American Top 40 [December 19, 2020]

[MitchWolf: Super Chart Genius]

On the last AT40 of 2020, we say goodbye to....
Joel Corry/MNEK - Head & Heart [from #28 after 6 weeks, PK: #27]

Debuting this week is....
Lil Nas X returns with a festive tune “Holiday” [#36]

Fastest Riser/Greatest Fall
This week's Fastest Riser belongs to Shawn Mendes as his collab with Justin Bieber "Monster" moves up 8 big spaces from #31 to #23
.... while this week's Greatest Fall ALSO goes to Shawn Mendes as "Wonder" drops 12 huge spots from #19 to #31

Now In The Top 3,
At #3, "I Hope" for a second week
....at #2, "Kings & Queens" for a second week
And at #1.... for a 6th week, "Mood"

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

40 40 Doja Cat - Say So 01 [5 wks] 42
38 39 JP Saxe/Julia Michaels - If The World Was Ending 08 28
EX Machine Gun Kelly/Camila Cabello - Bad Things*
39 38 Pop Smoke - What You Know About Love 38 02

36 37 SAINt JHN - Roses (Imanbek remix) 03 32
[DE] 36 Lil Nas X - Holiday 36 01
EX The Chainsmokers/Daya - Don't Let Me Down
37 35 Zara Larsson - WOW 34 08
33 34 Harry Styles - Adore You 01 [2 wks] 51

35 33 Internet Money/Gunna/Don Toliver/Nav - Lemonade 33 04
32 32 Conan Gray - Heather 32 08
19 31 Shawn Mendes - Wonder 13 09
V Ritt Momney - Put Your Records On

OX-1 Ariana Grande/Zedd - Break Free

30 30 Tate McRae - you broke me first 30 07
27 29 DaBaby/Roddy Ricch - ROCKSTAR 04 27
EX Powfu/beabadoobee - Coffee For Your Head (death bed)*
29 28 Machine Gun Kelly/blackbear - my ex's best friend 28 07
V Miley Cyrus/Dua Lipa - Prisoner

34 27 Jason Derulo - Take You Dancing 27 05
24 26 Why Don't We - Fallin' 24 07
26 25 Ariana Grande - 34+35 25 04
22 24 Dua Lipa - Break My Heart 01 [1 wk] 36

31 23 Shawn Mendes/Justin Bieber - Monster 23 02
25 22 Bebe Rexha/Doja Cat - Baby, I'm Jealous 22 06
EX Chris Brown/Drake - No Guidance
23 21 Zoe Wees - Control 21 13

OX-2 The Weeknd - The Hills

15 20 Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar 01 [8 wks] 28
18 19 Justin Bieber/benny blanco - Lonely 18 07
EX G-Eazy/blackbear - Hate The Way
20 18 Harry Styles - Golden 18 05

13 17 Lewis Capaldi - Before You Go 01 [1 wk] 45
21 16 Billie Eilish - Therefore I Am 16 03
EX Kygo/Selena Gomez - It Ain't Me*
17 15 Sam Smith - Diamonds 15 10

10 14 Jawsh 685/Jason Derulo - Savage Love (Laxed-Siren Beat) 01 [4 wks] 22 [-4]
16 13 Chris Brown/Young Thug - Go Crazy 13 14
14 12 AJR - Bang! 12 21
EX David Guetta/Sia - Titanium
11 11 The Weeknd - Blinding Lights 01 [5 wks] 47

OX-3 Marc Ronson/Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk

12 10 Drake/Lil Durk - Laugh Now Cry Later 10 13
09 09 Dua Lipa/DaBaby - Levitating 09 09
EX Halsey - Now Or Never
08 08 Kane Brown/Swae Lee/Khalid - Be Like That 08 19

04 07 Surf Mesa/Emilee - ily (i love you baby) 02 21
06 06 BTS - Dynamite 06 13
EX Shawn Mendes - Treat You Better*

07 05 Ariana Grande - positions 05 06
05 04 Justin Bieber/Chance The Rapper - Holy 04 11
BO The Weeknd - Save Your Tears
03 03 Gabby Barrett/Charlie Puth - I Hope 03

OX-4 Drake/Wizkid/Kyla - One Dance

02 02 Ava Max - Kings & Queens 02 17
01 01 24kGoldn/iann dior - Mood 01 [**6th week**] 14

Interviews:
Nelly on his turn on Dancing With The Stars and his upcoming appearance on New Year's Rockin' Eve
Shawn Mendes on him working with Justin Bieber on the "Monster" collab
Lewis Capaldi on holiday traditions, the pandemic and pressures and demands of making more music
Dua Lipa on her tough decisions and following her instincts


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[momzquotes]

remember, it's the final week before the Top 40 of 2020 reveal.

