American Top 40 - August 9, 2014

[jdelachjr2002]

AMERICAN TOP 40 - AUGUST 9, 2014
LW TW WKS Artist - Title
38 40 (26) Pharrell Williams - Happy (1)
40 39 (02) Echosmith - Cool Kids (39)
-- 38 (01) The Madden Brothers - We Are Done (38)
35 37 (31) Bastille - Pompeii (3)
39 36 (03) Florida Georgia Line featuring Jason Derülo - This Is How We Roll (36)
33 35 (07) Trey Songz - Na Na (31)
On The Verge: Tinashe featuring ScHoolBoy Q - 2 On
30 34 (31) Katy Perry featuring Juicy J. - Dark Horse (1)
36 33 (11) AJR - I'm Ready (33)
-- 32 (01) Kiesza - Hideaway (32)
27 31 (26) Jason Derülo featuring 2 Chainz - Talk Dirty (1)
Optional Extra: Flo Rida featuring Sia - Wild Ones
25 30 (18) Rixton - Me And My Broken Heart (6)
26 29 (07) Lorde - Tennis Court (26)
Extra: Drake featuring Majid Jordan - Hold On, We're Going Home
37 28 (04) Rita Ora - I Will Never Let You Down (28)
31 27 (05) Enrique Iglesias featuring Sean Paul - Bailando (27)
21 26 (22) DJ Snake & Lil' Jon - Turn Down For What (4)
34 25 (04) Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora - Black Widow (25)
Breakout: Ingrid Michaelson - Girls Chase Boys
24 24 (06) Tiësto featuring Matthew Koma - Wasted (24)
19 23 (20) Justin Timberlake - Not A Bad Thing (1)
23 22 (11) Afrojack featuring Wrabel - Ten Feet Tall (22)
13 21 (11) Jason Derülo featuring Snoop Dogg - Wiggle (10)
Optional Extra: Rihanna - S&M
22 20 (07) Becky G. - Shower (20)
16 19 (11) Kongos - Come With Me Now (16)
17 18 (23) John Legend - All Of Me (1)
28 17 (04) Ariana Grande featuring Zedd - Break Free (17)
12 16 (21) Paramore - Ain't It Fun (3)
18 15 (04) Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynn - Rather Be (15)
SUBWAY Fresh Buzz Song: Ed Sheeran - Don't
20 14 (08) Sia - Chandelier (14)
10 13 (24) MKTO - Classic (8)
15 12 (08) Pharrell Williams - Come Get It Bae (12)
14 11 (04) Charli XCX - Boom Clap (11)
Optional Extra: Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River
11 10 (07) Demi Lovato featuring Cher Lloyd - Really Don't Care (10)
07 09 (14) Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX - Fancy (1)
09 08 (09) OneRepublic - Love Runs Out (8)
08 07 (06) Maroon 5 - Maps (7)
06 06 (21) Disclosure featuring Sam Smith - Latch (6)
04 05 (17) Calvin Harris - Summer (3)
05 04 (10) Sam Smith - Stay With Me (4)
03 03 (12) Ariana Grande featuring Iggy Azalea - Problem (1)
Two For One: Ariana Grande - The Way
Optional Extra: Beyonce - Halo
01 02 (15) Nico & Vinz - Am I Wrong (1)
02 01 (13) MAGIC! - Rude ** 1st week @ no. 1 **

DROPPERS:
Katy Perry - Birthday (from #32, 13 weeks on)
Jennifer Lopez - First Love (from #29, 7 weeks on)

- Katy falls out of the Top 40 with "Birthday" while "Dark Horse" remains
- Ariana Grande gets Two-For-One treatment this week; last week, she was the Two-For-One in the Hot AC edition
- Second straight week with Rihanna as the Hour #2 optional extra
- If iHeart Radio still airs the U.S. version a few times and skips the opening segment of Hour #2, it contains songs #30-27 (plus the Drake extra)
- It had to be said: It took Magic to give Nico & Vinz a Rude shove out of the #1 spot. :)

[Deleted]

woohoo go "Don't" by Ed Sheeran! hope it charts next week.

[mkarns]

Following up on something Ryan said last week, Magic! are the first Canadian band (not solo artist or collaborator) to hit #1 this decade. The last one I could think of to top AT40 was Nickelback, with "How You Remind Me", in 2001-02. Any others since?

