American Top 40 - February 23, 2019

[jdelachjr2002]

I've purposely waited so long to start this thread because once again I need to rip this show for their handling of Breakouts. Two weeks ago, they had four Breakouts. Last week, there was three (but all were "On The Verge") and this week - for just the second time in AT40 history (the other was August 18, 2018) - we have five ... yes, FIVE ... Breakouts (with just one "On The Verge").

Time and time again I had often criticized this show for having way too many Breakouts especially when weeks in which AT40 has had three or more debuts seems extremely rare (at some point this weekend, I'll track how often AT40 had 3+ debuts) and even more so when an occasional Breakout spends multiple weeks "On The Verge" and ultimately fails to chart (FYI, "My Blood" is history after five weeks as a Breakout, which beats "SoulMate"'s record of four weeks as the biggest AT40 fail).

It's weeks like this that made me wish that AT40 would resurrect "Two-For-One" or at the very least install a feature that takes up at least five minutes (Heck, Bobby Bones' "Country Top 30" has multiple features and I highly doubt they have that many "Breakouts"). I'd rather hear "Two-For-One" than hear a fourth or fifth Breakout that's for sure. We should not have more Breakouts than actual show hours!!!!!

Enough ranting. Here's the chart:

AMERICAN TOP 40 - FEBRUARY 23, 2019
LW TW WKS Artist - Title
40 40 (49) Bazzi - Mine (1)
DE 39 (01) Lauren Daigle - You Say (39)
37 38 (36) CARDI B featuring Bad Bunny & J. Balvin - I Like It (3)
39 37 (06) Rita Ora - Let You Love Me (36)

28 36 (31) NF - Lie (6)
38 35 (04) Lauv featuring Julia Michaels - There's No Way (35)
On The Verge: Madison Beer featuring Offset - Hurts Like Hell
33 34 (27) Juice WRLD - Lucid Dreams (6)
Extra: G-Eazy & Halsey - Him & I

36 33 (05) Lukas Graham - Love Someone (33)
31 32 (28) Ariana Grande - God Is A Woman (1)
34 31 (06) Gucci Mane featuring Bruno Mars & Kodak Black - Wake Up In The Sky (31)
Extra: The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar - Pray For Me
Optional Extra: Camila Cabello featuring Young Thug - Havana
32 30 (08) Why Don't We - 8 Letters (30)
DE 29 (01) Dua Lipa - Swan Song (29)
29 28 (07) Bad Bunny featuring Drake - MIA (28)
Extra: Macklemore featuring Kesha - Good Old Days
26 27 (25) lovelytheband - Broken (13)

25 26 (14) Dean Lewis - Be Alright (25)
30 25 (02) Sam Smith & Normani - Dancing With A Stranger (25)
Extra: Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven
23 24 (15) Loud Luxury featuring Brando - Body (23)

20 23 (35) Maroon 5 featuring CARDI B - Girls Like You (1)
24 22 (04) Post Malone - Wow. (22)
Breakout: Ariana Grande - Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored
21 21 (11) Dan + Shay - Tequila (21)
Optional Extra: Julia Michaels - Issues
18 20 (35) Post Malone - Better Now (1)
22 19 (07) Ava Max - Sweet But Psycho (19)
15 18 (42) Khalid & Normani - Love Lies (1)
Breakout: Fletcher - Undrunk

19 17 (08) Zara Larsson - Ruin My Life (17)
Extra: Ariana Grande featuring Nicki Minaj - Side To Side
16 16 (08) Mark Ronson featuring Miley Cyrus - Nothing Breaks Like A Heart (16)
11 15 (34) 5 Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood (1)
17 14 (03) Gesaffelstein & The Weeknd - Lost In The Fire (14)

14 13 (14) Khalid - Better (13)
09 12 (19) Ariana Grande - Breathin' (2)
Breakout: Imagine Dragons - Bad Liar
12 11 (17) Travis Scott featuring Drake - Sicko Mode (11)
Optional Extra: The Chainsmokers & Coldplay - Something Just Like This
07 10 (24) Bazzi featuring Camila Cabello - Beautiful (7)
13 09 (03) Ariana Grande - 7 Rings (9)
Breakout: LIVVIA - Damn
10 08 (16) The Chainsmokers featuring Kelsea Ballerini - This Feeling (8)

