WTMX Top 50 of 2010 (updated)

[musicfanpete]

Here is my annual listing of the top 50 songs from my hometown Hot AC station WTMX. Note the increase in rhythmic and rap music on this year's list!

1 Train: Hey, Soul Sister
2 Kings Of Leon: Sex On Fire
3 Lady Gaga: Bad Romance
4 Ke$ha: Tik Tok
5 Black Eyed Peas: Meet Me Halfway
6 Lady Antebellum: Need You Now
7 Michael Buble: Haven’t Met You Yet
8 Jay Sean f/Lil' Wayne: Down
9 Michael Franti & Spearhead: Say Hey (I Love You)
10 Kings Of Leon: Use Somebody
11 Katy Perry f/Snoop Dogg: California Gurls
12 Lifehouse: Halfway Gone
13 Kelly Clarkson: Already Gone
14 Black Eyed Peas: I Gotta Feeling
15 Ke$ha: Your Love Is My Drug
16 Jason Derulo: In My Head
17 Neon Trees: Animal
18 Lady Gaga f/Beyonce: Telephone
19 B.O.B. f/Bruno Mars: Nothin' On You
20 Maroon 5: Misery
21 Jay-Z f/Alicia Keys: Empire State Of Mind
22 Plain White T's: Rhythm Of Love
23 Bruno Mars: Just The Way You Are
24 Train: If It’s Love
25 La Roux: Bulletproof
26 Enrique Iglesias f/Pitbull: I Like It
27 Colbie Caillat: I Never Told You
28 Katy Perry: Teenage Dream
29 Adam Lambert: Whataya Want From Me
30 Taylor Swift: You Belong With Me
31 Beyonce: Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
32 Pink: Glitter In The Air
33 Daughtry: No Surprise
34 Ne-Yo: Closer
35 Mike Posner: Cooler Than Me
36 The Script: Breakeven
37 Taio Cruz: Dynamite
38 Shinedown: Second Chance
39 Katy Perry: I Kissed A Girl
40 Pink: Please Don't Leave Me
41 Colbie Caillat: Fallin’ For You
42 Lady Gaga: Poker Face
43 Pink: Raise Your Glass
44 Eminem f/Rihanna: Love The Way You Lie
45 Beyonce: Halo
46 John Mayer: Heartbreak Warfare
47 Lady Gaga f/Colbie O'Donis: Just Dance
48 The Fray: You Found Me
49 Paramore: The Only Exception
50 Miley Cyrus: Party In The U.S.A.

[atlantaboy]

Dec 28, 2010 0:33:06 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

2 Kings Of Leon: Sex On Fire
5 Black Eyed Peas: Meet Me Halfway
8 Jay Sean f/Lil' Wayne: Down
21 Jay-Z f/Alicia Keys: Empire State Of Mind
34 Ne-Yo: Closer
36 The Script: Breakeven
43 Pink: Raise Your Glass

:o

I guess they didn't like Breakeven much lol

[musicfanpete]

Dec 28, 2010 10:08:21 GMT -5 atlantaboy said:

Dec 28, 2010 0:33:06 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

2 Kings Of Leon: Sex On Fire
5 Black Eyed Peas: Meet Me Halfway
8 Jay Sean f/Lil' Wayne: Down
21 Jay-Z f/Alicia Keys: Empire State Of Mind
34 Ne-Yo: Closer
36 The Script: Breakeven
43 Pink: Raise Your Glass

:o

I guess they didn't like Breakeven much lol

Yeah, "Breakeven" has not received any plays for about 3 months (I have the month by month breakdown which is also on Allaccess at least through the end of the week).

I don't think any other market has embraced "Sex On Fire" as much as Chicago has. It also finished in the year-end top 10 on Hot AC leaning WCFS. It's a great song, and very surprising it did not peak higher on the national charts.

You know my opinions on "Empire State Of Mind". That version does not belong on a Hot AC station IMO, but with the Mix serving as the "de facto" mainstream CHR here, I guess that's their rationale behind playing that so much.

