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Post by Mike on Jan 16, 2023 2:47:05 GMT -5
One of two shows hosted by Bob Eubanks - the other being 4/16/83. Bob says in his opening that he's currently on a long break from The Newlywed Game - but the fact of the matter is, it and producer Chuck Barris's two other shows that were currently airing in syndication at the time, 3's a Crowd and The Gong Show, would all be axed in 1980 due to uproar over 3's a Crowd (specifically, accusations that that show was promoting infidelity). Barris essentially became radioactive as a result, with stations wanting nothing to do with HIM, nevermind just that one show. Newlywed Game wouldn't be back until 1984 - but actually, Eubanks would be back to hosting before then, with the show Dream House, which ran for a little over a year on NBC. Actually, Dream House had just premiered almost two weeks prior to Bob's second AT40-hosting stint. Incidentally, when I first heard the 1983 show, Bob sounded noticeably different from how he'd come across when game show-hosting, somehow. On this one, that's not so much the case. Maybe it's just me? IDK. ODD BULLET BEHAVIOR: Yes, this could happen even in 1982! And we kick off the countdown with it, as "Working For the Weekend" nudges up one to crack the countdown at #40. To be sure, it is the only such song in the countdown this week. Little Peggy March would stand as the youngest solo female to hit #1 - and as far as the Hot 100 is concerned, she still is. Using AT40 as the standard, however, her record would be broken by JoJo in 2004, when "Leave (Get Out)" hit #1 when she was 13 years and 7 months old. The months matter, because among all solo singers, the youngest is still Little Stevie Wonder, as "Fingertips Part 2" hit the top when Stevie was 13 years and 3 months old. (On the Hot 100, JoJo's sole Top 10 is "Too Little Too Late", which hit #3 in 2006.) Fountain, Michigan is one of those so-called "dots on the map", where it's a location that is VERY tiny. WKLA just to the west in Ludington would have to have been the LDD writer's affiliate. Dan Fogelberg's father Lawrence, for whom "Leader of the Band" is a tribute to, lived long enough to hear the result - if only just: He would pass on seven months after this. So, Tattoo You is an album that was compiled together from songs dating back almost ten years - they all had different bits and pieces completed along the way, and no song on the album was entirely new and written for it. "Waiting on a Friend" is one of two songs that date back the longest, having first been worked on back in late 1972 during sessions for the Goats Head Soup album. The reason for the geogr@phically-incorrect lyric referring to "south Detroit" in "Don't Stop Believin' " is, not too surprisingly, fairly simple: Steve Perry tried east, west, and north, but none of those sounded as good when sung as south. WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE, INDEED: Diana Ross's returning the song to the Top 10 would cause major problems for the estate of its original hitmaker, Frankie Lymon - Frankie had died in 1968, and THREE women would emerge around this time, each claiming to be his rightful widow! As much as I'd relish the fascination of combing through the details here, there is no way properly condense it all and not end up overly-long...so a link will have to do: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Lymon#Posthumous_troublesIn perhaps a bitter twist, however, I will also note that the two members of The Teenagers who are alleged to have co-written the song (along with Frankie) are the two who remain alive today. "The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)" is another one of those songs that while it was a substantial hit even at the time, with the full-spectrum airplay profile of years later (late 90s-and-on), it would have been even moreso, hitting #1 Country AND Adult Contemporary as it did on the exact same week, three weeks later - by which time it was also sitting in the Top 10 on the Hot 100. Concurrent Country and AC #1s would actually happen a few different times in the early 80s - "Lady" did it on 11/22/80 (also its second week atop the Hot 100!), "I Love a Rainy Night" did it on 1/17/81 (also hitting the top both places that week), "I Don't Need You" did it on 8/15/81 (hitting #1 Country that week, its last of 6 weeks atop AC), "Any Day Now" did it on 7/3/82, and "Islands in the Stream" did it on 10/29 and 11/5/83 (its two weeks atop the Hot 100). Those five, plus Juice, for a total of six. Contrary to Bob's declaration, someone has surpassed Elvis for the most weeks spent at #1 - you can probably guess who. In the video for "Young Turks", "Patti" is portrayed by E.G. Daily - who is best well-known for her voice-acting career, among which the roles include...what else? A baby boy! Tommy Pickles from Rugrats, to be specific. Among women, it would be Madonna who initially surpassed Olivia Newton-John's final total of 18 weeks at #1 - actually, on Wednesday we heard the song she did it with, as "Justify My Love" brought her up to 20 weeks. Whitney Houston would surpass her, propelled by the 14-week stay for "I Will Always Love You", while Mariah Carey wouldn't catch Whitney until "Fantasy" in 1995. (Madonna would finally pull back ahead of Whitney in 2000 with "Music".) Elsewhere in AT40 Land, it only figures that December 26 was never counted down (instead featuring Part One of the Top 100 of 1981), for it was that week where the news broke that would change the course of countdown history - namely, that ABC had bought Watermark Inc. But don't take my word for it... (NOTE: There's actually not much to the story, as it's split up into two short blurbs.) worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/80s/1981/BB-1981-12-26.pdf#page=4worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/80s/1981/BB-1981-12-26.pdf#page=131And it should be no surprise that 1991 showed a world of difference compared to 1982. The difference is somewhat less drastic when leaping from 91 to 2000, but the cast still doesn't have much in common. There's not even close to even one single act showing up all three times, as no one even manages to do it for just 1982 and 1991. Only two even came close to bridging that on the other side: Hall & Oates and Billy Joel, both of whom were in the countdown as closely as December 1990, but who both also fell out by month's end. (H&O would never return, while Billy wouldn't be back until 1993.) As for 1991 to 2000, just three legendary divas bridge the gap: Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, and Mariah Carey. Oddly enough, while it's Mariah who doubles up in 2000, Whitney's the one to do it in 1991 (though Mariah, of course, only missed that by one week in '91, and DOES double up on the Monitor). As for Celine, in '91 she was having her first hit, in 2000 she was having a Greatest Hits hit (and those don't usually lend themselves to having two hits at once...one of the only examples I can think of is Pink in 2011, with "Raise Your Glass" and "Perfect").
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Post by Mike on Jan 16, 2023 2:49:41 GMT -5
Lastly, because the December 26 chart was never counted down, here's what a chart listing of this week's countdown might look like if the last weekly countdown was referenced rather than the chart for the 26th:
40 -- Loverboy - Working For the Weekend 39 24 The Steve Miller Band - Heart Like a Wheel 38 22 Chilliwack - My Girl 37 39 Sneaker - More Than Just the Two of Us 36 38 Don McLean - Castles in the Air 35 -- Rick Springfield - Love is Alright Tonite 34 17 Air Supply - Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You) 33 12 The Police - Every Little Thing She Does is Magic 32 -- Air Supply - Sweet Dreams 31 04 The Commodores - Oh No 30 -- The Little River Band - Take it Easy on Me 29 33 Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure 28 40 Sheena Easton - You Could Have Been With Me 27 20 The Go-Gos - Our Lips Are Sealed 26 32 Billy Joel - She's Got a Way 25 26 Stevie Woods - Steal the Night 24 34 The Beach Boys - Come Go With Me 23 37 Dan Fogelberg - Leader of the Band 22 27 Ronnie Milsap - I Wouldn't Have Missed it For the World 21 28 The Cars - Shake it Up 20 30 The Rolling Stones - Waiting on a Friend 19 25 Eddie Rabbitt - Someone Could Lose a Heart Tonight 18 09 Journey - Don't Stop Believin' 17 18 Kool & The Gang - Take My Heart 16 19 Paul Davis - Cool Night 15 07 Diana Ross - Why Do Fools Fall in Love 14 21 The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Hooked on Classics 13 16 Juice Newton - The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known) 12 14 Barbra Streisand - Comin' in and Out of Your Life 11 13 Neil Diamond - Yesterday's Songs 10 11 Lindsey Buckingham - Trouble 09 15 George Benson - Turn Your Love Around 08 23 The J. Geils Band - Centerfold 07 10 Stevie Nicks & Don Henley - Leather and Lace 06 08 Quarterflash - Harden My Heart 05 05 Rod Stewart - Young Turks 04 06 Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) 03 03 Earth, Wind, & Fire - Let's Groove 02 02 Foreigner - Waiting For a Girl Like You 01 01 Olivia Newton-John - Physical
OFF: "Arthur's Theme" by Christopher Cross (fell off from #36 on 12-26), "The Old Songs" by Barry Manilow (fell off from #35 on 12-26), "Start Me Up" by The Rolling Stones (fell from #31 to #39 on 12-26), and "Private Eyes" by Daryl Hall & John Oates (fell from #29 to #38 on 12-26).
Two debuts apiece for 12/26 and for this week, with the Stones and Hall & Oates being the two droppers for this week.
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Post by Mike on Jan 24, 2023 0:19:18 GMT -5
AT40 SNEEK PEEK: We got "Love You Down" a little after 7:30. THE GUEST HOSTS HAVE IT: Five years after this week's countdown, its Top 5 would find its way into an AT40 Flashback...in a show that was also hosted by someone who was not the show's regular host! Richard Marx was the one directing the AT40 traffic that week. This is the last time to date that AT40 played all three of Last Week's Top 3 to begin the show. Very unusual for Charlie Van Dyke to mention Lionel Richie and Bon Jovi as the week's two debuts right in the opening (and right after he'd speculated about them as possible debuts in the last promo - the third possible choice, "Big Time", wouldn't arrive until two weeks later). The "radio stations freezing their playlists for the holidays" effect is in place here, though it's not as dramatic as it was for the Nelson-hosted 1/12/91 show. Still, there's just two songs entering the entire Hot 100 this week - neither of them destined for the countdown: "Coming Up Close" by 'Til Tuesday at #90 and "Shelter" by Lone Justice at #93. (They'd stop at #59 and #47, respectively.) The biggest move on the entire chart is only 9 notches, which two songs do - and one of those is the higher of the week's two debuts, "Livin' on a Prayer". (The other is Toto's "Without Your Love", up 77-68.) But that's not the only thing that comes in twos this week, as so too does the week's - ODD BULLET BEHAVIOR: With two songs each inching up a notch to their peak. The first is, fittingly, "Two People" at #30 - while the other, is at #2: "Notorious". "Livin' on a Prayer" is also the week's Power Pick/Airplay. The Power Pick/Sales, meanwhile, is "Change of Heart". I...think? Shadoe might have re-told the story of Luther Vandross being fired as a backup singer during his run (during which Luther would also have reached his own hit peak). OOH...NO: Though Billy Joel had tied Hall & Oates for most Top 40 hits in the 80s at this point, their subsequent three from Ooh Yeah! the following year would put them out of reach, as Billy would only land one more before the decade closed (though going to #1 with that one makes for one swell consolation prize). Barbra Streisand still holds the record for most #1 albums by a female act, having extended that now to 11, with 2016's Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway. In 2000, "Hip to Be Square" would be featured in American Psycho, and was set to be included on its soundtrack - until Huey Lewis had it withdrawn. Reports were that he'd objected to the context with which it was used (the title character professes his admiration for the song and for its parent album Fore!, right before he axe-murders one of his co-workers) - but in reality, what had happened was that the movie producers had secured the movie rights to the song, but had neglected to also secure the soundtrack album rights. So, when Huey found about that, he had it pulled from the album. (And Huey, of all people, would be one to pay close attention to soundtrack deals - recall that he sued Ray Parker Jr. for ripping off "I Want a New Drug" for "Ghostbusters".) One who DID, however, object to the movie specifically, was Whitney Houston, who denied her cover of "The Greatest Love of All" for the movie's use. Two generations of Leibers could be found contributing to the countdown in some form the previous year. What does that mean? "Stand By Me" is one of many hits to come from the legendary songwriting partnership of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (in this case being one of their co-writes, as Ben E. King wrote it with them). His son, Oliver, was the guitarist for Ta Mara and The Seen, whose "Everybody Dance" was in the countdown at the opposite end of the year. Oliver Leiber, incidentally, would go into hit-writing and producing himself after the demise of The Seen - in fact, we'll hear from someone who he was particularly successful with on Wednesday (albeit, with a composition that...somebody else wrote). WHEN LIFE...DOESN'T IMITATE ART: "At This Moment", as stated in the second promo, was a love theme for Family Ties - this happened during the 1985-86 TV season, for main character Alex P. Keaton, played by Michael J. Fox. His girlfriend during that season was played by Tracy Pollan - and on-screen, the song should be an indicator of their fate: Unhappy ending. In real life, however, the ending's about as happy as you can get: July will mark 35 years where they've been married. CRAZY EIGHTS: Take a glance at this week's Hot 100, and you'll see 8s across the board for "War" - This week #8, last week #8, two weeks ago #8, and 8 weeks on the chart. It would get marginally better for vocal groups as far as #1 was concerned for the remainder of the 80s, as there'd be an uptick compared to where we were at now, but the decade would still end far short of the 50s/60s/70s. Just four three more groups would hit #1 after this - Club Nouveau, Expose, Will to Power, and New Kids on the Block. (Atlantic Starr are apparently counted as a band - I didn't see that that was the case with Club Nouveau. And Milli Vanilli still wouldn't count even if they weren't fake...remember, the key word is "group" - they were only a duo.) Oddly enough, the 90s would bounce right back to the 50s/60s/70s level, with anywhere from 17 to 19 vocal groups all hitting #1. I say "anywhere from 17 to 19" because 1991 has two groups that raise questions: Londonbeat and Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. For Londonbeat, they apparently had a single multi-instrumentalist in the group at the time that "I've Been Thinking About You" hit #1 - everybody else in the group only sang. For Marky Mark, it's a question of how much The Funky Bunch was actually a "group", per se. (Being hip-hop/r@p, or at least aiming in that direction, is not in and of itself a reason to disqualify: I count Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, who topped the Hot 100 in 1996 with "Tha Crossroads" - they still meet the key criteria of No Instruments.) By the way, if we instead use countdown history, then that number goes back down quite a bit - we lose Silk, SWV, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Blackstreet, The Spice Girls, Next, Divine, and Destiny's Child (who don't top the countdown until 2000) and gain En Vogue, The Fugees, Backstreet Boys...and maybe Real McCoy. They'd be the question mark in this column due to the dance production nature of that group - I didn't count C&C Music Factory for this reason (but also moreso them because the vocal emphasis on C&C hits was with the featured credited vocalists, which wasn't the case with Real McCoy). ETA: Then again...it says something that they apparently didn't count Lipps, Inc. Either they overlooked them, or the nature of that act disqualified them - they'd easily be the closest 80s equivalent to C&C Music Factory or Real McCoy. (Then again while I'm at it, it also raises the question of whether to count Will to Power for the 80s...)
