40.I Want A New Drug-Huey Lewis & The News
39.The Dream-Irene Cara
38.Bang Your Head(Metal Health)-Quiet Riot
37.New Moon On Monday-Duran Duran
36.Remember The Night-Motels
35.The Sign Of Fire-Fixx
34.Stay With Me Tonight-Jeffrey Osborne
33.Nightbird-Stevie Nicks
32.Send Me An Angel-Real Life
31.Girls Just Want To Have Fun-Cyndi Lauper
30.If I'd Been The One-38 Special
29.Read 'Em And Weep-Barry Manilow
28.Time Will Reveal-DeBarge
27.Nobody Told Me-John Lennon
26.Baby I Lied-Deborah Allen
25.So Bad-Paul McCartney
24.Yah Mo B There-James Ingram With Michael McDonald
23.Wrapped Around Your Finger-Police
22.99 Luftballons-Nena
21.Middle Of The Road-Pretenders
20.Jump-Van Halen
19.An Innocent Man-Billy Joel
18.Let The Music Play-Shannon
17.The Curly Shuffle-Jump 'N The Saddle
16.Holiday-Madonna
15.Say It Isn't So-Daryl Hall & John Oates
14.I Still Can't Get Over Loving You-Ray Parker Jr.
13.Union Of The Snake-Duran Duran
12.Pink Houses-John Cougar Mellencamp
11.Think Of Laura-Christopher Cross
10.That's All-Genesis
9.Twist Of Fate-Olivia Newton-John
8.Running With The Night-Lionel Richie
7.Say Say Say-Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson
6.Joanna-Kool & The Gang
5.Break My Stride-Matthew Wilder
4.I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues-Elton John
3.Talking In Your Sleep-Romantics
2.Karma Chameleon-Culture Club
1.Owner Of A Lonely Heart-Yes

OMG!!!!!!!! Do u know where i can get archives of Casey's American Top 40?!?!!

I know im a total dork, but I used to actually write down the top 40, and "study" and "keep track".... And I just wanna look back, cuz i lost some of my "records".

Originally posted by webwarrior762002
Originally posted by SomersCompany3:
OMG!!!!!!!! Do u know where i can get archives of Casey's American Top 40?!?!!

American Top 40 With K1 Machida
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~TF1K-MCD/

This is a japanese website by an AT40 fan. You can find songs
that charted on AT40 from October 1972(when AT40 began airing
in Japan) to March 1989. Each year is divided into months and
you can see exactly when a song entered the top 40, its chart
positions week by week, highest chart position, and total weeks
in the top 40. It is one of my favorite websites out there! Thanks. Is there any more u know of?? That has ones after 1989?

What about the R&B Hits that make it to the charts like this:

1. "Cool It Now" - New Edition
2. "Lovergirl" - Teena Marie
3. "17" - Rick James
4. "Misled" - Kool and the Gang
5. "Treat Her Like a Lady" - The Temptations
6. "Mr. Telephone Man" - New Edition
7. "All of You" - Diana Ross featuring Julio Iglesias
8. "All This Love" - DeBarge
9. "Tender Love" - Force MD's
10. "Fat Boys" - Fat Boys

Originally posted by webwarrior762002
40.I Want A New Drug-Huey Lewis & The News

That was the song where the group filed a lawsuit against Ray Parker Jr. on a copyright infringment for the song he made from the movie "Ghostbusters".

The sad thing is that I remember listening to that EXACT show...wondering why a great song like "So Bad" was struggling after a really high debut.

Originally posted by Gil:
The sad thing is that I remember listening to that EXACT show...wondering why a great song like "So Bad" was struggling after a really high debut.


So Bad by Paul McCartney debuted at number 34 the week of
January 7 1984 and spent 8 weeks on AT40, peaking at number
23. Here was the songs chart activity:34-31-28-25-24-23-23-37.

Yes, that was a low peak for a song that debuted at a relatively
high position. Now, when a song makes it first top 40 appearance
in the top 20, you would think "this song is a shoo-in for number
one". But a high debut does not always assure that a record will
reach number one. "Thriller" by Michael Jackson is an example
of this-it made its first appearance on AT40 at number 20 the
week of February 11 1984. Three weeks later, the song was
spending the first of two weeks at number 4, then it fell back
down the chart. The reason:the video for "Thriller" had been
played constantly on MTV for at least four months and at the
time "Thriller" first appeared on AT40, the song had received
a huge amount of radio airplay as an album track, so by the time
EPIC/CBS Records finally issued the song as a 45, it was close
to burn-out. The huge airplay assured the lofty first week position,
but by that time radio stations were already beginning to drop
the single and it only managed to make it to number 4.

Of this list Yah mo B There and Joanna are my favorites. They really hold up well 20 years later. My only complaint about Yah Mo is the electronic instrumentation in the background is laid on a bit too thick. That record could have almost been done acapella.

Ray Parker's tune is very hard to find on cd, but is good.

Lionel Richie's Running With the Night is the least interesting of the 5 singles from Can't Slow Down (a very nice album BTW), but isn't awful by any means. I remember my local stations played the much much better Love Will Find A Way a lot more than Running even though it was just an album cut.

