American Top 40 - March 23, 2019

[jdelachjr2002]

Well apparently we are back to having five Breakout songs again which of course to me is more annoying than having four Breakouts. With this being the fifth straight week of AT40 having at least four Breakout/On The Verge songs, it leads me to think having four Breakouts will now officially become a regular thing as I have long feared ever since they got rid of the "Two-For-One" feature three years ago (which I liked but "more importantly" Seacrest hated).

I have sent out an inquiry to find out if that is indeed the case. When I hear anything, I'll let you know.

And apparently "Eastside" gets an extra week at #1 than it got on Mediabase. Hopefully "7 Rings" can get to #1 next week.

AMERICAN TOP 40 - MARCH 23, 2019
LW TW WKS Artist - Title
39 40 (35) NF - Lie (6)
DE 39 (01) Sabrina Carpenter - Sue Me (39)
37 38 (31) Juice WRLD - Lucid Dreams (6)
RE 37 (11) Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow (24)

35 36 (32) Ariana Grande - God Is A Woman (1)
DE 35 (01) The Jonas Brothers - Sucker (35)
34 34 (04) Madison Beer featuring Offset - Hurts Like Hell (34)

32 33 (29) lovelytheband - Broken (13)
40 32 (02) Zedd & Katy Perry - 365 (32)
Extra: Major Lazer featuring Justin Bieber & MO - Cold Water
30 31 (39) Maroon 5 featuring CARDI B - Girls Like You (1)
On The Verge: Bebe Rexha - Last Hurrah
Optional Extra: Selena Gomez & Marshmello - Wolves
36 30 (02) Imagine Dragons - Bad Liar (30)
On The Verge: LIVVIA - Damn
28 29 (39) Post Malone - Better Now (1)
33 28 (05) Lauren Daigle - You Say (28)

24 27 (28) Bazzi featuring Camila Cabello - Beautiful (7)
31 26 (12) Why Don't We - 8 Letters (26)
20 25 (23) Ariana Grande - Breathin' (2)
Extra: CARDI B featuring Bad Bunny & J. Balvin - I Like It
38 24 (02) Lil Peep & iLoveMakkonen featuring Fall Out Boy - I've Been Waiting (24)

14 23 (20) The Chainsmokers featuring Kelsea Ballerini - This Feeling (8)
25 22 (05) Dua Lipa - Swan Song (22)
22 21 (46) Khalid & Normani - Love Lies (1)
Optional Extra: Bruno Mars & CARDI B - Finesse
29 20 (03) The Chainsmokers featuring 5 Seconds Of Summer - Who Do You Love (20)
18 19 (38) 5 Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood (1)
19 18 (04) Fletcher - Undrunk (18)
Breakout: Ally Brooke featuring Tyga - Low Key

16 17 (15) Dan + Shay - Tequila (16)
23 16 (04) Ariana Grande - Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored (16)
17 15 (18) Dean Lewis - Be Alright (15)
15 14 (03) CARDI B & Bruno Mars - Please Me (14)
Breakout: Alessia Cara - Out Of Love

12 13 (08) Post Malone - Wow. (12)
11 12 (21) Travis Scott featuring Drake - Sicko Mode (10)
13 11 (06) Sam Smith & Normani - Dancing With A Stranger (11)
Optional Extra: Charlie Puth - Attention
10 10 (11) Ava Max - Sweet But Psycho (10)
08 09 (27) Marshmello & BASTILLE - Happier (1)
Breakout: Mabel - Don't Call Me Up
09 08 (18) Khalid - Better (8)

07 07 (16) Ellie Goulding & Diplo featuring Swae Lee - Close To Me (7)
06 06 (24) Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes (1)

04 05 (19) Post Malone & Swae Lee - Sunflower (4)
Extra: Lukas Graham - Love Someone
05 04 (17) Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next (1)
02 03 (21) Halsey - Without Me (1)
Optional Extra: Avicii - Wake Me Up
03 02 (07) Ariana Grande - 7 Rings (2)
01 01 (30) Benny Blanco featuring Halsey & Khalid - Eastside **3 weeks at #1**

DROPPERS
Mark Ronson featuring Miley Cyrus - Nothing Breaks Like A Heart (from #27, 11 weeks on)
Bad Bunny featuring Drake - MIA (from #26, 10 weeks on)
Gesaffelstein & The Weeknd - Lost In The Fire (from #21, 6 weeks on)

[Top 40 Tracker]

[Deleted]

Top 40 Tracker on your video you forgot to put Last Hurrah as a On The Verge.

