http://www.realitytvmagazine.com/blog/2005/06/hit_me_baby_one_1.html
Hit Me Baby One More Time Is A Ratings Success
Thursday night's debut of "Hit Me Baby One More Time" hit the highest adult 18-49 rating for a new summer unscripted series premiere in two years, winning its slot among all adult viewers under the age of 50, according to updated in-home viewing figures from Nielsen Media Research.
From 9-9:59 p.m. ET, the premiere of "Hit Me Baby One More Time" (4.7 rating, 13 share in 18-49, 8.9 million viewers overall) scored the highest debut rating for a new unscripted summer series since June 3, 2003 (Fox's "American Juniors") and matched NBC's best 18-49 rating for a summer reality series debut in nearly three years ("Meet My Folks" on July 22, 2002). "Hit Me" improved the time period by 62 percent in adults 18-49 versus NBC's performance on the same night last year (4.7 vs. a 2.9 with comedy encores).
"Hit Me Baby One More Time" was #1 in adults, men and women 18-49 and adults, men and women 18-34, beating all competition including CBS' "CSI" rebroadcast and ABC's "Charlie's Angels" encore. "Hit Me" built on its 18-49 lead-in by 57 percent (4.7 vs. 3.0).
"Hit Me Baby" is the #1 primetime telecast of the week to date in adults 18-49 and is also tied for the highest 18-49 rating of any primetime telecast since the end of the May sweep (tying the May 26 encore telecast of CBS' "CSI").
•Diesel's "Sausalito Summer Nights
•"Switching To Glide" by the Kings
•"Tired of Toein' the Line" from Rocky Burnett
•"Heat of the Moment" by Asia
•Peter Schilling's "Major Tom (Coming Home)"
BTW, Ace's "How Long" was first released in 1974 on Polydor.
Guess we weren't the only ones watching the show!
A lot of the artists mentioned here had more than one hit.
Vanilla Ice had 2 Top 40 hits ("Play That Funky Music" and "Ice Ice Baby"). Tommy Tutone had 2 Top 40 hits ("Angel Say No" and "867-5309/Jenny"). Flock of Seagulls had 3 Top 40 hits ("I Ran (So Far Away)", "Space Age Love Song", and "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)"). Corey Hart had 9 Top 40 hits ("It Ain't Enough", "Sunglasses At Night", "Boy in the Box", "Everything in My Heart", "Never Surrender", "Can't Help Falling in Love", "I Am By Your Side", "In Your Soul", and "A Little Love"). The Knack had 3 Top 40 hits ("Good Girls Don't", "My Sharona", and "Baby Talks Dirty").