AC Chart Sans Recurrent Rules (12/3/04)

[JCMF3]

The Mediabase chart has been going wacky the last few updates.  Christmas songs that were over 650 spins on the 11 AM PST update on Sunday are now below 500 spins.  It's very confusing as to what is happening, but here is the chart from the 6:15 PM PST update.

LW   TW   Artist - Song
01    01   Los Lonely Boys - Heaven 11 weeks @ #1
02   02   Keith Urban - You'll Think Of Me
04   03   Martina McBride - In My Daughter's Eyes
06   04   Phil Collins - Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away
05   05   Maroon 5 - This Love
03   06   Five For Fighting - 100 Years 18 weeks @ #1
08   07   Hall & Oates - I'll Be Around
09   08   Elton John - Answer In The Sky
07   09   Dido - White Flag 1 week @ #1
12   10   Seal - Love's Divine
13   11   Michael McDonald - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
10   12   Sheryl Crow - The First Cut Is The Deepest
15   13   Train - Calling All Angels 2 weeks @ #1
23   14   Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved
RE   15   Jose Feliciano - Feliz Navidad 2 weeks @ #1
14   16   Uncle Kracker f/ Dobie Gray - Drift Away 23 weeks @ #1
11   17   Martina McBride - This One's For The Girls 4 weeks @ #1
RE   18   Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas
RE   19   Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song (Chesnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
RE   20   Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock
21   21   Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway
18   22   Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying
22   23   Hoobastank - The Reason
RE   24   Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree 1 week @ #1
17   25   matchbox twenty - Unwell 2 weeks @ #1
RE   26   Bing Crosby - White Christmas
RE   27   The Carpenters - Merry Christmas Darling 1 week @ #1
16   28   Kimberley Locke - Eighth World Wonder
RE   29   Burl Ives - Holly Jolly Christmas
RE   30   The Eagles - Please Come Home For Christmas

Droppers:
Josh Groban - You Raise Me Up 6 weeks @ #1
Shania Twain - Forever & For Always 10 weeks @ #1
Counting Crows f/ Vanessa Carlton - Big Yellow Taxi
Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles 9 weeks @ #1
Luther Vandross - Dance With My Father
Santana f/ Michelle Branch - The Game Of Love 4 weeks @ #1
Alicia Keys - If I Ain't Got You
3 Doors Down - Here Without You
Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance 10 weeks @ #1

Next Up:
John Lennon - Happy Christmas (War Is Over)
Andy Williams - Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime
Wham! - Last Christmas
Band-Aid - Do They Know It's Christmastime

[Whi$tlin' Pete]

Yes, the AC spin totals are all over the place. The new Josh Groban hit was moving 26-11 at the noon update, at 6:15 it was pushed back to number 18. Just hope it stabilizes from here on in. I remember going through the same thing last year.

[Matt4319]

I'm guessing a lot of stations went all-Christmas on Friday (the day after Thanksgiving), but I'm not sure why the spins dropped precipitously between updates on Sunday (when they would presumably go into effect on Saturday because of the one-day delay).

[chebingeo]

WLYF went all Christmas on Friday, but went back to regular programming on Saturday with 1 Christmas song in each music set.

[smack]

where is josh groban on this chart? He's at #2 currently, so he should've been somewhere about top 8 or so on your chart!

[JCMF3]

smack said:

where is josh groban on this chart?  He's at #2 currently, so he should've been somewhere about top 8 or so on your chart!

He might be #2 on the a1M chart, but R&R uses the a1R chart, and as of Sunday's update, he was just barely in the top 20.