American Top 40 - January 4, 2020 GH Sabrina Carpenter

[Top 40 Tracker]

In the first countdown of the year, we say goodbye to "Writing On The Wall" by French Montana, as well as "Lonely" Diplo's collab with the Jonas Brothers, while Post Malone's 48 week run with "Wow." also comes to an end and Billie Eilish drops off with “all the good girls go to hell,” but bounces right back in with “everything i wanted" coming in at #29.

This week’s highest debut on is "Heartless" by The Weeknd. He’s had an interesting chart record: 5 of his songs ("Love Me Harder," "In The Night," "Starboy," "I Feel It Coming" & "Pray For Me") all peaked at #3 – the most for any act so far this century.

Newcomer Arizona Zervas scores the biggest mover of the week with "ROXANNE," which jumps 12 spots to number to #20.

In the Top 3 this week, Selena Gomez inches closer to the top with her comeback single "Lose You To Love Me" landing at #3, while Post Malone holds at #2 for a third week. And Lizzo reigns at #1 for her third week with "Good As Hell."

Also worth noting this week, five acts have been charting in the ’00s, ’10s and now ’20s: Maroon 5, Jonas Brothers, Taylor Swift, Kesha and Panic! At The Disco. Can one of these be the first act to score #1s in three different decades since Christina Aguilera? We'll find out!

AMERICAN TOP 40 - JANUARY 4, 2020 (Guest Host: Sabrina Carpenter)
3W TW (WKS) Artist - Title (Peak so far)
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39 40 (39) Panic At The Disco - Hey Look Ma, I Made It (6)
DE 39 (01) BTS featuring Lauv - Make It Right (39)
37 38 (42) The Jonas Brothers - Sucker (8wks)

35 37 (11) AJ Mitchell featuring Ava Max - Slow Dance (33)
34 36 (47) Sam Smith & Normani - Dancing With A Stranger (1)
36 35 (05) Travis Scott - Highest In The Room (35)
Extra: Nelly - Just A Dream
38 34 (07) 5 Seconds of Summer - Teeth (34)

31 33 (33) Shawn Mendes - If I Can't Have You (3)
30 32 (06) Kesha featuring Big Freedia - Raising Hell (30)
DE 31 (01) Harry Styles - Adore You (31)
BREAKOUT: Ed Sheeran featuring Camila Cabello & Cardi B - South Of The Border
Optional Extra: Sabrina Carpenter - Almost Love

28 30 (38) Khalid - Talk (3wks)
DE 29 (01) Billie Eilish - everything I wanted (29)
26 28 (08) Saweetie - My Type (26)
ON THE VERGE: Charlie Puth - Mother

25 27 (12) Why Don't We - What Am I (25)
24 26 (33) Billie Eilish - Bad Guy (3wks)
Extra: Rihanna - Umbrella
27 25 (06) Blackbear - Hot Girl Bummer (25)
22 24 (24) Post Malone featuring Young Thug - Goodbyes (4)

DE 23 (01) The Weeknd - Heartless (23)
Extra: Jay Sean - Down
20 22 (32) Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber - I Don't Care (2wks)
23 21 (09) Niall Horan - Nice To Meet Ya (21)
Optional Extra: Sabrina Carpenter - Thumbs

32 20 (04) Arizona Zervas - ROXANNE (20)
16 19 (20) Marshmello & Kane Brown - One Thing Right (16)
11 18 (26) Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello - Senorita (4wks)
ON THE VERGE: Loud Luxury & Bryce Vine - I’m Not Alright

17 17 (16) Taylor Swift - Lover (17)
06 16 (23) Ed Sheeran featuring Khalid - Beautiful People (5)
15 15 (10) Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber - 10,000 Hours (15)
18 14 (07) Tones and I - Dance Monkey (14)
Extra: Kygo & Whitney Houston - Higher Love


19 13 (06) Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now (13)
07 12 (29) Lizzo - Truth Hurts (4wks)
14 11 (13) Halsey - Graveyard (11)
Optional Extra: Sabrina Carpenter - Why

10 10 (21) Sam Smith - How Do You Sleep? (8)
13 09 (19) NF - Time (9)
12 08 (19) Lil Nas X - Panini (8)
BREAKOUT: Zedd & Kehlani - Good Thing

05 07 (23) Jonas Brothers - Only Human (3)
04 06 (23) SHAED - Trampoline (4)
BREAKOUT: Black Eyed Peas & J Balvin - RITMO (Bad Boys For Life)

03 05 (25) Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved (3wks)
08 04 (13) Maroon 5 - Memories (4)
09 03 (08) Selena Gomez - Lose You To Love Me (3)
Optional Extra: Sabrina Carpenter - Sue Me

02 02 (16) Post Malone - Circles (2wks)
01 01 (13) Lizzo - Good As Hell **5 weeks**

DROPPERS:
Post Malone - Wow. (from #40, 48 weeks on, peak #1)
French Montana featuring Post Malone, Cardi B & RVSSIAN - Writing On The Wall (from #33, 5 weeks on, peak #33)
Diplo & Jonas Brothers - Lonely (from #29, 9 weeks on, peak #29)
Billie Eilish - all the good girls go to hell (from #21, 8 weeks on, peak #20)

[momzquotes]

When are you gonna post the breakouts and extras?

