Best Week Ever Radio - November, 2008

[Hervard]

Best Week Ever Radio - November 2, 2008

Hour 1
Gotta Be Somebody/Nickelback - #10
All Summer Long/Kid Rock - #7
Hot N Cold/Katy Perry - #15
The Little Things/Colbie Caillat - #20
Broken/Lifehouse - #8
Rise Above This/Seether - #18
Love Remains The Same/Gavin Rossdale - #2
I'm Yours/Jason Mraz - #1
Shattered (Turn The Car Around)/O.A.R. - #4

Hour 2
Fall For You/Secondhand Serenade - #17
Better In Time/Leona Lewis - #12
Beating My Heart/Jon McLaughlin - #21
What About Now/Daughtry - #3
So What/Pink - #6
It's Not My Time/3 Doors Down - #9
Viva La Vida/Coldplay - #5
Come On Get Higher/Matt Nathanson - #11
Chasing Pavements/Adele - #19

Songs in the Top 20 of the 10/24/08 Hot AC chart not played this week
#13: Pocketful Of Sunshine/Natasha Bedingfield
#14: One Step AT A Time/Jordin Sparks
#16: Shake It/Metro Station

Personal notes from this week's show

- For the third week in a row, I had to rely on Yes.com, due to WIMS having presidential election coverage all day, so they still didn't run any of their regular shows. At least that won't be on next week (unless there's a virtual tie and they have to do a recount, like back in 2000). But they'll probably have NASCAR races.

- One premiere song this week, a song that's not yet in the Top 20, but on the verge of entering. It's Jon McLaughlin's debut single "Beating My Heart". I like the song; reminds me a little of "Beautiful Day" by U2.

- Eighteen songs played and one song outside the Top 20 this week; that means that three songs were skipped over. All of those songs are pretty much on their way down the chart, although the Jordin Sparks song is moving up, but loses its bullet. Natasha Bedingfield has just about run her course with "Pocketful Of Sunshine", as the song drops three to #13. It will probably spend another week or two on the chart before going recurrent, but I'm not sure if we'll hear it on the show again. As for "Shake It" by Metro Station - well, we all know the story about that one!

- "Fall For You" by Secondhand Serenade, as stated before, got extra early action on the show, but this week, it breaks into the Top 20, moving up four spots. I guess the producers of the show knew what they were doing when they put it on when it was barely inside the Top 30.

- This week's record to watch is "Disturbia" by Rihanna. The song moves up four more spots to #22 and I have a feeling we might be hearing it on the show in the near future.

[Hervard]

Best Week Ever Radio - November 9, 2008

Hour 1
Pocketful Of Sunshine/Natasha Bedingfield - #14
I'm Yours/Jason Mraz - #1
Broken /Lifehouse - #7
It's Not My Time/3 Doors Down - #12
Chasing Pavements/Adele - #17
What About Now - #4
Fall For You/Secondhand Serenade - #16
Rise Above This/Seether - #18
Gotta Be Somebody/Nickelback - #8

Hour 2
Viva La Vida/Coldplay - #6
Hot N Cold/Katy Perry - #13
So What/Pink - #5
Come On Get Higher/Matt Nathanson - #9
Crush/David Archuleta - #21
All Summer Long/Kid Rock - #10
Shattered (Turn The Car Around)/O.A.R. - #3
Better In Time/Leona Lewis - #11
Love Remains The Same/Gavin Rossdale - #2

Songs in the Top 20 of the 10/31/08 Hot AC chart not played this week
#15: One Step At A Time/Jordin Sparks
#19: Shake It/Metro Station
#20: Disturbia/Rihanna

Personal notes from this week's show

- There is one premiere song this week, and it is the only non-Top 20 song on the chart this week. "Crush" by David Archuleta moves 24-21 on the Hot AC chart and could enter the Top 20 as soon as next week.

- "Rise Above This" by Seether loses its bullet this week. Not sure how long they're going to keep it on, because they seem to be arbitrary with their rules for songs that have yet to hit the Top 15. So we'll have to keep our eye on this song and see what happens.

- Last week's "song to watch", "Disturbia" by Rihanna, enters the Top 20 this week, but does not quite make it to the show. Maybe next week.

- This week's "song to watch" is the new song by David Cook, "Lights Out". The follow-up to his first Top Ten hit, "The Time Of My Life", it makes the biggest move on the Hot AC chart, moving 36-29. I have a feeling that this is going to be another big hit for the winner of seventh season's American Idol.

[Hervard]

Best Week Ever Radio - November 16, 2008

Hour 1
Shattered (Turn The Car Around)/O.A.R. - #2
Come On Get Higher/Matt Nathanson - #9
All Summer Long/Kid Rock - #12
It's Not My Time/3 Doors Down - #13
Crush/David Archuleta - #18
Fall For You/Secondhand Serenade - #16
Gotta Be Somebody/Nickelback - #7
What About Now/Daughtry - #5
Broken/Lifehouse - #8

Hour 2
Chasing Pavements/Adele - #17
I'm Yours/Jason Mraz - #1
Addicted/Saving Abel - #20
Love Remains The Same/Gavin Rossdale - #3
Hot 'N Cold/Katy Perry - #11
Better In Time/Leona Lewis - #10
Viva La Vida/Coldplay - #6
Rise Above This/Seether - #19
So What/Pink - #4

Songs in the Top 20 of the 11/7/08 Hot AC chart not played this week
#14: One Step At A Time/Jordin Sparks
#15: Pocketful Of Sunshine/Natasha Bedingfield

Personal notes from this week's show

- One debut song this week, "Addicted", the first hit by American rock band Saving Abel, which moves up four spots to enter the Top 20 on the Hot AC chart. With only five weeks on the chart, I doubt seriously it's going to stop there.

