Best Week Ever Radio - November, 2007

[Hervard]

Best Week Ever Radio - November 4, 2007

Hour 1
Wait For You/Elliott Yamin (#18)
Wake Up Call/Maroon 5 (#7)
Into The Night/Santana f/Chad Kroeger (#13)
Who Knew/Pink (#2)
Bubbly/Colbie Caillat (#1)
Paralyzer/Finger Eleven (#16)
Big Girls Don't Cry/Fergie (#3)
Love Song/Sara Bareilles (#20)
Over You/Daughtry (#6)

Hour 2
Lost Highway/Bon Jovi (#21)
Pictures Of You/The Last Goodnight (#17)
First Time/Lifehouse (#5)
Thnks Fr Th Mmrs/Fall Out Boy (#14)
How Far We've Come/Matchbox Twenty (#4)
Dreaming With A Broken Heart/John Mayer (#8)
Rockstar/Nickelback (#10)
Hey There Delilah/Plain White T's (#9)
Her Eyes/Pat Monahan (#12)

Songs in the Top 20 of 10/26/07 R&R chart not played this week
#11: Makes Me Wonder/Maroon 5
#15: Home/Daughtry
#19: When You're Gone/Avril Lavigne

Personal notes on this week's show

- Back to the usual eighteen songs this week. And since there are three songs on the "not played" list, that means, like last week, we have a song on this week's show not yet in the Top 20.

- And, since Sara Bareilles moves into the Top 20 this week, that means that the "non-Top 20" song this week is a premiere song - the only one this week. That is "Lost Highway" by Bon Jovi, which moves up three spots to #21 on the corresponding R&R chart, in only its fifth week on, so it should hit the Top 20 next week.

- By last week, I had pretty much written off "Wait For You" by Elliott Yamin to be played on the show again, since it had been many weeks since they last played the song, plus it has pretty much run its course. But, in fact, it actually kicked off this week's show.

- "Makes Me Wonder" by Maroon 5 is once again on the "not played" list, as it moves out of the Top 10 on the corresponding R&R chart, but I have a feeling that it's not done yet.

[Hervard]

Best Week Ever Radio - November 11, 2007

Hour 1
Hey There Delilah/Plain White T's (#11)
Who Knew/Pink (#2)
Dreaming With A Broken Heart (#8)
Thnks Fr Th Mmrs/Fall Out Boy (#16)
Wake Up Call/Maroon 5 (#7)
Apologize/Timbaland f/OneRepublic (#17)
Her Eyes/Pat Monahan (#9)
Lost Highway/Bon Jovi (#20)
Wait For You/Elliott Yamin (#19)
How Far We've Come/Matchbox Twenty (#3)

Hour 2
First Time/Lifehouse (#6)
Over You/Daughtry (#4)
Bubbly/Colbie Caillat (#1)
Paralyzer/Finger Eleven (#14)
Love Song/Sara Bareilles (#18)
Into The Night/Santana f/Chad Kroeger (#10)
Big Girls Don't Cry/Fergie (#5)
Pictures Of You/The Last Goodnight (#13)
Rockstar/Nickelback (#12)

Personal notes on this week's show

- Nineteen songs played this week and, believe it or not, each and every one of them is inside the Top 20 of the corresponding R&R chart (11/2/07). That is "Makes Me Wonder" by Maroon 5, which falls 11-15 on the chart. So perhaps the song is done, as it looks like it might be moving to recurrent by next week's show. Oh well, it had a good long run on the chart, and the show. In fact, I believe only two of its 31 weeks on the chart was it not played. We'll probably hear it again on the year-end edition of the show, where they play the biggest songs of the year in random order.

- This week's premiere song makes a major move into the Top 20, moving 25-17. It is "Apologize" by Timbaland featuring OneRepublic, which is also burning up the Pop charts (and soon, I'm sure, the AC charts). I think it's a pretty good song and I have a feeling we'll be hearing it for many weeks to come.

- As predicted last week, "Lost Highway" by Bon Jovi moves into the Top 20, albeit barely. It should pick up steam as waning songs in the Top 20 proceed to clear out.

- Biggest mover within the Top 20 is "Pictures Of You" by The Last Goodnight, which I am glad to see. Exposure on this show and the Hot AC countdown shows, I'm sure, was instrumental in its progress.