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Post by Mike on Jan 30, 2023 23:42:23 GMT -5
DROPPERS: Bell Biv Devoe - Poison (LW: 38) Roxette - It Must Have Been Love (LW: 36) Taylor Dayne - I'll Be Your Shelter (LW: 31) Lisa Stansfield - You Can't Deny It (LW: 30) That is Kenny G on sax in "My, My, My", but not in "Heart of Stone" - there it's instead Richie Cannata, who was in Billy Joel's backing band from 1976 to 1981 (and also later for River of Dreams). Really surprised that Rick gave exact chart movement for pretty much everyone this week - for falling songs that are falling more than just 1/2/3/4 notches or so, he'd usually say something like "down just a bit" instead. If Rick wondered how Bell Biv Devoe got just the "Do Me" title past the censors, I wonder what he thought of "Tic-Tac-Toe" altogether? (Then again, he couldn't resist dropping in that clip of "Me So Horny", as he was prone to do for a year or so after that was released.) That "teen brain" call Rick took after #24 sounded a lot like Wayne's World-era Dana Carvey, though I can't be sure if that would've been him. Michael Bolton would get that duet with Patti LaBelle, in short order - on his next album, Time, Love, and Tenderness. They'd sing "We're Not Makin' Love Anymore", which was originally recorded and released by Barbra Streisand in 1989 (it would go to #8 on Countdown America that November)...and co-written by Bolton himself, with Diane Warren. KING OF WISHFUL THINKING, INDEED: Rick said Go West were trying to close in on #1 - #6 is as far as they'd go, with either this or "Faithful".
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Jan 31, 2023 0:27:04 GMT -5
A few year later Rick would skipped or played a "request" instead of Tic-Tac-Toe that's one reason I like early 90's Dees better. Sadly Me So Horny or Banned In The U.S.A. didn't make Weekly Top 40 even though I've got a couple New York airchecks from 89 that played Horny & the rock sounding follow up The Funk Shop (I think you can figure out the title of the dirty version).
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Post by adam31 on Feb 13, 2023 8:38:24 GMT -5
Found a new respect for Seacrest after he played clips of "Livin' On A Prayer" by Bon Jovi and "She's Gone" by Hall & Oates.
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Post by saltyhylian on Feb 13, 2023 21:33:02 GMT -5
Seacrest AT40 2/12/05 insight (w/R&R CHR & Rhythmic positions):
*JoJo falls 11 with “Baby It's You” (#40; #36 on CHR). As Seacrest stated, this one was BARELY still on the chart (soon to be recurrent status at this point).
*Alicia Keys moves up 1 with “Karma” (#39; #32 on CHR; #25 on Rhythmic). Several remixes of this track were released, including a reggaeton remix.
*Nelly debuts “N Dey Say” (#38; #28 on CHR). It samples the 1983 Spandau Ballet single “True”.
*Frankie J debuts “Obsession (No Es Amor)” (#37; #27 on CHR; #11 on Rhythmic). This is a cover of the 2002 namesake single by Bachata group Aventura. It also features Baby Bash, their second collaboration after their Top 3 track “Suga Suga” in 2004.
*Ashlee Simpson falls 5 with “La La” (#35; #40 on CHR). The second verse is cut this week.
*Ja Rule, R. Kelly and Ashanti fall 12 with “Wonderful” (#34; #39 on CHR; #28 on Rhythmic). Ashanti also moves up 14 with “Only U” (#24; #23 on CHR; #12 on Rhythmic), her last Top 40 track to date.
*One of the ads this week is for Payless ShoeSource, a former shoe store known for selling shoes at discounts. As shown here, their famous/popular BOGO (buy one, get one 1/2 off) event was held this week. Remembered my Payless stores being plastered with those BOGO signs (when they used a diamond background with “1/2” on them). They are still around to this day as an online store.
*Nick Cannon’s 2004 Top 15 single “Gigolo” was played as an Optional Extra. In addition to his namesake Nickelodeon show, his tenure as host of Wild N Out, etc. he also hosted his own Top 30 countdown called Cannon’s Countdown with versions for CHR and Rhythmic from 2011-13. WZBZ carried this one IIRC.
*50 Cent moves up 9 with “Disco Inferno” (#27; #24 on CHR; #4 on Rhythmic). He released a line of vitamin water later that year, which apparently received negative reception.
*Destiny’s Child falls 7 with “Lose My Breath” (#25; #26 on CHR; #33 on Rhythmic) and move up 3 with “Soldier” (#3; #5 on CHR and Rhythmic). The latter features T.I. and Lil Wayne, both making their CHR debuts. The former’s single “Bring Em Out” (#9 on Rhythmic) goes for adds on CHR this week.
*Jennifer Lopez moves up 13 with “Get Right” (#22; #24 on Rhythmic). Featuring Fabolous, a solo version of the track also received airplay.
*Usher scores a doubleheader this week, moving up 16 with “Caught Up” (#18; #17 on CHR; #15 on Rhythmic) and falling 2 with “My Boo” (#17; #18 on CHR; #19 on Rhythmic).
*Snoop Dogg falls 6 with “Drop It Like It’s Hot” (#15; #16 on CHR; #7 on Rhythmic), while also debuting on CHR with “Signs” (#45; N&A on Rhythmic), the follow up to “Let’s Get Blown” (#27 on Rhythmic).
*Gwen Stefani moves up 2 with “Rich Girl” (#14; #13 on CHR; #39 on Rhythmic). As mentioned last week, this is a cover of the 1993 Louchie Lou & Michie One single (honestly had no idea it was even a cover to begin with).
*Jet’s 2003 single “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” was played as an Instant E-Mail Request, which succeeded the LDDs during the Kasem runs.
*OutKast’ 2001 Top 20 track “Ms. Jackson” was played as an Optional Extra. Have a gut feeling that we’ll be hearing another track by OutKast this week.
*Lil Jon, Usher and Ludacris move up 1 with “Lovers and Friends” (#10; #11 on CHR; #2 on Rhythmic). As stated on the last Seacrest show, this is the version without Lil Jon’s “SHAWTY! verse” that Music Choice’s Hit List channel used.
*Twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quinn land with “Walking With a Ghost” (OOTB/Breakout). Only heard of them recently but they apparently were around since 1995, not charting on CHR until 2013 with “Closer” (peaked at #17). Ads for their album So Jealous also play this week. The single was also available as a free download on iTunes for the week (don’t think this even went for adds on CHR but I’m assuming it got the Breakout status to promote the free download).
*Mario holds with “Let Me Love You” (3rd week at #1 on AT40 & CHR; 5th week at #1 on Rhythmic). The track would then get kicked out of the #1 slot the next week by Ciara’s “1,2 Step” (#2), only for the track to regain the spot the following week for one more week.
OUTSIDE AT40/BEYOND THE TOP 40:
*The Game moves up 10 on R&R with “How We Do” (#30; #6 on Rhythmic). This was the year the r*pper started his long heated rivalry with featured artist 50 Cent (both of G-Unit at the time).
*3 Doors Down move up 1 on R&R with “Let Me Go” (#38), the lead single from their album 17 Days.
*Mariah Carey debuts “It’s Like That” (#41; #16 on Rhythmic). It is the lead single from her album The Emancipation of Mimi (“Mimi” = her nickname) and features Fatman Scoop.
*Tyler Hilton moves up 2 with “When It Comes” (#42). This one was a hit on Hot AC and I think also charted on Dees’ WT40 for a few weeks.
*Keane moves up 1 with “Somewhere Only We Know” (#47). Don’t think this one ever made AT40 but it peaked at #32 on CHR.
*Goo Goo Dolls fall 3 with “Give A Little Bit” (#48). This was also the #1 on the Hot AC AT40 this week for the 5th week.
*Tim McGraw bubbles under with “Live Like You Were Dying” (N&A on CHR; 3 adds). It serves as an inspirational song to those suffering from cancer and/or any terminal illnesses that have only a certain amount of time to live, as it was centered on living life to the fullest.
*Brie Larson (Yes, Captain Marvel was a pop singer) bubbles under with “She Said” (N&A on CHR; 3 adds). Her album Finally Out of P.E. was actually inspired by Larson’s hatred of her P.E. teacher.
*Brooke Valentine bubbles under with “Girlfight” (N&A on Rhythmic; 11 adds). She is best known as a part of the VH1 series Love & Hip-Hop: Hollywood, joining full-time during season 5.
*Amerie bubbles under with “1 Thing” (N&A on Rhythmic; 5 adds). It is a follow up to her 2002 single “Talkin' To Me”.
*Tori Alamaze moves up 2 on Rhythmic with “Don't Cha” (at #21), which was actually later “re-released” by Nicole Scherzinger and the P*ssycat Dolls. As for Alamaze herself, she was a backup singer for OutKast. She gave up the rights to the song as a condition of a requested release from her contract with Universal Records (stating her dissatisfaction with the label over “feeling caught up in the middle of egos and favors”), which lead to the track being given to Scherzinger and the PCDs .
*Natalie moves up 7 on Rhythmic with “Goin Crazy” (at #23; 3rd Most Added on CHR w/17 adds). The track also appears on her second album Everything New.
*NB Ridaz move up 2 on Rhythmic with “Pretty Girl” (at #30). Consisting of MC Magic, his son Mischief, his nephew D-Dog alongside other r*ppers, the group was often poked fun at for having most of their tracks written by kids (Joseph Soto and Leonel Tissera, aged 11 and 12 at the time). They are also known for their collaborations with Angelina Ramos, who is featured on several of their tracks, including their sole CHR track “Notice Me” (peaked at #50).
