American Top 40 - February 25, 2012

[Cerebro]

AMERICAN TOP 40 - FEBRUARY 25, 2012
LW TW WKS Artist - Title
--  40 (01) Colbie Caillat - Brighter Than The Sun
40 39 (03) We The Kings - Say You Like Me
32 38 (22) Kelly Clarkson - Mr. Know It All
38 37 (04) JoJo - Disaster
37 36 (08) Big Time Rush featuring Mann - Music Sounds Better With U
--  35 (01) Madonna featuring Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. - Give Me All Your Luvin'
34 34 (05) Big Sean featuring Nicki Minaj - Dance
30 33 (22) Dev - In The Dark
21 32 (13) Rihanna - You Da One
31 31 (37) Nicki Minaj - Super Bass
Breakout: Train - Drive By
Optional Extra: Travie McCoy featuring Bruno Mars - Billionaire
--  30 (01) Drake featuring Rihanna - Take Care
Two For One: Drake - Find Your Love
29 29 (41) Pitbull featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack, and Nayer - Give Me Everything
28 28 (24) Adele - Someone Like You
39 27 (02) LMFAO - Sorry For Party Rocking
24 26 (40) LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock - Party Rock Anthem
27 25 (13) The Fray - Heartbeat
22 24 (12) Outasight - Tonight Is The Night
20 23 (29) Cobra Starship featuring Sabi - You Make Me Feel...
25 22 (08) Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa featuring Bruno Mars - Young, Wild, And Free
26 21 (03) The Wanted - Glad You Came
Optional Extra: The Black Eyed Peas - Just Can't Get Enough
15 20 (28) Gym Class Heroes featuring Adam Levine - Stereo Hearts
19 19 (13) Breathe Carolina - Blackout
18 18 (11) Jay-Z and Kanye West - In Paris
Breakout: Coldplay featuring Rihanna - Princess Of China
13 17 (12) J. Cole - Work Out
16 16 (29) Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger
17 15 (13) Hot Chelle Rae featuring New Boyz - I Like It Like That
10 14 (23) David Guetta featuring Usher - Without You
23 13 (04) Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)
14 12 (07) Pitbull featuring Chris Brown - International Love
12 11 (08) Gym Class Heroes featuring Neon Hitch - Get Yourself Back Home
Optional Extra: Mariah Carey - Obsessed
08 10 (21) LMFAO - Sexy And I Know It
11 09 (18) Gavin DeGraw - Not Over You
07 08 (19) Selena Gomez and The Scene - Love You Like A Love Song
09 07 (06) David Guetta featuring Nicki Minaj - Turn Me On
06 06 (16) Jessie J - Domino
03 05 (19) Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris - We Found Love
04 04 (17) Bruno Mars - It Will Rain
02 03 (17) Katy Perry - The One That Got Away
Two For One: Katy Perry - Firework
Optional Extra: Jason Derülo - Ridin' Solo
05 02 (11) Adele - Set Fire To The Rain
01 01 (18) Flo Rida - Good Feeling ** 2 weeks @ no. 1 **

DROPPERS:
Will.I.Am featuring Mick Jagger and Jennifer Lopez - T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever) (from 36, 5 weeks on)
Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks (from 35, 27 weeks on)
Drake - Headlines (from 33, 13 weeks on)

[Lozzy]

Bye bye "Headlines". <3

I loved the "two for one" features this week. I still wish they would play older songs there (and for the general extras/optional extras too), but the choices were pretty great today.

I was surprised to hear "Princess of China" as the breakout, wasn't expecting it yet.

[johnnywest]

I think they played "Firework" in the "Two For One" segment because they've already played all of Katy's other Top 5 hits in the past 3 months. "Thinking Of You" was an awful song, btw, and I'm sure it doesn't get airplay any more these days.

[Arnold]

They played "Starships" between #6 (Domino) and #5 (We found love), according to the 2 stations I checked on "yes.com".
(The 2 stations are KHOP and WKSE)

[Cerebro]

Feb 25, 2012 13:14:41 GMT -5 Arnold said:

They played "Starships" between #6 (Domino) and #5 (We found love), according to the 2 stations I checked on "yes.com".
(The 2 stations are KHOP and WKSE)

They didn't, actually. They just played a short snippet of it, but it seems to have registered as a full play on yes.com.

[musicfanpete]

Glad to see that "Not Over You" made the top 10 at CHR. Didn't realize it was so high on the chart. Just imagine how much better it would have done if a few more Clear Channel CHR's played this, especially in the larger markets!

