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Post by Hervard on Mar 3, 2008 0:38:01 GMT -5
Best Week Ever Radio - March 2, 2008
Hour 1 Teardrops On My Guitar/Taylor Swift (#8) Apologize/Timbaland f/OneRepublic (#1) No One/Alicia Keys (#13) Paralyzer/Finger Eleven (#3) Love Song/Sara Bareilles (#2) Shadow Of The Day/Linkin' Park (#9) Clumsy/Fergie (#20) These Hard Times/Matchbox Twenty (#19) Sorry/Buckcherry (#6)
Hour 2 Bubbly/Colbie Caillat (#4) Tattoo/Jordin Sparks (#14) Love Is Free/Sheryl Crow (#23) The Way I Am/Ingrid Michaelson (#16) Who Knew/Pink (#10) Say/John Mayer (#17) Won't Go Home Without You/Maroon 5 (#18) Feels Like Tonight/Daughtry (#15) Whatever It Takes/Lifehouse (#11)
Songs in the Top 20 of 2/22/08 R&R chart not played this week #5: Into The Night/Santana f/Chad Kroeger #7: Over You/Daughtry #12: Wake Up Call/Maroon 5
Personal notes from this week's show
- When the show started with "Teardrops On My Guitar", I thought that they were repeating the show from two weeks ago, since it's rare for two shows so close together kicking off with the same song. Fortunately, when the next song was different than the second song on the 2/17 show, I realized that it was indeed a new show.
- There was a whopping three premiere songs this week. The first one was the latest by Matchbox Twenty, "These Hard Times". I like that song better than "How Far We've Come", possibly because of the overplay of that song.
- Eighteen songs played and three songs in the Top 20 of the corresponding R&R chart skipped means that there was one song outside the Top 20 that was played. That was another one of the premiere songs, Sheryl Crow's new song "Love Is Free". That song's so/so. I have a feeling that I'll like it the more I hear it.
- The best news is that they finally started playing Maroon 5's new song "Won't Go Home Without You", even though it's been in the Top 20 for over a month. I was glad, because that's my favorite song.
- The three songs they skipped over were tired, overplayed hits that have been on the charts since early fall of 2007. I was rather surprised that they excluded "Into The Night", since it's still in the Top Five (and was in the runner-up position the week before). Not sure when the last time they played a non-Top Five hit (not counting the Christmas weekend show).
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Post by Hervard on Mar 12, 2008 19:59:33 GMT -5
Best Week Ever Radio - March 9, 2008
Hour 1 Say/John Mayer (#16) Love Song/Sara Bareilles (#2) Shadow Of The Day/Linkin' Park (#8) Won't Go Home Without You/Maroon 5 (#17) Tattoo/Jordin Sparks (#15) No One/Alicia Keys (#11) Bubbly/Colbie Caillat (#5) Over You/Daughtry (#9) Whatever It Takes/Lifehouse (#10)
Hour 2 The Way I Am/Ingrid Michaelson (#18) Apologize/Timbaland f/OneRepublic (#1) Never Too Late/Three Days Grace (#21) Clumsy/Fergie (#20) Teardrops On My Guitar/Taylor Swift (#6) Sorry/Buckcherry (#4) These Hard Times/Matchbox Twenty (#19) Feels Like Tonight/Daughtry (#12) Paralyzer/Finger Eleven (#3)
Songs in the Top 20 of 2/29/08 R&R chart not played this week #7: Into The Night/Santana f/Chad Kroeger #13: Who Knew/Pink #14: Wake Up Call/Maroon 5
Personal notes from this week's show
- I wasn't sure I was going to be able to post this week's show, since 98.3 The Coast aired the same damn show as last week, and I was busy on Sunday afternoon, which is now when WIMS in Michigan City airs the show. Fortunately, I was able to listen to the show, since during most of it, I was driving to South Bend for a concert I was attending there.
