#AT40

[unicornery]

Rachel’s Chart Chat 42 from People are the Enemy Episode 258 dated 12/12/2022

‘70s chart: 1975-11-29

100 For A Dancer (sub w/After the Gold Rush) - Prelude 77 Going Down Slowly - The Pointer Sisters 71 Never Been Any Reason - Head East 65 Nice, Nice, Very Nice - Ambrosia 26 Fox On The Run - Sweet

this segment has a Trio shout-out @cheltrei!

‘80s chart: 12/02/89

52 Sowing The Seeds Of Love - Tears For Fears 44 I Remember You - Skid Row 37 When The Night Comes - Joe Cocker 34 Rock And A Hard Place - The Rolling Stones 19 Just Like Jesse James - Cher 17 Rhythm Nation - Janet Jackson 16 Pump Up The Jam - Technotronic Featuring Felly 8 Don't Know Much - Linda Ronstadt (Featuring Aaron Neville) 7 Back To Life - Soul II Soul

Pat Boone's wack "heavy metal" album

Air studios doc - I have seen it since recording this segment!

if u get a chance, go to karaoke with @omahasnakes and she will sing a Cher song for you.

This segment totally foreshadows the one I did last week about '80s movie love theme duets! It's 100% ok to jump ahead to that one if you want :p

Chart Picks Playlist - new songs which were discussed in the segment added each week, at the bottom. 1970s AT40 and 1980s VJ Big 40 - Rolling Playlist of the full Hot 100 for the current and previous week.  

[c0llecti0ns]

[ohmuqueen]

TIL that AT40 is on iheartradio 😭 I’m so happy! I can’t choose the dates of the shows like I used to (there was some downloads a friend found for me that got wiped from existence 😢) but this is still wonderful!

[jimin-updates]

It’s so important to keep requesting Jimin on the radio!

We must keep Who In the top 50 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 20 weeks or it will hit the recurrent rule and leave the chart no matter where it is charting in the next 50.

Request using the links below!

[roo-bastmoon]

Linky links: Radio, Spotify, YT music, & Stationhead channel for Apple

We got goals to get for this man, y'all!!

Love, Roo

[libraryledge]

The Path Isn't Always Short n' Sweet (And That's Alright)

Sometimes there are moments that we may doubt ourselves and wonder if we'll ever accomplish our dreams. Here's a little reminder that we shouldn't compare ourselves to other's time frame for success and keep working at goals at our own timing. Only we have the map to our success, and even the seemingly impossible is indeed possible. Case and point: after over ten years in the music industry, Sabrina Carpenter finally hit the jackpot by breaking records worldwide with her smash hit albums Emails I Can't Send (2022) and Short N' Sweet (2024).

As someone who has been a fan of her art from the beginning, it's bittersweet because I always knew that Carpenter could do it. It was just a matter of time until the entire world discovered this as well. At the end of November 2023, Sabrina was barely cracking into the Top 40 on the US radio. Now, this year, she had five songs land on the charts. As of November 2024, she has four simultaneous hits on the radio.

To tell the truth, I cheered just as hard when she was at number forty and when she hit number one. The first achievement, quite literally set the stage for the incredible year Sabrina Carpenter is having. Playing for a sold-out stadium tour, collaborating with her idols, traveling the world, singing on iconic television shows, earning her first six Grammy nominations, and growing her fanbase all happened within the span of a year.

If someone told me at this time last year that Sabrina Carpenter would hit all of these major milestones within the span of a year, I would have thought they were pulling my leg. To be clear, it wouldn't have been because I didn't believe that Carpenter was capable of this (It is very clear that she most certainly is), but rather because it is a rare feat to hit all those major accomplishments within the time frame of a year. This takes me back to my original point. The pathway to success isn't the same for everyone. There are times when we may sit in our rooms at night questioning, who we will become and if we will ever make our dreams a reality. The answer is yes.

