Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Hot AC 5/7/11

[musicfanpete]

Mother's Day weekend brings us a new chart with the same results. Adele holds onto the top spot for the third straight week with "Rolling In The Deep", while "For The First Time" by the Script has to settle for #2 for the fourth week in a row. This song may go the way of Christina Perri's "Jar Of Hearts" as a song with a long run at #2 failing to make the top spot. But with relatively little competition behind it, the Script still may have a shot to eventually make it to the top.

While this week's chart is still somewhat slow, at least we have a few bigger movers this week. Katy Perry earns the biggest jumper of the week award moving up from #14 to #8 with her latest hit, "E.T.". Also making a decent move was Usher's "More", up from #30 to #25. Hopefully he enjoys this jump this week because based on the current Mediabase Hot AC chart, this song won't move up much further here either.

In other chart oddities this week, we have a song reentering the chart after falling out for a week for the second week in a row, and also we have another "Sure Shot" that fails to chart. Ke$ha's "Blow" returns to the chart this week at #33 after falling out for a week. This week's Sure Shot though looks like it should easily enter the chart next week as Train's "Save Me San Francisco" is rapidly climbing the Mediabase Hot AC chart this week.

TC LC wc Artist/Title
01 01 15 Adele: Rolling In The Deep (3 Wks @ #1)
02 02 23 The Script: For The First Time
03 03 18 Bruno Mars: Grenade
04 05 10 Maroon5: Never Gonna Leave This Bed
05 04 12 Cee Lo Green: Forget You!
06 07 11 Colbie Caillat: I Do
07 06 15 Pink: Perfect
08 14 06 Katy Perry: E.T.
09 10 14 Avril Lavigne: What The Hell
10 09 10 Lady Gaga: Born This Way
11 11 09 Enrique Iglesias f/Ludacris: Tonight
12 13 13 My Chemical Romance: Sing
13 08 33 Christina Perri: Jar Of Hearts
14 15 08 Lifehouse: Falling In
15 16 08 Andy Grammer: Keep Your Head Up
16 17 12 Sara Bareilles: Uncharted
17 12 17 Florence & The Machine: Dog Days Are Over
18 19 08 Thirty Seconds To Mars: Closer To The Edge
19 21 07 Parachute: Something To Believe In
20 22 04 OneRepublic: Good Life
21 18 28 Train: Marry Me
22 25 06 Grace Potter & The Nocturnals: Paris (Ooh La La)
23 23 06 Stone Sour: Hesitate
24 20 16 Taylor Swift: Back To December
25 30 05 Usher: More
26 27 08 He Is We: Happily Ever After
27 28 02 Rihanna: S&M
28 29 05 Michael Franti & Spearhead: I'll Be Waiting
29 26 23 Katy Perry: Firework
30 24 17 Mumford & Sons: Little Lion Man
31 32 04 3 Doors Down: When You're Young
32 33 02 Bruno Mars: The Lazy Song
33 RE 03 Ke$ha: Blow
34 31 12 Sugarland: Stuck Like Glue
35 34 18 Linkin Park: Waiting For The End
36 35 25 Rihanna: Only Girl (In The World)
37 38 03 Duran Duran: All You Need Is Now
38 xx 01 Britney Spears: Till The World Ends
39 39 42 Neon Trees: Animal
40 40 33 Bruno Mars: Just The Way You Are
SS- Train: Save Me San Francisco

Droppers-
One EskimO: Amazing (from #37, 2 weeks on)
Plain White T's: Rhythm Of Love (from #36, 36 weeks on)

Bonus Tracks-
Kelly Clarkson: Since U Been Gone (between #27 & #26)
Taio Cruz f/Ludacris: Break Your Heart (between #22 & #21)
Maroon 5: This Love (between #17 & #16)
Rob Thomas: Her Diamonds (between #13 & #12)
John Mayer: Heartbreak Warfare (between #7 & #6)
Justin Timberlake: Rock Your Body (between #2 & #1)

[musicfanpete]

I updated the chart to reflect this week's Bonus Tracks. It looks like Rick stopped with the three #1's from the past three years portion of the Bonus Tracks and just went with six more random Bonus Tracks. Probably not a bad choice if he continues this way.