The Bottom Five

The songs that juuust made Billboard's "American Top 40," 1970-1999


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Tom Petty & Stevie Nicks — “Needles And Pins”

Entered Top 40: March 1, 1986 2 weeks  Peaked at: 37 Picking a single in support of a live album is often a dicey proposition. If you don’t have a significantly different version of a big hit, maybe you throw one or two new studio tracks on the record and use those. That’s what Pat…

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1985 in Review

I think the only tangents I couldn’t work in well this year, because they had nothing to do with 1985, were some oddball Laura Branigan songs. Here she covers The Who’s “Squeeze Box.” And here, ever looking to Eurodisco, Branigan recorded “Deep in the Dark;” new lyrics set to the arrangement of Falco’s “Der Kommissar.”…

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This is a rundown of all the songs from mid-1970 through 1999 that managed to get into Billboard’s pop Top 40, but peaked no higher than #36. Some of these you’ve heard all your life; some never before. Some were big on a genre chart or on MTV, but just barely crossed over. Lots of third and fourth singles from big albums. More Osmonds than you can shake a stick at.

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