And you forgot to note song #44 by Eminem and Rihanna! Another song that really has no business being played on the Hot AC format, but that's their perrogative I guess.

[KelownaGuy20]

We sure do have our differences, musicfanpete!

I absolutely love about half the tracks, but there are some I wouldn't have ever included on a Top ____ of 2010 chart.

[atlantaboy]

^Empire State Of Mind seems weird to me, not just cause it's rap, but because it only peaked at #5 on CHR - it wasn't a collosal pop hit like Airplanes or Love The Way You Lie

Not sure why Empire State Of Mind worked so well for them, but Airplanes isn't even in the Top 50 ???

[musicfanpete]

Dec 30, 2010 22:16:47 GMT -5 atlantaboy said:

^Empire State Of Mind seems weird to me, not just cause it's rap, but because it only peaked at #5 on CHR - it wasn't a collosal pop hit like Airplanes or Love The Way You Lie

Not sure why Empire State Of Mind worked so well for them, but Airplanes isn't even in the Top 50 ???

"Airplanes" was just added as a recurrent on the Mix about a month ago. So perhaps it will make the WTMX Top 50 of 2011 instead.

[musicfanpete]

Dec 30, 2010 17:52:30 GMT -5 KelownaGuy20 said:

We sure do have our differences, musicfanpete!

I absolutely love about half the tracks, but there are some I wouldn't have ever included on a Top ____ of 2010 chart.

I bet I could figure out a good number of those songs!

[KelownaGuy20]

Dec 30, 2010 23:05:26 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

Dec 30, 2010 17:52:30 GMT -5 KelownaGuy20 said:

We sure do have our differences, musicfanpete!

I absolutely love about half the tracks, but there are some I wouldn't have ever included on a Top ____ of 2010 chart.

I bet I could figure out a good number of those songs!

I think you'd be surprised... I dunno, I wouldn't even imagine putting songs like Single Ladies, Poker Face, Closer and Use Somebody on a best of 2010 chart, simply because those songs defined 2009 for me, and my station. While they all certainly continued to get airplay, I could in no way justify charting them for another year.

Heck, Just Dance was on my Best of 2008 chart! So that one seems REALLY old!

[gtomaro]

Dec 28, 2010 10:51:40 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

Dec 28, 2010 10:08:21 GMT -5 atlantaboy said:

:o

I guess they didn't like Breakeven much lol

Yeah, "Breakeven" has not received any plays for about 3 months (I have the month by month breakdown which is also on Allaccess at least through the end of the week).

I don't think any other market has embraced "Sex On Fire" as much as Chicago has. It also finished in the year-end top 10 on Hot AC leaning WCFS. It's a great song, and very surprising it did not peak higher on the national charts.

You know my opinions on "Empire State Of Mind". That version does not belong on a Hot AC station IMO, but with the Mix serving as the "de facto" mainstream CHR here, I guess that's their rationale behind playing that so much.

And you forgot to note song #44 by Eminem and Rihanna! Another song that really has no business being played on the Hot AC format, but that's their perrogative I guess.

That song by Eminem featuring Rihanna was the worst ever song to chart on Hot AC!!! >:( >:( >:( I really hate Eminem more this year than ever before!

[musicfanpete]

Dec 31, 2010 4:07:36 GMT -5 KelownaGuy20 said:

Dec 30, 2010 23:05:26 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

I bet I could figure out a good number of those songs!

I think you'd be surprised... I dunno, I wouldn't even imagine putting songs like Single Ladies, Poker Face, Closer and Use Somebody on a best of 2010 chart, simply because those songs defined 2009 for me, and my station. While they all certainly continued to get airplay, I could in no way justify charting them for another year.

Heck, Just Dance was on my Best of 2008 chart! So that one seems REALLY old!

This chart is based on actual plays, but I agree that all recurrents should be cut from the chart, and then all newer songs that ranked below this top 50 could be moved up to fill in those spaces so to speak. If I had access to the full Mediabase website (which I don't since it's a couple hundred dollars a month to subscribe to!) I could post a legitimate top 100 chart after weeding out all of those 2008 and 2009 songs. But this is the best I can do for now.

