Billboard AC Chart: January 28, 2012

[johnm1120]

January 28, 2012

01 01 21 Adele - Someone Like You (4th week at #1)*
02 02 22 Lady Antebellum - Just A Kiss (3rd week at #2)
03 04 29 OneRepublic - Good Life (3)
04 03 31 The Band Perry - If I Die Young (3 weeks at #1)
05 06 47 Pink - Perfect (2)
06 05 43 Adele - Rolling in the Deep (19 weeks at #1)
07 11 20 Kelly Clarkson - Mr. Know It All (7)
08 10 17 Colbie Caillat - Brighter Than The Sun (8)
09 07 29 Lady Gaga - The Edge of Glory (7)
10 08 38 The Script - For the First Time (5)

11 12 23 Maroon 5 f/Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger (10)
12 14 06 Gavin DeGraw - Not Over You (12)
13 17 03 Adele - Set Fire to the Rain (13)
14 13 15 The Script - Nothing (13)
15 15 11 Lady Gaga - You And I (15)
16 16 03 Katy Perry - The One That Got Away (16)
17 18 12 Seal - Let's Stay Together (17)
18 23 03 Bruno Mars - It Will Rain (18)
19 20 03 Daughtry - Crawling Back to You (19)
20 22 03 David Guetta f/Usher - Without You (20)

21 21 19 Hot Chelle Rae - Tonight Tonight (19)
22 19 17 Daryl Hall - Talking To You (Is Like Talking To Myself) (16)
23 25 14 The Doobie Brothers - A Brighter Day (18)
24 24 16 Margo Rey - Let the Rain (17)
25 28 02 The Fray - Heartbeat (25)
26 27 04 Gloria Estefan - Right Away (26)
27 26 14 Matt Nathanson - Faster (20)
28 30 20 Katy Perry - Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) (17)
29 DEBUT Christina Perri - A Thousand Years (29)
30 29 02 Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks (29)


Falling off:

-- 09 28 Jason Aldean & Kelly Clarkson - Don't You Wanna Stay (3)



Adele's grip at the top spot remains tight while Lady Antebellum must settle for a 3rd week at #2. OneRepublic scores their biggest AC ever as "Good Life" passes "Apologize"'s #4 peak and moves up to #3.

Kelly Clarkson has a nice 11-7 jump into the top 10. This is Kelly's 6th top 10 hit. Her most recent appearance "Don't You Wanna Stay" went back to recurrentland this week after peaking at #3. Kelly has also peaked at #3 with "Already Gone" and "Because Of You."

There are 2 new entries in the top 20. At #18 is Bruno Mars with his offering from the "Breaking Dawn" soundtrack. "It Will Rain leaps 23-18 this week with the biggest move. Bruno is now 4 for 4 when it comes to top 20 hits. His last top 20 was "The Lazy Song" peaking at #13 back in October.

Also jumping in moving 22-20 is French DJ David Guetta with his first AC hit "Without You." Usher, who features on the song, is in the top 20 for the second time. "DJ Got us Fallin' In Love" peaked at #19 back in June.

Christina Perri has the lone debut this week at #29 with "A Thousand Years." The song is the 2nd on this week's chart to come from the "Breaking Dawn" soundtrack. Now time to search the archives, when was the last time 2 songs from the same soundtrack charted together? I'll see what I can find as well. Anyway, this is Christina's 3rd AC hit. "Arms" peaked at #29 back in September.

With "Don't You Wanna Stay" going recurrent for the 2nd and final time, new peaks result for Seal, Daughtry & Gloria Estefan.

[HolidayGuy]

Thanks for the chart/report. :)

You'd think AC would give more play to Gloria, as she's a core act and all. But, AC even may not be immune to the ageism at U.S.radio.

[johnm1120]

The song is also not exactly a "Coming Out of the Dark" ballad either. Also every song in the top 16 has hit the top 40, so familiarity also plays a big factor.

[HolidayGuy]

True- and "Coming Out of the Dark" was more than two decades ago, so... it also seems that AC, on the whole, doesn't give the super-light music as much play as it did back in the day. Just part of the "progression," I guess.

[esoteric76]

Jan 20, 2012 9:10:14 GMT -5 johnm1120 said:

The song is also not exactly a "Coming Out of the Dark" ballad either.

Yeah, no disrespect to Gloria, because I paid a fortune to see her final performance at MSG during her Unwrapped tour, but the label is pushing an unmemorable ballad from an album that has pretty much vanished already. The fact that it's charting at all shows that AC IS supportive of her.

[HolidayGuy]

^I don't think 54 spins and 0.019m audience on the latest chart shows all that much in the way of "support." I don't even know if 100 spins would. Which begs the question: At AC, what amount of spins would constitute that the format is supportive of an act?

[areyoureadytojump]

2/4 chart:

Adult Contemporary

*** No. 1 *** "Someone Like You" Adele
Greatest Gainer No. 13 "The One That Got Away" Katy Perry
Debut No. 29 "Easy" Rascal Flatts Featuring Natasha Bedingfield
Debut No. 30 "Holding Me" Allison Park

[areyoureadytojump]

The Script and Katy Perry fall off the 2/4 chart.