[musiciscool]

Is the IHeart station still airing the International version or not? I thought they said that the U.S. version was going to return to the IHeart station.

[goodguy]

Aug 6, 2014 23:00:04 GMT -5 musiciscool said:

Is the IHeart station still airing the International version or not? I thought they said that the U.S. version was going to return to the IHeart station.

Here's what they've been doing lately.

The new week's show starts at midnight EDT on Thursday night.

They run the U.S. version three times. Midnight-4. 4-8. 8-noon. They skip the first three optional extras.

Starting at noon EDT Friday, they run the international version. Optional extras are skipped at their regular times but are occasionally inserted as time fillers. The international version runs every 3 hours instead of 4.

[cookie111]

Aug 6, 2014 22:54:23 GMT -5 mkarns said:

Following up on something Ryan said last week, Magic! are the first Canadian band (not solo artist or collaborator) to hit #1 this decade. The last one I could think of to top AT40 was Nickelback, with "How You Remind Me", in 2001-02. Any others since?

I'll also note that Magic is the first Canadian act to top the chart since Carly Rae Jepsen in 2012 with "Call Me Maybe". Bryan Adams, Alannah Myles, Celine Dion, Alanis Morissette, Avril Lavigne, and Nelly Furtado are other acts from Canada that topped AT40.

[Cerebro]

Aug 6, 2014 22:54:23 GMT -5 mkarns said:

Following up on something Ryan said last week, Magic! are the first Canadian band (not solo artist or collaborator) to hit #1 this decade. The last one I could think of to top AT40 was Nickelback, with "How You Remind Me", in 2001-02. Any others since?

I believe you're right. The only other Canadian group (besides Magic!) that I can think of to even chart in the U.S. (much less hit #1) since then is Dragonette, who performed on Martin Solveig's 2011 hit, "Hello" (that peaked in the top 20).

[johnnywest]

Aug 7, 2014 12:56:38 GMT -5 cookie111 said:

Aug 6, 2014 22:54:23 GMT -5 mkarns said:

Following up on something Ryan said last week, Magic! are the first Canadian band (not solo artist or collaborator) to hit #1 this decade. The last one I could think of to top AT40 was Nickelback, with "How You Remind Me", in 2001-02. Any others since?

I'll also note that Magic is the first Canadian act to top the chart since Carly Rae Jepsen in 2012 with "Call Me Maybe". Bryan Adams, Alannah Myles, Celine Dion, Alanis Morissette, Avril Lavigne, and Nelly Furtado are other acts from Canada that topped AT40.

Also Anne Murray, Paul Anka, The Guess Who, Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot and Barenaked Ladies.

Casey once mentioned that Guy Lumbardo was the first Canadian to ever have a #1 hit in the U.S. sometime in the '40s.

[richie]

^ And Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

[johnnywest]

And Terry Jacks.

[johnm1120]

Aug 6, 2014 22:54:23 GMT -5 mkarns said:

Following up on something Ryan said last week, Magic! are the first Canadian band (not solo artist or collaborator) to hit #1 this decade. The last one I could think of to top AT40 was Nickelback, with "How You Remind Me", in 2001-02. Any others since?

"Far Away" hit #1 for them as well.

[Cerebro]

Aug 8, 2014 10:47:18 GMT -5 johnm1120 said:

Aug 6, 2014 22:54:23 GMT -5 mkarns said:

Following up on something Ryan said last week, Magic! are the first Canadian band (not solo artist or collaborator) to hit #1 this decade. The last one I could think of to top AT40 was Nickelback, with "How You Remind Me", in 2001-02. Any others since?

"Far Away" hit #1 for them as well.

Not on AT40. This was one of those rare occurrences when a song that hit #1 on Mediabase didn't hit #1 on this chart. "Far Away" peaked at #2 and was overtaken by JoJo's "Too Little, Too Late" (which only peaked at #2 on Mediabase).

[Cerebro]

And while we're discussing last week's comment Ryan made about Magic!, here's this week's fun fact. "Rude" is the first reggae song to top the pop chart since 1993. Ryan played a snippet of the last song to claim this honor, UB40's "Can't Help Falling In Love".

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

And the people who sang Waiting For A Star To Fall.

[Libra]

Aug 9, 2014 10:19:43 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

And the people who sang Waiting For A Star To Fall.

