Billboard AC Chart: January 14, 2012

[johnm1120]

The first non-Christmas chart sees new and familiar songs entering and re-entering.

January 14, 2012

01 12 19 Adele - Someone Like You (2nd week at #1)*
02 13 20 Lady Antebellum - Just A Kiss (2)
03 RE 29 The Band Perry - If I Die Young (3 weeks at #1)
04 RE 41 Adele - Rolling in the Deep (19 weeks at #1)
05 RE 27 OneRepublic - Good Life (5)
06 RE 45 Pink - Perfect (2)
07 RE 27 Lady Gaga - The Edge of Glory (7)
08 RE 36 The Script - For the First Time (5)
09 RE 27 Jason Aldean & Kelly Clarkson - Don't You Wanna Stay (3)
10 24 21 Maroon 5 f/Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger (10)

11 RE 27 Andy Grammer - Keep Your Head Up (11)
12 20 15 Colbie Caillat - Brighter Than The Sun (12)
13 19 18 Kelly Clarkson - Mr. Know It All (12)
14 23 13 The Script - Nothing (14)
15 RE 04 Gavin DeGraw - Not Over You (15)
16 RE 09 Lady Gaga - You And I (16)
17 DEBUT Katy Perry - The One That Got Away (17)
18 27 15 Daryl Hall - Talking To You (Is Like Talking To Myself) (16)
19 28 10 Seal - Let's Stay Together (19)
20 RE 12 Matt Nathanson - Faster (20)

21 DEBUT Adele - Set Fire to the Rain (21)
22 RE 17 Hot Chelle Rae - Tonight Tonight (22)
23 30 14 Margo Rey - Let the Rain (17)
24 29 12 The Doobie Brothers - A Brighter Day (18)
25 01 08 Michael Bublé - All I Want For Christmas is You (5 weeks at #1)
26 DEBUT Daughtry - Crawling Back to You (26)
27 DEBUT David Guetta f/Usher - Without You (27)
28 RE 18 Katy Perry - Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) (17)
29 DEBUT Bruno Mars - It Will Rain (29)
30 RE 02 Gloria Estefan - Right Away (28)


Falling off:

-- 02 06 Justin Bieber - Mistletoe (2)
-- 03 07 Michael Bublé - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (2 weeks at #2)
-- 04 06 Jim Brickman f/Olivia Jade Archbold - Fa La La (2)
-- 05 06 Michael Bublé - Holly Jolly Christmas (3)
-- 06 05 Matthew West - The Heart of Christmas (6)
-- 07 06 Justin Bieber & Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You (Super Festive!) (3)
-- 08 05 Michael Bublé - Santa Claus is Coming To Town (8)
-- 09 05 Chicago - My Favorite Things (9)
-- 10 06 Michael Bublé & Shania Twain - White Christmas (10)
-- 11 05 Cyndi Lauper & Norah Jones - Home For the Holidays (11)
-- 14 05 Carole King - Do You Hear What I Hear (14)
-- 15 04 Richard Marx - Christmas Spirit (15)
-- 16 05 She & Him - Baby It's Cold Outside (16)
-- 17 04 Victoria Shaw f/Robin Meade - Santa's Toyride (17)
-- 18 04 Margo Rey - This Holiday Night (18)
-- 21 04 Pomplamoose - Jingle Bells (18)
-- 22 05 Michael Bublé f/The Puppini Sisters - Jingle Bells (22)
-- 25 01 Sara Bareilles - Love is Christmas (25)
-- 26 01 Glee Cast - Extraordinary Merry Christmas (26)


Well it is a week of excitement and for some maybe even some disappointment. After 10 recurrents fell off during the Christmas weeks, 8 of them regained the eligibility requirements to return. The only 2 recurrents that did not return were "Just The Way You Are" and "Save Me, San Francisco."

We'll start with Adele returning to the top spot for a second week with "Someone Like You." The chart's pre-Christmas #1 "If I Die Young" was unable to reclaim and has to settle for #3. Lady Antebellum leaps 13-2 with "Just A Kiss" and gains a new pea in the process. Can the band score their 2nd #1?

Despite the recurrents returning, several songs do manage new peak positions. Other than Lady A they are "Good Life" (#5), "Moves Like Jagger (#10), "Brighter Than the Sun (#12), "Nothing" (#14), "Not Over You" (#15), "You And I" (#16), "Let's Stay Together" (#19), and "Faster" (#20). The biggest recipient of the new peak goes to Gavin DeGraw who originally only peaked at #28, and now has his first to 20 and his biggest AC hit.

