American Top 40 - March 2, 2019

[jdelachjr2002]

Well, some good news and some bad news. The good news is AT40 finally had a big debut week as three of last week's five Breakout/On The Verge songs debuted.

The bad: AT40 had to give us three more Breakouts keeping the overall total to five. I ranted about excess of Breakouts multiple times already (and I will always be on record as stating I miss the "Two-For-One" feature. F--- you Seacrest for hating it!!!!!).

I hate to think AT40 having four or five Breakouts are going to be a regular thing from this point forward because who knows when AT40 will have another big debut week again?!?

AMERICAN TOP 40 - MARCH 2, 2019
LW TW WKS Artist - Title
DE 40 (01) Ariana Grande - Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored (40)
38 39 (37) CARDI B featuring Bad Bunny & J. Balvin - I Like It (3)
DE 38 (01) Madison Beer featuring Offset - Hurts Like Hell (38)

36 37 (32) NF - Lie (6)
37 36 (07) Rita Ora - Let You Love Me (36)
Extra: DJ Snake featuring Selena Gomez, Ozuna & CARDI B - Taki Taki
34 35 (28) Juice WRLD - Lucid Dreams (6)
39 34 (02) Lauren Daigle - You Say (34)

32 33 (29) Ariana Grande - God Is A Woman (1)
33 32 (06) Lukas Graham - Love Someone (32)
DE 31 (01) Fletcher - Undrunk (31)
On The Verge: Imagine Dragons - Bad Liar
Optional Extra: twenty | one | pilots - Ride
30 30 (09) Why Don't We - 8 Letters (30)
Breakout: The Chainsmokers featuring 5 Seconds Of Summer - Who Do You Love
28 29 (08) Bad Bunny featuring Drake - MIA (28)

27 28 (26) lovelytheband - Broken (13)
29 27 (02) Dua Lipa - Swan Song (27)
23 26 (36) Maroon 5 featuring CARDI B - Girls Like You (1)
26 25 (15) Dean Lewis - Be Alright (25)

20 24 (36) Post Malone - Better Now (1)
24 23 (16) Loud Luxury featuring Brando - Body (23)
Extra: Drake - In My Feelings
10 22 (25) Bazzi featuring Camila Cabello - Beautiful (7)
21 21 (12) Dan + Shay - Tequila (21)
Optional Extra: Bruno Mars - 24K Magic
18 20 (43) Khalid & Normani - Love Lies (1)
17 19 (09) Zara Larsson - Ruin My Life (17)
Extra: Calvin Harris featuring Rihanna - This Is What You Came For
12 18 (20) Ariana Grande - Breathin' (2)
On The Verge: LIVVIA - Damn

19 17 (08) Ava Max - Sweet But Psycho (17)
15 16 (35) 5 Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood (1)
25 15 (03) Sam Smith & Normani - Dancing With A Stranger (15)
22 14 (05) Post Malone - Wow. (14)

16 13 (09) Mark Ronson featuring Miley Cyrus - Nothing Breaks Like A Heart (13)
14 12 (04) Gesaffelstein & The Weeknd - Lost In The Fire (12)
Extra: Camila Cabello - Consequences
Breakout: CARDI B & Bruno Mars - Please Me
13 11 (15) Khalid - Better (11)
Optional Extra: Liam Payne featuring Quavo - Strip That Down
11 10 (18) Travis Scott featuring Drake - Sicko Mode (10)
08 09 (17) The Chainsmokers featuring Kelsea Ballerini - This Feeling (8)
07 08 (13) Ellie Goulding & Diplo featuring Swae Lee - Close To Me (7)

06 07 (24) Marshmello & BASTILLE - Happier (1)
Breakout: LilPeep & iLoveMakkonen featuring Fall Out Boy - I've Been Waiting
09 06 (04) Ariana Grande - 7 Rings (6)

05 05 (16) Post Malone & Swae Lee - Sunflower (5)
04 04 (21) Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes (1)
Extra: Silk City & Dua Lipa - Electricity
02 03 (14) Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next (1)
Optional Extra: Shawn Mendes - There's Nothin' Holding Me Back
03 02 (27) Benny Blanco featuring Halsey & Khalid - Eastside (2) +1
01 01 (18) Halsey - Without Me **4 weeks at #1**

DROPPERS
Bazzi - Mine (from #40, 49 weeks on)
Lauv featuring Julia Michaels - There's No Way (from #35, 4 weeks on)
Gucci Mane featuring Bruno Mars & Kodak Black - Wake Up In The Sky (from #31, 6 weeks on)

[Top 40 Tracker]

[Top 40 Tracker]

5 songs by Ariana has to be a new AT40 record for most simultaneous hits by a female solo artist in history.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Nobody still explained why so many breakouts is bad. I’m especially baffled at the suggestion that Ryan talk more rather than play a song (that is still new and hasn’t yet become overplayed??) 🤯

[musiciscool]

There should be a segment on AT40 where a past song peaked at a certain number, like 30, 20, 10, or 5, or even #1 and plays it around those segments. The Two-For-One is gone, so try something new.

