Collective Soul's Hot AC chart history

[Steve]

Can somebody provide their singles that hit Hot AC and their peak positions? I heard recently that they had 11 number one HAC songs and find that hard to believe.

[Libra]

Whoever told you they had 11 HAC #1s is very unreliable. They haven't had any #1s.

As for peaks, I'm afraid I can't help you there. Try asking our resident chart experts (DuckHead, Cerebro, mst3k, GordonUM, Jimmy Finlayson [previously known as ulij20]).[/font]

[ultramixmarv]

steve said:

Can somebody provide their singles that hit Hot AC and their peak positions?  I heard recently that they had 11 number one HAC songs and find that hard to believe.

Adult Top 40 07/23/2005 Better Now Collective Soul #11 (20 weeks & going with a bullet still)Adult Top 40 11/18/1995 December Collective Soul #11 (26 weeks in top 40)Adult Top 40 04/10/1999 Run Collective Soul #12 (26 weeks in top 40)
Adult Top 40 06/08/1996 The World I Know Collective Soul #18 (27 weeks in top 40)
Adult Top 40 04/14/2001 Perfect Day Collective Soul Featuring Elton John #29 (4 weeks in top 40)

Shine & Gel were hits at Top 40 but would have been on hot ac then if the format was what it is now...

[allow that]

"The World I Know" and "December" never hit Top 10? Whoa. That's shocking.

And I still think "Run" should have been one of the biggest hits of 1999. Still angry over that one.

So "Better Now" will be their biggest HAC hit. Something seems off on that, lol.

[singingsparrow]

"The World I Know" is the only song I ever hear from them regularly as a recurrent on the radio, and they play it all the time.

Sincerely,
Noah Eaton

[jdcfan]

jerseyboy said:

"The World I Know" and "December" never hit Top 10? Whoa. That's shocking.

"The World I Know" sounds to me like Top 5 material at Hot AC... I can't believe it only made it to #18. It did well at Pop, so I can't complain too much...

And I still think "Run" should have been one of the biggest hits of 1999. Still angry over that one.

"Run" is one of my favorites from Collective Soul. Why that song didn't do better is a mystery to me...

So "Better Now" will be their biggest HAC hit. Something seems off on that, lol.

I happen to like "Better Now" a lot, but I find it hard to believe it's their biggest hit at Hot AC, especially now that they are on their own label.

[jdcfan]

singingsparrow said:

"The World I Know" is the only song I ever hear from them regularly as a recurrent on the radio, and they play it all the time.

"December", "The World I Know", and "Shine" still get a decent amount of airplay.

[ultramixmarv]

If the chart and format was like it is now. The World i know & Run would have been top 10's for sure. Top 40 was better then, now Adult Top 40 is awesome. However if you look at the apount of weeks they stayed on charts, they both had staying power.

I look for "How Do You Love" to be a Top 10 smash at Hot Ac and be theyre biggest hit yet!!

Then "There's A Way" to be Top 20 too!!

Hopefully "Better Now" can get Top 10 for a week or 2 but regardless it's been a HIT!!

[singingsparrow]

jdcfan said:

singingsparrow said:

"The World I Know" is the only song I ever hear from them regularly as a recurrent on the radio, and they play it all the time.

"December", "The World I Know", and "Shine" still get a decent amount of airplay.

Sometimes I hear "Shine" on my Triple A station, but both my Portland station and my old Triple A station in Boulder play "The World I Know" over that by a 3 to 1 to 4 to 1 margin, and I never hear "Shine" on Hot AC radio here.

Anyway, I'm so happy Collective Soul are soaring into the airwave stratosphere again, and "Better Now" has been getting a great reception at both my Triple A and Hot AC station.

Sincerely,
Noah Eaton

[jdcfan]

I think it's interesting to note that "The World I Know" (which peaked at #18) is still getting around 175 spins per week at Hot AC. On the other hand, "Run" (which peaked at #12) is only getting around 10 spins per week at Hot AC.

"The World I Know" is getting a lot of Hot AC airplay today even though it barely made the top 20 originally. I'm sure a lot of people have pointed this out, but Hot AC seems to be pretty receptive to 90s pop music, which as a whole was more rock oriented.

