from 1959)
- The Vogues - #8
- Art Garfunkel - #9 (slightly better on Billboard, #5)
- Don McLean - #4 (#6 Billboard)
- Ronnie Milsap - #18 (#25 Billboard; this was also its last week in the countdown)
"Don't Know Much" works as both a Spotlight extra AND a flashback extra, as it debuted on the entire AC chart two years ago this same week at a staggering #16 - or so we heard last month, when it would have been five years ago this same week. (Luckily, it has been well-established that time is not a fixed construct... ) Bob Seger would completely shelve his 1989 recording of "Downtown Train" - but would later re-record it as one of two new tracks for his 2011 compilation Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets. The week "The Next Time I Fall" debuted in 1986 had a very interesting set of debuts - besides Peter and Amy, there was also "The Way it Is" at #28 (which would also go to #1, a few weeks after them), and "The Lady in Red". Now, if the Fall of 1986 sounds VERY early for Chris DeBurgh to be on the AC chart - well...yes, but it turns out he'd also have two chart runs. The first time out, he'd go to #15 in November. Then, it would return in 1987 when it was also a Pop hit - this time, reaching #6 (and #2 on Billboard). And on the subject of songs having two chart lives - there's the second half of the Rod Stewart double in Hour 3, "I Don't Want to Talk About It". It was originally a single off Rod's 1975 album Atlantic Crossing, but wasn't released in the States at that time. It wouldn't be released here until being included on his Greatest Hits, Volume 1, which was released in the Fall of 1979 - it would go to #46 on the Hot 100, and was an AC non-hit then as well (not getting out of the 40s). What we heard here was a re-recording of that song that was featured on his Storyteller anthology - from which "Downtown Train" and "This Old Heart of Mine" came from. It was also airplay-only, and only charted on AC - and it was also an R&R-only #1 (on Billboard, it was leapfrogged by "Love Takes Time", which leaped 7-1; Mariah also knocked Rod out of #1 in R&R). By the way, speaking of "This Old Heart of Mine" - Rod's original cover of that song (which was Rod alone) was also featured on Atlantic Crossing, and was released in early 1976, but only reached #83. The 1990 hit version was also a re-recording. And while Michael Bolton may have been denied on this attempt to get to #1 again, he would succeed on his next go-round - and as I mentioned this time last week, that would come at Roberta Flack and Maxi Priest's expense.
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Post by Mike on Jun 7, 2022 4:49:30 GMT -5
DROPPERS: John Mellencamp - Dance Naked (LW: #39) Babyface - When Can I See You (LW: #38) Zhane - Shame (LW: #35) Ace of Base - Living in Danger (LW: #32) Skipped: #40 "New Age Girl", #26 "100% Pure Love" (which he'd been skipping since at least 1/21, and were not even mentioned) "No Nuttin' ": Yes, Rick was guilty of this too. Though as it happens, this may be the most of these I've yet heard in a Weekly Top 40. #36 "Secret", #32 "Get Ready For This", #29 "All I Wanna Do", #14 "Creep", and #8 "The Rhythm of the Night" all had no intro. For the Weekly Top 40 Challenge, I will note that he did in fact put "Wild Night" at #1 for at least one week (possibly two; the countdown for 9/24/94 is currently unknown). The #1s from X years ago seemed to be taken from a week earlier, at least for the first two - for both 1961 and 1971 (chart dates were Mondays in 1961), "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" and "Knock Three Times" each fell from #1 on 2/13. For 1981, it makes no difference, as "Celebration" was #1 for 2/7-14 (referencing Billboard, not R&R), while 1991's "The First Time" would be the only one with an actual past countdown to reference. "Constantly", obviously, didn't reach a Pop countdown - it was mostly a Rhythmic and sales hit, reaching #16 on the Hot 100 and #11 on Billboard's Rhythmic chart (and #12 R&B). It did actually sneak into the Top 40 on Hot 100 Airplay, spending two weeks at #40 (the first of which was this week). Immature speculated on whether 1995 might be the year where Janet Jackson finally married Rene Elizondo - but in fact, they'd been married for nearly four years already (their private wedding was on March 31, 1991). With regards to the #1s in other musical arenas: OK, for starters, this week's countdown is a week behind CT40 (and matches exactly, for a change). In the corresponding issue of R&R, "If You Love Me" hit #1 Urban this week - and actually, there was a tie at #1! It and "Creep" tied in spins, but Brownstone win the tiebreaker any way you slice it, as they not only had a bigger spin gain, but were also being played on more stations. In Country, "Mi Vida Loca" was #1, but this being its second week at #1 would have to come from Billboard (where, on 2/11, that was the case) - and, obviously, this conflicts with the Urban stat, as Brownstone did not reach #1 in Billboard ("Creep" held them to #2 for 2 weeks). In Rock, Page and Plant's "Thank You" (the song we heard part of) did not reach #1 anywhere. ALTERNATE LYRIC: "Let's hit another joint" from "You Don't Know How it Feels". AT40 had the original lyric, "let's roll another joint", though I'm guessing either they didn't find that worth adjusting or they simply didn't have to worry about it with only international affiliates in their last weeks.
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Post by adam31 on Jun 7, 2022 6:37:08 GMT -5
While the Weekly Top 40 is a fun show to listen to, it makes American Top 40 look like the Library of Congress for musical facts. Even with all the changing of the Billboard Charts and the controversy that ensued, you were guaranteed to hear all 40 songs (or large pieces there of, even for songs with a warning note) and the research was impeccable. In this case and many other shows, I am not getting the "Weekly Top 40" but the "Weekly Top 38"
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Jun 7, 2022 8:38:38 GMT -5
At least on this show Rick had an excuse to act a little IMMATURE.
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Post by Mike on Jun 7, 2022 11:46:36 GMT -5
All things considered I wondered if this one was actually Immature guest-hosting with Rick spliced in in post-production to make it seem like he was there. I think I'm still not sure either way.