[Leo ✔]

I still don't getting what is the problem with having 4 Breakouts :shrugs:

[Cerebro]

How in the world is "Broken" still hanging around? On the Mediabase chart with recurrents, "Broken" would be down in the 70's. Pretending it still has enough spins to rank in the top 40 is a bit of a stretch.

[nymets86]

It is so insane and rediculous with all these breakouts and when they are statused breakouts and on the verge multiple times. They should have never took out 2 for 1.

[Leo ✔]

What's the problem when they play new music!?

[musiciscool]

Mar 22, 2019 10:33:14 GMT -5 Leo ✔ said:

What's the problem when they play new music!?

I never had a problem with it. Some people just want their Two-For-One segment back.

[Az Paynter]

I don't see the problem. The AT40 chart tends to lag behind the actual chart, and the extras/breakouts all tend to be songs that are actually in the top 40 (as in... if the chart were in real time those songs would be getting played anyway).

[johnnywest]

Mar 22, 2019 10:33:14 GMT -5 Leo ✔ said:

What's the problem when they play new music!?

Some of us, including me, do like new music.

On a different note, when introducing "7 rings," Ryan mentions that Ariana Grande has 5 hits at the same time in the Top 40 as a lead artist and is the first to do so since The Beatles in 1964.

[Leo ✔]

Mar 22, 2019 11:17:08 GMT -5 Az Paynter said:

I don't see the problem. The AT40 chart tends to lag behind the actual chart, and the extras/breakouts all tend to be songs that are actually in the top 40 (as in... if the chart were in real time those songs would be getting played anyway).

Agree!
For example, "Sue Me" peaked at #29 on the Mediabase Charts while on AT40 just debuted at #39 this week and probably will drop off next week.
"Damn" is on the fourth (?) week as breakout, peaked at #31 on the Mediabase Charts and is starting to drop (Sadly), it probably won't have the chance to debut on AT40 but at least it got some airplay while was a breakout.

[MitchWolf - ChartStan]

Mar 22, 2019 6:51:42 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

How in the world is "Broken" still hanging around? On the Mediabase chart with recurrents, "Broken" would be down in the 70's. Pretending it still has enough spins to rank in the top 40 is a bit of a stretch.

"Broken" still in Billboard's Alternative Radio charts for 69 weeks... So being in AT40 this long is an old hat for that song

[Arnold]

Mar 22, 2019 11:24:00 GMT -5 johnnywest said:

Mar 22, 2019 10:33:14 GMT -5 Leo ✔ said:

What's the problem when they play new music!?

Some of us, including me, do like new music.

On a different note, when introducing "7 rings," Ryan mentions that Ariana Grande has 5 hits at the same time in the Top 40 as a lead artist and is the first to do so since The Beatles in 1964.

I like new music too. It's the old music (on AT40) that bothers me. The reason why I listen to AT40 is to hear concentrated new music, not mixed with old music. If I wanted that, I would listen to a radio station.

[cookie111]

It has been a long time since I commented on one of these threads, so I'll just say everything that comes to my mind at the moment. I think it is safe to say that AT40 is getting worse and worse every year, what with five breakout songs just waiting to enter the countdown and so many old songs taking forever to leave the chart. And why in the heck is Broken still here? I like the song but it should have left a very long time ago. Lie by NF is also lasting quite long despite the fact that it didn't even come close to hitting the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 while it hit #6 on AT40. BTW I'm happy and a little flabbergasted that Shallow is back on the countdown. It really should perform better here than that mediocre Lie song. Like what is up with pop radio? And I haven't kept up with what's going on with airplay. I usually check on kworb.net/xcradio but that part of the website is unavailable. A couple more things; why did Sunflower drop and Thank U Next move back up? Sunflower should be at like #2. Plus, Love Lies moves back to #21 in its 46th week. This is one of Khalid's most underrated songs and it has been a force to be reckoned with since its debut last May. Not to mention, it was released in February of last year. LL might last 60 to 65 weeks if it keeps this up. But again, this is another example of why AT40 prefers to keep very old songs on the countdown than bring in new ones. OK, that is all from me.