[nymets86]

Ryan Seacrest should bring back the Two for One to eliminate the reduculous amount of breakouts

[jdelachjr2002]

Feb 28, 2019 23:46:42 GMT -5 nymets86 said:

Ryan Seacrest should bring back the Two for One to eliminate the reduculous amount of breakouts

It has already been confirmed on record that Seacrest hated "Two-For-One" so why would he want it back NOW?!?!?

And three Breakouts/On The Verge is plenty. The only time a fourth should be necessary is if none of the previous week's Breakouts debuted yet. And four should definitely be the max. There shouldn't be more Breakouts than actual show hours. Simple as that.

[Top 40 Tracker]

Ryan makes no mention of Ariana's 5 songs when he announces her new song at #40.

[mkarns]

Once upon a time (1978-81) Casey did “AT40 Archives” recaps of #1s of the 60s and 70s, usually three a week. With the current decade drawing toward an end, why not something similar for 2010-19? It would be a systematic time filler, and even the early decade hits would include a lot of widely remembered and replayed songs.

[johnnywest]

Feb 28, 2019 23:17:29 GMT -5 Devil Marlena Nylund said:

Nobody still explained why so many breakouts is bad. I’m especially baffled at the suggestion that Ryan talk more rather than play a song (that is still new and hasn’t yet become overplayed??) 🤯

I agree with you 100%. Old extras or new, it's still better than talk. And with songs being as short as they are, 12 to 15 extras each week is the new norm.

[nymets86]

But in theory, shouldn’t breakouts be played only once? If it is a breakout ... it is breaking out/ coming out for the first time with a force ( which only happens once ). On the verge should be only played twice stating it’s near Chart status so basically songs should be played only twice before hitting the actual chart. It’s actual common sense the AT40 is lacking.

[nymets86]

As advertised before , if Love Lies by Khalid featuring Normani was atleast the 40 week mark by the time it hit 20 on the way down then it will give a run for the money to New Rules. 43 and counting. What a feat.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Mar 1, 2019 18:08:37 GMT -5 nymets86 said:

But in theory, shouldn’t breakouts be played only once? If it is a breakout ... it is breaking out/ coming out for the first time with a force ( which only happens once ). On the verge should be only played twice stating it’s near Chart status so basically songs should be played only twice before hitting the actual chart. It’s actual common sense the AT40 is lacking.

So is it an issue of semantics where instead of being called "Breakout", they be called "Next up"s or something? It's frustrating that nobody else is chiming in yet everyone continues to complain.

[musiciscool]

Mar 2, 2019 21:03:41 GMT -5 Devil Marlena Nylund said:

Mar 1, 2019 18:08:37 GMT -5 nymets86 said:

But in theory, shouldn’t breakouts be played only once? If it is a breakout ... it is breaking out/ coming out for the first time with a force ( which only happens once ). On the verge should be only played twice stating it’s near Chart status so basically songs should be played only twice before hitting the actual chart. It’s actual common sense the AT40 is lacking.

So is it an issue of semantics where instead of being called "Breakout", they be called "Next up"s or something? It's frustrating that nobody else is chiming in yet everyone continues to complain.

I never had a problem with the breakouts. Maybe people are complaining because it seems everyone loved the Two-For-One segment that since it was stopped and uses breakouts as a kind of replacement for it, nobody wants to hear them? Also maybe because some breakouts go "One the Verge" anyway a week later? I don't know.

[richie]

^ I don't get the big deal about the breakouts/On The Verge. They're fine with me.

In addition to The Beatles owning the entire top 5 and one more song in the top 40 the week of 4/4/64, the
following week they had an incredible 7 songs in the top 40! I have a book of Billboard charts from the 60's.
The week of 4/11/64, they had
1 Can't Buy Me Love
2 Twist and Shout
4 She Loves You
7 I Want To Hold Your Hand
9 Please Please Me
14 Do You Want To Know A Secret
35 I Saw Her Standing There

And as I mentioned last week 50 Cent had 5 top 40 hits in the same week during 2005.

