#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]

[cookiemonsta1970]

♫ If you're blue ♪ and you don't know ♪ where to go to ♪ why don't you go ♪ where fashion sits ♫

[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

[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.

[billscheft]

While doing my crack-wise AT40 thing on Bluesky Saturday (the chart was from 1973) , I mentioned that The Raspberries "I Wanna Be With You" was the 2nd best impression of the early Beatles to make the chart. The first was the 1965 hit "Lies" by The Knickerbockers. I began my post with, "As someone in a band who consistently does 'Lies'...." 10 minutes later, after a quick YouTube on video editing, I was able to back up my claim with this, from March 2022.... Mangia!!!!!

[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.

[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.  

[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 :)

[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!