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    Posted: 02 January 2021 at 8:55am
For anyone here who was working in radio in 1991 when this song was on the charts, did this song get any airplay? I imagine it would have been considered too hard even
for Top 40 radio, but I suppose some stations may have played it at only certain times of the day. Also, if it did have some airplay, was it the Album/Single Version
that was played or the Radio Edit running about 4 Minutes from the Promo CD Single? I know the song got up to #16 on the Hot 100 and I'm sure the majority of its chart
points came from Sales. I can honestly say the only time I heard it on the radio was on "American Top 40" with Shadoe Stevens.
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I wasn't working in top 40 at that time, but the song did actually peak at #36 on the R&R CHR chart. You're probably right about sales being a big reason behind its much higher Hot 100 peak, but didn't Billboard's formula also include airplay from other formats, like Mainstream Rock and video airplay on MTV?

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I know Shadoe Stevens played it during its chart run, however, it was severely edited and I think it ran around 2 minutes.
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I still do not know what the official edit of this sounds like. I found a
few on YouTube and this one seems the most legit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgWdl1XOFJg

Can anyone confirm if this is the "official" edit found on the promo
CD (https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/589409?ev=rb)?

I don't remember for sure if they played this song on my local top
40 station back in 1991 but I do believe they did. If they did it was
surely the LP version since I have never heard an official edit of it in
my life. I do know that same station never played Nirvana's "Smells
Like Teen Spirit" edit back then, only the LP version.
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That’s the official edit. The intro is unique; it’s a new mix from the
multitrack rather than a straight edit. Beyond the intro, nothing else
stands out to me as being different with the mix, but I’ve never done a
close A/B.
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Originally posted by aaronk aaronk wrote:

You're probably right about sales being a
big reason behind its much higher Hot 100 peak, but didn't
Billboard's formula also include airplay from other
formats, like Mainstream Rock and video airplay on MTV?


At the time "Enter Sandman" peaked at #16, it was still
just a combination of (mostly) CHR airplay and sales. In
fact, the song peaked at #3 on the sales chart and didn't
even crack the airplay chart in Billboard. MTV play was
never a direct factor in the Hot 100 (though it obviously
influenced what many radio stations played).
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The bulk of my memory of this song did come from MTV. I was not
a big Metallica fan nor were my friends until this song went into
heavy rotation on MTV. Aaron are you saying just the intro is a new
mix or the entire song?
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The intro is for sure. The rest doesn't sound like a different mix, but
again, I haven’t done a close A/B.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote chendagam Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04 January 2021 at 8:35pm
I tried to A/B this track and the edit sounds like a hotter mix to
me but I'm far from an expert. Plus I'm using a YouTube source
since the promo CD is so expensive. I do like how the intro is
exclusive to this edit but man it tears the buildup down so much.
That song is all about the buildup to the first verse. They also
cut 4 bars out after the first chorus. In addition they fade the
song out early and I love the long fade on the album version. If I
were to edit this track I would probably try not to mess with it too
much. Tomorrow I'm going to make an attempt at the following
for the intro:
leave first 4 bars
cut second 4
leave 8
trim next 12 down to 4
trim next 8 down to 4
and not touch the rest.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote aaronk Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04 January 2021 at 10:57pm
I just A/B'd the Edit with the album version. After the intro, the mix is identical between the two. No hotter mix--just editing.
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