Best Week Ever Radio - January, 2008

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Best Week Ever Radio - January 5, 2008

Hour 1
Sorry/Buckcherry (#12)
Over You/Daughtry (#6)
Lost Highway/Bon Jovi (#15)
Her Eyes/Pat Monahan (#21)
Wake Up Call/Maroon 5 (#5)
Paralyzer/Finger Eleven (#8)
First Time/Lifehouse (#10)
Tattoo/Jordin Sparks (#18)
Apologize/Timbaland f/OneRepublic (#2)

Hour 2
Shadow Of The Day/Linkin' Park (#13)
How Far We've Come/Matchbox Twenty (#4)
Bubbly/Colbie Caillat (#1)
Calling You/Blue October (#23)
Into The Night/Santana f/Chad Kroeger (#7)
Teardrops On My Guitar/Taylor Swift (#16)
Love Song/Sara Bareilles (#14)
Whatever It Takes/Lifehouse (#17)
Pictures Of You/The Last Goodnight (#9)
Who Knew/Pink (#3)

Songs in the Top 20 of 12/21/08 R&R chart not played this week
#11: Big Girls Don't Cry/Fergie
#19: No One/Alicia Keys
#20: The Way I Am/Ingrid Michaelson

- Seeing as "Her Eyes" by Pat Monahan goes recurrent on the December 28 list, that's why I'm thinking that the chart that corresponds to this show is December 21 (of course, that didn't stop them from including "Dreaming With A Broken Heart" on the show the week it went recurrent...)

- Nineteen songs played on this show. However, two of them were outside the Top 20 on the R&R chart. Blue October is still charting in its 21st week on the chart and it's below #15. I guess they're not including the four weeks from its previous chart run, which is a good idea; the twenty allotted weeks should be from the current chart run.

- One song premieres on this week's chart, Taylor Swift's country crossover "Teardrops On My Guitar". A pretty decent song, IMO. It enters the Top 20 of the chart at #16, in just its fifth week on the chart, so it should become a regular on this show.

- Glad they didn't play Fergie's whinefest on this week's show.
The song has pretty much run its course anyway. I mean, sure, we'll probably hear it again before it is transferred to recurrent, but at least they gave it a rest this week.

[Hervard]

Best Week Ever Radio - January 13, 2008

Hour 1
Wake Up Call/Maroon 5 (#4)
Love Song/Sara Bareilles (#14)
Pictures Of You/The Last Goodnight (#9)
Paralyzer/Finger Eleven (#8)
Tattoo/Jordin Sparks (#18)
Over You/Daughtry (#5)
How Far We've Come/Matchbox Twenty (#7)
Bubbly/Colbie Caillat (#1)
Whatever It Takes/Lifehouse (#19)

Hour 2
Teardrops On My Guitar/Taylor Swift (#15)
Who Knew/Pink (#3)
Apologize/Timbaland f/OneRepublic (#2)
The Way I Am/Ingrid Michaelson (#20)
Sorry/Buckcherry (#10)
Big Girls Don't Cry/Fergie (#11)
Into The Night/Santana f/Chad Kroeger (#6)
Love Like This/Natasha Bedingfield (#24)
First Time/Lifehouse (#13)

Songs in the Top 20 of 1/4/08 R&R chart not played this week
#12: Shadow Of The Day/Linkin' Park
#16: No One/Alicia Keys
#17: Lost Highway/Bon Jovi

Personal notes from this week's show

- One song outside the Top 20 this week, and it's pretty far outside, too, at #24 on the corresponding chart. And it's this week's premiere song, "Love Like This" by Natasha Bedingfield. Not sure how well this will do on the charts, since it seems to me like more of a Top 40 song than a Hot AC song. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

- "Big Girls Don't Cry" is back this week. When I saw the December 28 chart, which appears to have been skipped over, I had hope when the song fell 11-14. However, on the chart that corresponds to this show, it's back up to #11. Oh well...

