This week in music charts!

Two of our stations, one classic rock, the other classic pop have chosen to highlight 1982! So many songs and artists during this time, I loved it all, punk, rock, new wave, rap, little did we know the fun times were getting close to the top of the hill.
Here's Billboard's Top Tracks for next week, amazingly most of these are still seeing a lot of airtime today.

 

Since I've been milking Rolling Stone lately, let's do their chart for this week 1987! I felt by this time a lot of music was getting way too overproduced and slick, the grittiness of punk and early metal along with the wildly experimental synth was long gone. The only bands I don't know are Front 242 and Thrashing Doves, the rest still get played a ton today! I can look at a chart today and won't know a single band on it, sad for radio music.

Some classics are my favorite The Beastie Boys and The Cult but alot of the other albums were and still are huge, I got sick of them becuase they played the same 2-3 songs on heavy rotation and there's buried gems on those albums that would be nice to hear.

 

June 13th 1991, most of this is still in heavy rotation and look at the variety, Rap, classic rock, hard rock, heavy metal, pop, dance all in the top 50 albums.

 

Some classic songs but nothing with a "punch." The kind of music you know the lyrics to but would never go out of your way to play them. I'll find the US for the same week.

 

From Rolling Stone, I only know 1/2 the US Singles but kind of the same, the college radio had the better chart with much more interesting bands. Check out 10 years ago, every album is great and they vary so much in style. Most of those had 3-4 radio songs and the rest were always very listenable.

 

Interesting selection, I don't know most of them....

 

I don't think Electronic ever got air play over here.....

 

It's interesting to see WASP on the charts! I never got to see them but they were in town about 20 years ago and Blackie had a fit cuz his stage wouldn't fit in the club so he cancelled. Luckily LA Guns was opening and they did a longer crazier set and I love the guns....

 

This is from March 2nd 1985 but I can't help it, we were so spoiled, this is just the POP chart and it's all classics. My biggest complaint was music was getting a little too overproduced and predictable but to have Prince, Dokken, Maiden, Hall & Oates, Roth, VH, New Edition, Sade and the Fat Boys, how could you not be happy with radio and music in general.

 

Holy cow, you don't know The Time? They're local legends around here and were in Prince's Movie. They had some minor hits after this but this is the classic. I remember the girls at school were talking about Madonna, there was a ton of buzz about model turned into the hottest new singer. She was in the fashion mags and her look was culture-changing (I'm sure you already know that) and then I heard Holiday, first on R&B radio then the album went ballistic and it was everywhere.

What I love about this is there's a slice of every genre, break down to the individual genres and even those went 10-20 bands deep.

 

Ratt released Invasion of Your Privacy June 13th, 1985 with this ear-splitting classic!

 

June 16th 1978, I personally consider this start of the golden age of radio for at least eight years, so many genres and talents. Albums that you could listen to from end to end. We only had around four stations to listen to but that quickly went to dozens with FM exploding. I'd have to go with Life's Been Good, Running With the Devil and Let's Go as the songs that got a trucker load of plays that summer.

 

From Street Magazine 1989, I knew every song/artist on here except for "Buster" and had to look it up......