Hervard
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Post by Hervard on Feb 20, 2008 22:26:05 GMT -5
Best Week Ever Radio - February 2, 2008
Hour 1 Paralyzer/Finger Eleven (#5) Tattoo/Jordin Sparks (#15) Wake Up Call/Maroon 5 (#6) Teardrops On My Guitar/Taylor Swift (#12) Bubbly/Colbie Caillat (#2) Shadow Of The Day/Linkin' Park (#13) Apologize/Timbaland f/OneRepublic (#1) I'll Be Waiting/Lenny Kravitz (#21) Who Knew/Pink (#4)
Hour 2 No One/Alicia Keys (#14) Into The Night/Santana f/Chad Kroeger (#3) Over You/Daughtry (#7) Love Song/Sara Bareilles (#8) Sorry/Buckcherry (#11) Whatever It Takes/Lifehouse (#16) Pictures Of You/The Last Goodnight (#10) The Way I Am/Ingrid Michaelson (#17) How Far We've Come/Matchbox Twenty (#9)
Songs in the Top 20 of 1/25/08 R&R chart not played this week #18: Lost Highway/Bon Jovi #19: Won't Go Home Without You/Maroon 5 #20: Feels Like Tonight/Daughtry
Personal notes from this week's show
- IMPORTANT NOTE: The second hour listing is approximate. One of the stations on which I listen to the show messed up and played the second hour from last week's show, and the other station switched frequencies unbeknownst to me. So I decided, rather than to just post one hour, to improvise what the second hour might have looked like.
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Post by Hervard on Feb 20, 2008 22:38:55 GMT -5
Best Week Ever Radio - February 10, 2008
Hour 1 How Far We've Come/Matchbox Twenty (#12) No One/Alicia Keys (#15) Bubbly/Colbie Caillat (#2) Who Knew/Pink (#4) Love Song/Sara Bareilles (#8) Into The Night/Santana f/Chad Kroeger (#3) Wake Up Call/Maroon 5 (#6) The Way I Am/Ingrid Michaelson (#17) Pictures Of You/The Last Goodnight (#13)
Hour 2 Say/John Mayer (#19) Over You/Daughtry (#7) Shadow Of The Day/Linkin' Park (#10) Teardrops On My Guitar/Taylor Hicks (#11) Apologize/Timbaland f/OneRepublic (#1) Feels Like Tonight/Daughtry (#18) Whatever It Takes/Lifehouse (#16) Tattoo/Jordin Sparks (#14) Paralyzer/Finger Eleven (#5)
Songs in the Top 20 of 2/1/08 R&R chart not played this week #9: Sorry/Buckcherry #20: Won't Go Home Without You/Maroon 5
Personal notes from this week's show
- Two premiere songs this week - that is, maybe. I'm pretty sure John Mayer's "Say" was played on the show for the first time this week, since it moves 24-19 on the corresponding chart, but "Feels Like Tonight" by Daughtry could have conceivably been played last week, since it was at #20 on the chart. Still, this was the first time that I know of that it was played, so that's why I classify it as premiering this week.
- No songs outside the Top 20 played this week.
- For some reason, they omitted "Sorry" by Buckcherry from this week's show, which is sort of unsual since, not only is it in the Top Ten, but it's still on its way up. Usually, if they skip a song that's in the Top Ten, it's generally on its way down and/or the group who sings it has another song in the Top 20.
- "Big Girls Don't Cry" is finally shipped off to recurrent, which means we won't hear it on this show - unless they pull a John Mayer, that is!
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Post by cartman2002 on Feb 20, 2008 22:45:23 GMT -5
did you hear about the TV show version of this radio program had a petition to save the TV series "Friday Night Lights" only to have Viacom pull the plug on it due to the fact that both shows air on Friday Night?