[musicfanpete]

Dec 31, 2010 10:03:41 GMT -5 gtomaro said:

Dec 28, 2010 10:51:40 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

Yeah, "Breakeven" has not received any plays for about 3 months (I have the month by month breakdown which is also on Allaccess at least through the end of the week).

I don't think any other market has embraced "Sex On Fire" as much as Chicago has. It also finished in the year-end top 10 on Hot AC leaning WCFS. It's a great song, and very surprising it did not peak higher on the national charts.

You know my opinions on "Empire State Of Mind". That version does not belong on a Hot AC station IMO, but with the Mix serving as the "de facto" mainstream CHR here, I guess that's their rationale behind playing that so much.

And you forgot to note song #44 by Eminem and Rihanna! Another song that really has no business being played on the Hot AC format, but that's their perrogative I guess.

That's why I change the station every time this song comes on! Their ratings are still strong, so obviously there is an adult audience for songs like this, but I would think they are skewing a bit younger now when they play songs like this.
That song by Eminem featuring Rihanna was the worst ever song to chart on Hot AC!!! >:( >:( >:( I really hate Eminem more this year than ever before!

[Radical347]

Thanks for posting the chart! I used to listen to Mix everytime we drove/took the train through Chicagoland. I thought their playlist was quite good for a Hot AC station, but sadly it seems to have gotten more and more generic over the years and this chart reflects that...now it seems the "best" they can do is spin a bunch of rhythmic songs that aren't really great for Hot AC anyway :( (At least they didn't overplay "Breakeven" as much as the next guy, though )

Dec 28, 2010 10:51:40 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

Dec 28, 2010 10:08:21 GMT -5 atlantaboy said:

I don't think any other market has embraced "Sex On Fire" as much as Chicago has. It also finished in the year-end top 10 on Hot AC leaning WCFS. It's a great song, and very surprising it did not peak higher on the national charts.

How about San Francisco? I don't have their year-end charts, but I still hear that all the time on all 3 of the Hot AC stations here. (KLLC, KIOI, KEZR).

[musicfanpete]

Dec 31, 2010 16:19:18 GMT -5 Radical347 said:

Thanks for posting the chart! I used to listen to Mix everytime we drove/took the train through Chicagoland. I thought their playlist was quite good for a Hot AC station, but sadly it seems to have gotten more and more generic over the years and this chart reflects that...now it seems the "best" they can do is spin a bunch of rhythmic songs that aren't really great for Hot AC anyway :( (At least they didn't overplay "Breakeven" as much as the next guy, though )

Dec 28, 2010 10:51:40 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

Dec 28, 2010 10:08:21 GMT -5 atlantaboy said:

I don't think any other market has embraced "Sex On Fire" as much as Chicago has. It also finished in the year-end top 10 on Hot AC leaning WCFS. It's a great song, and very surprising it did not peak higher on the national charts.

How about San Francisco? I don't have their year-end charts, but I still hear that all the time on all 3 of the Hot AC stations here. (KLLC, KIOI, KEZR).

I can look those up later today and let you know where SOF finished.

[musicfanpete]

Dec 31, 2010 16:19:18 GMT -5 Radical347 said:

Thanks for posting the chart! I used to listen to Mix everytime we drove/took the train through Chicagoland. I thought their playlist was quite good for a Hot AC station, but sadly it seems to have gotten more and more generic over the years and this chart reflects that...now it seems the "best" they can do is spin a bunch of rhythmic songs that aren't really great for Hot AC anyway :( (At least they didn't overplay "Breakeven" as much as the next guy, though )

Dec 28, 2010 10:51:40 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

Dec 28, 2010 10:08:21 GMT -5 atlantaboy said:

I don't think any other market has embraced "Sex On Fire" as much as Chicago has. It also finished in the year-end top 10 on Hot AC leaning WCFS. It's a great song, and very surprising it did not peak higher on the national charts.

