AT 40 With Ryan Seacrest 02/20/04

Yeah, he is. A bit low, methinks. But what can you do...

American Top 40 - February 21, 2004
LW TW Artist "Title"
-- 40 Janet Jackson "Just A Little While"
35 39 Dido "White Flag"
39 38 Alicia Keys "You Don't Know My Name"
-- 37 Maroon5 "This Love"
38 36 J.C. Chasez featuring Dirt McGirt "Some Girls (Dance With Women)"
-- 35 Nelly featuring Justin Timberlake "Work It (Remix)"
40 34 Sarah Connor "Bounce"
31 33 Maroon5 "Harder To Breathe"
28 32 Nelly, P. Diddy, and Murphy Lee "Shake Ya Tailfeather"
26 31 Chingy featuring Ludacris and Snoop Dogg "Holidae In"
Extra (AT40 Rewind, 2001): Jennifer Lopez "Love Don't Cost A Thing"
34 30 Black Eyed Peas featuring Justin Timberlake "Where Is The Love?"
27 29 Santana featuring Alex Band "Why Don't You And I"
30 28 50 Cent "In Da Club"
29 27 Fuel "Falls On Me"
32 26 Hilary Duff "Come Clean"
In Studio Guest: Simon Cowell
37 25 Nick Cannon featuring R. Kelly "Gigolo"
24 24 Murphy Lee featuring Jermaine Dupri "Wat Da Hook Gon Be"
21 23 Lil' Jon and The East Side Boyz featuring Ying Yang Twins "Get Low"
15 22 Trapt "Headstrong"
19 21 Kelly Clarkson "The Trouble With Love Is"
17 20 Beyonce' featuring Sean Paul "Baby Boy"
20 19 Sheryl Crow "The First Cut Is The Deepest"
16 18 Beyonce' "Me, Myself And I"
18 17 Good Charlotte "Hold On"
25 16 Twista featuring Kanye West and Jamie Foxx "Slow Jamz"
AT40 Correspondant: Tripp West (Star 94, Atlanta)
11 15 Kelis "Milkshake"
23 14 Usher featuring Lil' Jon and Ludacris "Yeah!"
14 13 Evanescence "My Immortal"
13 12 Simple Plan "Perfect"
09 11 No Doubt "It's My Life"
Extra (Out of the Box): Chingy featuring J. Weav "One Call Away"
07 10 Ludacris featuring Shawnna "Stand Up"
12 09 Eamon "F**k It (I Don't Want You Back)"
08 08 Linkin Park "Numb"
06 07 3 Doors Down "Here Without You"
10 06 Britney Spears "Toxic"
05 05 Jessica Simpson "With You"
03 04 Baby Bash featuring Frankie J. "Suga Suga"
02 03 OutKast "Hey Ya!"
04 02 Nickelback "Someday"
01 01 OutKast featuring Sleepy Brown "The Way You Move" ** 2 weeks @ no. 1 **

DROPPERS:
Liz Phair "Why Can't I?" (from 36)
Staind "So Far Away" (from 33)
Christina Aguilera "The Voice Within" (from 22)

NOTES/COMMENTARY:
[/li][li] Looks like Simon Cowell will be an in-studio guest later in the show. C'mon, you knew it was only a matter of time before AT40 cross-pollenated with American Idol.
[/li][li] 50 Cent: Why the blue f**k won't this song die!?! (Sorry, had to get that out of my system). Seriously, this is just nuts! >:(

jason check your PM.

I have to leave in 20 minutes or I'd do it. Cerebro will probably do it. ;)

Can you finshed for me and if not i will finsh the countdown on Saturday Morning Beause i live in Los Angeles Area and i will to the Countdown on 102.7 kiis fm

I suspect Janet to have a big jump next week similar to "Toxic"

Seems like AT40 may have adopted a recurrent rule similar to whatever it was in late 2000, with songs dropping out from inside the Top Ten. However, what is "In Da Club" still doing on the list? It was about this time in 2003 that it debuted, wasn't it? It needs to go!

I don't think they do... I think "Voice" would've taken a steep drop this week anyway, but probably wouldn't have fallen completely out if not for all the slower dropping (or rising!) recurrent songs clogging up the 20s and 30s.

i do see where you are coming from, it's just that Ryan has ZERO feeling in his voice, he's bland and dull, he's not the WORST thing to hit radio, but he's so not the best thing to happen to it either

I don't know how AT40 gets their calculations, but "White Flag" would be #30 on a recurrentless Mediabase chart, but AT40 has it at #39.

Maybe it will miraculosly jump 7 places next week to #32.

does anyone have a Mediabase code to look at this at40 chart, like H1R gives you the full R&R chart?

LOL: "White Flag" is receiving more spins than "In Da Club"


XM Radio
90's on 9
All 90's, no overplayed Hot AC hits such as
"Wherever You Will Go" or "Unwell".

I suppose if someone looked up the weekly playlists for every AT40 affiliate and added them together... which makes me wonder, do they also count airplay from the small-market affiliates that are unmonitored?

According to a staff member, the voting is just a "web-thing".

It is not actually a part of the chart--just something to give the website more interactivity.

I don't think the chart's based entirely on votes. Remember how at first, before any real voting could start, the chart was based on the playlists of all the stations running AT40 (or something like that?). I believe it's still partially based on that.
Back in the 1980's, a New York City DJ known as Scott Shannon had a show called the "Rockin' America Top 30 Countdown". From its inception in 1985 up to some point or other in 1990, the show followed the R&R chart, for the most part (i.e. think Rick Dees!), but in 1990 (my station had dropped the show, or so I thought, so I don't know exactly when), the show became a request countdown, but it was still partially based on the R&R charts. I think the new AT40 has the same concept.

Even if they are cheating for American Idols, all the songs on the countdown get one spin regardless of position except for possibly one song being played twice, and Kelly hasn't been played twice. "Eighth World Wonder" by Kimberley Locke and "The Way" by Clay Aiken could be more evidence if American Idols have an unfair advantage.