- Somewhat nteresting that two of the three songs not played last week were also skipped this week. They just switched "Over You" and "Who Knew". That's fine with me, since I still like the Daughtry song, while the song by Pink can just go poof for all I care!
- One song premieres this week, and it's also the only song not in the Top 20 of the corresponding R&R chart. It is "Never Too Late" by Three Days Grace, which is one of my favorite songs.
- Other than that, it's pretty much the same show as last week, with "Who Knew" traded in for "Over You" and "Love Is Free" (Sheryl Crow) switched for "Never Too Late". But that's cool; I like most of the songs on the show. Just as long as we didn't have to hear "Who Knew" for the 147,839th time!
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Post by Hervard on Mar 17, 2008 21:32:19 GMT -5
Best Week Ever Radio - March 16, 2008
Hour 1 These Hard Times/Matchbox Twenty (#19) No One/Alicia Keys (#11) Tattoo/Jordin Sparks (#17) Sorry/Buckcherry (#4) Teardrops On My Guitar/Taylor Swift (#8) Whatever It Takes/Lifehouse (#7) Feels Like Tonight/Daughtry (#10) Love Song/Sara Bareilles (#1) Won't Go Home Without You/Maroon 5 (#14)
Hour 2 Say/John Mayer (#16) Shadow Of The Day/Linkin' Park (#6) Paralyzer/Finger Eleven (#3) Wake Up Call/Maroon 5 (#15) Apologize/Timbaland f/OneRepublic (#2) Never Too Late/Three Days Grace (#20) The Way I Am/Ingrid Michaelson (#18) Love Is Free/Sheryl Crow (#22) Bubbly/Colbie Caillat (#5)
Songs in the Top 20 of 3/7/2008 R&R chart not played this week #9: Into The Night/Santana f/Chad Kroeger #12: Over You/Daughtry #13: Who Knew/Pink
- I wasn't sure I was going to be able to get this list posted, since 98.3 The Coast had technical difficulties and the show didn't start proper until the last segment of Hour 1 (which kicked off with "Love Song" by Sara Bareilles). Luckily, the show didn't mess up on the station in Michigan City, Indiana that runs the show at 3:00 on Sunday afternoons, so I was able to hear the whole show.
- They seem to be playing "song skip roulette", since for the past few weeks, they've been rotating four different songs in the Top 20 that they opt to exclude from the broadcast. This time, "Who Knew" by Pink is back on the "skip list" and this time was Maroon 5's turn with "Wake Up Call". And this is definitely the last chance they have with that song, as it holds onto the Hot AC chart by the skin of its teeth. In fact, only one spin separates that song, at #15, from the #16 song, "Say" by John Mayer. If that song had two more spins, Maroon 5's song would have bitten the dust (and they probably wouldn't have played it - possibly would have gone with "Into The Night" instead).
- No premiere songs this week - just the switch mentioned above, plus Sheryl Crow returns this week as the only song outside the Top 20 to be played. The song that was bumped out was "Clumsy" by Fergie, which drops a spot to #21. But I think that a few changes can be expected in the weeks ahead. Approaching the Top 20 are songs such as "Realize" by Colbie Caillat, "Stop And Stare" by OneRepublic, and "In Love With A Girl" by Gavin DeGraw. We can probably expect those songs to make their debut on Best Week Ever Radio before long.
- On the corresponding R&R Hot AC chart is a new number one song this week. After many weeks on top, ""Apologize" by Timbaland featuring OneRepublic falls to #2 as "Love Song" by Sara Bareilles takes over. I point this out because "Love Song" has been on the chart for six weeks longer than "Apologize". That's kind of unusual for a #1 song to be so much older than the song it pushes out of the top spot. I think we can pretty safely say that "Love Song" will be one of the top songs of the year. Could it possibly be THE top song of the year? We'll find that out in about eight months.