How about San Francisco? I don't have their year-end charts, but I still hear that all the time on all 3 of the Hot AC stations here. (KLLC, KIOI, KEZR).

Just looked this up. "Sex On Fire" finished at #37 for the year on KIOI and at #7 on KLLC. You can look up the entire top 50 year-end list on Allaccess.com under the music charts pulldown menu. They should be up for roughly a week after the new year before they start tabulating for 2011.

[Hervard]

So Pete, did WTMX do a countdown of these songs, or did you get this off of their website?

[musicfanpete]

Dec 31, 2010 20:43:42 GMT -5 Hervard said:

So Pete, did WTMX do a countdown of these songs, or did you get this off of their website?

I got this off of allaccess.com. You would need to register with a username and password, and then you can access it via the music charts pulldown tab about 3/4 of the way up the page. But no, the Mix hasn't done a countdown for as long as I can remember.

Have a Happy New Year!

[Hervard]

I know that back in 1993, they did a Top 101.9 countdown, with #101.9 being a brand new song that they'd just started playing ("Everyday" by Phil Collins). In 1994, they did a Top 94. Not sure if they did anything in 1995 - that was the year that they dropped Casey's Hot 20 (but still played the commercial breaks, which I thought was extremely moronic).

[atlantaboy]

Dec 31, 2010 23:10:02 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

Dec 31, 2010 20:43:42 GMT -5 Hervard said:

So Pete, did WTMX do a countdown of these songs, or did you get this off of their website?

I got this off of allaccess.com. You would need to register with a username and password, and then you can access it via the music charts pulldown tab about 3/4 of the way up the page.

It's actually too late lol (as of midnight) - I guess on Jan. 1 they clean out their Year-To-Date database, cause the "YTD" link on allaccess is now just pulling up song totals from today

[musicfanpete]

Jan 1, 2011 11:08:26 GMT -5 Hervard said:

I know that back in 1993, they did a Top 101.9 countdown, with #101.9 being a brand new song that they'd just started playing ("Everyday" by Phil Collins). In 1994, they did a Top 94. Not sure if they did anything in 1995 - that was the year that they dropped Casey's Hot 20 (but still played the commercial breaks, which I thought was extremely moronic).

I vaguely remember those countdowns in 93 and 94. I'm pretty sure that was the last time they actually aired a local year-end countdown. And I also remember the commercial breaks from the national countdown, though I thought it was the early version of the Rick Dees "Hot AC" countdown they ran during that time, the one's where he just basically chopped up the CHR chart into a vague sounding "top 30 Hot AC" countdown. Regarding the commericals, I guess they had a contract to finish out, but thought they would get more listeners running their own music locally. The Mix hasn't run any national speciality programming since then.

[musicfanpete]

Jan 1, 2011 13:22:35 GMT -5 atlantaboy said:

Dec 31, 2010 23:10:02 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

I got this off of allaccess.com. You would need to register with a username and password, and then you can access it via the music charts pulldown tab about 3/4 of the way up the page.

It's actually too late lol (as of midnight) - I guess on Jan. 1 they clean out their Year-To-Date database, cause the "YTD" link on allaccess is now just pulling up song totals from today

They usually keep the previous year's YTD database up for a week or so. Lately they have been very sloppy in updating the YTD totals during the weekends (some stations get updated, others don't, and some only show the top 25 songs), and usually don't always get the totals straightened up until Monday morning. So I'd look again at that time just to be safe. Otherwise I guess we are out of luck.

[musicfanpete]

Jan 1, 2011 13:22:35 GMT -5 atlantaboy said:

Dec 31, 2010 23:10:02 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

I got this off of allaccess.com. You would need to register with a username and password, and then you can access it via the music charts pulldown tab about 3/4 of the way up the page.

It's actually too late lol (as of midnight) - I guess on Jan. 1 they clean out their Year-To-Date database, cause the "YTD" link on allaccess is now just pulling up song totals from today

Actually I just looked at YTD playlists on allaccess.com. The YTD totals are from 2010 and the totals in the January column are from January of 2010. These should be up at least until next weekend's update. So hopefully you have some time to browse through and/or copy whichever station playlists you want.

