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- Thread starter rallen13
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Check the Houston radio board for your answer.
Can't help you with KNUZ or KILT, but if you want to know the top songs for a particular week, all the WABC weekly surveys are posted online:
http://www.musicradio77.com/surveys.html
http://www.musicradio77.com/surveys.html
Did WABC still report as a top 40 station in 1982 (as opposed to AC)? The survey for 4/13/82 shows WABC playing only one of the top 5 records in New York, and it was "Chariots Of Fire."
I think the leading top 40 station in Cincinnati actually didn't play "Chariots Of Fire" because it was too AC. I'm not 100% certain of that though. How can the trades justify having WABC as a CHR reporter instead of AC if the only song in the local top 5 it played was one that many other CHR's rejected for being too AC?
I think the leading top 40 station in Cincinnati actually didn't play "Chariots Of Fire" because it was too AC. I'm not 100% certain of that though. How can the trades justify having WABC as a CHR reporter instead of AC if the only song in the local top 5 it played was one that many other CHR's rejected for being too AC?
This might offer some explanation (from another part of the same website):
http://www.musicradio77.com/evolution.html
Scroll all the way down to the September 3, 1980 entry.
"Chariots Of Fire" was a No. 1 national hit, but you're right... that survey doesn't even list No. 2 through 5 and the note at the bottom indicates that WABC never played them because they were too heavy. Kind of hard to be labeled a Top 40 station when you ignore 2 of the biggest Top 40 songs of the '80s, "I Love Rock 'n Roll" and "Centerfold." Interesting point.
http://www.musicradio77.com/evolution.html
Scroll all the way down to the September 3, 1980 entry.
NoWayNoCC said:
"Chariots Of Fire" was a No. 1 national hit, but you're right... that survey doesn't even list No. 2 through 5 and the note at the bottom indicates that WABC never played them because they were too heavy. Kind of hard to be labeled a Top 40 station when you ignore 2 of the biggest Top 40 songs of the '80s, "I Love Rock 'n Roll" and "Centerfold." Interesting point.
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