When accepting a recognition at the Variety Hitmakers Rising Artist Award Ceremony in December of 2023, Carpenter expressed how she had been told that she was like a tortoise, which initially annoyed her. However, she came to realize the power of this creature because although slow and steady may be frustrating, sometimes that is that is the road that is necessary to take in order to reach the stars. Not everyone's path will be short n' sweet, but that's alright. In that moment, Sabrina Carpenter had no idea how her career was about to skyrocket, but she didn't give up and kept doing what she does best: working late because she is and always will be a phenomenal singer.

AT40 Charts (One Year Apart)

[tennfan2]

One of the local radio stations somehow ended up with the ability to syndicate the old AT40 on Sundays. I used to listen to the countdowns on highway trips back from my favourite place. That's so long ago now, but your Top 40 Countdown file brought me back to that sort of feeling, so thank you.

I like the details you included. The letter, the dedication, the thanking the producers at the end. It shows your commitment to emulating a countdown radio show very well, and I think that's really cool.

I really enjoyed the snaps. They were so clear and certainly effective. The stuff you did with the number 12 really fried my brain, and the rug-pull of the 7 8 9 joke setup and deviation was terrific. I'm still halfway out in the stratosphere from it

I'm very curious about something. The graphic for the youtube video has the station as 93.21 FM. Do those numbers have a special significance? Meaningful numbers are interesting. Did you choose it for a specific reason?

It's a really good file. Thank you for having made it.

Thank you for this!!

First off, the file was 100 percent AT40-coded. Like, debated doing the whole thing in a Casey Kasem voice but couldn’t make that be hypnotic.

I’ve been a satellite radio fan since like… 2003? A long time. Anyway, they used to play old AT 40s on the 70s and 80s channels, but it was just a raw feed of what was sent to stations, so there would be audio cues to the stations, notes on future programs, occasional moments of like… 5 minutes of interstitial music. It was really weird and liminal and I fell in love with it.

This is all to say, it makes my heart happy that you picked up on the many ways in which I was going for that very particular vibe. And your compliments about my tricky stuff also make my day!

The 93.21 thing was actually the “station” for all of the radio shows that we made across the Hypno Collective! If you go to the site, you can hear all of them. There’s a ton of good stuff there.

Thanks again for this message, anon! What a good way to start the day.

[rjhpandapaws]

If you're still listening to Taylor Swift in 2024 i am personally begging you to listen to any artist that has never made AT40

My personal reccomendations are

The Amazing Devil

Sad Kid

Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats

Sukima Switch

Spyair

Burnout Syndromes

SID

GazzEtte

[dvandom]

Top 10 Hits of the 70s

I lived through the 70s, but didn't really start paying attention to pop/rock music until around 1982 or 1983. But for the last few years, a local Classic Rock station (which, distressingly, is starting to move into the 90s as "classic") has run Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The 70s on Sunday mornings. I can usually manage to catch the top ten, or at least the top five (hey, I sleep late on Sundays). There's almost always stuff that's fairly new to me, even in the top spots, which gives me an interesting view on the staying power of popular music.

Roughly speaking, Top 10 hits of the 70s can be chunked into four tiers, although where any particular song ends up is somewhat dependent on your own experiences.

Tier 1: This is the stuff you could play for a room of high school or college students and a lot of them would recognize it. Whether it's been used in a soundtrack, an ad campaign, or a viral video, these are the songs that have managed to stick around in the public consciousness for fifty years for good or for ill. Not always number one hits, though, sometimes they were just rediscovered later and finally found an audience, or they were "sold a million copies but took a while to do it so never hit number 1" deals.

Tier 2: There's still a good chance of hearing these songs even today, but now you have to go looking in places catering to Gen X and Boomers. They show up on Classic Rock and Easy Listening stations (the Billboard charts had a lot of ballads and dreamy instrumentals in the 70s), or as backing for ads you'll only see during Old People Shows. They might even pop up in store muzak once in a while, or get covered by more recent acts. (For an example of that, a fairly recent cover of "I Got You Babe" has been on college radio of late.)

