American Top 40 (Hot AC) - July 4, 2020 / 50th anniversary

[upland1425]

AMERICAN TOP 40 with RYAN SEACREST (Hot AC) - July 4, 2020
50th Anniversary show

LW TW (WKS) Artist - Title (Peak so far)
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40 40 (51) Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello - Senorita (1)
--- 39 (01) Kelsea Ballerini & Halsey - The Other Girl (39)
33 38 (10) twenty | one | pilots - Level Of Concern (12)

36 37 (48) The Jonas Brothers - Only Human (3)
--- 36 (01) Saint Jhn - Roses (36)
Extra: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton - Can't Hold Us
37 35 (09) Benee feat. Gus Dapperton - Supalonely (32)
38 34 (02) Alec Benjamin - Oh My God (34)

34 33 (05) AJR - Bang! (34)
31 32 (33) Lizzo - Good As Hell (3)
Extra: Eminem feat. Rihanna - The Monster
29 31 (34) Selena Gomez - Lose You To Love Me (3)
Optional Extra: Billie Eilish - bad guy

32 30 (02) Gabby Barrett & Charlie Puth - I Hope (30)
Extra: Kesha - Tik Tok*
26 29 (66) SHAED - Trampoline (4)
27 28 (06) The Killers - Caution (27)

30 27 (03) Marshmello & Halsey - Be Kind (27)
28 26 (03) Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar (26)
Extra: Niall Horan - Slow Hands*
24 25 (09) lovelytheband - loneliness for love (22)
25 24 (07) John K - 6 Months (24)

23 23 (13) Sam Fischer - This City (23)
21 22 (21) Fitz And The Tantrums - I Just Wanna Shine (10)
On The Verge: Powfu feat. Beabadoobee - coffee for your head
19 21 (11) Bille Joe Armstrong of Green Day - I Think We're Alone Now (12)
Optional Extra: Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes

22 20 (05) The Jonas Brothers - X (20)
20 19 (09) Dua Lipa - Break My Heart (19)
AT40 Rewind: Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time
17 18 (08) Kelly Clarkson - I Dare You (16)
Breakout: PUBLIC - Honey In The Summer

18 17 (11) Surfaces - Sunday Best (17)
16 16 (06) Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber - Stuck With U (16)
14 15 (60) Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved (1)
15 14 (04) Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande - Rain On Me (14)
Extra: Taylor Swift - Bad Blood

13 13 (17) JP Saxe feat. Julia Michaels - If The World Was Ending (13)
12 12 (05) Katy Perry - Daisies (12)
11 11 (39) Maroon 5 - Memories (1)
Optional Extra: Khalid - Talk

10 10 (12) Doja Cat - Say So (10)
08 09 (52) Maren Morris - The Bones (1)
09 08 (23) Lewis Capaldi - Before You Go (8)
Breakout: Kygo & OneRepublic - Lose Somebody

07 07 (21) Camila Cabello - My Oh My (6)
06 06 (19) Justin Bieber - Intentions (6)

04 05 (38) Post Malone - Circles (1)
05 04 (19) Billie Eilish - everything i wanted (4)
Extra: Katy Perry - Hot N Cold*
03 03 (27) Harry Styles - Adore You (1)
Optional Extra: Pharrell Williams - Happy

02 02 (30) Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now (1)
01 01 (20) The Weeknd - Blinding Lights ** 6 weeks at #1 **


DROPPERS:
Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber - 10,000 Hours (from #39, 35 weeks on)
Black Eyed Peas - Ritmo (Bad Boys For Life) (from #35, 9 weeks on)

[upland1425]

- A part of this 50th anniversary show's intro is the 2004 version which was used for the Ryan's first Hot AC show (December 4, 2004).
I think that it may be selected as it has both the ambiance of the Casey's and Ryan's shows and as it will bring back memories for both of the Ryan's Top 40 and Hot AC show listeners.

- Ryan mentioned that Madonna, with her 16 No.1 hits, is the biggest artist in the AT40 history and played medley of Like A Virgin, Like A Prayer, Crazy For You, Take A Bow and Vogue.

- Unlike the Top 40/CHR show, he did not have a chance to refer to the highest re-entry or fastest riser in the 50 years.