*Bobby Valentino debuts on Rhythmic with “Slow Down” (at #43; peaked at #42 on CHR). He would be later be renamed Bobby V to avoid confusion with the British violinist of that same name.
*American Idol season 3 winner Fantasia Barrino debuts on Rhythmic with “Truth Is” (at #49). Her other singles include “I Believe”, “When I See U”, “Hood Boy”, “Bittersweet” and “I’m Doin' Me”
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Feb 13, 2023 23:13:20 GMT -5
Nick Cannon is now known for nocking a woman up every couple months!
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Post by saltyhylian on Feb 27, 2023 23:22:45 GMT -5
It’s not often that I do a piece where ALL charted tracks are covered (probably the first). Not bad for a countdown show I NEVER even heard before…..
Randy Jackson 8/7/10 (Hot AC version) insight:
*Susie Castillo, Miss USA 2003 winner and MTV VJ, co-hosts this week. She placed in the Top 15 at that year’s Miss Universe, won by Amelia Vega of the Dominican Republic (their first and only MU win to date, the closest for the country’s second being Ada Aimée de la Cruz taking 1st Runner Up in 2009 to that year’s winner, Stefania Fernández of Venezuela, who helped her country win their second consecutive crown, a first-ever occurrence for a MU).
*Jason Derulo falls 3 with “In My Head” (#30). It is a follow up to his debut “Whatcha Say”.
*Lady Antebellum debuts with “I Run To You” (#29) and falls 1 with “Need You Now” (#18). Similarly to the Dixie Chicks, they renamed to “Lady A” due to alleged racist connections with the name Antebellum.
*Moby and Gwen Stefani’s 2001 Top 40 track “Southside” was played as an Extra.
*Kris Allen holds with “Live Like We’re Dying” (#28) and “The Truth” (#20). The latter features Train frontman Pat Monahan.
*Kelly Clarkson lands with “All I Ever Wanted” (#27), the 4th single from the namesake album. It also featured a cover of the Aranda song “Whyyawannabringmedown”, released the same year as the original.
*The Fray’s 2006 single “Over My Head (Cable Car)” was played as an extra.
*Neon Trees moves up 3 with “Animals” (#26). Their most successful single was “Everybody Talks” in 2011, which was a Top 3 on CHR.
*Michael Bublé falls 1 with “Haven’t Met You Yet” (#25). This was his first and only CHR single (peaked at #20).
*B.o.B moves up 1 with “Airplanes” (#24). It features Hayley Williams of the rock band Paramore, who also lands this week with “The Only Exception”.
*Train falls 4 with “Hey Soul Sister” (#23) and moves up 3 with “If It’s Love” (#4). The former peaked at #3 on CHR and the Hot 100, their highest charting single to date on the latter and tying “Drops of Jupiter”.
*Taio Cruz holds with “Break Your Heart” (#22). While this was his debut (and hit #1) on CHR and the Hot 100, it is not actually his FIRST single to hit American radio, as his debut single “I Just Wanna Know” went for adds on Rhythmic in late 2006. A version of this track, featuring Ludacris, was released for the American market.
*Lifehouse move up 2 with “All In” (#21). It is the follow up to “Halfway Gone”.
*Elly Jackson, under La Roux, moves up 1 with “Bulletproof” (#19). Originally a duo with Ben Langmaid, it became a solo project of Jackson after numerous disagreements.
*Kesha moves up 1 with “Your Love Is My Drug” (#17). It is the follow up to “Bla Bla Bla”, featuring 3OH!3, itself a follow up to her debut single “Tik Tok”.
*Angel Taylor falls 1 with “Like You Do” (#16). She opened for Five for Fighting, Sugar Ray and several other artists.
*Goo Goo Dolls rebound 1 with “Home” (#15). They recently released their 13th album Chaos in Blue in August 2022.
*Adam Lambert falls 1 with “Whataya Want from Me” (#14). He is a supporting act for the rock band Queen., a role he continues to this day
*Chris Daughtry and his namesake band move up 1 with “September” (#13). He suffered from hair loss during his time on American Idol and decided to shave his head to accept his condition.
*The celebrity news of the week (Randy’s Journal) included a rumor regarding Russell Brand and Katy Perry fighting, Justin Timberlake’s desire to direct films and Madonna facing a fine for excessive noise during a party run by her staff at her London home. They also discuss the week’s movie releases.
*Christina Aguilera’s 2000 #1 single “What a Girl Wants” was played as an Extra.
*Colbie Callat falls 8 with “I Never Told You” (#12). She was the vocalist of a country band called Gone West, who only released one album Canyons in 2020.
*Ryan Star moves up 1 with “Breathe” (#11). He participated in the CBS reality series Rock Star: Supernova.
*Lady Gaga moves up 1 with “Alejandro” (#10). As part of her merchandising efforts, she recently released Oreo cookies featuring designs inspired by her 2020 album Chromatica and green cream.
*Pink moves up 1 with “Glitter in the Air” (#9). Her 2007 #1 track “Who Knew” was played as an Extra.
*Maroon 5 lands with “Misery” (#8). It is the lead single from Hands All Over, which later featured “Moves Like Jagger”.
*Sara Bareilles lands with “King of Anything” (#7). It is her third highest charting single on the Hot 100, alongside “Love Song” and “Brave”.
*Beck’s 1993 single “Loser” was played as an Extra.
*Rob Thomas holds with “Mockingbird” (#6), while Matchbox Twenty’s 2000 #1 track “Bent” was played as an Extra.
*The Script also holds with “Breakeven” (#5). Guitarist Mark Sheehan tells a piece of what inspired the band to write the song.
*Nickelback holds with “This Afternoon” (#3). Hardly remember this track but it peaked at #24 on CHR.
*Rihanna’s 2007 Top 3 track “Umbrella” was played as an Extra.
*John Mayer and Taylor Swift holds with “Half of My Heart” (#2). It was originally recorded as a solo track.
*Katy Perry holds with “California Gurls” (5th week at #1). As this is the Hot AC-formatted show, this is a version without featured artist Snoop Dogg.
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Post by Mike on Mar 13, 2023 22:48:09 GMT -5
WANG CHUNG: Otherwise known as "yellow bell", which is also the first note in the Chinese classical music scale. Originally spelled the correct way as "Huang" Chung, changing to "Wang" to make the English pronunciation easier to think of. (See also: "Blessid" Union of Souls from last week's 1996, though that was a deliberate misspelling on that band's part so as to deliberately induce the intended pronunciation.) Can you imagine if they had attempted intermixing anything classical set to the dance rhythms they were known for? Dwight Twilley and Tom Petty first crossed paths when Petty was just starting out - Tom originally signed to Shelter Records, which Dwight was on at the time (under which he had his previous hit that we heard from). Shortly after, Shelter switched distribution from ABC Records (yes, the same ABC now in charge of AT40, though their record label was acquired by MCA in 1979) to Arista - ABC would retain the rights to Petty, while Twilley moved over with Shelter to Arista. Distribution problems (during the ABC years - color me shocked!) led to Twilley's band slumping, and ultimately Shelter would fold in 1981 after Arista pulled the plug on their deal. "Girls" and its parent album Jungle were released on EMI America. RADIO CA-CA...er, GA GA: "Radio ca-ca" was what drummer Roger Taylor heard his 3-year-old son Felix say one day while listening to a bad song on the radio in L.A. Only three debuts this week, yet it's a week with significantly increasing returns, what with two future #1s debuting and all (and none departing...yet). SPOKE TOO SOON: Charlie speculated that "Let's Stay Together" may be peaking this week at #30, with this being its second week there. Not quite! It would make it to #26. In actuality, it was jammed in the middle of a solid wall of bullets extending from #24 to #35, with the week's two biggest movers also flying past it (the second-biggest flying to the top of the wall at #24). It's very well-known, if not outright legendary, that Rick Hansen would undertake the Man in Motion World Tour beginning the following year in order to raise awareness of people with disabilities and to inspire a more accessible world - in turn inspiring the #1 "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)". But the Canadian Hansen was himself inspired by another Canadian who had attempted a similar trek five years earlier - in 1980, Terry Fox, who had lost a leg to bone cancer, ventured on what he called the Marathon of Hope, intending to criss-cross Canada to raise awareness for cancer research. While he more or less succeeded in that regard, he (unlike Hansen) was unable to complete his own journey, as a recurrence of his cancer would force him to stop about halfway through - and would ultimately end his life in 1981. In his honor, Canadian musician Ian Thomas (brother of Dave Thomas, the Doug in Bob & Doug McKenzie) wrote and released "Runner" as "The Runner", the title track to an album he would release that same year. His original version would also be featured in The Terry Fox Story, the first TV movie ever made for a cable network - it would air on HBO in May 1983. THE POLITICS OF DANCING: Also playing this week, at #9. (Get it? ) "This Woman" may be one of the earliest (if not the first) examples of a single by a country act released solely to Pop formats, with its B-side (or a different single) going to Country instead - the B-side in this case being "Buried Treasure". (See also: "Tell Me What You Dream" versus "Mending Fences" for Restless Heart in 1993.) Incidentally: This holding song WAS peaking this week, at #23. YAH MO B THERE: BUT HOW DID IT GET ITS NAME? Turns out, Charlie's anecdote that the song is about God is only half the story. "Yah" turns out to be a shortened version of Yahweh, which is Hebrew for "God", which in turn makes the title into a literal translation (albeit with additional altered spelling so as not to make it radioactive - the bad kind, that is - for a Pop world). The cue sheet for this week's countdown indicates that there was a theme bed that was included with the show, halfway through Hour 3 (after #17). "Automatic" would be the Pointer Sisters' first Top 40 hit with Ruth Pointer singing lead - and both its inclusion and single release might just come down to fate: It was the last song chosen for Break Out, suddenly taking notice of it when the sisters were listening to a stash of demo tapes. Then, upon the album's release, ballad "I Need You" was the first single, deliberately chosen in effort to re-establish them at R&B radio (as they'd severely fallen off following "Slow Hand"). It would miss the Top 40 Pop (#48) and have middling R&B success, reaching #13 there (still easily their best showing in two years). "Jump (For My Love)" was originally slated as the second single, but unsolicited interest airplay for "Automatic" prompted that to jump in front - and oddly enough, THAT would bring them back even stronger at R&B, reaching #2 there for three weeks (behind this week's #1 Soul Song, "Somebody's Watching Me") and becoming their biggest R&B hit as a trio (as their original quartet, they did land the #1 "How Long (Betcha' Got a Chick on the Side)"). As it happens, it would also reach #2 on the Dance & Disco chart as a triple-cut single (consisting of the first three Break Out singles - "I Need You"/"Automatic"/"Jump (For My Love)") - but would last long enough to ultimately finish #1 for the year there. "Nobody Told Me" was originally written for Ringo Starr for 1981's Stop and Smell the Roses, but due to Lennon's murder, Ringo let it be. I'd say that, compared to what we did get for Ringo's last solo Top 40 hit instead ("Wrack My Brain", heard back in December through Premiere), there's a non-zero chance that this would have fared better. Thriller, of course, still holds that record for the most weeks spent at #1 for a regular album, eventually extending to 37 weeks total, and no one has come that close to even the second-place tie between Harry Belafonte and Fleetwood Mac since. The closest to that, even, would first be set later this year, by the 24 weeks for Purple Rain (which, while technically a soundtrack, might as well be a "regular album" in the sense that Prince & The Revolution perform its entirety) and then that would be equaled in 2011-12 by Adele's 21. ODD BULLET BEHAVIOR: Yup! We get it again here, in the form of something that would not happen again for just over 4 years, as "99 Luftballons" gets pushed down a notch to #3 despite retaining its bullet (though it would, of course, lose it next week). And with the other #1s also represented in this week's countdown, the new #1 on the AC chart this week was "Got a Hold on Me", while spending its 8th and final week atop Top Tracks (the future Top Rock Tracks, Album Rock Tracks, and Mainstream Rock chart) was "Jump". I wish I could say that with 8 weeks on top - most of anyone that year - that "Jump" was easily the #1 Rock song of the year. But, here's a surprise: Billboard did not actually start publishing a year-end Rock chart until the following year! R&R, on the other hand, first published a year-end Rock chart the previous year, but for 1984, their results were...shall we say...different. ("Jump", despite 7 weeks atop their chart, only finished #11 - but it only lasted for 14 weeks, much lower than the 22 for "I'll Wait" and 31 (!) for "Panama", despite neither of those topping their AOR chart. #1 for the year went to "Cover Me", which also lasted for 22 weeks total, 3 of those at #1.)
