Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Hot AC 9/4/10

[musicfanpete]

This week's chart is a bit more "old school" as there are three more debuts and several big jumpers. Paramore jumps ten spots to #10 with "The Only Exception". Despite doubling their 5 notch move from last week, Paramore has to settle for the second biggest jump this week as Katy Perry vaults up 11 spots to #26 with her latest "Teenage Dream". OneRepublic also makes a big move as well, up 8 spots to #32 with "Secrets".

While enduring the biggest drop of the week with "Break Your Heart", Taio Cruz also has this week's highest debut with last week's Sure Shot, "Dynamite". He joins Adam Lambert and the Killers lead singer Brandon Flowers with this week's three debuts.

Finally, while Train holds onto the number one spot for the second straight week with "If It's Love", look for "Misery" by Maroon 5 to make a strong challange for the top next week as they move up to #2 this week.

TC LC wc Artist/Title
01 01 18 Train: If It's Love (2 Wks @ #1)
02 04 06 Maroon 5: Misery
03 03 16 Rob Thomas: Mockingbird
04 02 17 John Mayer f/Taylor Swift: Half Of My Heart
05 05 13 Katy Perry f/Snoop Dogg: California Gurls
06 06 12 Sara Bareilles: King Of Anything
07 07 18 Pink: Glitter In The Air
08 09 09 Goo Goo Dolls: Home
09 08 21 Nickelback: This Afternoon
10 20 04 Paramore: The Only Exception
11 10 27 Colbie Caillat: I Never Told You
12 12 07 Daughtry: September
13 13 08 La Roux: Bulletproof
14 15 08 Lifehouse: All In
15 11 47 The Script: Breakeven
16 14 12 Lady Gaga: Alejandro
17 18 06 Neon Trees: Animal
18 16 31 Lady Antebellum: Need You Now
19 22 05 Mike Posner: Cooler Than Me
20 21 12 Kris Allen f/Pat Monahan: The Truth
21 19 14 Ke$ha: Your Love Is My Drug
22 17 21 Ryan Star: Breathe
23 25 05 Lady Antebellum: I Run To You
24 26 06 The Dirty Heads: Lay Me Down
25 23 31 Adam Lambert: Whataya Want From Me
26 37 02 Katy Perry: Teenage Dream
27 31 04 Enrique Iglesias f/Pitbull: I Like It
28 24 17 Angel Taylor: Like You Do
29 35 02 Plain White T's: Rhythm Of Love
30 30 05 Shontelle: Impossible
31 33 07 Days Difference: Speakers
32 40 02 OneRepublic: Secrets
33 27 20 Jason Derulo: In My Head
34 SS 01 Taio Cruz: Dynamite
35 xx 01 Adam Lambert: If I Had You
36 34 42 Michael Buble: Haven't Met You Yet
37 36 16 B.O.B & Bruno Mars: Nothing On You
38 xx 01 Brandon Flowers: Crossfire
39 39 50 Train: Hey, Soul Sister
40 29 14 Taio Cruz f/Ludacris: Break Your Heart
SS- Five For Fighting: Slice

Droppers-
Daughtry: Life After You (from #38, 38 weeks on)
Lady Gaga f/Beyonce: Telephone (from #32, 24 weeks on)
Kelly Clarkson: All I Ever Wanted (from #28, 22 weeks on)

Bonus Tracks-
Kelly Clarkson: Miss Independent (between #23 & #22)
Justin Timberlake: Rock Your Body (between #13 & #12)
Timbaland f/OneRepublic: Apologize (between #8 & #7)

[MostInterestingManInTheWorld]

I should have mentioned this earlier, but somebody pointed out on Rick's website last week that the 10-7 segment was missing. Lo and behold, it was actually fixed! Maybe somebody over there actually does bother to read the comments.

Brandon Flowers is of course the frontman for the Killers. Funny that Kelly Clarkson took a big tumble off the chart after spending pretty much all of its run above the official charts. I suspect Taylor Swift's "Mine" will be next week's sureshot.

[musicfanpete]

Sept 4, 2010 16:24:48 GMT -5 MostInterestingManInTheWorld said:

I should have mentioned this earlier, but somebody pointed out on Rick's website last week that the 10-7 segment was missing. Lo and behold, it was actually fixed! Maybe somebody over there actually does bother to read the comments.

