Re: Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody!! -- American Top 40: The Countdown of the Century

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Date Posted: 00:34:56 04/17/02 Wed
Author: Lee Alexander Scott
Subject: Re: Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody!!
In reply to: Jeffster 's message, "Re: Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody!!" on 22:55:22 04/16/02 Tue

>>>>Has anyone noticed this? When Queen's Hit "Bohemian
>>>>Rhapsody" was released, thanks to "Wayne's World" in
>>>>1992. Billboard pushed it to #2 on the Charts. Radio
>>>>and Records, well the song bareleymade the Top 10. I
>>>>know these are 2 Different Charts. At the end of the
>>>>year. Casey's Top 40 Yearender Queen made it. On AT
>>40
>>>>with Shadoe Stevens, The song never made the yearend
>>>>Countdown. Now thats what I call a lopsided
>>situation.
>>>>Any Comments on this. Love to hear from you.
>
>Well, that's because American Top 40 was no longer
>using the Hot 100 in 1992. Bohemian Rhapsody did
>indeed make it to #2 on the Hot 100, but peaked at #9
>on Billboard's airplay chart, which is what AT40 used
>in 1992. The year-end chart used by AT40 was compiled
>by the AT40 staff based on the performance of songs on
>AT40 during the year, and not on the Billboard Hot 100
>year-end rankings.

That still doesn't make sense, because "Baby Got Back" by
Sir Mix-A-Lot failed to reach the top 10 on the Billboard
Top 40 Radio Monitor, but nevertheless managed to rank as
the #94 song for 1992. In the opposite extreme, "Finally"
by Ce Ce Peniston only made it to number 4 on the weekly
AT40 survey but was able to make it to #10 for the year.

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