American Top 40 - April 6, 2019

[jdelachjr2002]

AMERICAN TOP 40 - APRIL 6, 2019
LW TW WKS Artist - Title
40 40 (02) LIVVIA - Damn (40)
37 39 (34) Ariana Grande - God Is A Woman (1)
38 38 (03) Sabrina Carpenter - Sue Me (38)

35 37 (31) lovelytheband - Broken (13)
DE 36 (01) Marshmello featuring CHVRCHES - Here With Me (36)
33 35 (41) Maroon 5 featuring CARDI B - Girls Like You (1)
Extra: Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do
DE 34 (01) Ally Brooke featuring Tyga - Low Key (34)

31 33 (41) Post Malone - Better Now (1)
DE 32 (01) Mabel - Don't Call Me Up (32)
29 31 (30) Bazzi featuring Camila Cabello - Beautiful (7)
Extra: Khalid - Young, Dumb & Broke
Optional Extra: Demi Lovato - Sorry Not Sorry
36 30 (13) Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow (24)
27 29 (25) Ariana Grande - Breathin' (2)
30 28 (04) Zedd & Katy Perry - 365 (28)

25 27 (22) The Chainsmokers featuring Kelsea Ballerini - This Feeling (8)
34 26 (02) Bebe Rexha - Last Hurrah (26)
23 25 (48) Khalid & Normani - Love Lies (1)
Extra: Mark Ronson featuring Miley Cyrus - Nothing Breaks Like A Heart
28 24 (04) Imagine Dragons - Bad Liar (28)

21 23 (40) 5 Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood (1)
24 22 (07) Lauren Daigle - You Say (22)
On The Verge: Panic! At The Disco - Hey Look Ma, I Made It
20 21 (17) Dan + Shay - Tequila (16)
Optional Extra: Machine Gun Kelly & Camila Cabello - Bad Things
22 20 (04) Lil Peep & iLoveMakkonen featuring Fall Out Boy - I've Been Waiting (20)
16 19 (23) Travis Scott featuring Drake - Sicko Mode (10)
18 18 (05) The Chainsmokers featuring 5 Seconds Of Summer - Who Do You Love (18)
On The Verge: Alessia Cara - Out Of Love

17 17 (06) Fletcher - Undrunk (17)
19 16 (03) The Jonas Brothers - Sucker (16)
15 15 (20) Dean Lewis - Be Alright (15)
Extra: Sam Smith - Too Good At Goodbyes
14 14 (05) CARDI B & Bruno Mars - Please Me (14)

11 13 (29) Marshmello & BASTILLE - Happier (1)
13 12 (06) Ariana Grande - Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored (12)
Extra: Maroon 5 featuring Future - Cold
12 11 (10) Post Malone - Wow. (11)
Optional Extra: DJ Khaled featuring Justin Bieber, Chance the Rapper & Quavo - No Brainer
10 10 (08) Sam Smith & Normani - Dancing With A Stranger (10)
07 09 (21) Post Malone & Swae Lee - Sunflower (4)
06 08 (26) Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes (1)
Breakout: Billie Eilish - When The Party's Over

09 07 (13) Ava Max - Sweet But Psycho (7)
05 06 (19) Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next (1)

08 05 (20) Khalid - Better (5)
04 04 (18) Ellie Goulding & Diplo featuring Swae Lee - Close To Me (4)
Extra: Bad Bunny featuring Drake - MIA
03 03 (32) Benny Blanco featuring Halsey & Khalid - Eastside (1)
Optional Extra: The Weeknd - Can't Feel My Face
02 02 (23) Halsey - Without Me (1)
01 01 (09) Ariana Grande - 7 Rings **2 weeks at #1**

DROPPERS
Juice WRLD - Lucid Dreams (from #39, 32 weeks on)
Madison Beer featuring Offset - Hurts Like Hell (from #32, 5 weeks on)
Dua Lipa - Swan Song (from #26, 6 weeks on)

[Top 40 Tracker]

[House of Lewandowski]

Surprised "Damn" and "Sue Me" managed to hold on the chart.

[tweety]

^ Also surprised by this. Can you also fix the optional extra Sorry Not Sorry from Dani Lovato to Demi Lovato

[Cerebro]

On the equivalent Mediabase chart with recurrents, "Broken" is at #94. Yet it's, somehow, still clinging to the top 40, here.

[Arnold]

Apr 5, 2019 6:53:32 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

On the equivalent Mediabase chart with recurrents, "Broken" is at #94. Yet it's, somehow, still clinging to the top 40, here.

Also, "God is a woman" shouldn't be here either (#65 on equivalent chart).  They appear to have completely abandoned their recurrent rule, which they did have last year.  Without that recurrent rule "New rules","Mine","I like it","I like me better","Psycho", and "let you down" would still be on the list today.  Now they appear to be going the opposite way and holding on to even more oldies than there would be even without a recurrent rule. And along with that, the show is also playing oldies for extras.  At this rate, soon the show will become "American Top Oldies", instead of American Top 40". 

[Top 40 Tracker]

Looks like they are simply picking a few songs to take down a notch or two each week regardless of Mediabase chart position.

[tomgsinger]

Apr 5, 2019 12:34:30 GMT -5 Arnold said:

Apr 5, 2019 6:53:32 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

On the equivalent Mediabase chart with recurrents, "Broken" is at #94. Yet it's, somehow, still clinging to the top 40, here.

Also, "God is a woman" shouldn't be here either (#65 on equivalent chart).  They appear to have completely abandoned their recurrent rule, which they did have last year.  Without that recurrent rule "New rules","Mine","I like it","I like me better","Psycho", and "let you down" would still be on the list today.  Now they appear to be going the opposite way and holding on to even more oldies than there would be even without a recurrent rule. And along with that, the show is also playing oldies for extras.  At this rate, soon the show will become "American Top Oldies", instead of American Top 40". 

