Jamie O'Neal - "Somebody's Hero"

[gcook]

What happened??? She has been slowly slowing down and now she is at -21. Hmm... is this normal? Sometimes artists slow down while they are climbing, but do they actually lose spins?

[mbgriffith1]

Looks like we're in good shape again. I'm REALLY hoping for a Top 5 song here... I think it could happen. This song is great and I really hope that Jamie cuts another CD soon with a little bit more country sound to it so that radio will play her more and her sales will increase. GREAT SONG THOUGH!!

[austin]

She made the Billboard Top 20 this week (at #20) and even though she was leapfrogged by the red-hot Sara Evans single, she still managed to climb up one spot to #19 over on R&R. :) .

[Marv]

Considering how much country radio needs MORE female vocalists. and especially getting better-than-moderate airplay, it would be nice if this song were sailing up the charts as Faith Hill & Trisha Yearwood's current singles did.

This is a wonderful song nonetheless.

[gcook]

austin said:

She made the Billboard Top 20 this week (at #20) and even though she was leapfrogged by the red-hot Sara Evans single, she still managed to climb up one spot to #19 over on R&R. :) .

Thanks for the info.

[gcook]

Anyone have the BB chart position this week?

[austin]

The song is #17, a gain of two from last week. :) . On it's way to the Top 15.

[gcook]

Thanks austin!

[Perp]

Jamie moves up two on Billboard this week, to #15 with an audience bullet of +677,000. Breathing down her neck right behind her is Montgomery Gentry, who trail her by about 600,000 but have a bullet over 2 million. Even if MG pass her, Kenny Chesney's single currently at #14 will fall below her anyway. #13 Blake Shelton might go recurrent. He has enough weeks on the chart to do so, and he lost 2.1 million this week. He was 2.7 million above Jamie. My guess is that MG will pass Jamie, but she'll get the two spots gained when Kenny and Blake move out of the way. Prediction: #14 on BB next week.

[gcook]

What two stations aren't playing her that report to the Mediabase chart? I notice that she has consistently now only been played on 119 of the stations.

[Perp]

gcook said:

What two stations aren't playing her that report to the Mediabase chart? I notice that she has consistently now only been played on 119 of the stations.

Unless you're on a mailing list that gets you very detailed weekely rundown from R&R on a particular song, I'm not sure how else you can dig that up. I can only find things like that if it's a SHeDAISY song (an insider forwards a detailed rundown to me weekly). I wish I could get it on-demand somewhere for any single, but I suppose only music industry people have that kind of access.

Anyone have other ideas?

[Marv]

Nice to see this one FINALLY make a MAJOR move on the charts; it's one of EIGHT singles which jumped at least FIVE slots on R&R's new chart, and I have no idea when was the last time THAT happened???

She's #12, and headed for the top ten--WONDERFUL!!!!

[musicbuff78]

I couldn't agree with you more!

[gcook]

She is officially top 10 on R & R but she is about to get leapfrogged by Montgomery Gentry and likely Craig Morgan.

[reidster]

I just started listening to this song again, and I love it. Congrats on the top 5 Jamie. Never in a million years would I have thought this song would go top 5. Thank you country radio for proving me wrong.

[Marv]

It appears to be headed towards finishing in the year-end top 30; that's not too shabby for s stunning single which took AGES to get untracked!!!!!