Mediabase Hot AC Chart Notes, July 09

[Hot AC Archiver]

#1: "Second Chance" holds at #1 for a fifth week.

Oldest Song: "Not Meant to Be" and "Gives You Hell" with 34 weeks.

Oldest Song below #15: "Show Me What I'm Looking for" with 18 weeks.

Possibly Going to Recurrent: "You Found Me", "Gives You Hell", "Not Meant to Be" when the songs falls below #10.
"Sober", "My Life Would Suck without You" when the songs falls below #15.

Going to Recurrent None scheduled next week.

Biggest Mover: "Please Don't Leave Me", "Waking Up in Vegas", and "You Belong with Me" all climb 3 spots to numbers 4, 12, and 24 respectively.

Debuts: The Black Eyed Peas enter at #36 with the week's highest debut, "I Gotta Feeling". It's their 6th hit.
Jordin Sparks anchors the chart at #40 with her 4th hit, "Battlefield".

Exiting the Survey: "Right Round", 13 weeks
"Wanted", 1 week

Other Notes: Pink scores a 5th top 5 in a row as "Please Don't Leave Me" rises to #4.
Daughtry are looking to extend their top 5 streak as well, as "No Surprise" moves up to #6 this week.
No songs enter or exit the top 10 this week.
"Never Say Never" rebounds to a new peak of #16.
In their 17th week on the chart, The Script hold for a 3rd week at #17.
"Fallin' for You" enters the top 20 at #20 in its 4th week on the chart.
Coldplay falls back down to #25 once again. They've been at #24 or #25 for the past 4 weeks.
"21 Guns" inches up 1 to #27.
"Lovegame" rebounds to #34, close to its peak so far of #33.
Linkin Park hold at #38 for a third week.
Ouch! of the Week: "Show Me What I'm Looking for" slides 6 to #19.
Song with the biggest spin increase: "You Belong with Me" (Over a 200 spin increase).
Song with the biggest spin loss: "Show Me What I'm Looking for" (Over a 300 spin loss)

Mediabase's "Weeks on" number for All-American Rejects is incorrect: Add 1 week

Top 50 Hot AC chart can be found at: www.americasmusiccharts.com/index.cgi?fmt=A2 All chart data © Mediabase Research

[erzo01]

Wow, The Script is on its 17th week! Hopin' though it doesn't go recurrent without ever touching the Top 15.

Looks like "You Found Me" "Gives You Hell" will go recurrent this week, as "Waking Up in Vegas" will enter Top 10 and "Gives You Hell" having a smaller loss compared to YFM.

MLWSWY will probably go recurrent as well.

EDIT: Fixed!

[musicfanpete]

Jul 6, 2009 20:04:10 GMT -5 erzo01 said:

Wow, The Script is on its 17th week! Hopin' though it doesn't go recurrent without ever touching the Top 15.

Looks like "You Found Me" "Gives You Hell" will go recurrent this week, as "Waking Up in Vegas" will enter Top 10 and "Gives You Hell" having a smaller loss compared to YFM.

MLWSWY will probably go recurrent as well.

EDIT: Fixed!

Apparently "Gives You Hell" has been left on this week (as of the 8:23 PM PDT update). Even though it is well past 30 weeks and below the top 10, my guess is that the almost 2100 spins it is still earning was too much for Mediabase to remove it.

10 11 ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS Gives You Hell 2098 2150 -52 14.633
11 12 PINK Sober 1829 1946 -117 12.403
18 13 KINGS OF LEON Use Somebody 1734 1452 282 8.822

Maybe the 30 week, below top 10 rule will be used on a case by case basis? Who knows, but this is why many on here do not like this rule. It prematurely removes songs before they should be removed. I say go back to the original 20 week, under #15 rule to separate themselves from Billboard's Hot AC recurrent rules.

[erzo01]

Yeah, pretty surprising to see GYH staying. And looks like it can bounce back inside the Top 10 by tomorrow, as "Not Meant to Be" is losing spins fast enough for it to fall behind GYH.

[musicfanpete]

You're right. That's probably why they left it on. Plus it's almost regained it's bullet (just a -4 loss in spins).

Regardless, one of those two songs will definately be gone next week. Add Kelly Clarkson's MLWSWY in the Mix, and there should be at least two songs moved into recurrent status next week.

[erzo01]

Yeah, it's about time some songs go recurrent. There hasn't been a new entry in the Top 50 for quite some time now.

[musicfanpete]

Jul 13, 2009 9:58:03 GMT -5 erzo01 said:

Yeah, it's about time some songs go recurrent. There hasn't been a new entry in the Top 50 for quite some time now.

Well, "Give You Hell" has now been removed as of this afternoon's update. So it will be gone as of next week's chart. Whether they "accidentally" forgot to remove it, or they left it there on purpose, I guess they thought it needed one more week on since it was still garnering a lot of plays. But we'll see if this will be the "pattern" for future recurrents.