[upland1425]

This anniversary show's extras (same set as the Top 40 show) are:

Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time (1999) AT40 Rewind
Katy Perry - Hot N Cold (2009)*
Kesha - Tik Tok (2010)*
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Can't Hold Us (2013)
Eminem feat. Rihanna - The Monster (2014)
Pharrell Williams - Happy (2014)
Taylor Swift - Bad Blood (2015)
Niall Horan - Slow Hands (2017)*
Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes (2018)
Billie Eilish - bad guy (2019)
Khalid - Talk (2019)

* includes the 50th anniversary interview, featured as "audio birthday card".

My favorites are "Happy", "Bad Blood" and "High Hopes".

[musiciscool]

My favorite extras this week are: Bad Blood, Slow Hands, and High Hopes.

[Hot AC Archiver]

The request for the extra High Hopes was by yours truly.

[Fire]

Jul 4, 2020 9:48:07 GMT -5 upland1425 said:

This anniversary show's extras (same set as the Top 40 show) are:

Kesha - Tik Tok (2010)*
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Can't Hold Us (2013)
Eminem feat. Rihanna - The Monster (2014)
Taylor Swift - Bad Blood (2015)
Niall Horan - Slow Hands (2017)*
Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes (2018)
Khalid - Talk (2019)

* includes the 50th anniversary interview, featured as "Birthday sound card".

My favorites are "Happy", "Bad Blood" and "High Hopes".

Those are the ones I like. I bolded my favorites.

Also I love Lose Somebody. Hopefully it goes all the way to #1.

[Fire]

Jul 4, 2020 10:43:14 GMT -5 Hot AC Archiver said:

The request for the extra High Hopes was by yours truly.

nice! @nonameneeded is seething over his request for boulevard of broken dreams not being played  :kii:

[Fire]

This week AT40 celebrates its 50th birthday. We look back on the past 50 years and our favorite moments. We also go through a normal countdown though, so here's the summary:

This week we say goodbye to "10,000 Hours" by Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber and "RITMO (Bad Boys For Life)" by the Black Eyed Peas and J Balvin.

Kelsea Ballerini and Halsey debut at #39 with "The Other Girl". Kelsea has had 2 prior AT40 hits, neither of them ended up reaching the top 10. Can this be her first top 10? Find out in the weeks to come!

SAINt JHN has the highest debut at #36 with "Roses".

Alec Benjamin rises 4 to #34 with "Oh My God", this week's fastest riser.

Twenty One Pilots have the biggest fall this week with "Level Of Concern", falling 5 to #38.

The top 3 remains untouched this week, with "Blinding Lights" topping the chart for the 6th week in a row!

[Fire]

AT40 HAC 2020 records

Biggest fall from countdown: #14
SZA/Justin Timberlake - "The Other Side" on May 9
Previous: #16
Ed Sheeran/Camila Cabello/CARDI B - "South Of The Border" on Apr 4
All-time: #12 - "Someone New" by Hozier in 2016

Biggest fall inside 40: 26 notches
13 to 39 Taylor Swift - "The Man" on May 23
Previous: 16 notches
12 to 28 John K - "If We Never Met" on Apr 4 and 15 to 31 Twenty One Pilots - "Level Of Concern" on Jun 20
All-time: 26 notches - "The Man" by Taylor Swift fell from 13 to 39 in 2020

Highest Debut: #22
Lady Gaga - "Stupid Love" on Mar 21
Previous: #24
Katy Perry - "Daisies" on Jun 6
All-time: #10 - "Look What You Made Me Do" by Taylor Swift on September 16, 2017

Most Debuts: 4
Week of Jan 4 / May 9
Previous: 3
Week of Feb 15 / Feb 29 / Apr 4 / Apr 11 / Jun 6

Fastest Riser: 18 notches
38 to 20 Jonas Brothers - "What A Man Gotta Do" on Feb 15 and 39 to 21 Twenty One Pilots - "Level Of Concern" on May 9
Previous: 16 notches
39 to 23 Harry Styles - "Adore You" on Jan 11
All-time: 27 notches - "How Far We've Come" by Matchbox Twenty jumped 35 to 8 on August 18, 2007

Biggest Leap to #1: 3 notches
4 to 1 Maren Morris - "The Bones" on Apr 18
Previous: 2 notches
3 to 1 Dua Lipa - "Don't Start Now" on Apr 25 & The Weeknd - "Blinding Lights" on 5/30
All-time: 6 notches - "Blank Space" by Taylor Swift leaped from #7 to #1 in 2015