[josh]

Princess of China as a breakout already?? It's only 31 without recurrents! Surprising. Oh well I won't complain. Hopefully this will boost it way up the next few days, and get it a lot more adds, so it can smash like it's meant to!

[Devin]

Well "Brighter Than the Sun"'s a debut, but it only peaked at #36 without recurrents!

[Cerebro]

More fun with AT40 math. Ryan mentioned that "Give Me All Your Luvin'" is Madonna's 55th top 40 hit. Using her R&R chart history (courtesy of chartboy) and adding in her two featured appearances (in bold) makes the numbers work. Do note that if we were looking at her "real" AT40 history (i.e. Billboard up until 1995), "Into The Groove" and "Spotlight" would be excluded from this list as they were airplay only tracks and were ineligible to chart on the Hot 100 per Billboard's rules at the time.

01 Holiday
02 Borderline
03 Lucky Star
04 Like A Virgin
05 Material Girl
06 Crazy For You
07 Angel
08 Into The Groove
09 Dress You Up
10 Sidewalk Talk (Jellybean)
11 Live To Tell
12 Papa Don't Preach
13 True Blue
14 Open Your Heart
15 La Isla Bonita
16 Who's That Girl
17 Causing A Commotion
18 Spotlight
19 Like A Prayer
20 Express Yourself
21 Cherish
21 Oh Father
23 Keep It Together
24 Vogue
25 Hanky Panky
26 Justify My Love
27 Rescue Me
28 This Used To Be My Playground
29 Erotica
30 Deeper And Deeper
31 Bad Girl
32 Rain
33 I'll Remember
34 Secret
35 Take A Bow
36 Bedtime Story
37 Human Nature
38 You'll See
39 You Must Love Me
40 Don't Cry For Me Argentina
41 Frozen
42 Ray Of Light
43 The Power Of Goodbye
44 Nothing Really Matters
45 Beautiful Stranger
46 American Pie
47 Music
48 Don't Tell Me
49 What It Feels Like For A Girl
50 Die Another Day
51 American Life
52 Me Against The Music (Britney Spears)
53 Hung Up
54 4 Minutes
55 Give Me All Your Luvin'

[richie]

JoJo keeps moving up one position a week since debuting at no. 40. Gavin back in the top 10.
Some other two for ones: LMFAO and Nicki Minaj. My goodness she has 4 tracks on here this week.
Rihanna ties Britney with 28 top 40's this century, and has 2 more on the horizon. Is she ahead of Madonna's pace??
Analogy: Train is to Drive By, as The Cars is to Drive.
I don't think they should play 2 non-countdown songs after number 3, or even one (optional) song. It breaks the crescendo leading up to number 1.

[HolidayGuy]

Well, unlike "Spotlight," "Into the Groove" wasn't an airplay-only track. :) But, yes, whatever rules Billboard had in place at the time supposedly kept it from charting (but not on R&B).

I always found it ridiculous that Jellybean is the only one who was credited on "Sidewalk Talk." Quincy Jones always credited his vocalists.

[johnm1120]

It only took 2 months for Colbie to debut, guess they're catching up.

[BillboardBoy]

Feb 26, 2012 11:18:24 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

01 Holiday
02 Borderline
03 Lucky Star
04 Like A Virgin
05 Material Girl
06 Crazy For You
07 Angel
08 Into The Groove
09 Dress You Up
10 Sidewalk Talk (Jellybean)
11 Live To Tell
12 Papa Don't Preach
13 True Blue
14 Open Your Heart
15 La Isla Bonita
16 Who's That Girl
17 Causing A Commotion
18 Spotlight
19 Like A Prayer
20 Express Yourself
21 Cherish
21 Oh Father
23 Keep It Together
24 Vogue
25 Hanky Panky
26 Justify My Love
27 Rescue Me
28 This Used To Be My Playground
29 Erotica
30 Deeper And Deeper
31 Bad Girl
32 Rain
33 I'll Remember
34 Secret
35 Take A Bow
36 Bedtime Story
37 Human Nature
38 You'll See
39 You Must Love Me
40 Don't Cry For Me Argentina
41 Frozen
42 Ray Of Light
43 The Power Of Goodbye
44 Nothing Really Matters
45 Beautiful Stranger
46 American Pie
47 Music
48 Don't Tell Me
49 What It Feels Like For A Girl
50 Die Another Day
51 American Life
52 Me Against The Music (Britney Spears)
53 Hung Up
54 4 Minutes
55 Give Me All Your Luvin'

Very nice list! Thank you for compiling this.