[momzquotes]

Uh-oh. Looks like another set of missing extras and breakouts. I wonder why...

[goodguy]

Dec 17, 2020 18:22:33 GMT -5 momzquotes said:

Uh-oh. Looks like another set of missing extras and breakouts. I wonder why...

MitchWolf often gets that information from other people on this forum, sometimes including myself. We get the information from people in the industry. But they don't always have access to the chart and are often busy doing other things. We all love seeing the advance information just like you do. But sometimes we just need to roll with the flow.

[MitchWolf: Super Chart Genius]

Looking like Holiday is gonna be the only debut.... Be Happy shouldn't debut since its DOA in MediaBase

[dkampy]

I could see Be Happy Debuting this week but falling off the very 1st countdown of 2021...I recall stuff like that happening in previous years.

[mkarns]

Dec 17, 2020 9:03:33 GMT -5 momzquotes said:

remember, it's the final week before the Top 40 of 2020 reveal.

Which means that if "Mood" does get a 6th week at #1, then it also gets a 7th and an 8th due to the frozen charts. The next new AT40 will be for the week ending January 9, 2021.

[Fire]

Dec 17, 2020 7:03:34 GMT -5 MitchWolf: Super Chart Genius said:

Extras: Bad Things; It Ain't Me; Titanium; Now Or Never; Treat You Better

Optionals: Break Free; The Hills; Uptown Funk; One Dance

damn, they're really running out of rewinds i see haha

anyway these are the extras that i like. my favorites are it ain't me and bad things, both of which are among my favorite songs of all time (and the latter of these two 100% being one of the most overhated songs of the 2010s decade)

funny thing is i actually was listening to bad things just now lmao

EDIT: since don't let me down is an extra instead of closer, i'm adding that to the ones i like too.

[superxpaul]

I was hoping that Willow would be a breakout this weekend, but looks like we’ll have to wait until next year but by then it’ll probably hop onto the chart.

[MitchWolf: Super Chart Genius]

Dec 18, 2020 4:21:06 GMT -5 superxpaul said:

I was hoping that Willow would be a breakout this weekend, but looks like we’ll have to wait until next year but by then it’ll probably hop onto the chart.

Yeah...willow, Hawái, SO DONE, Lasting Lover, Daisy and Monsters will be the songs that will be breakouts on the first 2 charts of 2021

[MitchWolf: Super Chart Genius]

Just heard Holiday .... there is no chance of Be Happy debuting that high.... so its purged

[MitchWolf: Super Chart Genius]

They played The Chainsmokers/Daya - Don't Let Me Down instead of Closer ....prolly due to Halsey's Now Or Never

[jthentic]

Dec 17, 2020 23:53:55 GMT -5 Fire said:

Dec 17, 2020 7:03:34 GMT -5 MitchWolf: Super Chart Genius said:

Extras: Bad Things; It Ain't Me; Titanium; Now Or Never; Treat You Better

Optionals: Break Free; The Hills; Uptown Funk; One Dance

damn, they're really running out of rewinds i see haha

anyway these are the extras that i like. my favorites are it ain't me and bad things, both of which are among my favorite songs of all time (and the latter of these two 100% being one of the most overhated songs of the 2010s decade)

funny thing is i actually was listening to bad things just now lmao

Bad things 🤘

[gemini79]

How many weeks has heather been at 32

[gemini79]

Shouldn't this the week that Ryan would play the number 1 song of the previous year, which would be Without Me by Halsey, but he plays Now or Never instead

[MitchWolf: Super Chart Genius]

Dec 18, 2020 8:38:35 GMT -5 gemini79 said:

How many weeks has heather been at 32

same amount of weeks "Mood" been at #1 ... six

[musiciscool]

Dec 18, 2020 8:41:45 GMT -5 gemini79 said:

Shouldn't this the week that Ryan would play the number 1 song of the previous year, which would be Without Me by Halsey, but he plays Now or Never instead

It used to be the week of the Top 40 of the year (the second airing). He stopped doing that a while ago, I thought.

[gemini79]

Dec 18, 2020 5:01:39 GMT -5 MitchWolf: Super Chart Genius said:

Dec 18, 2020 4:21:06 GMT -5 superxpaul said:

I was hoping that Willow would be a breakout this weekend, but looks like we’ll have to wait until next year but by then it’ll probably hop onto the chart.

