American Top 40 (HOT AC) - March 6-7, 2010

[Battle601]

AT40 (HOT AC) - MARCH 6-7, 2010

LW TW Wks Artist - Title
01 01 (23) Train - Hey, Soul Sister (3rd week at #1)
03 02 (16) Lifehouse - Halfway Gone
02 03 (20) Rob Thomas - Someday
07 04 (13) Daughtry - Life After You
08 05 (09) John Mayer - Heartbreak Warfare
06 06 (16) Kris Allen - Live Like We're Dying
04 07 (26) Kelly Clarkson - Already Gone
05 08 (20) Nickelback - Never Gonna Be Alone
10 09 (06) Lady GaGa - Bad Romance
11 10 (17) The Script - Breakeven

09 11 (18) Owl City - Fireflies
13 12 (05) Orianthi - According To You
14 13 (14) Shinedown - If You Only Knew
18 14 (04) Lady Antebellum - Need You Now
15 15 (13) Michael Bublé - Haven't Met You Met
12 16 (37) Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
16 17 (28) Uncle Kracker - Smile
20 18 (05) Ke$ha - Tik Tok
19 19 (07) Boys Like Girls Featuring Taylor Swift - Two Is Better Than One
17 20 (31) Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling

22 21 (12) Kings of Leon - Sex On Fire
27 22 (15) OneRepublic - All The Right Moves
21 23 (35) Colbie Caillat - Fallin' For You
23 24 (33) Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me
25 25 (30) Michael Franti & Spearhead Featuring Cherine Anderson - Say Hey (I Love You)
26 26 (41) Pink - Please Don't Leave Me
24 27 (08) Taylor Swift - Fifteen
28 28 (94) Jason Mraz - I'm Yours
29 29 (40) Daughtry - No Surprise
35 30 (02) The Fray - Syndicate

30 31 (46) Shinedown - Second Chance
32 32 (72) Katy Perry - Hot N Cold
31 33 (17) Lady GaGa - Paparazzi
33 34 (59) The All-American Rejects - Gives You Hell
36 35 (64) The Fray - You Found Me
EX 36 (01) Adam Lambert - Whataya Want From Me
40 37 (43) Rob Thomas - Her Diamonds
34 38 (44) David Cook - Come Back To Me
39 39 (03) Muse - Uprising
38 40 (38) Katy Perry - Waking Up In Vegas

Dropped from this week's chart:
37 (17) Green River Ordinance - Come On


SEGMENTS
HOUR 1 (Guest: Bill Clinton)
BREAKOUT (BR): Bon Jovi - Superman Tonight (after #35)
OPTIONAL EXTRA: Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love

HOUR 2 (Guest: Gabourey Sidibe, "Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire)
EXTRA (EX): Barenaked Ladies - You Run Away (between #23 and #22)
OPTIONAL EXTRA: Estelle featuring Kanye West - American Boy

HOUR 3 (Guests: DJ Pauly and The Situation, "Jersey Shore")
OPTIONAL EXTRA: Evanescence - My Immortal

HOUR 4 (Guest: Ricky Gervais, "The Ricky Gervais Show")
OPTIONAL EXTRA: Sean Kingston - Take You There

[musicfanpete]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

Another dull week on AT40. When was the last time we had more than one new entry in a given week?

[MostInterestingManInTheWorld]

^^ likes this. Wait a minute, wrong website.

[Battle601]

Mar 6, 2010 12:09:00 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

Another dull week on AT40. When was the last time we had more than one new entry in a given week?

I would agree. Many of the songs sitting in the #30s have been flip-flopping positions for over a month now. Songs like "Her Diamonds", "Waking Up in Vegas" and "Come Back To Me" have been floundering at the bottom, while "You Found Me", "Gives You Hell" and "Hot N Cold" are filling up the top end. That leaves little room for newer songs like "Uprising" to at least move up several positions. Speaking of "Uprising", its chart run has a similar pattern that we have seen with recent songs that had very short runs.

Here's one thing I still don't get about charts (and I probably never will): How does a song that struggles to make any impact and is stuck in the same rank for more than a month suddenly jump up a ridiculous amount of spots, only to peak below expectation?

Example: You can have a song that is stuck at #27 for about a month then finally move up a spot to #26 and then suddenly skyrocket all the way up to #13 only to have a #9 or #10 peak.

I get the feeling that this goes more than just the basic criteria of record sales, airplay, and requests.

Anyone's thoughts on this?

[MostInterestingManInTheWorld]

SEGMENTS
HOUR 1 (Guest: Bill Clinton)

Here's another major issue I have with the current state of AT40. Yes, Bill Clinton is an important man, one of the best presidents of my lifetime. But he has no freaking business being a guest on a Countdown Show!

[Hervard]

For some odd reason, U93 (WNDV), which is a CHR station, is playing this version of AT40. Not that I'm complaining, because even though the chart is slow, the music is good - none of that hip-hop crap.

[wavetunes]

I didn't listen to that show this week. Can't listen to more than one HAC countdown each week. It gets boring, lol . Why was Bill Clinton on it?

I'm kinda surprised Come Back To Me is still on this chart. Probably the lack of another single from David Cook is the reason, idk.

Not complaining about Her Diamonds, I love that song!

Thanks for posting!!

[wavetunes]

Mar 7, 2010 10:27:32 GMT -5 Hervard said:

For some odd reason, U93 (WNDV), which is a CHR station, is playing this version of AT40. Not that I'm complaining, because even though the chart is slow, the music is good - none of that hip-hop crap.

Ha! Interesting. A lot of HAC stations are actually playing the CHR version. It would be interesting to know how many stations play this countdown.

[620 Soul Train]

Mar 7, 2010 0:25:52 GMT -5 MostInterestingManInTheWorld said:

SEGMENTS
HOUR 1 (Guest: Bill Clinton)

Here's another major issue I have with the current state of AT40. Yes, Bill Clinton is an important man, one of the best presidents of my lifetime. But he has no freaking business being a guest on a Countdown Show!

Welcome to the new decade, my friend, I found this week's episode of AT40 to be absolutely interesting. I felt as if I couldn't walk away from the radio when Bill Clinton was featured. As a matter of fact he raised a lot of excellent points on current issues that may relate to the current audience. It was quite listable...for once.