Billboard AC Chart: January 8, 2011

[johnm1120]

January 8, 2011

TW LW WC Artist - Title (Peak)

01 01 05 Mariah Carey - Oh Santa (4th Week At #1)
02 03 52 Train - Hey, Soul Sister (19 weeks at #1)*
03 04 19 Taylor Swift - Mine (1)
04 02 12 Bruno Mars - Just the Way You Are (2)
05 05 65 Uncle Kracker - Smile (3)
06 07 50 Lady Antebellum - Need You Now (14 weeks at #1)*
07 06 42 The Script - Breakeven (2 weeks at #1)*
08 10 20 Daughtry - September (7)
09 08 16 Michael Bublé - Hollywood (6)
10 09 05 Dave Barnes f/Hillary Scott - Christmas Tonight (18)

11 11 26 Sara Bareilles - King of Anything (11)
12 12 05 Train - Shake Up Christmas (12)
13 14 04 Wilson Phillips - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (13)
14 18 14 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream (11)
15 20 04 Glee Cast - We Need A Little Christmas (15)
16 15 23 Maroon 5 - Misery (13)
17 21 05 Susan Boyle f/Amber Stassi - Do You Hear What I Hear? (17)
18 17 05 Katharine McPhee f/Chris Botti - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (16)
19 13 04 Wilson Phillips - Little Drummer Boy (13)
20 16 19 Jim Brickman f/Matt Giraud - Thank You (16)

21 19 19 Lady Antebellum - I Run to You (15)
22 23 02 Glee Cast - Deck the Rooftop (22)
23 DEBUT OneRepublic - Secrets (23)
24 22 05 Wilson Phillips - Santa Claus is Coming To Town (22)
25 24 12 Bon Jovi - What Do You Got (19)
26 25 23 Five For Fighting - Slice (15)
27 27 23 Train - If It's Love (17)
28 30 02 Coldplay - Christmas Lights (28)
29 RE 05 Pink - Raise Your Glass (24)
30 29 09 Neon Trees - Animal (20)


Falling off:

-- 26 02 Annie Lennox - Universal Child (26)
-- 28 01 Glee Cast - The Most Wonderful Day of the Year (28)


The first 2 Christmas casualties occur this week as playlists begin to return to normal. I believe Billboard had 2 days of non-Christmas this week, but Mariah had just enough to sneak in a 4th week at #1.

Bruno Mars took advantage of the Christmas season by soaring up to #2, but this week slips back to #4 as Train and Taylor Swift rebound. Train has now been on the chart a full year, and the top 10 now has 3 songs that have been on for 50+ weeks. Lady Antebellum joins that crowd this week.

OneRepublic is the only debut this week jumping in at #23 this week with Secrets. The first rebound of the Christmas purges belongs to Pink as she jumps back in at #29.

Next week's chart should be very interesting.

[HolidayGuy]

Thanks for posting, johnm.

The spins-based charts for Billboard run Monday-Sunday, so just one day of non-holiday play.

Wilson Phillips landing two No. 13 peaks- granted, not a whole lot in the way of spins at their peaks, but nonetheless. With so many old holiday tracks getting high levels of play, it's tough for new tracks to get as much play as the oldies- even the AC No. 1 "Oh Santa!" peaked at less than 1,000 spins/week.

[Mark]

Nice to see Mine rebounding. I hope it can sneak in a few more weeks at #1.

[areyoureadytojump]

Thanks

[areyoureadytojump]

1/15 chart:

Adult Contemporary
*** No. 1 ***/Greatest Gainer "Hey, Soul Sister" Train
Debut No. 26 "Firework" Katy Perry
Debut No. 30 "Only Girl (In The World)" Rihanna

[kml567]

WTF?! I don't understand how Glee Cast "Last Christmas" is #1 on Mediabase but nowhere on Billboard AC chart.

I don't understand how it could be recurrent either....it was probably played a few weeks last year but nowhere near the recurrent requirement.

[shawnshamrock]

Wonder if Jewel is coming back to the chart next week. I think Satisfied started to gain again but I'm not exactly sure.

[HolidayGuy]

kml- Billboard treats all holiday titles as recurrents after their initial season of charting. Kimberly Locke had cuts from the same album chart in two different seasons, but in the second season, it was a new charting for the title and it probably was actively promoted as a new release at the time.

[johnm1120]

We shall see tomorrow! It will be interesting to see how many re-entries there are and where they land.

[areyoureadytojump]

^11 songs debut/re-enter