08 07 (12) Ellie Goulding & Diplo featuring Swae Lee - Close To Me (7)
06 06 (23) Marshmello & BASTILLE - Happier (1)

05 05 (15) Post Malone & Swae Lee - Sunflower (5)
03 04 (20) Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes (1)
Extra: Drake - Nice For What
04 03 (26) Benny Blanco featuring Halsey & Khalid - Eastside (3)
Optional Extra: NF - Let You Down
02 02 (13) Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next (1)
01 01 (17) Halsey - Without Me **3 weeks at #1**

DROPPERS
Silk City & Dua Lipa - Electricity (from #35, 18 weeks on)
DJ Snake featuring Selena Gomez, Ozuna & CARDI B - Taki Taki (from #27, 12 weeks on)

[nymets86]

Hey pal. I 100 percent agree on the Rant. Just FYI , Rita Ora has been on the chart 6 weeks now not 2.

[Top 40 Tracker]

[Top 40 Tracker]

Ryan must not do much talking as 55 songs are played this weekend and 7 Rings makes it into the Top 10 in only 3 weeks, which I believe is the fastest climb since Taylor Swift landed with LWYMMD in 2017.

[mkarns]

Feb 21, 2019 23:19:38 GMT -5 jdelachjr2002 said:

I've purposely waited so long to start this thread because once again I need to rip this show for their handling of Breakouts. Two weeks ago, they had four Breakouts. Last week, there was three (but all were "On The Verge") and this week - for just the second time in AT40 history (the other was August 18, 2018) - we have five ... yes, FIVE ... Breakouts (with just one "On The Verge").

Time and time again I had often criticized this show for having way too many Breakouts especially when weeks in which AT40 has had three or more debuts seems extremely rare (at some point this weekend, I'll track how often AT40 had 3+ debuts) and even more so when an occasional Breakout spends multiple weeks "On The Verge" and ultimately fails to chart (FYI, "My Blood" is history after five weeks as a Breakout, which beats "SoulMate"'s record of four weeks as the biggest AT40 fail).

It's weeks like this that made me wish that AT40 would resurrect "Two-For-One" or at the very least install a feature that takes up at least five minutes (Heck, Bobby Bones' "Country Top 30" has multiple features and I highly doubt they have that many "Breakouts"). I'd rather hear "Two-For-One" than hear a fourth or fifth Breakout that's for sure. We should not have more Breakouts than actual show hours!!!!!

Since Two-For-Ones were usually placed in or near the top 10, the Chainsmokers could have had that if "Something Just Like This" had been placed a little later. Among other possibilities, "Side To Side" could have been the same for Ariana Grande (but don't we have enough of her already with four songs on the chart and a fifth as a Breakout?) I've noticed that AT40 has been somewhat less strict lately in terms of confining itself to extras to songs from the last four years or so, as this week we get "Locked Out of Heaven" from six years ago (late 2012/early 2013), albeit by a still-hitmaking artist.

[musiciscool]

Sometimes Ryan has guests he talks with for a couple minutes in certain segments of the show. He must not interview anyone at all this week if that many extras are being played.


Two-For-One isn't ever coming back.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Can I ask what’s so bad about Breakouts?

[jdelachjr2002]

Feb 22, 2019 7:43:08 GMT -5 Devil Marlena Nylund said:

Can I ask what’s so bad about Breakouts?

I don't hate Breakouts. I just hate that the show has to schedule more than three sometimes.

All because Seacrest hated the "Two-For-One" feature which would've been more useful rather than a fourth Breakout.

[richie]

I actually don't mind the breakouts, though they do keep some songs on the verge too long. At least
they got rid of that awful "Tell Me Something Good" feature!

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Feb 22, 2019 13:15:41 GMT -5 jdelachjr2002 said:

Feb 22, 2019 7:43:08 GMT -5 Devil Marlena Nylund said:

Can I ask what’s so bad about Breakouts?

I don't hate Breakouts. I just hate that the show has to schedule more than three sometimes.

But why?

[Arnold]

I'm listening to American Top 40 right now, at  www.iheart.com/live/american-top-40-4802/ ,and although Ryan Seacrest announced it, they did not play #17 "Ruin my life".   After that, he was one song off in announcing each song.  It straigtened out at number 10. 

