Mediabase Hot AC Chart Notes, August '13

[Hot AC Archiver]

8/4/13

#1:"Love Somebody" spends a third week at the top spot this week.

Oldest Song: "Gone, Gone, Gone" with 25 weeks.

Oldest Song below #10: "Red Hands" and "Feel This Moment" with 20 weeks each.

Songs below #5 eligible to go recurrent when falling below #10:

• "Just Give Me a Reason"

Songs below #10 eligible to go recurrent when reaching 2 weeks w/o a bullet:

• "Red Hands", which has a bullet this week.
• "Feel This Moment", which has a bullet this week.

Biggest Mover: "True Love" jumps 6 notches to #15 for the week's biggest move.

Debuts:

• Calvin Harris gets his 5th appearance on the HAC chart with "I Need Your Love", the highest debut at #36. The song features Ellie Goulding
• Newcomer Lorde enters at #38 with "Royals".
• Newcomers A Great Big World come in at #39 with "This Is the New Year".
• Rihanna gets her 20th appearance on the HAC chart. She comes in at #40 with "Right Now". The song features David Guetta.

Exiting the Survey:

• "Stay", 23 weeks, to recurrent
• "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark", 20 weeks, to recurrent
• "Heart Attack", 20 weeks, to recurrent
• "Here's to Never Growing Up", 19 weeks

Other Notes:
Top 10:

• Only 3 spins separated #3 (Robin Thicke) from #2 (Imagine Dragons) this week.
• After holding at #7 for 3 weeks, "Cups" climbs 3 to enter the top 5 at #4.
• Daft Punk get their first top 10 on the HAC chart as "Get Lucky" moves 12-10.

Top 20:

• "Brave" moves up 2 to #11.
• After 5 weeks at #16, "Red Hands" rises 2 to #14.
• Train gains momentum and climbs 3 to #16.
• Gavin DeGraw enters the top 20 at #18, up 4 with "Best I Ever Had".
• "Should've Gone to Bed" returns top the top 20, up 3 to its peak of #20.

Top 30:

• Michael Buble rebounds 3 to #22.
• Taylor Swift jumps 5 spots to #23.
• After 4 weeks at #27, "The Other Side" inches up 1 to #26.
• "Let Her Go" moves up 5 to #27 in its 2nd week on the chart.
• Zedd return to the top 30, rebounding 2 to a new peak of #29.

Bottom 10:

• Rebounding songs: "Still into You" (33-31), and "Beneath Your Beautiful" (34-32).
• In his 20th week on the chart, Pitbull regains a bullet at #35.
• "Stompa" inches up 1 to #37.

Ouch! of the Week: "People Like Us" falls 6 notches to #24.
Song with the biggest spin increase: "Blurred Lines" (Nearly a 600 spin increase).
Song with the biggest spin loss: "People Like Us" (Over a 600 spin loss)

Top 50 Hot AC chart can be found at: www.americasmusiccharts.com/index.cgi?fmt=A2 All chart data © Mediabase Research

[Hot AC Archiver]

8/11/13

#1:"Blurred Lines" conquers another format and moves to #1 this week.

Oldest Song: "Gone, Gone, Gone" with 26 weeks.

Oldest Song below #10: "Red Hands" and "Feel This Moment" with 21 weeks each.

Songs below #5 eligible to go recurrent when falling below #10:

• "Just Give Me a Reason"

Songs below #10 eligible to go recurrent when reaching 2 weeks w/o a bullet:

• "Red Hands", which has a bullet this week.
• "Feel This Moment", which does not have a bullet this week.

Biggest Mover: "Let Her Go" rises 4 notches to #23 for the week's biggest move.

Debuts:

• Five for Fighting gets a 10th hit this week with the only debut of the week, "What If", at #40.