Yeah...willow, Hawái, SO DONE, Lasting Lover, Daisy and Monsters will be the songs that will be breakouts on the first 2 charts of 2021

don't forget Body

[kani]

Sponsors: blank slate, walmart plus, geico(body rockers), capital one, woman intro sponsor movie: Wonder Woman 1984 rated PG-13
Covid: Bad Things (Camila Cabello), powfu covid

I heard CW on tv iheart jingle ball 2020 again air Dec 24 at 8pm

Seacrest will be hosting New Year Eve Times Square

[kaseyken]

2020 we lost some at40 artists here's a few in cased you didn't get the memo.

1. pop smoke

2.Kenny Rogers- Islands in the Stream ,The Gambler and tons more a hit machine in the 70's and 80's.

3. Bill Withers - Lean on Me and sang on just the two of us as well as other hits.

4.Bonnie Pointer - one time pointer sister as well as a couple of solo hits.

5. Huey -pop lock and drop it.

6.Benny Mardones -Into the night a song that was a hit twice in the 80's.

7. Charlie Daniels - The devil went down to Georgia and more.

8.Ronald Bell -Singer for Kool and the Gang -Celebration and many other hits.

9. Mac Davis- Baby Don't get hooked on me.

10. Adam Schlesinger - Fountains of Wayne Stacy's Mom.

11. Eddie Van Halen - Guitar Hero, played riff on Beat it and had many hits with Van Halen including Jump a huge 80's hit.

12.Johnny Nash - I can See clearly now.

13.Tony Lewis (singer for the outfield) Your Love (Josie's on a vacation far away) several other hits.

14.Helen Reddy- Delta Dawn ,I am Woman.

[kaseyken]

 How many song hit the top 40 in each of the past 10 years (this could be off a song or two but should be pretty accurate)

2011-115
2012-108
2013-128
2014-126
2015-139
2016-126
2017-130
2018-115
2019-114
2020-122

total 1223 =122.3 new songs per year.

[kaseyken]

Good possibility that we could have a song called Monster and Monsters in the top 40 simultaneously in January as the hit by All Time Low/ blackbear is gaining momentum (Monsters).

[Cerebro]

Dec 19, 2020 13:35:04 GMT -5 kaseyken said:

2020 we lost some at40 artists here's a few in cased you didn't get the memo.

1. pop smoke

2.Kenny Rogers- Islands in the Stream ,The Gambler and tons more a hit machine in the 70's and 80's.

3. Bill Withers - Lean on Me and sang on just the two of us as well as other hits.

4.Bonnie Pointer - one time pointer sister as well as a couple of solo hits.

5. Huey -pop lock and drop it.

6.Benny Mardones -Into the night a song that was a hit twice in the 80's.

7. Charlie Daniels - The devil went down to Georgia and more.

8.Ronald Bell -Singer for Kool and the Gang -Celebration and many other hits.

9. Mac Davis- Baby Don't get hooked on me.

10. Adam Schlesinger - Fountains of Wayne Stacy's Mom.

11. Eddie Van Halen - Guitar Hero, played riff on Beat it and had many hits with Van Halen including Jump a huge 80's hit.

12.Johnny Nash - I can See clearly now.

13.Tony Lewis (singer for the outfield) Your Love (Josie's on a vacation far away) several other hits.

14.Helen Reddy- Delta Dawn ,I am Woman.

A few other names we lost, this year:
▪ Neil Peart (drummer for Rush; their only top 40 entry was 1982's "New World Man")
▪ Eric Weissberg (one of the performers of "Dueling Banjos" from the Deliverance soundtrack; a #2 hit in 1973)
▪ Little Richard (rock and R&B legend)
▪ Bobby Lewis (R&B singer best known for his 1961 #1 hit "Tossin' And Turnin'")
▪ Peter Green (founding member of Fleetwood Mac)
▪ Wayne Fontana (frontman of The Mindbenders; best known for their #2 hits "The Game Of Love" and "A Groovy Kind Of Love")
▪ Edna Wright (member of the R&B girl group Honey Cone; best known for their 1971 #1 hit "Want Ads")
▪ Pamela Hutchinson (member of the R&B group The Emotions; hit #1 in 1977 with "Best Of My Love")
▪ Tommy De Vito (early member of The Four Seasons)
▪ Len Barry (known for this 1965 #2 hit "1-2-3")

This year also saw the passing of radio legend Dave Hull, who was AT40's very first guest host in 1971.