Brandon Flowers is of course the frontman for the Killers. Funny that Kelly Clarkson took a big tumble off the chart after spending pretty much all of its run above the official charts. I suspect Taylor Swift's "Mine" will be next week's sureshot.

Thanks for pointing that out regarding Flowers. I guess that would not make him a newcomer! I will take that out of my comments.

Great point about Kelly Clarkson as well! I guess Rick finally needed to speed the chart up a bit to catch up to the current official charts. I wouldn't be surprised to see a similar drop off the chart from Angel Taylor next week either as her song has also spent most of its run above the official charts as well. Ditto for "In My Head" by Jason Derulo, although that song is much closer to dropping off than Angel's. Plus there are a couple of old songs by Train and Michael Buble that have to drop off first!

Also agreed about "Mine" at least reaching Sure Shot status next week. Also look for "Just The Way You Are" by Bruno Mars to show up within the next week or two. And I'm also afraid Eminem and Rihanna may show up soon with "Love The Way You Lie" as well, though knowing Rick, he may try to keep that song off the chart for as long as possible, if it even shows up depending on how much higher it climbs up the official charts.

[johnnywest]

"Break Your Heart" is at #40 on both the CHR and HAC shows. That's the first time that's happened since the February 14, 2009 weekend when "Disturbia" was at #40 on both shows.

[Top 40 Tracker]

Man, you guys know your Rick Dees charts. I was just thinking the same thing about both charts having the same #40 song. I look forward to hearing both versions this week on my iPod. I download the shows and convert them to mp3s and listen to them in my car while driving. Takes me all week to hear the show.

[musicfanpete]

Sept 5, 2010 17:41:53 GMT -5 Top 40 Tracker said:

Man, you guys know your Rick Dees charts. I was just thinking the same thing about both charts having the same #40 song. I look forward to hearing both versions this week on my iPod. I download the shows and convert them to mp3s and listen to them in my car while driving. Takes me all week to hear the show.

Yeah, I like the Rick Dees Hot AC chart a lot because it still moves like the "old school" charts of the 80's, albeit a bit slower because of the format. He keeps the recurrents on but lets them fall off much quicker than the AT40 Hot AC chart which is just ridiculous how slow it is. And it flows like the charts of old, not like today's official charts where songs just "disappear" right out of the top 10 due to today's recurrent rules.

Finally Rick at least still gives some good info on each artist while maintaining his sense of humor that has always defined his show. While he's no Casey Kasem, he's certainly no Ryan Seacrest either! And while I do like Ryan as a radio host, he gets hung up way too much on the Hollywood scene and what each artist likes to do in their spare time. That doesn't sound like a music show to me.

But yes, that's why I like analysing Rick's charts. They're entertaining to watch and sometimes unpredictable from week to week. My only grip with Rick other than the occasional factual errors that crop on his show is his year end charts which seem to be thrown together with no rhyme or reason. There are too many two year old songs that show up along with some missing songs, or even songs that never charted on his chart!

Last year he did an abbreviated year end top 40 chart instead of his usual top 100 in order to make room for the decade countdown he had the next week. And Lady Gaga did not even show up in the top 40! Now while some people liked that, it did not reflect one degree of accuracy compared to the other national charts. Therefore, that is why I decided to throw together my version of the Rick Dees year end chart using the simple inverse point method that others here do for the Mediabase Hot AC charts. I'm sure that is your motive behind your year end CHR charts too deshanw. So it should be an interesting comparison between the two, though I guess Rick would compile it from a November to November time period while I'm staying within the calendar year. This will make for some differences, but at least it will be more accurate.

But yeah, feel free to comment on the Hot AC version if you have time to look through them deshanw. :)

[johnnywest]

Sept 5, 2010 17:41:53 GMT -5 Top 40 Tracker said:

I look forward to hearing both versions this week on my iPod. I download the shows and convert them to mp3s and listen to them in my car while driving. Takes me all week to hear the show.

That's really cool! I didn't know you could do that. I listen to both shows at work in my office throughout the week. I just wish that they'd post the AC version. I'd love to hear what that sounds like.

[musicfanpete]

The chart has been modified to include this week's Bonus Tracks.