American Top 40 - November 29, 2014

[jdelachjr2002]

Putting this up as early as I can. Happy Thanksgiving everybody! :)

AMERICAN TOP 40 - NOVEMBER 29, 2014
LW TW WKS Artist - Title
-- 40 (01) Jessie J. featuring 2 Chainz - Burnin' Up (40)
-- 39 (01) Chris Brown featuring Usher & Rick Ross - New Flame (39)
37 38 (23) Sia - Chandelier (10)
38 37 (05) Bebe Rexha - I Can't Stop Drinking About You (37)
34 36 (21) Enrique Iglesias featuring Sean Paul - Bailando (10)
35 35 (04) Kendrick Lamar - i (35)
-- 34 (01) Charli XCX - Break The Rules (34)
30 33 (31) Nico & Vinz - Am I Wrong (1)
33 32 (05) Fall Out Boy - Centuries (32)
Extra: Onerepublic - Love Runs Out
32 31 (04) David Guetta featuring Sam Martin - Dangerous (31)
Breakout: Ella Henderson - Ghost
Optional Extra: Lorde - Team
27 30 (22) Maroon 5 - Maps (3)
39 29 (02) Hozier - Take Me To Church (29)
29 28 (02) Meghan Trainor - Lips Are Movin' (28)
Breakout: Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk
24 27 (29) MAGIC! - Rude (1)
23 26 (07) Nico & Vinz - In Your Arms (23)
19 25 (20) Ariana Grande featuring Zedd - Break Free (4)
21 24 (26) Sam Smith - Stay With Me (1)
SUBWAY Fresh Buzz Song: Selena Gomez - The Heart Wants What It Wants
28 23 (03) Gwen Stefani - Baby Don't Lie (23)
22 22 (05) Fergie - L.A. Love (La La) (22)
18 21 (20) Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne - Rather Be (6)
Optional Extra: Rihanna - Take A Bow
25 20 (07) Alesso featuring Tove Lo - Heroes (We Could Be) (20)
26 19 (03) Iggy Azalea featuring MO - Beg For It (19)
Extra: Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me
Extra: Kim Cesarion - Undressed
15 18 (19) Charli XCX - Boom Clap (1)
17 17 (07) One Direction - Steal My Girl (17)
31 16 (02) Taylor Swift - Blank Space (16)
13 15 (18) Echosmith - Cool Kids (9)
16 14 (06) Sam Smith - I'm Not The Only One (14)
14 13 (04) Ariana Grande featuring the Weeknd - Love Me Harder (13)
12 12 (10) Jason Derülo - Trumpets (12)
11 11 (09) Nick Jonas - Jealous (11)
Optional Extra: Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin' Down
10 10 (10) Mr. Probz - Waves (10)
08 09 (16) Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass (1)
09 08 (09) Calvin Harris featuring John Newman - Blame (8)
05 07 (20) Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora - Black Widow (1)
06 06 (14) Jeremih featuring YG - Don't Tell 'Em (5)
07 05 (16) Ed Sheeran - Don't (5)
Extra: Tinashe featuring ScHoolBoy Q - 2 On
03 04 (13) Taylor Swift - Shake It Off (1)
01 03 (16) Jessie J., Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj - Bang Bang (1)
Optional Extra: David Guetta featuring Usher - Without You
04 02 (07) Maroon 5 - Animals (2)
02 01 (14) Tove Lo - Habits (Stay High) **1st week @ no. 1**

DROPPERS:
Disclosure featuring Sam Smith - Latch (from #40, 36 weeks on)
Mary Lambert - Secrets (from #36, 5 weeks on)
Pitbull featuring John Ryan - Fireball (from #20, 11 weeks on)

- Well, AT40 has officially put Tove Lo as "high" as she can go. :) Now with Maroon 5 at #1 for the second straight week on Mediabase's survey, they will most likely take over the #1 spot when Nick Jonas subs for Ryan next weekend.
- With "Latch" finally off the survey, "Am I Wrong" inherits the longest current run on AT40
- The Two-For-One segment has been lacking of late as there is no feature with nobody moving into the Top 10
- Kendrick Lamar just can't seem to get out of that #35 position.
- We've had two straight weeks with Katy Perry in the first op extra slot and now Rihanna is in her second straight week in the second op extra slot.

