I have a whole lotta stuff coming your way this week! So let me start with my several day excursion to figure out how many songs made the Cashbox top 40 during the Martin Era 2.0!
Elvis: Good God, man! Have you no life?
Not really. So the answer is- 5,961 songs from the week Rock Around The Clock hit the charts until How Deep Is Your Love did! But that sent me on another quest...
Man, I'm gonna go order dinner!
What I noticed as I was blowing through the charts, is how many songs I knew that Debuted on their hot 100 AT # 100! So, over the next couple of weeks, I'm going to let you in on- ranked by chart peak and weeks at that spot- the top twenty ME 2.0 songs that debuted at #1! Just to put it in perspective, there were 77 songs that debuted at #100 that made the top ten...
Okay, food's on the way! Now how about this week's newbies?
Yup, we have two of 'em! And the first one is one I've been trying to squeeze in for some time- and, in fact, this past weekend I thought another song by this act was going to beat it in...
Geez, you are windy t'nite...
...but I'm going with the one I've been trying to get in instead! Here you go with brand new (give or take a couple of weeks) Chicago!
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He fergot ta tell ya, that's at #10 this week...
Well, that's because I'm also excited about a little story I wanted to share about Harry Styles and his hit As It Was. This week, Billboard had it at #1 for its 10th non-consecutive week. That makes it the 42nd song since the hot 100 started in August of 1958 to spend at least ten weeks at the top- and NONE of them did it during the Martin Era 2.0! The closest one- missing by a month- was the first, Debbie Boone's You Light Up My Life.
Hey, do I get ta do the #1s of the week this week?
Go for it, 8's and 9's this time!
Hah! well, the #1 this week in 1958 fits you perfect- Yackety Yack by the Coasters, Haw!
Gee, thanks...
In 1968 this week, wuz the Stones an' Jumpin' Jack Flash...
...an' in 1978, it wus Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street!
No losers, there! So let me give you half of the first half of the #100 Debuts that did the best on each side of our second debut! The first wave...
20- You Talk Too Much, Joe Jones...
Haw haw! The hits don' stop here!
AHEM... with the additional tie breakers of how they fared on the yearly top songs, Joe was at #2 for two weeks. He debuted at #100 on 9/10/1960.
19- Born To Be Wild, Steppenwolf, 3 weeks at #2; 7/13/1968
18- Shining Star, Earth Wind And Fire, a week at #1; 2/8/1975
17- 1-2-3, Len Berry,a week at the top, 9/18/1965;
16- Dueling Banjos, from Deliverance, a week at the top, 1/6/1973.
You ain't gonna give the tie-breakers?
I thought I was talking too much! Anyway, here's another new notch in the cap of Built To Spill, as their second song in this week's countdown comes in at #9...
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And the remainder of the #100 debuts' second ten...
15- Fire, Ohio Players, a week at #1, 12/14/1974;
14- The Rain, The Park, And Other Things, the Cowsills, a week at the top, 9/30/1967;
13- Taste Of Honey, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, a week at the top, 8/26/1965;
12- If You Wanna Be Happy, Jimmy Soul, a week at the top, 3/23/1963;
And 11- Rock On, David Essex, a week at the top, 11/24/1973...
An' now, the #1s this week in the nines!
#1 this week- fer the 8th of 9 weeks- in 1959, Johnny Horton an' The Battle Of New Orleans;
This week in 1969 was 1st of 4 for Zager and Evans In The Year 2525...
Which will be coming up next week on the hot #100 debuts list...
...do I innerupt you with stuff when yer doin' somethin' important?
Shall I get the log book?
Never mind. An' the #1 this week in 1979 wus Donna Summer- appropriately enuff- an' Bad Girls. Boss?
All right, and the M10 this week, after the debuts:
8- Gilbert O'Sullivan up 2 with Let Me Know;
7- Holding, Fade Into You by Valerie June;
6- Holding, Records by Weezer;
5- Down 3, Built To Spill's former #1, Understood;
4- Up one, Cannons and Bad Dream;
3- Out of the top spot, Absofacto and Dissolve;
2- Up one, Jayhawks and Save It For A Rainy Day;
And the new top dog- here, as well....
...Harry Styles and As It Was!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And that's it for this week!