Exiting the Survey:

• "Right Now", 1 week

Other Notes:
Top 10:

• Per All Access, "Blurred Lines" is the first song in Mediabase history to be #1 in 5 formats in the same week. This week the song is #1 Hot AC, Pop, Rhythmic, Urban, and Urban AC.
• "Treasure" moves 9-7 this week.
• Daft Punk also move up 2, to #8.
• No songs enter/exit the top 10 this week.

Top 20:

• Capital Cities moves up 1 to #11 in their 8th week on the chart.
• "Brave" gets pushed back again, back down to #12.
• "Bruises" inches up 1 to #15.
• OneRepublic reaches the top 20 this week, up 1 to #20.

Top 30:

• "Everything Has Changed" moves 23-21.
• After rebounding 3 last week, "It's a Beautiful Day" falls 2 to #24.
• Jason Derulo continues to inch up the chart, up 1 more to #25.
• "Clarity" rises 2 to #27.
• Paramore break into the top 30, up 2 to #29 with "Still into You".

Bottom 10:

• "Can't Hold Us" spends a third week at #30.
• Justin Timberlake moves up 2 to #31.
• "Royals" moves 38-35 in its 2nd week on the chart.
• After debuting at #39 last week, A Great Big World hold there this week.

Ouch! of the Week: "People Like Us" plummets 9 notches to #33.
Song with the biggest spin increase: "True Love" (Over a 500 spin increase).
Song with the biggest spin loss: "I Love It" (Over a 500 spin loss)

Top 50 Hot AC chart can be found at: www.americasmusiccharts.com/index.cgi?fmt=A2 All chart data © Mediabase Research

[Hot AC Archiver]

8/18/13

#1:"Blurred Lines" holds for a second week at the top spot this week.

Oldest Song: "Gone, Gone, Gone" with 27 weeks.

Oldest Song below #10: "Red Hands" with 22 weeks.

Songs below #5 eligible to go recurrent when falling below #10:

• "Just Give Me a Reason"

Songs below #10 eligible to go recurrent when reaching 2 weeks w/o a bullet:

• "Red Hands", which has a bullet this week.

Biggest Mover: "Everything Has Changed" and "Royals" climb 3 notches each to #18 and #32 respectively to tie for the week's biggest move.

Debuts:

• Katy Perry blasts onto the chart at #16 with "Roar", the third highest debut in HAC history. It's Katy's 13th hit.
• Lady GaGa comes in at #35 with "Applause", her 12th hit.

Exiting the Survey:

• "Feel This Moment", 21 weeks, to recurrent
• "What If", 1 week

Other Notes:
Top 10:

• "Cups" inches up 1 to #3.
• "Treasure" and "Get Lucky" also move up 1, to #6 and #7 respectively.
• Capital Cities get their 1st top 10 as "Safe and Sound" moves 11-9 this week.

Top 20:

• Pink climbs 1 more spot to #12 with "True Love".
• Train holds at #15.
• Katy Perry's entry at #16 ties the peak position of her first hit in 2008, "I Kissed a Girl".
• Katy and Taylor Swift are the only new entries into the top 20 this week.

Top 30:

• "Let Her Go" moves 23-21.
• "The Other Side" continues its slow climb up the chart, having moved 27-26-25-24 the past few weeks.
• "Clarity" rises 1 to #26.
• Of Monsters and Men lose ground again this week, down 1 to #27.
• Justin Timberlake reaches top 30 territory as "Take Back the Night" climbs 2 notches to #29.

Bottom 10:

• Of the bottom 10 songs, only Lorde and Lady GaGa have any positive moment.
• However, "I'm Alive" (28-31), "Beneath Your Beautiful" (32-33), "I Need Your Love" (34-36), and "Can't Help" (36-37) all have backward bullets.
• Serena Ryder slips 2 to #39 in her 8th week on the chart.