Tier 3: Here's where it gets a lot more subjective. These are songs that were popular enough in the 70s that someone not actually paying attention to pop music would still have heard them. Pop cultural splashes beyond just the Billboard charts. A lot of these are from Christmas Albums (it seemed everyone was doing them in the 70s)...even if I hadn't been listening to country music in the 70s, I'd have heard the John Denver Muppet Christmas songs, for instance. This tier also includes things that were tier 1 for a while but have faded since and might as well not exist in pop culture today. Number one hits like this made a splash, but the ripples faded fairly quickly.

A lot of these were by acts that jumped on a trend and only had one or two hits before the trend faded and they went back to playing county fairs for a living or the equivalent. But some were just lesser pieces by super-popular groups. For instance, the Bee Gees are remembered enough that Saturday Night Live did a sketch around the group in 2024, and some of their hits are definitely Tier 1 (like Stayin' Alive). But they also had a lot of stuff that had no real staying power, but which hit the top ten purely because people were buying everything they released. A similar modern result would be the case of Taylor Swift capturing the entire top ten recently...I rather doubt all ten songs on that album will be remembered by any but the most diehard fan in 20 years, and if there are any that stick around they might not even be the ones in the top five.

Tier 4: "I have never heard this song before in my life," sort of reaction. Or, if I have, it was only in the context of AT40 reruns or historical music shows like I used to watch on VH1. Things like the spoken-word "The Americans" single, or "I Like Dreamin'" (which was number five on this day in 1977, and I can't recall having ever heard before).

I actually like that Tier 4 songs exist. Not only do I get to occasionally hear new-to-me music that is similar to things I already like, but it also means that our culture of "don't innovate, remake" in mass media hasn't mined out EVERYTHING. There are things that used to be popular and are not being shoved back in our face by aging entertainment executives terrified of being the one to try something new.

[igotyouradio]

WITH YOU-TH US RADIO REQUESTING

pls use us ip address in requesting

CNYKISS 959KISSFM KXFMRADIO THE SOCAL SOUND MY975FM THE CURRENT LIVE 95.9 Z90 93.5 THE MIX JAM z96.3 HOT z95 HITZ 104.9 MAGIC 92.7

u93 MIX 94.1 102.7 DABOMB SUNNY 106.9 ELECTRIC 94.9 KS95 LEO FM RADIO KUMU KONG RADIO KISS 98.5 95.3 97.5 THE BEAT 1045 THE BEAT 102 WYBR KISS 104.7 B97 STAR 101.5 96.9 THE WAVE PARTY 105.3 POWER 103.1

AT40 STAR 96.U 106.9 MORE FM

[sean-shifted-wake]

you should all play my sporcle quizzes they’re fun and cool and youtube says they’re illegal :)

[unicornery]

Rachel’s Chart Chat 41 from People are the Enemy Podcast Mini Episode 9 dated 12/07/2022

‘70s chart: 1978-11-25

#68 A Little More Love - Olivia Newton-John #51 Every 1's A Winner - Hot Chocolate #42 New York Groove - Ace Frehley #34 I'm Every Woman - Chaka Khan #24 Don't Want To Live Without It - Pablo Cruise #9 Time Passages - Al Stewart #7 I Just Wanna Stop - Gino Vannelli

Kiss solo albums showing their coordinated covers

"anything you want, dumb baby"

Whitney version of "I'm Every Woman" for you to compare/contrast with Chaka's

'80s chart: 11/28/81

#90 Anyone Can See - Irene Cara #79 I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Part 1) - Roger #36 Poor Man's Son - Survivor #33 Never Too Much - Luther Vandross #27 Turn Your Love Around - George Benson

Roger says hey

Stallone loving "Poor Man's Son" as cited on wiki

bonus chart fact from @mantzouks about Mull of Kintyre

Chart Picks Playlist - new songs which were discussed in the segment added each week, at the bottom. 1970s AT40 and 1980s VJ Big 40 - Rolling Playlist of the full Hot 100 for the current and previous week.  

