Rick Dees' WT40 - 12/19/09 - Top 40 of 2009

[Cerebro]

I was just poking around at Rick Dees' website (which I very rarely do). With train wreck curiosity, I just had to see what crap he decided to pass off as a year end chart, this year.

01 I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
02 Poker Face - Lady Gaga
03 Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It) - Beyoncé
04 Gives You Hell - All-American Rejects
05 Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas
06 Love Story - Taylor Swift
07 You Found Me - The Fray
08 Circus - Britney Spears
09 Right Round - Flo Ridia
10 Just Dance - Lady Gaga
11 My Life Would Suck Without You - Kelly Clarkson
12 Hot N Cold - Katy Perry
13 Use Somebody - Kings Of Leon
14 Down - Jay Sean
15 The Climb - Miley Cyrus
16 Don't Trust Me - 3OH!3
17 You Belong With Me - Taylor Swift
18 I'm Yours - Jason Mraz
19 Halo - Beyoncé
20 LoveGame - Lady Gaga
21 Waking Up In Vegas - Katy Perry
22 I Know You Want Me - Pitbull
23 Sober - Pink
24 Live Your Life - T.I.
25 Second Chance - Shinedown
26 Knock You Down - Keri Hilson
27 Heartless - Kanye West
28 Dead And Gone - T.I.
29 Womanizer - Britney Spears
30 Please Don't Leave Me - Pink
31 Paparazzi - Lady Gaga
32 No Surprise - Daughtry
33 How Do You Sleep? - Jesse McCartney
34 Party In The U.S.A. - Miley Cyrus
35 Mad - Ne-Yo
36 If U Seek Amy - Britney Spears
37 Kiss Me Thru The Phone - Soulja Boy
38 Battlefield - Jordin Sparks
39 So What - Pink
40 Blame It - Jamie Foxx

If your reaction right now is "WTF?", rest assured, you have nothing to worry about. This is a standard reaction to a Rick Dees chart.

Given that the year end chart was only a top 40, I'm assuming he'll be doing a decade end chart over the next two weekends (?). If so, I'm tempted to give that a look as well.

[billme]

I agree with his #1 song of the year. In fact, most of the chart was spot on.

What I didn't like was the recycled interviews that were passed as "real time", production was rather light for this show.

[kellybcfan98]

wow this is a screwy chart. LWS at 11, SW at 39, and LG at 20???!!

[gin]

So Angels On The Moon, which had a 20-week run on this chart with a #25 peak, will not get a chance to appear on the year-end list it would have undoubtedly made had this been a top 100. It would have made more sense to do a Top 100 of this year and a top 40 of the decade.

[shark cousteau]

his top 40 of the decade is up, some curveballs, some glaring omissions. i still love him :)

[gin]

Dec 25, 2009 21:47:03 GMT -5 shark cousteau said:

i still love him :)

You're a trooper. I mean I stuck by him far after the majority of radio audiences had labeled him a senile old cooter... but this year was just too much.

[shark cousteau]

well i live in new zealand and we used to get his show here, but after my station switched to ac they played his ac chart for a couple years then that was it. i've got nearly every chart of his this decade, if anybody is after them :)