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Post by tokyoguy2021 on Jun 20, 2022 5:01:10 GMT -5
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Post by Mike on Jun 20, 2022 21:43:29 GMT -5
DROPPERS: "Every Road Leads Back to You" by Bette Midler (LW: 17) and "Broken Arrow" by Rod Stewart (LW: 15).
At first blush, Taylor Dayne would seem like an unusual choice for a Spotlight pick - and to extent, she just is. But as Dick said, "I'll Always Love You" would be the turning point for her career, whereupon AC threw open the door and jumped on her hits when they had the chance, and they'd stick with her as long as she was even sniffing having CHR success - which would carry her through "Send Me a Lover" the year after this. So, of her 10 R&R Pop hits (including "Lover", which didn't hit Shadoe's AT40), almost all of them starting with "Always" would turn up here (the exception would be "With Every Beat of My Heart", in sort of an anomaly between the two AC charts - it reached #22 on Billboard, but didn't touch R&R's chart).
To wit: (in order of being played here; all peaks R&R) "Heart of Stone" - #6 "Don't Rush Me" - #3 "I'll Always Love You" - #1 (2 weeks) "I'll Be Your Shelter" - #12 "Love Will Lead You Back" - #1 (3 weeks)
Then in 1993, "Can't Get Enough of Your Love" would go to #12 while "Send Me a Lover" would reach #4.
By the way, "I'll Always Love You" neither hit #1 on Billboard (it was held to #2 for two weeks by "One Good Woman", whereas on R&R Taylor was able to dislodge him), nor did it even sniff #1 for 1988 on their chart - their #1 for the year was instead "Can't Stay Away From You". Actually, their two year-end charts were VERY different in 1988 - just one song ranked in even the Top 5 both places, that being "Hands to Heaven" (#5 R&R, #4 Billboard).
As it happens, Taylor would later co-write "Whatever You Want" for Tina Turner, which would be the lead single off 1996's Wildest Dreams (except in the U.S., where the only true single from that album was her cover of "Missing You"). Taylor would later release it herself in 1998.
Of this week's three debuts, "Remember the Time" would actually be the lowest-peaking, stalling for three weeks at #14. "Hazard", sailing in at #23, would be on its way to #1, while the other was "Ever Changing Times" by Aretha Franklin & Michael McDonald, which would reach #7.
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Post by Mike on Oct 17, 2022 22:51:23 GMT -5
So, Ryan gets flack for the show leaning much more towards Hollywood and "celebrity" in general with him as host, and while there are shades of it here, there are still a decent amount of stories (short and longer) that focus on the countdown acts. So I'd say this show is definitely serviceable, at least. DROPPERS: Ciara featuring Ludacris - Oh (LW: 40, 20 weeks on) Ludacris featuring Bobby Valentino - Pimpin' All Over the World (LW: 37, 10 weeks on) Not the first time an artist's two hits both dropped out the same week - the earlier one that comes to mind is when Billy Joel's final two hits ("The River of Dreams" and "All About Soul") both dropped out the first week of February 1994. Speaking of that timeframe... SHADES OF SHADOE: Looped song intros being used as music beds. Looped song parts to make them longer. "No Nuttin' ". Up-and-coming songs as extras (called a Breakout instead of a Sneek Peek, but still). They're all here. These songs were still on Billboard's Mainstream Top 40 - which was still using the 26 weeks/#20 rule, though that was soon to end - but were gone from R&R: - "How to Deal" (33-36, 19th week - it would go for one more; just went recurrent off R&R this week)
- "Baby I'm Back" (31-34, this being Week 26)
- "Holiday" (32-35, 20th week - it would go for 3 more; also just went recurrent off R&R this week)
- "Don't
Mess Phunk With My Heart" (holding at 28, 25th week) - "These Words" (25-27, 20th week - it would go for four more; also just went recurrent off R&R this week)
- In addition, "Hollaback Girl" just went recurrent off Billboard this week.
Billboard, incidentally, had three droppers this week - and oddly enough, the other two besides Gwen were the same two that also dropped off AT40 this week. This was the 44th week for "Since U Been Gone" - it would go for two more. Under a December-to-November survey period, Kelly gets her whole run in without any rule-bending ("Since" debuted 12/18/04) - though I'd have to calculate it out to see if the old Power Point formula would still give her #1 for the year. "We Belong Together" got 12 weeks on top, which would ostensibly give it the advantage against anyone else...but even if we cut its run off at 12/17 (the last regular countdown of 2005), that still leaves it with only 31 total weeks in the countdown. With Kelly having had 7 weeks on top herself, would she overcome Mariah with her 46 total weeks? It's not unreasonable that that would be a possibility. By now, remakes that could be comparable to straight covers of old songs (rather than just sampling a piece for a new hit) were becoming a fast-vanishing breed in the AT40 Universe - but this week lands two of them. I'd say the originals for both songs are better than the remakes, but of the two, I'd say D.H.T.'s "Listen to Your Heart" is at least decent, while Frankie J's "More Than Words" is just blah. BACK TO THE FUTURE? And by the way, we'll get the original "Listen to Your Heart" under Shadoe's own watch on Wednesday. So, Crossfade's "Cold" just dropped off AT40 two weeks prior to this show - but its AT40 run in itself has odd timing compared to its R&R chart run, as it spent 24 weeks on R&R (not counting the last two weeks of October 2004), peaking at #22, and going recurrent the first week of August. But the thing is, it didn't reach #22 until its next-to-last week: It would remain bulleted through its 23rd total week, then the week it lost that, it inched back up to its then-peak of 23. It then inched up again to 22, then dropped three to 25, then when it was finally clear that its airplay had peaked and wouldn't recover, R&R finally pulled it. (On Billboard, it ended up getting a 26-week run, and went recurrent the week before it fell off AT40.) "Disco Inferno" also just dropped off AT40 four weeks ago, as well. "Belly Dancer (Bananza)" is one of the strangest cases of a Top 20 hit, relative to where I'm at, in that I don't think WIOG ever actually played it outside of the then-syndicated new music sampler program, Airbound, which was an hour-long program that typically ran on weekends. (I actually think it also ended in either 2005 or 2006, or maybe it only ran in 2005 - I'm not completely sure.) WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS, INDEED: That song did in fact debut on AT40 on October 1 (two weeks ago). "Fly Away" would be mostly a whiff of a Breakout, getting nudged into the countdown for the next three weeks. Chart run: 40-39-40-off. By comparison, it would never reach the actual recurrent-less Top 40. Then again, so too would Season 5 of American Idol, yielding as it did Taylor Hicks as a winner. Anyone remember him? (While runner-up Katharine McPhee didn't really have much of a music career herself, she at least has been able to pivot into acting instead.)
