I got to hear the show, and here are the highlights:
Extras:
1986 - Need You Tonight - INXS
2004 - Everything - Alanis Morissette (pratices yoga to keep her temper down)
1999 - Angel - Sarah McLachlan (a rapper heard this and he decided not to commit suicide)
Optional songs:
1984 - What's Love Got To Do With It - Tina Turner
1988 - It's The End of The World As We Know It - REM
1999 - Man! I Feel Like A Woman! - Shania Twain
Former big hits:
1998 - I'll Be - Edwin McCain
1980 - Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
2005 - You'll Think of Me - Keith Urban
2001 - I'm A Believer - Smash Mouth
1999 - American Woman - Lenny Kravitz
1987 - Heart And Soul - T'pau
2003 - Bright Lights - Matchbox Twenty
1996 - If It Makes You Happy - Sheryl Crow
#1s on other charts:
AC - Unwritten - Natasha Bedingfield
Rock - Animal I Have Become - Three Days Grace
Country - Give It Away - George Strait
Album - Future Sex/Love Sounds - Justin Timberlake (debuting at #1)
Biggest Mover:
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol (biggest mover for the second week in a row)
The #1 story going into "Far Away" was that Nickelback is the first act to have 3 #1s in a calendar year since 1993. That's when Whitney Houston had 3 #1 pop songs with "I Will Always Love You," "I'm Every Woman" and "I Have Nothing."
Gotta love that stat stories!