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Mar 13, 2023 23:56:59 GMT -5
A Premiere would be for 3/10/84 "Larry Morgan" - Now it's time for a classic AT40 extra by an artist who had 1 Top 40 hit in 4 straight decades with parodies of songs by Michael Jackson in the 80's, Nirvana in the 90's, Chamillionaire in the 00's 7 Robin Thicke in the 10's here's Weird Al with "Eat It" (song plays) One week away from the Top 40 with his parody of Michael Jackson's Beat It that was Weird Al Yankovic with Eat It a classic AT40 extra from 1984. also, it seemed like the same ads aired after each numbered segment of like hours. Oddly starting at 7AM Eastern AOW Radio was airing 2/26/83 with the original ads as well.
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Post by Mike on Mar 15, 2023 1:16:09 GMT -5
I have an update: It would get marginally better for vocal groups as far as #1 was concerned for the remainder of the 80s, as there'd be an uptick compared to where we were at now, but the decade would still end far short of the 50s/60s/70s. Just four more groups would hit #1 after this - Club Nouveau, Expose, Will to Power, and New Kids on the Block. (Atlantic Starr are apparently counted as a band - I didn't see that that was the case with Club Nouveau. And Milli Vanilli still wouldn't count even if they weren't fake...remember, the key word is "group" - they were only a duo.) Strike Club Nouveau. Apparently this story came back the next year (3/12/88), someone mentioned that being in that show (heard this past weekend by Premiere), so I checked it. Casey said just two vocal groups so far in the 80s, Bananarama and Expose.
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Post by Mike on Apr 18, 2023 7:52:54 GMT -5
You almost can't ask for a better crop of debuts this week - among the five, just one ("So Wrong") neither went Top 10 nor is very well-remembered today. (With at least two satisfying both of those.) And among the droppers, only "Stray Cat Strut" (#3) was a significant hit. Only 6/18 would have a better showing, with all five debuts that week landing in that "sweet spot" territory (with only the very-well-remembered "1999" not landing in the Top 10). One issue with the Question Letter asking about male/female duos at #1, is that it conflated acts that were male/female duos with one-time hits that had a male/female duet behind them. I can understand there not being many male/female duo acts to this point...but still. The other issue is that the list all centers around single multi-week #1 hits comprising the listing (even the entry by the actual duo, not duet, Peaches & Herb, was a 4-week #1) - broaden it a little, and you could later get Roxette into second place all by themselves with a cumulative total of 5 weeks on top generated by their 4 #1s. I will also note some apparent exclusions of these actual duos: The Captain & Tennille, who had two #1s, the first of which ("Love Will Keep Us Together") was also a 4-week #1 - but I wonder if that's a case of them being stringent on the criteria? Did Tennille do all the singing for them, or no? (Because if so, that'd probably be why they wouldn't be included as a "male/female vocal duo", so to speak.) This problem would also explain excluding The Carpenters, who ALSO had a 4-week #1 in "(They Long to Be) Close to You", and two others that would bring them to a total of 7 weeks at #1 - but they had Karen Carpenter always singing lead there. SIGN OF THE TIMES: Of the three singles released off Here Comes the Night, the first two, more typical of Barry Manilow's maudlin style, barely reached the Top 40 - while the more uptempo "Some Kind of Friend" ended up being the one that managed to have any kind of run, and reached #26. NICE STORY...BUT THAT DON'T MAKE IT TRUE: "Gloomy Sunday". Except for the suicide of the song's own composer, most if not all of the suicides supposedly associated with it are difficult if not impossible to actually verify. Fairly unusual for an earlier-80s show to have only the one LDD. "Der Kommissar" has...shall we say, one of the more idiosyncratic hit histories, ever: It's an English cover of a single originally recorded by Falco - who would go on to out-chart that song with his own hit that itself never had a full-English version - by a band that by the time it hit, no longer existed! Growing musical differences among the members of After The Fire would prompt the band to split in 1982, before the song was finally released here. Epic/CBS would beg the band to regroup in the wake of having a hit here, but to no avail. In the middle of the final hour, we have: "One on One", then "Hungry Like the Wolf". Maybe it's just me, but I would think that the natural sequence of events would usually have those two reversed...? Although Kilroy Was Here was Styx's overly-theatrical concept album, the idea didn't completely spring out of nowhere - some of its inspiration came as a response to Styx's having been accused of backmasking Satanic messages in their song "Snowblind" from previous album Paradise Theatre, a charge they didn't take too kindly. (For that matter, "Snowblind" is itself an anti-cocaine addiction song, depicting as it does an addict's cycle of highs and lows.) Fundamentalist Christians were able to influence the Arkansas state Senate to pass a bill requiring that all records containing backward masking be labeled as such by the manufacturer. Styx weren't the only band with records specifically cited in the legislation - the Electric Light Orchestra were named as well, and they would in turn respond this same year with...what else? Secret Messages, where they deliberately backmasked multiple "secret messages".
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Post by Mike on Apr 25, 2023 10:47:25 GMT -5
Why yes, this was last week's show on Rick's app. And I certainly know where this copy came from - "Beautiful Liar" at #21 abruptly cuts off and the next segment starts immediately, which is the kind of error that the app is still prone to making. (NOTE: Always check shows carefully before submitting them!) DROPPERS: Akon featuring Eminem - Smack That (LW: #40, 25 weeks on) Nickelback - Far Away (LW: 39, 36 weeks on) My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade (LW: #34, 14 weeks on) Avril Lavigne - Keep Holding On (LW: #29, 12 weeks on) This may look a lot like a "diminishing returns" week, as a #18, a #12, a #4, and #2 drop out to make room for a pair of #30s and a #27...but if it's still not quite clear-cut, it's because the fourth debut would go on to #1. "Makes Me Wonder" will always take me back to the first weekend of June 2007, sitting in a van on the way to a college leadership conference - this was when the song really was everywhere, in fact 6/2/07 was also its sole week atop the Hot 100. But yes, for whatever reason that moment in time has stuck with me over the years - making our way on freeways through Chicago, on the way to Oshkosh, Wisconsin (where the conference was). "Lost Without U" may be Robin Thicke at his most...insecure: He's said that he wrote the song in the first place while he was going through a (personal) insecure period, and professionally he was also facing a make-or-break moment, thinking that the song's video could be his last if the song failed to chart (as all of his previous releases to that point had, at least in the U.S. - no, Rick, "When I Get You Alone" was NOT a #1 dance hit). Does anyone else really recognize the "True" sample in Lloyd's "You"? Because I don't. "Candyman" had a much longer run on the Weekly Top 40 compared to AT40 or even the Mediabase chart, for whatever reason - it debuted the last week of January, three weeks before it even hit the Mediabase top 50, and by now, it had already fallen out of there. It's safe to say that countdown airplay was likely comprising the majority of whatever airplay it was still getting by now (it was this week's biggest dropper on AT40, down 25-33). The countdown stats for "Face Down" this week read as 12s across the board: This week 12, Last week 12, 12th week in the countdown, and #12 is where it peaks. Akon had actually just turned 34 five days before this show.
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Post by saltyhylian on Apr 26, 2023 9:12:03 GMT -5
Dees WT40 4/21/07 insight (a lot to get into):
*Maroon 5 lands with “Makes Me Wonder” (SS; #20 on CHR). It is the first single of their second album It Won’t Be Soon Before Long.
*30 Seconds to Mars debut “The Kill (Bury Me)” (#40). It is lead by actor Jared Leto, who won several awards (including an Oscar) for his films.
*American Idol Season 5 runner-up Katharine McPhee debuts “Over It” (#37). It is her only single to date to chart on CHR. Her latest album I Fall In Love Too Easily (2017) features mainly covers of romantic jazz songs from the 30s-50s.
*John Mayer falls 1 with “Waiting on the World To Change” (Skipped track; #36). The track reflects on issues in society, a topic that is relevant to this day.
*Akon falls 11 with “I Wanna Love/F**k You” (#35). Aside from releasing new material, including a Spanish album, he recently focused on his charity work for African countries, including his native Senegal.
*Robin Thicke debuts “Lost Without U” (#34). The son of actor Alan Thicke, his 2002 single “When I Get You Alone” (when he was just known under Thicke) was his first to chart on CHR (peaking at #49), while his 2013 single “Blurred Lines” was his most successful, spending a few weeks at #1.
*P. Diddy moves up 3 with “Last Night” (#33). It features Keyshia Cole, who gained more success in Rhythmic with her own singles, including “Love”, “I Should Have Cheated”, “Let It Go”, “Shoulda Let You Go”, “I Remember” and “Heaven Sent”.
*The Fray moves up 1 with “Look After You” (#32). It is the follow-up to their Top 5 track “How to Save A Life” (#26).
*Hilary Duff moves up 3 with “With Love” (#29). Her 2014 single “All About You” is her last Top 40 track to date, which would actually follow-up this track. Duff was also a guest this week on the show, discussing her acting/singing career, the making of her album Dignity and her future plans.
*Lloyd holds with “You” (#28). A version without Lil Wayne was also released (probably for Hot AC-leaning CHR stations).
*Hinder moves up 3 with “Better Than Me” (#24), the follow-up to “Lips Of An Angel” (#38). Apparently, there was assumption at the time that those tracks were actually covers (they’re not).
*Ne-Yo moves up 8 with “Because of You” (#23). Heard that the track’s namesake album was originally to be released under another name (can’t remember what it was) but was apparently renamed as a dedication to fans.
*Christina Aguilera holds with “Candyman” (#22). Her album Back to Basics was released as a double album, a concept by artists that usually consists of one disc/side being of a different style than usual. Notable examples include OutKast’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (which consists of “solo albums” by both Big Boi and Andre Benjamin), which was a success, and Tyrese Gibson’s Alter Ego (which has one disc R&B, the other being r*p), which was a flop.
*Beyoncé and Shakira move up 9 with “Beautiful Liar” (#21). Still find it weird that the Spanish version does not feature Shakira and instead used Beyoncé’s Sasha Fierce character. Beyoncé also falls 3 with “Irreplaceable” (#14).
*Ludacris and Mary J Blige fall 4 with “Runaway Love” (#19). It tells the stories of three preteen girls (Erika, Lisa and Nicole) caught in undesirable situations, all of which resulting in running away from home. The follow-up was “Slap”, a track that describes Ludacris’ strong emotions.
*Rihanna also falls 4 with “Break It Off” (#18). She released her first 3 albums within a 2 year span (Music of the Sun in 2005, A Girl Like Me in 2006 and Good Girl Gone Bad in 2007, the latter releasing over a month later), a rare but not an uncommon tactic for a new artist.
*Paula DeAnda falls 2 with “Walk Away (Remember Me)” (#15). It features The DEY, which consists of Divine, Élan Rivera and Yeyo. They released the single “Give You The World”, which was a Top 40 track on Rhythmic.
*Shawn Mims moves up 7 with “This Is Why I'm Hot” (#11). His mononymous stage name actually stands for Music Is My Savior, which is also the name of his debut album.
*Nelly Furtado falls 2 with “Say It Right” (#7). After releasing “No Hay Igual” to moderate success, Furtado self-released Mí Plan, which consisted entirely of Spanish language material. This was done after Furtado struggled to write new material in English and her native Portuguese, at the suggestion of Cuban-Canadian singer Alex Cuba.
OUTSIDE WT40/BEYOND THE TOP 40 (R&R):
*Baby Boy Da Prince moves up 7 with “The Way I Live” (#28 on CHR; #15 on Rhythmic). He is from New Orleans, a city known for its annual Mardi Gras events.
