Re: Year-End Countdowns -- American Top 40: The Countdown of the Century

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Date Posted: 16:39:29 12/03/02 Tue
Author: John Jayne
Subject: Re: Year-End Countdowns
In reply to: Helmut Brandstetter 's message, "Re: Year-End Countdowns" on 22:32:11 11/10/02 Sun

>In 1977 BILLBOARD had their first BILLBOARD award show special, and for some reason weren't giving AT40 the info for the year ender in the time they wanted it or something, so AT40 tabulated their own list, It would have been interesting to year them countdown the BILLBOARD TOP 100 that year because "Devil's Gun" by C.J. & Co. was #100, this song only hit #36, and spent two weeks in the top 40, but thanks to it's up and down 29 week chart run it amassed enough points to hit #100. In 1978 they went back to BILLBOARD.

BILLBOARD started having some strict cut-off periods that AT40 didn't like, and this was part of the reason they did their own as well (for awhile), I didn't blame them sometimes, for instance in 1976 and 1977, songs like "Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgereld" , and "Rockin' Me" never made a yearednder.

Here's a list of the '70's through 1994, and which chart was used:

1970-BILLBOARD
1971-BILLBOARD
1972-AT40
1973-AT40
1974-BILLBOARD
1975-BILLBOARD
1976-BILLBOARD
1977-AT 40
1978-BILLBOARD
1979-BILLBOARD
1980-AT 40
1981-AT 40
1982-AT 40
1983-AT 40
1984-AT 40
1985-AT 40
1986-BILLBOARD
1987-BILLBOARD
1988-BILLBOARD
1989-BILLBOARD
1990-AT 40
1991-AT 40
1992-AT 40
1993-AT 40
1994-AT 40

I might be wrong on 1974 and 1985, just going on memory.

>Back during the days when AT40 used the Billboard
>>charts, have you ever wondered why on some year-end
>>shows, AT40 would use the Billboard chart and other
>>years they calculated their own Top 100?
>>
>>I am guessing why AT40 calculated their own year-end
>>chart during some years was to focus mainly on a
>>song's longtivity in the Top 40, rather then the
>>entire Billboard Hot 100.
>>
>>What do you all think?
>
>Yes, seems to be THE point for calculating their own
>survey.
>Using the original HOT100 yearend rankings could give
>them songs you have never heard on the show before.
>Like we had a number of songs on last years HOT AC
>yearend show.
>Another reason I could think of is the production time
>of the show. Guess the production of the show started
>weeks before Billboard has finished calculations for
>their yearend issue.

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