Billboard AC Chart Flashback: June 29, 2002

[johnm1120]

June 29, 2002

TW LW WC Artist - Title (Current Peak)

01 01 19 Celine Dion - A New Day Has Come (1)
02 03 38 Enrique Iglesias - Hero (1)
03 02 32 Five For Fighting - Superman (It's Not Easy) (2)
04 04 18 Marc Anthony - I Need You (4)
05 05 12 Josh Groban - To Where You Are (5)
06 06 18 Jo Dee Messina f/Tim McGraw - Bring On The Rain (6)
07 07 16 Michael Bolton - Only A Woman Like You (5)
08 08 43 Lonestar - I'm Already There (2)
9 11 49 Train - Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) (9)
10 09 80 Matchbox 20 - If You're Gone (1)

11 10 84 Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance (1)
12 13 72 Enya - Only Time (From "Sweet November") (1)
13 14 68 Dido - Thank You (1)
14 12 17 Enya - Wild Child (12)
15 19 04 Bryan Adams - Here I Am (From "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron") (15)
16 16 05 Hall & Oates - Do It For Love (16)
17 18 09 Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles (17)
18 15 13 Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Help You Now (15)
19 17 14 Carolyn Dawn Johnson - So Complicated (15)
20 20 11 Luther Vandross - I'd Rather (17)

21 23 07 Sheryl Crow - Soak Up The Sun (21)
22 21 36 LeAnn Rimes - Can't Fight The Moonlight (From "Coyote Ugly") (15)
23 22 06 Jennifer Lopez - Alive (From "Enough") (21)
24 24 13 The Calling - Wherever You Will Go (21)
25 26 07 Enrique Iglesias - Escape (25)
26 25 10 All-4-One - Beautiful As U (21)
27 28 03 Elton John - Original Sin (27)
28 29 03 John Mayer - No Such Thing (28)
29 DEBUT Celine Dion - I'm Alive (From "Stuart Little 2") (29)
30 30 02 Michelle Branch - All You Wanted (30)


9 years ago this week, Celine Dion was, for the second time in her career, in the middle of a record breaking #1 run. "A new Day Has Come" would go on to top the chart for 21 weeks. This was week #14. The song that would dethrone her was sitting at #5 by her close friend Josh Groban. Celine almost completed the sandwich as "I'm Alive" debuted at #29.

A quadruple play of former #1s are on the chart, all currently had been on for at least a year with Matchbox 20, Lee Ann Womack, Enya and Dido occupying slots 10-13 this week. I Hope You Dance was the oldest song on the chart this week at 84 weeks.

[Verisimilitude]

I liked "I'm Alive". Had it been released during her heyday (or to promote the first "Stuart Little" movie), it would have been a top 5 hit on AC.

[esoteric76]

Jun 27, 2011 14:28:33 GMT -5 Verisimilitude said:

I liked "I'm Alive". Had it been released during her heyday (or to promote the first "Stuart Little" movie), it would have been a top 5 hit on AC.

Celine seems to favor this song as well, since she performed it in Vegas for I think the entire run (of the A New Day) show, and I've seen her perform this on the road one too many times. I think it gets more attention from her in concert than it deserves, but I also do agree that it should have charted higher.

[johnm1120]

Celine has a few live favorites that weren't big hits. Other songs she has been performing practically at every show that weren't big include "Love Can Move Mountains" and her rendition of "River Deep Mountain High."

I'm Alive got to #54 on Pop (Mediabase), but ANDHC recurrentitus also hurt this one on AC.

[kingofpain]

Wasn't I'm Alive from the second Stuart Little movie? The movie was a big flop, maybe that's why the song didn't get more promotion. I also feel like the song should have been a bigger hit. But like Neil Diamond's last "hit" track with the same title, that song also underperformed.

[esoteric76]

^ Yes, it was from the Stuart Little 2 soundtrack, but it was also on her "A New Day Has Come" album, so I think it could be seen as a single from either project, especially since Sony would have been involved regardless.