Best Week Ever Radio - December, 2007

[Hervard]

Best Week Ever Radio - December 2, 2007

Hour 1
How Far We've Come/Matchbox Twenty (#4)
Her Eyes/Pat Monahan (#13)
Apologize/Timbaland f/OneRepublic (#6)
Shadow Of The Day/Linkin' Park (#20)
Wake Up Call/Maroon 5 (#5)
Dreaming With A Broken Heart/John Mayer (#12)
Who Knew/Pink (#2)
Hey There Delilah/Plain White T's (#14)
Into The Night/Santana f/Chad Kroeger (#7)

Hour 2
Pictures Of You/The Last Goodnight (#11)
Over You/Daughtry (#3)
First Time/Lifehouse (#9)
Lost Highway/Bon Jovi (#16)
Paralyzer/Finger Eleven (#10)
Love Song/Sara Bareilles (#15)
Calling You/Blue October (#17)
Bubbly/Colbie Caillat (#1)
Big Girls Don't Cry/Fergie (#8)

Songs in the Top 20 of 11/23 R&R chart not played this week
#18: Breathe In Breathe Out/Mat Kearney
#19: Sorry/Buckcherry

Personal notes from this week's show

- Every song played this week is inside the Top 20 of the corresponding R&R chart.

- One premiere song, the latest by Linkin' Park, called "Shadow Of The Day". It enters the Top 20 this week in only its fourth week on the chart, so I foresee this song being played quite a lot in the future.

- The other entry in the Top 20 this week is "Sorry" by Buckcherry, which was played as a "non-Top 20" last week but, ironically is not played this week.

- After being passed over last week, Sara Bareilles' "Love Song" returns to the show this week. That's kind of weird; it seems like in the past few months, the songs skipped over were songs that were on their way down the charts and had been played for many weeks.

- "The Great Escape" by Boys Like Girls falls out of the Top 20 this week. I'm not sure whether or not it will return. Perhaps the song will be a "one-week wonder" like several songs this year - the only one I remember off the top of my head was "Glamorous" by Fergie. I was surprised that they played that song, as it unusually far from the Top 20 for a song played on the show. Besides, it didn't really fit the Hot AC format. Someone on the show must have liked the song and wanted like anything to play it at least once.

- Mat Kearney seems to be running out of steam with "Breathe In Breathe Out". They decided to skip the song this week and it moves back up to #18, thanks to "Rockstar" by Nickelback falling below #15. Perhaps the song won't surpass the peak of "Undeniable". We'll have to wait and see.

[Hervard]

Best Week Ever Radio - December 9, 2007

Hour 1
Whatever It Takes/Lifehouse - #22
Paralyzer/Finger Eleven (#8)
Pictures Of You/The Last Goodnight (#9)
Lost Highway/Bon Jovi (#16)
Bubbly/Colbie Caillat (#1)
Wake-Up Call/Maroon 5 (#5)
Love Song/Sara Bareilles (#14)
Sorry/Buckcherry (#17)
Calling You/Blue October (#19)

Hour 2
Big Girls Don't Cry/Fergie (#10)
Into The Night/Santana f/Chad Kroeger (#7)
Dreaming With A Broken Heart/John Mayer (#13)
The Great Escape/Boys Like Girls (#21)
How Far We've Come/Matchbox Twenty (#4)
Apologize/Timbaland f/OneRepublic (#6)
Who Knew/Pink (#2)
Shadow Of The Day/Linkin' Park (#18)
First Time/Lifehouse (#11)

Songs in the Top 20 of 11/30/07 R&R chart not played this week
#3: Over You/Daughtry
#12: Her Eyes/Pat Monahan
#15: Hey There Delilah/Plain White T's
#20: Breathe In Breathe Out/Mat Kearney

Personal notes from this week's show

- For the first time in quite awhile, there are four songs on the "not played" list, due to two songs outside the Top 20 on this week's show.

- It's been longer than I care to remember since a song in the Top Three of the corresponding R&R chart was on the "not played" list, but for some reason, "Over You" by Daughtry was skipped over this week. But that's not a record by any means - this past spring, when "If Everyone Cared" by Nickelback was at #1, it was notably absent from the show.

- What better way to kick off the show than with a premiere song? This week, the new song by Lifehouse called "Whatever It Takes" debuts on the show. I was thinking that it would hit the Top 20 on the chart, especially after moving ahead from 32-22 last week, but that's where the song is listed this week as well. Probably just a tight spot on the chart (as it scores "Most Increased Plays" on this week's chart) I hope it does well, since I love the song. Has almost a "retro" sound to it (many people compare it to "Don't Go Away" by Oasis, which charted ten years ago - I guess that could be classified as retro.)

- The other song outside of the Top 20 on the chart is the return of "The Great Escape" by Boys Like Girls, which remains at #21 on the chart.