*Pretty Ricky move up 1 with “On The Hotline” (#30 on CHR; #12 on Rhythmic). This was from their second album Late Night Special, their last album with lead singer Pleasure P before his short solo run.
*Rihanna debuts “Umbrella” (#34 on CHR). This was the first single from the aforementioned album Good Girl Gone Bad.
*Ashley Tisdale bubbles under with “Be Good to Me” (35 overall adds on CHR). She released the single after her HSM success (as with co-star Vanessa Hudgens).
*Lily Allen bubbles under with “Smile” (35 overall adds on CHR). This one hit #1 in her native UK and peaked at #20 on the Billboard Hot AC chart. As for Allen herself, she is the daughter of actor Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. The follow-up single, “LDN” (a slang acronym meaning London), describes life in the namesake city, including its flaws.
*Down aka Kilo bubbles under with “Lean Like a Cholo” (24 overall adds on Rhythmic). This was popular amongst Chicano communities so no surprise we see this track here. The track also spawned numerous parodies, including a female version, “Lean Like a Chola” by Carmen so definitely can tell this track was poked fun at immensely.
*Crime Mob moves up 2 on Rhythmic with “Rock Yo Hips” (at #31). The group consists of r*ppers of M.I.G., Cyco Black, Princess, Lil' Jay, Diamond, and Killa C. This track didn’t last too long on CHR as it only peaked at #39 on its only week on the Top 40, despite spending 8 weeks overall.
*Yung Berg, now known as Hitmaka, debuts on Rhythmic with “Sexy Lady” (at #36). From hearing the track, he sounds quite similar to Lil Wayne. It samples the soundtrack of Diamonds are Forever, from the namesake James Bond film.
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Post by Mike on May 30, 2023 8:28:43 GMT -5
DROPPERS: Bowling For Soup - Almost (LW: 39, 14 weeks on) Destiny's Child featuring T.I. & Lil' Wayne - Soldier (LW: 38, 24 weeks on) To the best of my knowledge, 50 Cent's five countdown appearances - his own three, plus features on The Game's two - remains a countdown record to this day. And it truly was a "countdown" thing, as on the overall recurrentless R&R chart, "Just a Lil' Bit" had hit the top 40 last week while "How We Do" also dropped out. So over there, he only had four at once. The only other place where he ended up with no more than four would be the Weekly Top 40, and it was not that close, as "How We Do" fell off there three weeks ago. Back here, 50's five would last for one more week. In contrast, on the regular R&R chart, "Just a Lil' Bit" hit the top 40 two weeks ago, and hit Billboard last week. This would be the last week for "How We Do" in both places. "Rich Girl" is the one and only song recurrent on R&R but still on Billboard this week, with "Beautiful Soul", "Let Me Love You", "I Don't Want to Be", and "1, 2 Step" being the Super Old songs in the countdown. "Mockingbird" has a less-common distinction of being off Billboard already yet not recurrent (it only lasted 21 weeks there), but still being here. Come to think of it...a lot of the chart movements this week align much more closely with last week's recurrentless chart rather than this week's, which suggests that the countdown was an additional week behind versus where it should otherwise be. "Just a Lil' Bit" appears to have had more of a "clean" edit played, with additional lines - especially in the chorus - muted that I don't remember usually being muted or otherwise censored on the radio back in '05. Jesse McCartney co-wrote "She's No You" with Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil (is it me, or does the song sort of sound like Robbie a bit?) - which appears to have been Robbie's first Top 40 co-writing credit since "The Right Kind of Love" in 1993. (With a gap like that, I'm not 100% sure that's right, but nothing comes to mind as to anything that would have come in between.) He would have one more after this, on Jordin Sparks's "One Step at a Time" in 2008. How many "double plays" is too many double plays? We get both Gavin DeGraw's and Ciara's back-to-backs each staying together within segments, and joining them are the official Double Plays for Gwen Stefani (as No Doubt) and Usher - and all four of those turn up in close proximity in the middle of the show (Gavin's and Gwen's both in the same one segment, with only Natalie between them)! Incidentally, that middle segment in Hour 2 was rather long - it clocks in at 22:27. The high-pitched sample in Akon's "Lonely" is from Bobby Vinton's "Mr. Lonely", which Epic Records initially gave to another artist to sing and release because they didn't fully believe in Bobby's potential at the time. Well, the cover version would stall at #64 in late 1962, and after Bobby started having big hits - in particular three #1s - they'd eventually think better of him. Bobby's original would see release in late 1964, after Epic had put together a greatest hits album for him and told him it needed one more song to finish it with. He chose "Mr. Lonely", and it subsequently became his fourth and final #1, putting him in an elite group (as it were) of artists whose "new hits" on greatest hits albums would go on to be among their greatest if not THE greatest hit upon release. (Another one to do this was Lenny Kravitz, with "Again".) Although we're still at a high number of acts doubling up (at a minimum) in the countdown, recall how we ended last year - we're short of what the record would now be, with or without features being counted. "Let Me Go" was originally intended for last year's Spiderman 2 soundtrack, but didn't end up on there - I'm not sure whether it was simply passed over, or whether the band chose to instead keep it for themselves. The exact meaning of "Hollaback Girl" is something that Gwen Stefani has never disclosed, but the intention behind the song was to be a response to Courtney Love bashing her in Seventeen magazine: Gwen issued this response in NME: And the rest? Well...play that #1 fanfare, cause it's hit history. (Incidentally: Seventeen magazine strikes me as being a VERY cheerleader-appealing magazine - not exactly the outlet one would think of going to if you wanted to position yourself as anti-cheerleader, no? Whereas, NME - New Music Express - is a British music magazine with a reputation for exploring the music scene beyond the mainstream.) MEANWHILE, IN BILLBOARD LAND... - Two droppers over here this week too, different ones than AT40 - instead, "Mockingbird" fell off here this week (it falls off AT40 two weeks later), and the other dropper is the Spring Mix of Jennifer Lopez's "Hold You Down" (which didn't hit AT40). Both "Almost" and "Soldier" fell off here last week.
- The debuts don't match, either - "Cold", which actually re-enters AT40 this week, is in its 11th week here (31-32), while "You and Me" (33-31) debuted two weeks ago. Instead, debuting here this week are "These Words" (last week's Out of the Box) and Green Day's "Holiday" (which hits AT40 two weeks later).
- Other "new" songs already on here not yet on AT40: In addition to the week's Out of the Box ("Girlfight", which debuted here last week and is up to #37 this week), there's Nivea's "Okay" (up one to #36) and Avril Lavigne's "Fall to Pieces" (up three to #35). Nivea, believe it or not, would miss the countdown entirely, while Avril would arrive there three weeks later.
- Two different artists get back-to-backs here this week - the aforementioned "Girlfight" and "Okay" both feature Lil Jon, while among lead artists, Kelly Clarkson's two are back to back up in the Top 5 with "Since U Been Gone" at #4 and "Behind These Hazel Eyes" at #3.
- "Oh" is also the week's Biggest Mover here, leaping nine to #11, while the week's Biggest Dropper is "Obsession", sliding ten to #21.
- "Switch" ties 1991's "Summertime" and 1999's "Wild Wild West" for Will Smith's highest-charting AT40 hit to date this week, but it will break that tie next week by stepping up to #3. Had the Mainstream chart been used, however, then none of those would claim the title - it would instead go to "Men in Black", which went to #2 in 1997.
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Post by saltyhylian on May 30, 2023 9:35:56 GMT -5
Seacrest AT40 6/4/05 insight (a HEFTY piece):
*Crossfade re-enter with “Cold” (#40; #31 on CHR). This track entered the R&R CHR chart twice, peaking at #50 on it’s first try on October 2004, then re-entering on February 2005, peaking at #22, after 20 weeks on the Top 40 (24 weeks overall). It first entered and fell off this chart almost 1 month ago so it almost replicated the initial R&R run. This was probably another “Sexual (Li Da Di)” situation.
*Trillville falls 3 with “Some Cut” (#39; #36 on CHR). They consisted of r*ppers Donelle Prince (Don P), Lil Atlanta and Jamal Glaze (Dirty Mouth).
*The Game and 50 Cent also fall 3 with “How We Do” (#37; #39 on CHR) and also fall 1 with “Hate it or Love It” (#17). 50 Cent also moves up 6 with “Just a Lil Bit” (#34; #27 on CHR) and falls 5 with “Candy Shop” (#20; #26 on CHR) and “Disco Inferno” (#13; #20 on CHR).
*Lifehouse debuts “You and Me” (#36). It is their first Top 40 track since their 2002 single “Spin”. Drummer Rick Woolstenhulme also checks in the show, with Seacrest also asking him a very cringey question.
*One of the ads is for Nestle Crunch, promoting a sweepstakes with the prize being 12 months of free Napster downloads (the “rock star” in the ad sounds like wrestler/Fozzy frontman Chris Jericho). Additional ads included Starburst’s Baja California variety, which had flavors similar to those found in Mexican candy (don’t think it’s still around) and another sweepstakes from Oscar Mayer, with the prize being the use of their Weinermobile (aka the “Frankmobile”) for “a day” (12 hours I’m assuming).
*Simple Plan moves up 2 with “Untitled (How Can This Happen to Me)” (#35). They recorded several of their recent singles in French (an official language of their native Quebec), including “Jet Lag”, “I Don’t Wanna Go to Bed” and “Summer Paradise”.
*Baby Bash also moves up 2 with “Baby I’m Back” (#33; #29 on CHR). It is his 3rd highest peaking track on CHR to date, behind “Cyclone” and “Suga Suga”.
*Jesse McCartney falls 2 with “Beautiful Soul” (#32) and 1 with the follow up “She’s No You” (#29; #24 on CHR). The latter was remixed by the Neptunes and features Fabolous.
*Destiny’s Child falls 4 with “Girl” (#31; #32 on CHR). The track was conceived after an abusive relationship Kelly Rowland went though.
*Shakira’s 2001 Top 10 debut track “Wherever, Whenever” was played as an Extra.
*P*ssycat Dolls (Nicole Scherzinger) moves up 2 with “Don’t Cha” (#30; #22 on CHR). As mentioned, Scherzinger did 99.9% of the vocals for almost all of their songs, with the other members (Jessica Sutta, Carmit Bachar, Melody Thornton, Kimberly Wyatt and Ashley Roberts) as “fodder”, later causing tension within the group (even as far as Thornton calling out Scherzinger during a live performance). The group reformed in 2019 (without Thornton) for a short time.
*Gavin DeGraw and Ciara score doubleheaders this week, with the former moving up 2 with “Chariot” (#27) and falling 1 with “I Don’t Wanna Be” (#26), while the latter falls 3 with “1, 2 Step” (#22) and moves up 10 with “Oh” (#21). While doubleheaders are commonplace during the Seacrest era, multiple in a same week is a uncommon occurrence.
*Natalie falls 3 with “Goin' Crazy” (#25). A Spanish version of this track was also available but unsure if it was ever used on Latin stations.
*Gwen Stefani falls 7 with “Rich Girl” (#24) and holds with “Hollaback Girl” (3rd week at #1). It’s not often on these pieces that the #1 track isn’t mentioned last. No Doubt’s 1996 single “Spiderwebs” was also played as the first Double Play track.
*Papa Roach moves up 2 with “Scars” (#19; #16 on CHR). It was their highest peaking track on CHR and their first since their 2000 single “Last Resort”, which peaked at #35 (while peaking at #40 on CHR).
*Usher falls 7 with “Caught Up” (#18), while his 2004 single “Confessions” was played as the second Double Play track. Can’t say on how many times more than one Double Play track was used on a single week but it was uncommon.
*Matchbox 20 frontman Rob Thomas moves up 4 with his solo debut “Lonely No More” (#16; #13 on CHR). He founded a charity called the Sidewalk Angels Foundation, focusing on abandoned animals as well as medical care for low income families.
*Black Eyed Peas move up 6 with “Don't Phunk/Mess With My Heart” (#12). There were conflicting assumptions regarding Fergie’s 2017 departure from group, with several assumptions saying that she left to focus on her family and others assuming she left to focus on her solo career. The former assumption was confirmed by Will.I.Am in 2020. She was replaced by Filipino singer Jessica Reynoso (J Rey Soul).