[Libra]

Nov 26, 2014 14:50:10 GMT -5 jdelachjr2002 said:

Extra: Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me
Extra: Kim Cesarion - Undressed

You know the excess of extras from week to week has become too much when...

Granted, it's a new song and a not-so-new song back-to-back, but still.

And it's one of two extra pairs this week. Though granted, the first would have commercials separating the two...

[Cerebro]

Nov 26, 2014 14:50:10 GMT -5 jdelachjr2002 said:

08 09 (20) Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass (1)
07 05 (15) Ed Sheeran - Don't (5)
01 03 (14) Jessie J., Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj - Bang Bang (1)

Maybe it was the rush to get this thing posted before the holiday, but the weeks on count for all three of these is wrong. All three of these songs, in fact, debuted the same weekend, 8/16, making this week their 16th week on.

Terrible distribution of the extras, this week. Not only are there two Breakouts during the second hour, but, based on when the commercials usually are, all three of the Breakouts will, likely, air in three consecutive segments. Space the buggers out. Then there's two random extras back-to-back in the top 20. Totally unnecessary.

[mkarns]

Nov 26, 2014 14:50:10 GMT -5 jdelachjr2002 said:

- Well, AT40 has officially put Tove Lo as "high" as she can go. :) Now with Maroon 5 at #1 for the second straight week on Mediabase's survey, they will most likely take over the #1 spot when Nick Jonas subs for Ryan next weekend.
- With "Latch" finally off the survey, "Am I Wrong" inherits the longest current run on AT40
- The Two-For-One segment has been lacking of late as there is no feature with nobody moving into the Top 10
- Kendrick Lamar just can't seem to get out of that #35 position.
- We've had two straight weeks with Katy Perry in the first op extra slot and now Rihanna is in her second straight week in the second op extra slot.

Maybe "Jealous" will move into the top 10 next week and Nick can 2 for 1 himself, coupling it with one of his group hits. This week actually features one less extra than last week, including a Christmas song from Ariana Grande that might have better waited a couple of weeks, though it may well reappear in December. I wonder if we'll be getting more holiday-themed extras over the next several weeks?

Two recent chart-topping artists debut with their followups (if "Burnin' Up" had come on board a week earlier Jessie J could have begun and ended the countdown); "Waves" gets an AT40 jackpot; Ed Sheeran enters the top 5 for the first time; unsurprisingly, "Blank Space" is the biggest mover; and "Fireball" gets extinguished fast (falling off from #20.)

[johnnywest]

Nov 26, 2014 22:31:07 GMT -5 mkarns said:

"Fireball" gets extinguished fast (falling off from #20.)

"Fireball" suffered a similar fate on the Hot 100. On Nov. 15, it moved up 7 notches to #23. The following week, it fell out of the Top 40.

[musiciscool]

Why does AT40 play these song extras of a song that recently fell off the chart? If they want to play an extra, play one that somebody requested (though would feel out of place on the countdown) even though they do that every hour anyway.

[cookie111]

"Love Runs Out" plays as an extra after Fall Out Boy's hit when "Sugar We're Goin' Down" plays as an optional extra, when it could've been the Two For One.   Just when I thought that we might not see Usher hit the chart this year, "New Flame" debuts. Back to back extras in the third hour seems kind of vexing.

[Arnold]

Isn't this show supposed to be a countdown of the 40 most popular CURRENT records?  The oldies (extras) seem out of place to me.  The extras should all be new records that appear to be headed for the top 40, in my opinion.  Random records seem out of place on American Top 40.  If it doesn't have a number from 1 to 40, or headed for that range, then it is irrelevant to the show, in my opinion. 

