American Top 40 (December 18, 2010)

[erzo01]

One of the pop stations here in Manila is airing this every Saturday afternoon.

American Top 40 (December 18, 2010)

40. Ridin' Solo - Jason Derulo
39. OMG - Usher feat. will.i.am
38. Break Your Heart - Taio Cruz feat. Ludacris
37. Maybe - Sick Puppies
36. California Gurls - Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg
35. What If - Jason Derulo
34. Whip My Hair - Willow
33. Mine - Taylor Swift
32. No Love - Eminem feat. Lil' Wayne (new entry)
31. Tonight - Enrique Iglesias feat. Ludacris

30. Take It Off - Ke$ha
29. Love the Way You Lie - Eminem feat. Rihanna
28. Yeah 3x - Chris Brown (highest new entry)
27. September - Daughtry
26. Airplanes - B.o.B feat. Hayley Williams
25. Memories - David Guetta feat. KiD CuDi
24. Cooler than Me - Mike Posner
23. King of Anything - Sara Bareilles
22. Secrets - OneRepublic
21. Stereo Love - Edward Maya feat. Vika Jigulina

20. Shake - Jesse McCartney
19. I Like It - Enrique Iglesias feat. Pitbull
18. The Time (Dirty Bit) - Black Eyed Peas
17. Grenade - Bruno Mars
16. Teenage Dream - Katy Perry
15. What's My Name - Rihanna feat. Drake
14. Love Like Woe - The Ready Set
13. Dynamite - Taio Cruz
12. Club Can't Handle Me - Flo Rida feat. David Guetta
11. Please Don't Go - Mike Posner

10. Bottoms Up - Trey Songz feat. Nicki Minaj
9. Animal - Neon Trees
8. Firework - Katy Perry
7. DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love - Usher feat. Pitbull
6. We R Who We R - Ke$ha
5. Like a G6 - Far*East Movement feat. The Cataracs and Dev
4. Just the Way You Are - Bruno Mars
3. Raise Your Glass - P!nk
2. Just a Dream - Nelly
1. Only Girl (In the World) - Rihanna (2 weeks @ #1)

AT40 Breakout:

1. Coming Home - Diddy-Dirty Money feat. Skylar Grey
2. Hey Baby (Drop It to the Floor) - Pitbull feat. T-Pain

AT40 Extra:

1. My Boo - Usher feat. Alicia Keys
2. It's Not Over - Daughtry
3. U + Ur Hand - P!nk
(I think I may have missed the last extra.. )

I don't really have the luxury of placing the stats at the moment, so please feel free to add them up. Just wanna place this list as early as possible. ;)

[Cerebro]

With weeks on and proper placement of extras (for those who care about that sort of thing).

This is the last regular chart of 2010. Next week, Ryan will start counting down the top 100 of the year.


AMERICAN TOP 40 - DECEMBER 18, 2010
LW TW WKS Artist - Title
40 40 (26) Jason Derülo - Ridin' Solo
38 39 (35) Usher featuring Will.I.Am - OMG
36 38 (40) Taio Cruz featuring Ludacris - Break Your Heart
37 37 (02) Sick Puppies - Maybe
33 36 (30) Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg - California Gurls
32 35 (05) Jason Derülo - What If
35 34 (02) Willow - Whip My Hair
28 33 (16) Taylor Swift – Mine
--  32 (01) Eminem featuring Lil' Wayne - No Love
Breakout: Diddy-Dirty Money featuring Skylar Grey - Coming Home
--  31 (01) Enrique Iglesias featuring Ludacris and DJ Frank E - Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)
Optional Extra: Usher and Alicia Keys - My Boo
27 30 (20) Ke$ha - Take It Off
23 29 (22) Eminem featuring Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie
Breakout: Pitbull featuring T-Pain - Hey Baby (Drop It To The Floor)
--  28 (01) Chris Brown - Yeah 3X
21 27 (10) Daughtry – September
26 26 (30) B.o.B. featuring Hayley Williams – Airplanes
31 25 (06) David Guetta featuring Kid Cudi - Memories
22 24 (31) Mike Posner featuring Big Sean - Cooler Than Me
25 23 (07) Sara Bareilles – King Of Anything
20 22 (20) OneRepublic - Secrets
30 21 (04) Edward Maya featuring Vika Jigulina - Stereo Love
Optional Extra: Daughtry - It's Not Over
18 20 (08) Jesse McCartney – Shake
16 19 (27) Enrique Iglesias featuring Pitbull - I Like It
24 18 (03) The Black Eyed Peas - The Time (The Dirty Bit)
19 17 (05) Bruno Mars - Grenade
08 16 (18) Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
17 15 (05) Rihanna featuring Drake - What's My Name?
15 14 (13) The Ready Set - Love Like Woe
13 13 (23) Taio Cruz - Dynamite
11 12 (18) Flo Rida featuring David Guetta - Club Can't Handle Me
14 11 (10) Mike Posner - Please Don't Go
Optional Extra: Pink - U And Ur Hand
12 10 (08) Trey Songz featuring Nicki Minaj – Bottoms Up
07 09 (16) Neon Trees - Animal
10 08 (06) Katy Perry – Firework
06 07 (20) Usher featuring Pitbull - DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love
09 06 (06) Ke$ha – We R Who We R
04 05 (13) Far*East Movement featuring The Cataracs and Dev - Like A G6
03 04 (18) Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are
05 03 (08) Pink – Raise Your Glass
Optional Extra: Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z - Crazy In Love
02 02 (17) Nelly - Just A Dream
01 01 (13) Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World) ** 2 weeks @ no. 1 **