*Sugar Ray’s 1997 #1 debut track “Fly” was played as an Extra.
*Backstreet Boys move up 4 with “Incomplete” (#9). It would be their last Top 10 to date, while the group’s later singles charted moderately, with the latest Top 40 track being their 2018 single “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” (peaked at #16).
*Akon falls 3 with “Lonely” (#7; #15 on CHR). His first 3 albums Trouble, Konvicted and Freedom were based on his time in prison, which was disputed.
*Brooke Valentine lands with “Girlfight” (OOTB/Breakout track; #37 on CHR). She only released one album (Chain Letter), with a follow-up album (Physical Education) being turned into an EP. She would also later release multiple singles.
BEYOND THE TOP 40:
*Jennifer Lopez falls 4 with “Hold You Down (Spring Mix)” (#45). Interesting to see a remixed version of a charted track charting separately (this debuted last week, while, coincidentally, the original version was still on the chart in it’s last week). Seacrest also used the Spring Mix version on the year-end show.
*Aaron Carter falls 1 on CHR Indicator with “Saturday Night” (at #36; 2 adds on CHR). After his recent death, most of his singles had a brief resurgence on social media.
*Swedish rock band The Caesars bubble under with “Jerk It Out” (1 add on CHR). This one appeared for a week on Dees WT40 chart (peaked at #40). They were previously named Caesars Palace, after the namesake Vegas resort and casino, and are also known in Europe as 12 Caesars.
*Fatty Koo bubbles under with I’m assuming would be “Bounce” (1 add on CHR; WZBZ add; 5 adds on Rhythmic). Only heard very little of this group but remembered hearing this track on a few occasions at the time. Also, R&R apparently no longer put names of the tracks on the station reports during that time, only of the acts themselves (must have been enacted at either late 2004 or early 2005).
*CKEY, a Rhythmic station, added tracks by Simple Plan, Avril Lavigne, Kelly Clarkson, Killers, Howie Day and Rob Thomas. Like that one station in Armadillo from 2001, this one was in the process to flipping over to CHR (but still leaning Rhythmic even after the flip for a while). Interestingly, despite the report saying Buffalo, NY, it is actually licensed to Ft. Erie, Canada, as it’s in the Niagara Falls area (where the station serves).
*Fountains of Wayne bubble under with “Maureen” (1 add on CHR; WAYV add; 4 adds on Hot AC). It is from their compilation album Out of State Plates, which features unreleased tracks by the band.
*Kaiser Chiefs bubble under with “I Predict a Riot” (9th Most Added on CHR w/11 adds; WAYV add; 4 adds on Hot AC). The band was influenced by new wave music of the 70s-80s, a style they would adopt.
*BarlowGirl bubbles under with “Never Alone” (3 adds on CHR; WAYV add; 4 adds on Hot AC). A Christian rock band, they consisted of sisters Alyssa, Lauren and Rebecca Barlow. It was also the longest-peaking #1 track on the Christian charts.
*Ingram Hill moves up 2 on Hot AC with “Almost Perfect” (at #24; 1 add on CHR). After assuming for years it was 1 person, it’s actually a rock band consisting of Justin Moore, Phil Bogard and Zach Kirk.
*Jemma Griffiths, under the name Jem, holds on Hot AC with “24” (at #27; #28 on the Hot AC AT40; 1 add on CHR). Remembered hearing this on promos for the 2005 NBA Finals so this might have a role on the track charting (especially in the US, as Jem is Welsh) as it was not released as a single.
*Courtney Jaye moves up 3 on Hot AC with “Can’t Behave” (at #36; 7 adds on CHR). From the soundtrack to the Aussie TV series H2O, this would later chart on the Hot AC AT40, peaking at #30. Can’t remember if I’ve ever heard this one though.
*Mario moves up 2 on Rhythmic with “How Could You” (at #20). It is the follow up to his first #1 track “Let Me Love You” (#28).
*Teairra Marí moves up 3 on Rhythmic with “Make Her Feel Good” (at #24). Her namesake album was a huge flop, leading to her release from Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella label. Also interesting to see a Parental Advisory label on the album, as Marí was 16 at the time of recording (17 when it released; similar situation to singer Lloyd, who was 16-17 when his debut album Southside released).
*Chicano r*pper Lil Rob moves up 6 on Rhythmic with “Summer Nights” (at #28). He started his career in 1992 in the local r*p scene, not reaching mainstream recognition until this track released on CHR radio.
*Xscape falls 2 on Rhythmic with “What’s Up?” (at #32; 1 add on CHR). This had a freestyle sound to it, a slight departure from their usual R&B/soul sound.
*Trey Songz moves up 8 on Rhythmic with “Just Gotta Make It” (at #36). It is his first collaborative track with r*pper Twista, the other being “Girl Tonite”, which released a few months later.
*Mike Jones falls 2 on Rhythmic with “Still Tippin' (at #37). The track features a line from the follow-up single “Back Then” (debuts on Rhythmic at #47). His only CHR track was the 2009 single “Next to You”, which peaked at #43. He also gives out his phone number on his earlier tracks for fans to contact him, an uncommon marketing tactic at the time.
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Post by Mike on Jun 2, 2023 6:36:41 GMT -5
I wonder if they simply weren't having guest hosts do show promos as yet? AT40 had just started having weekly promos at the end of 1984, but I'm not seeing a guest-hosted show that has them until the next one Charlie would host, July 6. The only show from the first half of '85 that has an explanation is our last guest-hosted one from April 13, whose opening letter specifically mentions there not being any. In any event, despite this being a Charlie Van Dyke-hosted week, did anyone else catch the Dr. Pepper sponsorship ad that kicked off Hour 3 - voiced by Casey? So just what the heck is "Crazy in the Night (Barking at Airplanes)" about? There's actually two parts to that one - "Crazy in the Night" was inspired by Kim's son Collin's fear of the dark, and that's him asking "who is it?" at the beginning. "Barking at Airplanes", however, was merely tacked on, as it's also the title of the album that this comes from - though that, in turn, comes from whenever airplanes would fly over her house, it would set off her golden retriever, who would bark at them. As to why she named her album so - why not? Isn't this just the time to hear a show with the story of how Tina Turner made her comeback? Unfortunately, "Show Some Respect" also proves to be the time for some - ODD BULLET BEHAVIOR: Yes, we get some of that here this week, and it's the first of two - the other is "Invisible". Both songs lose their bullets but step up one notch each to #37 and #31. "You Give Good Love" was originally written for Roberta Flack - but when it was offered, Roberta's assistant turned it down with a "don't call us, we'll call you". ERROR: " 'Til My Baby Comes Home" is listed on the cue sheet as just " 'Til My Baby". What do you get when you cross Bananarama's original producers (that is, before SAW) with a member of a legendary Motown hit production team? You get...invisible? That's right! Before hitting with "Venus", Bananarama were originally produced by the pair of Steve Jolley and Tony Swain, who produced Alison Moyet's debut solo album, Alf. She wrote every song on the album with them - except the one we hear in the countdown: "Invisible" was instead written by Lamont Dozier, as his first new Top 40 hit as a songwriter since 1970's "Band of Gold" by Freda Payne (which excludes covers that hit such as for "Stop! In the Name of Love" and "You Can't Hurry Love" in 1983). "Don't Come Around Here No More" is an early example of a hit that sold much more than it was played, actually becoming a Top 10 seller (#9, and still up at #12 this week) while stalling at #21 in Airplay. "New Attitude" is another, though that didn't quite reach Top 10 in sales. SAY YOU'RE WRONG, INDEED: Charlie declares of Julian Lennon, "no flash in the pan is this son of a superstar!" The song would proceed to peak right where it is this week, then he'll have one more very minor Top 40 hit next year, then - no more! "Smuggler's Blues" would inspire an episode of the same name of Miami Vice, and would later appear on that show's soundtrack - but that, of course, wouldn't be released until the end of October, whereas the particular episode aired at the beginning of February. Tuesday has one of the handful of late 90s/early 00s teen pop hits co-written and produced by David Frank of The System, "The Hardest Thing". Here, we get a hit that's...maybe not quite "teen pop", but somehow could be just as disposable, that David Frank would also contribute to: "Sussudio". He's the reason the song sounds like it does, as he played synthesizer and came up with its rhythm and synth bass arrangement. "One Night in Bangkok" is the third Top 40 hit for lyricist Tim Rice - we heard a piece of the first ("Superstar"), while the second was 1983's "All Time High". It's also his only one where he didn't write all the lyrics - "Bangkok", along with the entire Chess musical, would have lyrics written with Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA, and in turn Björn and Benny Andersson were the musical's composers. We've heard time and again how the choice of Madonna to sing "Crazy For You" caught its writers off-guard - to say the least. But it was also a challenge for the song's producer, Jellybean - for much the same reason, as much like Madonna, he'd never been associated with a ballad before, either. With the help of composer Rob Mounsey, "Crazy For You" would be produced in a live recording session, as opposed to being a production completely reliant on synthesizers and drum machines as Jellybean had been used to. At the beginning of May, in another realm, we paid a visit to 1997 - on the very day in question (May 3), Katrina & The Waves would find themselves in the midst of a brief comeback, as their song "Love Shine a Light" would win the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest. Katrina & The Waves are a British-American band, and were representing the United Kingdom (Katrina herself is American, as was guitarist Vince de la Cruz) - not surprisingly, the song would end up as their biggest hit over in England, reaching #3 (giving them a second Top 10 hit after "Sunshine", which reached #8 there). "Heaven" is one of two songs this week that were first heard in 1983's A Night in Heaven - it's also the movie's theme song. The other is the original version of "Obsession", performed by its writers Holly Knight and Michael Des Barres - making Animotion's version a cover. Second LDD "One More Night" was actually still on the Hot 100, down to #81 this week. (First LDD "You're the Inspiration" was also still on the Hot 100 when it was a dedication in our last guest-hosted '85 - that would turn out to be its last week on the chart.) The Top 5 (top 6, actually) selling singles this week are this week's Top 5 (6) - the Top 5 are also the same five songs on the Airplay chart as well, just with #3 and #4 switched. (#6, meanwhile, is #7 on the Airplay chart.) Of Tears For Fears's Top 40 hits, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" is the only one sung by Curt Smith - Roland Orzabal would sing lead on all the rest.
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Jun 5, 2023 23:16:01 GMT -5
I'm curious how they ranked that One Shot Wonders show. As I guess INXS The One Thing wasn't included since it missed Top 40 on Dees. Also since the Beastie Boys made it shouldn't the Fat Boys & Run-DMC made it as I'm guessing You Be Illin' missed WT40 & The Twist wouldn't chart for another year plus.
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Post by Mike on Jun 6, 2023 3:03:59 GMT -5
Also since the Beastie Boys made it shouldn't the Fat Boys & Run-DMC made it as I'm guessing You Be Illin' missed WT40 & The Twist wouldn't chart for another year plus. Show is from 6/20, "Wipeout" didn't even hit until 8/15.
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Post by saltyhylian on Aug 1, 2023 1:25:29 GMT -5
Dees WT40 7/26/08 insight:
*Mariah Carey lands with “I’ll Be Lovin U Long Time” (Sure Shot; #40 on CHR), the follow up to “Bye Bye” (#28, skipped track) and the 3rd single from her album E=MC2 (named after the mathematical formula). This version features T.I. but heard a solo version of the track.
*Maroon 5 and Rihanna land with “If I Never See Your Face Again” (#40). It is from a newer version of their album It Won’t Be Soon Before Long.
*Buckcherry lands with “Sorry” (#39). It was their debut and only track to date on CHR, peaking at #5.
*Chris Brown falls 3 with “With You” (#38). His latest album Breezy was released as a single album, abandoning the double album format he used in his previous 2 albums.
*Destiny’s Child’s 2004 comeback single “Lose My Breath” was played as an Extra.
*Estelle Swaray moves up 4 with “American Boy” (#36). She hosts a namesake daily show on Apple Music playing her favorite tracks, which just reached 700 episodes today.
*Jordin Sparks debuts “One Step At a Time” (#31). Her 2015 album Right Here, Right Now was inspired by R&B music from the 90s, while also being a commercial flop.
