Hits That Never Hit

COVER STORY
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he following is a Yist of the Artist -"Title" (Label) for records picked in our "Next On The Charts" section last year. Those in bold type eventually reached the
iTop
Pop 100 in either Billboard or Cashbox subsequent to being picked, with a notation as to the trade and date it first broke into the charts.
AC/DC -"Thunderstruck" (Atco)
After Shock -"Always Thinking" (Virgin)
Alabama -"Jukebox In My Mind" (RCA)
Alias -"Haunted Heart" (EMI)
The Allman Bros. -"Good Clean Fun" (Epic)
Arthur Baker -"The Message Is Love" (A&M)
Big Audio Dynamite -"Contact" (Columbia)
David Bowie -"Fame 90" (Ryko)
Kate Bush -"Love & Anger" (Columbia)
Ray Charles -"I'll Take Care Of You" (Warner Bros.)
Cheap Trick -"If You Need Me" (Epic)
Cinderella -"Shelter Me" (Mercury) (B) 12/08
Cocteau Twins -"Iceblink" (Capitol)
Alice Cooper -"Only My Heart Talkin'" (Epic)
(B)04/28(C)05/05
Crosby, Stills & Nash -"Live It Up" (Atlantic)
Crosby, Stills & Nash -"If Anybody Had A Heart" (Atlantic)
The Cure -"Lullaby" (Elektra) (C)11/25 (8)12/02
Terence Trent D'Arby -"This Side Of Love" (Columbia)
D-Nice -"Crumbs On The Table" (Jive)
Danger Danger -"Don't Walk Away" (Imagine-Epic)
Taylor Dayne-"Love Will Lead You Back"(Arisa)
(B,C)01/27
Depeche Mode -"Personal Jesus"(Sire)(B)12/09(C) 12/16
Dio -"Wild One" (Reprise)
Bob Dylan -"Political World" (Columbia)
Bob Dylan -"Unbelievable" (Columbia)
Earth Wind & Fire -"Wanna Be The Man" (Columbia)
Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine -"Oye Mi Canto"
(Epic)(B,C)04/07
Fine Young Cannibals-Tm Not Satisfied"(I.R.S.)(C)02/17
(B)02/24
Fleetwood Mac -"Skies The Limit" (Warner Bros.)
The Force MD's -"Are You Really Real?" (Tommy Boy)
Peter Frampton -"More Ways Than One" (Atlantic)
Giant -"Innocent Days" (A&M)
The Go Go's -"Cool Jerk" (A&M)
Guys Next Door -"I Was Made For You" (SBK)
Colin James Hay -"Into My Life" (MCA)
Don Henley -"How Bad Do You Want It1 (Geffen)
(B)07/07 (C)07/21
Howard Hewett -"Show Me" (Elektra) (B)05/26 (C)06/02
Jermaine Jackson -"Don't Take It Personal" (Arista)
(C) 11/18 (8)12/02
Jane's Addiction -"Stop" (Warner Bros.)
The Jeff Healey Band -"I Think I Love You Too Much"(Arista)
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts -"Love Hurts"(Blackheart /Epic)
Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers -"That's What I Like"
(Atco) (B)02/03(C)02/10
Oran 'Juice' Jones -"Shaniqua" (Columbia)
Katrina & The Waves -"We Gotta Get Out Of This Place"
(SBK)
Sam Kinison -"Under My Thumb" (Warner Bros.)
The Kinks -"Down All The Way (MCA)
Kiss -"Rise To It1 (PolyGram) (8)06/09 (C)06/16
Klymaxx -"Good Love" (MCA)
LA. Guns -"Never Enough" (PolyGram)
LA. Guns -"I Wanna Be Your Man" (PolyGram)
LL Cool J -"Around The Way Girl"(Def Jam)
(B) 12/01(C) 12/08
Stacy Lattisaw -"Where Do We Go From Here" (Motown)
The Lightning Seeds -"All I Want" (MCA)
Little Feat -"Texas Twister" (Warner Bros.)
Living Colour -Type" (Epic)
Loverboy -'Too Hot" (Columbia) (C) 12/02 (8)12/23
Madonna -"Vogue" (Sire) (B,C)04/14
John Mayall -"Sensitive Kind" (Island)
Paul McCartney -"We Got Married" (Capitol)
Michael McDonald -"Take It To Heart" (Reprise)
(8)06/09 (C)06/16
Michael McDonald -"Tear It Up" (Warner Bros.)
Glenn Medeiros -"Me-U = Blue" (MCA) (C)11/03(8)11/10
George Michael -"Praying For Time" (Columbia)(8)09/01
Bette Midler-"From A Distance" (Atlantic) (B,C) 10/06
Stephanie Mills -"Comfort Of A Man" (MCA)
Eddie Money -"Peace In Our Time" (Columbia)(B,C) 12/02
Peter Murphy -"Cuts You Up"(Beggar's Banquet)
(B)03/24(C)03/31
The Neville Brothers -"Bird On A Wire" (A&M)
New Kids On The Block -"Games" (Columbia)
Nuclear Valdez -"Summer" (Epic)
Tommy Page -"Turn On The Radio" (Warner Bros.)
Pajama Party -"Hide & Seek" (Atlantic) (8)03/10 (C)03/17
Teddy Pendergrass & Lisa Fisher-"Glad To Be Alive"(Elektra)
Robert Plant -"Your Ma Said You Cried In Your Sleep Last
Night" (EsParanza)
Poco -The Nature Of Love" (RCA)
Poison -"Unskinny Bop" (Enigma) (B,C)07/07
Pretenders -"Never Do That" (Sire)
REO Speedwagon -"Live It Up" (Epic)
Ratt -"Lovin1 You's A Dirty Job" (Atlantic)
Ratt -"Shame, Shame, Shame" (Atlantic)
Smokey Robinson -"(It's The) Same Old Love" (Motown)
Roxatte -"It Must Have Been Love" (EMI) (B,C)04/07
Rush -"Show Don't Tell" (Atlantic)
Scorpions -"Tease Me, Please Me" (Mercury)
Michelle Shocked -"On The Greener Side" (Mercury)
Carly Simon -"Better Not Tell Her" (Arista)
The Simpsons -"Do The Bartman" (Geffen) (C) 12/08
Soup Dragons -"I'm Free" (PolyGram)
Lisa Stansfield -"All Around The World" (Arista)
(B,C)02/03
Steve Stone -"Faces In The Rain" (Epic)
Styx -"Love Is The Ritual" (A&M) (8)10/20 (C)10/27
Styx -"Show Me The Way" (A&M) (8)12/08 (C)12/15
Keith Sweat -"I'll Give All My Love To You" (Elektra)
(B,C) 12/01
Tesla -"The Way It Is" (Geffen) (8)03/10 (C)03/17
Tiffany -"New Inside" (MCA)
Tony! Toni! Tone!-"Feels Good"(PolyGram) (8)09/01
(C)09/08
Traveling Wilburys -"She's My Baby" (Warner Bros.)
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