Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Hot AC 3/12/11

[musicfanpete]

Rick's chart is up a bit early this week, perhaps due to the time change.

Pink's "Perfect" leapfrogs into the top spot this week, leaving "Jar Of Hearts" by Christina Perri at #2 for the third week in a row. This means her chances of hitting number one are pretty slim now, but anything can still happen.

As expected, "Born This Way" by Lady Gaga is this week's biggest jumper, but not by nearly as much as expected as she only moves up from #24 to #18. Look for this song to at least knock on the door of the top 10 at the very least next week.

Also, just one debut this week by Enrique Iglesias featuring Pitbull with "Tonight". This marks the first time this year that only one song debuted in a week, with last week's Sure Shot by Andy Grammer failing to debut for now.

TC LC wc Artist/Title
01 03 07 Pink: Perfect (1 Wk @ #1)
02 02 25 Christina Perri: Jar Of Hearts
03 01 20 Train: Marry Me
04 06 10 Bruno Mars: Grenade
05 04 15 Katy Perry: Firework
06 05 17 Sick Puppies: Maybe
07 08 15 The Script: For The First Time
08 09 10 Linkin Park: Waiting For The End
09 11 08 Taylor Swift: Back To December
10 07 29 Plain White T's: Rhythm Of Love
11 10 17 Rihanna: Only Girl (In The World)
12 13 06 Avril Lavigne: What The Hell
13 18 04 Cee Lo Green: Forget You!
14 17 09 Mumford & Sons: Little Lion Man
15 12 34 Neon Trees: Animal
16 14 28 Taio Cruz: Dynamite
17 19 09 Florence & The Machine: Dog Days Are Over
18 24 02 Lady Gaga: Born This Way
19 16 25 Bruno Mars: Just The Way You Are
20 20 05 Britney Spears: Hold It Against Me
21 23 07 Adele: Rolling In The Deep
22 26 05 My Chemical Romance: Sing
23 15 19 Pink: Raise Your Glass
24 21 35 Lifehouse: All In
25 30 02 Maroon 5: Never Gonna Leave This Bed
26 22 23 Usher f/Pitbull: DJ Got Us Falling In Love
27 32 03 Colbie Caillat: I Do
28 25 17 Nelly: Just A Dream
29 31 04 Sugerland: Stuck Like Glue
30 27 20 Ryan Star: Start A Fire
31 xx 01 Enrique Iglesias f/Pitbull: Tonight
32 28 06 James Blunt: Stay The Night
33 34 04 Sara Bareilles: Uncharted
34 36 03 Far East Movement f/Ryan Tedder: Rocketeer
35 29 14 Lee DeWyze: Sweet Serendipity
36 33 34 Daughtry: September
37 37 05 Rihanna f/Drake: What's My Name
38 35 29 OneRepublic: Secrets
39 38 29 Katy Perry: Teenage Dream
40 39 08 Goo Goo Dolls: Notbroken
SS- 30 Seconds To Mars: Closer To The Edge

Dropper-
Ke$ha: We R Who We R (from #40, 9 weeks on)

Bonus Tracks-
Sara Barellies: Love Song (between #27 & #26)
Natasha Bedingfield: Unwritten (between #23 & #22)
The Fray: You Found Me (between #17 & #16)
Lifehouse: Hanging By A Moment (between #13 & #12)
Jennifer Lopez: If You Had My Love (between #4 & #3)
Lifehouse: Halfway Gone (between #2 & #1)

[MostInterestingManInTheWorld]

There does seem to be more activity in recent months than in the past. And there seem to be no strong contenders to last 50 weeks on this chart (although "Jar Of Hearts" may hang around and prove me wrong).

And it also seems as if "Raise Your Glass" is following the lead of "Secrets" in that it's falling fall faster than on the Mediabase charts. "Raise Your Glass" is actually #2 on that other weekly show.

[musicfanpete]

Mar 12, 2011 12:15:07 GMT -5 MostInterestingManInTheWorld said:

There does seem to be more activity in recent months than in the past. And there seem to be no strong contenders to last 50 weeks on this chart (although "Jar Of Hearts" may hang around and prove me wrong).

And it also seems as if "Raise Your Glass" is following the lead of "Secrets" in that it's falling fall faster than on the Mediabase charts. "Raise Your Glass" is actually #2 on that other weekly show.

Yeah, it's amazing how Rick's charts and the Mediabase charts have differed more and more over the past six months or so. You had "Marry Me" spending two weeks at number one on Rick's chart while this song is still moving up and bulleted at #4 on Mediabase. "Jar Of Hearts" is spending it's third week at #2 while still at #5 on Mediabase. And songs by Rihanna, Bruno Mars, Mumford & Sons, and Florence and the Machine are also all ranked ahead of Mediabase. So this is refreshing to see as Rick's chart actually is moving like an old school type chart, at least by today's Hot AC chart standards.

Regarding "Secrets", yes that is very interesting how quickly this song has dropped down Rick's chart, though I can see this song hung up at the bottom of the chart for a couple of more weeks. However, it will be eligible for recurrent status on Mediabase this week, so it will removed from there.

And we'll see how quickly "Raise Your Glass" continues to drop in the coming weeks.

[musicfanpete]

The chart has been updated to reflect this week's Bonus Tracks. Surprising that Lifehouse got played twice (once as last year's number one song). Also, J-Lo gets played since she was a guest earlier in the show.

[MostInterestingManInTheWorld]

Mar 13, 2011 21:50:18 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

The chart has been updated to reflect this week's Bonus Tracks. Surprising that Lifehouse got played twice (once as last year's number one song). Also, J-Lo gets played since she was a guest earlier in the show.

"If You Had My Love", from 1999, is the first pre-2000 song this show has played in some time (I'd guess the last would be "Smooth", which made the Top 40 of the 00's show in 2009, although I think of it more as a 1999 song). It's also odd because in 1999, it was excluded from the HAC version of the show.