American Top 40 - December 21, 2013

[KelownaGuy20]

GUEST HOST: KATY PERRY

AMERICAN TOP 40 - DECEMBER 21, 2013
LW TW WKS Artist - Title
-- 40 (01) Calvin Harris featuring Ayah Marar - Thinking About You
-- 39 (01) Demi Lovato - Neon Lights
-- 38 (01) Lorde - Team
-- 37 (01) Robin Thicke - Feel Good
-- 36 (01) Flo Rida - How I Feel
33 35 (32) Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
Extra: Bruno Mars - Gorilla
39 34 (02) Zendaya - Replay
37 33 (03) John Newman - Love Me Again
31 32 (37) Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton - Can't Hold Us
34 31 (03) Sara Bareilles - Brave
On The Verge: New Politics - Harlem
Optional Extra: Katy Perry - E.T.
29 30 (33) Zedd featuring Foxes - Clarity
28 29 (05) Enrique Iglesias - Heart Attack
27 28 (28) Robin Thicke featuring Pharrell & T.I. - Blurred Lines
On The Verge: Bastille - Pompeii
35 27 (04) Britney Spears - Perfume
32 26 (10) Fall Out Boy - Alone Together
25 25 (26) Capital Cities - Safe and Sound
24 24 (21) Lana Del Rey - Summertime Sadness
17 23 (21) Paramore - Still Into You
22 22 (22) Jay-Z featuring Justin Timberlake - Holy Grail
23 21 (04) Ellie Goulding - Burn
Optional Extra: Ke$ha - C'mon
21 20 (06) Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring ScHoolboy Q & Hollis - White Walls
20 19 (05) One Direction - Story Of My Life
19 18 (04) Passenger - Let Her Go
Break Out: A Great Big World featuring Christina Aguilera - Say Something
16 17 (10) Jason Derulo - Marry Me
14 16 (11) Justin Timberlake - TKO
18 15 (04) Lady Gaga featuring R. Kelly - Do What U Want
15 14 (18) The Neighbourhood - Sweater Weather
12 13 (17) Katy Perry - Roar
11 12 (16) Lady Gaga - Applause
13 11 (07) Zedd featuring Hayley Williams - Stay The Night
Optional Extra: Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
09 10 (07) Katy Perry - Unconditionally
10 09 (07) Pitbull featuring Ke$ha - Timber
07 08 (14) Selena Gomez - Slow Down
06 07 (15) Drake featuring Majid Jordan - Hold On, We're Going Home
04 06 (17) Lorde - Royals
08 05 (05) OneRepublic - Counting Stars
05 04 (06) Eminem featuring Rihanna - The Monster
03 03 (17) Avicii - Wake Me Up
Optional Extra: Bonnie McKee - American Girl
01 02 (11) Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball
02 01 (10) Imagine Dragons - Demons ** 1 week @ no. 1 **

DROPPERS
Justin Timberlake - Mirrors (from #40; 35 weeks on)
Maroon 5 - Love Somebody (from #38; 26 weeks on)
Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams - Get Lucky (from #36; 30 weeks on)
Rihanna - What Now (from #30; 7 weeks on)
Travie McCoy featuring Jason Mraz - Rough Water (from #26, 7 weeks on)

[Cerebro]

A lot more debuts than I was expecting. If anything, I was anticipating a slight slow-down as a work-around for holiday busyness. (Wait..."Neon Lights" charting and "Pompeii" is, still, On The Verge...Huh?!?)

Surprisingly, Katy only gets one extra. This year's other guest hosts, Pitbull and Britney Spears, had 3 or 4. I'd have thought that "Dark Horse" would've been a shoo-in for a Breakout spot (unless there's, once again, a mystery extra in the fourth hour that didn't show up in your copy). I hope Katy will me more exciting to listen to than Britney was.

This is the last, regular, chart of the year. Ryan will be back next week to count down the top 40 of 2013.

[mkarns]

Cool; Imagine Dragons finally hit the top, and also effectively get at least one "bonus" week with a holiday chart "freeze", as the year end show is played. "The Monster" should be the first #1 of 2014, with "Counting Stars" also a new year contender; it is now One Republic's first top 5 AT40 hit since "Apologize" ("Stop and Stare" and "Good Life" both peaked at #6).

