WKTU Top 103 of 2004 (COMPLETED)

[Moonshadow]

Edit: I have been finally able to track down the complete countdown.  (05-05-05).

I've managed to listen to most of the KTU countdown today, and I hope I can complete it tomorrow.  Here's what I have so far.  I'd appreciate it if any of you can lend a hand.


WKTU Top 103 of 2004

01 Easy As Life - Deborah Cox
02 How Did You Know - Mynt feat. Kim Sozzi
03 Move Ya Body - Nina Sky
04 I Don’t Wanna Know - Mario Winans
05 If I Close My Eyes - Reina
06 The Way You Move - OutKast
07 Yeah! – Usher feat. Ludacris, Lil’ Jon
08 Turn Me On – Kevin Lyttle
09 Not In Love – Enrique Iglesias
10 Déjà vu (Johnny Budz Radio Edit) – The Roc Project
11 Something Happened On The Way To Heaven - Deborah Cox
12 Gia – Despina Vandi
13 Lose My Breath – Destiny’s Child
14 Naughty Girl - Beyonce
15 I Like It - Narcotic Thrust
16 White Flag - Dido
17 As The Rush Comes - Motorcycle
18 Sweet Caroline – Angelo Venuto
19 Toxic – Britney Spears
20 Tempted To Touch - Rupee
21 Roc Ya Body (on KTU) [Remix] – MVP feat. Stagga Lee
22 Alone - Lasgo
23 Everytime – Britney Spears
24 Lola’s Theme – Shape: UK
25 Love Me Right - Angel City
26 Dip It Low - Christina Milian
27 Rie Y Llora - Celia Cruz
28 Let Me Be Your Angel - Tiffany Evans
29 Bounce - Sarah Connor
30 My Boo – Usher and Alicia Keys
31 Set It Off - Monica
32 Can’t Go On – Mike Rizzo presents Allie
33 Burned With Desire – Armin Van Burren
34 Never – The Roc Project
35 If I Didn’t Know Better – Luther Vandross
36 I Want To Know What Love Is - Wynonna
37 Never Be Alone – Lucas Prata
38 I’m Still In Love With You – Sean Paul feat. Sasha
39 If I Ain’t Got You – Alicia Keys
40 Scandalous – Mis-Teeq
41 You – Ryan Duarte
42 Get Up Stand Up – Stellar Project
43 Hey Ya! - OutKast
44 All Nite (Don’t Stop) – Janet Jackson
45 Just A Little More Love – David Guetta
46 I Begin To Wonder – Dannii Minogue
47 George Michael - Amazing
48 In My Dreams – Tina Ann
49 Beautiful Things - Andain
50 You Don’t Know My Name – Alicia Keys
51 You Had Me – Joss Stone
52 I Don’t Want You – Wide Life
53 Rumors – Lindsay Lohan
54 Goodies – Ciara
55 Appreciate Me – Amuka
56 Just A Little While – Janet Jackson
57 Something – Lasgo
58 Opa Opa - Despina Vandi
59 No One’s Gonna Change You – Reina
60 All Things (Just Keep Getting Better) – Wide Life
61 Got To Be Real – Mary J. Blige
62 Hey Mama – Black Eyed Peas
63 Car Wash – Christina Aguilera feat. Missy Elliott
64 Diary – Alicia Keys feat. Tony! Toni! Tone!
65 Surrender – Lasgo
66 Red Blooded Woman – Kylie Minogue
67 You’re So Beautiful – Donna Summer
68 Step In The Name of Love – R. Kelly
69 Get Busy – Sean Paul
70 Call My Name - Prince
71 Sunlight – DJ Sammy
72 Slow – Kylie Minogue
73 Dale – Don Omar
74 Whatever You Want – Chrisitina Milian
75 Hole In The Head - Sugababes
76 F**k It (I Don’t Want You Back) - Eamon
77 Let Me Love You - Mario
78 Queen of Pop – The Gonna Bee’s
79 Talk About Our Love – Brandy
80 Burn – Usher
81 Leave (Get Out) - JoJo
82 Me Myself and I - Beyonce
83 Baby It's You - JoJo
84 All This Time - Sylver
85 Oye Mi Canto - N.O.R.E. feat. Nina Sky
86 Shake That Body - ELP feat. Kevin Ceballo
87 If I Was Your Girlfriend - Nicole Wray
88 If You Don't Know Me By Now - Aubrey
89 Hush - L.L. Cool J
90 Love Comes Again - Tiesto
91 Lean Back - Terror Squad feat. Fat Joe, Remy
92 Left Outside Alone - Anastacia
93 My Place - Nelly feat. Jaheim
94 Pump It Up - Danzel
95 Outrageous - Britney Spears
96 Quimbara - Celia Cruz
97 Straight Ahead - Tube and Berger feat. Chrissie Hynde
98 Confessions Part II - Usher
99 How Would U Feel - David Morales
100 Drop It Like It's Hot - Snoop Dogg
101 Rich Girl - Gwen Stefani feat. Eve
102 Buy Me A Rose - Luther Vandross
103 Caught Up - Usher