[KelownaGuy20]

Jan 1, 2011 22:50:08 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

Jan 1, 2011 13:22:35 GMT -5 atlantaboy said:

It's actually too late lol (as of midnight) - I guess on Jan. 1 they clean out their Year-To-Date database, cause the "YTD" link on allaccess is now just pulling up song totals from today

Actually I just looked at YTD playlists on allaccess.com. The YTD totals are from 2010 and the totals in the January column are from January of 2010. These should be up at least until next weekend's update. So hopefully you have some time to browse through and/or copy whichever station playlists you want.

Ooh, okay! These are just based on spins, and not an actual countdown. I forgive the inclusion of some of of those songs, then. I just thought the PD was too lazy to remove recurents from a countdown show.

[overboard]

I honestly thought Meet Me Halfway would have been higher than 5. I seemingly cant turn on this station for more then 20 minutes without hearing this song.

[KelownaGuy20]

Looking just at spins, here are the Top 50 on my station! Canadian tracks are in red, and I've included some YouTube links if you wanna check them out!

1 The Script - Breakeven (627)
2 Jason DeRulo - In My Head (618)
3 Taio Cruz featuring Ludacris - Break Your Heart (613)
4 Train - Hey, Soul Sister (605)
5 Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé - Telephone (594)
6 Adam Lambert - Whataya Want From Me (589)
7 Lady Antebellum - Need You Now (583)
8 Daughtry - Life After You (560)
9 John Mayer - Heartbreak Warfare (555)
10 Jay Sean featuring Sean Paul - Do You Remember (546)
11 Ke$ha - TiK ToK (545)
12 B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams - Airplanes (537)
13 Lady Gaga - Alejandro (534)
14 Rihanna - Rude Boy (530)
15 Iyaz - Replay (525)
16 Usher featuring will.i.am - OMG (520)
17 Ke$ha - Your Love Is My Drug (517)
18 Orianthi - According To You (508)
19 Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind (506)
20 B.o.B featuring Bruno Mars - Nothin' On You (502)
21 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance (501)
22 Travie McCoy featuring Bruno Mars - Billionaire (492)
23 Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg - California Gurls (490)
24 deadmau5 featuring Rob Swire - Ghosts N Stuff (481) - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ArUgxtlJs
25 Enrique Iglesias featuring Pitbull - I Like It (479)
26 Mike Posner - Cooler Than Me (468)
27 Timbaland featuring Nelly Furtado & SoShy - Morning After Dark (466)
28 Drake - Find Your Love (451)
29 OneRepublic - All The Right Moves (450)
30 Timbaland featuring Justin Timberlake - Carry Out (438)
31 Taylor Swift - Fifteen (434)
32 The Latency - Fork In The Road (429) - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL2-c4IUuZk
33 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream (428)
34 Taio Cruz - Dynamite (427)
35 Kris Allen - Live Like We're Dying (426)
36 Eminem featuring Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie (422)
37 Tiesto vs. Tegan & Sara - Feel It In My Bones (420) - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0LO6v43YCo
38 Boys Like Girls featuring Taylor Swift - Two Is Better Than One (418)
39 Nickelback - This Afternoon (418)
40 Lights - Second Go (417) - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPLRkyGU3cM
41 Stereos - Turn It Up (415) - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l2S4VSbGik
42 Faber Drive - Give Him Up (414) - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ7uOWUIqwk
43 Jason DeRulo - Whatcha Say (413)
44 Down With Webster - Your Man (413) - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqmo9-jVOcM
45 Usher featuring Pitbull - DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love (410)
46 Hedley - Perfect (407) - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nBU9VR2X5g
47 David Guetta featuring Akon - Sexy Chick (406)
48 Hedley - Don't Talk To Strangers (404) - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=93LhP1CgQ6w
49 Shawn Desman - Shiver (403) - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhVNYput_a4
50 Timbaland featuring Katy Perry - If We Ever Meet Again (398)

[musicfanpete]

Jan 2, 2011 21:18:48 GMT -5 KelownaGuy20 said:

Jan 1, 2011 22:50:08 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

Actually I just looked at YTD playlists on allaccess.com. The YTD totals are from 2010 and the totals in the January column are from January of 2010. These should be up at least until next weekend's update. So hopefully you have some time to browse through and/or copy whichever station playlists you want.