No Two for One this week? With "Unconditionally" still in the top 10, that would be a good place for Katy to slip in another of her previous hits. I'm surprised that it's already dropping, but apparently "Dark Horse" is stealing its momentum. Meanwhile, we get another just-dropped off extra ("Gorilla").

[KelownaGuy20]

Just finished listening to the show...

Well, Katy seemed to have more energy than Britney did. Mentions very little in the way of artist/song title information. More of that "here's number 37" stuff. She does mention a few, though. It's pretty poorly edited, honestly. She goes from a near whisper to screaming when answering a question and then introducing a song. Lots of repetition in production, too. "I'm in charge because I have the mic." Seems like they recorded her some time ago and they were just waiting for a week to use it.

Nope, no mystery extra... I've gone through and listened to the show. It's possible they might include one in the national version, but the international version is as posted. She just answered lost of questions in the final hour to kill time.

[Libra]

Only one extra from Katy herself, yes, but how many of you think we'd hear the song from Bonnie McKee - who's also one of Katy's frequent collaborators - ever again here, otherwise? ;)

[Libra]

Dec 18, 2013 15:10:09 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

A lot more debuts than I was expecting. If anything, I was anticipating a slight slow-down as a work-around for holiday busyness. (Wait..."Neon Lights" charting and "Pompeii" is, still, On The Verge...Huh?!?)

LOL, this is practically beating us over the head with the fact that it's the affiliate chart. Either that or somebody substituted in their actual Mediabase 40-36 instead of the recurrentless 40-36 here. (Which, I suspect, is also what really happened back on August 3.) Course, even that doesn't explain "Team" being #38 (as opposed to, say, higher)...

[jasonharper2004]

I post The Daly Download Top 60 of 2013 This weekend

[cookie111]

Wow. Five debuts for the last chart of 2013. And it seems like there won't be a lot of debuts as the first chart of 2014 comes in. I find it a tad bothersome to see Robin and Demi debut when A Great Big World and Bastille are placed higher than them on the Mediabase chart. At least I'm glad that "Mirrors", "Love Somebody" and "Get Lucky" are gone. M5's hit was starting to annoy me. Katy Perry only has one extra during her time as host. I would've suggested "Hot N Cold" or "Thinking Of You", maybe "I Kissed A Girl". And one of the extras is "American Girl" by one of Katy's good friends, Bonnie McKee, who was responsible for writing several of her #1 smashes. Meanwhile, "Perfume" is the biggest jump while "Still Into You" is the biggest drop.

[Libra]

OK...I'm listening to the iHeartRadio station right now - and, the show's not playing.

[Cerebro]

Dec 19, 2013 20:07:44 GMT -5 Libra said:

OK...I'm listening to the iHeartRadio station right now - and, the show's not playing.

Likewise...first time in many weeks that I, actually, have opportunity to listen to the Thursday night feed, live, and it seems to be missing.

[Top40fan]

Show playing now. Comming up Top 10

[Cerebro]

Dec 20, 2013 0:59:12 GMT -5 Top40fan said:

Show playing now. Comming up Top 10

Based on the time stamp from your post, that would indicate that the show must have started around 10:00 PM EST (?).

Okay, did the iHeart station just up and change all of their air times on us? I'm tuned in, right now, because I hoped to hear the Friday 4:00 PM airing. However, looks like the same case as last night. Zip. Zero. Nada. No show playing. ???

[goodguy]

The show started at 10:15 p.m. ET last night. Not sure if it's a change in times or a glitch. Just a hunch. I bet the show starts at 6:15 tonight.

[Cerebro]

Friday 6:37 PM ET, and the "4:00 PM" show is starting. I guess the station must be glitchy. Hope they iron it out by next week, or recording the year-end show will be a pain.

[Cerebro]

Coming back from the last commercial break, Robot Lady informs us that this week's guest host is Katy Perry...

