Top 4000 Radio Songs (1961-85) - Part 2

EdisonLite wrote: - there's another example of a low charting top 40 hit becoming much more famous later -- the #35 peaking "Mr. Blue Sky" by ELO. Who would have guessed back in the late '70s that would be their most known song in the '10s/'20s...So as Paul H says, the charts reflect how accurate songs are during their time of release. But there's really no chart that charts how well songs do in the decades after. (And how could there be? :)

Think about Modern English I Melt With You in Burger King commercials. That song was barely a Hot 100 hit back in the 80's and yet if you asked most kids growing up, they heard it in the commercial. Think I also heard I Like It Like That too. Burger King really used low charters to sell their commercials!

Forgot what commercial it was in, but the Beatles Getting Better was also another song that has become way more popular than when it was released in the 60's. While it didnt chart on the Hot 100, MANY hits did not chart back then.

Geico used for its caveman commercials Let Me Be Myself. That was not even a big charter for 3 Doors Down by any means!

A great advertising blitz can make any low charting song a hit and bring it back to life!

Edited by PopArchivist