In my opinion, this countdown is awful.  Here's why:
-Like the 2003 countdown, there are MUCH too many recurrents.  Here's some examples:
  Something Happened on the Way To Heaven: #1,  
  2003, #11, 2004
  Gia, #61, 2003, #12, 2004
  Roc Ya Body, #10, 2003, #21, 2004
  Alone, #9, 2003, #22, 2004
  Rie Y Llora, #24, 2003, #27, 2004
  Never, #7, 2003, #34, 2004
  Appreciate Me, #29, 2003, #55, 2004
  In My Dreams, #5, 2002, #30, 2003, #48, 3004
  Something, #6, 2002, #19, 2003, #64, 2004
...and there are probably more with those that I didn't catch.

-Mynt's How Did You know clearly should have grabbed the top spot, as it has consistently (to this day) received the most plays per week since June.
-KTU's idea of new dance is biased and has to fit a certain mold; it gears its music almost explicitly to the 18 to 34 female crowd.  Hence, the countdowns and playlists are not frequently updated.  Recurrents that weren't actually hits are hardly ever removed.

-I swear that a family member of Deborah Cox's has some kind of threat against KTU.  She has been in the Top 10 since 1999, and has grabbed #1 two years in a row - this year it's definitely undeserving.




 

[allow that]

AWFUL AWFUL list. But KTU was awful this year, so it's appropriate. I'm impressed they were even able to make a Top 103 countdown, stale as it is, since they basically have only 15 songs in rotation at any given time.

I used to enjoy KTU in moderation, but in 2004 I just skipped right over it whenever I was flipping through stations.

[Deleted]

They definitely need to expand their playlists, but I guess with dance music not thriving as much as it used to, that's difficult. #103 probably got like 2 spins this whole year.

[allow that]

The said:

They definitely need to expand their playlists, but I guess with dance music not thriving as much as it used to, that's difficult.  #103 probably got like 2 spins this whole year.

There's definitely truth in that, but at the same time KTU doesn't even play songs that they DO manage to add. They just keep playing 2-year old Deborah Cox songs 60 times a week.

[Moonshadow]

Jersey said:

There's definitely truth in that, but at the same time KTU doesn't even play songs that they DO manage to add. They just keep playing 2-year old Deborah Cox songs 60 times a week.

Agreed. I used to enjoy KTU much more in 2000-2001...at some point in 2003, probably after hearing Tina Ann for the 7th time in an hour, I decided to call it quits. The station needs to completely revamp its playlists and really decide how it can market fresh, strong dance music. The potential is there, but they need to use it.

[allow that]

Moonshadow said:

Agreed.  I used to enjoy KTU much more in 2000-2001...at some point in 2003, probably after hearing Tina Ann for the 7th time in an hour, I decided to call it quits.  The station needs to completely revamp its playlists and really decide how it can market fresh, strong dance music.  The potential is there, but they need to use it. 

They need to:
- drop the 70's disco,
-instead focus on 90's dance for their Gold tracks
- play more new music
- stop keeping the same 8 songs in their Top 10 for over a year
- find more songs to add

[HER MINAJesty]

Wow, that Mynt song was #2 of the entire YEAR? :o How much did they play it??

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Just said:

Wow, that Mynt song was #2 of the entire YEAR?  :o How much did they play it??

about 10 times a day for a good 6 months

[HER MINAJesty]

Wow...that's alot

It's gotten quite a bit of play on z103 lately but just more recently, like around November I'd say

[WhySoSerious?]

I don't understand why they don't play more remixes of Top 40 songs. There a wealth of them they could be using to add some variety to their playlist.

[allow that]

TCorey said:

I don't understand why they don't play more remixes of Top 40 songs.  There a wealth of them they could be using to add some variety to their playlist.

Exactly. There's really no reason why the "What You Waiting FOr?" remix for example was never added. There is plenty of new music out there they can add if they wanted to.