[Hot AC Archiver]

Jul 13, 2009 23:14:33 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

Jul 13, 2009 9:58:03 GMT -5 erzo01 said:

Yeah, it's about time some songs go recurrent. There hasn't been a new entry in the Top 50 for quite some time now.

Well, "Give You Hell" has now been removed as of this afternoon's update. So it will be gone as of next week's chart. Whether they "accidentally" forgot to remove it, or they left it there on purpose, I guess they thought it needed one more week on since it was still garnering a lot of plays. But we'll see if this will be the "pattern" for future recurrents.

They've left songs on by accident before, and in the next official chart acted like it had been removed on time. In other words, there may be a "new" song in the top 40 next week that will show a "last week" position in the top 40. The "published" chart at americasmusiccharts.com shows the Rejects at #11.

[musicfanpete]

Jul 14, 2009 15:32:06 GMT -5 Hot AC Archiver said:

Jul 13, 2009 23:14:33 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

Well, "Give You Hell" has now been removed as of this afternoon's update. So it will be gone as of next week's chart. Whether they "accidentally" forgot to remove it, or they left it there on purpose, I guess they thought it needed one more week on since it was still garnering a lot of plays. But we'll see if this will be the "pattern" for future recurrents.

They've left songs on by accident before, and in the next official chart acted like it had been removed on time. In other words, there may be a "new" song in the top 40 next week that will show a "last week" position in the top 40. The "published" chart at americasmusiccharts.com shows the Rejects at #11.

They definately have. However leaving songs on longer than they should keeps deserving songs off the chart. Imagine if a song has only a one week shot to make the top 40 or top 20, only to never make it because of these types of errors! I wish Mediabase would do a better job of double checking these charts before they are published. It's not that difficult of a job.

Now if they kept "Gives You Hell" on an extra week thinking it still might rebound into the top 10, fine. But the fact that they removed it yesterday shows that was never their intent, and that it was indeed another mistake.

[Hot AC Archiver]

I went to Allaccess today, and when you select the latest "published" chart, it does not have the Rejects on it. Howie Day's "Be There" is listed at #40, with all other songs between them moved up 1 of course. However, as I stated above, at americasmusiccharts, the Rejects' song is still #11.

For my database and the notes I put on here, I will count the song as still being on the chart.

[Hot AC Archiver]

[blue]7/12/09 [/blue]

#1: "Second Chance" holds at #1 for a sixth week.

Oldest Song: "Not Meant to Be" and "Gives You Hell" with 35 weeks.

Oldest Song below #15: "Show Me What I'm Looking for" with 19 weeks.

Possibly Going to Recurrent: "You Found Me", "Not Meant to Be" when the songs falls below #10.
"Sober", "My Life Would Suck without You" when the songs falls below #15.

Going to Recurrent "Gives You Hell" next week.

Biggest Mover: "I Gotta Feeling" jumps 6 notches to #30 for the week's biggest move.

Debuts: None. There are no debuts or re-entries this week. The last time this occurred was on the April 14, 2006 chart.

Exiting the Survey: None.

Other Notes: "No Surprise" climbs to #5 this week, giving Daughtry their 6th top 5 in a row, with all 6 being the group's first hits on the chart. The only other acts to go top 5 with their first 6 hits are the Goo Goo Dolls, 3 Doors Down, and Rob Thomas (away from MB20).
Katy Perry jumps 4 to #8 giving her a 2nd top 10 with "Waking Up in Vegas".
Mediabase mistakenly left the All-American Rejects at #11, when they should have been removed to recurrent. They removed it mid week, so it will be gone for next week's chart.
"Use Somebody" rises 5 to #13.
"I Do Not Hook Up" climbs 1 to a new peak of #14.
"Fallin' for You" rises 3 more to #17.
Mat Kearney rebounds 3 and returns to his previous peak of #19.
Also moving back up is "She Is Love", which moves back up to #20.
Collective Soul enter the top 30 in their 3rd with with "Staring Down", which moves 32-29 this week.
Linkin Park finally moves up the chart in its 4th week, moving 38-34.
Ouch! of the Week: "Funny the Way It Is" plummets 9 to #40.
Song with the biggest spin increase: "Please Don't Leave Me" (Over a 300 spin increase).
Song with the biggest spin loss: "Show Me What I'm Looking for" (Over a 300 spin loss)

Mediabase's "Weeks on" number for All-American Rejects is incorrect: Add 1 week

Top 50 Hot AC chart can be found at: www.americasmusiccharts.com/index.cgi?fmt=A2 All chart data © Mediabase Research

[Hot AC Archiver]

[blue]7/19/09 [/blue]

#1: "Second Chance" holds at #1 for a seventh week.

Oldest Song: "You Found Me" with 34 weeks.

Oldest Song below #15: "Show Me What I'm Looking for" with 20 weeks.

Possibly Going to Recurrent: "You Found Me" when the song falls below #10.

Going to Recurrent "Sober" and "Show Me What I'm Looking for" next week.