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Oct 17, 2022 23:50:14 GMT -5
3 Kelly Clarkson & 3 Black Eyed Peas songs reminded me of why I stopped listening to my hometown Top 40 station in 2005 JEEZ.
BEP W/O Fergie kicks BEP with Fergie's ass anytime but current BEP gives you the WTF happened vibes!!!
Sadly both fall offs had Luda who was in Champaign (his original hometown) for the University Of illinois homecoming concert this past weekend.
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Post by saltyhylian on Oct 18, 2022 3:38:53 GMT -5
Doing a Ryan Seacrest piece at 4am?! Why not….
Seacrest AT40 10/15/05 insight (w/R&R positions, since Seacrest dumped them for Mediabase):
*Ryan Cabrera debuts “Shine On” (#40; #31 on R&R), his last Top 40 track to date. He married WWE wrestler Alexa Bliss in April 2022.
*The Killers hold with “Mr. Brightside” (#39). It is the follow up to their first Top 40 track “Somebody Told Me”, despite this one actually being their debut single (as it got re-issued earlier in the year).
*Ashlee Simpson debuts “Boyfriend” (#37; #29 on R&R). It was rumored to be about Wilmer Valderrama, who dated Lindsay Lohan in 2004, in which Simpson denied.
*Marcos Hernandez moves up 4 with “If You Were Mine” (#34; #30 on R&R). This one was one of those tracks I completely forgot existed, as it would basically disappear shortly after it fell off the chart. As for the track, it was written by Elliot Sloan of Blessid Union of Souls. It only peaked at #78 on the Hot 100 but went to #1 in South Africa. As for Hernandez, I had no idea who he was at the time but he did release a lot of singles in his later years.
*Lil Jon and Ying Yang Twins’ 2003 Top 10 track “Get Low” was played as an Optional Extra. These “Optional Extras” are older tracks that stations can use if they ended the first hour early. This version is the edited album version mentioned before, which muted out the explicit lyrics, which was odd seeing that Kasem almost always used the radio edit.
*Will Smith falls 4 with “Switch” (#29), his last Top 40 track to date. His 1998 Top 10 track “Just The Two of Us” was played as a Double Play, a feature on Seacrest’s show that plays another track by the same artist after their charted track.
*Pretty Ricky move up 1 with “Your Body” (#28; #21 on R&R). They consisted of singer Marcus Cooper (“Pleasure P”) and r*ppers Corey Mathis (“Slick’em”), Diamond Smith (“Baby Blue”) and “Spectacular” Blue Smith. Cooper left the group in 2007 for a solo career, only to return in 2015.
*Bow Wow holds with “Like You” (#27; #19 on R&R), featuring then-girlfriend Ciara and falls 5 with “Let Me Hold You” (#22; #25 on R&R), featuring B2K member Omarion. Will get to him on this week’s regular Kasem piece but the latter was his debut Top 40 track.
*The Click Five hold with “Just The Girl” (#21; #20 on R&R). Had no idea who this band was at the time but this one went to #11 on the Hot 100. They were also known for sporting a style reminiscent of 1960s acts such as The Beatles. They disbanded in 2013.
*Crossfade’s “Cold” (peaked at #25 on 7/25) was played as an Optional Extra. Mentioned this track on a past piece as it had a remix featuring Sarai Howard. A CHR station here played that remix but wondered how many others did?
*Natasha Bedingfeld falls 4 with “These Words” (#20). It was her debut single in the U.S., while her actual debut “Single” was her third here.
*Ricky Martin’s 1999 #1 track “Livin La Vida Loca” was played as an Extra. He was a guest on the show this week, discussing his touring experiences and the recording of the album Life, which released that week.
*Papa Roach hold with “Scars” (#14; #16 on R&R). It is their 27th week on the chart (of 50), which is pretty long.
*DHT falls 1 with their #1 “Listen to Your Heart” (#9). So I was wrong, apparently the CHR AT40 also had this slower version so this tells me that maybe the original techno version was never released at all to radio (highly doubt it).
*Another feature on Seacrest’s shows is the AT40 Breakout, where Seacrest plays tracks that are close towards debuting on the chart (similar to Dees’ Sure Shots); this started on his first show under the name Out of the Box, until actually a few months ago, where that feature also expanded to include a second Breakout in select weeks. This week’s was Nelly’s “Fly Away” (#38 on R&R). The AT40 Breakout remains to this day, with an expansion added, “AT40 On The Verge”, which had a similar premise.
*Mariah Carey holds with “Shake It Off” (3rd week at #1), and “We Belong Together” (#6). For a period of time before each show, Seacrest would play the previous week’s #1 in its entirety, instead of the Top 3/Top 5 recap of earlier shows. This practice would be dropped in 2006, while the Top 3 recap would later return and remain in place to this day, being accompanied with 5 second clips from the Top 3 tracks.