- Usually by the second or third week that a song is charting in the Top 20, they start playing it on "Best Week Ever Radio", but "No One" by Alicia Keys, which is in its third Top 20 week, still has yet to be played on the show. Maybe next week.

[Hervard]

Best Week Ever Radio - January 20, 2008

Hour 1
The Way I Am/Ingrid Michaelson (#20)
Over You/Daughtry (#4)
No One/Alicia Keys (#16)
Lost Highway/Bon Jovi (#18)
Who Knew/Pink (#3)
First Time/Lifehouse (#10)
Sorry/Buckcherry (#12)
Teardrops On My Guitar/Taylor Swift (#15)
Paralyzer/Finger Eleven (#8)

Hour 2
I'll Be Waiting/Lenny Kravitz (#22)
Bubbly/Colbie Caillat (#1)
Love Song/Sara Bareilles (#11)
Shadow Of The Day/Linkin' Park (#14)
Wake Up Call/Maroon 5 (#5)
Pictures Of You/The Last Goodnight (#9)
How Far We've Come/Matchbox Twenty (#7)
Apologize/Timbaland f/OneRepublic (#2)
Into The Night/Santana f/Chad Kroeger (#6)

Songs in the Top 20 of 1/11/08 R&R chart not played this week
#13: Big Girls Don't Cry/Fergie
#17: Tattoo/Jordin Sparks
#19: Whatever It Takes/Lifehouse

Personal notes from this week's show

- Two premiere songs this week. The first of them is the song I mentioned that they hadn't played yet on the show, "No One" by Alicia Keys. I had a feeling they might debut the song this week.

- The other song played for the first time on the show is the latest by Lenny Kravitz, called "I'll Be Waiting". It's not yet in the Top 20, but it might be soon. That area of the chart appears to be rather tight, so it's kind of iffy.

- I was kinda disappointed that they didn't play "Whatever It Takes" by Lifehouse, since that's my favorite song. Oh well, at least they also skipped over "Big Girls Don't Cry". You take the bad with the good!

[Hervard]

Best Week Ever Radio - January 27, 2008

Hour 1
Sorry/Buckcherry (#11)
No One/Alicia Keys (#16)
Over You/Daughtry (#4)
The Way I Am/Ingrid Michaelson (#20)
Apologize/Timbaland f/OneRepublic (#2)
Paralyzer/Finger Eleven (#7)
Love Song/Sara Bareilles (#10)
Shadow Of The Day/Linkin' Park (#12)
Bubbly/Colbie Caillat (#1)

Hour 2
Love Like This/Natasha Bedingfield (#22)
Wake Up Call/Maroon 5 (#6)
Tattoo/Jordin Sparks (#17)
How Far We've Come/Matchbox Twenty (#8)
Who Knew/Pink (#3)
Teardrops On My Guitar/Taylor Hicks (#13)
Into The Night/Santana f/Chad Kroeger (#5)
Whatever It Takes/Lifehouse (#18)
Pictures Of You/The Last Goodnight (#9)

Songs in the Top 20 of 1/18/08 R&R chart not played this week
#14: First Time/Lifehouse
#15: Big Girls Don't Cry/Fergie
#19: Lost Highway/Bon Jovi

Personal notes from this week's show

- No premiere songs this week. If there were, they'd be outside the Top 20 of the corresponding chart, since it's been weeks since there have been any new entries in the Top 20. The charts tend to be stagnant around the first of the year.

- There was one song played that's not in the Top 20 on the chart, and that's "Love Like This" by Natasha Bedingfield. The song has been dogpaddling in the 20s for the past few weeks and that's probably how it's going to stay, since the song isn't very Hot AC radio friendly and I imagine that some stations don't play the song at all.

- No pun intended, but this could be the First Time that Lifehouse's recent Top Ten hit hasn't been played on Best Week Ever since its premiere back in May. They seem to have played it consistently during its Top 20 chart run.