[jdelachjr2002]

Mar 22, 2019 11:43:30 GMT -5 Leo ✔ said:

Mar 22, 2019 11:17:08 GMT -5 Az Paynter said:

I don't see the problem. The AT40 chart tends to lag behind the actual chart, and the extras/breakouts all tend to be songs that are actually in the top 40 (as in... if the chart were in real time those songs would be getting played anyway).

Agree!
For example, "Sue Me" peaked at #29 on the Mediabase Charts while on AT40 just debuted at #39 this week and probably will drop off next week.
"Damn" is on the fourth (?) week as breakout, peaked at #31 on the Mediabase Charts and is starting to drop (Sadly), it probably won't have the chance to debut on AT40 but at least it got some airplay while was a breakout.

There should still be some hope for "Damn" next week but really it's treading into "SoulMate" and "My Blood" territory (the former had JT as an excuse at least; as for the latter, I honestly think Twenty One Pilots hit their pop peak three years ago).

And if AT40 wanted a fresher chart, they should never have messed with it after Casey Kasem left.

[jdelachjr2002]

Mar 22, 2019 10:40:25 GMT -5 musiciscool said:

Mar 22, 2019 10:33:14 GMT -5 Leo ✔ said:

What's the problem when they play new music!?

I never had a problem with it. Some people just want their Two-For-One segment back.

"Two-For-One" should never have gone away to begin with. It had two problems...

1.) The eligible artist has to be in the Top 10 (lower half preferably) and must not have had any recent hits still charting. It should have been any eligible artist in the Top 40 (sans Top 5)

2.) Ryan Seacrest hated it and he had the power within him apparently to dispose of it. He thought "Tell Me Something Good" was a better replacement but it didn't take up enough of a good portion of airtime as "Two-For-One" did. Thank heavens that's gone (That segment was better off on Bobby Bones' Country Countdown).

Apparently the AT40 staff couldn't think of any ideas to take up 4-5 minutes of space regularly that could've been more useful so they decided to go to the Four-Breakout route and we all have to suffer for it (or at least I do) but it's even worse when they have to do five. There should not be more Breakouts than actual show hours and they should do one Breakout every hour not have (applicable when the number is just four only) two of the Breakouts in one of the hours as was the case last week.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Mar 22, 2019 15:18:31 GMT -5 jdelachjr2002 said:

Apparently the AT40 staff couldn't think of any ideas to take up 4-5 minutes of space regularly that could've been more useful so they decided to go to the Four-Breakout route and we all have to suffer for it (or at least I do) but it's even worse when they have to do five. There should not be more Breakouts than actual show hours and they should do one Breakout every hour not have (applicable when the number is just four only) two of the Breakouts in one of the hours as was the case last week.

Why? What’s the issue? Why do you hate breakouts? If they called them New & Active tracks, would you still hate them?

[trmdj]

Without Me - Halsey has been on the chart for 21 weeks not 20 as shown 🙋🏼‍♂️🎶

[richie]

^ But at least they got rid of "Tell Me Something Good"!

[musiciscool]

Mar 22, 2019 16:38:07 GMT -5 richie said:

^ But at least they got rid of "Tell Me Something Good"!

Which is what needed to be done. There was never a point to that segment of the show.

[jdelachjr2002]

Mar 22, 2019 16:17:34 GMT -5 Devil Marlena Nylund said:

Mar 22, 2019 15:18:31 GMT -5 jdelachjr2002 said:

Apparently the AT40 staff couldn't think of any ideas to take up 4-5 minutes of space regularly that could've been more useful so they decided to go to the Four-Breakout route and we all have to suffer for it (or at least I do) but it's even worse when they have to do five. There should not be more Breakouts than actual show hours and they should do one Breakout every hour not have (applicable when the number is just four only) two of the Breakouts in one of the hours as was the case last week.

Why? What’s the issue? Why do you hate breakouts? If they called them New & Active tracks, would you still hate them?

