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#1: "Coldplay" returns to #1 and earns a 3rd week at #1 this week.
Oldest Song: "Whatever It Takes" with 43 weeks.
Oldest Song below #15: "Come on Get Higher" with 16 weeks.
Possibly Going to Recurrent: "Stop & Stare", "Whatever It Takes", and "Feels Like Tonight" when the songs fall below #15.
Going to Recurrent: None next week.
Biggest Mover: "So What" leaps 9 notches to #26 for the week's biggest move.
Debuts: American Idol runner-up David Archuleta enters at #36 with "Crush" for the highest debut.
John Mayer comes in at #37 with his 11th hit, "Free Fallin'", a remake of Tom Petty's top 10 hit from 1990.
Duffy debuts at #38 with her 2nd hit, "Warwick Avenue".
"Disturbia" jumps in at #39 and gives Rhianna her 8th solo hit and 9th overall HAC hit.
Exiting the Survey: "In Love with a Girl", 27 weeks, to recurrent
"Nine in the Afternoon", 20 weeks, to recurrent
"All Around Me", 14 weeks
"After Tonight", 1 week
Other Notes: Coldplay replaces 3 Doors Down at #1 for a second time. That has only happened once before on the Hot AC
chart. Back in 1997, “Sunny Came Home” by Shawn Colvin and “One Headlight” by the Wallflowers replaced each other at #1 in the
same fashion.
Gavin Rossdale makes the top 5 this week.
Maroon 5 earn a 7th top 10 with "If I Never See Your Face Again". This also marks Rhianna's first appearance in the HAC top 10.
Speaking of Rhianna, her 9 appearances on HAC have all occurred in relatively quick 2 1/2 years. She appears on the chart 3 times this week alone.
Leona Lewis jumps 8 spots to #28 with "Better in Time".
Interesting fact: Song with the fewest stations of the panel playing it (per Inside Radio): "Disturbia" with only 16 stations.
David Cook remains at #6 this week, so with David Archuleta's debut, the top 2 of American Idol season 7 is on the chart
simultaneously. This is the first time that the top 2 from any season of Idol have been on the Hot AC chart at the same time.
Other Idol trivia: This week there are 5 former Idol contestants on the chart: David Cook, Daughtry, Jordin Sparks, Carrie Underwood, and David Archuleta
Ouch! of the Week: "Burnin' Up" falls 6 spots to #35.
Song with the biggest spin increase: "So What" (over a 300 spin increase).
Song with the biggest spin loss: "Bleeding Love" (over a 200 spin loss).
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