[chorusfm]

My Life In 35 Songs, Track 2: “Hanging By A Moment” by Lifehouse

Desperate for changing, starving for truth/I’m closer to where I started, I’m chasing after you. One thing to know about the way I consume music is that, by and large, I do not care about the charts. While knowing what songs have gone to number 1 over the years makes for fun trivia, it has little to no bearing on what music I love or find value in. But for one summer when I was 11 years old, I became obsessed with chart-watching, and this song was the reason why. It’s been long enough since the summer of 2001 that I don’t really recall what initially inspired me to turn on the clock radio in my bedroom on some stray Sunday morning and tune in to Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 countdown. As far as I can remember, that show kicked off at 8 in the morning and ran until lunchtime. It was not, in other words, the kind of thing you’d expect a preteen boy to find himself enmeshed in during the summertime, when more interesting engagements like sleeping in or playing video games were options. Plus, AT40 was loaded with commercial breaks and packed with songs that I, as someone who did not have much of a taste for the R&B-flavored pop that was dominant at the turn of the century, actively disliked. Why did I subject myself to four hours of this nonsense when I could have been doing literally anything else? It’s probably impossible to fathom now that everyone has Spotify, or YouTube, or any number of other ways to access the song they want to hear at the moment they want to hear it. But once upon a time, if you were a kid with no money and no CD player – let alone a streaming service or an iPod – the only way to hear the songs you loved was to listen the radio until the DJ got around to playing them. And at least with AT40, when the song you loved was a current hot pop hit, you were guaranteed to hear that song at some point on Sunday morning. And so, Sunday after Sunday that summer, I dutifully posted up in front of my radio and listened to American Top 40 from beginning to end, waiting for the moment that I’d hear that rich, sonorous slide guitar that kicks off Lifehouse’s breakthrough single “Hanging by a Moment.” I adored this song from the first time I heard it, especially that megawatt chorus hook and the way it soars toward the heavens: “I’m falling even more in love with you/Letting go of all I’ve held on to/I’m standing here until you make me move/I’m hanging by a moment here with you.” One of the ways I’d make the countdown fun for myself was by keeping a written tally of where songs charted each week. It built anticipation to see how different songs moved up or down the chart from week to week, especially since “Hanging by a Moment” was consistently hanging around near the top of the rankings. Each week, I tuned in with the same question on my mind: Would this be the week that my favorite song of the moment ascended to its rightful place at number 1? That week never came. “Hanging by a Moment” peaked at number 2 in mid-June, denied the top spot by five-week chart-topper – and, that summer, my default “least favorite song” – “Lady Marmalade,” the Labelle cover from the Moulin Rouge! Soundtrack that featured Christina Aguilera, Lil Kim, Mya, and Pink. “Lady Marmalade” was usurped in July by Usher’s “U Remind Me,” which passed the baton to Destiny’s Child’s “Bootylicious,” which was soon knocked off the mountain by Alicia Keys’ “Fallin’.” “Hanging by a Moment” hung around for a long time, but it never got its moment. I fell out of the habit of listening to the countdown once school resumed in the fall, and “Hanging by a Moment” fell out of heavy radio rotation soon after that. At the time, I found the fate of the song disheartening. Here was what I believed to be a perfect pop-rock song, and it had been repeatedly denied from chart glory by what my 10-year-old ears perceived to be significantly weaker tunes. Why hadn’t “Hanging by a Moment” gone all the way when it clearly had the juice to stick… https://chorus.fm/features/articles/my-life-in-35-songs-track-2-hanging-by-a-moment-by-lifehouse/

[jimin-updates]

Who was played on Top 40 radio in the US!

As a “break out track”

Radio requests are working so please keep it up!

[roo-bastmoon]

*taps the glass*

Y'all know what to do. PUSH!