Hot AC Spin Records

[Hot AC Archiver]

A while back in one of my monthly threads, someone asked me what the spin record is for Hot AC. I didn't know at the time, but for the past couple of days I've went through about 10 years of charts to find the data. I basically only have spin data from October 2000-present.

The record for most spins on an official chart is 4740, set by Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" on the April 4, 2010 chart.

Previously to "Need You Now", the record was 4434 spins, set on May 21, 2004 by Maroon 5's "This Love".

When "Need You Now" set the record, there were approximately 100 stations on the Hot AC panel. In 2004, there were approximately 95 stations.

The first song to break the 4000 barrier was "Wherever You Will Go" by the Calling in 2002, when there were about 92 stations.

In 1994, near the beginning of the Hot AC Chart, there were 35 stations, and the #1 song had about 1200 spins.

Also, I believe the record for the biggest 1 week spin increase is +1108 spins, set by "The Game of Love" (Santana f/ Michelle Branch) on October 4, 2002.

[dajross6]

Very interesting. I wonder if we could see a leaderboard of spins per song. Of note, I don't think NYN was even played on all 100 stations, just 96 (someone please correct me if i'm wrong).

[galvanize]

I thought Matchbox 20's "Unwell" broke the record since they spent over 20 weeks at #1. ???

[Hot AC Archiver]

Jun 17, 2010 18:13:37 GMT -5 @galvanize said:

I thought Matchbox 20's "Unwell" broke the record since they spent over 20 weeks at #1. ???

"Unwell" was close, but it topped out at 4320 spins.

[jaytee]

Katy Perry's "California Gurls" has managed to get just ~220 spins away from the spin record (4523 spins, 210 bullet)... with just 94 of the 101 stations spinning it. It'll most definitely continue gaining on Need You Now's record in the next week.

The average station rotation for Katy is 47.1 right now. Does anyone know what that record is?

[musicfanpete]

Jul 11, 2010 10:43:08 GMT -5 jaytee said:

Katy Perry's "California Gurls" has managed to get just ~220 spins away from the spin record (4523 spins, 210 bullet)... with just 94 of the 101 stations spinning it. It'll most definitely continue gaining on Need You Now's record in the next week.

The average station rotation for Katy is 47.1 right now. Does anyone know what that record is?

I'm amazed that there are 7 stations NOT playing this! I wonder which ones those are. Probably ones that belong on the mainstream AC panel, but with many AC's starting to play this, they are still out of the loop in my opinion!

[No Brake$]

Average Rotation should be the only consideration for this record. Based on the panel size, Unwell would likely be at around 4800 if it had as many stations monitored right now.

I believe Wherever You Will Go and This How You Remind Me both raked in a lot of spins as well at the same time.

[jaytee]

"California Gurls" which has already claimed the CHR spin peak, might end up with the HAC spin peak after all. With 4689 spins and a 166 bullet, it's just 51 spins away from the record set by "Need You Now" and it's still only being played by 95/101 stations.

[Mike]

She's at 4,720 today. 20 spins away!

[No Brake$]

How many more stations are monitored each year? I think this thread is really stupid.

[Hot AC Archiver]

Jul 19, 2010 8:53:18 GMT -5 No Brake$ said:

How many more stations are monitored each year? I think this thread is really stupid.

When "Unwell" was #1 in 2003 and had a spin max of about 4300 spins, there were approximately 95 stations on the panel. There are now just over 100 stations on the panel, and that's 7 years later. Thus while the panel may be slightly bigger, I believe stations are spinning songs more frequently than they used to.

Now comparing the #1 spin count from July 1994 (max of 1474 spins) to now would be stupid, since there were only about 35 stations on the panel then.

[countryfan2002]

With only 6 spins away yesterday, Katy decided to start losing spins today. Irony.

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HOT AC (Lady A's spin record has been broken)
1 1 KATY PERRY California Gurls f/S... 4756 4628 128 25.891
+ 26 Spins
- 2 Bullet
+ 0.065 AI

[MostInterestingManInTheWorld]

Jul 21, 2010 11:00:20 GMT -5 @countryfan2002 said:

With only 6 spins away yesterday, Katy decided to start losing spins today. Irony.

Unfortunate for those who wanted Katy and Snoop to have the spin record, but I'm not sure why that's ironic.

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Jul 22, 2010 22:52:05 GMT -5 MostInterestingManInTheWorld said:

Jul 21, 2010 11:00:20 GMT -5 @countryfan2002 said:

With only 6 spins away yesterday, Katy decided to start losing spins today. Irony.

Unfortunate for those who wanted Katy and Snoop to have the spin record, but I'm not sure why that's ironic.

Katy broke it today (see my above post )

[MostInterestingManInTheWorld]

Jul 22, 2010 23:02:39 GMT -5 @drag27 said:

Jul 22, 2010 22:52:05 GMT -5 MostInterestingManInTheWorld said:

Unfortunate for those who wanted Katy and Snoop to have the spin record, but I'm not sure why that's ironic.

Katy broke it today (see my above post )

Fine, I didn't bother reading your followup post. Still not sure why losing 6 spins is 'ironic'.

[Hot AC Archiver]

It looks like "California Girls" will have 4692 spins on the official chart for 7/25/10. Thus, in my records, Katy has yet to break the record. (I only go by the published weekly charts).

[Rodze]

She probably has the record for average spins per station per week, though.