American Top 40 - April 21, 2012

[Cerebro]

AMERICAN TOP 40 - APRIL 21, 2012
LW TW WKS Artist - Title
--  40 (01) Drake featuring Lil' Wayne - The Motto
--  39 (01) Ellie Goulding - Lights
35 38 (36) Gym Class Heroes featuring Adam Levine - Stereo Hearts
37 37 (02) Pitbull - Back In Time
40 36 (02) Taylor Swift - Eyes Open
31 35 (25) Katy Perry - The One That Got Away
38 34 (37) Cobra Starship featuring Sabi - You Make Me Feel...
33 33 (31) David Guetta featuring Usher - Without You
32 32 (04) Rihanna featuring Jay-Z - Talk That Talk
Breakout: Demi Lovato - Give Your Heart A Break
29 31 (48) LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock - Party Rock Anthem
Optional Extra: Kelly Clarkson - Because Of You
26 30 (37) Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger
24 29 (26) Gavin DeGraw - Not Over You
34 28 (02) Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
23 27 (29) LMFAO - Sexy And I Know It
20 26 (25) Bruno Mars - It Will Rain
19 25 (07) Chris Brown - Turn Up The Music
25 24 (04) B.o.B. - So Good
30 23 (03) Gotye featuring Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know
17 22 (20) Outasight - Tonight Is The Night
On The Verge: K'naan featuring Nelly Furtado - Is Anybody Out There
Extra: Breathe Carolina - Blackout
22 21 (08) Train - Drive By
Optional Extra: Jason Derülo - In My Head
27 20 (03) Adele - Rumour Has It
21 19 (05) Karmin - Brokenhearted
11 18 (16) Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa featuring Bruno Mars - Young, Wild, And Free
Breakout: Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull - Dance Again
28 17 (02) Justin Bieber - Boyfriend
10 16 (15) Pitbull featuring Chris Brown - International Love
13 15 (26) Flo Rida - Good Feeling
14 14 (28) Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris - We Found Love
18 13 (04) One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful
16 12 (06) Nicki Minaj - Starships
08 11 (24) Jessie J - Domino
Optional Extra: Estelle featuring Kanye West - American Boy
12 10 (07) Calvin Harris - Feel So Close
09 09 (09) Drake featuring Rihanna - Take Care
15 08 (06) Flo Rida featuring Sia - Wild Ones
Two For One: Flo Rida featuring Ke$ha - Right Round
05 07 (19) Adele - Set Fire To The Rain
04 06 (16) Gym Class Heroes featuring Neon Hitch - Get Yourself Back Home
06 05 (07) Katy Perry - Part Of Me
02 04 (14) David Guetta featuring Nicki Minaj - Turn Me On
07 03 (06) Fun. featuring Janelle Monáe - We Are Young
Optional Extra: The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
01 02 (12) Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)
03 01 (11) The Wanted - Glad You Came ** 1 week @ no. 1 **

DROPPERS:
Dev and Enrique Iglesias - Naked (from 39, 1 week on)
Christina Perri - A Thousand Years (from 36, 5 weeks on)

Ryan took a few moments before signing off, this week, to acknowledge the passing of Dick Clark.

[mkarns]

A good argument for recurrent rules: a majority of the songs in the first 90 minutes (below #25) have been on the chart for at least 25 weeks (about six months), while the two droppers have only been on for one and five weeks. Watch the Breakouts and On the Verges; with so many songs not far from falling off, many should be entering soon (presumably/maybe.)

Again with too many extras in the middle of the show. I like more extra songs if the alternative is more talk or commercials (that's been a significant improvement in the show lately), but they should be spread out more. Three out of four songs in a row being non-countdown tracks doesn't seem like good pacing.

[Lozzy]

I agree about the placing of non-countdown songs. I liked the format they once had where the optional extras were the way they are now, the two breakouts were in the middle of the first and second hours respectively, and they sometimes placed an extra around the middle of the third hour. My personal preference would be roughly that, except with the fourth optional extra placed elsewhere – I'm not sure where it would fit, but I don't like having #3 and #2 split up that way. I wouldn't object to having it directly before the #1 if they tried to make a connection between the two songs (like, if they played O-Town's "All Or Nothing" this week since that was the last boy band #1 hit); that would be quite nice, actually.

It was a shame to see "Naked" leave the chart after only one week, but it's nice to have "The Motto" in, despite how awful the radio edit of that song sounds. I was very surprised to see "Give Your Heart A Break" as it was only #53 on Mediabase two weeks back, while I was expecting "Dance Again" to debut rather than just be played as a breakout. It was only #36 on Mediabase two weeks ago, but "Back In Time" is on the chart and it was only #58 then. It was nice to hear "American Boy" as an optional extra (though I would have preferred to hear the version inclusive of Kanye West), but the other optional extras as well as "Right Round" and "Blackout" were very predictable choices. I'd still like to hear lesser and slightly older hits on the show. I put my Top 10 Hits playlist on shuffle and I got "Follow Me", "Slow Motion", "I Will Remember You" and "Don't Mess With My Man". I wouldn't object to those being the four picks.

