American Top 40 - July 13, 2013

[Cerebro]

Chart's still not up on the web site, oddly enough. We're kicking it old school, this week, and posting as I listen (*sigh*...I miss Yes.com).


AMERICAN TOP 40 - JULY 13, 2013
LW TW WKS Artist - Title
--  40 (01) Miley Cyrus - We Can't Stop
40 39 (02) Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Mary Lambert - Same Love
38 38 (05) Kelly Clarkson - People Like Us
25 37 (13) Will.I.Am featuring Justin Bieber - #thatPOWER
35 36 (28) Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble
36 35 (04) Nikki Williams - Glowing
On The Verge: Emblem3 - Chloe (You're The One I Want)
28 34 (08) Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull - Live It Up
32 33 (28) Maroon 5 - Daylight
39 32 (38) Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven
34 31 (03) Capital Cities - Safe And Sound
Optional Extra: Dev - In The Dark
30 30 (28) Calvin Harris featuring Florence Welch - Sweet Nothing
29 29 (34) Swedish House Mafia featuring John Martin - Don't You Worry Child
27 28 (26) Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz - Thrift Shop
33 27 (02) Britney Spears - Ooh La La
31 26 (06) Ke$ha featuring Will.I.Am - Crazy Kids
19 25 (14) Emeli Sandé - Next To Me
23 24 (20) Pitbull featuring Christina Aguilera - Feel This Moment
20 23 (11) Avril Lavigne - Here's To Never Growing Up
Extra: Pink - Try
21 22 (22) Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man
On The Verge: Rihanna featuring David Guetta - Right Now
24 21 (08) Ed Sheeran - Lego House
Optional Extra: Coldplay - Viva La Vida
26 20 (07) Anna Kendrick - Cups (Pitch Perfect's When I'm Gone)
22 19 (10) Calvin Harris featuring Ellie Goulding - I Need Your Love
18 18 (04) Maroon 5 - Love Somebody
Two For One: Maroon 5 - Misery
16 17 (20) Rihanna featuring Mikky Ekko - Stay
10 16 (16) Demi Lovato - Heart Attack
17 15 (08) Mariah Carey featuring Miguel - #Beautiful
Extra: Jay-Z featuring Justin Timberlake - Holy Grail
15 14 (10) Zedd featuring Foxes - Clarity
13 13 (12) Ariana Grande featuring Mac Miller - The Way
14 12 (09) Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
12 11 (05) Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell - Blurred Lines
Optional Extra: Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
11 10 (09) Jason Derülo - The Other Side
09 09 (06) Bruno Mars - Treasure
08 08 (18) Fall Out Boy - My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light 'Em Up)
Breakout: Austin Mahone - What About Love
06 07 (11) Florida Georgia Line featuring Nelly - Cruise
05 06 (17) Pink featuring Nate Ruess - Just Give Me A Reason
07 05 (08) Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams - Get Lucky
02 04 (13) Justin Timberlake - Mirrors
04 03 (11) Selena Gomez - Come And Get It
Optional Extra: Flo Rida - Good Feeling
03 02 (19) Icona Pop featuring Charli XCX - I Love It
01 01 (14) Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton - Can't Hold Us ** 4 weeks @ no. 1 **

DROPPER:
Krewella - Alive (from 37, 18 weeks on)

COMMENTARY:
• I was hoping to see some, much needed, catching up, this week. No dice. Still too far behind. For the record, I consider "on schedule" to be 2 weeks behind Mediabase "real time". The chart's still further behind than that...
• ...And, adding insult to injury…a 7 notch rebound for "Locked Out Of Heaven.
• Well, of course "Holy Grail" gets an "early play" as an Extra. Big Clear Channel deal, anyone?
• Austin Mahone gets played for a 6th, non-charting, week. And he, only now, gets promoted to the status of "Subway Fresh Buzz Song". Fresh? Really? Excuse me while I go hang myself…
• Courtesy of the ridiculous lag, "Can't Hold Us" gets an extra week on top, here, versus it's 3 weeks on Mediabase. Looks like "Come And Get It" will, most likely, take over next week, since "Blurred Lines" is, amazingly, still not in the top 10.

[ericNY2002]

The Hot AC Chart is still about 3 weeks behind as well. Excuse me for a rant but in 2013, this lag time is unacceptable. Most of the major country countdown shows (CT40, American Country Countdown, Crook & Chase) use the latest published chart on their shows (example: this weekends shows are using the published Mediabase chart from July 7th). If they can turn a show around in 5 days, AT40 should be able to turn a show around in 12 days absolute max if not the same 5 days.

