"Old School" Top 30 Hot AC Chart 3/19/11

[musicfanpete]

I have been tinkering around with my own "dartboard, old school" Hot AC chart. I came up with charts from the beginning of the year. I figured I would post the current one just for kicks. If this is more fitting for the Personal Chart fourm, I can move it there. But if people like it, I can post one each week.

TC LC wc Artist/Title
01 02 26 Christina Perri: Jar Of Hearts (1 Wk @ #1)
02 03 08 Pink: Perfect
03 01 21 Train: Marry Me
04 04 11 Bruno Mars: Grenade
05 05 16 The Script: For The First Time
06 06 11 Linkin Park: Waiting For The End
07 07 08 Taylor Swift: Back To December
08 13 05 Cee Lo Green: Forget You!
09 10 11 Florence & The Machine: Dog Days Are Over
10 11 07 Avril Lavigne: What The Hell
11 14 03 Lady Gaga: Born This Way
12 12 10 Mumford & Sons: Little Lion Man
13 16 08 Adele: Rolling In The Deep
14 18 05 Sugerland: Stuck Like Glue
15 17 06 My Chemical Romance: Sing
16 09 16 Katy Perry: Firework
17 24 03 Maroon 5: Never Gonna Leave This Bed
18 19 08 James Blunt: Stay The Night
19 23 05 Colbie Caillat: I Do
20 22 06 Rihanna f/Drake: What's My Name
21 27 02 Enrique Iglesias f/Pitbull: Tonight
22 25 04 Sara Bareilles: Uncharted
23 28 02 Far East Movement f/Ryan Tedder: Rocketeer
24 30 02 Andy Grammer: Keep Your Head Up
25 08 18 Sick Puppies: Maybe
26 xx 01 Lifehouse: Falling In
27 15 07 Britney Spears: Hold It Against Me
28 xx 01 Thirty Seconds To Mars: Closer To The Edge
29 21 18 Rihanna: Only Girl (In The World)
30 xx 01 Parachute: Something To Believe In

Droppers:
Usher f/Pitbull: DJ Got Us Falling In Love (from #29, 23 weeks on)
Ke$ha: We R Who We R (from #26, 9 weeks on)
Edward Maya featuring Vika Jigulina: Stereo Love (from #20, 5 weeks on)


As you can see, I don't mess around! When a song starts dropping, it drops fast. But because of the relatively few songs that debut each week, my chart works better in a top 30 format. Also, songs that would have debuted last year use the number of weeks the songs have charted on the Rick Dees chart. All songs that debuted this year reflect the actual weeks charted on my chart.

[MostInterestingManInTheWorld]

I'm cool with seeing this here. Just out of curiosity, is this derived somehow from existing charts? I see "Stereo Love" reached at least #20, whereas on Mediabase it barely made a dent. Does personal preference play a role?

[musicfanpete]

Mar 17, 2011 23:24:54 GMT -5 MostInterestingManInTheWorld said:

I'm cool with seeing this here. Just out of curiosity, is this derived somehow from existing charts? I see "Stereo Love" reached at least #20, whereas on Mediabase it barely made a dent. Does personal preference play a role?

Oh, this is definitely a dartboard chart, though I do loosely base it off the Mediabase charts. While I don't use specific data from Mediabase, usually I don't start dropping a song until the song shows significant spin declines on Mediabase. Songs like "Dog Days Are Over" and "What The Hell" lost their bullets this week, but I want to wait another week or two until I'm sure they are on the way out. In the meantime I just keep moving them up or hold them at the same position until then. This allows songs to peak higher than on Mediabase and keep the chart moving faster.

Regarding "Stereo Love", yes that was personal preference here, though I don't add songs to my chart unless they hit or at least come very close to the Mediabase Hot AC top 40. But I like that song a lot and thought it at least needed to become a moderate hit on my chart.