Ooh, okay! These are just based on spins, and not an actual countdown. I forgive the inclusion of some of of those songs, then. I just thought the PD was too lazy to remove recurents from a countdown show.

Oh yeah, they haven't aired an actual year-end countdown in about fifteen years! I guess they figure people can use other sources to search for year-end charts.

[musicfanpete]

Jan 2, 2011 21:48:53 GMT -5 overboard said:

I honestly thought Meet Me Halfway would have been higher than 5. I seemingly cant turn on this station for more then 20 minutes without hearing this song.

This is actually one of the few rap songs I like, and one that actually is a bit of a fit on Hot AC radio due to its mellow sound. It still hasn't burned out for me after all this time, and that's probably why it still gets played a lot there.

[musicfanpete]

Jan 2, 2011 22:11:29 GMT -5 KelownaGuy20 said:

Looking just at spins, here are the Top 50 on my station! Canadian tracks are in red, and I've included some YouTube links if you wanna check them out!

1 The Script - Breakeven (627)
2 Jason DeRulo - In My Head (618)
3 Taio Cruz featuring Ludacris - Break Your Heart (613)
4 Train - Hey, Soul Sister (605)
5 Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé - Telephone (594)
6 Adam Lambert - Whataya Want From Me (589)
7 Lady Antebellum - Need You Now (583)
8 Daughtry - Life After You (560)
9 John Mayer - Heartbreak Warfare (555)
10 Jay Sean featuring Sean Paul - Do You Remember (546)
11 Ke$ha - TiK ToK (545)
12 B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams - Airplanes (537)
13 Lady Gaga - Alejandro (534)
14 Rihanna - Rude Boy (530)
15 Iyaz - Replay (525)
16 Usher featuring will.i.am - OMG (520)
17 Ke$ha - Your Love Is My Drug (517)
18 Orianthi - According To You (508)
19 Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind (506)
20 B.o.B featuring Bruno Mars - Nothin' On You (502)
21 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance (501)
22 Travie McCoy featuring Bruno Mars - Billionaire (492)
23 Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg - California Gurls (490)
24 deadmau5 featuring Rob Swire - Ghosts N Stuff (481) - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ArUgxtlJs
25 Enrique Iglesias featuring Pitbull - I Like It (479)
26 Mike Posner - Cooler Than Me (468)
27 Timbaland featuring Nelly Furtado & SoShy - Morning After Dark (466)
28 Drake - Find Your Love (451)
29 OneRepublic - All The Right Moves (450)
30 Timbaland featuring Justin Timberlake - Carry Out (438)
31 Taylor Swift - Fifteen (434)
32 The Latency - Fork In The Road (429) - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL2-c4IUuZk
33 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream (428)
34 Taio Cruz - Dynamite (427)
35 Kris Allen - Live Like We're Dying (426)
36 Eminem featuring Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie (422)
37 Tiesto vs. Tegan & Sara - Feel It In My Bones (420) - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0LO6v43YCo
38 Boys Like Girls featuring Taylor Swift - Two Is Better Than One (418)
39 Nickelback - This Afternoon (418)
40 Lights - Second Go (417) - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPLRkyGU3cM
41 Stereos - Turn It Up (415) - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l2S4VSbGik
42 Faber Drive - Give Him Up (414) - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ7uOWUIqwk
43 Jason DeRulo - Whatcha Say (413)
44 Down With Webster - Your Man (413) - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqmo9-jVOcM
45 Usher featuring Pitbull - DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love (410)
46 Hedley - Perfect (407) - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nBU9VR2X5g
47 David Guetta featuring Akon - Sexy Chick (406)
48 Hedley - Don't Talk To Strangers (404) - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=93LhP1CgQ6w
49 Shawn Desman - Shiver (403) - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhVNYput_a4
50 Timbaland featuring Katy Perry - If We Ever Meet Again (398)

