The Daily Dose/March 8, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
WE’RE IN FOR SOME DRY TECHNICAL MATTER, AREN’T WE?: Almost as much fun as doing the research that goes into certain aspects of your Daily Dose is telling you about it.
Here We Go: The inspiration for our latest round of exciting research was today’s Billboard chart history entry for our popular On This Date segment, which reports that on this date in 2003 50 Cent was at #1 on the Hot 100 for the first of nine consecutive weeks with In da Club.
If Dry, Technical Matter Is Inevitable…: The usual research turned up the usual tidbits you either love or completely despise – there is no middle ground, we’ve found – about the song: other countries the song went to #1 in, some brief chart history for 50 Cent, plus the fact that In da Club was the #1 song for the year on both the Hot 100 and Billboard’s soul chart.
Oh Yeah: (We realize “soul chart” is a bit of an anachronism and that hip-hop would probably be more appropriate, so sue us. We are still working under a special dispensation in this regard from St Casey Kasem himself.)
In The Wheelhouse: A song that is both the biggest pop and soul song of the year? Oh, baby, regular readers of this crap know a tidbit like this is right up our alley. Hell, we were surprised we hadn’t thought of this before and soon enough we were looking into when else, if ever, this had happened before.
FunFact: As it turned out, this was the fourth time in the Hot 100 era it had happened – more than we would’ve thought – and it also happened in 2014, 2018, 2019, and 2020.
The Bottom Line: The research was fun, and not really that hard because once you got to the 20th century you could automatically dismiss some year-end #1 pop songs…For example, songs by Olivia Newton-John, Wilson Philipps, and the Bangles didn’t demand soul chart consultation and we were pleased to have been able to add to your collective general fund of knowledge.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow shoots some baskets after his workout. Today’s Diary.
We still aren’t any good at shooting baskets, but we are getting better and even made consecutive free throws for the first time since the Reagan Administration.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 2014 – Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, service from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappears. The flight took off at 12:41 am local time with the last communication from the crew coming 38 minutes into the flight. Civilian radar lost contact over the Gulf of Thailand while military radar later had it traveling southeast, back over Malaysia and over the Gulf of Malacca before losing contact at 2:22 am. A communications satellite lost contact with the plane at 8:11 am and though some wreckage was later found, the cause of the disappearance still isn’t known.
In 1900 – The National League drops four teams, dropping from twelve teams to eight. Gone are the Cleveland Spiders, Baltimore Orioles, Louisville Colonels, and the Washington Senators, leaving teams in Chicago, New York, Brooklyn, Boston, St Louis, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati. Cleveland, Baltimore, and Washington would get American League teams the following year, while Louisville has had minor league teams since.
In 2003 – 50 Cent is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the first of nine consecutive weeks with In da Club. It was the second chart single for 50 Cent and his first of four #1 songs. The song went to #1 in eight other countries, including Croatia and Switzerland, peaked at #3 in Great Britain, and was in its fourth of eight consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart. In da Club was Billboard’s #1 pop and soul song for 2003, the fourth song to accomplish the feat and the first since I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston 1993 and When Doves Cry by Prince in 1984. It has been accomplished four times since.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
To do nothing…is an immense spiritual labor.
Gore Vidal
Creation
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Elisha Gray, instrumental in the development of the telephone – is considered the father of the synthesizer, holding over 70 patents for the instrument.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was the first song in the Hot 100 era that was the #1 pop and soul song for a calendar year? – Answer next time!