DROPPERS:
Akon - Angel (from 39, 4 weeks on)
Train - If It's Love (from 34, 16 weeks on)
Sean Kingston featuring Nicki Minaj - Letting Go (Dutty Love) (from 29, 10 weeks on)

[Lozzy]

Can't wait for the top 100!!!!!!

Edit: My broadcast just finished. Ryan said that next week we'll count down the top 40 hits of the year. NO TOP 100? :'(

[Cerebro]

Dec 18, 2010 10:19:59 GMT -5 Lozzy said:

Edit: My broadcast just finished. Ryan said that next week we'll count down the top 40 hits of the year. NO TOP 100? :'(

Really ??? (the broadcast I'm listening to hasn't finished yet) I hope that was just a gaffe. I'm already disappointed that we didn't get a full top 100 from Mediabase. That'd just add more insult to injury.

[Lozzy]

Dec 18, 2010 11:27:14 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

Dec 18, 2010 10:19:59 GMT -5 Lozzy said:

Edit: My broadcast just finished. Ryan said that next week we'll count down the top 40 hits of the year. NO TOP 100? :'(

Really ??? (the broadcast I'm listening to hasn't finished yet) I hope that was just a gaffe. I'm already disappointed that we didn't get a full top 100 from Mediabase. That'd just add more insult to injury.

Well, that's what he said. I think he mentioned it early in the show too, but he definitely said that next week we will count down the top 40 hits of the year. I hope so too, I love hearing the top 100 in descending order, all the suspense, etc..

[johnnywest]

Rick Dees isn't doing a Top 100 of the year either. As far as I've heard, the only one who is this year is "American Top 40 - the 80s."

[richie]

I wonder why, and what's in store for the following week. Maybe not enough people listen to a show with 100-51? It was the only week without a number one song.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Yeah, that is weird. The first chart after the yearend will be so boring.

Surely they aren't THAT into playing only the BIGGEST most OVERPLAYED songs that risking playing 51-100 would lose that much interest....

[shadster]

We've been spoiled w/ Top 100's. The first 4 yrs of the Show it was either a Top40 or Top80 year ender, but starting in 1974, a top 100 has aired every year except 1979 (top 50) and 1999 (top 40). Allthough you could make an arguement for 1994 when Shadoe only did a top50 and no AT40 year end after that till 1998, but Caseys top 40 did year end top 100's all those years and throughout the 90's.

A new decade, a new direction perhaps?

[richie]

And last year they had 3 weeks of specials: the top 100 of '09 and the top 40 of the decade (plus
6 extras). Technically that top 40 was the first weekend of 2010.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

I'm wondering if maybe playing the lesser hits (100-51) might be too risque on the familiarity front and that is actually the reasoning behind it. If so... it's pretty bad that CHR doesn't want to play those songs without having a lot of their Power Rotation songs amongst the group.

[Deleted]

Dec 19, 2010 0:17:03 GMT -5 Devil Marlena Nylund said:

I'm wondering if maybe playing the lesser hits (100-51) might be too risque on the familiarity front and that is actually the reasoning behind it.

Because heaven forbid someone might have to listen to Secrets or Animal while waiting to hear Airplanes and Dynamite for the 9999999th time.

I agree it's really bad if that's the reason.

[johnm1120]

One one hand, it's annoying that Seacrest once again ignores tradition and is doing whatever, in another attempt to completely alienate the base of the show.

On the other hand, at least he won;t be charting songs from 2007.