[Cerebro]

Mar 2, 2019 23:28:26 GMT -5 richie said:

^ I don't get the big deal about the breakouts/On The Verge. They're fine with me.

In addition to The Beatles owning the entire top 5 and one more song in the top 40 the week of 4/4/64, the
following week they had an incredible 7 songs in the top 40! I have a book of Billboard charts from the 60's.
The week of 4/11/64, they had
1 Can't Buy Me Love
2 Twist and Shout
4 She Loves You
7 I Want To Hold Your Hand
9 Please Please Me
14 Do You Want To Know A Secret
35 I Saw Her Standing There

And as I mentioned last week 50 Cent had 5 top 40 hits in the same week during 2005.

50 Cent's five entries were a mixture of lead and featured credits. Ariana's are all lead credits. Which, I believe, would make her the first artist to pull that off since The Beatles.

[johnnywest]

Mar 1, 2019 18:08:37 GMT -5 nymets86 said:

But in theory, shouldn’t breakouts be played only once? If it is a breakout ... it is breaking out/ coming out for the first time with a force ( which only happens once ). On the verge should be only played twice stating it’s near Chart status so basically songs should be played only twice before hitting the actual chart. It’s actual common sense the AT40 is lacking.

What is the common sense that AT40 is lacking? What if a song is spending 4 weeks at #41 with a bullet? The first week it’s a Breakout, then 1 week it’s on the Verge, and then either put it on the chart or stop playing it? Sorry, but the charts don’t always work out the way everyone thinks they should.

[nymets86]

Then what is the point of playing a song if it is not only the actual countdown? Then you might as well add the 4 weeks it’s on the breakout/ on the verge nonsense stretch to the overall Top 40 weeks .. not to mention the two weeks after it falls off as an extra.

[nymets86]

Mar 3, 2019 10:27:33 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

Mar 2, 2019 23:28:26 GMT -5 richie said:

^ I don't get the big deal about the breakouts/On The Verge. They're fine with me.

In addition to The Beatles owning the entire top 5 and one more song in the top 40 the week of 4/4/64, the
following week they had an incredible 7 songs in the top 40! I have a book of Billboard charts from the 60's.
The week of 4/11/64, they had
1 Can't Buy Me Love
2 Twist and Shout
4 She Loves You
7 I Want To Hold Your Hand
9 Please Please Me
14 Do You Want To Know A Secret
35 I Saw Her Standing There

And as I mentioned last week 50 Cent had 5 top 40 hits in the same week during 2005.

50 Cent's five entries were a mixture of lead and featured credits. Ariana's are all lead credits. Which, I believe, would make her the first artist to pull that off since The Beatles.

Impressive 5 songs on week as a lead artist

[richie]

^ Ariana really has quite an achievement here this week!

[Arnold]

I don't mind the breakouts and the "on the verges", but what does bother me is that the show is playing old music and music from the past. That includes anything played that is more than 6 months old, whether it be part of the top 40 or not. All extras should be new music only.  For me, I want all the music on the show to be current music only. I wish they would follow a recurrent rule the same as the CHR/Pop chart has. Radio stations today are holding on to old music much longer than they used to. They no longer distinguish between what's current music and what's not. Years ago, radio stations used to submit their current music playlists, and the surveys used to be based on that. Today Mediabase is monitoring everything the stations are playing, no matter how old they are, and including it all on their lists.

[jdelachjr2002]

FYI if anybody listened to AT40 on Z100, can they confirm if "I'll Be Waiting" was played? WFLZ and KIIS did play all five Breakouts but apparently not Z100.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Mar 3, 2019 13:36:14 GMT -5 Arnold said:

I don't mind the breakouts and the "on the verges", but what does bother me is that the show is playing old music and music from the past. That includes anything played that is more than 6 months old, whether it be part of the top 40 or not. All extras should be new music only.  For me, I want all the music on the show to be current music only. I wish they would follow a recurrent rule the same as the CHR/Pop chart has. Radio stations today are holding on to old music much longer than they used to. They no longer distinguish between what's current music and what's not. Years ago, radio stations used to submit their current music playlists, and the surveys used to be based on that. Today Mediabase is monitoring everything the stations are playing, no matter how old they are, and including it all on their lists.

Unfortunately that's not likely to happen because radio relies more on familiarity than ever before and too many new songs decreases the amount of familiarity. Anyone listening who doesn't recognize a couple songs in a row are likely to change the station.

[nymets86]

Travis Scott . Who would have thought that it is still a force on the Top 40’chart? 18 weeks to climb to the Top 10