American Top 40 [September 19, 2020]

[MitchWolf - ChartStan]

This week we say goodbye to....
Billie Eilish - everything i wanted [from #40 after 37 weeks on, PK: #5]
Diplo/Morgan Wallen/Julia Michaels - Heartless [from #28 after 18 weeks on, PK: #22]

Debuting this week is....
Chris Brown teams up with Young Thug on "Go Crazy" [#38]
Alt Trap artist 24kGoldn making his AT40 debut as he teams with iann dior on “Mood” [#28]

Fastest Riser/Biggest Fall

This week's Fastest Riser belongs to BTS as their hit "Dynamite" moves up 10 big spots from its debut of #30 to #20

.... while this week's Biggest Fall goes to Trevor Daniel and Selena Gomez as "Past Life" drops 19 huge spots from #17 to #39

Now In The Top 3,
At #3, "Blinding Lights" returns to the top 3 from #4

...at #2, "Before You Go" stays put for a 2nd week

And at #1.... For the year's best 6th week, "Watermelon Sugar"

American Top 40 [September 19, 2020]
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LW TW Artist-Title Peak So Far Weeks at #1 Weeks On

39 40 Lil Mosey - Blueberry Faygo 11 15
38 39 Camila Cabello/DaBaby - My Oh My 01 [1 wk] 34
[DE] 38 Chris Brown/Young Thug - Go Crazy 38 01

37 37 Zedd/Jasmine Thompson - Funny 37 03
17 36 Trevor Daniel/Selena Gomez - Past Life 15 09
36 35 Ashe/Niall Horan - Moral Of The Story 35 03
EX Megan Thee Stallion/Beyoncé - Savage (Remix)
33 34 Post Malone - Circles 01 [7 wks] 53

35 33 DJ Khaled/Drake - POPSTAR 33 03
29 32 Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now 01 [5 wks] 43
31 31 Kygo/OneRepublic - Lose Somebody 31 05
EX Ed Sheeran - Perfect

OX The Weeknd - The Hills

34 30 Avenue Beat - F2020 30 03
26 29 Trevor Daniel - Falling 01 [1 wk] 34
EX Camila Cabello - Never Be The Same
[DE] 28 24kGoldn/iann dior - Mood 28 01
V Zoe Wees - Control

25 27 Billie Eilish - my future 25 04
22 26 Justin Bieber/Quavo - Intentions 01 [2 wks] 30
32 25 Ava Max - Kings & Queens 25 04
EX Sia/Sean Paul - Cheap Thrills
24 24 AJR - Bang! 24 08

23 23 Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky 23 02
BO BLACKPINK/Selena Gomez - Ice Cream
27 22 Surf Mesa/Emilee - ily (i love you baby) 22 08
21 21 Jack Harlow - WHATS POPPIN 21 08

OX Nick Jonas - Jealous

30 20 BTS - Dynamite 20 02
20 19 Taylor Swift - cardigan 18 05
19 18 Kane Brown/Swae Lee/Khalid - Be Like That 18 06
BO Calvin Harris/The Weeknd - Over Now

18 17 Topic/A7S - Breaking Me 17 07
15 16 Doja Cat - Say So 01 [5 wks] 29
14 15 Maroon 5 - Nobody's Love 13 06
13 14 Doja Cat/Gucci Mane - Like That 13 14
RW Ariana Grande - Break Free (Live from 2014 iHeart Music Festival)

16 13 Juice WRLD/Marshmello - Come And Go 13 05
09 12 BENEE/Gus Dapperton - Supalonely 07 22
EX Post Malone - Wow.
12 11 Gabby Barrett/Charlie Puth - I Hope 11 11

OX Bruno Mars - Locked Out of Heaven

10 10 Powfu/beabadoobee - Coffee For Your Head (Death Bed) 08 20
11 09 JP Saxe/Julia Michaels - If The World Was Ending 09 15
06 08 SAINt JHN - Roses (Imanbek remix) 03 21
BO Drake/Lil Durk - Laugh Now Cry Later

08 07 Harry Styles - Adore You 01 [2 wks] 38
05 06 DaBaby/Roddy Ricch - ROCKSTAR 05 14

07 05 Jawsh 685/Jason Derulo - Savage Love (Laxed-Siren Beat) 05 09
03 04 Dua Lipa - Break My Heart 01 [1 wk] 23
EX Lada Gaga/Ariana Grande - Rain On Me
04 03 The Weeknd - Blinding Lights 01 [5 wks] 34

OX The Chainsmokers/Halsey - Closer

02 02 Lewis Capaldi - Before You Go 02 32
01 01 Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar 01 [6 wks] 15

To Follow Along:
listen to AT40 channel at 5a est Friday on the iHeartRadio app

... or go to www.at40.com/howtolisten/ ..... Type in your location... It will tell you the station

[MitchWolf - ChartStan]

What??? Daisies not an extra????.... Is Ryan gonna gloat about Katy's new baby daughter without playing the song named after her??