The new songs that Hot AC is playing today would probably have been pop hits around 7-10 years ago or so... Hot AC is a great format for me right now since I like a lot of the pop music from yesterday, but I don't like as much of today's "pop" music.

[Steve]

Collective Soul has a great sound - they are unique in that they always find a way to sound fresh. "Run" is a classic - I can understand that it was hard to categorize which is why it may have been simply caught as too lite for rock stations and to rock for lite stations.

They have had so many great songs though - I don't know if "Energy" was ever released as a single, but that may have caught fire.

Lastly, if "How Do You Love" does not become a hit with songs like "You And Me" zipping up the charts, then something is wrong.

Wonder if Collective Soul releases their next album independently? They seem to be doing a better job getting their songs up the charts than their label did!

[JCMF3]

People have to remember that when the HAC format started, it was VERY AC leaning (compared to today's format) because basically the AC panel was just split into two formats. So, for the first couple of years of the format's existence (which is when some of Collective Soul's big hits happened), HAC stations would not have put this into their power rotation.

So, I guess I am not shocked like others in this thread.

[Hot AC Archiver]

Here's their R&R Hot AC Peaks:

December - #16
The World I Know - #21
Run - #10
Perfect Day - #28

[Steve]

I'll bet what I must have heard was that Collective Soul had those #1 hits at the Modern Rock format.

[jdcfan]

steve said:

I'll bet what I must have heard was that Collective Soul had those #1 hits at the Modern Rock format.

I think they had 7 #1 hits on Mainstream Rock.

[Steve]

You are right jdcfan. From the ever-more-useful Wikipedia:

Singles

Billboard Mainstream Rock Charts

* from Hints, Allegations & Things Left Unsaid
o 1994 "Shine" #1(8) / #8 Pop
o 1994 "Breathe" #12
* from Collective Soul
o 1995 "Gel" #2
o 1995 "December" #1(9) / #20 Pop
o 1995 "Smashing Young Man" #8
o 1996 "Where The River Flows" #1(2)
o 1996 "The World I Know" #1(4) / #11 Pop
* from Disciplined Breakdown
o 1997 "Precious Declaration" #1
o 1997 "Listen" #1(1)
o 1997 "Blame" #12
* from Dosage
o 1999 "Heavy" #1(14)
o 1999 "Run" #12 Hot AC
o 1999 "No More No Less" #10
o 1999 "Tremble For My Beloved" #32
* from Blender
o 2000 "Why Pt 2" #2
o 2000 "Perfect Day"
o 2000 "Vent"
* from Youth
o 2004 "Counting The Days" #8
o 2005 "Better Now"

[bamafan2102]

Dosage is one of my all time favorite albums. I think towards the end , they released the wrong singles. Blender was a decent album that I thought should have performed a little better, and the new one is pretty good too.

[jarradb]

Here is the Triple A chart run for 'Better Now' from Collective Soul. I only have stats from starting of March 2005, and this song was already in the Top 30 before then.

Date This Week Last Week Artist Title Spins
4/03/2005 11 14 Collective Soul Better Now 278
11/03/2005 8 11 Collective Soul Better Now 320
18/03/2005 8 8 Collective Soul Better Now 327
25/03/2005 8 8 Collective Soul Better Now 321
1/04/2005 9 8 Collective Soul Better Now 327
8/04/2005 9 9 Collective Soul Better Now 316
15/04/2005 11 9 Collective Soul Better Now 290
22/04/2005 10 11 Collective Soul Better Now 299
29/04/2005 12 10 Collective Soul Better Now 279
6/05/2005 12 12 Collective Soul Better Now 290
13/05/2005 12 12 Collective Soul Better Now 271
20/05/2005 13 12 Collective Soul Better Now 236
27/05/2005 17 13 Collective Soul Better Now 216
3/06/2005 21 17 Collective Soul Better Now 180
10/06/2005 27 21 Collective Soul Better Now 139
17/06/2005 28 27 Collective Soul Better Now 142

JB