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Paul Haney ![]() Music Fan ![]() ![]() Joined: 01 April 2005 Status: Offline Points: 25 |
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The good folks in the chart department at Billboard have asked me what the last (most recent) #1
Hot 100 hit was that WAS ONLY COMMERCIALLY RELEASED ON A VINYL 7" SINGLE??? We all figure it had to be mid-to-late 1980s. I simply don't have the time to fully research this and I figured that if anyone would have the answer, it would be someone in this group. Any ideas??? Also, they were wondering about the last Hot 100 to be FULLY made up of vinyl 7" singles only. |
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ChicagoBill ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 06 November 2019 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 12 |
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Paul, I think the 2nd part of your question could coincide with the debut of the cassette
singles, since they were around before CD singles. -Bill. |
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Paul C ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 23 October 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9 |
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When Bryan Adams “Heat Of The Night” was released, it was hailed as
the first cassette single. What I don’t know is whether labels subsequently released cassette singles of songs already available on 7-inch singles. |
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ChicagoBill ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 06 November 2019 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 12 |
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And then there is the case of some 12" singles that were released and yet no 7" singles were done. I
consider them mostly 'one-offs' and not a trend, if that's what they are looking for. -Bill. |
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Paul Haney ![]() Music Fan ![]() ![]() Joined: 01 April 2005 Status: Offline Points: 25 |
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They are more interested in the first part of the question (the last #1 on vinyl only) than the second part.
Not sure if they are taking 12" vinyl into the equation (probably not). I'm guessing the #1 would be somewhere in 1987 or 1988??? |
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aaronk ![]() Admin Group ![]() Joined: 16 January 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 123 |
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There are a couple recent songs that had limited releases on both 7" and cassette single. For instance, "Watermelon Sugar" by Harry Styles and "Butter" by BTS. But if they mean songs pre-digital era, I think looking in '87 or '88 sounds about right. There might have also been some vinyl-only releases in 1989, but I don't know about #1 hits.
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ChicagoBill ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 06 November 2019 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 12 |
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O.K., after giving it a little more thought, I don't remember seeing a cassette single on Bob Seger's
"Shakedown". That hit #1 on August 1, 1987. See if anyone can come up with a later #1 that didn't issue a cassette single. I was not a fan of cassette singles, so there. -Bill. |
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thecdguy ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 14 August 2019 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3 |
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There was a cassette single for "Shakedown", I have it myself. A few #1's down the line, "La Bamba" by Los Lobos I don't think had one. The one after that, MJ/Siedah Garrett's "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" didn't have one, either as I recall (although there was a 3 inch CD Single issued for it several months after it had already fallen off the chart. |
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eric_a ![]() Music Fan ![]() Joined: 29 June 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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Billboard started marking the Hot 100 with (C) for
cassette singles in mid-1988, and scanning through the remainder of 1988 and 1989, it looks like everything had a cassette single available, so safe to say the last mass market vinyl-only #1 came out before then. And there's another technicality to add to Aaron's examples from the 2020s, I'd also consider 45s from the Hot 100's "post-single" era starting in 1998. Lots of hits weren't available commercially on CD/cassette but were available on vinyl. While these 45s were mainly for jukebox operators, I'd argue they were "commercial" -- e.g., UPCs, some retail availability, etc. Rob Thomas' "Lonely No More" might be the last example of a #1 before the majors stopped supplying jukeboxes. |
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aaronk ![]() Admin Group ![]() Joined: 16 January 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 123 |
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Good point, Eric. Regarding "Lonely No More," though, it only went to #1 on some of the sub-charts, like Hot AC. It peaked at #6 on the Hot 100.
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