Robbed hit of the week 7/22/19 - Counting Crows' "Einstein On The Beach (For An Eggman)"...
from the album DGC Rarities Vol. 1 (1994)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: ineligible to chart
Billboard Hot 100 airplay peak: #45
This week's "robbed hit" comes from the alternative rock band Counting Crows, whose debut album August and Everything After had already spun off two big radio hits with "Mr. Jones" and "Round Here", which had enough airplay to make the top-40 on Billboard magazine's component part of the Hot 100 chart, but since neither were released commercially as a single, they were ineligible to appear on the official pop chart in America at that time. They had also contributed a song that didn't make it to the album to a compilation put together by the Geffen/Universal group of record labels that was titled DGC Rarities Vol. 1. The set contained unreleased material from Nirvana, Beck, Hole, Weezer, Sonic Youth and more, but it was the track from the Counting Crows that had alternative radio's interest. "Einstein On The Beach", written by lead singer Adam Duritz and guitarist David Bryson, was an upbeat mental flow that entered the chart a week after the band's "official" third single, "Rain King", did, but quickly overpassed it in popularity, despite the band's refusal to film a video for it or promote it in anyway...
While "Einstein On The Beach" went all the way to #1 on Billboard's Modern/Alternative Rock radio chart, their sole entry to do so, the song missed the Hot 100 Airplay top-40 by a few notches in September of 1994.
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