What can you do with a Top Ten Freeze? -- American Top 40: The Countdown of the Century

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Date Posted: 18:53:38 08/11/02 Sun
Author: fidel
Subject: What can you do with a Top Ten Freeze?
In reply to: Doug Bowden 's message, "Hit History as it Happens...Top Ten Freeze" on 09:14:54 08/09/02 Fri

I've been thinking about this top ten freeze issue for a while and the truth is I find it a hard to handle bit of chart trivia.

I mean, how can you deal with it, from the AT40 show's writers or producers' point of view?

You can't go & tell the audience in advance that all ten songs are holding at the same position for a second week (it'd be kind of an invitation to turn off the radio because "you're about to hear exactly the same last hour of the show you heard a week ago")

When should Casey make mention of the event? Teasing about it in the middle of the top ten? (something like: "Holding for a second week at #5 on AT40 that's Heaven by Dj Sammy & Yanou, and it means all the songs in the top ten so far are in the same position they were last week. Will #s 4 to 1 also remain unchanged? The answer is coming up". It wouldn't work. By asking it you'd be kind of saying it was going to happen)

The right place to reflect it would be the outro to the #1 song, but who'd expect that kind of information after hearing #1?

It wouldn't even serve as the answer for a future Question Letter. Too technical to ask about it: "A listener from California has written in to ask, in the history of the countdown has ever happened that all the songs in the top ten remained at the same position for a second week? Well, it's happened three times. Details are comming up" And, which would those details be? Would Casey list down the 30 songs that did it, along with their artists?

In conclusion, not every chart happening, as strange and unique as it might be, is useful in order to produce a radio show.

P.S. Sorry for this long and 'unuseful' reflections, I was kind of in the mood for practicing my written english.

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Re: What can you do with a Top Ten Freeze? -- Aaron McCracken, 19:59:01 08/11/02 Sun
Re: What can you do with a Top Ten Freeze? -- Scott Lakefield, 13:01:45 08/12/02 Mon
- Re: What can you do with a Top Ten Freeze? -- Craig, 02:17:40 08/24/02 Sat
  - Re: What can you do with a Top Ten Freeze? -- Scott Lakefield, 08:48:05 08/24/02 Sat