Here are the other optional extras:
Hour 2: Coldplay-Viva La Vida
Hour 3: Carly Rae Jepsen-Call Me Maybe
Hour 4: Flo Rida-Good Feeling

[Cerebro]

Jul 13, 2013 9:52:52 GMT -5 ericNY2002 said:

The Hot AC Chart is still about 3 weeks behind as well. Excuse me for a rant but in 2013, this lag time is unacceptable. Most of the major country countdown shows (CT40, American Country Countdown, Crook & Chase) use the latest published chart on their shows (example: this weekends shows are using the published Mediabase chart from July 7th). If they can turn a show around in 5 days, AT40 should be able to turn a show around in 12 days absolute max if not the same 5 days.

Of course, unlike the rest of those countdown hosts, Ryan has about 86 other jobs to cram into his schedule. Still, that's no excuse...

[cookie111]

Once again, the American Top 40 is a mess. Austin Mahone is played as an extra for a sixth straight week -_- and still didn't manage to enter the countdown. Emblem3 also didn't make it to my dismay and Rihanna's new one as well. At least Miley Cyrus enters. So next week, we have to be in for much activity. Also, Will.I.Am, J-Lo and Kelly should have departed. And I'm shocked to see the biggest jump coming from the longest running song.

[mkarns]

Not a whole lot of interesting movement here, yes, and that sudden rebound for "Locked Out of Heaven" is just weird looking; I'm not aware of any spike in play or anything that might have caused such a quick turnaround. The big drop for "#THATpower" probably means it falls off next week (can't be totally sure, though.) If so, then not only does Will.i.am go from three hits to one in a few weeks, but we would then have the first Justin Bieber-less chart in over a year (since April 7, 2012). Wonder what the Biebs might get caught saying about that?

I'd guess that next week should show a lot more movement all around, including (finally) a debut for "What About Love". (Either chart it or drop it already; they started using it as an extra at least three weeks too early IMO.) Emblem3 gets Week3 as an extra (maybe it debuts next week?), and I think Miley Cyrus' song would have been an extra for a fourth straight week if it hadn't finally entered the chart.

Dunno if a deal was behind featuring "Holy Grail", but it should be debuting big in a couple of weeks; probably not next week seeing how far behind the chart is, but if Clear Channel pushes hard enough, then maybe so. At least the Maroon 5 Two for One extra wasn't one of their most obvious, overplayed songs (such as "This Love", "Moves Like Jagger", or "One More Night".)

[musicfanpete]

Jul 13, 2013 10:03:32 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

Jul 13, 2013 9:52:52 GMT -5 ericNY2002 said:

The Hot AC Chart is still about 3 weeks behind as well. Excuse me for a rant but in 2013, this lag time is unacceptable. Most of the major country countdown shows (CT40, American Country Countdown, Crook & Chase) use the latest published chart on their shows (example: this weekends shows are using the published Mediabase chart from July 7th). If they can turn a show around in 5 days, AT40 should be able to turn a show around in 12 days absolute max if not the same 5 days.

Of course, unlike the rest of those countdown hosts, Ryan has about 86 other jobs to cram into his schedule. Still, that's no excuse...

I was discussing this in the AT40 Hot AC thread as well. Does the holiday break and/or Ryan's production schedule really put the chart that far behind? I'm guessing that Ryan records the show when he's available, so they use whatever chart is current at the time. Therefore as an example, he could record two shows in three days, and use charts that are three days apart (using the daily Mediabase charts), making for a slow week that falls further behind schedule. Then if he has a two week vacation, he can come back two weeks later and use that current chart, and therefore you have the "catch-up" week. It makes for a wild chart, but not always very accurate when it comes to the chart movements.

My fear is if they have a big enough catch-up week next week, that could hurt Selena's chances for her one week at the top of the AT40 chart. Hopefully not though as I don't see Robin Thicke leaping up 10 spots to the number one spot, even during a catch-up week.

