Chris's Billboard Top 3000 Countdown Podcast

Leave me fan mail message!Episode 44 discusses songs #2140-#2121, as we inch closer and closer to the #1 song in Billboard History.  Artists featured include:| Chicago| Bruno Mars| Janet Jackson (Finally!!)| The O'Jays| David Lee Roth| Harry Styles| Herman's Hermits| Grand Funk RailroadThis is my 50th recording (44 regular episodes and 6 bonus), on the one-year anniversary of my very first recording.  And we continue on the greatest countdown podcast ever with another excellent selection of 20 songs.  Janet Jackson makes her debut in this countdown (Finally Finally!) as does Herman's Hermits.  A great modern #1 hits by Harry Styles, and a 90's R&B Hip Hop Supergroup with their 1 big hit!  George Harrison gets nostalgic, and the 80's Top 500 subgroup starts right here!  And what are the greatest Billboard hits with the shortest titles?  (3 letters.. 2 letters... even 1 letter!)Come make my Christmas wish and join the ride, you'll be glad you did!  Wonderful nostalgic ride of pop songs from throughout rock history.  

Leave me fan mail message!Episode 43 discusses songs #2160-#2141, as we inch closer and closer to the #1 song in Billboard History.  Artists featured include:| Rod Stewart| James Brown| Avril Levigne| Michael Jackson| The Beatles| Doja Cat| Andy Gibb| Salt-N-PepaThe greatest countdown podcast in history adds another chapter as we move toward the end of the first 1000 songs, an eclectic mix in this set as we follow-up dance pop with 50's Cuban instrumental big band and then 2000's alternative followed by 80's love ballads, then 60's bubblegum classics (quite literally), THEN 2020's rap!   What a rollercoaster ride, eh?  Then to cleanse the palette we add the Beatles, Michael Jackson and Rod Stewart, and the first song in this countdown by the hardest working man in show business.  Plus a special segment on the holiday year end countdowns, and amazing luck of the month of December in #1 hits.  Please come join the ride, you'll love it!I am in no way affiliated with Billboard or with American Top 40.  I'm just a huge fan that loves to talk about pop music.  I hope you enjoy.  

Leave me fan mail message!Episode 42 discusses songs #2180-#2161, as we inch closer and closer to the #1 song in Billboard History.  Artists featured include:| Daryl Hall & John Oates| REO Speedwagon| Roy Orbison| Jose Feliciano| Creed| Phil Collins| DJ Khaled| Billy PrestonDo you have your parachute pants and Aqua Net ready?  Cause this is an 80's heavy podcast.  8 songs from the 80's from 7 different years within that magnificent decade.  But not leaving out the 70's (5 songs), or a #1 song from the 60's (1961).  3 more instrumentals; in fact, it takes 3 songs to get to one with a lyric!  Do you remember the anthem for Bill Clinton's presidential campaign run in 1992?  It's on this podcast.  And what is the greatest song in Billboard History that peaked at #15?  That will be revealed here.  And what song did you like that has a name of a food in the title?  Come join us for another wonderful set of 20 songs in the greatest music countdown podcast ever!I am in no way affiliated with Billboard or with American Top 40.  I'm just a huge fan that loves to talk about pop music.  I hope you enjoy.  

Leave me fan mail message!Episode 41 discusses songs #2200-#2181, as we inch closer and closer to the #1 song in Billboard History.  Artists featured include:| Elton John| Mariah Carey| Cheap Trick| John Cougar Mellencamp| The Rolling Stones| Bow Wow| Lady Gaga| KansasThe Greatest Countdown Podcast ever continues as we dip into the 2100's for the first time.  2 great songs that started out as 50's-60's classics and then were remade into 80's Top 10 hits, one song from each side of the timeline! The Stones are back with a bit of a chart oddity; Mariah Carey is back with a hit that charted between the great SoundScan dividing line of December 1991 (The biggest dividing line in Billboard History).  Another wonderful instrumental, our 6th one in the last 3 podcasts, all of them classics.  And 8 Casey-era songs from the 70's and 80's, including the first hit on the countdown from John Cougar Mellencamp.  And what were the greatest songs that peaked at #16?  Such a wonderful, fascinating journey of the greatest hits in Billboard History.  Wanna hitch a ride?I am in no way affiliated with Billboard or with American Top 40.  I'm just a huge fan that loves to talk about pop music.  I hope you enjoy.  

Leave me fan mail message!Episode 40 discusses songs #2220-#2201, as we inch closer and closer to the #1 song in Billboard History.  Artists featured include:| The Rolling Stones| Neil Diamond| Lady Gaga| Dr. Hook| Air Supply| Guns n' Roses| Billy Idol| Alicia KeysThe Greatest Countdown Podcast ever continues as we've now reviewed 800 songs over 40 episodes!  Episode 40 features several overdramatic love ballads, (A Billboard Countdown staple), 2 more famous instrumentals, and return visits from Countdown heavyweights like The Rolling Stones, Madonna and Guns n' Roses.  Plus what I think is the oddest Pop Arena Anthem I've ever heard.  And what is the greatest song of all time that peaked at #17?  We'll find out in this episode.  Come join this wonderful podcast community, you won't regret it!