Billboard Year End Chart 2004 Notes
Dec 18, 2004 0:57:38 GMT -5
Post by RobM88 on Dec 18, 2004 0:57:38 GMT -5
The top four Hot Adult Contemporary artists are Dido, Twain, Crow and Martina McBride. Rounding out the top 10 is an all-male list: Five for Fighting, Josh Groban, Michael McDonald, Matchbox Twenty, Train and Seal. That's a reversal from last year, when the only females in the year-end AC top 10 were Avril Lavigne at No. 4 and Michelle Branch at No. 9.
Although Dido's "White Flag" never went to No. 1 on a weekly AC chart, it is the top title of 2004 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Singles & Tracks recap. It's the first time Dido has had the No. 1 AC song of the year. In 2001, her song "Thank You" ranked No. 4 for the year, and in 2002 the same song ranked sixth.
The top five of the tracks chart is fleshed out by Crow's "The First Cut Is the Deepest" (A&M/Interscope), Five for Fighting's "100 Years" (Aware/Columbia), Uncle Kracker Featuring Dobie Gray's "Drift Away" (Lava)¡Xwhich was also the No. 3 AC song of 2003¡Xand Shania Twain's "Forever and for Always" (Mercury/IDJMG)¡Xagain, a chart-topper last year, which finished 2003 at No. 10.
Notably, "Drift Away" continues its seeming endless hold on AC playlists, preparing to begin a third year on the chart. By the turn of the calendar into 2005, the song will be approaching 100 weeks on the survey. But the achievement is still shy of the all-time record of 124 weeks on the weekly AC chart by Savage Garden's 1999 smash "I Knew I Loved You."
Likewise, hits by Michael McDonald, Dido, Crow and Matchbox Twenty also have logged more than one year on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart, illustrating the format's plodding turnover rate for new music.
Although Dido's "White Flag" never went to No. 1 on a weekly AC chart, it is the top title of 2004 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Singles & Tracks recap. It's the first time Dido has had the No. 1 AC song of the year. In 2001, her song "Thank You" ranked No. 4 for the year, and in 2002 the same song ranked sixth.
The top five of the tracks chart is fleshed out by Crow's "The First Cut Is the Deepest" (A&M/Interscope), Five for Fighting's "100 Years" (Aware/Columbia), Uncle Kracker Featuring Dobie Gray's "Drift Away" (Lava)¡Xwhich was also the No. 3 AC song of 2003¡Xand Shania Twain's "Forever and for Always" (Mercury/IDJMG)¡Xagain, a chart-topper last year, which finished 2003 at No. 10.
Notably, "Drift Away" continues its seeming endless hold on AC playlists, preparing to begin a third year on the chart. By the turn of the calendar into 2005, the song will be approaching 100 weeks on the survey. But the achievement is still shy of the all-time record of 124 weeks on the weekly AC chart by Savage Garden's 1999 smash "I Knew I Loved You."
Likewise, hits by Michael McDonald, Dido, Crow and Matchbox Twenty also have logged more than one year on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart, illustrating the format's plodding turnover rate for new music.
