 And the first station on the coast, KAST, Astoria, Oregon. Welcome to American Top 40. I'm Casey Kasem, and we're doing our weekly countdown of the most popular songs in the USA. We've got the nine biggest hits still to come. Number nine. Here's the 30-year-old Englishman whose song peaked at number five. Last week it dropped to number eight. Now falls another notch. Here's Howard Jones, always the optimist with Things Can Only Get Better.