I don't hate Breakouts. I simply think more than three is too much especially considering AT40 does not have big debut weeks (at least three or more) that often. Most weeks, it would be just one or two songs debuting. This week has only two debuts. Last week there was three. It's hard to tell exactly which songs enter and which songs leave.

[Leo ✔]

Mar 22, 2019 17:58:27 GMT -5 jdelachjr2002 said:

Mar 22, 2019 16:17:34 GMT -5 Devil Marlena Nylund said:

Why? What’s the issue? Why do you hate breakouts? If they called them New & Active tracks, would you still hate them?

I don't hate Breakouts. I simply think more than three is too much especially considering AT40 does not have big debut weeks (at least three or more) that often. Most weeks, it would be just one or two songs debuting. This week has only two debuts. Last week there was three. It's hard to tell exactly which songs enter and which songs leave.

Yeah but that allow the people to discover new songs

[jdelachjr2002]

This weekend see if any of the U.S. AT40 affiliates actually play all five of the Breakouts this weekend (if any get dropped, I would think "Damn" would be most likely given how long that song has been "On The Verge").

[nymets86]

I agree that it does not make sense having 5 breakouts with only 2 or maybe 3 debuts on any given week

[Deleted]

I think breakouts are a great way to here new music that you wouldn’t know existed. However AT40 only has 2 songs debut a week with 5 breakouts/On The Verges they don’t all fit. Plus, AT40 forgets the likes of some songs. This week Sucker and Sue Me were both breakouts and Shallow came back. Just realized all the charts debuts start with S. Plus AT40 plays songs like Damn that’ll never get in. Like SoulMate, that one was annoying. I’ll watch my radio station Kiss 95.7 in Hartford if they play Damn. Lastly, how did Mia drop off? Maybe I’m being biased since it’s my fav song. I hate Love Lies since it was released. If it passes my favorite song of 2018 I’ll be a little upset. (New Rules Dua Lipa in case you forgot)

[Deleted]

Mar 22, 2019 16:17:36 GMT -5 trmdj said:

Without Me - Halsey has been on the chart for 21 weeks not 20 as shown 🙋🏼‍♂️🎶

Please fix this.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Mar 22, 2019 17:58:27 GMT -5 jdelachjr2002 said:

Mar 22, 2019 16:17:34 GMT -5 Devil Marlena Nylund said:

Why? What’s the issue? Why do you hate breakouts? If they called them New & Active tracks, would you still hate them?

I don't hate Breakouts. I simply think more than three is too much especially considering AT40 does not have big debut weeks (at least three or more) that often. Most weeks, it would be just one or two songs debuting. This week has only two debuts. Last week there was three. It's hard to tell exactly which songs enter and which songs leave.

But why? You’re still not answering why having 5 breakouts is SO bad. They’re songs that are presumably active below the Top 40 - they just haven’t made it yet. Any time AT40 plays a new not-overplayed song, isn’t that a good thing? Or would you rather Ryan use that time to interview some random celebrity instead?

[jdelachjr2002]

Mar 23, 2019 8:33:07 GMT -5 Devil Marlena Nylund said:

Mar 22, 2019 17:58:27 GMT -5 jdelachjr2002 said:

I don't hate Breakouts. I simply think more than three is too much especially considering AT40 does not have big debut weeks (at least three or more) that often. Most weeks, it would be just one or two songs debuting. This week has only two debuts. Last week there was three. It's hard to tell exactly which songs enter and which songs leave.

But why? You’re still not answering why having 5 breakouts is SO bad. They’re songs that are presumably active below the Top 40 - they just haven’t made it yet. Any time AT40 plays a new not-overplayed song, isn’t that a good thing? Or would you rather Ryan use that time to interview some random celebrity instead?

Five Breakouts is bad because they have more Breakouts than actual show hours and I don't see either AT40 show expand to five hours anytime soon. I don't like four either but it's apparently going to be a regular thing whether I like it or not but no more than four.

[johnnywest]

Ryan said that if Ally Brooke debuts, it’ll be the first time in AT40 history that 3 solo women from the same group have charted simultaneously.

[gemini79]

Ryan and the staff must really love Broken, that's why it's still here. It should of dropped off 2 months ago. Is AT40 beginning to be like Rick Dees WT40