[Hervard]

Best Week Ever Radio - November 18, 2007

Hour 1
Big Girls Don't Cry/Fergie (#6)
Her Eyes/Pat Monahan (#10)
Apologize/Timbaland f/OneRepublic (#15)
Rockstar/Nickelback (#14)
Lost Highway/Bon Jovi (#17)
Bubbly/Colbie Caillat (#1)
Wake Up Call (#5)
Breathe In, Breathe Out/Mat Kearney (#18)
When You're Gone/Avril Lavigne (#20)
Pictures Of You/The Last Goodnight (#11)

Hour 2
Love Song/Sara Bareilles (#16)
Hey There Delilah/Plain White T's (#13)
How Far We've Come/Matchbox Twenty (#3)
Over You/Daughtry (#4)
First Time/Lifehouse (#7)
Who Knew/Pink (#2)
Dreaming With A Broken Heart/John Mayer (#8)
Paralyzer/Finger Eleven (#12)
Into The Night/Santana f/Chad Kroeger (#9)

Personal notes from this week's show

- Just like last week, we have a show with nineteen songs and every song is inside the Top 20 of the corresponding R&R chart (11/9/07). The only song currently in the Top 20 that wasn't played this week is "Calling You" by Blue October, which enters the Top 20 this week at #19, so we'll probably hear it sometime in the near future.

- This week's premiere song is "Breathe In Breathe Out" by Mat Kearney, which makes a healthy six-spot move to #18 on the corresponding R&R Hot AC chart. The song has been on the chart for less than two months, so this song should have no trouble outdoing his last hit "Undeniable", which peaked at #16 this past summer, and perhaps even hit the Top Ten like his first song "Nothing Left To Lose".

- As "When You're Gone" by Avril Lavigne re-enters the Top 20 on the chart, it gets possibly one last play on Best Week Ever Radio, as it's pretty much on its last legs on the chart. Barring a sudden return to the Top 15, it will be shipped to the recurrent chart in two weeks.

- "Makes Me Wonder" by Maroon 5, as predicted last week, falls below #15 on the chart and, hence, is moved to recurrent. But, as I mentioned last week, they got a lot of mileage out of that song.

[Hervard]

Best Week Ever Radio - November 25, 2007

Hour 1
Paralyzer/Finger Eleven (#11)
Into The Night/Santana f/Chad Kroeger (#8)
Wake Up Call/Maroon 5 (#4)
The Great Escape/Boys Like Girls (#20)
Who Knew/Pink (#2)
Apologize/Timbaland f/OneRepublic (#13)
First Time/Lifehouse (#7)
Pictures Of You/The Last Goodnight (#10)
How Far We've Come/Matchbox Twenty (#3)

Hour 2
Lost Highway/Bon Jovi (#17)
Bubbly/Colbie Caillat (#1)
Sorry/Buckcherry (#21)
Big Girls Don't Cry/Fergie (#6)
Dreaming With A Broken Heart/John Mayer (#9)
Breathe In Breathe Out/Mat Kearney (#19)
Calling You/Blue October (#18)
Her Eyes/Pat Monahan (#12)
Over You/Daughtry (#5)

Songs in the Top 20 on 11/16/07 R&R chart not played this week
#14: Hey There Delilah/Plain White T's
#15: Rockstar/Nickelback
#16: Love Song/Sara Bareilles

Personal notes from this week's show

- Well, I was hoping that the nineteen-song show was going to be the norm (as they recently extended the show from sixteen songs, which was the usual number when the show started out), but that was not to be. It's apparently a once-in-awhile deal, although they had never featured nineteen-song shows for two consecutive weeks.

- A whopping THREE premiere songs this week. The first one is this week's only entry in the Top 20 of the corresponding R&R chart, "The Great Escape" by Boys Like Girls. It loses its bullet this week, so who knows how long it will last in the Top 20. Hopefully, pretty long, as it's a great song.

- As I predicted last week, "Calling You" by Blue October premieres on the show as it moves up a spot to #18 on the chart. It spends its 16th week on the chart (although four of those weeks were from the song's first run back in 2004).

- The other premiere song is the only song that's outside the Top 20 on this week's chart, "Sorry" by a new group called Buckcherry. Like has usually been the case with such songs, it is #21 on the chart, so it could move into the Top 20 next week, depending on whether or not the weakening of the Boys Like Girls song is a fluke, or how much strength the waning songs on the edge of the Top 15 have left in them.

- This might be the first time since "Hey There Delilah" by Plain White T's premiered on the show that it was not played. It appears to have just about run its course on the chart, but what a course it has been, remaining on the chart for over a half a year. I think it's pretty safe to say we'll be hearing it on the year-end edition of the show, coming up in a little over a month.

- "Rockstar" by Nickelback also looks like it's on the verge of being moved to recurrent. The song has also had an impressive chart run, spending 26 weeks since its re-release and, with its eighteen week run when it was being played sporadically this past winter, it had spent a cumulative total of 44 weeks on the chart! This is another song that I think we'll be hearing on the year-end edition of Best Week Ever Radio.

- I just discovered a second station that runs this show. I had been listening to it on a station in Benton Harbor, Michigan, called 94.9 The Coast (WCNF), but I was looking at the show's website and discovered that a station in Michigan City, Indiana, which is in the same county where I live, also airs the show. They run it on Saturday afternoons at 3:00, so now I can listen to it a day earlier than usual and not worry about being able to tune in 94.9 The Coast (since sometimes, atmospheric conditions can tend to prevent that station from coming in clearly).