[jjose712]

Nov 27, 2014 13:35:27 GMT -5 Arnold said:

Isn't this show supposed to be a countdown of the 40 most popular CURRENT records?  The oldies (extras) seem out of place to me.  The extras should all be new records that appear to be headed for the top 40, in my opinion.  Random records seem out of place on American Top 40.  If it doesn't have a number from 1 to 40, or headed for that range, then it is irrelevant to the show, in my opinion. 

No, this show was almost that way, and in fact those are the most popular songs in this moment (well, two weeks ago). A song going recurrent after falling the top 10 doesn't stop being popular, in fact is way more popular than a song that it's number 30

[Arnold]

Nov 27, 2014 14:35:29 GMT -5 jjose712 said:

Nov 27, 2014 13:35:27 GMT -5 Arnold said:

Isn't this show supposed to be a countdown of the 40 most popular CURRENT records?  The oldies (extras) seem out of place to me.  The extras should all be new records that appear to be headed for the top 40, in my opinion.  Random records seem out of place on American Top 40.  If it doesn't have a number from 1 to 40, or headed for that range, then it is irrelevant to the show, in my opinion. 

No, this show was almost that way, and in fact those are the most popular songs in this moment (well, two weeks ago). A song going recurrent after falling the top 10 doesn't stop being popular, in fact is way more popular than a song that it's number 30

I wasn't referring to the recurrents they play, I was only referring to the Extras.  I think that all extras should be new music that hasn't reached the countdown yet.

[jjose712]

Nov 27, 2014 15:11:52 GMT -5 Arnold said:

Nov 27, 2014 14:35:29 GMT -5 jjose712 said:

No, this show was almost that way, and in fact those are the most popular songs in this moment (well, two weeks ago). A song going recurrent after falling the top 10 doesn't stop being popular, in fact is way more popular than a song that it's number 30

I wasn't referring to the recurrents they play, I was only referring to the Extras.  I think that all extras should be new music that hasn't reached the countdown yet.

Sorry, i didn't understand you.
But the extras has more to do with remember songs that were success, to new music that's not on the chart there are the breakouts and the subway fresh buzz song.

I remember back in the 90's when i heard the chart i love when they played songs that i liked and were hits because a lot of them weren't even released here (now the show is not aired here and with internet and youtube is all different)

[michelinedim]

like the 'animals' so much! prefect song!!

[musiciscool]

Nov 27, 2014 22:55:14 GMT -5 michelinedim said:

like the 'animals' so much! prefect song!!

"Animals" will most likely be #1 next week.

[Top40fan]

Nov 29, 2014 16:41:24 GMT -5 Top40fan said:

Who is the male voiceover? I know that the female is Kelly Doherty

[johnnywest]

Nov 27, 2014 13:35:27 GMT -5 Arnold said:

Isn't this show supposed to be a countdown of the 40 most popular CURRENT records?  The oldies (extras) seem out of place to me.  The extras should all be new records that appear to be headed for the top 40, in my opinion.  Random records seem out of place on American Top 40.  If it doesn't have a number from 1 to 40, or headed for that range, then it is irrelevant to the show, in my opinion. 

AT40 has been playing extras since Day One, along with every other countdown that's out there. It breaks up the monotony. Most weeks have between 1-3 debuts, which would make the chart pretty stale if that's all we got. And we're still getting 3 up-and-comers every week. As long as each songs continues to play for 3 to 3 1/2 minutes, then we're going to keep getting extras. I'll take that any day over more commercials or more talk.

[jasonharper2004]

since end of the year coming what u think they bring back top 100 or just do a top 50

[musiciscool]

Nov 30, 2014 17:06:46 GMT -5 jasonharper2004 said:

since end of the year coming what u think they bring back top 100 or just do a top 50

I would love it if they would bring back The Top 100 of the year like the good old days. Unfortunately, they will only do a Top 40 of the year. Two weeks of the same countdown, just different extras.

[richie]

Nov 30, 2014 17:06:46 GMT -5 jasonharper2004 said:

since end of the year coming what u think they bring back top 100 or just do a top 50

I'll bet it's a top 40 plus different extras each of the 2 weeks, as for the past few years. Does anyone know which week
this will start?

