AT10 - October 23, 2004

[Hervard]

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
01 01 Heaven/Los Lonely Boys
02 02 This Love/Maroon5
03 03 100 Years/Five For Fighting
04 04 White Flag/Dido
06 05 This One's For The Girls/Martina McBride
05 06 Ain't No Mountain High Enough/Michael McDonald
07 07 Love's Divine/Seal
08 08 You'll Think Of Me/Keith Urban
XX 09 In My Daughter's Eyes/Martina McBride
10 10 Here Without You/3 Doors Down
NEW: Answer In The Sky/Elton John

Dropped:
From #9: You Raise Me Up/Josh Groban

AT10 Extras:
Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance)/Green Day
How Long/Ace
Let Me Love You Tonight/Pure Prairie League

Long Distance Dedications:
Ordinary World/Duran Duran
100 Years/Five For Fighting

AT10 Archives:
1972: Too Late To Turn Back Now/Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
1975: Dance With Me/Orleans
1978: Sometimes When We Touch/Dan Hill
1984: I Just Called To Say I Love You/Stevie Wonder
1985: Take On Me/a-ha
1986: I'll Be Over You/Toto
1988: One Moment In Time/Whitney Houston
1988: The Way You Make Me Feel/Michael Jackson
1993: In The Still Of The Nite/Boyz II Men

AT10 Spotlight: Triple Crown Winners
Come Back To Me/Janet Jackson (#1 Urban, Pop and AC)
Every Morning/Sugar Ray (Alternative, Pop and Hot AC)
Downtown Train/Rod Stewart (Pop, Rock, and AC)
Hello/Lionel Richie (Urban, Pop, and AC)
Breathe/Faith Hill (Country, Hot AC, and AC)
Every Breath You Take/The Police (Rock, Pop, and AC)
Nothing Compares 2 U/Sinead O'Connor (Pop, Alternative, AC)
The Tide Is High/Blondie (Pop, Dance and AC)
Vision Of Love/Mariah Carey

The Spotlight was pretty good, especially compared to last week's snoozefest.  I liked the way they varied the charts on which all the songs went to number one rather than just did songs that went to #1 on Urban, AC and Pop, or the same three of other formats.  However, I think Casey made a slight faux pas.  Did he say that "Hello" went to #1 on Pop?  If so, that's not right, because on the R&R chart, the song only got as high as number two, edged out by "Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) by Phil Collins.  I highly doubt that he was using Billboards stats, but even if he was, then there was a mistake in that case, since "Downtown Train" by Rod Stewart peaked at number three on the Hot 100.  Oh well, "Hello" was one of R&R's biggest hits of 1984, so I guess that's not a serious mistake.  I do know that that grossly overplayed pile of cowplop that they call "All Night Long (All Night)" peaked at #1 on Pop and AC, but I don't know about Urban.  But I'd much rather hear "Hello".  Anyway, back to the topic...
I was pleasantly surprised to hear Elton John's new hit "Answer In The Sky" even though it has not yet hit the Top Ten.  A few times, they have played yet-to-chart songs as part of the spotlight, but this was just introed as a song that's bubbling under the Top Ten.  Could they be considering taking to heart my suggestion of occasionally playing a future hit? 
I was also glad to hear Martina McBride's new song.  It's a very touching song that brought a few tears to my eyes.  It could be my next personal #1 song after the Newsong/Natalie Grant collaboration runs its course up there.
"Heaven" continues to rule the roost and could continue to do so for awhile, since I don't foresee any new number one songs in the near future.

[Mega248]

ulij20 said:

Dropped:
From #9: In My Daughter's Eyes

Shouldn't that be Josh Groban- "You Raise Me Up"?

[Arson]

I woke up too late to hear the show again. :(

Thank you for posting this.

[Topay]

Two questions: (1) what about the songs at the 2 ends of the countdown?  I know "Here Without You" was #1 on Pop and Hot AC, and I know "Heaven" was #1 on Triple A and is currently #1 on AC.  Did either of those songs top a third chart?

(2) I know "This Love" is a Triple Crown winner, having topped Pop, Hot AC, and AC (AT10).  Did Casey mention this fact upon introing Maroon5?

