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

[musicfanpete]

This week, Adele spends her third and most likely final week at the top of Rick's Hot AC chart with "Set Fire To The Rain". Kelly Clarkson looks to unseat her next week as "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" moves into the top spot this week on the Mediabase Hot AC chart. Rihanna continues to outpeak the Mediabase Hot AC chart as "We Found Love" moves up to #3 this week and stays in contention (albeit a long shot) for the top spot.

Katy Perry once again, in what has become a regular occurance for her, scores this week's highest debut by a mile with her latest hit from her "revamped" "Teenage Dream" album with "Part Of Me". This is the first of three new tracks added to a new rereleased version of her "Teenage Dream" album, specially designed for her to obtain three more record breaking number one songs out of it. This strategy should work for her at least for this first single as "Part Of Me" should be in contention for the top of Rick's chart by the middle of April or so. Also contending for future number one honors is Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know", the week's biggest jumper for the second week in a row.

Once again we have a strange move this week on the chart, which seems to happen every so often. Florence & The Machine's "Shake It Off" inexplicitly drops (or was removed) off the chart all the way from #22. Not a shocking move if not for the fact that this song is still #24 on the Mediabase Hot AC chart with a small bullet. This same occurrance happened last year around this time with OneRepublic's "Good Life" (albeit much earlier in its run), dropping off the chart at #23 one week, and then popping back on at #22 the following week. Dartboard chart or not, these kind of moves don't score a lot of points in the accuracy department! In any case, I wouldn't be shocked to see "Shake It Off" reenter the chart next week.

TC LC wc Artist/Title
01 01 14 Adele: Set Fire To The Rain (3 Wks @ #1)
02 03 07 Kelly Clarkson: Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)
03 04 15 Rihanna f/Calvin Harris: We Found Love
04 02 16 Katy Perry: The One That Got Away
05 05 19 Coldplay: Paradise
06 06 20 Bruno Mars: It Will Rain
07 09 06 Train: Drive By
08 07 31 Gavin DeGraw: Not Over You
09 11 06 Jessie J: Domino
10 08 18 The Fray: Heartbeat
11 12 14 Christina Perri: A Thousand Years
12 13 17 Snow Patrol: Called Out In The Dark
13 17 05 Jason Mraz: I Won't Give Up
14 14 07 Selena Gomez & The Scene: Love You Like A Love Song
15 10 22 Daughtry: Crawling Back To You
16 15 32 Colbie Caillat: Brighter Than The Sun
17 19 06 Andy Grammer: Fine By Me
18 16 17 David Guetta f/Usher: Without You
19 20 07 Hot Chelle Rae f/New Boyz: I Like It Like That
20 18 28 Lady Antebellum: Just A Kiss
21 30 03 Gotye f/Kimbra: Somebody That I Used To Know
22 23 12 Flo Rida: Good Feeling
23 21 17 Ellie Goulding: Lights
24 26 05 Foster The People: Don't Stop
25 xx 01 Katy Perry: Part Of Me
26 27 05 Matt Nathanson f/Sugarland: Run
27 24 24 Kelly Clarkson: Mr. Know It All
28 29 03 Nickelback: Lullaby
29 25 23 Gym Class Heroes f/Adam Levine: Stereo Hearts
30 28 29 The Script: Nothing
31 35 03 Madonna f/Nicki Minaj: Give Me All Your Luvin'
32 33 03 The Cab: Bad
33 31 30 Adele: Someone Like You
34 34 33 Maroon5 f/Christina Aguilera: Moves Like Jagger
35 36 04 Adam Lambert: Better Than I Know Myself
36 32 07 Fitz & The Tantrums: Don't Gotta Work It Out
37 38 02 Scars On 45: Hearts On Fire
38 37 07 LMFAO: Sexy And I Know It
39 SS 01 Mat Kearney: Ships In The Night
40 39 12 Lady Gaga: Marry The Night
SS- Young The Giant: Cough Syrup

Droppers-
Cobra Starship f/Sabi: You Make Me Feel (from #40, 25 weeks on)
Florence & The Machine: Shake It Out (from #22, 13 weeks on)

Bonus Tracks-
Fall Out Boy: Sugar, We're Goin' Down (between #27 & #26)
Britney Spears: Toxic (between #23 & #22)
Shakira f/Wyclef Jean: Hips Don't Lie (between #17 & #16)
Maroon5: Misery (between #13 & #12)
Lady Antebellum: Need You Now (between #4 & #3)

[johnnywest]

Mar 3, 2012 16:11:00 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

Once again we have a strange move this week on the chart, which seems to happen every so often. Florence & The Machine's "Shake It Off" inexplicitly drops (or was removed) off the chart all the way from #22. Not a shocking move if not for the fact that this song is still #24 on the Mediabase Hot AC chart with a small bullet. This same occurrance happened last year around this time with OneRepublic's "Good Life" (albeit much earlier in its run), dropping off the chart at #23 one week, and then popping back on at #22 the following week. Dartboard chart or not, these kind of moves don't score a lot of points in the accuracy department! In any case, I wouldn't be shocked to see "Shake It Off" reenter the chart next week.

Thanks for posting the chart every week!

When weird things like that happen, such as Florence disappearing off the chart like that, I have to wonder if the person compiling the chart happens to accidentally overlook a song and the mistake isn't caught before the whole show is written.

[musicfanpete]

Mar 4, 2012 15:01:07 GMT -5 johnnywest said:

Mar 3, 2012 16:11:00 GMT -5 musicfanpete said:

Once again we have a strange move this week on the chart, which seems to happen every so often. Florence & The Machine's "Shake It Off" inexplicitly drops (or was removed) off the chart all the way from #22. Not a shocking move if not for the fact that this song is still #24 on the Mediabase Hot AC chart with a small bullet. This same occurrance happened last year around this time with OneRepublic's "Good Life" (albeit much earlier in its run), dropping off the chart at #23 one week, and then popping back on at #22 the following week. Dartboard chart or not, these kind of moves don't score a lot of points in the accuracy department! In any case, I wouldn't be shocked to see "Shake It Off" reenter the chart next week.

Thanks for posting the chart every week!

When weird things like that happen, such as Florence disappearing off the chart like that, I have to wonder if the person compiling the chart happens to accidentally overlook a song and the mistake isn't caught before the whole show is written.

No problem. :)

Yeah, well all I have to say regarding "overlooking" a song is that there are only 40 of them. I would think if the person compiling the chart misses the song, then someone else during production or Rick himself should be able to spot it. Especially if a song has been on the chart for quite a few weeks like this one was on.

Now I'm sure F&TM will "mysteriously" return next week like nothing happened! As if most of the country got tired of her song one week, and then just happened to all want to hear it the next!