American Top 40 - December 6, 2014

[jdelachjr2002]

Hope everybody had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Here's the show:

AMERICAN TOP 40 - DECEMBER 6, 2014 (Special Guest Host: Nick Jonas)
LW TW WKS Artist - Title
36 40 (22) Enrique Iglesias featuring Sean Paul - Bailando (10)
40 39 (02) Jessie J. featuring 2 Chainz - Burnin' Up (39)
39 38 (02) Chris Brown featuring Usher & Rick Ross - New Flame (38)
37 37 (06) Bebe Rexha - I Can't Stop Drinking About You (37)
33 36 (32) Nico & Vinz - Am I Wrong (1)
-- 35 (01) Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk (35)
Extra: The Jonas Brothers - First Time
34 34 (02) Charli XCX - Break The Rules (34)
-- 33 (01) Selena Gomez - The Heart Wants What It Wants (33)
30 32 (23) Maroon 5 - Maps (3)
31 31 (05) David Guetta featuring Sam Martin - Dangerous (31)
Breakout: Milky Chance - Stolen Dance
Optional Extra: Demi Lovato - Neon Lights
32 30 (06) Fall Out Boy - Centuries (30)
27 29 (30) Magic! - Rude (1)
25 28 (21) Ariana Grande featuring Zedd - Break Free (4)
26 27 (08) Nico & Vinz - In Your Arms (23)
24 26 (27) Sam Smith - Stay With Me (1)
23 25 (04) Gwen Stefani - Baby Don't Lie (23)
29 24 (03) Hozier - Take Me To Church (24)
21 23 (21) Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne - Rather Be (6)
17 22 (08) One Direction - Steal My Girl (17)
Extra: Pitbull featuring John Ryan - Fireball
22 21 (06) Fergie - L.A. Love (La La) (21)
On The Verge: Ella Henderson - Ghost
Optional Extra: Ed Sheeran - The A Team
18 20 (20) Charli XCX - Boom Clap (1)
28 19 (03) Meghan Trainor - Lips Are Movin' (19)
20 18 (08) Alesso featuring Tove Lo - Heroes (We Could Be) (18)
15 17 (19) Echosmith - Cool Kids (9)
19 16 (04) Iggy Azalea featuring MO - Beg For It (16)
Extra: The Jonas Brothers - S.O.S.
06 15 (15) Jeremih featuring YG - Don't Tell 'Em (5)
07 14 (21) Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora - Black Widow (1)
14 13 (07) Sam Smith - I'm Not The Only One (13)
13 12 (05) Ariana Grande featuring the Weeknd - Love Me Harder (12)
Extra: 5 Seconds Of Summer - Amnesia
12 11 (11) Jason Derülo - Trumpets (11)
Optional Extra: Ellie Goulding - Burn
09 10 (17) Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass (1)
11 09 (10) Nick Jonas - Jealous (9)
16 08 (03) Taylor Swift - Blank Space (8)
03 07 (17) Jessie J., Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj - Bang Bang (1)
10 06 (11) Mr. Probz - Waves (6)
SUBWAY Fresh Buzz Song: OneRepublic - I Lived
04 05 (14) Taylor Swift - Shake It Off (1)
08 04 (10) Calvin Harris featuring John Newman - Blame (4)
05 03 (17) Ed Sheeran - Don't (3)
Optional Extra: Usher featuring will.i.am - OMG
01 02 (15) Tove Lo - Habits (Stay High) (1)
02 01 (08) Maroon 5 - Animals **1st week @ no. 1**

DROPPERS:
Sia - Chandelier (from #38, 23 weeks on)
Kendrick Lamar - i (from #35, 4 weeks on)

[gerry]

Selena having the highest debut this week :)

[Ed The Pacifist!]

uhh this might be very weird but I just heard "Rude" at #'s 29 AND 27 on my local station (Which is WKSL-FM btw) AND heard Ryan on it as well. UM CONFUSED as what the heck is going on!!! Maybe just a bad edit or something idk...

[musiciscool]

Dec 6, 2014 7:23:11 GMT -5 Ed The Pacifist! said:

uhh this might be very weird but I just heard "Rude" at #'s 29 AND 27 on my local station (Which is WKSL-FM btw) AND heard Ryan on it as well. UM CONFUSED as what the heck is going on!!! Maybe just a bad edit or something idk...

