Trivia / American Country Countdown

• Colbert Bump: Bob played the Ricky Skaggs album cut "Halfway Home Cafe" on a 2002 episode, and the resulting airplay was enough to get the song on the charts.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: An unintentional example with Brad Paisley's "I Wish You'd Stay". On an early-2003 show, Bob announced that the song just missed the Top 10, peaking at #11, and was on its way down. A few weeks later, the song suddenly started picking up again, going on to peak at #7. (The country charts usually have very linear up-and-down runs, as they're tabulated from weekly gains in airplay, so it was very unusual for a song to suddenly rebound after what looked like a clear-cut peak.)
• Dueling Shows: The show competes with Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40, The Crook & Chase Countdown (hosted by longtime television personalities Lorianne Crook and Charlie Chase) and CMT's Country Countdown USA (with Lon Helton, a former executive of Radio & Records, plus a different singer as a Guest Host every week). Previous competitors included The Weekly Country Music Countdown and The Foxworthy Countdown, hosted by comedian Jeff Foxworthy.
• Executive Meddling: Kix cut the show down from 40 to 30 (although it remained a four-hour show) because program directors were supposedly "uncomfortable" with the songs in the 31-40 range. Apparently this was easier than the directors adding said songs to their playlists. (The show has since reverted to 40.)
• The Pete Best: Original host Don Bowman, whose work on the show has become all but forgotten, since shows have not been rerun and the better-known tenure of Bob Kingsley, the producer-turned-successor host, became associated with the show's success.
• The Runner-Up Takes It All: Pretty much avoided during the Kingsley era for its year-end countdowns, in particular the 1980s when the show compiled its own year-end countdown (although based on the Billboard magazine's country chart), when ranking any song that did not reach No. 1 within that year's top-10. The only time during the 1980s when that happened was 1982, when Hank Williams Jr. had that year's No. 8 song with his iconic "A Country Boy Can Survive," which spent three weeks at No. 2 that April. During that era, a song pretty much had to reach No. 1 to be ranked in the top 10 of the entire year.