Biggest Mover: Several songs jump 6 notches to tie for the week's biggest move: "Fallin' for You" (17-11), "Never Say Never" (18-12), "21 Guns" (25-19), "I Gotta Feeling" (30-24), "Battlefield" (38-32).

Debuts: Newcomers Michael Franti & Spearhead have the highest debut at #34 with "Say Hey (I Love You)".
Howie Day scores his 4th hit with "Be There" at #36.
Newcomers to the HAC chart the Ting Tings enter at #39 with "That's Not My Name".
"Wanted" by Jesse James re-enters the survey after 1 week off.

Exiting the Survey: "Not Meant to Be", 35 weeks, to recurrent
"Gives You Hell", 35 weeks, to recurrent
"My Life Would Suck without You", 26 weeks, to recurrent
"Funny the Way It Is", 12 weeks.

Other Notes: "Her Diamonds" picks up speed and moves up to #2 this week. It's Rob's 4th hit outside MB20 to make the top 2 and the first since "Ever the Same" peaked at #2 in 2006.
Other than numbers 2 and 3 switching places, the top 8 remain the same this week.
Kings of Leon earn their first top 10, as "Use Somebody" climbs 4 to #9.
"She Is Love" and "Closer to Love" reach new peaks of numbers 16 & 17 respectively.
Taylor Swift moves up 4 to #18 with "You Belong with Me".
Although having the largest spin loss this week, "Man Who Can't Be Moved" moves back up 1 to #20.
Thanks to the recurrent songs being removed, "Halo" rebounds back to its peak of #21.
After being one of the biggest movers for 2 weeks in a row, "I Gotta Feeling" reaches #24, giving the Black Eyed peas their biggest hit so far on HAC. Meanwhile, "Boom Boom Pow" rebounds back to its peak of #26.
"Lovegame" moves into the top 30 at #28.
Returning to the top 30 this week is "Sometime Around Midnight", at #29.
Ouch! of the Week: No songs move down more than a notch this week. In fact, only 4 songs move down.
Song with the biggest spin increase: "Use Somebody" (Over a 400 spin increase).
Song with the biggest spin loss: "Man Who Can't Be Moved" (Nearly a 300 spin loss)

Top 50 Hot AC chart can be found at: www.americasmusiccharts.com/index.cgi?fmt=A2 All chart data © Mediabase Research

[Hot AC Archiver]

[blue]7/26/09 [/blue]

#1: "Second Chance" holds at #1 for an eighth week.

Oldest Song: "Man Who Can't Be Moved" with 20 weeks.

Oldest Song below #15: "Man Who Can't Be Moved" with 20 weeks.

Possibly Going to Recurrent: None soon.

Going to Recurrent "Man Who Can't Be Moved" next week.

Biggest Mover: "That's Not My Name" jumps 8 to #31 for the week's biggest move.

Debuts: Uncle Kracker returns to the chart after 5 years away with "Smile", the week's highest debut at #32.
U2's 13th hit comes in at #37 with "I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight".
Sean Kingston scores a second hit with "Fire Burning", coming in at #38.
Matt Wertz's "Everything's Right" returns to the chart at #40.

Exiting the Survey: "You Found Me", 34 weeks, to recurrent
"Sober", 30 weeks, to recurrent
"Show Me What I'm Looking for", 20 weeks, to recurrent
"Goodbye", 7 weeks.

Other Notes: "Please Don't Leave Me" rises to #3 and becomes Pink's 4th consecutive top 3 hit.
Katy Perry climbs to #6 with "Waking Up in Vegas".
"Fallin' for You" inches up 1 to #10, giving Colbie Caillat her 4th top 10.
Several songs move up 6 notches this week: "You Belong with Me" (18-12), "I Gotta Feeling" (24-18), "Battlefield" (32-26), "Say Hey" (34-28).
Mat Kearney moves up to #13 in his 17th week on the chart.
As noted above, "I Gotta Feeling" moves up to #18, giving the Black Eyed Peas their first top 20. Also, "Boom Boom Pow" inches up 2 to a new peak of #24.
Also entering the top 20 are "Stay" at #19 and "Life in Technicolor II" at #20.
"Halo" holds at #21 this week.
Kate Voegele earns her first top 30. "99 Times" moves up to #30 this week.
After falling all the way to #39 a couple of weeks ago, "Don't Trust Me" moves up to #34.
Ouch! of the Week: No songs move down more than a 3 notches this week.
Song with the biggest spin increase: "Use Somebody" (Over a 400 spin increase).
Song with the biggest spin loss: "Man Who Can't Be Moved" (Over a 300 spin loss)

Mediabase's "last week" positions are wrong in several places.

Top 50 Hot AC chart can be found at: www.americasmusiccharts.com/index.cgi?fmt=A2 All chart data © Mediabase Research

[erzo01]

Wow, the chart has become "younger", so to speak. It's bittersweet though 'coz TMWCBM goes recurrent without even entering the Top 15. I actually had high hopes for that song...