Dude, I'm Kinda bummed...
Elvis: Why? Din't like the pizza?
No... this week, half the countdown stayed in the same spot!
Well, you do realize it is YOUR countdown...
Yeah, but I do it the way I do for a reason... they fell the way they did legit.
Ya can't have five new debuts ever week, boss...
I know, but I always hated back when we got Casey Kasem's American Top forty when the whole top ten would be stuck...
Happen a lot?
Sure seemed to... maybe I'll look into that. Why don't you...
This again? "Run the show while I screw around for an hour or two..."
Hey, just play the new debut until I get back, okay?
How many times?
Grrr....
Okay, okay, don' get ruffled! Man, this chick is livin' on this chart anymore! At #10, new Amira Elfeky...
Okay, so what'd you learn?
That my memory isn't all that exceptional any more... that, or I'm remembering before AT40 when I had to depend on the local newsrag, and they just repeated the charts they printed the week before...
Or mebbe ya fergot yer lookin' at the CB charts an' not the Billboard ones...
Oh yeah... not a good night for me! BTW, I found on CB from 1977-79, five times the top 5 held, 4 times the top 4 held... and on the subject of stats...
We hadda get him started...
... I got looking into that run of new acts hitting #1 on the M10...it was 21 songs in a row by new acts, not surprisingly, early in the M10 run, from Boz Skaggs and Small Town Talk January 13th, 2016, to Dent May's Face Down In The Gutter Of Your Love on September 28th! Eight of those acts would go on to hit the top again...
Can we move on?
Sure! This week we're in Target Year 1961. Australia was topped by one of my all timers, Bobby Vee's Rubber Ball. (It would peak #6 here.) Canada, it kinda depended which way you let the week fall, but either way, it was a gent named Andy Stewart at the top. Either it was the early side and he was topping the chart with A Scottish Soldier (which also hit the top in Australia, but #69 here), or the late side and you got this classic (which peaked #4 Australia and 77 here...)
Hah, now that there wuz funny! Hey, where'd he... oh, there you are! Do any better this time? Prolly not, eh?
Well, over that same stretch, Billboard had the top 4 frozen 7 times... the top 5, 6 times... and on 19 August 1978, the top FOURTEEN were the same!
Holy cats! Okay, you get at least an honorable draw...
In 1980 alone, there were 3 fives, a six, and TWO 7s....
Awright, awready! Stop provin' the horse is dead, an' give us that stick in the mud chart of yers!
Sigh... okay, after the debut, 9 through five hold...
9- Ace Frehley, 10,000 Volts;
8- Real Estate, Haunted World;
7- Talk, I'm One Of The Rest;
6- Camera Obscura, Big Love;
5- Jenny Lewis, Cherry Baby;
4- Buck Meek slips from 2 with Cuero Dudes...
3- Dent May up one with One Call, That's All...
2- Up one for Juliana Hatfield and Secret Messages....
And the final hold-in-place is at the top...
...Amira once again with Everything I Do Is For You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And in 1981, there were 6 sixes, 3 sevens, an 8 and a 9....
Gimmie that durn mike-a-phone!