Lots of fresh music this week. As to the back-to-back extras, it happened last week, too. 2 "fire" songs enter, and
another one falls off. And the 2 Don't songs have been adjacent for the past 3 weeks. Ryan talked to Ariana about loneliness
at Christmas time. I didn't know she's from a large Italian family.
I think that playing older songs is just fine. It's good to look back as well as forward. I just wish they
wouldn't play songs that recently dropped out of the countdown.
Here's a curiosity: There are 11 songs in the survey that start with the letter B. Hey, give some of the other
letters a chance!

[Arnold]

Nov 30, 2014 13:30:24 GMT -5 johnnywest said:

Nov 27, 2014 13:35:27 GMT -5 Arnold said:

Isn't this show supposed to be a countdown of the 40 most popular CURRENT records?  The oldies (extras) seem out of place to me.  The extras should all be new records that appear to be headed for the top 40, in my opinion.  Random records seem out of place on American Top 40.  If it doesn't have a number from 1 to 40, or headed for that range, then it is irrelevant to the show, in my opinion. 

AT40 has been playing extras since Day One, along with every other countdown that's out there. It breaks up the monotony. Most weeks have between 1-3 debuts, which would make the chart pretty stale if that's all we got. And we're still getting 3 up-and-comers every week. As long as each songs continues to play for 3 to 3 1/2 minutes, then we're going to keep getting extras. I'll take that any day over more commercials or more talk.

Yes, you're right.  But I would like the show better if it would conform to what it's name says it is, which means to count them down from #40 to #1. 

The reason I listen to the show is to give me the feeling that there is a family of current music that represents the present time.  I have been accustomed to it being that way since the early 1950's when I was a kid.  Back then it seemed to be that way, from the sources I was hearing music from most of the time.

I'm not opposed to them playing extras, but I wish they would all be from the present time (new music).

[funguy10]

What did Ryan say as he was introducing Habits as number 1. I went out somewhere and wasn't able to here what he said.

[Cerebro]

Nov 30, 2014 18:38:45 GMT -5 funguy10 said:

What did Ryan say as he was introducing Habits as number 1. I went out somewhere and wasn't able to here what he said.

Ryan said that Tove Lo is the first solo woman from Sweden to ever hit #1 on the pop chart. I'm kind of surprised. There have been several Swedish acts that have hit #1 over the years. I figured there were other solo women who have done so. Apparently not.

[johnnywest]

He mentioned other Top 40 Swedish acts like Avicii and Robyn (Robyn, BTW, would have come the closest peaking at #2 in 1998).

[Libra]

Nov 27, 2014 13:35:27 GMT -5 Arnold said:

Isn't this show supposed to be a countdown of the 40 most popular CURRENT records?  The oldies (extras) seem out of place to me.  The extras should all be new records that appear to be headed for the top 40, in my opinion.  Random records seem out of place on American Top 40.  If it doesn't have a number from 1 to 40, or headed for that range, then it is irrelevant to the show, in my opinion. 

Older songs as extras go back to at least the AT40 revival, if not further (i.e. during the Casey's Top 40 days) - and that's not even counting LDDs and Extras that were there as part of a story.

When the show was revived back in 1998, each week would have as many as five different random songs packaged with the show as "optional" extras. They were referred to as America's Top Hits. They'd always be from somewhere around the time of the current week's show, from X number of years before. Casey would tell a brief story, then the song would play.

About a year or so into the Seacrest era, is when the current practice of "optional" extras - one per hour - began here. (Or maybe they were doing it all along and we just didn't catch on for a year or so...who knows?) They have, more or less, been similar to ATH in that they're always older - there's just no story is all.

Personally, I haven't minded those at all. It's when the show began taking those same songs and sticking them into the show as non-optional extras...that's what I find annoying. It makes me wonder what's kept them from just doing that in the first place, and at the same time it reflects a lazy effort being the norm in producing the show from week to week.