BTW, some extras are all Sabrina Carpenter's songs, right?

[Top 40 Tracker]

Not sure. I don't have the info yet.

[Fire]

I can probably think of "Why", "Almost Love", and "Thumbs" off the top of my head but I'm probably missing a few.

Also idk why they would choose her as a guest-host when she doesn't have a new song out or anything. The last time she guest-hosted AT40 she had "Almost Love", MAX had "Love Me Less", Andy Grammer had "Don't Give Up On Me", Noah Cyrus had "Stay Together", etc.

[mkarns]

Jan 2, 2020 12:39:31 GMT -5 Fire said:

I can probably think of "Why", "Almost Love", and "Thumbs" off the top of my head but I'm probably missing a few.

Also idk why they would choose her as a guest-host when she doesn't have a new song out or anything. The last time she guest-hosted AT40 she had "Almost Love", MAX had "Love Me Less", Andy Grammer had "Don't Give Up On Me", Noah Cyrus had "Stay Together", etc.

And her hits thus far haven't been all that big. The best she's done to date on AT40 was "Almost Love", #22 in October 2018. I guess she was available and willing to fill in, and maybe did some sort of practice or audition that the countdown's producers found acceptable.

Chartwise, I do think this week or next we could be seeing a second song with nonconsecutive weeks at #1 in less than a year, with "Circles" back on top at Mediabase. And that would be after at least four weeks behind "Good As Hell".

[Fire]

A better guest-host option would probably be Billie Eilish since "Everything I Wanted" is blowing up and "Bad Guy" would still likely be on the charts.

[musiciscool]

A good guest host would be Sisanie. She is the co host of Ryan's on air show.

[gemini79]

I wonder if Time will hit the top 10, it has already hit the top 10 and fell out on mediabase

[Fire]

Jan 1, 2020 12:31:08 GMT -5 Top 40 Tracker said:

Sabrina Carpenter will be your AT40 guest host this weekend.


Breakouts - South of the Border; Good Thing

Verge - Mother; I'm Not Alright

Extras - Just A Dream; Umbrella; Down; Higher Love

Opts - Almost Love; Thumbs; Why; Sue Me

That's all of Sabrina's songs that charted on AT40 tho right?

Yep, Everything I Wanted definitely debuted.

[Deleted]

My prediction for dropouts and debuts:

Dropouts: Lonely, Writing On the Wall, Hey Look Ma I Made It, Wow

Debuts: Heartless, Everything I Wanted, Adore You, Make It Right (the former will probably have a top 20 debut)

[superxpaul]

Jan 2, 2020 12:39:31 GMT -5 Fire said:

I can probably think of "Why", "Almost Love", and "Thumbs" off the top of my head but I'm probably missing a few.

Also idk why they would choose her as a guest-host when she doesn't have a new song out or anything. The last time she guest-hosted AT40 she had "Almost Love", MAX had "Love Me Less", Andy Grammer had "Don't Give Up On Me", Noah Cyrus had "Stay Together", etc.

You forgot “Sue Me” which hit AT40 in 2019.

[Fire]

You need to add the freeze weeks to the dropouts too.

Wow lasted 48 weeks
Writing On The Wall lasted 5 weeks.
Lonely lasted 9 weeks.
ATGGGTH lasted 8 weeks.

[Top 40 Tracker]

good point.

[goodguy]

Top 40 Tracker also listed "Umbrella" and "Higher Love" as extras. They were not played on HiFM. I'll update this post with their location within the show when I hear them played elsewhere later today.

Update: "Umbrella" is an extra between #26 and #25.

Update: "Higher Love" is an extra after #14.

[gemini79]

Lol at Mother being an on the verge, Slow Dance should be moving up

[Deleted]

With Wow leaving, Dancing With a Stranger is now the longest running song, at 47 weeks.

[Fire]

I can't be the only one who noticed they moved back to their 2018 intro.

[Top 40 Tracker]

I think they didn't have time to produce new tracks. She last hosted the show June 30, 2018.

[jdelachjr2002]

WFLZ and KIIS did play all five of the Breakout/On The Verge songs this week. Apparently Z100 skipped "Bad Boys For Life".

As for the two Verge songs, I don't think "Mother" or "I'm Not Alright" will make it proving my theory once again that four or more Breakouts is not always a good thing but Seacrest hated Two-For-One (which was done away with four years ago) so we all have to suffer for it.

[Fire]

Jan 5, 2020 15:21:07 GMT -5 jdelachjr2002 said:

WFLZ and KIIS did play all five of the Breakout/On The Verge songs this week. Apparently Z100 skipped "Bad Boys For Life".

As for the two Verge songs, I don't think "Mother" or "I'm Not Alright" will make it proving my theory once again that four or more Breakouts is not always a good thing but Seacrest hated Two-For-One (which was done away with four years ago) so we all have to suffer for it.

Well what if "Mother" was still a breakout/on the verge and there were only 3 breakouts/on the verge songs. It would still not make it. Would you still elicit the same reaction?

[momzquotes]

When does Ryan return?

BTW, thanks for updates. Make sure it's complete (including the breakouts, OTVs, and extras) when you post AT40 charts every weekend.