Hopefully "Stereo Hearts" can fall off the chart next week. I'm ready for "You Make Me Feel", "Without You", "Party Rock Anthem", "Moves Like Jagger", "Not Over You", "Sexy And I Know It" and "It Will Rain" to leave, but they're probably going to be on for quite some time longer, especially "Party Rock Anthem" which is close to getting more plays than "Sexy And I Know It" on Mediabase now. I wonder if "Party Rock Anthem" could manage to beat the longevity record of 72 weeks which "Dynamite" holds. It will be tough, as it is down to #31 and needs almost six months more, but I do think there's a chance.

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AT40 censors "Getting (bleep) than the Empire State Building" in "We Are Young".

Quite ridiculous...

Kind of reminds me when Rihanna's "S&M" last year had "sex" censored, but they only censored it the first time she said it, not the second time in the chorus. Fail.

[Top 40 Tracker]

Pretty interesting that he mentions the passing of Dick Clark. That must have been some miracle edit. Surely the show isn't taped on the Friday before the weekend it airs.

[Cerebro]

Apr 21, 2012 18:08:56 GMT -5 Top 40 Tracker said:

Pretty interesting that he mentions the passing of Dick Clark. That must have been some miracle edit. Surely the show isn't taped on the Friday before the weekend it airs.

Seeing as it was tacked on to the end of the show, it could have been something that was recorded late in the game and sent to affiliates to add on to it.

As I recall, Michael Jackson died midweek and Ryan acknowledged it that weekend with a short montage of his hits tacked on to the end of that week's countdown. Again, something that, probably wasn't recorded with the rest of the show.

[Top 40 Tracker]

That would make sense.

[chartfreak]

Did thee not use to be a Rick Dee's thread weekly?

[mkarns]

Apr 21, 2012 14:42:18 GMT -5 Geometrical said:

AT40 censors "Getting (bleep) than the Empire State Building" in "We Are Young".

Quite ridiculous...

Kind of reminds me when Rihanna's "S&M" last year had "sex" censored, but they only censored it the first time she said it, not the second time in the chorus. Fail.

Also they usually removed the word "sex" from Katy Perry's "California Gurls" but not from her "ET", in which they left in Kanye West's lines about wanting to "disrobe you and probe you". Not much ambiguity there...

Seeing as it was tacked on to the end of the show, it could have been something that was recorded late in the game and sent to affiliates to add on to it.

As I recall, Michael Jackson died midweek and Ryan acknowledged it that weekend with a short montage of his hits tacked on to the end of that week's countdown. Again, something that, probably wasn't recorded with the rest of the show.

That's one advantage of online distribution of the show, in that they can add in stuff related to current events when needed and instantly send them to affiliates. During the Casey and Shadoe eras of AT40 they used physical records and/or CD's and the show had to be recorded earlier to send everything out through the mail on time, so something like the Clark tribute would probably not have appeared until the next week's countdown. (One exception was when John Lennon was killed in December 1980, and Casey added in a tribute that was hastily sent out to stations as part of an "Emergency Replacement Disc", since they already had the rest of the show.)

[Libra]

Apr 21, 2012 18:08:56 GMT -5 Top 40 Tracker said:

Pretty interesting that he mentions the passing of Dick Clark. That must have been some miracle edit. Surely the show isn't taped on the Friday before the weekend it airs.

My station (WIOG) didn't air this, which I'm a little irritated by. They cut to regular programming almost immediately following Ryan's outro for #1.

[Jay]

Wow @ some of the songs still charting.

Apr 21, 2012 8:59:06 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

Optional Extra: Kelly Clarkson - Because Of You

<3

[richie]

Some nice long posts this week. Rihanna hits the jackpot with 09 09 (09). Just like last week, the show started with 2 new entries, had 2 new top 10's, and as mentioned the stupid bunch up of extras. And one 241.
Surprisingly You Make Me Feel goes back up. I have to confess that sight unseen, I thought that Estelle was Adele. That was a nice tribute to Dick Clark at the end of the show. Casey Kasem turns 80 this coming Friday, the 27th. Happy birthday, Casey.

[BillboardBoy]

Apr 21, 2012 11:51:40 GMT -5 Lozzy said:

My personal preference would be roughly that, except with the fourth optional extra placed elsewhere – I'm not sure where it would fit, but I don't like having #3 and #2 split up that way. I wouldn't object to having it directly before the #1 if they tried to make a connection between the two songs (like, if they played O-Town's "All Or Nothing" this week since that was the last boy band #1 hit); that would be quite nice, actually.

That's a good idea but it probably won't happen since the optional songs are the same for both CHR and Hot AC. And I assume the content is same too.