What was their recurrent rule?

[Arnold]

Apr 5, 2019 13:45:45 GMT -5 tomgsinger said:

Apr 5, 2019 12:34:30 GMT -5 Arnold said:

Also, "God is a woman" shouldn't be here either (#65 on equivalent chart).  They appear to have completely abandoned their recurrent rule, which they did have last year.  Without that recurrent rule "New rules","Mine","I like it","I like me better","Psycho", and "let you down" would still be on the list today.  Now they appear to be going the opposite way and holding on to even more oldies than there would be even without a recurrent rule. And along with that, the show is also playing oldies for extras.  At this rate, soon the show will become "American Top Oldies", instead of American Top 40". 

What was their recurrent rule?

I don't know what it was, but if they didn't have one those songs would still be here.  Look at the MARCH 24, 2019 chart in the thread "Mediabase CHR/pop top 100 with recurrents" (which I post each Sunday), which is what AT40 is approximately following for this week, and you will see those songs are still in the top 40, while "Broken", and "God is a woman" are not. The positions are in column labeled "Position On This Chart".

pulsemusic.proboards.com/post/6957618/thread

[nymets86]

Apr 5, 2019 12:34:30 GMT -5 Arnold said:

Apr 5, 2019 6:53:32 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

On the equivalent Mediabase chart with recurrents, "Broken" is at #94. Yet it's, somehow, still clinging to the top 40, here.

Also, "God is a woman" shouldn't be here either (#65 on equivalent chart).  They appear to have completely abandoned their recurrent rule, which they did have last year.  Without that recurrent rule "New rules","Mine","I like it","I like me better","Psycho", and "let you down" would still be on the list today.  Now they appear to be going the opposite way and holding on to even more oldies than there would be even without a recurrent rule. And along with that, the show is also playing oldies for extras.  At this rate, soon the show will become "American Top Oldies", instead of American Top 40". 

There is nothing wrong with older songs for extras.It shows how good they were a year or so ago.

[johnnywest]

Mabel’s mom is Neneh Cherry who had 3 Top 40 hits.

[richie]

^ And Neneh is the half sister of Eagle Eye Cherry who did Save Tonight.

[jdanton2]

Apr 6, 2019 11:02:10 GMT -5 richie said:

^ And Neneh is the half sister of Eagle Eye Cherry who did Save Tonight.

i thought Eagle Eye Cherry was a group.

[richie]

^ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle-Eye_Cherry

[Top 40 Tracker]

wow learn something new everyday as I do a Buffalo Stance...

[mkarns]

Apr 6, 2019 8:20:41 GMT -5 nymets86 said:

Apr 5, 2019 12:34:30 GMT -5 Arnold said:

Also, "God is a woman" shouldn't be here either (#65 on equivalent chart).  They appear to have completely abandoned their recurrent rule, which they did have last year.  Without that recurrent rule "New rules","Mine","I like it","I like me better","Psycho", and "let you down" would still be on the list today.  Now they appear to be going the opposite way and holding on to even more oldies than there would be even without a recurrent rule. And along with that, the show is also playing oldies for extras.  At this rate, soon the show will become "American Top Oldies", instead of American Top 40". 

There is nothing wrong with older songs for extras.It shows how good they were a year or so ago.

AT40 has always played older songs for extras, going back to the Casey Kasem era when there were Long Distance Dedications, Archives, and such. And of this week's extras nothing predates 2015 ("Love Me Like You Do", "Can't Feel My Face") which I don't really consider "oldies".

That said, their pattern of what stays on versus what leaves doesn't make much sense. Some songs are yanked out of the top 20 while still being in Mediabase's top 30/40, and others stay on for weeks or even months past their MB departure dates.

[tweety]

Yes. For example, Love Lies or Broken are on forever. While MIA by Bad Bunny is still in the Top 30.

[nymets86]

Apr 6, 2019 16:21:49 GMT -5 @tweety said:

Yes. For example, Love Lies or Broken are on forever. While MIA by Bad Bunny is still in the Top 30.

Love lies is the new New Rules so it’s earned the right to be here but Broken definately should have not still been on the chart. It should have been off early March

[jdelachjr2002]

Just for comparison, I started compiling my own Top 40 list. I want to assume this is close to how AT40 compiles theirs. I closely added spins from 98 of the CHR affiliates and used the listings from two weeks ago. Here's how the list I came up with compares to AT40's

1. 7 Rings
2. Without Me
3. Eastside
4. Close To Me
5. Thank U, Next
6. Better
7. Sweet But Psycho
8. High Hopes
9. Dancing With A Stranger
10. Sunflower
11. Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored
12. Wow.
13. Happier
14. Be Alright
15. Sucker
16. Undrunk
17. Please Me
18. Youngblood
19. Who Do You Love
20. Love Lies
21. I've Been Waiting
22. Better Now
23. Girls Like You
24. Tequila
25. Last Hurrah
26. 365
27. Shallow
28. Bad Liar
29. Sicko Mode
30. You Say
31. Breathin'
32. Don't Call Me Up
33. Here With Me
34. Low Key
35. God Is A Woman
36. Hey Look Ma, I Made It
37. Beautiful
38. Out Of Love
39. When The Party's Over
40. I Can't Get Enough

"Broken", "Damn", "Sue Me" and "This Feeling" aren't anywhere to be seen here.

[richie]

^ That must have taken a long time to compile. Thanks for that and for posting the chart every week. I found it interesting
that 7 songs on this last list are at least 5 positions off from this week's chart:
Girls Like You, Better Now, Beautiful, Love Lies, Youngblood, You Say, Sicko Mode.