American Top 40 - May 11, 2019

[jdelachjr2002]

Just when I thought AT40 can't expand further on their Breakouts...

For the first time in AT40 history we have SIX ... COUNT 'EM, SIX BREAKOUTS (one is still "On The Verge"). And to think I once complained that four Breakouts is too many. How soon before the inevitable chart expansion happens and the show winds up changing its' name to "AMERICAN TOP 50"?

AMERICAN TOP 40 - MAY 11, 2019
LW TW WKS Artist - Title
39 40 (46) Maroon 5 featuring CARDI B - Girls Like You (1)
DE 39 (01) Bryce Vine featuring YG - La La Land (39)
37 38 (46) Post Malone - Better Now (1)

38 37 (03) Benny Blanco, Tainy, Selena Gomez & J. Balvin - I Can't Get Enough (37)
40 36 (02) Drax Project featuring Hailee Steinfeld - Woke Up Late (36)
DE 35 (01) BTS featuring Halsey - Boy With Luv (35)
Extra: Jason Derulo - Want To Want Me
33 34 (30) Ariana Grande - Breathin' (2)
On The Verge: AJ Mitchell - All My Friends

34 33 (05) Alessia Cara - Out Of Love (33)
31 32 (53) Khalid & Normani - Love Lies (1)
36 31 (04) Khalid - Talk (31)
Extra: CARDI B & Bruno Mars - Please Me
Optional Extra: Justin Timberlake - Can't Stop The Feeling!
29 30 (45) 5 Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood (1)
Extra: Maroon 5 - One More Night
27 29 (06) Ally Brooke featuring Tyga - Low Key (27)
30 28 (04) Lauv & Troye Sivan - I'm So Tired... (28)
Breakout: Taylor Swift featuring Brendon Urie - ME!

26 27 (28) Travis Scott featuring Drake - Sicko Mode (10)
28 26 (05) Panic! At The Disco - Hey Look Ma, I Made It (26)
32 25 (05) Billie Eilish - When The Party's Over (25)

22 24 (34) Marshmello & BASTILLE - Happier (1)
24 23 (07) Bebe Rexha - Last Hurrah (23)
19 22 (24) Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next (1)
21 21 (18) Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow (21)
Breakout: Daddy Yankee & Katy Perry featuring Snow - Con Calma
Optional Extra: Hailee Steinfeld & Alesso featuring Florida Georgia Line & Watt - Let Me Go
25 20 (03) The Jonas Brothers - Cool (20)
16 19 (11) Fletcher - Undrunk (16)
Extra: Alessia Cara - Scars To Your Beautiful
15 18 (31) Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes (1)
Breakout: Pink - Walk Me Home

18 17 (06) Mabel - Don't Call Me Up (17)
17 16 (06) Marshmello featuring CHVRCHES - Here With Me (16)
Extra: Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne - Rather Be
12 15 (26) Post Malone & Swae Lee - Sunflower (4)
14 14 (09) Lil Peep & iLoveMakkonen featuring Fall Out Boy - I've Been Waiting (14)

20 13 (03) Lil Nas X - Old Town Road (13)
13 12 (10) The Chainsmokers featuring 5 Seconds Of Summer - Who Do You Love (12)
11 11 (25) Dean Lewis - Be Alright (11)
Optional Extra: DJ Khaled featuring Justin Bieber, Chance The Rapper, Quavo & Lil' Wayne - I'm The One
08 10 (26) Khalid - Better (4)
10 09 (37) Benny Blanco featuring Halsey & Khalid - Eastside (1)
03 08 (23) Ellie Goulding & Diplo featuring Swae Lee - Close To Me (2)
Breakout: NOTD & Felix Jaehn featuring Captain Cuts & Georgia KU - So Close

07 07 (28) Halsey - Without Me (1)
09 06 (15) Post Malone - Wow. (6)
Extra: Rihanna featuring Mikky Ekko - Stay

06 05 (18) Ava Max - Sweet But Psycho (5)
02 04 (14) Ariana Grande - 7 Rings (1)
Breakout: Billie Eilish - Bad Guy
05 03 (11) Ariana Grande - Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored (3)
Optional Extra: Drake - In My Feelings
04 02 (13) Sam Smith & Normani - Dancing With A Stranger (2)
01 01 (08) The Jonas Brothers - Sucker **2 weeks at #1**

DROPPERS
Bazzi featuring Camila Cabello - Beautiful (from #35, 34 weeks on)
Lauren Daigle - You Say (from #23, 11 weeks on)

[Top 40 Tracker]

This week "You Say" by Lauren Daigle has fallen off the chart. It was her first AT40 hit, debuting back in February and spending eleven weeks on the chart, peaking at #20 last month.

And Bazzi's 34-week run with "Beautiful" featuring Camila Cabello has also come to an end.

Bryce Vine debuts with "La La Land" featuring YG. Bryce has a habit of not mentioning the complete song title together in the lyrics. The same was true of his last AT40 hit, "Drew Barrymore."

