American Top 40 - January 18, 2014

[KelownaGuy20]

AMERICAN TOP 40 - JANUARY 18, 2014
LW TW WKS Artist - Title
40 40 (37) Zedd featuring Foxes - Clarity
-- 39 (01) Miley Cyrus - Adore You
39 38 (05) Calvin Harris featuring Ayah Marar - Thinking About You
37 37 (25) Lana Del Rey - Summertime Sadness
38 36 (05) Demi Lovato - Neon Lights
34 35 (41) Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton - Can't Hold Us
32 34 (05) Flo Rida - How I Feel
30 33 (18) Selena Gomez - Slow Down
31 32 (30) Capital Cities - Safe and Sound
24 31 (08) Britney Spears - Perfume
On The Verge: The 1975 - Chocolate
Optional Extra: Neon Trees - Animal
-- 30 (01) Beyoncé - XO
29 29 (32) Robin Thicke featuring Pharrell & T.I. - Blurred Lines
28 28 (07) Sara Bareilles - Brave
Break Out: Cash Cash featuring Bebe Rexha - Take Me Home
26 27 (26) Jay-Z featuring Justin Timberlake - Holy Grail
25 26 (14) Fall Out Boy - Alone Together
27 25 (06) Zendaya - Replay
22 24 (11) Katy Perry - Unconditionally
36 23 (02) Bruno Mars - Young Girls
21 22 (20) Lady Gaga - Applause
23 21 (07) John Newman - Love Me Again
Optional Extra: Nicki Minaj - Starships
18 20 (21) Katy Perry - Roar
16 19 (19) Drake featuring Majid Jordan - Hold On, We're Going Home
19 18 (02) Bastille - Pompeii
20 17 (02) Katy Perry featuring Juicy J - Dark Horse
17 16 (02) A Great Big World featuring Christina Aguilera - Say Something
13 15 (15) Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball
15 14 (05) Lorde - Team
Break Out: Avicii - Hey Brother
12 13 (21) Lorde - Royals
14 12 (10) Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring ScHoolboy Q & Hollis - White Walls
09 11 (22) The Neighbourhood - Sweater Weather
Optional Extra: Gym Class Heroes featuring Neon Hitch - Back Home
11 10 (09) One Direction - Story of My Life
2 For 1: One Direction - Live While We're Young
10 09 (08) Passenger - Let Her Go
08 08 (08) Lady Gaga featuring R. Kelly - Do What U Want
07 07 (08) Ellie Goulding - Burn
05 06 (21) Avicii - Wake Me Up!
06 05 (11) Zedd featuring Hayley Williams - Stay The Night
04 04 (14) Imagine Dragons - Demons
02 03 (09) OneRepublic - Counting Stars
Optional Extra: Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me
03 02 (11) Pitbull featuring Ke$ha - Timber
01 01 (10) Eminem featuring Rihanna - The Monster ** 2 weeks @ no. 1 **

DROPPERS
Robin Thicke - Feel Good (from #35; 4 weeks on)
Jason Derulo - Marry Me (from #33; 13 weeks on)

[Cerebro]

As we were, pretty much, expecting, it's a slow week. With the exception of the biggest mover ("Young Girls") and the biggest dropper ("Perfume"), nothing moves more than three spots.

Given the three options on the web site -- "XO", "Adore You", and "Hey Brother" -- it's safe to say that the latter is the Subway Fresh Buzz Song since the two former are already charting.

It's a little worrying to see "Counting Stars" slip to #3. Will they not make it to #1, here? Next week's battle should be interesting.

[Libra]

Jan 15, 2014 10:39:18 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

It's a little worrying to see "Counting Stars" slip to #3. Will they not make it to #1, here? Next week's battle should be interesting.

Agreed, though that did happen to "Wake Me Up" before that hit the top. :)

[mkarns]

A lot of last week's big movers suddenly if temporarily slow down, though many of those moves were inflated by the absence of charts for two weeks. In last week's show, Ryan simply compared the moves to previous chart positions as if only one week, instead of three, elapsed.

