![]() UB40’s “Red Red Wine” originally peaked at No. These “second-chance singles” don’t always chart higher than their original chart runs (like the Moving Pictures, Peter Gabriel and Billy Idol singles mentioned above), but lots of times they do. In its fourth Hot 100 appearance, “1999” reached No. And, as BILLBOARD has been doing for several years now, a number of Prince songs re-entered the Hot 100 following his sad passing in April 2016. When the calendar changed from 1998 to 1999 (even though the song wasn’t about the year 1999), it re-entered the Top 40 for one week at No. 6, “1999” was re-released and reached No. In its original 1982 chart run (as the debut single from the album of the same name), it stopped at No. Prince’s “1999” reached the Hot 100 four time in three decades, and reached the Top 40 three of those times. King’s “Stand By Me” (from the incredible film of the same name), and The Contours’ “Do You Love Me” (from DIRTY DANCING). Then you have songs that were hits in other decades and, also due to their inclusions in films, were reissued and hit the chart again, like The Beatles’ “Twist And Shout” (featured in both FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF and BACK TO SCHOOL), Ben E. 1 on the Hot 100, like “At This Moment” by Billy Vera & The Beaters and “When I’m With You” by Sheriff, “second-chance singles” that were “(real) one-hit wonders,” like Sheriff (again), Benny Mardones (“Into The Night”) and Moving Pictures (“What About Me”), and songs that benefited from appearing in movies, like Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” (…SAY ANYTHING) and Billy Idol’s “Hot In The City” (BIG). There were “second-chance singles” (as I like to call them) that went to No. I believe all decades have had songs re-enter the chart with new chart runs, but I think no other decade has as many as the 80s did. ![]() The 1989 cassette single (or “cassingles” – remember those?!) for “In Your Eyes.” ![]() And, because of its two chart runs that ended at No. No other song has done that here in America. In its initial run, the dance craze favorite spent one week on top in September 1960, and again in January 1962 for two weeks. The best example of this is Chubby Checker’s “The Twist,” which reached No. Throughout the years, whether it’s because of an inclusion in a movie or a commercial or a TV show, or a radio station rediscovered it and started playing it again, songs sometimes have more one chart life. 1.Īs Casey used to say on AT40, “And on we go!” On June 30, I’ll feature a “song of the day” that went all the way to No. On June 1, 2017, I featured a song that peaked at No. ![]() In honor of my radio hero, Casey Kasem, for the entire month of June, I will be highlighting a song each day (some days will have two songs!) that peaked in the Top 40 of the BILLBOARD Hot 100 (including five (real) one-hit wonders of the 80s), and with every blog post, just like on AMERICAN TOP 40, the hits will get bigger with each post. And still is (thanks to the re-airing of broadcasts of AT40 on iHeart Radio). Not only could I hear the 40 biggest songs in the country every week, but also Casey’s cool trivia and facts about the songs and the artists, a trait I treasure to this day. From my first blog post (and prolly some more inbetween then and now), I explained how, in 1979, I was a geeky, lanky and somewhat lost 12-year-old living in Central Maine, had a few friends and not a lot of interest in much of anything, but at some point early that year, I discovered AMERICAN TOP 40, and was glued to it every weekend. On June 15, 2014, Casey Kasem, host of the longtime countdown program, AMERICAN TOP 40, passed away at the age of 82.
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