[atlantaboy]

Dec 19, 2010 0:17:03 GMT -5 Devil Marlena Nylund said:

I'm wondering if maybe playing the lesser hits (100-51) might be too risque on the familiarity front and that is actually the reasoning behind it.

I'm pretty sure that's what it is - a lot of new stations this year that are probably "edgy" about playing songs that peaked in the 20s and 30s six months ago

[at40forever]

This is becoming a bit of a joke.

First, Mediabase only showed the top 50 songs and now AT40 will only be doing the top 40 songs.

What is going on?!? >:(

[jasonharper2004]

Unless There Doing A Top 100 of The Decade

[Libra]

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if the reason really is the obsession (read: Clear Channel's obsession) with playing the biggest, most overplayed songs again and again. Just gotta get that extra spin, no matter what it takes...

[richie]

You'd think they could at least do a top 50, since that's what the second half of the year-end countdown usually is. I just sent an e-mail to AT40 asking (nicely) for an explanation of all this.

[friday]

Dec 19, 2010 18:17:38 GMT -5 Libra said:

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if the reason really is the obsession (read: Clear Channel's obsession) with playing the biggest, most overplayed songs again and again. Just gotta get that extra spin, no matter what it takes...

Ding ding ding! Yeah, when you look at this in the context of stations allocating more and more plays among fewer and fewer songs, then never letting them go after their peak, it only seems logical that year-end shows are gonna trim the fat further by going from 100 to 50 or 40. Why play songs during a year-end review that listeners probably forgot about months ago when you can just play "Take It Off" and "California Gurls" yet again, then get back to playing the regular top 40 one week sooner? Of course, I agree it's a disappointing move, but it's probably not a surprising one given present circumstances. And you have to give them this: the last couple years, I think one or two songs actually made the top 100 despite never reaching the top 40, at least on AT40. Probably seems a little embarrassing to call a song one of the top songs of the year when it never actually made the chart. I would argue that you fix that by simply shortening it to 80 songs over two weeks, but that's probably just one component that went into this decision.

And no one's mentioned that after the year-end show, whenever it ends, shortly into the new year we get Kesha as a guest host. At least they gave us fair warning for that one, so I'll know when to sleep in that particular Sunday.

[Lozzy]

Dec 19, 2010 20:51:36 GMT -5 friday said:

Dec 19, 2010 18:17:38 GMT -5 Libra said:

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if the reason really is the obsession (read: Clear Channel's obsession) with playing the biggest, most overplayed songs again and again. Just gotta get that extra spin, no matter what it takes...

Ding ding ding! Yeah, when you look at this in the context of stations allocating more and more plays among fewer and fewer songs, then never letting them go after their peak, it only seems logical that year-end shows are gonna trim the fat further by going from 100 to 50 or 40. Why play songs during a year-end review that listeners probably forgot about months ago when you can just play "Take It Off" and "California Gurls" yet again, then get back to playing the regular top 40 one week sooner? Of course, I agree it's a disappointing move, but it's probably not a surprising one given present circumstances. And you have to give them this: the last couple years, I think one or two songs actually made the top 100 despite never reaching the top 40, at least on AT40. Probably seems a little embarrassing to call a song one of the top songs of the year when it never actually made the chart. I would argue that you fix that by simply shortening it to 80 songs over two weeks, but that's probably just one component that went into this decision.

And no one's mentioned that after the year-end show, whenever it ends, shortly into the new year we get Kesha as a guest host. At least they gave us fair warning for that one, so I'll know when to sleep in that particular Sunday.

Very good and very sad point. I love the top 100 because I hear them play those older lesser hits that I've totally forgotten about, which can be good nostalgia at some points. "Teenage Dream," "TiK ToK," "Love the Way You Lie" and all those overplayed massive hits can do without a spin for one week!?

On the not making the top 40 point, it was only one song ("21 Guns") last year, and I'm pretty sure none in 2008. Last year, they cut out about 4 songs from each half, which I'm pretty sure they announced, but then just didn't play. "Dead and Gone" comes to mind for that, which was strange as it was so high (#12 I think), but yet that's what they did. They can choose what they feel are the worst songs to play and just skip them altogether if they must, or rather just play 30-60 seconds of those songs so we still get to hear a bit, but not taking 3-4 minutes of "precious" airtime.

[richie]

Kesha will be hosting the second weekend in January.

Ryan said before he played #1 that Rihanna is now tied with Britney Spears for
the most top 40 hits, 22, this century.