(ABOVE AND) BEYOND THE TOP 40:
*Gavin DeGraw moves up 2 with “Follow Through” (#33 on R&R). This track was touched on during last week’s Hot AC piece but apparently this was the 3rd single from Chariot, even though it went to radio in late 2003. Gut feeling that it’ll likely be mentioned again on the regular Kasem piece this week.
*P*ssycat Dolls debut “Stickwitu” (“stick with you”) (#37 on R&R). It is the follow up to their debut “Don’t Cha” (#5; #11 on R&R).
*Ludacris falls with “Pimpin’ All Over The World” (Dropper; #40 on R&R). It features Bobby Valentino, an R&B artist signed with Ludacris’ Disturbing Tha Peace label. His notable tracks included “Slow Down” (peaked at #42 on R&R on 6/24), “Tell Me” and “Anonymous”.
*Speaking of Ricky Martin, he also debuts with “I Don’t Care” (#47). As mentioned before, this spent a few weeks on the WT40, peaking at #32 (WAY before it even charted, because Dees).
*Will Smith also falls 1 with “Party Starter” (#48), the follow up to the aforementioned “Switch”. This one had some airplay in my area but not substantially so I remembered this track somewhat.
*Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee falls 2 with “Good Times” (#50). This was the opening theme to his reality show Tommy Lee Goes to College, which follows him trying to fit-in with college life.
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Post by Mike on Oct 18, 2022 8:11:28 GMT -5
*Marcos Hernandez moves up 4 with “If You Were Mine” (#34; #30 on R&R). This one was one of those tracks I completely forgot existed, as it would basically disappear shortly after it fell off the chart. As for the track, it was written by Elliot Sloan of Blessid Union of Souls. It only peaked at #78 on the Hot 100 but went to #1 in South Africa. As for Hernandez, I had no idea who he was at the time but he did release a lot of singles in his later years. How did I not pick up on that? What I remember this song for is that from time to time, there'd be a slow song that someone would put out that I'd be a real sucker for, and in the Fall of 2005 this was that song. I remember first hearing it on WRCL, a Rhythmic station targeted to Flint that I can still get enough of a signal for here, and initially I would have kind of expected it to only do anything there. *Lil Jon and Ying Yang Twins’ 2003 Top 10 track “Get Low” was played as an Optional Extra. These “Optional Extras” are older tracks that stations can use if they ended the first hour early. For some time, as in this show, the optional extras would either be songs that happened to be charting on this week from their given year (despite being presented as E-mail requests) or were recent droppers (for whatever reason). "Just the Two of Us" actually fits this too in the Double Play, as it was still in the countdown in mid-October 1998 - though in that case I think that's random chance. *DHT falls 1 with their #1 “Listen to Your Heart” (#9). So I was wrong, apparently the CHR AT40 also had this slower version so this tells me that maybe the original techno version was never released at all to radio (highly doubt it). I think, probably, stations could have played the dance version if they wanted to - it's just that many didn't. *Gavin DeGraw moves up 2 with “Follow Through” (#33 on R&R). This track was touched on during last week’s Hot AC piece but apparently this was the 3rd single from Chariot, even though it went to radio in late 2003. Gut feeling that it’ll likely be mentioned again on the regular Kasem piece this week. No...Wiki just has it wrong. Here's what happened: "Follow Through" was originally the lead single, originally charting at this time in 2003, where it only got to #44. "I Don't Want to Be" was the follow-up, and originally only scr@ped the chart for two weeks at #49 in April 2004. Then, both it and its respective TV show (One Tree Hill) caught on during the Fall, which led to radio jumping on it. Title track "Chariot" was the third single, after which they decided to try again with "Follow Through" for whatever reason, though ultimately that only did marginally better the second time around (#31 three weeks later).
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Post by Mike on Nov 21, 2022 12:23:39 GMT -5
DROPPERS: Bell Biv Devoe - B.B.D. (I Thought it Was Me)? (LW: #37) Candyman - Knockin' Boots (LW: #33) Janet Jackson - Black Cat (LW: #28) David Cassidy - Lyin' to Myself (LW: #25) With Mark Elliott hosting this week's CT40, this week is one of only two weeks during the CT40 run where both of the R&R countdowns were guest-hosted in the same week, to the best of my knowledge - the other is 7/10/93, which had the Weekly Top 40 hosted by Gabrielle Carteris and Brian Austin Green of Beverly Hills, 90210 while CT40 had David Perry's first guest host stint. There doesn't appear to be any week where all three shows (the third being Shadoe's AT40) had guests the same week - actually, there aren't any weeks that I know of where both Rick and Shadoe were guest-hosted in the same week. When Casey re-started AT40, such weeks were 7/11/98 (AT40 also hosted by David Perry, WT40 hosted by Pat O'Brien) and 7/15/00 (AT40 hosted by Ed McMann, WT40 hosted by Christina Aguilera). As for prior to CT40, there are two other weeks - 7/14/84 (WT40 hosted by Ron O'Brien) and 7/30/88 (another Bruce Vidal week). But speaking of Mark Elliott, we hear him here, too - voicing the ads for Look Who's Talking Too (which, BTW, would make roughly a third of what Look Who's Talking did in U.S. theaters*). I will say it's interesting hearing him voice a trailer for a non-Disney film (these were released by Tri-Star Pictures). This particular week also falls in a period that Retro Dees has rarely ventured into over the years - the previous week is one of the few times, though I'm not expecting it this year. It's interesting that "Do the Bartman" is the Sure Shot this week, as that would have its video premiere following a Simpsons episode ("Bart the Daredevil") - though that wouldn't be until 5 days after this show. Although it didn't have a physical single released here, it did overseas - where it hit #1 in the UK and in Australia. In fact, it was the latter country's first #1 single to not have a vinyl release. (By comparison, the first song to do that in the U.S., "Listen to Your Heart", only reached #10 in Australia.) "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" coming in at #24 follows "Justify My Love" flying in at #23 the previous week - both songs would debut more modestly on AT40 (Madonna at #36 last week, Janet at #31 this week), though Madonna's rise would be more dramatic there, going 36-23-10 (whereas on the R&R countdowns she went 23-17-10); unsurprisingly, she was the week's Biggest Mover both weeks. "My Love is a Fire" sounded a bit different from how it usually did on AT40 - it appears to be a remix, though this mix does not appear to be on YouTube at all. So, Rick's recurring Things You'll Never Hear bits have tended to hit the mark with what they'd "feature" in that there's indeed no way in hell these things would actually happen - but this one featuring a "velvet Elvis" in a museum of art...actually doesn't sound that "out there"? After her two previous big hits were both from soundtracks, you'd almost think the same was true for Bette Midler's "From a Distance" with the way that also seems to stand by itself - but no, that one's actually from a regular album (her first in 7 years), Some People's Lives. And does anyone have a solid guess on the Weekly Top 40 Challenge? This is one of the trickier ones, but after listening to the clip a couple times, I'm thinking it's "Love Will Lead You Back". *Is it just me, or did countdown-promoted flicks tend to make a lot less at the box office compared to other movies?
