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This was our official Singing News Top 20 Countdown
edition, based on the chart appearing in the magazine's new July
issue. We actually managed to include all twenty songs this time, but we
had to skip having a Featured Artist on this program to be able to do it.
The reason, as I explained on the air, is because there are currently so
many lengthy songs in the Top 20 that we just couldn't fit everything in
otherwise. In fact, there are four five-minute-plus songs included in the
Top 20. That's something I can't recall ever happening in the 30 years I've
been doing this program. What's more, several of the other songs are also
longer than usual. ("Typical" song length is about three to three-and-a-half
minutes.) Our program has only a plus-or-minus five-second leeway for total
length each week to meet "network timing" requirements, so something had
to give. You might recall that last time (the June countdown) we had to begin
with number 18. This time we would have had to start at least with number
17, had we not eliminated the Featured Artists. 