??? Boy Meets Girl didn't hit #1. Nor are they even Canadian, so I'm not sure what you're trying to refer to here...?

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

Casey Kasem would have never played "Turn Down For What" nor "Wiggle" on his AT40 show.

[Hot AC Archiver]

Aug 9, 2014 15:52:34 GMT -5 Doc Indie Party Rock said:

Casey Kasem would have never played "Turn Down For What" nor "Wiggle" on his AT40 show.

Casey would've played whatever is in the top 40. No song was skipped, even if it had questionable content, e.g. "I Want Your Sex" by Georgie Michael.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Aug 9, 2014 13:58:07 GMT -5 Libra said:

Aug 9, 2014 10:19:43 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

And the people who sang Waiting For A Star To Fall.

??? Boy Meets Girl didn't hit #1. Nor are they even Canadian, so I'm not sure what you're trying to refer to here...?

Really?

I remember Casey or someone doing a story on Canadians who hit #1 on their first single when Nickelback did it (I think) and he listed off like 3 others and one of them was that song...or at least some song from 1989 by a one-hit-wonder Canadian group that I had no idea about.


No. It was Jane Child. lol. I just checked. Don't Wanna Fall In Love. Sorry, that's the one I meant. lmao

[Libra]

Aug 9, 2014 18:26:10 GMT -5 Hot AC Archiver said:

Aug 9, 2014 15:52:34 GMT -5 Doc Indie Party Rock said:

Casey Kasem would have never played "Turn Down For What" nor "Wiggle" on his AT40 show.

Casey would've played whatever is in the top 40. No song was skipped, even if it had questionable content, e.g. "I Want Your Sex" by Georgie Michael.

Case in point (Doc Indie Party Rock): He played "My Neck, My Back".

[mkarns]

Casey never refused to play a song, but stations were sometimes given directions on how they could cut a potentially objectionable one. (This might still be done, but it would have to be done differently in this age of the countdowns being distributed as electronic files.)

Regarding " I Want Your Sex", Casey usually refused to say the title. The same was true for Shadoe Stevens when the 2 Live Crew's "Me So Horny" was on AT40. (Casey didn't have to deal with that one, as it didn't chart in Radio & Records which he was using by then.)

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

there was a version made for radio for George's song. You guys probly don't recall when they changed the lyric to "I Want your Love". that's the one I would listen to on KISS f.m.. When the song went to number #1, that version was thrown out the window .Kasey was also known to shorten down songs he concidered questionable. I would sometimes listen to his show and he would cut certain songs to one verse ,bridge and chorus. I guessing nowadays his show would be really short.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Casey shortened mostly songs that were on the way down the chart or had been on for a really long time.

[cookie111]

Aug 10, 2014 11:03:15 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

Aug 9, 2014 13:58:07 GMT -5 Libra said:

??? Boy Meets Girl didn't hit #1. Nor are they even Canadian, so I'm not sure what you're trying to refer to here...?

Really?

I remember Casey or someone doing a story on Canadians who hit #1 on their first single when Nickelback did it (I think) and he listed off like 3 others and one of them was that song...or at least some song from 1989 by a one-hit-wonder Canadian group that I had no idea about.


No. It was Jane Child. lol. I just checked. Don't Wanna Fall In Love. Sorry, that's the one I meant. lmao

Jane Child's "Don't Wanna Fall In Love" peaked at #2 for three weeks in 1990 so it didn't make the top. I think you're talking about Alannah Myles.

[Hot AC Archiver]

Aug 14, 2014 8:10:11 GMT -5 cookie111 said:

Aug 10, 2014 11:03:15 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

Really?

I remember Casey or someone doing a story on Canadians who hit #1 on their first single when Nickelback did it (I think) and he listed off like 3 others and one of them was that song...or at least some song from 1989 by a one-hit-wonder Canadian group that I had no idea about.


No. It was Jane Child. lol. I just checked. Don't Wanna Fall In Love. Sorry, that's the one I meant. lmao

Jane Child's "Don't Wanna Fall In Love" peaked at #2 for three weeks in 1990 so it didn't make the top. I think you're talking about Alannah Myles.

On AT40 with Shadoe Stevens, which used the Hot 100 at the time, Jane did spend 3 weeks at #2. However on Casey's Top 40, which used the Radio & Records pop chart, she hit the top. Modern AT40 uses Casey's Top 40 history, not AT40 history.