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Post by adam31 on Nov 21, 2022 14:28:06 GMT -5
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Post by Mike on Dec 5, 2022 5:16:33 GMT -5
This is the next-to-last show before Casey started reading the week's droppers again...this week, they were: "Just Got Lucky" by JoBoxers (LW: 36), "Mirror Man" by The Human League (LW: 32), "How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye" by Dionne Warwick & Luther Vandross (LW: 31), "Modern Love" by David Bowie (LW: 30), and "Delirious" by Prince (LW: 18). Between the WWF ads in last week's 1992 and the Dungeons and Dragons ads here, it's amazing what ads you can hear packaged with these AT40 shows. "If I'd Been the One" would be the second and last Album Rock #1 for .38 Special - the other was "Caught Up in You". "Hold on Loosely" reached #3, while "Second Chance" and "The Sound of Your Voice" both stopped at #2. JUST WHAT IS "SOMOSKOM", ANYWAY (...and did I even come close to spelling it right ) ? Your guesses are as good as mine, for I have no idea on either count. Even checking out the University's website turned up absolutely nothing on anything except academics, nothing on "campus life" whatsoever - not unless I looked into each campus further, which would take WAY too much time. Oh, and that big skip right at the beginning of the dedication letter did not help matters any. ALSO SKIPPED OUT: Charlie set up #31 "Telefone" by giving a list of previous "telephone" hits. READ 'EM...AND WEEP: Pretty sure I've mentioned this before, but Meat Loaf has claimed that the two big Jim Steinman productions, "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" and "Total Eclipse of the Heart", were originally intended for him. ("Eclipse" has been refuted, with Steinman saying he didn't write that for anyone but Bonnie Tyler.) One other Steinman production in this week's survey, however, DID get recorded first by him - on 1981's Dead Ringer. What was that one, you may ask? Well...you get one guess. (NOTE: The version heard here was slightly re-written for its release in 1983.) "Talking in Your Sleep" would very nearly be a rare hit to go both #1 Dance and #1 Album Rock - it's thanks to .38 Special that they missed out on the latter, having to settle for #2 there. Bloom County wouldn't initially make it out of the 80s as a comic strip (though that was because its creator chose to end the comic at the time), but it would ultimately return in 2015, with new comics appearing as its creator, Guy Berkeley Breathed, sees fit (the latest one appeared on Facebook back in April). Incidentally, the story of that comic makes a perfect set-up for "Undercover of the Night", as the comic examines politics and culture through the viewpoint of a fanciful small town in Middle America, while "Undercover" is one of the Stones' few overtly political songs - though its target instead aims at Central and South America. One particular source of controversy behind "Union of the Snake" at this time would be that its video was released to MTV a full week before the song itself was released to radio - a time when some in the industry feared that Video Really MIGHT Kill the Radio Star. (Ultimately, the only thing that would really "kill" Duran Duran's star...were themselves, though as Nick Rhodes would put it: "We've always been good at that." ) "Cum on Feel the Noize" would be instrumental in giving English band Slade (whose original version of the song went to #1 back in their homeland) a new push in the States - where previously, they hadn't gotten very far, charting four singles on the Hot 100 during the 70s but never getting higher than #68 (and not with "Noize"). Perhaps owing to heavy metal not totally having a place on rock radio as yet, Quiet Riot would only reach #7 on the Album Rock Tracks chart, while Slade would end up taking "Run Runaway" to #1 there the following year. Go figure! Pat Benatar may be singing that Love is a Battlefield...but for her, it also very much endures, as 2022 marks 40 years of marriage for her and guitarist Neil Giraldo. And it should be no surprise that there is no Odd Bullet Behavior to be found this week - unconventional bullet situations in the Top 40 were much further and far between at this point in the 80s (though apparently there is actually one just the week before).
