Hot 100 Debuts - June 1982

We're seven weeks into 2015 and six months into 1982 and HERC has finished working up the last six months of 1982, ranking each song as it debuts on the Hot 100 as well as each week's group of debuts to determine the top ranked songs as well as the strongest weeks single-wise based on six chart factors.  (See previous Hot 100 Debuts posts for more details.)  HERC is actually consulting two Record Research books to gather all of the data needed for his computations:

June 1982 featured just 29 debuting singles on the Hot 100. HERC will be including nearly half of those singles - all marked by asterisk on the chart below - on his Most Favorite Songs Of 1982 list which will be published shortly after he runs down and reviews the Hot 100 Debuts from December 1982 on April 1st, 2015.  Below are the complete four weeks worth of singles from June 1982:

Hot 100 debut	debut pos		title	artist
6/5/1982	57	*	What Kind Of Fool Am I	Rick Springfield	168
6/5/1982	73	*	Eye Of The Tiger	Survivor	218
6/5/1982	75	*	Hard To Say I’m Sorry	Chicago	210
6/5/1982	77		I Found Somebody	Glenn Frey	144
6/5/1982	81	*	If You Want My Love	Cheap Trick	116
6/5/1982	83		Hooked On Swing	Larry Elgart and his Manhattan Swing Orchestra	145
6/5/1982	85		Street Corner	Ashford and Simpson	93
6/5/1982	87		Soup For One	Chic	45
6/5/1982	88		I Really Don’t Need No Light	Jeffrey Osborne	129
6/5/1982	89		How Can You Love Me	Ambrosia	33
6/5/1982	90	*	Paperlate	Genesis	143
					131
6/12/1982	52	*	Keep The Fire Burnin’	REO Speedwagon	195
6/12/1982	66	*	Going To A Go-Go (live)	Rolling Stones	158
6/12/1982	67	*	Even The Nights Are Better	Air Supply	198
6/12/1982	69		Out Of Work	Gary U.S. Bonds	166
6/12/1982	82	*	Landslide	Olivia Newton-John	103
6/12/1982	87		(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay	The Reddings	95
6/12/1982	88		So Fine	Oak Ridge Boys	52
6/12/1982	89		Loveline	Dr. Hook	86
					132
6/19/1982	33	*	Hold Me	Fleetwood Mac	206
6/19/1982	69	*	Your Imagination	Hall & Oates	139
6/19/1982	83		Happy Hour	Deodato	65
6/19/1982	88		To Dream The Dream	Frankie Miller	80
6/19/1982	89	*	No One Like You	Scorpions	75
					113
6/26/1982	48	*	Wasted On The Way	Crosby, Stills & Nash	191
6/26/1982	71		Route 101	Herb Alpert	131
6/26/1982	73		American Music	Pointer Sisters	175
6/26/1982	79	*	Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)	Donna Summer	187
6/26/1982	82		Don’t Talk	Larry Lee	41
					145

The highest scoring song among the June 1982 debuts is Survivor's summer monster "Eye Of The Tiger", one of three songs to score 200+ points this month.  The best scoring week of the month was the fourth week with an average of 145 points among five songs.  HERC's pick for underdog of the month is Scorpions and their song "No One Like You", which debuted at #89 in the Hot 100 on the chart dated 6/19/82.  It peaked at #65 four weeks later before beginning a three week skid down and off the chart.  By the time the song debuted on the Hot 100, it had already spent 11 weeks over on the Top Tracks chart where it debuted at #34 on 4/3/82 and had the following trajectory: 34 (debut), 20, 17, 4 (album featured on cover), 3, 3, 2, 4, 1 (5/29/82 - knocking Asia's "Heat Of The Moment" out the box), 4 (vanquished by Rainbow's "Stone Cold"), 3, 4 (debuts on  Hot 100), 4, 13, 25, 28, 14, 59 (final week on Top Tracks before becoming classic rock radio staple).

We asked HERC to work up the Top 5 weeks and Top 20 Songs now that he's halfway through 1982.  But first he wanted to establish the averages and medians.

		debut pos		title	artist	pts	peak pos	total wks
	median	83		<song title>	<song artist>	130	38	11
	avgs	81		<song title>	<song artist>	126	40	12

Top 5 Weeks (Jan-Jun 1982)

		week	pts	singles
	1	1/16	162	11
	2	1/9	156	5
	3	5/1	145	9
	4	6/26	145	5
	5	5/22	144	12

Top 22 Songs By Points (Jan-Jun 1982)

	Hot 100 debut	debut pos		title	artist	pts	pk pos
1	6/5	73	*	Eye Of The Tiger	Survivor	218	1
2	2/6	63	*	I Love Rock N Roll	Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	214	1
3	4/10	29		Ebony & Ivory	Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder	214	1
4	3/6	86	*	Don't You Want Me	Human League	211	1
5	4/24	82	*	Hurts So Good	John Cougar	211	2
6	5/29	75	*	Abracadabra	Steve Miller Band	211	1
7	4/17	81	*	Rosanna	Toto	210	2
8	6/5	75	*	Hard To Say I’m Sorry	Chicago	210	1
9	1/16	57	*	Open Arms	Journey	210	2
10	3/6	57	*	Don't Talk to Strangers	Rick Springfield	208	2
11	1/30	79	*	We Got The Beat	The Go-Go's	207	2
12	1/16	72	*	That Girl	Stevie Wonder	207	2
13	6/19	33	*	Hold Me	Fleetwood Mac	206	4
14	3/6	84		I've Never Been To Me	Charlene	205	3
15	1/23	88	*	867-5309/Jenny	Tommy Tutone	204	4
16	1/16	90	*	Tainted Love	Soft Cell	203	8
17	4/24	88	*	Let It Whip	Dazz Band	203	4
18	3/20	77	*	The Other Woman	Ray Parker Jr.	203	4
19	2/20	67	*	Freeze-Frame	J. Geils Band	203	5
20	4/17	68	*	Heat Of The Moment	Asia	202	4
21	3/6	88	*	Always On My Mind	Willie Nelson	201	5
22	5/22	76	*	You Should Hear How She Talks About You	Melissa Manchester	200	5

Ever the over-giver, HERC ranked all 22 songs that have scored more than 200 points complete with tie-breaker rules as outlined in a previous post.  There have been 218 singles up to this point - only 208 more to go!