- They stuck to the Top 20 this week. That is, I think. You see, once again, I obtained this list from Yes.com, due to WIMS' arbitrary weekend programming (however, since NASCAR races are finally over with, things could change next week), and the first song in the second hour was "If I Were A Boy" by Beyonce. That song is not even in the New & Active section on the Hot AC chart, so I have a feeling that the station played it, possibly a computer malfunction (I doubt it was a filler song, because, if that were the case, it would have been listed at the end of Hour 1). It could have been part of the show, as a "future hit" (like my "song to watch"), but, since it's obviously nowhere near the Top 20, I excluded it from the list.

- Seether's "Rise Above This" continues to hang onto the chart. It lost its bullet last week, but regains it this week (just barely, as it gains a meager nine points). They're really milking this song for all it's worth, aren't they?

- This week's "song to watch" is "Human", the latest song by the Killers, a group who has had five chart hits, but actually has yet to hit the Hot AC Top Ten. Their highest peaking hit was "Mr. Brightside" which just missed, peaking at #11 in the spring of 2005. Could this be the song that breaks their dry spell? With a play gain of 141, it has its possibilities.

[Hervard]

Best Week Ever Radio - November 23, 2008

Hour 1
Better In Time/Leona Lewis - #10
All Summer Long/Kid Rock - #12
Viva La Vida/Coldplay - #7
Come On Get Higher/Matt Nathanson - #11
Love Remains The Same/Gavin Rossdale - #4
So What/Pink - #3
Chasing Pavements - #16
Rise Above This/Seether - #19
Crush - #18

Hour 2
Shattered (Turn The Car Around)/O.A.R. - #2
Gotta Be Somebody - #6
Hot N Cold/Katy Perry - #9
Addicted/Saving Abel - #17
Fall For You/Secondhand Serenade - #14
Broken/Lifehouse - #8
I'm Yours/Jason Mraz - #1
Light On/David Cook - #20
What About Now/Daughtry - #5

Songs in the Top 20 of the 11/14/08 Hot AC chart not played this week
#13: It's Not My Time/3 Doors Down
#15: One Step At A Time/Jordin Sparks

Personal notes from this week's show

- For the first time since the second week in October, I actually heard the show. Since NASCAR races are over for the year, they are now back to playing the show. Not only that, but they actually ran the show twice this weekend, once on Saturday afternoon and again on Sunday afternoon which was good, because, during the first broadcast, I missed the first two songs (since I had no idea when they'd be running the show). So I heard what I missed. Not bad.

- One premiere song this week, and it's the latest by David Cook, called "Light On", a former "song to watch". This was the first time I heard the song. It's so/so, but not really anything I'd go out of my way to listen to.

- They stuck to the Top 20 this week, and played eighteen songs, meaning only two songs in the Top 20 were skipped over. One of those songs, "One Step At A Time" by Jordin Sparks, surely doesn't seem to be a very popular song, as they've avoided playing it since October. As I recall, they seemed to avoid her last hit, "No Air" a lot, too. I wonder what their beef is with Ms. Sparks?

- The other skipped song is a song that's pretty much done on the charts, "It's Not My Time" by 3 Doors Down, which has been played on the show since spring. We'll probably hear it on the year-ender.

- This week's "song to watch" is the latest by Coldplay, called "Lovers In Japan". The song debuts on the R&R Hot AC chart at #38 this week and just might do almost as well as "Viva La Vida".

[Hervard]

Best Week Ever Radio - November 30, 2008

Hour 1
Come On Get Higher/Matt Nathanson - #11
Love Remains The Same/Gavin Rossdale - #4
Let Me By Myself/3 Doors Down - #20
Gotta Be Somebody/Nickelback - #5
I'm Yours/Jason Mraz - #1
Hot N Cold/Katy Perry - #9
Viva La Vida/Coldplay - #10
Broken/Lifehouse - #7

Hour 2
Addicted/Saving Abel - #15
Better In Time/Leona Lewis - #8
What About Now/Daughtry - #6
Shattered (Turn The Car Around)/O.A.R. - #2
So What/Pink - #3
Chasing Pavements - #16
Fall For You/Secondhand Serenade - #13
It's Not My Time/3 Doors Down - #14
All Summer Long/Kid Rock - #12

Songs in the Top 20 of the 11/21/08 Hot AC chart not played this week
#17: Crush/David Archuleta
#18: Light On/David Cook
#19: One Step At A Time/Jordin Sparks

- One premiere song this week. It's the latest by 3 Doors Down. Their former #1 hit, "It's Not My Time", has just about run its course (although they did play it this week), and their new one, "Let Me By Myself", moves up two spots this week to #20.

- "Rise Above This" by Seether falls out of the Top 20 this week and, since they once again stuck to playing songs within the Top 20, it was not heard on the show this week. Moreover, it loses its bullet, and it could possibly fall out of the chart this week. But they sure bent the rules for the song. They must have really believed in it!

- This week's "song to watch" is the latest by the All-American Rejects. "Gives You Hell" debuts at #39 this week and could become another big hit by them in weeks to come.