American Top 10 April 9-10, 2005

[BillboardBoy]

10 - Give A Little Bit - The Goo Goo Dolls (the only live song in the Top 10 this week; from the CD "Live in Buffalo...")
9 - I'll Be Around - Hall & Oates (Hall was born in Pottstown, PA and Oates was born in NYC)
8 - In My Daughter's Eyes - Martina McBride
7 - You'll Think of Me - Keith Urban (27th week in the Top 10)
6 - Home - Michael Buble (biggest mover)
5 - She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5 ("Songs About Jane")
4 - Live Like You Were Dying - Tim McGraw (was inspired by Merele Haggard and George Jones)
3 - Daughters - John Mayer
2 - Heaven - Los Lonely Boys
1 - Breakaway - Kelly Clarkson; 6th week at #1 ("From Justin to Kelly" earned a Razzie Award and she's proud of it)

Theme: "Angel" songs

1985 - Angel - Madonna (definition of "angel")
1976 - Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel - Tavares (biggest "disco angel")
1992 - How Do You Talk to An Angel - The Heights (the only #1 pop song with "angel" to hit #1 in the '90s)
2001 - Angel - Lionel Richie (list of others with just the title "Angel")
1981 - Angel of the Morning - Juice Newton (remake of Merilee Rush song)
1999 - I'm Your Angel - Celine Dion & R. Kelly
2003 - Calling All Angels - Train (biggest "Angel" song of this decade on the AC chart)
1989 - Angel Eyes - Jeff Healey Band (lyrics)
1993 - Angel - Jon Secada
1999 - Angel of Mine - Brandy

LDD: Thankyou - Dido

Book of Records: The longest song to hit #1 on the pop chart was "American Pie" by Don McClean (it was 8 minutes and something seconds; DJs back in the day had to flip the record over to play the entire song)

Other songs:

1968 - I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye (#1 pop)
1972 - Summer Breeze - Seals & Crofts (Top 5)
1989 - Orinoco Flow (Sail Away) - Enya
1975 - Who Loves You - Four Seasons (#2)
2004 - You Make Me Feel Brand New - Simply Red
1977 - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing - Leo Sayer (#1 pop)
1993 - I Don't Want To Fight - Tina Turner (#2)
1984 - Footloose (#1 pop)
1968 - Baby Now That I've Found You - The Foundations
1985 - One More Night - Phil Collins (#1 this week)
1999 - Waiting For Tonight - Jennifer Lopez (gonna be in a new movie next month)

Tops of the other charts:

Pop - Since U Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson
Country - That's What I Love About Sunday - Craig Morgan
Alternative - Be Yourself - Audioslave
Urban - Candyshop - 50 Cent
Album - The Massacre

1 live song
2 solo women
3 groups
5 newcomers

[Arson]

I listened to the show for the first time in awhile, and my local station played last week's show.

[j]

They didn't play Sarah McLachlan's "Angel"?! What a travesty! >:(

[johnnywest]

j said:

They didn't play Sarah McLachlan's "Angel"?! What a travesty! >:(

I'm guessing it's because the song has been overplayed to death as LDDs.

[Hervard]

Yeah, and it looks like they wanted to avoid doing that, since they played a fresh batch of "other" songs this week. Many of these songs you don't hear on your typical AC station everyday. Of course, this might possibly be a fluke. We'll probably hear most of them again this year three or four times. Still, it's nice that they played a few "new" songs this time around.

[johnnywest]

ulij20 said:

Many of these songs you don't hear on your typical AC station everyday.  Of course, this might possibly be a fluke. 

Possibly, but I read somewhere recently (R&R perhaps) about the threat of satellite radio and how AC radio will be forced to expand their library from 300 songs to 1,000 in order to appeal to more people.

[Arson]

johnnywest said:

Possibly, but I read somewhere recently (R&R perhaps) about the threat of satellite radio and how AC radio will be forced to expand their library from 300 songs to 1,000 in order to appeal to more people.

Speaking of AC libraries, does anyone have a list of the 100-300 gold songs that almost all AC stations have as part of their playlists? I know on Mediabase, it is possible to access Golds of AC and Hot AC combined, but I have always wanted a complete list of the most popular AC golds.

I know my local AC station is adding more new golds (mostly harder Hot AC golds) to compete with the local Hot AC station.

[johnm1120]

Orinoco Flow! Nice!

[Hervard]

johnnywest said:

Possibly, but I read somewhere recently (R&R perhaps) about the threat of satellite radio and how AC radio will be forced to expand their library from 300 songs to 1,000 in order to appeal to more people.

I sure hope that's true! Maybe that way, the AC chart will move a little faster (then again, maybe the songs with which they expand the list might be all old songs. Still, that would be nice to not hear tired, overplayed crap like "Truly Madly Deeply" and "As I Lay Me Down" every freakin' hour!

And, now that Casey's AC countdown has been chopped down, maybe more stations will pick up on Dick Clark's US Music Survey.

Of course, this is probably just wishful thinking. But what a wonderful thought it is!