Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Hot AC 4/30/11

[musicfanpete]

In what may be the slowest moving chart in Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 history, Adele holds onto the top spot for a second week in a row with her latest hit, "Rolling In The Deep". The Script's "For The First Time" hangs onto to the #2 spot for the third straight week, while Bruno Mars and "Grenade" rebounds up one spot to #3, putting him back as a contender for the top spot at least for now.

Though we have three high debuts this week (more on that in a moment) and some moderately large droppers, only one single rising song manages to move up more than one spot! And that honor goes to Colbie Calliat as she moves up from #9 to #7 with her latest hit "I Do", which makes her song the "biggest jumper" of the week! And this is something that may not happen again for a long time, if ever.

We do have three debuts, but as expected, one of them belongs to OneRepublic as they reenter the countdown after one week off with "Good Life" at #22. That this song dropped off the chart from #25, and reentered a week later at #22 sounds very fishy to me, suggesting some sort of an error in compiling the chart. But I have to go with what was actually aired during the countdown last week and this week, so this is the way it will go down in the archives so to speak.

Another song that drops out this week is "Blow" by Ke$ha, again after just two weeks on. Since this song has regained momentum on Mediabase this week, look for "Blow" to reenter the chart in the near future as well. But at least this song dropping off this week does not look as strange as OneRepublic's exit last week since "Blow" is just now starting to gain momentum on Mediabase.

And finally, another first this week. This marks the second time in Rick's chart history that the same "Sure Shot" has failed to chart as "MoneyGrabber" by Fritz & The Tantrums did not chart this week. They still have a chance to do so in the coming weeks however if this song retains its bullet on Mediabase.

TC LC wc Artist/Title
01 01 14 Adele: Rolling In The Deep (2 Wks @ #1)
02 02 22 The Script: For The First Time
03 04 17 Bruno Mars: Grenade
04 03 11 Cee Lo Green: Forget You!
05 06 09 Maroon5: Never Gonna Leave This Bed
06 05 14 Pink: Perfect
07 09 10 Colbie Caillat: I Do
08 07 32 Christina Perri: Jar Of Hearts
09 08 09 Lady Gaga: Born This Way
10 10 13 Avril Lavigne: What The Hell
11 12 08 Enrique Iglesias f/Ludacris: Tonight
12 11 16 Florence & The Machine: Dog Days Are Over
13 14 12 My Chemical Romance: Sing
14 15 05 Katy Perry: E.T.
15 16 07 Lifehouse: Falling In
16 17 07 Andy Grammer: Keep Your Head Up
17 18 11 Sara Bareilles: Uncharted
18 13 27 Train: Marry Me
19 20 07 Thirty Seconds To Mars: Closer To The Edge
20 19 15 Taylor Swift: Back To December
21 22 06 Parachute: Something To Believe In
22 RE 03 OneRepublic: Good Life
23 24 05 Stone Sour: Hesitate
24 21 16 Mumford & Sons: Little Lion Man
25 26 05 Grace Potter & The Nocturnals: Paris (Ooh La La)
26 23 22 Katy Perry: Firework
27 28 07 He Is We: Happily Ever After
28 xx 01 Rihanna: S&M
29 30 04 Michael Franti & Spearhead: I'll Be Waiting
30 31 04 Usher: More
31 25 11 Sugarland: Stuck Like Glue
32 33 03 3 Doors Down: When You're Young
33 xx 01 Bruno Mars: The Lazy Song
34 27 17 Linkin Park: Waiting For The End
35 29 24 Rihanna: Only Girl (In The World)
36 32 36 Plain White T's: Rhythm Of Love
37 37 02 One EskimO: Amazing
38 39 02 Duran Duran: All You Need Is Now
39 34 41 Neon Trees: Animal
40 36 32 Bruno Mars: Just The Way You Are
SS- Andrew Allen: Loving You Tonight

Droppers-
Taio Cruz: Dynamite (from #40, 34 weeks on)
Sick Puppies: Maybe (from #38, 23 weeks on)
Ke$ha: Blow (from #35, 2 weeks on)

Bonus Tracks-
Sara Barellies: Love Song (between #27 & #26)
Paramore: The Only Exception (between #22 & #21)
The Fray: You Found Me (between #17 & #16)
Jordin Sparks: Battlefield (between #13 & #12)
No Doubt: It's My Life (between #7 & #6)
Lady Antebellum: Need You Now (between #2 & #1)

[MostInterestingManInTheWorld]

so, when "I Do" came on, did Rick credit Colbie Caillat with the highest jumping hit of the week?

[musicfanpete]

May 3, 2011 23:40:05 GMT -5 MostInterestingManInTheWorld said:

so, when "I Do" came on, did Rick credit Colbie Caillat with the highest jumping hit of the week?

Nope, he did not. I guess that would have been embarrassing to acknowledge this "high jumper"! And he did not acknowledge the reentry of OneRepublic's "Good Life" either, just saying that the song was "climbing up" to #22. He probably did not want to admit this was an most likely a chart error either.

I just realized I did not post the Bonus Tracks from last week. However, that has now been corrected.