Re: Paul Davis and Klymaxx -- American Top 40: The Countdown of the Century

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Date Posted: 09:33:37 04/14/02 Sun
Author: Chris
Subject: Re: Paul Davis and Klymaxx
In reply to: Christopher Elliott 's message, "Re: Paul Davis and Klymaxx" on 09:05:28 04/14/02 Sun

> In 1965, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs became the
>first act to have the #1 song of the year with a song
>that did not hit #1, that being "Wooly Bully" which
>only got to #2.
>
> What I love are songs that peak very low on the
>weekly charts but manage to make it into the year-end
>countdowns. In 1970 "I Want To Take You Higher" only
>got to #34, but was the #79 single of that year.
>
> "Devil's Gun" by CJ and Co. still holds the record
>for the lowest peaking single to make a year-end
>chart. It peaked at #36 and was the #100 song of 1977,
>according to Billboard. However, AT40 used their own
>chart that year.
>
> Christopher

Remember the 1995 year end chart? It contained a handful of songs that peaked low. These include "Everlasting Love" by Gloria Estefan, "Ode To My Family" by The Cranberries, and "Every Little Thing I Do" by Soul For Real. All of these peaked at number 27. There were also two songs that peaked at 29 on the chart, "Get Ready For This" (which was at number 51 for the year!!) and "Freak Like Me" by Adina Howard. Still not impressed? What about Stevie B's "Dream About You". That song only got to number 36, spent five weeks on AT40 (eleven on the R&R Top 50 chart) and ranked at number 86. The real corker, however, was "Close To You" by Fun Factory at number 97. Its peak position? Number 46!! No, seriously! It was only on the chart for four weeks, but that was right when R&R switched from a Top 40 chart to a Top 50. Had the chart gone down to 50 before, who knows how long "Close To You" would have hung around?
In 1996, TLC's "Waterfalls" came in at number 100 despite its only peaking at number 41 within the 1996 time frame. This was before something called a "recurrent rule" came along. For those of you who don't get R&R, they introduced a policy in the summer of 1996 that songs on the chart longer than 26 weeks are automatically removed from the chart once they dropped below number 25 and placed on a smaller subchart called "recurrent". The rule changed three years later to a 20/20 rule, in which songs on longer than 20 weeks are booted from the chart if they fall below number 20. This remained until last August, when a song dropped off the chart if it fell below 25 and had been without a bullet for three consecutive weeks. R&R soon realized how moronic that rule was and re-instated the 20/20 rule. This accounts for the songs that move down slowly and all of a sudden drop out from inside the Top 20 ("Family Affair" by Mary J. Blige and "Whenever Wherever" by Shakira are the most recent examples) They don't all of a sudden get old (a la 1982). They have been on R&R's Top 50 chart for 20 weeks.

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