[nymets86]

Let You Love Me by Rita Ora is at week #6 not Week #2

[goodguy]

Feb 22, 2019 15:59:40 GMT -5 Arnold said:

I'm listening to American Top 40 right now, at  www.iheart.com/live/american-top-40-4802/ ,and although Ryan Seacrest announced it, they did not play #17 "Ruin my life".   After that, he was one song off in announcing each song.  It straigtened out at number 10. 

Very common on the iHeart AT40 channel. Also common is updating the music but not the voicetrack or vice versa. So Ryan introduces the wrong songs.

Similar things happen on AT40's sister show, the iHeartRadio Countdown.

[kani]

When was the last time "Tell Me Something Good" were used? Was it the last year?

[richie]

^ It was a few months ago. Not that long.

[musiciscool]

I don't mind the breakouts either. It's the extras that some times annoy me. It's good to have extras, but having one in almost each segment is a little much. The extras that don't annoy me are the optional ones.

[richie]

I mentioned the disappearance of Tell Me Something Good in the Sept.15th thread.

pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/179182/american-top-40-september-2018

[nymets86]

I’m suprised God Is a Woman by Ariana Grande is still on the countdown. Could there be a 5 song week on AT40 by one Lead Artist next week?

[johnnywest]

Feb 21, 2019 23:52:13 GMT -5 Top 40 Tracker said:

Ryan must not do much talking as 55 songs are played this weekend and 7 Rings makes it into the Top 10 in only 3 weeks, which I believe is the fastest climb since Taylor Swift landed with LWYMMD in 2017.

Ryan did mention that “7 rings” was the first song to reach the Top 10 in under 4 weeks since “LWYMMD” in September of 2017. He also did plenty of talking. Remember that many songs are under 3 minutes these days.

[johnnywest]

Feb 23, 2019 10:59:40 GMT -5 nymets86 said:

I’m suprised God Is a Woman by Ariana Grande is still on the countdown. Could there be a 5 song week on AT40 by one Lead Artist next week?

Ryan mentioned that she had 14 songs in the Mediabase Top 100 this week. With “BUWYGIB” quickly rising, I think she’ll have 5 Top 40 hits next week.

[jdelachjr2002]

Can anybody let me know if any of the U.S. affiliates played all five of the Breakouts? The last time AT40 had a five-Breakout week, some (if not all) stations skipped "Almost Love" (which had been On The Verge in its' third week).

[Cerebro]

Feb 23, 2019 12:13:11 GMT -5 johnnywest said:

Feb 23, 2019 10:59:40 GMT -5 nymets86 said:

I’m suprised God Is a Woman by Ariana Grande is still on the countdown. Could there be a 5 song week on AT40 by one Lead Artist next week?

Ryan mentioned that she had 14 songs in the Mediabase Top 100 this week. With “BUWYGIB” quickly rising, I think she’ll have 5 Top 40 hits next week.

If she has 5 concurrent Top 40 singles as a lead artist, I believe Ariana would, probably, be the first act to pull that off since The Beatles.

[Top 40 Tracker]

I believe she would set the record for AT40. I've never known any week to contain 5 songs by the same artist and definitely not as lead.

[richie]

50 Cent did it in 2005, but not all as lead artist:
(#'s 8, 15,16,34, 40)
pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/6134/american-top-40-28-2005

[jdelachjr2002]

Looks like all five of the Breakouts were played here in the U.S. after looking at WFLZ, Z100 and KIIS.

[Top 40 Tracker]

AT40 chart record ALERT:

Eastside hit #1 this week in it's 31st week on the MediaBase Top 40 (without recurrents) chart, 28th week (w/ recurrents) and sets the record for slowest climb ever to the top.

Now, on AT40, it appears Eastside will reach the summit in week 28 or 29 besting the 22 week record set back in 1999 (Save Tonight) and tied in 2016 (Here).

[nymets86]

Awesome stat on Eastside

[nymets86]

Rita Ora is in week number 6 not 2. It’s significant since the song should creep up a few notches again.

[nymets86]

Let You Love Me by Rita Ora has 6 weeks on the chart . Not 2 as posted.