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Post by adam31 on Dec 5, 2022 7:45:21 GMT -5
This is the next-to-last show before Casey started reading the week's droppers again...this week, they were: "Just Got Lucky" by JoBoxers (LW: 36), "Mirror Man" by The Human League (LW: 32), "How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye" by Dionne Warwick & Luther Vandross (LW: 31), "Modern Love" by David Bowie (LW: 30), and "Delirious" by Prince (LW: 18). Between the WWF ads in last week's 1992 and the Dungeons and Dragons ads here, it's amazing what ads you can hear packaged with these AT40 shows. "If I'd Been the One" would be the second and last Album Rock #1 for .38 Special - the other was "Caught Up in You". "Hold on Loosely" reached #3, while "Second Chance" and "The Sound of Your Voice" both stopped at #2. JUST WHAT IS "SOMOSKOM", ANYWAY (...and did I even come close to spelling it right ) ? Your guesses are as good as mine, for I have no idea on either count. Even checking out the University's website turned up absolutely nothing on anything except academics, nothing on "campus life" whatsoever - not unless I looked into each campus further, which would take WAY too much time. Oh, and that big skip right at the beginning of the dedication letter did not help matters any. ALSO SKIPPED OUT: Charlie set up #31 "Telefone" by giving a list of previous "telephone" hits. Great write up. Sorry for the skips, I don't know why that happened. Here though is the Telefone Story and the LDD intro for those that want to hear them: Attachments:Telefone Story.mp3 (921.93 KB)
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Post by adam31 on Dec 5, 2022 7:47:23 GMT -5
Here's the skipped LDD intro: Attachments:LDD Money.mp3 (875.81 KB)
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Post by adam31 on Dec 5, 2022 8:45:29 GMT -5
It seems the automation is causing some skips in the shows to insert the breaks. Will be playing the original version with no breaks at 8p today and look for this in further Mystery Monday shows.
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Post by Mike on Dec 12, 2022 14:59:28 GMT -5
Just a few tidbits this week. DROPPERS: INXS - Beautiful Girl (LW: #39) R.E.M. - Man on the Moon (LW: #35) Jeremy Jordan - The Right Kind of Love (LW: #32) Bon Jovi - Bed of Roses (LW: #28) "Lost in Your Eyes" would be preceded by "Cruel Little Number", which was the Jeff Healey Band's only #1 Rock song - and only in R&R, as on Billboard, it was kept from the top spot by "Hotel Illness" by The Black Crowes (who had a ridiculously successful 1992 at rock radio; this happened in December). Gee...Rick was in kind of a mean mood regarding kid things this week, wasn't he? Or at least he was during Hour 1, with a borderline-pedo spoof of Barney and having a kid singing segment where he told them he wouldn't have them on the show anymore. Rick's countdown of the week's top 5 video rentals almost matches the following week's Billboard Video Rentals chart exactly - just with #5 and #4 switched. You know how people have sometimes criticized AT40 for only playing different mixes of given songs over there (in particular "Free Your Mind")? Well, Rick does that here with "That's the Way Love Goes" - the version heard here is the CJ R&B 7'' Mix. "Tell Me What You Dream" is in fact a cover version - co-writer Timothy B. Schmit also sang the original, on his debut solo album Playin' it Cool, released in 1984. It wasn't a single, however, and that album spawned only one Hot 100-charting song, his own cover version of "So Much in Love", which All-4-One would have a hit cover version with the year after this (1994) - Timothy's only made it to #59.
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Dec 12, 2022 18:22:11 GMT -5
2 middle fingers up for Dees not playing #34 Nuthin' But A G Thang & not even mentioning #33 O.P.P.
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Post by Mike on Dec 27, 2022 4:39:11 GMT -5
DROPPERS: Alicia Keys - If I Ain't Got You (LW: 40, 29 weeks on) LL Cool J featuring 7 Aurelius - Hush (LW: 34, 8 weeks on) Lindsay Lohan - Rumors (LW: 31, 9 weeks on) Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For? (LW: 27, 9 weeks on) This is the first weekly countdown under Premiere's new show clock structure that included optional extras at the spots we're now all used to. The first show to have this was Part Two of the Top 100 of 2004 - not sure why they did that with just Part Two. This chart appears to most resemble the recurrentless chart from what would be R&R's last chart of 2004, from December 17 - which seems to still fall within standard operating procedure, as a December 17-dated R&R chart, during Casey's second run as host, would have otherwise been deferred to the following year anyway, because given the typical countdown timeline, a December 17 chart falls on what would otherwise be a show date of December 25. As we know, Casey never did a regular countdown on December 25 (unlike someone else we heard last week). "One Thing", "Let's Get it Started", "On the Way Down", and "My Happy Ending" are the songs recurrent on R&R but still on Billboard this week (with Ryan Cabrera and Avril Lavigne going R&R-recurrent just this week), with "Pieces of Me" and "Leave (Get Out)" being the only two Super Old songs in the countdown - and this would be the final week for both of those. There would have been one more Super Old in the form of "Yeah", had AT40 not purged it back in October. DISAPPEAR, INDEED: After jumping five spots this week, that's exactly what Hoobastank would do next week! In reality, its five-notch jump this week was probably misleading, as on the actual recurrentless chart, it was slipping down for the second week in a row. ABOUT THAT "DETOX" ALBUM... Eminem mentions a forthcoming album from Dr. Dre called Detox at the end of "Encore". That album would be one that Dre would labor over off-and-on over the next ELEVEN years ...only to finally end up scCrapping it altogether in 2015, when he would instead release the album Compton. It's considered one of two soundtracks from Straight Outta Compton, with the movie having its own official soundtrack and Dre's album being more of an "inspired by" album. Speaking of "encore"s...so to speak. If it seems like we heard from multiple people twice in this countdown, it's not just you. These nine acts all had two hits apiece this week: Ashlee Simpson, JoJo, Maroon 5, Destiny's Child, Ryan Cabrera, Kelly Clarkson, Eminem, Avril Lavigne, and Ciara. A tenth, Chingy, also had his own hit plus a feature on another. That's actually a net increase of one from the end of 2004, as although Alicia Keys dropped out with her solo hit this week, Ashlee and Maroon 5 added to the count by debuting with new ones from them. THE MORE THINGS CHANGE...THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME?: But if you rewind the clock to this same date, 11 years ago, you will find that 1994...started exactly the same way! They had: Mariah Carey, Bryan Adams, Janet Jackson, Toni Braxton, Haddaway, Billy Joel, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, and Aerosmith all with two hits apiece. HOW IT STARTED/HOW IT ENDED: How did each one turn out? 1994 would go up one more as while Def Leppard would drop out with one, The Gin Blossoms would re-enter with one and Ace of Base would debut with a second, bringing the count up to ten such acts. And this subject may sound familiar, as I talked about it the first time we explored Christmas 1993 in Shadoe Land - but as far as having to dig to find a record-contender or record-breaker, suffice it to say I've found one right here. If you don't count features, then you'd have to go until February 26 here in 2005 - Ashlee, JoJo, and Avril Lavigne would be off the list, as would Chingy's two appearances, but in their place would be Usher, Nelly, Snoop Dogg, and Alicia Keys, with Lil Jon, Ludacris, and 50 Cent each having at least two appearances (both features for Lil Jon, one hit + one feature for the other two). That's thirteen acts on the list for those who do count features, for which that week would be the record for a combined total anyway. Not including features, ten acts would stand for the next two weeks (with Ciara swapping out for 50 Cent on March 12) before the numbers started dropping. Had they been using the original R&R chart, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" would have kicked off the countdown at #40 this week (it entered the entire R&R chart at #40). MEANWHILE, IN BILLBOARD LAND... - Since this chart resembles a recurrentless R&R chart that would fall on December 25 if that date held a regular countdown, these figures will in turn use Billboard's own December 25 chart for basis.