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Post by Hervard on Mar 27, 2008 22:13:26 GMT -5
Best Week Ever Radio - March 23, 2008
Hour 1 Won't Go Home Without You/Maroon 5 (#13) Teardrops On My Guitar/Taylor Swift (#9) Feels Like Tonight/Daughtry (#6) Paralyzer/Finger Eleven (#4) Love Song/Sara Bareilles (#1) Shadow Of The Day/Linkin' Park (#7) Say/John Mayer (#12) Never Too Late/Three Days Grace (#18)
Hour 2 In Love With A Girl/Gavin DeGraw (#22) Bubbly/Colbie Caillat (#8) The Way I Am/Ingrid Michaelson (#15) These Hard Times/Matchbox Twenty (#16) Apologize/Timbaland f/OneRepublic (#2) Whatever It Takes/Lifehouse (#5) Love Is Free/Sheryl Crow (#20) Sorry/Buckcherry (#3) No One/Alicia Keys (#10)
Songs in the Top 20 of 3/14/08 R&R chart not played this week #11: Into The Night/Santana f/Chad Kroeger #14: Over You/Daughtry #17: Tattoo/Jordin Sparks #19: Realize/Colbie Caillat
Personal notes from this week's show
- When "Makes Me Wonder" started up at the beginning of the show (after the announcer said "Music! Yeah, music! So let's play some!") I was thinking maybe they mistakenly put in a year-old show. But it was just music playing while they ID'ed the song, which starts out with vocals and no musical intro.
- One premiere song this week, and it's Gavin DeGraw's latest hit, which moves 27-22 this week on the corresponding R&R chart. It should hit the Top 20 by next week.
- Only 17 songs this week. If they'd played 18, like they usually do, the other song probably would have been "Realize" by Colbie Caillat, which breaks into the Top 20 this week. Hopefully, they'll start playing it next week. Or perhaps it'll suffer "Won't Go Home Without You" syndrome.
- Wow, they must have decided that they hate "Into The Night" by Santana featuring Chad Kroeger, since they haven't played it for four weeks straight now.
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Post by Hervard on Apr 28, 2008 19:36:51 GMT -5
Best Week Ever Radio - March 30, 2008
Hour 1 Whatever It Takes/Lifehouse (#6) Sorry/Buckcherry (#2) No One/Alicia Keys (#9) Love Song/Sara Bareilles (#1) Love Is Free/Sheryl Crow (#20) Won't Go Home Without You/Maroon 5 (#10) Realize/Colbie Caillat (#19) Paralyzer/Finger Eleven (#3)
Hour 2 Say/John Mayer (#11) Feels Like Tonight/Daughtry (#5) Apologize/Timbaland f/OneRepublic (#4) The Way I Am/Ingrid Michaelson (#16) Teardrops On My Guitar/Taylor Swift (#12) These Hard Times/Matchbox Twenty (#15) In Love With A Girl/Gavin DeGraw (#21) Bubbly/Colbie Caillat (#8) Shadow Of The Day/Linkin' Park (#7)
Songs in the Top 20 of 3/21/08 R&R chart not played this week #13: Over You/Daughtry #14: Into The Night/Santana f/Chad Kroeger #17: Never Too Late/Three Days Grace #18: Tattoo/Jordin Sparks
Personal notes from this week's show
- One premiere song this week, the latest by Colbie Caillat, called "Realize". The song isn't climbing the chart quite as fast as "Bubbly" did. Probably suffering from a case of "recurrentitis" from her former #1 song.
- One song outside the Top 20 of the corresponding R&R chart played this week. That is last week's premiere song "In Love With A Girl" by Gavin DeGraw. Depending on how many songs go recurrent next week (including Ingrid Michaelson, if she doesn't move back up into the Top 15 next week), that song has a strong possibility to hit the Top 20 next week.
- The skipped songs this week are pretty much the same as last week, except for "Never Too Late" by Three Days Grace, which switches places with "Realize" by Colbie Caillat.
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