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Post by Hervard on Feb 20, 2008 22:55:24 GMT -5
Best Week Ever Radio - February 17, 2008
Hour 1 Teardrops On My Guitar/Taylor Swift(#11) Into The Night/Santana f/Chad Kroeger (#3) Shadow Of The Day/Linkin' Park (#10) How Far We've Come/Matchbox Twenty (#15) Paralyzer/Finger Eleven (#4) Whatever It Takes/Lifehouse (#14) Bubbly/Colbie Caillat (#2) The Way I Am/Ingrid Michaelson (#16) Sorry/Buckcherry (#9)
Hour 2 Apologize/Timbaland f/OneRepublic (#1) Who Knew/Pink (#6) Feels Like Tonight/Daughtry (#17) Tattoo/Jordin Sparks (#12) No One/Alicia Keys (#13) Say/John Mayer (#18) Wake Up Call/Maroon 5 (#8) I'll Be Waiting/Lenny Kravitz (#22) Love Song/Sara Bareilles (#5)
Songs in the Top 20 of 2/8/08 R&R chart not played this week #7: Over You/Daughtry #19: Won't Go Home Without You/Maroon 5 #20: Clumsy/Fergie
Personal notes from this week's show
- No premiere songs this week. I was hoping that maybe they'd back off of "Wake Up Call" by Maroon 5 and play the band's newer hit "Won't Go Home Without You" but that was not to be. The song is in its third week in the Top 20, too. Hopefully, they'll play it next week. It is indeed a great song.
- They played one song outside the Top 20 of the corresponding chart this week, "I'll Be Waiting" by Lenny Kravitz, which they played once before, a few weeks back.
- It seems like they've played "How Far We've Come" by Matchbox Twenty every single week since its premiere on the show back in August, even the week that the song's on the brink of going recurrent (it is #15 on the chart this week). Usually by the time songs reach that point, "Best Week Ever" tends to back off of them. I'm kind of surprised they didn't do that this week, since Matchbox Twenty has a new song on the chart, called "These Hard Times", which moves 25-21 this week.
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Post by Hervard on Feb 25, 2008 9:35:42 GMT -5
Best Week Ever Radio - February 24, 2008
Hour 1 Feels Like Tonight/Daughtry (#15) Bubbly/Colbie Caillat (#3) Whatever It Takes/Lifehouse (#13) Love Song/Sara Bareilles (#4) Teardrops On My Guitar/Taylor Swift (#9) Sorry/Buckcherry (#8) Say/John Mayer (#17) Into The Night/Santana f/Chad Kroeger (#2)
Hour 2 Tattoo/Jordin Sparks (#12) Paralyzer/Finger Eleven (#5) Shadow Of The Day/Linkin' Park (#10) Clumsy/Fergie (#20) Wake Up Call/Maroon 5 (#11) The Way I Am/Ingrid Michaelson (#16) Apologize/Timbaland f/OneRepublic (#1) No One/Alicia Keys (#14) Over You/Daughtry (#6)
Songs in the Top 20 of 2/15/08 R&R chart not played this week #7: Who Knew/Pink #18: Won't Go Home Without You/Maroon 5 #19: These Hard Times/Matchbox Twenty
Personal notes from this week's show
- Hmm, it's been quite awhile since they've played less than 18 songs. At least they didn't play just eight songs in both hours, such used to be the case. This was a "Best Of Best Week Ever" show, so extra gossip might have filled up enough time to necessitate the deletion of one song. At least they stuck to the Top 20. Hopefully, the 18-song format will return next week.
- I was kind of disappointed that they still haven't played Maroon 5's new song, despite it having been in the Top 20 for a month now. I realize it's in the lower reaches of the Top 20, but that never stopped them before. Someone on the staff must really like "Wake Up Call", since they're still playing it despite the fact that it falls out of the Top Ten. By then, they're usually playing the artists' new song.
- Also somewhat surprising is how they didn't play the new Matchbox Twenty song, seeing that "How Far We've Come" was moved to recurrent on the corresponding R&R chart and "These Hard Times" moves into the Top 20 this week.
- One song premieres this week, the new song by Fergie called "Clumsy". Nice, but it would have made more sense to play one of the songs I mentioned above, since "Clumsy" isn't really conducive to the Hot AC format (and I suspect that some HAC stations don't play that song). I'm wondering if Best Week Ever has some sort of contractual agreement to play each one of Fergie's songs at least once. This past summer, they played "Glamorous" when the song was pretty far from the Top 20.
- This could be the first week that they didn't play "Who Knew" by Pink since its premiere on the show last year. But that's OK, since I'm tired of that song. That's the only thing about this week's show that didn't irk me. :) (I still enjoy listening to it, though, and making comparisons between it and the current Hot AC chart. I actually like it better than I did when it was in countdown form - possibly because they play more current music.
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