Peter Cetera - "Restless Heart"
Oct 28, 2016 21:10:32 GMT -5
Post by Libra on Oct 28, 2016 21:10:32 GMT -5
The Billboard Hot 100: #35
Billboard Adult Contemporary: #1 (his fifth and last)
Radio & Records CHR: #26
Billboard Top 40 Radio Monitor: #30
His last Top 40 hit, as far as Billboard is concerned (he'd have one more in R&R, with "Feels Like Heaven").
I first heard this song the other day. I think I prefer his solo singles to those released by his ex-band Chicago during this same time - this and "One Good Woman" in particular seem decidedly less-schlocky than any of their comparative same-time singles. (That said, while "The Next Time I Fall" is probably just as schlocky, it's also my favorite of his solo singles...so.)
What's just bizarre, though, is the run this song had on the CHR countdowns during the second half of 1992.
R&R run: 37-34-29-27-26-26-26-31-off
It debuted on the 7/17/92 chart, so it would've surfaced on the 7/25 CT40. By comparison, it did not surface on AT40 (which used Top 40 Radio Monitor during 1992) until 8/29. That's the second week at #26 in the CT40 run.
Its run on AT40 is strange enough in itself - it lasted 15 weeks there, and did not peak until its final week on (December 5!).
Chart run: 39-36-36-39-32-37-38-36-34-31-34-36-37-33-30-recurrent (Radio Monitor had a #50/20 weeks recurrent rule at the time.)
So...yeah, that's 20 weeks between the two countdowns, getting no higher than #26 on either of them during that time.
Billboard Adult Contemporary: #1 (his fifth and last)
Radio & Records CHR: #26
Billboard Top 40 Radio Monitor: #30
His last Top 40 hit, as far as Billboard is concerned (he'd have one more in R&R, with "Feels Like Heaven").
I first heard this song the other day. I think I prefer his solo singles to those released by his ex-band Chicago during this same time - this and "One Good Woman" in particular seem decidedly less-schlocky than any of their comparative same-time singles. (That said, while "The Next Time I Fall" is probably just as schlocky, it's also my favorite of his solo singles...so.)
What's just bizarre, though, is the run this song had on the CHR countdowns during the second half of 1992.
R&R run: 37-34-29-27-26-26-26-31-off
It debuted on the 7/17/92 chart, so it would've surfaced on the 7/25 CT40. By comparison, it did not surface on AT40 (which used Top 40 Radio Monitor during 1992) until 8/29. That's the second week at #26 in the CT40 run.
Its run on AT40 is strange enough in itself - it lasted 15 weeks there, and did not peak until its final week on (December 5!).
Chart run: 39-36-36-39-32-37-38-36-34-31-34-36-37-33-30-recurrent (Radio Monitor had a #50/20 weeks recurrent rule at the time.)
So...yeah, that's 20 weeks between the two countdowns, getting no higher than #26 on either of them during that time.