I also think they could have picked up many non-Dance but appropriate Pop flops, songs like "Trick Me" by Kelis and "Shut Up" by Black Eyed Peas would have been perfect on KTU... non-popular songs by popular artists. KTU does that (example, Enrique "Not In Love") but just not enough and not with the right songs.

Instead, Reina's "No One's Gonna Change You" is on the countdown for the THIRD year in a row. :o

[Slinky]

I have to echo everyone else's comments here.  This list is why I've completely given up on the station.  Back in 2000-01, I really looked forward to tuning them in, and now I just don't care.

Admittedly, there is less dance product out there now than in past years, but z103.5 has no trouble filling a playlist.  The problem is that much of the dance z plays doesn't fit the KTU "mold" as Moonshadow put it.  Unless it's House with a female vocal, KTU assumes that it's listeners don't want to hear it.  I bet if a song like "Sandstorm" came out today, KTU would ignore it in favor of another Deborah Cox song.

That brings me to another point.  KTU has no competition as far as new dance music in New York.  Up until 2004, WLIR was introducing dance music to a small but influential minority of people who were passionate about it.  Some of the big WLIR hits, which often included trance and progressive house, made it onto KTU's playlist.  The station was almost like KTU's farm-system for new music.  Now WLIR is gone, and there are zero outlets for new dance music that can be heard in New York City.  If KTU ever got real competition, or even a small competitor like WLIR, you'd hear them shape up really fast.  Right now, KTU doesn't bother trying to break new music because they know their audience has nowhere else to go.

I haven't considered KTU a dance station in a long time. They are a Rhythmic AC.

[Slinky]

Just said:

Wow, that Mynt song was #2 of the entire YEAR?  :o How much did they play it??

Kim Sozzi is from either Queens or Long Island, NY and has always received lots of local support. That explains why KTU picked up on the song way before z103.5 did.

[Pink Champagne Ricochet]

I don't understand why they don't play more remixes of Top 40 songs. There a wealth of them they could be using to add some variety to their playlist.

yeah...if a song has a remix, they should be using it. it would also help to differentiate them from Z100, etc. by being the only ones playing certain versions. off the top of my head, Ashlee Simpson's "Pieces of Me" had remixes (the 29 Palms is light on the vocals; apparently the Garcia & High Spies radio edit was sent out on Promo Only a few months ago.) and that's just one song. Party 93.1 plays mixes of DC, Ciara, etc., but I think those are exclusives to that station and I doubt Cox would exactly be friendly to Clear Channel.

[allow that]

What were songs 81-103?

[HER MINAJesty]

Slinky said:

Kim Sozzi is from either Queens or Long Island, NY and has always received lots of local support.  That explains why KTU picked up on the song way before z103.5 did.

Oh ok, yea that would explain it.

[foxxden]

I understand the recurrent argument you guys are pointing out. I am just happy that KTU ignores most of the urban songs that rhytmic top 40 seems to overplay these days. I mean compare the urban chart and the rhytmic top 40 chart and u will see little difference. If the two formats are the same then why have two of them? No wonder why hip hop dominates the charts these days...almost every radio format plays it.

I agree that rhythmic top 40 stations should play dance remixes of top 40 songs. What You Waiting For by Gwen should have been played more on rhytmic and i am shocked that it wasnt.

[djdonny]

Moonshadow,

I have the 2000 KTU countdown if you need it (at least, I believe it's 2000 -- you can check since you have the surrounding years, just to be sure).

Email me and I'll send you a PDF.

[[upsilon]™]

Yeah, I'm slightly disappointed as well with the countdown. "How Did You Know?" did deserve the top spot--it did on my end of the year chart, beating out every other song--but "Easy As Life" was a great song too.

[osbumlets]

Enough with the Lasgo!

[mrstatistics]

djdonny said:

I have the 2000 KTU countdown if you need it (at least, I believe it's 2000 -- you can check since you have the surrounding years, just to be sure).

I think Lara Fabian hit big with her hit I Will Love Again on this radio station in 2000, isn't it?

[Moonshadow]

I completed the countdown. Still looking for KTU 97-98-00.

It seems like KTU kinda tacked on whatever they started playing in mid-November to the end of the countdown to fill it up, and threw in a few tracks that they probably played 10 times the whole year for good measure.

[anthonyc]

I, I recently noticed that you think you might have the Top 103 of 2000 on KTU. If You do, would you be able to post :) I hope its 2000. I've been searching for this one for soo soo long. Thanks. I appreciate it very much