Eight songs stay in the same position as last week, including an AT40 jackpot at #8. Somewhat surprisingly, "Clarity" holds on at #40, and "Blurred Lines" stays on at #29 while two followups have now come and gone, as "Feel Good" falls off. "Counting Stars" slide back to #3 doesn't necessarily preclude it from moving back up; in addition to "Wake Me Up", four years ago "Tik Tok" jumped to #2 on the first post-holiday countdown, slipped back to #3, and then moved back up to eventually hit the top.

Some notes about extras and their placement: back-to-back Lorde hits are broken up by Avicii's new song, and this is the second week in a row that the last optional extra is from Taylor Swift, both from the same album (in addition, that album's "22" was an extra in the year end show.) The Two for One feature is back, with One Direction receiving that treatment for what I think is the first time; usually they place 2 for 1's in the top 10, and 1D's only previous hit to reach that level was their very first one.

[Libra]

Jan 15, 2014 15:51:04 GMT -5 mkarns said:

and this is the second week in a row that the last optional extra is from Taylor Swift, both from the same album

Same album? I think not. ;)

[johnnywest]

Jan 15, 2014 10:39:18 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

With the exception of the biggest mover ("Young Girls") and the biggest dropper ("Perfume"), nothing moves more than three spots.

Glad to see "Young Girls" jump 12 spots. We'll see if he can top Richard Marx's feat for having his first 13 Top 40 hits all make the Top 10.

Ryan didn't mention that Rihanna has the most #1s so far this century (there was another stat last week), so we'll see what he says at #1 this weekend.

[Lahey's Lucky Star]

Jan 15, 2014 16:58:43 GMT -5 johnnywest said:

Jan 15, 2014 10:39:18 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

With the exception of the biggest mover ("Young Girls") and the biggest dropper ("Perfume"), nothing moves more than three spots.

Glad to see "Young Girls" jump 12 spots. We'll see if he can top Richard Marx's feat for having his first 13 Top 40 hits all make the Top 10.

Did "Gorilla" ever make the top 10 on AT40?

[mkarns]

Jan 15, 2014 19:48:19 GMT -5 Lahey's Lucky Star said:

Jan 15, 2014 16:58:43 GMT -5 johnnywest said:

Glad to see "Young Girls" jump 12 spots. We'll see if he can top Richard Marx's feat for having his first 13 Top 40 hits all make the Top 10.

Did "Gorilla" ever make the top 10 on AT40?

Yes, barely. It peaked at #10 for one week on 11/16/13.

[jdelachjr2002]

Not mentioned but it looks like "Hey Brother" is the Fresh Buzz Song of the Week.

The other candidates - "Adore You" and "XO" - are already in the Top 40.

[venture2000]

Congratulations to Mr. Seacrest on his 10 year anniversary at AT 40. He is not Casey Kasem, but he was the best choice out of the list of contenders that were under consideration.

On a related note I wonder if we will ever find out the REAL story behind Mr. Kasem retiring from AT 40? (He did manage to retain hosting duties on his AC and Hot AC shows until 2009) did he leave willingly or was he forced out?

On yet one more note when will Premiere Radio release his 90s countdown (Casey's Top 40 and later AT 40) into syndication?

[goodguy]

More woes with AT40's iHeartRadio channel. The Thursday night countdown, in addition to starting about two hours and 45 minutes later than it used to, now routinely cuts off at 2 a.m. EST -- right around #6. So we get to try again on Friday afternoon at 4, er, I mean 6:45.

[Cerebro]

Jan 17, 2014 12:27:54 GMT -5 goodguy said:

More woes with AT40's iHeartRadio channel. The Thursday night countdown, in addition to starting about two hours and 45 minutes later than it used to, now routinely cuts off at 2 a.m. EST -- right around #6. So we get to try again on Friday afternoon at 4, er, I mean 6:45.