Same thing happened to me years ago, and more than once. Somehow, I guess the radio station screws up and airs the episode of the week before even when the new show is airing. After a commercial break, the show comes back airing last week's episode. I don't know why, but it happens.

[Cerebro]

I'm an hour deep in this week's show. Nick seems to be doing well as host. One thing that never ceases to annoy me about guest-host weeks is the host always mentioning the phone number you can call and Twitter hashtag you can tweet to to ask them questions. They do realize the show's not live, right?

[mkarns]

Dec 6, 2014 13:06:08 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

I'm an hour deep in this week's show. Nick seems to be doing well as host. One thing that never ceases to annoy me about guest-host weeks is the host always mentioning the phone number you can call and Twitter hashtag you can tweet to to ask them questions. They do realize the show's not live, right?

Yeah, on the show in previous weeks Ryan usually mentions ways to communicate with the guest host, plus the AT40 website, Facebook, and Twitter accounts publicise that well in advance. Of course guest hosts can continue to push the social media angle when they host, but listeners should know that most likely it'll be the regular Team Seacrest responding to things.

[Libra]

Dec 6, 2014 13:06:08 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

One thing that never ceases to annoy me about guest-host weeks is the host always mentioning the phone number you can call and Twitter hashtag you can tweet to to ask them questions. They do realize the show's not live, right?

I'm convinced by now that they're instructed to create the illusion of live; it's not like casual listeners will be paying enough attention to notice - if anything, they'll be swayed enough to fall for it.

Dec 6, 2014 10:25:43 GMT -5 musiciscool said:

Dec 6, 2014 7:23:11 GMT -5 Ed The Pacifist! said:

uhh this might be very weird but I just heard "Rude" at #'s 29 AND 27 on my local station (Which is WKSL-FM btw) AND heard Ryan on it as well. UM CONFUSED as what the heck is going on!!! Maybe just a bad edit or something idk...

Same thing happened to me years ago, and more than once. Somehow, I guess the radio station screws up and airs the episode of the week before even when the new show is airing. After a commercial break, the show comes back airing last week's episode. I don't know why, but it happens.

I may be mistaken, but I believe these shows are sent to stations as packages of segments - something like 15-20 segments comprise an entire show. (I do know for a fact that the AT40: The 70s and 80s shows are like this; stands to reason that so too are the Seacrest shows.)

The entire package worth has to be uploaded into the station's system - thus, why optional extras get left out, as they aren't uploaded due to stations needing the extra commercial time OR simply not wanting to play the extra songs. Thus also why things like this happen - a segment from a previous week's show accidentally gets loaded into the system instead. Or, automation goes screwy and shifts to playing such a segment.

[richie]

Only 3 songs stay put this week, and all of them were in the first hour. I thought that
Nick Jonas did an OK job as guest host, but nothing to e-mail home about. Surprised that
Don't has gotten as high up as it has. It seems very mediocre to me. I think that it would
have been funnier if Maps had been named Apps, and if he were "following the app that leads to you".

[620 Soul Train]

I'm a NEW fan of Nick Jonas and I think he did a nice job guest hosting this show. I hope that he makes it to #1 on the POP chart with his "Jealous". Nick Jonas has that SOUL vibe that I dig so much! Aside from all of this I just don't think that Ed Sheeran will make it past the runner-up spot on AT40 because he has already dropped to #3 on the Mediabase chart. Just last week I was extremely hopefully.

[KelownaGuy20]

Dec 7, 2014 17:34:03 GMT -5 Libra said:

I may be mistaken, but I believe these shows are sent to stations as packages of segments - something like 15-20 segments comprise an entire show. (I do know for a fact that the AT40: The 70s and 80s shows are like this; stands to reason that so too are the Seacrest shows.)

The entire package worth has to be uploaded into the station's system - thus, why optional extras get left out, as they aren't uploaded due to stations needing the extra commercial time OR simply not wanting to play the extra songs. Thus also why things like this happen - a segment from a previous week's show accidentally gets loaded into the system instead. Or, automation goes screwy and shifts to playing such a segment.

Correct. The AT40 show comes in 17 segments, 4 of which are "optional extras." Segments are dubbed over last week's show (at least on my station) and dates changed to reflect that change, so it's suuuuper easy to change the date without uploading the new segment.