- There were also three debuts here that week, though there were no re-entries, and "La La" is the only song to also be debuting here. AT40's other two, "I Just Wanna Live" and "Sunday Morning", both debuted here the week before - instead, the other two debuts were Gwen Stefani/Eve's "Rich Girl" and U2's "Vertigo". "Rich Girl" would hit AT40 next week, but "Vertigo" would not hit at all - actually, 2001's "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" marked their last appearance there to date. Worth noting: "Vertigo" was in R&R's actual recurrentless Top 40 this week, at #40 - it would spend two non-consecutive weeks at #40 there.
- The droppers, meanwhile, included two songs also falling off AT40 this week - "Hush" and "Rumors". The third was "I Like That". ("If I Ain't Got You" had gone recurrent the first week of December, while Gwen fell off last week.)
- The other "new" song that's already on here that isn't yet on AT40 is Lenny Kravitz's "Lady", which debuted the week before this and inches up one to #38. He, like Gwen and Eve, will arrive on AT40 next week.
- "Oye Mi Canto" is actually not the week's Biggest Dropper over here - though it does tie with "1985" for runner-up, as each drops seven (to #34 and #36, respectively). Instead, the biggest is "One Thing", down eight to #31 (and in its 26th and final week). (On the recurrentless chart, it was the biggest dropper, down ten to #35 - "1985" is second, down nine to #33, while "One Thing" only dropped five to #28.)
- The week's Biggest Mover, meanwhile, is not a tie, not Kelly, nor Mario! It is instead "1, 2 Step", which leaps eight to #11. (Second place is actually "Numb/Encore", up seven to #23.) Such is also the case on the recurrentless chart, where it leaps ten, also to #11.
- And they weren't quite at risk of breaking the record for acts with two hits apiece over here - without Ashlee Simpson, JoJo, or Chingy having a feature, there were only seven such acts from this week's list taking up space this week.
- "Let's Go" stopped at #11 in both R&R and AT40, but did make it to #10 here the previous week.
- "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" would arrive here the following week - not the first time they had a huge hit debut on New Year's weekend, as "When I Come Around" debuted here on the 12/31/94 chart (used for the 1/7/95 countdown).
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Post by saltyhylian on Dec 27, 2022 11:46:53 GMT -5
Seacrest AT40 1/8/05 insight (Lots to get into):
*Ashlee Simpson debuts “La La” (#40; #35 on R&R) and holds with her debut “Pieces of Me” (#38). The former was the third single from her debut album AutobiogCCraphy and a follow up to “Shadow”. Simpson was ridiculed for a live performance of the track during the 2005 Orange Bowl where she sang off-key, in which she blamed technical failures with equipment.
*Good Charlotte debuts “I Just Wanna Live” (#39; #31 on R&R). This track was one of several others that was part of a scandal that involved Sony BMG having stations play the track with the station not disclosing any royalties, a practice that is illegal under US law.
*Hoobastank moves up 5 with “Disappear” (#34; #28 on R&R). Despite the track falling off AT40 the next week, it would remain on the R&R chart for a few more weeks before it’s disappearance.
*Britney Spears’ 2001 single “I’m a Slave 4U” was played as an AT40 Rewind, a feature in Seacrest’s shows where an older AT40 track would be played weekly.
*N.O.R.E. falls 17 with “Oye Mi Canto” (#33; #30 on R&R). This was the r*pper’s attempt to appeal to the young Latin audience, with the reggaeton genre gaining massive popularity to that crowd. N.O.R.E then released a Latin r*p album in 2006 called N.O.R.E y La Familia: Ya Tú Sábe, which featured this track. It features Daddy Yankee, Nina Sky, Gem Star and Big Mato (no idea who the last 2 are), with the latter r*pper being featured throughout most of the album.
*Finger Eleven fall 5 with “One Thing” (#30). This was originally released in September 2003, then released to CHR and Hot AC stations in March 2004, peaking at #2 on the latter. Lead guitarist James Black tells a piece of the band’s second name Rainbow Butt Monkeys, saying that it was conceived as a joke after renaming from their first name Stone Soul Picnic.
*Ja Rule moves up 1 with “Wonderful” (#29; #26 on R&R), his last Top 40 track to date. It also features R. Kelly and Ashanti.
*Jay-Z and Linkin Park re-enter the chart with the mashup of “Numb”/“Encore” (#28; #23 on R&R) after falling out 3 weeks ago. It was a #1 on the European Hot 100, while also reaching the Top 5 in a few European regions.
