mst3k
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Post by mst3k on Sept 2, 2006 8:33:55 GMT -5
I didn't hear the first show of Casey's Top 40, so I don't know if he mentioned last week's positions or not. Yeah, he did (based on the R&R chart). He even started off the show by playing "last week's number one song," "Two Hearts" by Phil Collins.
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johnnywest
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Post by johnnywest on Sept 5, 2006 22:57:11 GMT -5
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Gavin so far. I used to read their charts online every week. And then one day, all of a sudden, they were just gone!
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Post by Hervard on Sept 6, 2006 16:30:55 GMT -5
I didn't hear the first show of Casey's Top 40, so I don't know if he mentioned last week's positions or not. There really wouldn't have been any reason not to, since the chart didn't have any big changes that week or anything. The next radical change came in the spring of 1994. When R&R debuted their new pop chart, Casey made no mention of it. The show was written very poorly. Almost everything was "survey song #XX this week," however, the debuts and some of the songs moving upward were mentioned. I remember this chart. I'm sure I've said this in another thread, but I forget which one. Anyway, I tuned in late to the show and found that Casey was playing "Bump 'N Grind", which had been at #12 the week before. I figured that maybe the show started two hours earlier. Then he said the song was #28 and I was like, "Whoa, what happened??" I later noticed he wasn't giving the last week positions, so I figured the chart change I'd heard about through the grapevine had been implemented. The next chart fluctuation came in the late summer/fall of 2000 when they started using the unpublished Mediabase charts with the whacky recurrent rule. There was no mention of a new chart, but at least he referrenced last week's positions. I knew something had happened when there were seven debuts on AT20. They had done a chart purge in the process of switching charts. The next shake-up came about a year later when all three of Casey's shows returned to the R&R charts. Casey mentioned last week's positions in the Top 40 (not sure about Hot AC). On the AC show, which my station was airing at the time, he did mention that there were 2 re-entries from old songs. (A week or two later, another song that had been gone for 6 months also re-entered.) That was "Back Here" by BBMak, which had been removed via an April chart purge (as were the other two) and was still on the R&R chart. I don't know why they waited a week to bring that back, but whatever. They left on "The Way You Love Me" by Faith Hill (maybe they were making it up to the song for omitting it from their 2000 year-ender). Sometime in 2003, AT20 (AC) started using a new chart that went by audience impressions and didn't include spins from Delilah's shows (as mentioned in a previous post). But this time, Casey DID point out that they were using a new chart. It wasn't at the top of the show, but later on going into a commercial break. He said that the new chart better reflected what their affiliates were playing, and he ended by saying something like, "...just in case you were wondering." That was the weekend of February 9, 2003. I knew something seemed weird since there were a few vague chart oddities (several songs that had been doing well falling off - one was "Father And Daughter" by Paul Simon). In 2005, AT10 (as it was now called), went back to the R&R Top 10. I did hear that first show and Casey did reference last week's positions. Whether they were based on R&R or something else, I don't know. The last week positions were from the Mediabase chart they were using. Since the differences between the two charts was very small, due to the smaller size, they decided they might as well go back to using the R&R chart.
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Hervard
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Post by Hervard on Sept 6, 2006 16:32:35 GMT -5
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Gavin so far. I used to read their charts online every week. And then one day, all of a sudden, they were just gone! As I recall, that was in February, 2002. The site said "Under Construction" for a few months, but it went down. I guess that R&R and Billboard outsold them. I subscribed to Gavin from August, 1991 through February, 1997, if anyone has any questions about charts from that era.
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Post by EvanJ on Sept 10, 2006 11:25:00 GMT -5
I think the Gavin charts were where I first saw the eventual big hit "Everything You Want" by Vertical Horizon chart.
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Post by cartman2002 on Apr 25, 2007 20:45:57 GMT -5
How about April 4, 1964 Hot 100 chart which was the week in which the Beatles owned the top five postitions during the week
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BillboardBoy
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Post by BillboardBoy on May 15, 2007 8:40:44 GMT -5
How about when R&R and Billboard merged, circa October 2006. Now, Mediabase's charts are in USA Today.
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johnnywest
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Post by johnnywest on Mar 23, 2013 12:37:23 GMT -5
Since then:
The end of R&R, AT10 and AT20, all in the summer of 2009.
Billboard adding streaming, and more recently YouTube. That's when "Harlem Shake" debuted at #1 and "Gangnam Style" re-entered the Top 40.
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dth1971
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Post by dth1971 on Mar 24, 2013 13:29:54 GMT -5
How about the demise of the old American Top 40 with Shadoe Stevens in the USA in Summer 1994 and worldwide except the USA in January 1995?
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johnnywest
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Post by johnnywest on Jan 4, 2015 21:29:41 GMT -5
And in December 2014, Billboard incorporating streaming and digital singles (yes, singles) to compile their album charts.
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