Ouch! of the Week: "Our Song" falls 6 notches to #25.
Song with the biggest spin increase: "Roar" (A 1969 spin increase, a new record 1 week spin increase).
Song with the biggest spin loss: "I Love It" (Over a 500 spin loss)

Top 50 Hot AC chart can be found at: www.americasmusiccharts.com/index.cgi?fmt=A2 All chart data © Mediabase Research

[Libra]

Aug 14, 2013 13:37:45 GMT -5 Hot AC Archiver said:

Per All Access, "Blurred Lines" is the first song in Mediabase history to be #1 in 5 formats in the same week. This week the song is #1 Hot AC, Pop, Rhythmic, Urban, and Urban AC.

All Access has this wrong - though somehow that doesn't surprise me.

"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" was actually the one to do this, and with 6 at that: Pop, Hot AC, Alternative, Active Rock, Rock, and AAA. So, BL is the second to even have 5 at once.

Here's a board post from 2005 to that effect. (I wasn't sure if I'd be able to find one on here, but - there you go. :) )

[Hot AC Archiver]

^^ Good catch. Thanks. I've seen them make mistakes before, hence the disclaimer "Per All Access" before the fact.

[Libra]

Aug 22, 2013 16:31:42 GMT -5 Hot AC Archiver said:

^^ Good catch. Thanks. I've seen them make mistakes before, hence the disclaimer "Per All Access" before the fact.

On the other hand, since it's come up - I wonder how good it's looking for BL to nab a sixth and match Boulevard's feat?

[Hot AC Archiver]

8/25/13

#1:"Blurred Lines" holds for a third week at the top spot this week.

Oldest Song: "Gone, Gone, Gone" with 28 weeks.

Oldest Song below #10: "Red Hands" with 23 weeks.

Songs below #5 eligible to go recurrent when falling below #10:

• "Gone, Gone, Gone"
• "Mirrors"

Songs below #10 eligible to go recurrent when reaching 2 weeks w/o a bullet:

• "Red Hands", which has a bullet this week.
• "Cruise", which does not have a bullet this week.
• "People Like Us", which does not have a bullet this week.

Biggest Mover: "Royals" jumps 10 notches to #22 for the week's biggest move.

Debuts:

• New to HAC, Lana Del Rey enters at #39 with "Summertime Sadness", the week's highest debut.
• The Goo Goo Dolls pick up their 19th HAC hit with "Come to Me", at #40.

Exiting the Survey:

• "Just Give Me a Reason", 25 weeks, to recurrent
• "This Is the New Year", 3 weeks

Other Notes:
Top 10:

• The top 4 hold their places this week.
• "Treasure" reaches the top 5, up 1 to #5.
• Capital Cities moves up 3 to #6 in their 2nd week in the top 10.
• Sara Bareilles gets her 3rd top 10 (the first in 3 years) as "Brave" moves 11-9 this week.

Top 20:

• Pink gets close to the top 10, up 1 to #11 with "True Love".
• "Roar" moves up 4 to #12 in its 2nd week on the chart.
• In its 23rd week on the chart, "Red Hands" inches up 1 to #13.
• Passenger climb 2 to #19 with "Let Her Go".
• "Clarity" speeds up 6 notches to #20.

Top 30:

• "The Other Side" picks up steam and rises 3 to #21.
• "Take Back the Night" moves up 5 to #24.
• Paramore rebound to a new peak of #26 with "Still into You".
• After spending 10 weeks in the bottom 10, "Beneath Your Beautiful" jumps 5 spots to #28.
• Lady GaGa climbs 6 to #29 in her 2nd week on the chart.

Bottom 10:

• Matchbox Twenty falls 8 to #33.
• "Can't Hold Us" holds at #34, while "Can't Help" moves up 2 to #35.
• Serena Ryder rebounds 2 to #37. She has spent all 9 weeks on the chart at #37 or below.

Ouch! of the Week: "Should've Gone to Bed" plummets 9 notches to #31.
Song with the biggest spin increase: "Roar" (Over a 700 spin increase).
Song with the biggest spin loss: "Should've Gone to Bed" (Nearly a 500 spin loss)

Top 50 Hot AC chart can be found at: www.americasmusiccharts.com/index.cgi?fmt=A2 All chart data © Mediabase Research
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