Thanks! Wow, those top songs averaged about one half to even one third the number of spins the top songs on an average U.S. Hot AC station would get throughout the course of a year! It goes to show you that U.S. radio is controlled by a couple of conglomorates that only care about the top 10 or 15 songs getting played as often as possible. Why else were most national year-end charts cut down to 40 or 50 positions this year, AT40 included?

Oh a note about song 46 on your chart. It looks like Hedley is finally breaking out here in the U.S. as "Perfect" debuted on the last 2010 weekly Rick Dees Hot AC chart in mid-December, and has hit the top 25 on the Mediabase chart.

[KelownaGuy20]

Jan 2, 2011 22:19:51 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

Thanks! Wow, those top songs averaged about one half to even one third the number of spins the top songs on an average U.S. Hot AC station would get throughout the course of a year! It goes to show you that U.S. radio is controlled by a couple of conglomorates that only care about the top 10 or 15 songs getting played as often as possible. Why else were most national year-end charts cut down to 40 or 50 positions this year, AT40 included?

Oh a note about song 46 on your chart. It looks like Hedley is finally breaking out here in the U.S. as "Perfect" debuted on the last 2010 weekly Rick Dees Hot AC chart in mid-December, and has hit the top 25 on the Mediabase chart.

Really? That's insane! Our power rotation was spinning songs about 35 times a week... but we also had a fairly large "current" playlist (41 songs).

Maybe that's why American and Canadian HotAC is so different! Because while we play "Love The Way You Lie," we don't play it to death every week!

[atlantaboy]

Jan 2, 2011 22:19:51 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

Thanks! Wow, those top songs averaged about one half to even one third the number of spins the top songs on an average U.S. Hot AC station would get throughout the course of a year! It goes to show you that U.S. radio is controlled by a couple of conglomorates that only care about the top 10 or 15 songs getting played as often as possible.

Yeah there's no Clear Channel in Canada and look at the difference lol

[musicfanpete]

Jan 2, 2011 22:24:11 GMT -5 KelownaGuy20 said:

Jan 2, 2011 22:19:51 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

Thanks! Wow, those top songs averaged about one half to even one third the number of spins the top songs on an average U.S. Hot AC station would get throughout the course of a year! It goes to show you that U.S. radio is controlled by a couple of conglomorates that only care about the top 10 or 15 songs getting played as often as possible. Why else were most national year-end charts cut down to 40 or 50 positions this year, AT40 included?

Oh a note about song 46 on your chart. It looks like Hedley is finally breaking out here in the U.S. as "Perfect" debuted on the last 2010 weekly Rick Dees Hot AC chart in mid-December, and has hit the top 25 on the Mediabase chart.

Really? That's insane! Our power rotation was spinning songs about 35 times a week... but we also had a fairly large "current" playlist (41 songs).

Maybe that's why American and Canadian HotAC is so different! Because while we play "Love The Way You Lie," we don't play it to death every week!

Yes, the year-end number one song on a typical U.S. Hot AC station probably would receive 1300 to 1500 spins in a given year. Some so-called Hot AC stations might even spin their top songs well over 2000 times in a year! But it's not even all from spins in a weekly power rotation. Many of these spins come from songs that linger in recurrent rotation for over a year or two.

Some U.S. Hot AC's will spin their powers 70 to 80 times a week, while the majority will spin them 40 to 55 times a week (WTMX falls into the latter category, thankfully). But some songs also get played in power recurrent rotation over 20 times a week for months on end, and that is how you end up with some stations playing their top songs 2000 to 2500 times a year! And we're not even talking CHR stations here!

Yes, there is a problem here in the U.S. regarding just how stupid the big radio corporations think listeners are!