3240-3231

A Hamm's beer sign...

3240. Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams

3239. You Are The Woman - Firefall

3238. Colors of the Wind - Vanessa Williams

3237. Bad - Michael Jackson

3236. You Got It All - The Jets

3235. Make It Hot - Nicole featuring Missy Elliott

3234. Praying for Time - George Michael

3233. Jet Airliner - The Steve Miller Band

3232. Baby, Baby Don't Cry - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

3231. School is Out - Gary U.S. Bonds

Comments

[Ken]

Surprised to see on Wiki that Bad hit #1 for 2 weeks, and all the more surprised, then, to find it here (I thought yesterday's Thriller was much bigger, though). Remind us of the methodology behind this list?
The insipid 3239 seemed to be played forever, so it surprises here, as does 3233--a big a.m. radio hit.

[JmSR]

Each week a song is in the top 40, it earns some points. These points are loaded toward the top ten: #1=100, #2=95, #3=93, #4=91, #5=90, #6=89, #7=87, #8=84, #9=82, #10=80, #11=75, #12=70, #13=60, #14=53, #15=50, #16=47, #17=43, #18=38, #19=33, #20=30, #21=29, #22=27, #23=24, #24=22, #25=20, #26=17, #27=25, #28=13, #29=11, #30=10, #31=9, #32=8, #33=7, #34=6, #35=5, #36=4, #37=3, #38=2, #39=1, and #40=0. Additionally, if a song spends an additional week at its peak, it earns 1 additional point for that week. A #1 for 9 weeks would earn 100 for its first week, 101 for its second all the way to 108 for its ninth. These weekly positions are summed to produce a raw score. This raw score is then multiplied by the # of top 40 songs in that year and then divided 100. If a song charted multiple times, those indexed totals are added together.

In the case of Bad and Thriller, both song spent a very short amount of time both in the top ten (five weeks) and top 40 (nine weeks), despite the longer tail of memory.

[Cliff Arroyo]

Typed a longish post yesterday which looked like it was posted and then later disappeared. I'll try again.

In answer to Ken's question the other day:

I'm around but fell way behind during a busy spell at work and the mediocrity (and/or obscurity) of many of the songs here was discouraging me. I'll just mention what pops out at me for right now.

First, maybe giving the final scores might help? I'm also thinking that the demise of 45's changed the meaning and orientation of singles charts (that is made them less reliable). Has the hot 100 ever taken into account video play?

Anyway the big news here is 3238. I don't know how big a hit it was but a few years ago I spent some time obsessively comparing different language versions (the movie version, not this one) on youtube.

Some observations, for Danish and Norwegian - the translation was better for Danish but I liked the Norwegian vocal performance more.

None of the romance versions did much for me. The best overall non-English versions were Polish and German (the german Lion King is also very good as is the Egyptian Arabic version). The worst were Swedish and Finnish.

You're welcome