[MitchWolf: Super Chart Genius]

Dec 19, 2020 11:09:20 GMT -5 kani said:

Sponsors: blank slate, walmart plus

Covid: Bad Things (Camila Cabello), powfu covid

I heard CW on tv jingle on Dec 24....

don't forget Camila's BF Shawn did one too... and Selena

[kani]

Dec 19, 2020 15:53:20 GMT -5 MitchWolf: Super Chart Genius said:

Dec 19, 2020 11:09:20 GMT -5 kani said:

Sponsors: blank slate, walmart plus

Covid: Bad Things (Camila Cabello), powfu covid

I heard CW on tv jingle on Dec 24....

don't forget Camila's BF Shawn did one too

Correct, but I was listing the covid message, since each song is from more than one music collaboration, for example Machine Gun Kelley and Camilla Cabello both sang Bad Things. So I can't tell who is who announced covid message, so I thought I fall in

[MitchWolf: Super Chart Genius]

Dec 19, 2020 17:30:00 GMT -5 kani said:

Dec 19, 2020 15:53:20 GMT -5 MitchWolf: Super Chart Genius said:

don't forget Camila's BF Shawn did one too

Correct, but I was listing the covid message, since each song is from more than one music collaboration, for example Machine Gun Kelley and Camilla Cabello both sang Bad Things. So I can't tell who is who announced covid message, so I thought I fall in

Least i am using the COVID red to mark the artists that tell us to be safe more now ....wish upland could use that color on his

[johnnywest]

Dec 19, 2020 15:02:27 GMT -5 Cerebro said:

Dec 19, 2020 13:35:04 GMT -5 kaseyken said:

2020 we lost some at40 artists here's a few in cased you didn't get the memo.

1. pop smoke

2.Kenny Rogers- Islands in the Stream ,The Gambler and tons more a hit machine in the 70's and 80's.

3. Bill Withers - Lean on Me and sang on just the two of us as well as other hits.

4.Bonnie Pointer - one time pointer sister as well as a couple of solo hits.

5. Huey -pop lock and drop it.

6.Benny Mardones -Into the night a song that was a hit twice in the 80's.

7. Charlie Daniels - The devil went down to Georgia and more.

8.Ronald Bell -Singer for Kool and the Gang -Celebration and many other hits.

9. Mac Davis- Baby Don't get hooked on me.

10. Adam Schlesinger - Fountains of Wayne Stacy's Mom.

11. Eddie Van Halen - Guitar Hero, played riff on Beat it and had many hits with Van Halen including Jump a huge 80's hit.

12.Johnny Nash - I can See clearly now.

13.Tony Lewis (singer for the outfield) Your Love (Josie's on a vacation far away) several other hits.

14.Helen Reddy- Delta Dawn ,I am Woman.

A few other names we lost, this year:
▪ Neil Peart (drummer for Rush; their only top 40 entry was 1982's "New World Man")
▪ Eric Weissberg (one of the performers of "Dueling Banjos" from the Deliverance soundtrack; a #2 hit in 1973)
▪ Little Richard (rock and R&B legend)
▪ Bobby Lewis (R&B singer best known for his 1961 #1 hit "Tossin' And Turnin'")
▪ Peter Green (founding member of Fleetwood Mac)
▪ Wayne Fontana (frontman of The Mindbenders; best known for their #2 hits "The Game Of Love" and "A Groovy Kind Of Love")
▪ Edna Wright (member of the R&B girl group Honey Cone; best known for their 1971 #1 hit "Want Ads")
▪ Pamela Hutchinson (member of the R&B group The Emotions; hit #1 in 1977 with "Best Of My Love")
▪ Tommy De Vito (early member of The Four Seasons)
▪ Len Barry (known for this 1965 #2 hit "1-2-3")

This year also saw the passing of radio legend Dave Hull, who was AT40's very first guest host in 1971.

And Charley Pride a few days ago.

[venture2000]

Why did Wonder tank?! It is an awesome song! On Sirius XM Hits countdown it went #1. What gives?! Perhaps I should switch countdowns...

[kani]

Ok

Also Selena Gomez announce covid, before song Kygo/Selena Gomez - It Ain't Me

[samlove]

Dec 19, 2020 19:46:54 GMT -5 venture2000 said:

Why did Wonder tank?! It is an awesome song! On Sirius XM Hits countdown it went #1. What gives?! Perhaps I should switch countdowns...

Its about to fall off mediabase with Head & Heart, Wow, and Hate the way. Zoe Wees is falling very fast so she will be gone as well.