"...the only person who has more #1 singles than Ryan has jobs"

It's funny because it's true. :)

[musiciscool]

I heard the show and I will say that Katy did a much better job of hosting than Britney did. Katy at least sounded excited to be there instead of being bored. I found it interesting that Ke$ha is in Katy's "I Kissed A Girl" video. That is something that I never knew before.

On another note, how does "Neon Lights" and "Feel Good" chart and not "Pompeii" or "Say Something"? I don't get it. Next week will be the Top 40 of the year.

[johnnywest]

I'm glad they played "E.T." without Kanye on it. It's a much better version.

[jjose712]

With the exception of Team all the new entries are behind Pompeii in the mediabase chart.

I have the feeling that Harlem will neve make the list wich is a pity. Such a good song but it seems to totally stall, i think only an ad or a performance on a tv show (improbable because the song is not exactly easy to pull live) would save it

[richie]

Dec 21, 2013 18:09:31 GMT -5 johnnywest said:

I'm glad they played "E.T." without Kanye on it. It's a much better version.

I definitely agree with you. It's funny that after the song played, Katy went on and on about Kanye
and how the version with him brought the necessary spice to it. So why didn't she have them play the
single?
How often do we see a block of 5 new songs starting at #40. They also did a top 10 shuffle with only #3
staying in place. Jackpot at #22 this week.
She said that Kitty Purry is her cat alias. While she did much better than Britney, it still felt
"phoned in" to an extent. It will be interesting to see if we get one or two weeks of the top 40 for the year.

[mkarns]

I liked Katy's performance; some of her speaking segments ran longer than typical for a countdown, but it was nice to hear her share her thoughts. Some of the announcer's segments about Ryan's absence were funny as well.

But I found it somewhat odd that so many songs were identified just by chart number, not title or artist. I began to wonder if they had a fully completed chart ready when Katy recorded her tracks.

[upland1425]

Dec 20, 2013 18:39:38 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

Friday 6:37 PM ET, and the "4:00 PM" show is starting. I guess the station must be glitchy. Hope they iron it out by next week, or recording the year-end show will be a pain.

Monday 8 am (EST) show is not playing. They have not returned to its regular (or previous) time schedule.

[upland1425]

Katy is now counting down the chart at #38. So, the show should have started at around 10:20 am EST. They seem to be behind the schedule by 2.5 hours.

[Cerebro]

Dec 23, 2013 10:31:40 GMT -5 upland1425 said:

Katy is now counting down the chart at #38. So, the show should have started at around 10:20 am EST. They seem to be behind the schedule by 2.5 hours.

At least the delay is, fairly, consistent. If I attempt a recording of the year-end show, I may just have to add an extra 3 hours to the recording time just to be safe and ensure that I've captured it all. If I had to guess, I'd say the station is, probably, on full automation and, most likely, no one will notice the problem until after the holidays.

[Libra]

So, I'm finally getting to listen to this. And yeah, this is pretty much a more energetic version of Britney's guest-hosting two weeks ago. At least that meant Katy tried to engage in the show at times instead of just using it to push herself.

Did have a random snafu though - somehow the third extra from next week's year-end show ("#Beautiful") got inserted in place of Green Day. That's what had to have happened, cause Ryan did the outro there.

[musiciscool]

Dec 24, 2013 17:20:40 GMT -5 Libra said:

So, I'm finally getting to listen to this. And yeah, this is pretty much a more energetic version of Britney's guest-hosting two weeks ago. At least that meant Katy tried to engage in the show at times instead of just using it to push herself.

Did have a random snafu though - somehow the third extra from next week's year-end show ("#Beautiful") got inserted in place of Green Day. That's what had to have happened, cause Ryan did the outro there.

Just out of curiosity, did this show start on time, or was it late starting again?

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

I remember when I used to listen to AT40 every week and the yearend charts would get screwed up where the station would play last week's show. It made me so anxious because the yearend chart was the one I'd record every year so I couldn't miss it! It became almost a recurring problem but never consistent, so one year would be fine and then the next year, part 1 of the yearend chart would be replayed two weekends in a row.
The problem was always fixed but I guess it never occurred to me that it was probably due to it being the holiday season and people not being at work. Lol