American Top 40 (Hot AC) - August 8-9, 2009

[Battle601]

Katy Perry is filling in for Ryan as guest host this weekend.

Not sure exactly where she is - in one segment she mentions that she's in Japan (probably in the middle of her tour), in another segment she says that she's hanging in the studio (with the producers laughing in the background).

Anyways...Black Eyed Peas replace "Boom Boom Pow" as its short run on the chart comes to an end, in exchange for "I Gotta Feeling" as this week's lone entry. Once again, Green Day's "21 Guns" is the biggest gainer for the second straight week.

This will likely be the final week for Shinedown's "Second Chance" at #1 - an impressive tally of 8 weeks in total, marking half of the song's run on this chart.

Off this week's chart:
38 Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow (6 weeks)

LW TW Wks Title - Artist
39 40 (05) Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
40 39 (02) Collective Soul - Staring Down
34 38 (63) Gavin Rossdale - Love Remains The Same
35 37 (98) Sara Bareilles - Love Song
37 36 (04) Safetysuit - Stay
36 35 (06) Coldplay - Life In Technicolor II
26 34 (08) Beyoncé - Halo
EX 33 (01) Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
BREAKOUT (BR): Michael Franti & Spearhead - Say Hey (I Love You)
33 32 (24) Plain White T's - 1, 2, 3, 4
30 31 (17) Carolina Liar - Show Me What I'm Looking For
OPTIONAL EXTRA: Pink - So What
28 30 (59) Coldplay - Viva La Vida
22 29 (16) The Script - The Man Who Can't Be Moved
32 28 (42) Nickelback - Gotta Be Somebody
29 27 (34) Taylor Swift - Love Story
25 26 (28) Lady GaGa featuring Colby O'Donis and Akon - Just Dance
27 25 (53) O.A.R. - Shattered (Turn The Car Around)
23 24 (42) Katy Perry - Hot 'N Cold
31 23 (04) Green Day - 21 Guns
BREAKOUT (BR): Linkin Park - New Divide
18 22 (15) Lady GaGa - Poker Face
13 21 (28) Pink - Sober
OPTIONAL EXTRA: Shaggy featuring Rayvon - Angel
19 20 (64) Jason Mraz - I'm Yours
24 19 (03) Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me
17 18 (27) Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You
16 17 (11) Kelly Clarkson - I Do Not Hook Up
20 16 (09) Parachute - She Is Love
21 15 (13) Mat Kearney - Closer To Love
11 14 (29) The All-American Rejects - Gives You Hell
10 13 (25) Theory Of A Deadman - Not Meant To Be
09 12 (34) The Fray - You Found Me
14 11 (05) Colbie Caillat - Fallin' For You
OPTIONAL EXTRA: Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin' Down
15 10 (09) The Fray - Never Say Never
12 09 (07) Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody
07 08 (14) David Cook - Come Back To Me
08 07 (08) Katy Perry - Waking Up In Vegas
06 06 (15) Miley Cyrus - The Climb
05 05 (10) Daughtry - No Surprise
03 04 (16) Nickelback - If Today Was Your Last Day
04 03 (11) Pink - Please Don't Leave Me
OPTIONAL EXTRA: Akon - Don't Matter
02 02 (13) Rob Thomas - Her Diamonds
01 01 (16) Shinedown - Second Chance (8th week at #1)

[Hervard]

Two more weeks to go before Sara Bareilles hits the century mark - if she can hold on that long, that is...

[Battle601]

From the looks of it, she will. In checking out this week's published Hot AC charts (with recurrents included), "Love Song" was #34 last week and #35 this week. That just might be enough to keep the song on the chart even as it teeters closer to the bottom and reach yes, week #100 - considering that AT40 is at least two weeks behind Mediabase.