Re: Great songs Casey didn't count down: Part 2, Flip sides -- American Top 40: The Countdown of the Century

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Date Posted: 11:20:09 04/16/02 Tue
Author: Chris
Subject: Re: Great songs Casey didn't count down: Part 2, Flip sides
In reply to: Darren W. Alexander 's message, "Re: Great songs Casey didn't count down: Part 2, Flip sides" on 06:28:39 04/16/02 Tue

>
>How about Bon Jovi's, "Never Say Goodbye", which never
>hit the top 40 back in 1987. It was all over the
>radio in Virginia during the spring (graduation) of
>that year.
>
>A couple of weeks ago, a friend called me up and was
>all excited that he was hearing the song on the radio.
> I asked him why he was so excited about it. The
>answer: his stations in North Carolina had never
>played it before. Judging by its peak of 28 airplay
>on the charts, I guess it truly was played by some
>stations, and not played by others!

"Never Say Goodbye" didn't chart on AT40 because it was never released as a single. The airplay charts seemed to all have drastic differences with its peak position. You said that it hit number 28 on the airplay chart (I'm assuming you mean Billboard, right? Well, it debuted on the R&R chart on May 31 (that is, the countdown date) at number 40. The next week, when I heard it on "Rockin' America" at number 25, I assumed, "Wow, it must have taken a big jump on the R&R chart!" You can imagine my utter surprise when I learned that it only moved up one to number 39! But the chart was tight that week, so I figured it would pick up speed the next week. Well, not really. It just moved up to number 37, then 35, where it spent another week, then fell off. Yet it continued on up the Rockin' America chart, slowly but surely, entering the Top 20 the week it dropped from the R&R chart. It peaked at number 15 a week later, fell to 22, then off. I always thought this was weird. Rockin' America was virtually the same as R&R, only it was behind a week. In fact, very soon after, it became the exact top 30 chart as R&R, so I'm wondering if that chart was just the producer's version of the national chart for that summer, since it seemed to be a blend of R&R and Billboard at that time, only, as I said, leaning more toward R&R.

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