For now, I've given up on the Thursday broadcasts. As much as I would like to listen to/record them, the start time is just too late, for me. I almost wish we knew who to contact to bring these issues to their attention. It almost seems that whoever "runs" the station (it's, undoubtedly, more automated than it is hands-on) is oblivious to the problems.

[goodguy]

A friend sent a message to [e-mail]. She got a reply thanking her for pointing it out and saying others had complained as well. They said they would contact the people who can fix it. But that was a month ago. So yes, I agree that it doesn't seem to be a priority for them.

[Cerebro]

We'll I'll be...I just tuned in at 6:20, not expecting the "4:00" broadcast to have started, yet, and they were already on #28. :o Which means the show started only a little over an hour late. Not quite there, yet, but better. I guess they are getting this delay problem hammered out.

[Libra]

Jan 17, 2014 18:25:39 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

We'll I'll be...I just tuned in at 6:20, not expecting the "4:00" broadcast to have started, yet, and they were already on #28. :o Which means the show started only a little over an hour late. Not quite there, yet, but better. I guess they are getting this delay problem hammered out.

And here I was tuning in anticipating catching the whole thing tonight pretty soon. Go figure!

[Libra]

Jan 15, 2014 16:58:43 GMT -5 johnnywest said:

Ryan didn't mention that Rihanna has the most #1s so far this century (there was another stat last week), so we'll see what he says at #1 this weekend.

Looks like you called it right here. :)

[musiciscool]

Not much movement on the chart besides the biggest mover and biggest dropper. Glad to see One Direction make the Top 10. I was sort of surprised that "Clarity" held on at #40 rather than falling off completely. I was surprised at "Counting Stars" falling down a spot to #3. It should get #1 soon, so I guess we will see happens on next week's show.

[Lahey's Lucky Star]

Jan 18, 2014 12:25:40 GMT -5 musiciscool said:

Not much movement on the chart besides the biggest mover and biggest dropper. Glad to see One Direction make the Top 10. I was sort of surprised that "Clarity" held on at #40 rather than falling off completely. I was surprised at "Counting Stars" falling down a spot to #3. It should get #1 soon, so I guess we will see happens on next week's show.

"Clarity" is still on the Mediabase top 40 with Recurrents, even now, so I'm not surprised.

[kc98]

Yay for Take Me Home and Starships!

[Libra]

Jan 18, 2014 13:17:12 GMT -5 Lahey's Lucky Star said:

"Clarity" is still on the Mediabase top 40 with Recurrents, even now, so I'm not surprised.

True, but so are "Get Lucky" and "Mirrors" (the latter moving back up 5 notches to #27 [!] on the matching recurrentless chart), and those departed the countdown before the end of 2013. :) This week it's not as surprising to see it hang around, but next week I also wouldn't be surprised to see it depart. Seems like it started sometime last year or in 2012 where old/recurrent songs started to leave AT40 a week or two before they left Mediabase's overall Top 40.

[mkarns]

Jan 15, 2014 15:54:01 GMT -5 Libra said:

Jan 15, 2014 15:51:04 GMT -5 mkarns said:

and this is the second week in a row that the last optional extra is from Taylor Swift, both from the same album

Same album? I think not. ;)

I thought "We Are Never Getting Back Together" was listed when this was first posted. Indeed, it is "You Belong With Me", from a previous album. Still, I found two extras from the same artist in the same place in consecutive weeks to be noteworthy.

[richie]

We have a jackpot this week: 08 08 (08). Ryan interviewed Kevin Hart who Pres. Obama nicknamed Kev when he
went to the White House. He also talked to J-Lo who has a new song Same Girl, which reminds me in concept
of Jenny From The Block. Not too original.
We get 3 non-optional songs in a row with some of a woman's favorite things: perfume, chocolate, and XO.
Macklemore stays in touch with his inner child. The kid on Thrift Shop, references to Pre-K and 3rd grade in Same Love,
chasing dreams since he was 14 in Can't Hold Us, and the same bridge they walked across as kids in White Walls.
Slow week but at least they played a couple of new songs.