We all know it`s taken 17 weeks, for Nickelback, to get to number 2. But back in the mid-eighties, when I first got involved in Radio, Sinitta, took a lifetime to get to the number 2 spot.

 

Every week, I collected Record Mirror, back then. SO MACHO was a double A sided single with CRUISING on the other side. At this period, I was doing a hospital radio thing. SO MACHO was always being requested by the teenagers, who were in at the time. It was released in the February of 1986 and took no less than, 23 weeks to get to number 2, on Tuesday 5th Aug 1986.

 

Here is the chart run, where it did fall out of the top 100, a couple of times, in the full run.

 

Entered chart Tuesday 4th March 1986: 59 - 50 - 49 - 49 - 48 - 47 - 49 - 51 - 64 - 59 - 68 - re - 85 - 81 - re - re - 73 - 52 - 46 - 33 - 16 - 5 - 2 - 3 - 3 - 2 - 7 - 9 - 14 - 21 - 32 - 36 - 53

 

The final week of chart was Tuesday 18th Oct 86, when the following week, it disappeared because Sinitta`s new hit "Feel`s Like The First Time", scraped into the top 50.

 

Will that run of 23 weeks, to get as high as number 2 ever be beaten? Can anyone think of any other hits, that failed to make number one, that took a long time, to get to their chart zenith?

 

 

(Sourced from Record Mirror 1986)

Edited February 16, 200817 yr by trevs

That is a weird chart run indeed.

But is Nickelback's the longest *unbroken* chart run to get to #2?

No, I don't think it will be beaten. The chart slowed down last year but the songs still reach their peak quite fast and stay after that longer in the chart.

I remember a slowly churt sun to n. 1 by Phyllis Nelson'S Move Closer in 1985

 

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for a n. 2 long chart run now I'm thinkig about some good performance....like

 

 

Natalie Cole Miss You Like Crazy 1989 66-39-24-7-5-3-3-{2}-4-7-12-24-34-44-63->15

Black Lace Agadoo 1984

 

 

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Let Loose Crazy For You {1994}

 

 

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Gloria Gaynor Never Can Say Goodbye 1974/75 50-36-25-25-23-6-4-{2}-4-5-27-33-48->13

Entered chart Tuesday 4th March 1986: 59 - 50 - 49 - 49 - 48 - 47 - 49 - 51 - 64 - 59 - 68 - re - 85 - 81 - re - re - 73 - 52 - 46 - 33 - 16 - 5 - 2 - 3 - 3 - 2 - 7 - 9 - 14 - 21 - 32 - 36 - 53

 

Will that run of 23 weeks, to get as high as number 2 ever be beaten? Can anyone think of any other hits, that failed to make number one, that took a long time, to get to their chart zenith?

 

I make that 20, but it got to #2 again on its 23rd week, but doesn't the first peak count?

Candi Staton Young Hearts Run Free 1976 47-34-26-19-6-3-{2}-4-4-6-9-19-27->13

Clout Substitute 1978 64-48-34-25-17-4-3-{2}-2-3-7-12-18-31-38->15

 

 

 

 

I remember a slowly churt sun to n. 1 by Phyllis Nelson'S Move Closer in 1985

 

69-58-48-44-28-19-14-8-4-3-{1}-2-2-4-6-17-25-29-39-52-73

for a n. 2 long chart run now I'm thinkig about some good performance....like

Natalie Cole Miss You Like Crazy 1989 66-39-24-7-5-3-3-{2}-4-7-12-24-34-44-63->15

 

 

Another unusual chart run to N. 1 The model - Kraftwerk

 

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I remember a slowly churt sun to n. 1 by Phyllis Nelson'S Move Closer in 1985

 

Well remembered. The Phyllis Nelson climb was so slow!...just like the song. I was writing down the charts in those days and didn't think it would ever make No.1!!

Kenny Rogers And The First Edition Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town 1969 48-49-45-21-19-9-5-3-{2}-2-2-2-2-4-2-7-7-13-18-20-24-30-46->23

Howard Jones What Is Love 1983 48-31-23-14-11-11-10-{2}-3-4-16-25-44-49-63->15

Nat 'King' Cole When I Fall In Love 1957 20-9-11-9-3-4-4-3-{2}-3-3-6-7-10-11-13-17-16-19-30->20

1963 Ned Miller From A Jack To A King 49-39-30-21-16-13-4-3-{2}-2-2-3-3-7-12-15-17-22-21-36-44->21

 

Deep Purple Black Night 50-48-46-32-34-20-9-5-3-{2}-2-5-3-11-11-28-31-43-47-47-42->2

 

 

VERY SIMILAR TO ROCKSTAR CHART RUN

Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds (1969)

39-10-8-6-4-4-7-2-6-6-12-17-30-43

 

Elvis Presley - Mess Of Blues (1960)

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Edited February 11, 200817 yr by seanyboy

1984/5 Dead Or Alive's 'You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)' took 14 wks to reach #2....on it's way to #1...

 

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