These posts are about the songs that just barely failed to cross the key line of chart success, entering the Billboard Top 40. Every song featured in this series peaked at number 41. For college rock bands in the nineteen-eighties, … Continue reading Top 40 Smash Near Misses — “Pretty in Pink”

Whatever other plentiful complaints can be lodged against the hair metal band Winger, they deserve admiring credit for the novelistic perfection of this detail: Their final single to place on the Billboard Hot 100 bears the title “Easy Come Easy … Continue reading Top 40 Smash Near Misses — “Easy Come Easy Go”

These posts are about the songs that just barely failed to cross the key line of chart success, entering the Billboard Top 40. Every song featured in this series peaked at number 41. In the late nineteen-nineties and into the … Continue reading Top 40 Smash Near Misses — “Whiskey Lullaby”

These posts are about the songs that just barely failed to cross the key line of chart success, entering the Billboard Top 40. Every song featured in this series peaked at number 41. Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien was born … Continue reading Top 40 Smash Near Misses — “All Cried Out”

These posts are about the songs that just barely failed to cross the key line of chart success, entering the Billboard Top 40. Every song featured in this series peaked at number 41. The Mann Act was cemented in U.S. … Continue reading Top 40 Smash Near Misses — “Promised Land”

These posts are about the songs that just barely failed to cross the key line of chart success, entering the Billboard Top 40. Every song featured in this series peaked at number 41. In 1962, Sam Cooke released the cut … Continue reading Top 40 Smash Near Misses — “I’ll Bring It Home to You”

These posts are about the songs that just barely failed to cross the key line of chart success, entering the Billboard Top 40. Every song featured in this series peaked at number 41. The Cars registered thirteen Top 40 singles … Continue reading Top 40 Smash Near Misses — “Good Times Roll,” “It’s All I Can Do,” and “Since You’re Gone”

These posts are about the songs that just barely failed to cross the key line of chart success, entering the Billboard Top 40. Every song featured in this series peaked at number 41. Trent Reznor didn’t expect to make hits. … Continue reading Top 40 Smash Near Misses — “Closer”

These posts are about the songs that just barely failed to cross the key line of chart success, entering the Billboard Top 40. Every song featured in this series peaked at number 41. At the 2010 CMT Music Awards, held … Continue reading Top 40 Smash Near Misses — “The Story of Us”