[Jeff]

Arson said:

I woke up too late to hear the show again.  :(

I usually don't hear AT10 at all.

AT10 is aired every Sunday--from 9 am to 12 pm (Central Time)--on WJKK (Mix 98.7).

And I don't listen to WJKK very often, anyway.

I usually listen to WWJK (94-7 Jack FM)--a Hot AC(?) station that debuted September 2.

[johnnywest]

Did Casey actually say "Hot AC"? It's very rare to here those words spoken on radio. However, Leeza Gibbons says it quite frequently. Often when introing a song, she'll say, "Here's the current #1 on the Hot AC chart this week..."

[Topay]

johnnywest said:

Did Casey actually say "Hot AC"? It's very rare to here those words spoken on radio. However, Leeza Gibbons says it quite frequently. Often when introing a song, she'll say, "Here's the current #1 on the Hot AC chart this week..." 

I did get to listen to the segment that featured Faith's "Breathe", and he said:

...Here's a song that topped the Country, Hot Adult Contemporary, and AC charts...

He specifically said the full words, not just "Hot AC". I would assume he did the same for Sugar Ray's song.

[Hervard]

topay said:

Two questions: (1) what about the songs at the 2 ends of the countdown?  I know "Here Without You" was #1 on Pop and Hot AC, and I know "Heaven" was #1 on Triple A and is currently #1 on AC.  Did either of those songs top a third chart?

(2) I know "This Love" is a Triple Crown winner, having topped Pop, Hot AC, and AC (AT10).  Did Casey mention this fact upon introing Maroon5?

I don't believe that Casey mentioned that any of the above songs were triple crown winners.

[Hervard]

I forgot to mention, when Casey mentioned that coming up was an extra by Paul Carrack. That sort of implied that he was going to play one of his few solo songs and I was wondering, was he going to play his #2-peaker "For Once In Our Lives"? I was hoping so, since that's one of my favorite songs of all time (I especially started liking it after a weird dream that I had involving that song. But that was not to be. Instead, they played "How Long" by Ace, on which Paul sang lead. Oh well, at least we didn't have to listen to "The Living Years"...

[BillboardBoy]

He specifically said the full words, not just "Hot AC". I would assume he did the same for Sugar Ray's song.

There's only one other instance where I can remember Casey saying "The Hot Adult Contemporary." It was for the Top 100 songs of 2003. When introducing song #100 by John Mayer, he said that John was the #1 Hot Adult Contemporary artist of that year.

I'm guessing that the general audience doesn't quite undertand what Hot AC is (except for Leeza's audience) so that's why it's hardly ever referenced. How often do you hear DJ's talking about recurrents and breakers?

[smack]

Heaven I believe was held to #2 for a bunch of weeks by Maroon 5's This love and/or The reason.  Not sure how many weeks at #2 offhand though.

topay said:

Two questions: (1) what about the songs at the 2 ends of the countdown?  I know "Here Without You" was #1 on Pop and Hot AC, and I know "Heaven" was #1 on Triple A and is currently #1 on AC.  Did either of those songs top a third chart?

(2) I know "This Love" is a Triple Crown winner, having topped Pop, Hot AC, and AC (AT10).  Did Casey mention this fact upon introing Maroon5?

[BillboardBoy]

I forgot to mention, when Casey mentioned that coming up was an extra by Paul Carrack. That sort of implied that he was going to play one of his few solo songs and I was wondering, was he going to play his #2-peaker "For Once In Our Lives"?

I think the way it was worded was: "Coming up, an AT10 extra sung by Paul Carrack..."

The only solo hit from him I could think of was "I Live By The Groove" and I'm glad that wasn't played. I never cared for it.

[Hervard]

I almost forgot about "I Live By The Groove". That song looked like it was going to be a huge hit when it was released around this time back in 1989, but it hit a brick wall.

[Michael1973]

He also had the top ten song "Don't Shed A Tear" in 1988. Good song, but I'm not surprised he didn't play it since it's hardly ever heard anymore, especially on AC radio.