Re: 11 Years Ago This Weekend -- American Top 40: The Countdown of the Century

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Date Posted: 18:53:58 12/04/02 Wed
Author: Adrian Liau
Subject: Re: 11 Years Ago This Weekend
In reply to: John Jayne 's message, "Re: 11 Years Ago This Weekend" on 16:25:42 12/03/02 Tue

Been lurking around this board for a while....

Anyway, I've often wondered if the chart switch would have been made sooner or later had Casey stayed on at AT40. Realize that part of the reason why the chart change was made was because affiliates were dropping AT40 due to the sort of music AT40 was playing. However, if Casey had stayed put and not changed the direction AT40 was heading (bells and whistles, looped intros, etc), would fewer stations have dropped the show, and thus not changed the chart so soon? Personally, I think it was a blessing in disguise that Casey left ABC Watermark to do his own show and not have to deal with a chart change later on as pop radio continued to fragment in the early 90s.

>>Yeah I remember when radio kept pushing that saying
>"more variety", I always thought it meant 5 Michael
>Bolton songs instead of 3. LOL When BILLBOARD
>installed this "actual airplay" I knew all it would
>reveal is how boring radio really was. The problem
>with AT40 using that Radio Airplay chart (192), was
>that it was to tilted towards big markets (Chicago,
>LA, and NY), that it was misleading. Songs would be
>played only in those areas, and no where else and
>would make the top 40. Examples are "What Goes Around
>Comes Around" by Giggles, "This Is The First Time" by
>Laura Enea, "Nu Nu" by Lidell Townsell, and "Too Blind
>To See It" by Kym Sims. Also it was weighed by
>impressions, which meant when harder rock songs were
>played on stations they would always daypart them,
>which would give other songs an unfair advantage, in
>other words some songs would be played around the
>clock, and others radio would only play after 5:00,
>This is why songs like "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by
>Nirvana, and "Let's Get Rocked" by Def Leppard never
>made the airplay top 40.
>
>When AT40 switched to the Mainstream top 40 chart in
>1993, I thought it was a major improvement, even
>though songs still stuck around too long. Without
>the Mainstream top 40, songs like "Steam" by Peter
>Gabriel, and "I Love You Period" by Dan Baird never
>would have made the top 40.
>

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Re: 11 Years Ago This Weekend -- Craig, 01:07:11 12/05/02 Thu