Hall and Oates, Elton John, Cyndi Lauper and Jeff Osbourne's tunes all have their own unique charms.

As for the lack of more r&b tunes this was a time when top 40 radio only played certain r&b acts. The soul charts looked very different from the pop/top40 unlike now where they both are dominated by hip hop music.

Originally posted by jamesanthony
Of this list Yah mo B There and Joanna are my favorites. They really hold up well 20 years later. My only complaint about Yah Mo is the electronic instrumentation in the background is laid on a bit too thick. That record could have almost been done acapella.

Ray Parker's tune is very hard to find on cd, but is good.

Lionel Richie's Running With the Night is the least interesting of the 5 singles from Can't Slow Down (a very nice album BTW), but isn't awful by any means. I remember my local stations played the much much better Love Will Find A Way a lot more than Running even though it was just an album cut.

Hall and Oates, Elton John, Cyndi Lauper and Jeff Osbourne's tunes all have their own unique charms.

As for the lack of more r&b tunes this was a time when top 40 radio only played certain r&b acts. The soul charts looked very different from the pop/top40 unlike now where they both are dominated by hip hop music.

technically though, I'd have to argue it was better back then. Everyone loved Prince, MJ, Kool And The Gang, Ray Parker Jr, Lionel Richie... whereas now, POP artists can't score hits on the POP chart. I can see the popularity of Outkast, Usher and Beyonce, but there are so many indistinguishable hip hop acts on the singles chart right now, many of which are top 10-top 15, whereas popular pop and rock acts have learned to "settle" for a top 20 peak and consider it a success. Not really fair since I've heard songs like This Love, Toxic and My Immortal a lot more than a lot of the hip hop songs in the top 5

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79
technically though, I'd have to argue it was better back then. Everyone loved Prince, MJ, Kool And The Gang, Ray Parker Jr, Lionel Richie... whereas now, POP artists can't score hits on the POP chart. I can see the popularity of Outkast, Usher and Beyonce, but there are so many indistinguishable hip hop acts on the singles chart right now, many of which are top 10-top 15, whereas popular pop and rock acts have learned to "settle" for a top 20 peak and consider it a success. Not really fair since I've heard songs like This Love, Toxic and My Immortal a lot more than a lot of the hip hop songs in the top 5

Much of the hip hop out now is garbage- bottom line. Not fun and bouncy stuff. Some has so much language banned by the FCC that it's like your being defied to try to figure out what these folks are talking about when it comes on the radio.

The way they formulate the charts is very strange now. Lionel Richie is still making records, but he won't even make the hot 100 now though he's doing well in adult contemporary. Adult contemporary acts used to make the top ten very regularly up until maybe 3 years ago. Click on billboard.com and compare the adult contemporary top 20 to the top40 and they have virtually nothing in common. It WAS better before.

Originally posted by jamesanthony
The way they formulate the charts is very strange now. Lionel Richie is still making records, but he won't even make the hot 100 now though he's doing well in adult contemporary. Adult contemporary acts used to make the top ten very regularly up until maybe 3 years ago.

actually Lionel is on the hot 100 right now, but his song is like #93... a far cry from his 80's heyday.

I think the singles chart needs to go back to how it was in the day. Country has it's chart, R&B/Hip Hop has it's chart (who misses the days from when r&b didn't need to assistance of hip-hop to be popular?), yet the "Pop" chart has turned into a melting pot of all genres. I think Billboard should give Pop it's own "Valid chart" (just like if a country singer scores well on the country chart, but not on the pop chart, it's no biggie... same with r&b.) as well. I know there's the Adult Contemporary and "Top 40" charts, but Billboard doesn't quite give them the same relevance that the country and r&b/hip hop charts do.

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79
actually Lionel is on the hot 100 right now, but his song is like #93... a far cry from his 80's heyday.

I think the singles chart needs to go back to how it was in the day. Country has it's chart, R&B/Hip Hop has it's chart (who misses the days from when r&b didn't need to assistance of hip-hop to be popular?), yet the "Pop" chart has turned into a melting pot of all genres. I think Billboard should give Pop it's own "Valid chart" (just like if a country singer scores well on the country chart, but not on the pop chart, it's no biggie... same with r&b.) as well. I know there's the Adult Contemporary and "Top 40" charts, but Billboard doesn't quite give them the same relevance that the country and r&b/hip hop charts do.

Whatever formula they use to make up the Hot 100 has thrown it off completely. They changed it about 5 years ago to include album cuts that aren't released as singles, which doesn't really explain why the hip hop stuff is so big. I heard that WLTW Lite FM (a local adult contemporary station in nyc) is the top station in the national ratings, and that station is programmed into a lot of offices, elevators, stores as background music, yet when you go to the Hot 100 in Billboard to see where those songs are ranking they are either very low or not there at all.

Radio and Record Magazine (rronline.com) just lists the airplay points for the different formats (r&b, A/C, Adult top 40 etc) and has no combined chart, which is more logical because with the conglomeration of radio I doubt there are even 5 radio stations in the country left that aren't owned by some corporation. They all use a niche focused approach to what they play which is dictated by the corporations, not the listeners. If someone calls up a station to request a song that is not on the approved playlist because it is stylistically different it won't get played. I wonder what they would tell the caller though?