[Hervard]

Best Week Ever Radio - December 16, 2007

Hour 1
Pictures Of You/The Last Goodnight (#9)
Big Girls Don't Cry/Fergie (#11)
Over You/Daughtry (#3)
Breathe In Breathe Out/Mat Kearney (#20)
Sorry/Buckcherry (#16)
Her Eyes/Pat Monahan (#12)
Who Knew/Pink (#2)
First Time/Lifehouse (#10)
Bubbly/Colbie Caillat (#1)

Hour 2
Apologize/Timbaland f/OneRepublic (#6)
Paralyzer/Finger Eleven (#8)
Shadow Of The Day/Linkin' Park (#18)
Love Song/Sara Bareilles (#13)
Tattoo/Jordin Sparks (#22)
Whatever It Takes/Lifehouse (#21)
How Far We've Come/Matchbox Twenty (#4)
Into The Night/Santana f/Chad Kroeger (#7)
Wake Up Call/Maroon 5 (#5)

Songs in the Top 20 of 12/7/07 R&R chart not played this week
#14: Dreaming With A Broken Heart/John Mayer
#15: Hey There Delilah/Plain White T's
#17: Lost Highway/Bon Jovi
#19: Calling You/Blue October

Personal notes from this week's show

- One premiere song this week, the latest by Jordin Sparks. The song's OK, but sort of annoying in the same way that many people found "Dilemma" by Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland as so. What is she saying, anyway? Sounds a little like "rat", but I don't think it is, unless said tattoo is an image of a rat.

- Lifehouse continues to inch up the chart. I figured they'd be in the Top 20 this week, but they're right outside. Perhaps they can make it next week, along with "Tattoo" (with two songs in the Top 15 on the brink of going recurrent, it is entirely possible).

- Looks as though "The Great Escape" is out of the running, as it falls 21-24 on the chart. Unless it can regain ground, it looks like we've heard the last of the song on the show.

[Hervard]

Best Week Ever Radio - December 23, 2007

Hour 1
Do You Hear What I Hear/Carrie Underwood (Christmas Track)
Lost Highway/Bon Jovi (#15)
Apologize/Timbaland f/OneRepublic (#3)
The Great Escape/Boys Like Girls (#26)
Whatever It Takes/Lifehouse (#19)
Mistletoe/Colbie Caillat (Christmas Track)
Into The Night/Santana f/Chad Kroeger (#7)
The Way I Am/Ingrid Michaelson(#22)
Calling You/Blue October (#17)
My Only Wish This Year/Britney Spears (Christmas Track)

Hour 2
Pictures Of You/The Last Goodnight (#9)
Over You/Daughtry (#6)
Silent Night/Lifehouse (Christmas Track)
Her Eyes/Pat Monahan (#16)
How Far We've Come/Matchbox Twenty (#4)
Bubbly/Colbie Caillat (#1)
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)/U2 (Classic Christmas Track)
Dreaming With A Broken Heart/John Mayer (Recurrent)
Shadow Of The Day/Linkin' Park (#14)

Songs in the Top 20 of 12/14/07 R&R chart not played this week
#2: Who Knew/Pink
#5: Wake Up Call/Maroon 5
#8: Paralyzer/Finger Eleven
#10: First Time/Lifehouse
#11: Big Girls Don't Cry/Fergie
#12: Love Song/Sara Bareilles
#13: Sorry/Buckcherry
#18: Breathe In Breathe Out/Mat Kearney
#20: Tattoo/Jordin Sparks

Personal notes from this week's show

- This is actually the first Christmas edition of Best Week Ever I've heard, because last year, 94.9 The Coast pre-empted that edition with show called "Christmas At Home", being as Christmas Eve was on a Sunday, which is when they usually run the show. Not sure if they ran it at a different time that weekend, but whatever. Anyway, I figured it would be all-Christmas, but it was not. Just a regular show with five Christmas songs inserted.

- Lots of songs on the "not played" list due to all the Christmas songs they played. They also seem to have either eased up on their general rules or used a previous chart, since it's extremely unsual for them to play a song that's not in the Top 25 (as far as I know, they've done so only once) and never, since the show started back in September, 2006 have they played a song that was already recurrent. I was thinking perhaps they used a different Mediabase chart on which the song "Dreaming With A Broken Heart" by John Mayer was not yet below #15.

- Next week will be the year-end edition, where they'll feature the top songs of 2007 in no particular order, since they "don't bother counting songs backwards because, well that's just silly!"

- Besides the Christmas songs, we have one premiere song this week, which is "The Way I Am" by Ingrid Michaelson. I can't quite put my finger on it, but that song sounds very similar to another song.

[Hervard]

Best Week Ever Radio - December 30, 2007

Hour 1
Who Knew/Pink
It's Not Over/Daughtry
Bubbly/Colbie Caillat
First Time/Lifehouse
How To Save A Life/The Fray
If Everyone Cared/Nickelback
Makes Me Wonder/Maroon 5
Gravity/John Mayer
Chasing Cars/Snow Patrol

Hour 2
Before He Cheats/Carrie Underwood
Say It Right/Nelly Furtado
Hey There Delilah/Plain White T's
Big Girls Don't Cry/Fergie
Rehab/Amy Winehouse
U + Ur Hand/Pink
Rockstar/Nickelback
Little Wonders/Rob Thomas
Waiting On The World To Change/John Mayer

(I'll add chart positions and personal notes later on.)