[BillboardBoy]

Dec 19, 2010 18:38:20 GMT -5 richie said:

You'd think they could at least do a top 50, since that's what the second half of the year-end countdown usually is.

I know it's not quite the same, but there will be four optional segments (hopefully from 2010) and possibly 2 to 4 extras. We could be hearing 48 songs of 2010.

[richie]

Let's hope so.

[shadster]

if kesha is hosting the 2nd week of jan. what r the doing new yrs weekend? could it b they r doing a top 100 an ryan just miss spoke? i cant imagine ryan would work on xmas to voice track a new 40 countdown. it makes more sense for him to work this week on a top 100 an tke the next 3 weeks off. do we have confermation they r not doing a top100?

[Lozzy]

Dec 20, 2010 18:59:36 GMT -5 shadster said:

if kesha is hosting the 2nd week of jan. what r the doing new yrs weekend? could it b they r doing a top 100 an ryan just miss spoke? i cant imagine ryan would work on xmas to voice track a new 40 countdown. it makes more sense for him to work this week on a top 100 an tke the next 3 weeks off. do we have confermation they r not doing a top100?

We have no confirmation bar what Ryan said, and our theories. I imagine it will be a regular show, except it could be recorded 2 weeks in advance when he "has time." It's possible that it could be guest hosted by a lesser celebrity (than Ke$ha) though.

[patstop40]

No I'm pretty sure I know what will happen. If you remember back in 1999, when CK was still host, he only did a Top 40 of 1999 countdown. The week after was an Top 40 of the 90's countdown. My guess is that next week will be a best of the decade 2000-2010 countdown hosted by Ryan. Does anyone know, is Seacrest doing new years with Dick Clark again? Plus, Pink should have the first #1 of 2011 with Raise Your Glass and Rihanna will fall a notch to #2.

[patstop40]

Oh wait lol, didn't Ryan do a decade end countdown last year? Ok I forgot lol! I'm a geek lol! So now I have no clue what he will do next week lol!

[at40forever]

Dec 21, 2010 15:25:07 GMT -5 patstop40 said:

Oh wait lol, didn't Ryan do a decade end countdown last year? Ok I forgot lol! I'm a geek lol! So now I have no clue what he will do next week lol!

Yeah he did and here's the link if you're interested:

pulsemusic.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=pop&action=display&thread=92481

[KelownaGuy20]

Gang, here's the word from Seacrest's people:


Dec 25th-26th - TOP 40 OF THE YEAR, VER 1 (same for both CHR and Hot AC)
Jan 1st-2nd - TOP 40 OF THE YEAR, VER 2 (Fresh Material - same for both CHR and Hot AC)
Jan. 8th - 9th - CHR & HOT AC: Regular Show with guest host: KESHA

Explanation
Ryan used to do a top 100 over two weekends.
Apparently, no one wanted to hear songs 50 to 100 .
So this year they are doing two Top 40 of the year shows – same songs but different interviews/content.
So it is not the same show but each show will feature the same top 40 songs that everyone wants to hear.

[Cerebro]

Dec 22, 2010 15:30:32 GMT -5 KelownaGuy20 said:

Gang, here's the word from Seacrest's people:


Dec 25th-26th - TOP 40 OF THE YEAR, VER 1 (same for both CHR and Hot AC)
Jan 1st-2nd - TOP 40 OF THE YEAR, VER 2 (Fresh Material - same for both CHR and Hot AC)
Jan. 8th - 9th - CHR & HOT AC: Regular Show with guest host: KESHA

Well, this sucks.

So, other than different "filler", we're getting the exact same chart two weeks in a row? That's about the dumbest thing I've ever heard. >:(

Dec 22, 2010 15:30:32 GMT -5 KelownaGuy20 said:

Explanation
Ryan used to do a top 100 over two weekends.
Apparently, no one wanted to hear songs 50 to 100 .

We'll I did. And, evidently, so did everyone else who responded to this thread. Apparently, we're nobody.

Dec 22, 2010 15:30:32 GMT -5 KelownaGuy20 said:

So this year they are doing two Top 40 of the year shows – same songs but different interviews/content.
So it is not the same show but each show will feature the same top 40 songs that everyone wants to hear.

Complete bull, I say.

The 100-51 half of the year-ender has always been my favorite part of the show because (a) the rankings are less predictable and (b) most of the songs haven't been played to death a million times over.

Is the "average pop radio listener" really that brain dead that they have the hear the exact same overplayed songs over-and-over-and-over again? (Clearly, the answer is "yes", but I'm being rhetorical)

(Sorry for the rant, but I needed to vent...still bitter though. )