*Dees counted down the downloaded/viewed videos of that week, with the #1 being an audition on AGT by a 4 year old named Kaitlyn Maher, who went on to the Top 10 on that show. Dees, unsurprisingly, made comments about her missing a few notes (with the classic “she’s only four!!!” gaff).
*Jonas Brothers debut “Burnin' Up” (#29). This was during their Disney era, which also spawned a namesake Disney Channel sitcom featuring the trio in various situations.
*Boys Like Girls’ 2007 single “Thunder” (#28 on CHR) was played as an Extra.
*Aimée Duffy falls 3 with “Mercy” (#25). She announced in 2020 that she took a hiatus as a result of a kidnapping she endured, claiming she was drugged, taken to another county and assaulted.
*Menudo lands with “Lost” (Extra; #38 on CHR). This incarnation consisted of Bordonada Collazo, Monti Montañez, Emmanuel Vélez Pagan, Carlos Olivero and Chris Moy. As for this track, it ended up being their first and only CHR track but didn’t last long on the Top 40 (peaked at #37, 8 weeks on). The group was recently rebooted, with the latest incarnation consisting of Alejandro Querales, Ezra Gilmore, Gabriel Rossell, Andrés Emilio Pirela and Nicolas Calero.
*Kardinal Offishall moves up 4 with “Dangerous” (#22). As said on a Kasem piece, he was one of the most well-known acts in the Canadian hip-hop scene, while using a dancehall-style due to his Jamaican heritage.
*Plies moves up 6 with “Bust It Baby Pt 2” (#21). It was his highest peaking and last CHR track to date, peaking at #17.
*Nicole Scherzinger and the Sideways Smilecat Dolls moves up 9 with “When I Grow Up” (#20). Fashion dolls modeled after the group were planned but cancelled after complaints from parents owing to the group’s sexual nature.
*Miley Cyrus holds with “7 Things” (#19). Her first single “See You Again” was played as an Optional Extra.
*The New Kids hold with “Summertime” (#18). It was their first CHR track since their 1992 single “If You Go Away”. Their 1994 album Face the Music featured a more New Jack Swing/R&B sound as well as their first and only album using the NKOTB moniker, due to negative fan reaction. A supporting tour took place but was cut short due to a declining fan base and Jonathan Knight’s departure.
*Gavin DeGraw moves up 3 with “In Love With a Girl” (#13). His latest album Face the River was made in dedication to his parents, who died before the recording of the album.
OUTSIDE WT40/BEYOND THE TOP 40:
*Three 6 Mafia moves up 8 with “Lolli Lolli (Pop That Body)” (#30 on CHR). It is their last CHR track to date, while Juicy J went on a solo run.
*Flobots move up 6 with “Handlebars” (#31 on CHR). The track later became subject to a lawsuit after Logan Paul sampled the track on a song called “No Handlebars”.
*Leona Lewis moves up 13 with “Better in Time” (#37 on CHR). It is the follow up to her #1 debut “Bleeding Love”.
*Madonna debuts “Give It 2 Me” (#48). It is a follow up to her Top 10 “4 Minutes” (#26). This one didn’t last long (peaked at #45, 4 weeks on) but was played as an Extra on a WT40 a few weeks later.
*New Zealand-based r*pper Savage moves up 2 on Rhythmic with “Swing” (at #30). Originally released in 2005, the track was retooled for an American release in 2008 and featured Soulja Boy (who recently declared bankruptcy). It ended up peaking at #32 for 5 weeks on CHR (probably the first by a Kiwi act since OMC’s 1997 Top 3 single “How Bizzare”?) but spend quite a bit of time overall (18 weeks).
*Hip-hop trio One Block Radius moves up 4 on Rhythmic with “You Got Me” (at #35; 47 adds on CHR). They consisted of Marty James, MDA and Z-Man. Never heard of this trio until recently but heard the track on a previous WT40 (it peaked at #30 on CHR).
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Post by Mike on Aug 8, 2023 7:25:29 GMT -5
This week's show isn't a show where the week's promos are just missing - fact of the matter is, there weren't any! The cover page of the cue sheet (not the "technical" cue sheet that's since been added) has a letter from Rod West where among other things, he asks affiliates to do show promos for their stations this week. This would be more-or-less repeated once affiliates started being asked to intro songs themselves during Shadoe's run starting in 1992 - whenever we run into moments like that when hearing those shows today, it just sounds like "No Nuttin' " (but, at least sometimes, something would be SUPPOSED to have gone there). They must have recorded the Triathlon of Rock & Roll special (which aired this same weekend) further in advance, seeing as Casey's around to host that one but not this regular countdown (if memory serves, the only time ever where there's a regular countdown and a special in the same weekend, but the regular is guest-hosted). Incidentally, Scott Evans is...okay, I suppose, hosting here, but he really seems just kind of plain compared to the other guest hosts. He seems to try to put effort in at times - but probably the one thing that can't be overcome is his voice making him sound so plain. This was the week where the "Casey's Coast to Coast" bumpers disappeared from the show, making June 25 the last week where that would be heard in Casey's original run. All six droppers this week can still be found hanging onto the week's Sales and Airplay charts: - "Black and Blue" slides 29-33 in Sales and down to #50 overall.
- "Anything For You" slides 31-35 in Sales and down to #42 overall.
- "Piano in the Dark" slides 27-40 in Sales and down to #49 overall.
- "Under the Milky Way" slides 19-28 in Sales and down to #44 overall.
- "Shattered Dream" slides 23-39 in Airplay (the only one remaining on this chart rather than Sales) and down to #41 overall.
- And "We All Sleep Alone" slides 21-39 in Sales and down to #48 overall.
There are two other songs below that countdown that can be seen this week, both debuts in the top 40 of the Airplay chart: The remake of "The Twist" (#40 Airplay, #47 overall) and "Rag Doll" (#38 Airplay, #45 overall). What's that? Six droppers? Maybe that's not what caused last week's 1991 to have no Odd Bullets after all...look no further than this week's: ODD BULLET BEHAVIOR - Where there are four bulletless moves upward to peak position. "Tall Cool One" goes up two to #25, "Beds Are Burning" inches up to #17, "I Still Believe" inches up to #13 (the only one of the four not losing its bullet just this week), and "The Valley Road" inches up to #5. Climie Fisher's Everything would actually have a second AT40 hit on it - but the second one didn't come from them: "Room to Move", which wasn't a single for them, would be covered by a re-constituted Animotion the following year. Anyone else notice that although Charlie Van Dyke was no longer guest-hosting, he could still be heard in and around the shows? Such as this week, where he voiced the Bubblicious sweepstakes ads. "Do You Love Me" is the week's Power Pick/Airplay for the second week in a row, while "Roll With It" is the Power Pick/Sales. I first heard "Supersonic" when WIOG would sneak it in as part of their 90s at Noon/Retro Lunch noon hour programming - since it didn't reach R&R, I wondered where the heck it was coming from. Imagine my surprise when I eventually found it was actually from right here in 88! Incidentally, "Supersonic" is also the first Top 40 production from Dr. Dre. "Do You Love Me" and "Supersonic" were also on polar-opposite hit paths: "Do You Love Me" was shooting up in airplay, but was having negligible sales, while "Supersonic" was selling, but had limited airplay. "Do You Love Me" was only available at this point on Motown Yesteryear, and thus had a limited quantity of singles available - effort was being made to make more available, but this was complicated by Berry Gordy selling his ownership stake in Motown to MCA right at this same time. This week, the Contours were #24 in Airplay and only #63 in Sales, while J.J. Fad were #20 in Sales but had slipped to #51 in Airplay (having peaked at #47 two weeks ago). "Everything Your Heart Desires" would be the closest Hall & Oates ever got to topping the AC chart, reaching #2 for a week behind "The Valley Road", until 2002's "Do it For Love" finally got them to the summit. (On Countdown America, it spent two weeks at #2 - the first behind "The Valley Road", the second behind "Heart of Mine" [which didn't top Billboard].) Cher would break her tie with The Beatles when "Believe" went to #1 on the Hot 100 on Warner Bros. Records, giving her her 8th Top 40 record label. (The Beatles returned to the Hot 100 twice more after 1988, with a pair of single releases off 1995's Anthology 2, but both of those were on Apple.) As it happens, Love Hurts, from which last week's "Love and Understanding" came, was her last of three albums with Geffen. (On CT40, she also had the Beavis & Butthead remake of "I Got You Babe" which spent the last week of 1993 and first week of 1994 in that countdown, but that too was on Geffen.) Second LDD "One More Try" is not indicated as a LDD on the cue sheet. Arrested Development would utilize a single-word sample from "Alphabet St." for their first hit, "Tennessee". (Can you guess the single word sampled? ) Prince would sue since the sample hadn't been cleared, and ultimately the group would pay him $100,000 for it - which Speech regards as Prince cutting them a break, by virtue of asking for a single payment rather than a share of royalties. Maybe one of the more unusual B-sides to a Top 40 hit, considering the hit, is the one for "Nite and Day" - as it turns out, its B-side is merely the French (!?!) version of the song! The story of Poison not having hits until making a video where people could really get a look at them will be re-told seven months later, on 2/4/89 (which has not yet been heard here). Bruce Hornsby & The Range had three songs go to #1 on the AC chart and two songs go to #1 on the Album Rock chart, but "The Valley Road" is the only one to do both - it'd be their third and last for the AC chart, and first of two for the Rock chart (the other is "Across the River"). GO FIGURE: "Dirty Diana" is about an overly-persistent groupie - and apparently, Michael Jackson was told by the late Princess Diana herself that the song was her favorite of his! Incidentally, while "Beat It" employs the guitar work of Eddie Van Halen, "Dirty Diana" utilizes another famed guitarist - Steve Stevens, Billy Idol's long-time guitarist (with the exception of Billy's two 90s albums).
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Post by adam31 on Aug 8, 2023 17:12:24 GMT -5
Great write ups this week!
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Aug 8, 2023 20:50:23 GMT -5
I noticed on the official cue sheet it said at the bottom "PS The Shadoe Is Coming". I didn't get it uploaded but I have the show with ads. Speaking of 1992 songs with Prince samples the whistle sound in Jump Around is a sample from Gett Off.
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Post by Mike on Sept 4, 2023 17:53:11 GMT -5
They were really walking the tightrope, so to speak, with the phrasing in the promos with Ryan saying that Mariah going for a 13th week at #1 had "almost never been done". We of course know of the two instances where that was met, but that is also where the show's history (or should I say historIES) gets complicated... By the way, to the best of my knowledge, no one has even matched the 12 weeks Mariah set here in the years since. The closest happened late in 2021 - but we don't talk about that guy. (He also fell short, only getting 11 weeks.) DROPPERS: Rob Thomas - This is How a Heart Breaks (LW: 40, 2 weeks on) (Yes, they played it as an Extra even though it fell off this week - that's been a somewhat infrequent thing over the years under Seacrest.) Coldplay - Speed of Sound (LW: 34, 10 weeks on) Pretty Ricky - Grind With Me (LW: 32, 13 weeks on) Ryan doing a phone interview with Jon Bon Jovi might make a little more sense for the Hot AC version of the show - over there, "Have a Nice Day" was up two to #24. "Belly Dancer (Bananza)" is unique among Akon's hits in that it was FAR less of a hit at Rhythmic than it was at Pop - on Billboard, it barely touched Rhythmic (only #39), and it's not on this week's R&R Rhythmic chart at all. "Just the Girl" was written by Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne - and because Billboard didn't include digital sales in the Hot 100 sooner, it ended up as his highest-charting hit there as a songwriter, as "Stacy's Mom" had to settle for #21. (I don't know how much "Stacy's Mom" would have sold, but with how that song drew attention in 2003, I have to imagine it would have sold quite a bit. ) Despite American Idiot being the story of a generation's disillusionment and pushback against the Bush era, and despite the video for "Wake Me Up When September Ends" depicting a couple being broken apart with the man choosing to enlist in the Marines for the Iraq War, the song itself is actually not related to those things at all: Billie Joe Armstrong wrote it about his father having died from esophageal cancer when he was only 10. "These Words" gave Natasha Bedingfield the distinction of she and her brother Daniel being the first sister and brother to have separate #1 hits in their native England, which made me immediately have to double-check that - and in fact, it's true! While Michael Jackson hit #1 in England plenty of times (seven altogether), sister Janet has never done it once! The closest she's come is with "That's the Way Love Goes" making it to #2 (kept off the top spot by the Five Live EP by George Michael, Queen, and Lisa Stansfield - in England, EPs are able to chart as singles by being considered giant-sized maxi-singles, whereas in the U.S., they go to the album chart, which led to Five Live on the whole charting much lower here). In last week's 1986, we heard Gavin Christopher's "One Step Closer to You" - the first Top 40 production by the team of Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers (later the core of Rythm Syndicate). Fast forward to 2005, and we're coming up on the last ones they will have - but not before being the ones to discover Rihanna! In addition to "Pon De Replay", they would also co-produce "S.O.S." with J.R. Rotem the following year and then "Shut Up and Drive" in 2007. What is trance? Well, for those who missed Premiere's bonus offering this weekend, we'll be hearing another dose of trance come tomorrow. MEANWHILE, IN BILLBOARD LAND... - Two debuts this week: Frankie J's remake of "More Than Words" and "Badd" by the Ying Yang Twins - the Twins never made it onto AT40 with their own song, only ever on "Get Low". Worth noting: "Badd" is their highest-peaking song with them as lead group on both Billboard and R&R - but it only reached #36 here and #34 there. The droppers: Two fresh recurrents, headed off after 26 weeks - "Collide" and "Cold". (So yes, this is the one and only week where "Cold" was still on AT40 but was gone from the two "regular" Pop charts.)