*Destiny’s Child move up 4 with “Soldier” (#24; #21 on R&R), the follow up to their comeback single “Lose My Breath” (#4; #6 on R&R). Their 2000 #1 track “Independent Women (Part 1)” was played as an Extra.
*Eminem moves up 11 with “Encore” (#21; #22 on R&R), the follow up to “Just Lose It” (#11; #13 on R&R). It features labelmates Dr. Dre and 50 Cent.
*Christina Aguilera’s 2000 #1 track “What a Girl Wants” was played as an Extra.
*Ciara also moves up 11 with “1, 2, Step” (#15; #11 on R&R) and falls 6 with “Goodies” (#19), both from the latter’s namesake album. Her other singles included “Oh”, “Get Up”, “Like a Boy”, “Promise” and “Love, Sex, Magic”, the latter of which had airplay on some Hot AC stations for whatever reason.
*Trick Daddy falls 1 with “Let’s Go” (#12). This one samples the well-known Ozzy Osbourne single “Crazy Train”. It also features Lil Jon and Twista, the latter who was known for his fast style of r*pping.
*Simple Plan moves up 4 with “Welcome to My Life” (#10). Their 2003 Top 5 track “Perfect” was this week’s Double Play track.
*JoJo falls 1 with “Baby It's You” (#9), while also falling 3 with her debut “Leave (Get Out)” (#36). The latter spent it’s 34th and final week on this chart (29 weeks on R&R).
*Green Day bubbles under the chart with “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” (Out of the Box/Breakout; #40 on R&R). It would be their first Top 40 track since the 1998 re-entry of “Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance)”.
*Mario moves up 15 with “Let Me Love You” (#8). He recently re-recorded the track to coincide with it’s 15th anniversary of it’s release.
*OutKast’s 2003 #1 track “Hey Ya” was played as an Extra. It was still the #1 track 12 months ago.
OUTSIDE AT40 (R&R)/BEYOND THE TOP 40:
*U2 move up 5 with “Vertigo” (#33). It was popularized by an ad campaign the iPod, which lead to Apple releasing a complete album of the band’s songs, The Complete U2, priced at $150.
*Lenny Kravitz moves up 2 with “Lady” (#34). It is his last Top 40 track to date on both charts, while the preceding single “Where Are We Runnin'?” (peaked at #34) skipped AT40 completely.
*Lil Jon moves up 11 with “Lovers and Friends (#37; #4 on Rhythmic). It features Usher and Ludacris, after appearing on the former’s 2004 #1 track “Yeah!”. Also remembered hearing a version without Lil Jon’s verse on Music Choice’s Hit List station at the time.
*Gwen Stefani moves up 9 with “Rich Girl” (#36) and falls 3 with “What You Waiting For?” (Dropper; #45). The former features Eve but another version was also available without Eve for Hot AC stations. Despite this, Seacrest often used the original version w/Eve on the AT40 Hot AC version, which actually launched the last month.
*LL Cool J falls 6 with “Hush” (Dropper; #41; #40 on Rhythmic). Can’t remember ever hearing this in 2004 outside of countdowns but it was his first solo Top 40 track since his 1991 single “Around the Way Girl”.
*Fabolous moves up 1 with “Breathe” (#42; #21 on Rhythmic). This track was one that I didn’t even know crossed-over to CHR until recently but it peaked the last week at #9 on Rhythmic, while also peaking #10 on the Hot 100.
*Lindsay Lohan falls 9 with “Rumors” (Dropper; #46). She recently returned to acting with a Christmas film, Falling for Christmas, which released on November 2022 on Netflix.
*Ludacris debuts “Get Back” (#47; #12 on Rhythmic). It is the first single from his album The Red Light District, named after a part of a major city where adult shops and bars are commonplace.
*50 Cent debuts “Disco Inferno” (#50; #11 on Rhythmic). Hardly remember this track but a local rhythmic station would always play the uncut chorus version of it.
*The Goo Goo Dolls bubble under with “Give A Little Bit” (N&A; 4 adds). It was a #1 on Hot AC a bit later on.
*American Idol season 3 runner-up Diana DeGarmo bubbles under with “Emotional” (N&A; 8 adds). Her debut single “Dreams” went to #14 on the Hot 100, her only single to chart.
*Ashanti moves up 6 on Rhythmic with “Only U” (at #13) while also bubbling under on CHR (N&A; 12 adds). This would be her last Top 40 track to date but she remains active to this day.
*R*pper Guerrilla Black falls 1 on Rhythmic with “You’re the One” (at #30) while also bubbling under on CHR (N&A; 2 adds). Only heard of him by name but never heard a single track of his. He is also compared to Notorious B.I.G. due to similarities in r*pping style.
*Xzibit falls 4 on Rhythmic with “Hey Now (Mean Muggin')” (at #32), while also bubbling under on CHR (N&A; 1 add; 24 stations). Remembered hearing a heavily clean version of this track on the video game NFL Street 2.
*Daddy Yankee moves up 4 on Rhythmic with “Gasolina” (at #36). This track was one of many, including the aforementioned “Oye Mi Canto”, that was part of the reggaeton craze of that year. I’m kinda surprised this one never really crossed to CHR given it’s popularity with the teen audiences.
*Natalie moves up 5 on Rhythmic with “Goin' Crazy" (at #41). Personally always thought that this one either released to CHR first THEN to Rhythmic or was released on both formats at the same time. Neither scenario wasn’t the case but it did cross to CHR pretty quickly.
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Post by Mike on Dec 27, 2022 12:01:31 GMT -5
*Green Day bubbles under the chart with “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” (Out of the Box/Breakout; #40 on R&R). It would be their first Top 40 track since the 1998 re-entry of “Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance)”. Their first on AT40 since then - Rick Dees nudged "Minority" into the Weekly Top 40 for a few weeks at the beginning of 2001. (That stopped at #42 in R&R - I only know it was #39 on the 1/20/01 countdown.)
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