And BTS hit the chart with their latest "Boy With Luv" featuring Halsey. Meanwhile, BTS also score their third #1 album in less than a year. BTS are also the biggest boy band with the most members – 7 of them.

At #3 this week is Ariana Grande with "break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored," the third single off her thank u, next album.

Sam Smith and Normani's R&B-inspired collab "Dancing With a Stranger" moves up two spots to #2.

And the Jonas Brothers hang on to the top spot this week! Last week they hit #1 in just their seventh week with "Sucker." And that made it the fastest rise to the top since "Girls Like You" by Maroon 5 featuring Cardi B last year, which also took seven weeks. How long will "Sucker" stay at the top? Find out in the weeks to come!

[Top 40 Tracker]

AT40 no longer airs on Oman's Number One Hit Music Station, HiFM and it appears Egypts NileFM dropped it too. Plus, the 16 extras this week could be the most ever.

[MitchWolf - ChartStan]

if they make a top 50, the recurrents will stay around for another 7-10 weeks than allowing more newer music in

[Cerebro]

Six Breakouts is, definitely, overkill. You ask me, one per hour should be it, at most.

I wonder how high Taylor will debut, next week? Inside the top 20 is, certainly, a safe bet.

[goodguy]

May 10, 2019 1:03:52 GMT -5 Top 40 Tracker said:

AT40 no longer airs on Oman's Number One Hit Music Station, HiFM and it appears Egypts NileFM dropped it too. Plus, the 16 extras this week could be the most ever.

Hi FM usually drops the show during Ramadan but brings it back afterward. I'm not sure the story with Nile FM.

Update: The new show is on Nile FM at 9 a.m. EDT Friday.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Forget about the breakouts, how DARE they have an extra within the top 3. I HATE when they do that. Boycott

[gemini79]

I'm really surprised that ME! didn't debut this week, it should debut high next week

[musiciscool]

May 10, 2019 8:34:22 GMT -5 gemini79 said:

I'm really surprised that ME! didn't debut this week, it should debut high next week

It will probably debut somewhere near the Top 10.

[richie]

May 10, 2019 6:04:58 GMT -5 Devil Marlena Nylund said:

Forget about the breakouts, how DARE they have an extra within the top 3. I HATE when they do that. Boycott

The final breakout is outside the top 3. There's always an optional extra within the top 3.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

May 10, 2019 10:28:27 GMT -5 richie said:

May 10, 2019 6:04:58 GMT -5 Devil Marlena Nylund said:

Forget about the breakouts, how DARE they have an extra within the top 3. I HATE when they do that. Boycott

The final breakout is outside the top 3. There's always an optional extra within the top 3.

And I’ll complain every week until they stop 😡

[richie]

^LOL. I like listening online where they don't have any of the optionals.

[mkarns]

May 10, 2019 10:09:49 GMT -5 musiciscool said:

May 10, 2019 8:34:22 GMT -5 gemini79 said:

I'm really surprised that ME! didn't debut this week, it should debut high next week

It will probably debut somewhere near the Top 10.

Even that wouldn't be Taylor's highest ever debut, as "Look What You Made Me Do" entered within the top 10. This will also give Brendon Urie three top 40 hits at once, impressive for someone who IIRC prior to 2018 only had two credited AT40 hits, in 2006 and 2016 (he's had plenty more at some other formats, notably Alternative.)

[Arnold]

This is supposed to be a countdown of the top 40 songs of the week, not an oldie show. If I ran the show, all the breakouts would be played before they start the countdown (that is, before number 40 is played). Once the countdown begins there would be no interruption with any extras. There would be no music from the past, and there would be a recurrent rule: all songs on countdown past 26 weeks would be removed, allowing more new music to enter the countdown. If the record is still in the top 10, it could reach 30 weeks. Only the top 3 would not have a recurrent rule.

[mkarns]

May 10, 2019 12:22:46 GMT -5 Arnold said:

This is supposed to be a countdown of the top 40 songs of the week, not an oldie show. If I ran the show, all the breakouts would be played before they start the countdown (that is, before number 40 is played). Once the countdown begins there would be no interruption with any extras. There would be no music from the past, and there would be a recurrent rule: all songs on countdown past 26 weeks would be removed, allowing more new music to enter the countdown. If the record is still in the top 10, it could reach 30 weeks. Only the top 3 would not have a recurrent rule.

From how many extras are included, nowadays under your policy you'd have to possibly play 10 or more "Breakouts" or similar up-and-coming hits before you get to the actual top 40 if you're not going to put any more extras in. Either that or cut the show down to three hours.

[Arnold]

May 10, 2019 12:30:57 GMT -5 mkarns said:

May 10, 2019 12:22:46 GMT -5 Arnold said:

This is supposed to be a countdown of the top 40 songs of the week, not an oldie show. If I ran the show, all the breakouts would be played before they start the countdown (that is, before number 40 is played). Once the countdown begins there would be no interruption with any extras. There would be no music from the past, and there would be a recurrent rule: all songs on countdown past 26 weeks would be removed, allowing more new music to enter the countdown. If the record is still in the top 10, it could reach 30 weeks. Only the top 3 would not have a recurrent rule.