Most weeks on the chart: 66 weeks
SHAED - "Trampoline"
Previous: 62 weeks
Jonas Brothers - "Sucker"
All-time: 117 weeks - "Use Somebody" by Kings Of Leon in 2011

Most weeks at #1: 12 weeks
Maroon 5 - "Memories"
Previous: 6 weeks
The Weeknd - "Blinding Lights"
All-time: 17 weeks - "Bubbly" by Colbie Calliat in 2008

Longest climb to #1: 41 weeks
Maren Morris - "The Bones"
Previous: 23 weeks
Post Malone - "Circles"
All-time: 41 weeks - "The Bones" by Maren Morris in 2020

[upland1425]

Jul 4, 2020 10:43:14 GMT -5 Hot AC Archiver said:

The request for the extra High Hopes was by yours truly.

The request for the extra “Happy” was by yours truly.

[Fire]

Jul 4, 2020 11:29:15 GMT -5 upland1425 said:

Jul 4, 2020 10:43:14 GMT -5 Hot AC Archiver said:

The request for the extra High Hopes was by yours truly.

The request for the extra “Happy” was by yours truly.

poor @nonameneeded. seethe baby!

[Fire]

ryan again announced that blinding lights was the longest running #1 of the year at the beginning of the show. he seems to have completely forgotten about memories :sip2:

[Deleted]

My favorite extras are The Monster and Happy.

I don't need AT40 to play Boulevard Of Broken Dreams for me anyway. I can just play it myself as many times as I want lol.

[Mike Schwartz]

Jul 5, 2020 10:02:23 GMT -5 Fire said:

ryan again announced that blinding lights was the longest running #1 of the year at the beginning of the show. he seems to have completely forgotten about memories :sip2:

This came up on the board in last week's show discussion as well. I imagine that Ryan doesn't adlib that much so what he stated was probably written for him by the show's staff. If they had properly reviewed the copy before it was aired, THEY should have been more careful or maybe this is another example of the HAC version being a second, weaker cousin to the main show; the CHR edition of AT40.

What do you think?

[Hot AC Archiver]

Yes, I bet the script was incorrect. I do feel that the HAC version is a lower priority. For example, it isn't available on i-heart streaming like the CHR version is.

[Mike Schwartz]

Jul 6, 2020 14:02:11 GMT -5 Hot AC Archiver said:

For example, it isn't available on i-heart streaming like the CHR version is.

This has been a complaint of mine for many years. I sent an email to IHeart back in 2018 about this very issue but never got a response. It is a shame; BTW, I know that the Rick Dees countdown was made available in both formats on the app so why not IHeart?

[upland1425]

I very much enjoyed the 50th anniversary shows (and so many Casey shows) with a lot of pleasant surprises.  On top of that, I appreciate their decision to continue the celebration looking back at a great history of 50 years for all year long.

It is an extremely difficult time for everyone and every industry, including radio industry.  Many big media companies like iHeart Media announced large-scale employment termination of DJs, program directors, engineers, and staff, as well as furlough of many others, so are also the case for radio stations.  All of them are struggling to keep sponsors.

It is good for the AT40 affiliate stations especially in this situation that Premiere provided AT40 and many other shows to commercial radio stations in the US based on barter-trading agreement, meaning for free as far as they air the network commercials.  While they will lose several minutes from their commercial spots, it is anyhow very hard for them to fill in those spots from local sponsors now.  Stations also lack resources for the cost-cut plan.

It means that it is critical for Premiere to keep network commercial sponsors, which I believe is also difficult.  I may reasonably guess that what happens at iHeartMedia also attacks its subsidiaries including Premiere and Mediabase.  If so, some of the staff may be fired, some others may be furloughed, all of them, including Ryan, should work from home especially in light of the critically high-risk situation in Los Angeles, some staff may need to fill in or substitute other staff's assignments with each other.  

So, I am grateful to Premiere, Ryan (and of course Casey and Shadoe), AT40 staff members, affiliate radio stations, and network and local commercial sponsors, for making it possible for us to listen to AT40 shows without a single disruption.  I strongly desire and sincerely hope that AT40, both of Top 40 and Hot AC shows, will get through the hard times and should continue for many years from now.