And is Beyoncé gonna be heard on Perfect as well or just on Savage??

And was "Break Free" Ariana's debut single is why its a rewind???

Another thing i will hope i get things solved by 5:30 cst... I got an appointment tomorrow morning ....again any errors sent via my DM

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Sept 17, 2020 7:55:38 GMT -5 MitchWolf - ChartStan said:

Extras -
Megan Thee Stallion/Beyoncé - Savage (Remix)
Post Malone - Wow.
Lada Gaga/Ariana Grande - Rain On Me

Optionals -
Nick Jonas - Jealous
Bruno Mars - Locked Out of Heaven

Those are the extras I like. My favorites are Wow and Jealous, especially the former.

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Sept 17, 2020 18:20:35 GMT -5 MitchWolf - ChartStan said:

And was "Break Free" Ariana's debut single is why its a rewind???

Break Free was not her debut single.

[MitchWolf - ChartStan]

Sept 17, 2020 18:24:37 GMT -5 @nonameneeded said:

Sept 17, 2020 18:20:35 GMT -5 MitchWolf - ChartStan said:

And was "Break Free" Ariana's debut single is why its a rewind???

Break Free was not her debut single.

Then why that's a rewind??

[Fire]

i like every extra except closer and cheap thrills. my favorites are never be the same and perfect

[momzquotes]

MitchWolf - ChartStan know what? I don't listen to Hi FM because those extras are not in order, well, at least, I jot down the charts though in my phone to save.

[MitchWolf - ChartStan]

Sept 18, 2020 1:31:58 GMT -5 momzquotes said:

MitchWolf - ChartStan know what? I don't listen to Hi FM because those extras are not in order, well, at least, I jot down the charts though in my phone to save.

I had to listen to it today just for the countdown part... the extras will be handled after i get home from the doc's office

[superxpaul]

It’s interesting how Ryan had a segment about the Netflix docu-series “Cheer” featuring an interview with the head coach of Navarro College’s cheer team... one of their members Jerry Harris was recently arrested for child pornography!

[superxpaul]

This week’s AT40 Rewind (“Break Free”) was in honor of the 2014 iHeartRadio Music Festival. In addition, the live performance of Break Free from that festival was played.

[gemini79]

How did If the World was Ending got into the top 10 before I Hope

[gemini79]

Looks like my future is done, I wished it did better

[MitchWolf - ChartStan]

Sept 18, 2020 7:08:13 GMT -5 gemini79 said:

Looks like my future is done, I wished it did better

. It is... dropping hard on MediaBase

[Fire]

i'm sad about past life :( that should've been the hit and not "falling" :sip2:

[warriorsdyn98]

Kind of suprising that Blueberry Faygo by Lil Mosey lasted two more weeks on the Countdown after having the fall of the week from 11 to 30 on September 5. Could have bought one more week for Billie Eilish @40

[goodguy]

I understand the choice for the Rewind song. iHeart wants to promote the iHeartRadio Music Festival.

But it would have been nice to piggyback the Rewind segment with the interview with Casey Kasem's daughter Kerri. They could have played a clip of Casey.

[MitchWolf - ChartStan]

Sept 18, 2020 11:15:35 GMT -5 goodguy said:

I understand the choice for the Rewind song. iHeart wants to promote the iHeartRadio Music Festival.

But it would have been nice to piggyback the Rewind segment with the interview with Casey Kasem's daughter Kerri. They could have played a clip of Casey.

Interviewing her should have been done on the July 4th show, but least its done.... now needs to interview Shadoe Stevens on appearing on his brother Richard's radio show and being the main announcer on Antenna TV

[goodguy]

Sept 18, 2020 12:25:11 GMT -5 MitchWolf - ChartStan said:

Sept 18, 2020 11:15:35 GMT -5 goodguy said:

I understand the choice for the Rewind song. iHeart wants to promote the iHeartRadio Music Festival.

But it would have been nice to piggyback the Rewind segment with the interview with Casey Kasem's daughter Kerri. They could have played a clip of Casey.

Interviewing her should have been done on the July 4th show, but least its done.... now needs to interview Shadoe Stevens on appearing on his brother Richard's radio show and being the main announcer on Antenna TV

In any retrospective on the show, they always ignore Shadoe Stevens. They also pretend Casey used Radio & Records charts instead of Billboard in the 1970s. Revisionist history and it's sad.

[warriorsdyn98]

Sept 18, 2020 11:15:35 GMT -5 goodguy said:

I understand the choice for the Rewind song. iHeart wants to promote the iHeartRadio Music Festival.

But it would have been nice to piggyback the Rewind segment with the interview with Casey Kasem's daughter Kerri. They could have played a clip of Casey.