[jjose712]

I don't think Selena's number one is in danger, in this kind of charts big leaps to number one are very rare. I remember back in the 90's I Swear jumping from 6 to 1 (in mediabase his take of number one was slower) and i can't remember any song who had a bigger jump to number one on this chart (I will always love you jump from 10 to 2)

[mkarns]

Jul 13, 2013 13:58:21 GMT -5 jjose712 said:

I don't think Selena's number one is in danger, in this kind of charts big leaps to number one are very rare. I remember back in the 90's I Swear jumping from 6 to 1 (in mediabase his take of number one was slower) and i can't remember any song who had a bigger jump to number one on this chart (I will always love you jump from 10 to 2)

In Radio & Records "I Will Always Love You" jumped 9-1; earlier in 1992 Madonna's "This Used To Be My Playground" went 10-1. In 1993 Mariah Carey moved 8-1 with "Dreamlover"; she did the same on AT40 in 2005 with "Shake It Off" (this was just one week after "We Belong Together" relinquished the top spot after 12 weeks.)

I don't expect "Blurred Lines" to make such a big jump to #1, though anything's possible. I wouldn't be surprised to see a catch-up effect move it to #4 or 5 next week, and then to the top.

[musicfanpete]

Jul 13, 2013 14:58:12 GMT -5 mkarns said:

Jul 13, 2013 13:58:21 GMT -5 jjose712 said:

I don't think Selena's number one is in danger, in this kind of charts big leaps to number one are very rare. I remember back in the 90's I Swear jumping from 6 to 1 (in mediabase his take of number one was slower) and i can't remember any song who had a bigger jump to number one on this chart (I will always love you jump from 10 to 2)

In Radio & Records "I Will Always Love You" jumped 9-1; earlier in 1992 Madonna's "This Used To Be My Playground" went 10-1. In 1993 Mariah Carey moved 8-1 with "Dreamlover"; she did the same on AT40 in 2005 with "Shake It Off" (this was just one week after "We Belong Together" relinquished the top spot after 12 weeks.)

I don't expect "Blurred Lines" to make such a big jump to #1, though anything's possible. I wouldn't be surprised to see a catch-up effect move it to #4 or 5 next week, and then to the top.

Perhaps it will move up to somewhere between #5 and #1 as the AT40 chart is usually based on a midweek Mediabase chart. Mediabase did have "Blurred Lines" leap from #5 to #1 on their CHR chart. But it might actually be a smaller jump to the top because of the midweek chart.

[Arnold]

Before they played #2, "I love it" by Icona Pop, Ryan played part of the 1963 hit: "You don't have to be a baby to cry" by the Caravelles. I don't understand why he did that, except that they are both by female groups and 50 years apart. Maybe I missed something that he said.

[johnnywest]

^You missed something. He said that "I Love It" was the highest charting hit for a female duo (not group) ever. The previous record was by The Caravelles who hit #3 in 1963.

[musicfanpete]

Jul 14, 2013 13:31:48 GMT -5 johnnywest said:

^You missed something. He said that "I Love It" was the highest charting hit for a female duo (not group) ever. The previous record was by The Caravelles who hit #3 in 1963.

Nice to hear Ryan "channeling" Casey Kasem every so often with interesting chart facts like this one. I had no idea a female duo never made past #3 until now, considering how many years music charts have been around! Nice accomplishment by this group, though one has to wonder if this will be their only big hit.

[Pat the Cat]

Jul 13, 2013 8:02:17 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

Looks like "Come And Get It" will, most likely, take over next week, since "Blurred Lines" is, amazingly, still not in the top 10.

Wow.

[johnnywest]

Or Robin could make the biggest leap to #1 since maybe the Beatles. I remember that Maureen McGovern made a big jump to the top, so there may have been others in the early '70s after the Beatles' last #1 hit. We could hear another old-time stat like we did with the Caravelles!

[musiciscool]

I couldn't believe it when I heard Robin Thicke at #11. I thought he might have had quite a big jump or at least crack the Top 10, but no luck. Radioactive also should have made the Top 10. Hearing Austin Mahone again as the Subway Fresh Buzz song was anoying weeks ago. Having Selena at #3 and having Mackelmore and Ryan Lewis spend an extra week at #1 was not needed. Selena should be #1 next week. I hope that we get a catch up week next week on the chart.

[richie]

It was the Subway fresh buzz song of the week because at Subway restaurants all
over the country people were buzzing about how they keep playing the song week
after week without it being on the chart.
Ryan said that Britney Spears has her 31st top 40 hit and that this one is
more family friendly than some of her others. And Rihanna is going to move
up the list soon when she gets her 34th. I think next week is Rihanna's 200th week in a
row on AT40, and she should be able to get 4 full years!
Let's hope the show gets out of the summer doldrums next week.

[jdelachjr2002]

For the record, I have it on good authority that "What About Love" will finally make its' AT40 debut next week (7/20 and 7/21).