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Post by somelikeitwhen on Jan 25, 2007 13:38:22 GMT -5
...for a song that didn't finish in the top 100?
I was just wondering.
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Post by mst3k on Jan 30, 2007 19:29:13 GMT -5
...for a song that didn't finish in the top 100? I was just wondering. In the yearend Top 100? Depends which chart you're talking about. Back in the '70s, there were a couple of #1 songs that were never heard on AT40's Top 100 of the year because they peaked in October or November (so most of their chart run didn't get counted on the yearend chart). Fast rise/fast fall novelty songs generally didn't do well either ("Mr. Jaws" and "They're Coming To Take Me Away" were Top Five singles that didn't make Billboard's yearend Top 100). |
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Post by Hervard on Jan 30, 2007 19:43:54 GMT -5
...for a song that didn't finish in the top 100? I was just wondering. In the yearend Top 100? Depends which chart you're talking about. Back in the '70s, there were a couple of #1 songs that were never heard on AT40's Top 100 of the year because they peaked in October or November (so most of their chart run didn't get counted on the yearend chart). Among those songs are "Rockin' Me" by the Steve Miller Band and "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love Babe" by Barry White (of course, that song was such a fast-rise, fast-fall song that it might not have made it even if its full run was counted. There were a few of those in the sixties as well, according to Fred Bronson's "Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits", the songs "Big Girls Don't Cry" by the Four Seasons, "I Think I Love You" by the Partridge Family, and some song by the Supremes (either "I Hear A Symphony" or "Come See About Me") didn't make any official Billboard Hot 100 hits of the year list because they peaked near the cutoff date, causing them to be "caught in limbo" between two years, not gaining enough points in either to register on the year-end chart. Bronson's versions of the year-end charts counted each song's entire chart run and the song was ranked in the same year that it peaked, even if the song had more points in the other year that it charted (For instance, "I'm A Believer" by the Monkees is listed with the 1966 hits even though it clearly gained more points in 1967; its first of seven weeks at #1 was on the final chart of 1966). But in most cases, a song gained more points in the year that it peaked. |
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