"Good Life" becomes OneRepublic's 3rd top 5 hit. Their last one was "Secrets" peaking at #5 in July 2011. Their biggest hit on AC is "Apologize" which got to #4 in May 2008.

"Moves Like Jagger" takes the leap of the week soaring 14 places to #10. This is Maroon 5's 5th top 10. Their last top 10 was "Misery" which peaked at #9 in February 2011. This is also Christina's 5th top 10, and her first in almost 5 years. She peaked at #6 in June 2007 with "Hurt."

The re-entry for Lady Gaga sends "You and I" into the top 20. This is Gaga's 5th top 20. The previous single "The Edge of Glory" re-enters at its original peak #7 this week.

With the craziness, the gold medal for highest debut goes to Katy Perry. This is Katy's 6th top 20 from "Teenage Dream," and her 7th overall. "Last Friday Night" re-enters this wee at #28 and has a #17 peak so far. TOTGA is Katy's 9th AC hit.

Seal cracks the top 20 at #19 with "Let's Stay Together. The song previously peaked at #23 in November. This is Seal's 9th top 20 hit. His last charting single "Secret" peaked at #16 back in October 2010.

The final "new top 20 entry" comes from Matt Nathanson, who previously peaked at #24. "Faster" re-enters at #20 as his 2nd top 20. "Come On Get Higher" peaked at #3 back in September 2009.

Before we see the rest of the debuts, ONE CHRISTMAS SONG SURVIVED! So we don't get a 1-off, we get a 1-25 as "All I Want For Christmas is You" manages to remain for a final week.

I'm only gonna focus on the debuts now. Adele debuts at #21 with "Set Fire to the Rain" giving the future 2012 multi grammy winner (you're hearing it here first!, probably not though...) her 4th AC hit. She has the potential to do something that hasn't been done in 15 years. She is looking to get a 3rd #1 AC hit from one album. The last album to get 3 #1s was Celine Dion's "Falling Into You" which got #1 hits with "Because You Loved Me," "It's All Coming Back To Me Now," and "All By Myself" in 1996 and 1997. I think there's a good possibility this can happen.

Daughtry debuts at #26 with "Crawling Back to You," the first single from their new album "Break the Spell." This is their 9th AC hit. Their last hit was "September" which had a lengthy #2 stay beginning in February of last year.

French DJ David Guetta has blown up on the pop charts and this week he makes his debut appearance on the AC chart. "Without You" featuring Usher lands at #27 this week. It's Usher's 2nd appearance on the chart. "DJ Got Us Falling in Love" peaked at #19 last June.

The last debut is the first single from "Breaking Dawn" to hit the chart. Bruno Mars enters at #29 with "It Will Rain," his 4th AC hit. Of course he had the #1 song of 2011, but that'll be more of a challenge this year. JTWYA was his last appearance but his last debut was "The Lazy Song" which peaked at #13 in October.

Next week the chart should settle a little more and we'll see where things land.

[HolidayGuy]

Thanks as always for the informative write-up, johnm. :)

Buble (which should be "5 weeks at No. 1, rather than 5th week) needed only a few handfuls or so of spins to hang around for an additional week- perhaps some stations still carried some holiday music past midnight into the early-morning hours of December 26.

[areyoureadytojump]

Thanks!

[johnm1120]

That's one thing I'm thinking. They also may have played the Christmas edition of either Delilah or John Tesh at that time too.

[HolidayGuy]

Does the 12-1 jump to No. 1 match the jump by last year's "smash" "Oh Santa" last year?

[kingofpain]

Love "Without You" by David Guetta/Usher, but um, didn't exactly think it was a "Adult Contemporary" favorite.

Too bad all these re-entries were saved by a special holiday rule to not go recurrent... it would have been an amazing refresh for the new year. As it stands, it's just more or less of the same stagnant BS from before the holidays.

[HolidayGuy]

We've seen pop/dance tracks similar to "Without You" chart at the bottom of the AC chart. It only takes a few stations to spin it- or even just one spinning it A LOT- as the bottom of the AC chart sees a low number of spins. 'Without You" had 57 spins to chart at No. 27.

[esoteric76]

Great recap this week! Love it, thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!

[areyoureadytojump]

Damn. I thought all those songs over 27+ weeks would not be able to re-enter.

[areyoureadytojump]

1/21 chart:

Adult Contemporary

*** No. 1 *** "Someone Like You" Adele
Greatest Gainer No. 10 "Brighter Than The Sun" Colbie Caillat
Debut No. 28 "Heartbeat" The Fray
Debut No. 29 "Pumped Up Kicks" Foster The People