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Date Posted: 08:47:42 04/13/02 Sat
Author: Christopher Elliott
Subject: Year=end countdowns

Does anyone, especially Rob or Peter know the story of why AT40 elected to compile their own year-end countdowns over Billboards in certain years? 1990-1884 I can understand, and 1980-1984 I can deduce since AT40 made their YE countdowns Dec-Dec rather than Billboard's Nov-Nov, however 1972,1973 and 1977 are rather an engima.

1977 is really the strange one. One might assume they did it to excluded "Devil's Gun", Billboard's #100 song of 1977 that spent a scant 2 weeks on AT40. As well as include "You Light Up My Life" which was excluded from Billboard's. However, AT40's loads alot of late 1976 hits onto their countdown such as "You Are the Woman" that were missing from Billboard's at the expense of some mid-charting hits such as "Don't Worry Baby" by B.J. Thomas.

Then there is "Whispering" by Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, a song that racked up alot of Hot 100 weeks but only 8 weeks on AT40 peaking at #27. Such a chart run you'd think would not place it AT40's YE countdown, but there it is at #95.

1973's is bizarre in the well known case of "Why Me" being at #2 on AT40's countdown, much better than Billboard's, despite the fact that a good part of its chart run was below #40.

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Re: Year=end countdowns -- Craig Karlberg, 01:23:40 04/15/02 Mon