Rick Dees WT40 Hot AC Special: Top 40 of 2010
Dec 18, 2010 11:45:18 GMT -5
Post by musicfanpete on Dec 18, 2010 11:45:18 GMT -5
We have finally arrived to my favorite week of the year! Here is the official Rick Dees Top 40 Biggest Hot AC Hits of 2010. Some commentary follows below:
1 Train: Hey, Soul Sister
2 The Script: Breakeven
3 Lady Antebellum: Need You Now
4 Lifehouse: Halfway Gone
5 Daughtry: Life After You
6 Kris Allen: Live Like We’re Dying
7 Adam Lambert: Whataya Want From Me
8 Michael Buble: Haven’t Met You Yet
9 Rob Thomas: Someday
10 Kings Of Leon: Use Somebody
11 Kelly Clarkson: Already Gone
12 Train: If It’s Love
13 Katy Perry f/Snoop Dogg: California Gurls
14 Colbie Caillat: I Never Told You
15 John Mayer: Half Of My Heart
16 Maroon 5: Misery
17 Black Eyed Peas: I Gotta Feeling
18 John Mayer: Heartbreak Warfare
19 Sara Barellies: King Of Anything
20 Owl City: Fireflies
21 Lady Gaga: Bad Romance
22 Uncle Kracker: Smile
23 OneRepublic: All The Right Moves
24 Daughtry: September
25 Rob Thomas: Mockingbird
26 Nickelback: This Afternoon
27 Colbie Caillat: Fallin’ For You
28 Orianthi: According To You
29 Shinedown: If You Only Knew
30 Michael Franti & Spearhead: Say Hey (I Love You)
31 Nickelback: Never Gonna Be Alone
32 Pink: Please Don't Leave Me
33 Neon Trees: Animal
34 Taylor Swift: You Belong With Me
35 Shinedown: Second Chance
36 Daughtry: No Surprise
37 Pink: Glitter In The Air
38 Katy Perry: Teenage Dream
39 Lifehouse: All In
40 All-American Rejects: Gives You Hell
Bonus Tracks:
The Fray: You Found Me (#1 song of 2009, before #40)
Will post the rest later this weekend.
Well, for the second year in a row, Rick starts out his year-end countdown with a song that has absolutely no business being on there. "Gives You Hell" peaked at #4 back in May of 2009! While it did hang around on the chart until mid-November, that really would not warrant it showing up on the year-end chart unless they are going strictly by recurrent airplay of their affiliates. That would make sense as this song continues to get good airplay to this day, but there has to be some cutoff as to which songs a qualified to chart and which ones aren't.
Come to think of it, "Second Chance" really does not belong on the chart either. This song has an eight week run at #1, but dropped out of the #1 spot in August. While it remained on the chart the rest of the year, again this is an awfully early peak of a song to show up on the following year's chart!
Other than these two most obviously glaring choices, the rest of the chart is pretty much a mirror image of the recently released Mediabase Top 50 chart, with a few songs swapped around one or two spots (even Lady Gaga shows up once this year!). This shows me that Rick is using some sort of chart that reflects actual plays including recurrent plays. And the fact that those two older songs showed up tells me one of two things. Either he used his "dartboard" method to include these songs on the chart, or more likely these are songs that his affiliates may still be playing quite a bit these days, while using a November to November chart year as well.
Browsing many year-end playlists around the country as I usually do this time of the year, I do see many stations still playing three, four or even five year old songs quite a lot. So occasionally a song like "Gives You Hell" or "Second Chance" might show up in a year-end countdown like this. But I still believe there needs to be a cutoff based on the year of release that determines which songs make the chart.
This is another reason why I much prefer the inverse points method of compiling year-end charts. Those type of charts reflect a song's chart run while not taking into any consideration how much recurrent airplay a song may earn. These charts tend to be fresher and more accurately reflect what was played in a given year during the height of a song's popularity, not three years after it hit the charts.
For comparison sakes, I will post my inverse points version of Rick's year-end chart later today. And it will include the top 100 of the year as well!
1 Train: Hey, Soul Sister
2 The Script: Breakeven
3 Lady Antebellum: Need You Now
4 Lifehouse: Halfway Gone
5 Daughtry: Life After You
6 Kris Allen: Live Like We’re Dying
7 Adam Lambert: Whataya Want From Me
8 Michael Buble: Haven’t Met You Yet
9 Rob Thomas: Someday
10 Kings Of Leon: Use Somebody
11 Kelly Clarkson: Already Gone
12 Train: If It’s Love
13 Katy Perry f/Snoop Dogg: California Gurls
14 Colbie Caillat: I Never Told You
15 John Mayer: Half Of My Heart
16 Maroon 5: Misery
17 Black Eyed Peas: I Gotta Feeling
18 John Mayer: Heartbreak Warfare
19 Sara Barellies: King Of Anything
20 Owl City: Fireflies
21 Lady Gaga: Bad Romance
22 Uncle Kracker: Smile
23 OneRepublic: All The Right Moves
24 Daughtry: September
25 Rob Thomas: Mockingbird
26 Nickelback: This Afternoon
27 Colbie Caillat: Fallin’ For You
28 Orianthi: According To You
29 Shinedown: If You Only Knew
30 Michael Franti & Spearhead: Say Hey (I Love You)
31 Nickelback: Never Gonna Be Alone
32 Pink: Please Don't Leave Me
33 Neon Trees: Animal
34 Taylor Swift: You Belong With Me
35 Shinedown: Second Chance
36 Daughtry: No Surprise
37 Pink: Glitter In The Air
38 Katy Perry: Teenage Dream
39 Lifehouse: All In
40 All-American Rejects: Gives You Hell
Bonus Tracks:
The Fray: You Found Me (#1 song of 2009, before #40)
Will post the rest later this weekend.
Well, for the second year in a row, Rick starts out his year-end countdown with a song that has absolutely no business being on there. "Gives You Hell" peaked at #4 back in May of 2009! While it did hang around on the chart until mid-November, that really would not warrant it showing up on the year-end chart unless they are going strictly by recurrent airplay of their affiliates. That would make sense as this song continues to get good airplay to this day, but there has to be some cutoff as to which songs a qualified to chart and which ones aren't.
Come to think of it, "Second Chance" really does not belong on the chart either. This song has an eight week run at #1, but dropped out of the #1 spot in August. While it remained on the chart the rest of the year, again this is an awfully early peak of a song to show up on the following year's chart!
Other than these two most obviously glaring choices, the rest of the chart is pretty much a mirror image of the recently released Mediabase Top 50 chart, with a few songs swapped around one or two spots (even Lady Gaga shows up once this year!). This shows me that Rick is using some sort of chart that reflects actual plays including recurrent plays. And the fact that those two older songs showed up tells me one of two things. Either he used his "dartboard" method to include these songs on the chart, or more likely these are songs that his affiliates may still be playing quite a bit these days, while using a November to November chart year as well.
Browsing many year-end playlists around the country as I usually do this time of the year, I do see many stations still playing three, four or even five year old songs quite a lot. So occasionally a song like "Gives You Hell" or "Second Chance" might show up in a year-end countdown like this. But I still believe there needs to be a cutoff based on the year of release that determines which songs make the chart.
This is another reason why I much prefer the inverse points method of compiling year-end charts. Those type of charts reflect a song's chart run while not taking into any consideration how much recurrent airplay a song may earn. These charts tend to be fresher and more accurately reflect what was played in a given year during the height of a song's popularity, not three years after it hit the charts.
For comparison sakes, I will post my inverse points version of Rick's year-end chart later today. And it will include the top 100 of the year as well!