Completely agree with there should have been a transition into the AT40 rewind which at this point only has one Casey appearance introducing ‘baby one more time’ by Britney Spears back in October of 1998 smh

[johnnywest]

Sept 18, 2020 12:29:03 GMT -5 goodguy said:

They also pretend Casey used Radio & Records charts instead of Billboard in the 1970s. Revisionist history and it's sad.

Casey started using R&R in 1989 and that's when the chart's history reverted to R&R. This practice still continued when Casey restarted AT40 in 1998 and Ryan has been using R&R history since 2004. It wouldn't make much sense for him to use Billboard's stats after Casey had been using R&R for the past 15 years.

[johnnywest]

Sept 17, 2020 18:20:35 GMT -5 MitchWolf - ChartStan said:

What??? Daisies not an extra????.... Is Ryan gonna gloat about Katy's new baby daughter without playing the song named after her??

No, but Ed Sheeran and his wife had a baby :)

[goodguy]

Sept 18, 2020 13:54:47 GMT -5 johnnywest said:

Sept 18, 2020 12:29:03 GMT -5 goodguy said:

They also pretend Casey used Radio & Records charts instead of Billboard in the 1970s. Revisionist history and it's sad.

Casey started using R&R in 1989 and that's when the chart's history reverted to R&R. This practice still continued when Casey restarted AT40 in 1998 and Ryan has been using R&R history since 2004. It wouldn't make much sense for him to use Billboard's stats after Casey had been using R&R for the past 15 years.

I think they should quote Billboard when AT40 used Billboard and R&R when AT40 used R&R.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

There could be legal reasons behind why they don’t though.

[warriorsdyn98]

3 songs left from the original countdown of the decade (2020)
2 songs left from last decade (2019)
As of Sept 19, 2020 ... interesting

[mkarns]

Sept 18, 2020 14:09:50 GMT -5 goodguy said:

Sept 18, 2020 13:54:47 GMT -5 johnnywest said:

Casey started using R&R in 1989 and that's when the chart's history reverted to R&R. This practice still continued when Casey restarted AT40 in 1998 and Ryan has been using R&R history since 2004. It wouldn't make much sense for him to use Billboard's stats after Casey had been using R&R for the past 15 years.

I think they should quote Billboard when AT40 used Billboard and R&R when AT40 used R&R.

They do use Billboard for data from the first three years of AT40 (1970-73), as well as from earlier years, but that's because Radio & Records didn't exist until October 1973.

No countdown has used Billboard as its main source of post-1973 data since Shadoe Stevens' AT40 ended in the mid-1990s. In 1989, when Casey started hosting Casey's Top 40 using R&R, he immediately began citing it for chart stats from its existence, which at least initially confused many including myself who less than a year earlier had been hearing him give contradictory Billboard info. Casey, and Ryan now, may have some contractual reason for using R&R/Mediabase data as well as perhaps reasons of consistency.

[kaseyken]

thoughts for week

1. Pencil in my oh my at number 40 next week.

2. Is it me or every time i hear Savage being played it sounds like wanna F$%# with me in the opening line can't believe this makes it past the censors !

3. Down to Cardigan as the only song left clocking in at four minutes. Top 40 this week is two hours and eight minutes based on itunes.

[kani]

iheart festival music weekend.. stream on CW this weekend

video for lego... as mentions on at40.com

my fav commercials: Ava King Kings and Queens new album debut in allmusic, Olay skin body wash, Tide commercial man narrates washing machine

drive in thru walmart screen, ed sheeran first baby daughter Lyra

Post Malone - Circles, oldest song in this week countdown

Sponsor: Geico, Capital One, home depot, peacock streaming

jason derulo megastar in tiktok, deep fried taco pancakes, stuff..

Interview: Selena Gomez (for new single Ice Cream with Blackpink), caesars place will open 2021.. man interview ticketmaster, woman interview about spring break stream now netflix.., Usher interview mentions about 2011 iheart radio festival performed (he will perform soon)

iheart 10th anniversary, took place las vegas in 2014

kerri kasem working contaract and legacy of casey kasem, an interview of kerri kasem

Covid message: Camilla Cabello (Never Be the Same)

Zoe Wees biggest influence is Miley Cyrus

For KIIS 102.7 (also last week as well) the commercial started few seconds early. as seacrest was outroing countdown or something.

[Fire]

Sept 19, 2020 0:48:40 GMT -5 kaseyken said:

thoughts for week

2. Is it me or every time i hear Savage being played it sounds like wanna F$%# with me in the opening line can't believe this makes it past the censors !

it's just you lol. it's "want no smoke with me"

[warriorsdyn98]

Week 151 straight of Post Malone appearance on American Top 40 countdown with circles (which is much higher than 34 on media base ) and Blinding Lights by The Weeknd climbs back into the top 3 on its 34th week on the countdown . Unheard of

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