Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Hot AC 6/4/11

[musicfanpete]

This week Adele extends her run at number one with the longest run at number one in at least two years as "Rolling In The Deep" holds onto the top spot for the seventh week in a row. She should get a challange from Katy Perry next week as "E.T." is hanging onto the #2 spot for the second week in a row.

It's a bit of the "old guard" and "new guard" this week as Steven Tyler and Lady Gaga debut with new songs this week. It should be interesting as to which song peaks higher as Lady Gaga has been in a bit of a "slump" recently with her last two singles, one of which did not even chart on the Hot AC chart. However her latest hit "Edge Of Glory" looks to be a bit stronger.

And amongst other highlights this week, congratulations to Andy Grammer for notching his first top 5 hit with "Keep Your Head Up", and to He Is We for scoring their first top 20 hit with "Happily Ever After".

TC LC wc Artist/Title
01 01 19 Adele: Rolling In The Deep (7 Wks @ #1)
02 02 10 Katy Perry: E.T.
03 03 14 Maroon5: Never Gonna Leave This Bed
04 07 12 Andy Grammer: Keep Your Head Up
05 04 27 The Script: For The First Time
06 12 08 OneRepublic: Good Life
07 06 22 Bruno Mars: Grenade
08 05 15 Colbie Caillat: I Do
09 08 12 Lifehouse: Falling In
10 09 17 My Chemical Romance: Sing
11 10 16 Cee Lo Green: Forget You!
12 13 16 Sara Bareilles: Uncharted
13 11 19 Pink: Perfect
14 20 04 Train: Save Me San Francisco
15 15 12 Thirty Seconds To Mars: Closer To The Edge
16 16 11 Parachute: Something To Believe In
17 17 10 Grace Potter & The Nocturnals: Paris (Ooh La La)
18 19 06 Bruno Mars: The Lazy Song
19 14 18 Avril Lavigne: What The Hell
20 21 12 He Is We: Happily Ever After
21 22 03 Jason Aldean f/Kelly Clarkson: Don't You Wanna Stay
22 18 14 Lady Gaga: Born This Way
23 23 06 Rihanna: S&M
24 26 07 Ke$ha: Blow
25 27 09 Michael Franti & Spearhead: I'll Be Waiting
26 29 05 Britney Spears: Till The World Ends
27 24 37 Christina Perri: Jar Of Hearts
28 30 03 Black Eyed Peas: Just Can't Get Enough
29 33 04 Neon Trees: Your Surrender
30 25 13 Enrique Iglesias f/Ludacris: Tonight
31 28 20 Taylor Swift: Back To December
32 34 02 Jennifer Lopez f/Pitbull: On The Floor
33 31 10 Stone Sour: Hesitate
34 39 02 Jesse J f/B.O.B: Price Tag
35 37 02 Christina Perri: Arms
36 32 09 Usher: More
37 SS 01 Steven Tyler: It Feels So Good
38 xx 01 Lady Gaga: Edge Of Glory
39 35 08 3 Doors Down: When You're Young
40 36 27 Katy Perry: Firework
SS- Matt Nathanson: Faster

Droppers-
Train: Marry Me (from #40, 31 weeks on)
Duran Duran: All You Need Is Now (from #38, 6 weeks on)

Bonus Tracks-
Pink: Sober (between #27 & #26)
Jordin Sparks f/Chris Brown: No Air (between #22 & #21)
Beyonce: Irreplaceable (between #17 & #16)
Taylor Swift: Love Story (between #13 & #12)
Kelly Clarkson: Already Gone (between #7 & #6)

[musicfanpete]

Just updated the chart to include this week's Bonus Tracks. All female solo artists this week, outside of Chris Brown being featured with Jordin Sparks. Nice to hear a couple of songs that have not been played in awhile.

[MostInterestingManInTheWorld]

Only five songs have been on the chart for at least 20 weeks.. I really do appreciate the fact that this chart is much faster than AT40 (I did see your comment there).

Also, it will be interesting to see if "Rolling In The Deep" will make 10 weeks at #1 - there was a stretch from roughly 1999 to 2009 where it seemed as if every other #1 song made double digits. Frankly, I like the turnover better.

[musicfanpete]

Jun 5, 2011 9:55:22 GMT -5 MostInterestingManInTheWorld said:

Only five songs have been on the chart for at least 20 weeks.. I really do appreciate the fact that this chart is much faster than AT40 (I did see your comment there).

Also, it will be interesting to see if "Rolling In The Deep" will make 10 weeks at #1 - there was a stretch from roughly 1999 to 2009 where it seemed as if every other #1 song made double digits. Frankly, I like the turnover better.

I like the turnover better too, but for some reason this Adele song is a megahit and even hit number on the normally rhthymic leaning CHR chart. Plus it still has such a huge lead over "E.T" on the Mediabase Hot AC chart that it still might be #1 for awhile unless Rick decides to replace it with Katy Perry.

I guess we are entitled to a 10 week run for the first time in quite awhile, but I hope it's the exception rather than the rule.

[BillboardBoy]

Thank you for posting this Pete!

Rick noted that "Jar of Hearts" had been around for 36 weeks (actually 34 not including the year-end specials). Good info, but he rarely does that. The last time I remember him mentioning the total weeks on the chart for any song was "In Your Arms" by Erasure back in 1997 right before it fell off.

[musicfanpete]

Jun 7, 2011 20:20:15 GMT -5 BillboardBoy said:

Thank you for posting this Pete!

Rick noted that "Jar of Hearts" had been around for 36 weeks (actually 34 not including the year-end specials). Good info, but he rarely does that. The last time I remember him mentioning the total weeks on the chart for any song was "In Your Arms" by Erasure back in 1997 right before it fell off.

No problem! This is the only chart around (Hot AC and CHR) that still has a bit of that "old school" feel to it as most of the others either leave recurrents in for two or more years or artificially drop songs off the chart from the top 10. Not the most efficient way of compiling a music chart. Also, Rick has been around for so long that he might even outlast Casey if he decides to continue for awhile!

Wow, that's quite a long gap from the last time he mentioned the total weeks for a song on the chart. I think he needs to mention this a little more often than every 14 years!

[MostInterestingManInTheWorld]

The funny thing is, Dees would often give the week totals back in the 1980's. Of course, given that the information he gave was wrong more often than not begs the question as to how useful it is!