From how many extras are included, nowadays under your policy you'd have to possibly play 10 or more "Breakouts" or similar up-and-coming hits before you get to the actual top 40 if you're not going to put any more extras in. Either that or cut the show down to three hours.

Yes, I'd cut the length of the show.

[Deleted]

when I read six breakouts I thought it was a joke. Soon there gonna have like 8.

[jdelachjr2002]

May 10, 2019 15:23:28 GMT -5 @tweety said:

when I read six breakouts I thought it was a joke. Soon there gonna have like 8.

With our luck, that will probably happen sometime next month.

Anybody here listen to Bobby Bones' Countdown (iHeart's Country equivalent to Seacrest)? It's four hours but they play a Top 30. Do they have "Breakouts" and if so, how many do they play (I know they do "Tell Me Something Good" which I'm glad AT40 got rid of but I don't know how many time-fillers they have).

[Top 40 Tracker]

Ryan explained why the show features many extras now since many songs are running about the same length as the early 70s giving them more time to play more music.

[jdelachjr2002]

May 10, 2019 20:15:07 GMT -5 Top 40 Tracker said:

Ryan explained why the show features many extras now since many songs are running about the same length as the early 70s giving them more time to play more music.

Where exactly was this mentioned?

[Deleted]

Where is the special chart.

[gemini79]

On iheart Ryan didn't play #28 i'm so tired, he played Sicko Mode twice and #40 didn't play either it was dead air

[nymets86]

Only the songs that actually chart within the top 40 should be played. This is rediculous the breakouts repeatedly. You might as well add those weeks to Their total weeks

[musiciscool]

The breakouts aren't a problem to me. There are way too many extras played every hour.

[Arnold]

May 10, 2019 21:59:31 GMT -5 gemini79 said:

On iheart Ryan didn't play #28 i'm so tired, he played Sicko Mode twice

Yes, that happened to me too when I listened to the show this afternoon

[Top 40 Tracker]

May 10, 2019 21:07:00 GMT -5 jdelachjr2002 said:

May 10, 2019 20:15:07 GMT -5 Top 40 Tracker said:

Ryan explained why the show features many extras now since many songs are running about the same length as the early 70s giving them more time to play more music.

Where exactly was this mentioned?

At the 10:40 mark in my video.

[upland1425]

May 11, 2019 3:22:24 GMT -5 Top 40 Tracker said:

May 10, 2019 21:07:00 GMT -5 jdelachjr2002 said:

Where exactly was this mentioned?

At the 10:40 mark in my video.

FYI, on the Hot AC version, Ryan mentioed this immediately before and after #27, All The Ways by Meghan Trainor.

[jdelachjr2002]

May 10, 2019 21:14:40 GMT -5 @tweety said:

Where is the special chart.

LW TW
01 01 Sucker
03 02 Dancing With A Stranger
05 03 Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored
04 04 Sweet But Psycho
02 05 7 Rings
09 06 Wow.
06 07 Without Me
08 08 Eastside
13 09 Who Do You Love
11 10 Be Alright
07 11 Close To Me
23 12 Old Town Road
12 13 High Hopes
10 14 Better
16 15 Here With Me
15 16 I've Been Waiting
19 17 Shallow
26 18 Cool
18 19 Happier
17 20 Sunflower
22 21 Don't Call Me Up
29 22 When The Party's Over
20 23 Youngblood
14 24 Undrunk
21 25 Thank U, Next
25 26 Better Now
27 27 Love Lies
30 28 Hey Look Ma, I Made It
DE 29 ME!
28 30 Last Hurrah
31 31 Girls Like You
35 32 Talk
34 33 Boy With Luv
33 34 I'm So Tired...
32 35 Low Key
36 36 Out Of Love
37 37 Breathin'
DE 38 Con Calma
39 39 All My Friends
40 40 La La Land

OFF: You Say (#24), I Can't Get Enough (#38)

[johnnywest]

May 10, 2019 21:07:00 GMT -5 jdelachjr2002 said:

May 10, 2019 20:15:07 GMT -5 Top 40 Tracker said:

Ryan explained why the show features many extras now since many songs are running about the same length as the early 70s giving them more time to play more music.

Where exactly was this mentioned?

I think it was before Bebe Rexha. He also said that because of streaming, artists get paid regardless of the song length, so there’s little incentive to make a long song.

Personally, the Breakouts and extras don’t bother me at all. Years ago, songs had to be edited in order to fit the whole show into four hours. People would be complaining about that if it were still the case today, just like they do with the 70s and 80s reruns.

Everyone should be grateful that AT40 isn’t playing a full recap of last week’s Top 3, like they did after the show expanded to four hours.

[Leo ✔]

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