I Can't Believe It's Not A Top 40!

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Talking Heads' first single, Love Goes To Building On Fire (February 1977), failed to chart. Their second single, Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town (October 1977), failed to chart. Psycho Killer, their third single, charted in February 1978 – and stalled at #92. Rod Stewart, Queen, Foreigner, Kansas, Steely Dan and Lynyrd Skynyrd were in the top 40. Why did this one not make it?

 
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"Psycho Chicken found national success on the Dr Demento show, reaching #1 there in June and finishing the year as Demento’s #6 song of 1980. Reportedly, the Talking Heads could no longer play Psycho Killer in concert around this time because audience members began to cluck like chickens during the song’s chorus."

 
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Pink Floyd "Run Like Hell"
Peak: #53


It had the steam of "Brick" being #1 right before it. And it's still played all around the country every day on every rock station.
From Dark Side... the singles Us and Them/Time only reached 101, even though Time is heard quite often.

From Wish You Were Here, the singles Have a Cigar/Welcome to the Machine gets regular rock radio airplay.

And also from The Wall, the singles Comfortably Numb/Hey You are probably among the most played songs of theirs on rock radio.
 
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The Rolling Stones' Almost Hear You Sigh reached number one on the mainstream rock chart – but on the Hot 100 it stalled at #50 for the week ending March 10, 1990. Among the songs that were above it: Just A Friend by Biz Markie, All Or Nothing by Milli Vanilli, Too Late To Say Goodbye by Richard Marx and How Am I Supposed To Live Without You by Michael Bolton. Gak!

 
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Billy Idol "Dancing With Myself"
Peak #102


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The inspiration for “Dancing With Myself” came to Idol during a 1978 trip to a Japanese discotheque, when he noticed the crowd “dancing to their own reflections in the mirror and not really with each other."
 

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Billy Idol "Dancing With Myself"
Peak #102


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The inspiration for “Dancing With Myself” came to Idol during a 1978 trip to a Japanese discotheque, when he noticed the crowd “dancing to their own reflections in the mirror and not really with each other."
I figured White Wedding is the bigger hit, but Dancing was huge. Pretty crazy.
 
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Billy Idol "Dancing With Myself"
Peak #102


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The inspiration for “Dancing With Myself” came to Idol during a 1978 trip to a Japanese discotheque, when he noticed the crowd “dancing to their own reflections in the mirror and not really with each other."
This one is a shocker!
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I am not that surprised by it. It could have made it to a #30something peak but not much higher.

Yes definitely would have done better with the video.