- This would be the last week for "Grind With Me" on both regular charts as well - on R&R, this was actually Week 20.
- These songs were already recurrent on R&R, but not here: "Oh" (32-36, just went off R&R this week), "Baby I'm Back" (29-32, went off R&R a month ago), "Hollaback Girl" (26-29, went off R&R the week after Baby Bash), "Don't Phunk With My Heart" (16-21, also just went this week)
- Meanwhile, these other "new" songs were already here but weren't yet on AT40: "Gold Digger" (40-33), "Like You" (35-31), "PhotogCraph" (31-27), and the week's Breakout "Wake Me Up When September Ends" (25-17, also the week's Biggest Mover). All four of them would hit AT40 next week.
- "These Words" hits #10 this week, which it did not do on either R&R or AT40 (stopping at #11 both places).
- And while "Pon De Replay" could only get one week at #2 on both R&R and AT40, it spent three weeks there here, getting there last week. This week was its second week there - but it would be leapfrogged by "Shake it Off", which jumped 5-1 while DHT slid to #3.
Yes, DHT were falling out of #1 this week on both Billboard and R&R (with "Shake it Off" leaping 7-1 in R&R, maybe the single-biggest leap there after 1993!) - AT40 could be prone to falling an additional week behind the original countdown timeline at times.
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Post by Mike on Sept 4, 2023 18:11:58 GMT -5
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME: Pete's 80s book has the cover letter that went with this week's cue sheet (Charis has just the countdown), and in that letter it references Gordon talking to striking actors across the street at Universal. Why yes, 1980 would be the last time that the Screen Actors Guild specifically went on strike against the Hollywood studios - that is...until this year (as a since merged SAG-AFTRA)! Incidentally, this same weekend would see this year's Primetime Emmy Awards - with just one nominated actor attending, Powers Boothe. In his acceptance speech (winning for Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones), he stated: "This is either the most courageous moment of my career or the stupidest." Meanwhile, Gordon's 2UW in Australia was, and still is today, a Top 40 station - sticking with that format since the early 60s, I'd imagine they've marked 60 years with it by now. They now go by 2WFM, a callsign change that came only with changing from AM to FM - and oddly enough, they changed frequencies at much the same time that some charts back here were...changing charts! The change happened on April 30, 1994 - the same weekend that CT40 aired its first countdown after R&R permanently left their playlist methodology behind. Gordon, as it happens, seems to alternate back and forth between not having much to say and generally having fun with the countdown when he does have a little more to say. Much has been made over the years of how memorable General Hospital's Luke and Laura have been - but, it's Bill Hayes who would portray one half of the only soap opera couple to date to ever be featured on the cover of Time magazine, which happened on the publication's January 12, 1976 issue. Joining Bill on the cover was Susan Seaforth Hayes - who is not only his real-life wife, but also his fictional wife as well: They were (and still are, infrequently) Doug Williams and Julie Olson. As a final footnote, Bill and Susan will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary next year (marking 50 years, for those not quite familiar). "He's So Shy" was originally written as "She's So Shy" and intended for Leo Sayer, who Richard Perry had been producing in the late 70s. But although that came to an end, co-writer Tom Snow was signed to Perry's publishing firm, which is how Perry took notice of the song - and ultimately grabbed it for the Pointer Sisters, of the mind that flipping the gender would yield a smash (and he certainly wasn't wrong). Xanadu would be one of two films (the other being Can't Stop the Music, a pseudo-biogCraphy of The Village People) that would prompt the creation of the Golden Raspberry Awards - which "honor" Hollywood's worst of the year! "Someone That I Used to Love" was written by Michael Masser and Gerry Goffin, and was originally intended for Bette Midler, who recorded it for 1977's Broken Blossom - that is, until that album's producer Brooks Arthur got an overnight phone call telling him to pull it. Seems that Bette's then-manager had convinced her that the album didn't need another "gushy ballad", it needed more energy. As it happens, it would be just earlier this year that Bette would score her biggest hit to this point with - what else? A "gushy ballad"! (Talking about "The Rose", of course.) As for Natalie Cole, this wouldn't be her only hit outing with Michael and Gerry - about a month and a half ago, and at the opposite end of the decade, we heard from the other: "Miss You Like Crazy". (As it happens, we nearly had a second reference to this show that same week in the form of "Into the Night", but...alas, that was the week it fell out for the second time. We did, however, get yet another "gushy ballad" from Bette. ) WHAT DO THE CRITICS KNOW, ANYWAY? Although Hold Out (parent album of "Boulevard") is not one of Jackson Browne's better-reviewed albums, it is his only one to reach the top of the album chart - which it would do next week. THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME - PART TWO: "Drivin' My Life Away" would be featured on the soundtrack of the movie Roadie, which would be the first starring movie role for Meat Loaf. In 1998, it would be covered by another Country singer, Rhett Akins, and would feature on the soundtrack of the movie Black Dog - which features as its starring villain...who else, but Meat Loaf? (And don't worry if you've never heard of Rhett: He has all of two Top 10 Country hits, of which this was not one of them.) That second LDD - with its group of 16 friends sending a dedication to a couple they've basically become fixated on - has to be one of the strangest dedications I've ever heard.
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Post by adam31 on Sept 4, 2023 18:27:10 GMT -5
I was about to post my surprise you did a review for Ryan and not Gordon, but here it is. Well done!
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Post by Mike on Sept 4, 2023 18:31:11 GMT -5
Gordon I was able to type up in advance - given a packed schedule, I had plenty of incentive to go through his early. Couldn't do that for Ryan.
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Post by at40fansince1984 on Sept 4, 2023 18:37:23 GMT -5
I wonder if old Billie Joe hates the MUCH worse things (like leaving 13 Americans to die in Afghanistan to die) Biden did than Bush? I'm guessing not since he's seems like a Democrat sheep. Seacrest also mentioned Ludacris & Toby Keith were friends surprised it didn't produce a collaboration. He did have 1 with Jason Aldean LONG before everyone blue hated him for false reasons.
Funny on WPNC was a few minutes after Because I Got High in 9/15/01 hey played their morning prayed break followed by a LDD follwed by Purple Hills by D-12.
I've also noticed that the promos for National Music Survey are for the current week as he mentioned Ronnie Milsap debuted at #19 "last week" before it debuted in the current show.
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Post by saltyhylian on Sept 5, 2023 10:50:00 GMT -5
Seacrest AT40 9/24/05 insight:
*Rob Thomas falls 2 with “Lonely No More” (#40). The follow-up single, “This Is How A Heart Breaks” (Dropper; debuted and peaked at #40), was played as an Extra.
*Fall Out Boy debuts their first CHR single “Sugar, We’re Going Down” (#39). Their 2003 single “Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy” charted at #84 on the Pop 100 after the success of this track.
*50 Cent holds with “Just a Lil Bit” (#35). A heavily clean version of this track was used, which I couldn’t recall hearing on earlier charts.
*Trick Daddy falls 1 with “Sugar (Gimme Some” (#34). Peaking at #4, this was his highest-charting track to date on CHR.
*Black Eyed Peas debuted “My Humps” (#30), while also scoring a doubleheader with the preceding singles “Don’t Lie” (#16) and “Don’t Phunk/Mess With My Heart” (#15).
*Baby Bash falls 3 with “Baby I’m Back” (#28). His 2003 Top 3 track “Suga Suga” was played as the Double Play track.
*Gorillaz move up 4 with “Feel Good Inc” (#26). Their latest album Cracker Island debuted at #1 in the UK album chart and #3 on the Billboard 200.
*Green Day falls 6 with “Holiday” (#25). The follow-up, “Wake Me Up When September Ends” was played as the Breakout track.
*Backstreet Boys hold with “Just Want You to Know” (#24). It is a follow up to “Incomplete”, which marked a change to their musical style to lean towards pop rock.
*Petey Pablo’s 2004 Top 40 track “Freek-a-Leek” was played as an Extra. The track’s opening intro was personalized to reflect the radio station playing the track in some areas (WZBZ had their own personalized version).
*Mariah Carey moves up 2 with “Shake It Off” (#8) and falling short of a record-breaking run at #1 with “We Belong Together” (#2), after spending 12 weeks at the position. Interestingly, both tracks were on the Top 2 on the Hot 100 at one point, with the latter blocking the former. The former is also spending another week at #1 on Rhythmic.
*DHT moves up 1 with “Listen to Your Heart” (1st and only week at #1). It was their only #1 in the US. Seacrest also chats with member Flor Theeuwes, discussing the global success of the track as well as how the duo came together.
OUTSIDE AT40/BEYOND THE TOP 40 (R&R):
*Ying Yang Twins move up 2 with “Badd” (#40). It was their last Top 40 track to date, with “The Whisper Song” and “Shake” only peaking in mid-40s .
*Keith Urban moves up 5 with “You’ll Think of Me” (#43). After its success on Hot AC, the track was Urban’s debut (and only track to date) on CHR.
*Crazy Frog falls 2 with “Axel-F” (#47). Hard to believe this spent time on the Top 40 (did not make AT40 but made the WT40) seeing its novelty status.
*Damian Marley moves up 2 on Rhythmic with “Welcome to Jamrock” (at #22). It is the first single of the track’s namesake album.
*Marques Houston of IMX moves up 2 on Rhythmic with “Naked” (at #34). Hardly remember this track outside of countdowns but it went to #8 on the Urban chart and his highest peaking solo single on the Hot 100 (at #47).
*Lyfe Jennings falls 2 on Rhythmic with “Must Be Nice” (at #36). His album Lyfe 268-192 was a reference to his prison ID when he served time for arson and homicide in 1992.
*Chamillionaire holds on Rhythmic with “Turn It Up” (at #42). His second album Ultimate Victory did not have strong profanity as it had more political themes as well as to cater to younger listeners.
*TOK debuts on Rhythmic with “Footprints (When You Cry)” (at #43). They consisted of Xavier "Flexx" Davidson, Craig "Craigy T" Thompson, Alistaire "Alex" McCalla and Roshaun "Bay-C" Clarke. They disbanded in 2015 due to Davidson’s departure.
*Trina debuts on Rhythmic with “Here We Go” (at #46). An original version of the track featured Teedra Moses, who co-wrote the track, but was replaced with Kelly Rowland for the final release.
*Youngbloodz holds on Rhythmic with “Presidential” (at #50). One of the members, Sean P, was originally nicknamed Sean Paul but was often confused with the namesake Jamaican singer, hence why the shortened name.
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