Multi-Format Smashes

[GordonUM]

This week, as they're set to take over #1 at Pop and Hot AC, Green Day's "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" will be the first song ever to go to #1 on six major formats in R&R. Here's a look at how close some other songs have come:

This mainly concerns the ten formats that I keep track of: Pop, Rhythmic, Urban, Urban AC, AC, Hot AC, Rock, Active Rock, Alternative and AAA. These are the formats where songs most frequently cross over between formats and to the pop chart. My records go back to mid-95, which is the year that the Urban AC, Active Rock and AAA charts all started.

As I mentioned in the CHR/Pop forum, the previous record was five formats, for "One Sweet Day": Pop, Rhythmic, AC, Hot AC and Urban AC.

Only a few other songs have been four-format #1s:

Pop / Alternative / Active Rock / Rock
Goo Goo Dolls - Name
3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
Nickelback - How You Remind Me

AAA / Alternative / Rock / Hot AC
Wallflowers - One Headlight

Pop / Hot AC / Rock / Active Rock
Creed - With Arms Wide Open


As for the rest of the songs that have topped three formats, here they are:

The most common trifecta:

Rock / Active Rock / Alternative
90s (5 times):
Red Hot Chili Peppers - My Friends
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars
Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue

00s (7 times):
Staind - It's Been A While
Puddle Of Mudd - Blurry
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
Trapt - Headstrong
Staind - So Far Away
Velvet Revolver - Slither
Three Days Grace - Just Like You


One that's become much more common than it used to be:

Pop / Rhythmic / Urban

90s (once)
Mariah Carey - Fantasy

00s (8 times)
Jennifer Lopez f/ Ja Rule - I'm Real
Nelly - Hot In Herre
Nelly/Kelly Rowland - Dilemma
50 Cent - In Da Club
Nelly f/ P. Diddy & Murphy Lee - Shake Ya Tailfeather
Beyonce f/ Sean Paul - Baby Boy
Usher f/ Ludacris & Lil' Jon - Yeah!
Mario - Let Me Love You


One that's become a little less common:

Pop / Alternative / Hot AC
90s (3 times)
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Sugar Ray - Every Morning

00s (once)
Hoobastank - The Reason


And one that's only involved Rob Thomas:

Pop / Hot AC / AAA
90s (once)
Santana f/ Rob Thomas - Smooth

00s (once)
Matchbox Twenty - Bent


Those are the only ones that have happened in both decades. As for the rest:

only in the 90s

Pop / AC / Hot AC
Seal - Kiss From A Rose
Celine Dion - Because You Loved Me

Urban / Rhythmic / Urban AC
Michael Jackson - You Are Not Alone
Brian McKnight - Anytime

AC / Urban / Urban AC
Whitney Houston - Exhale (Shoop Shoop)

AC / Rhythmic / Urban AC
Toni Braxton - Un-Break My Heart

AAA / Alternative / Rock
U2 - Staring At The Sun

AAA / Rock / Hot AC
Matchbox 20 - 3 A.M.

Pop / Alternative / AAA
Barenaked Ladies - One Week


Only in the 00s

Pop / Urban / Urban AC
Alicia Keys - Fallin'

Pop / Active Rock / Alternative
Linkin Park - In The End

Pop / Rock / Active Rock
3 Doors Down - When I'm Gone

AAA / AC / Hot AC
Train - Calling All Angels

Probably the only effect of factoring in Country would be that Faith Hill's "Breathe" would also be listed, as that hit #1 on AC and Hot AC.

[GordonUM]

As for what songs have come close to topping six formats, before "BOBD" only four songs had even reached the top 3 on six formats:

Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men - One Sweet Day
#1: Pop, Hot AC, AC, Rhythmic, Urban AC
#2: Urban

Goo Goo Dolls - Name
#1: Pop, Rock, Active Rock, Alternative
#2: AAA
#3: Hot AC

Mariah Carey - Always Be My Baby
#1: Rhythmic, Urban
#2: Pop, AC, Hot AC
#3: Urban AC

Toni Braxton - Un-Break My Heart
#1: AC, Urban AC, Rhythmic
#2: Pop, Hot AC, Urban



And only eight others had reached the top 3 on five formats:
Boyz II Men - Water Runs Dry
#1: Urban, AC
#2: Pop
#3: Rhythmic (?), Urban AC
(This was #3 on the first Rhythmic chart data that I have, which was two weeks before it peaked on Urban and Pop, so it could've been higher before then. Anyone know? Also, this was #3 on the very first Urban AC chart, which came six weeks after its final week at #1 on Urban. So it likely would've been an Urban AC #1 if that chart had started sooner.)
#4: Hot AC


Wallflowers - One Headlight
#1: AAA, Rock, Alternative, Hot AC
#2: Pop
#4: Active Rock

Matchbox 20 - 3 A.M.
#1: AAA, Rock, Hot AC
#3: Pop, Alternative
#7: Active Rock

Goo Goo Dolls - Slide
#1: Pop, Hot AC
#2: AAA, Alternative, Rock
#8: Active Rock


3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
#1: Pop, Rock, Active Rock, Alternative
#3: Hot AC
#29: AAA

Creed - With Arms Wide Open
#1: Pop, Rock, Active Rock, Hot AC
#2: Alternative
#10: AAA
#26: AC

Nickelback - How You Remind Me
#1: Pop, Rock, Active Rock, Alternative
#2: Hot AC
#7: AAA

3 Doors Down - When I'm Gone
#1: Pop, Rock, Active Rock
#2: Alternative
#3: Hot AC
#26: AAA

Interesting difference between the 90s and 00s: In rhe 90s, the big multi-format rock hits peaked lower on Active Rock than anywhere else, and now they've been peaking lowest on AAA.

[Topay]

GordonUM said:

Probably the only effect of factoring in Country would be that Faith Hill's "Breathe" would also be listed, as that hit #1 on AC and Hot AC.

And even that's a weird one which wouldn't fit into "Only the 90s" or "Only the 00s". That song hit #1 on the Country chart at the end of '99 and the AC and Hot AC charts in '00.

[j]

What about Lonestar's "Amazed" and Shania Twain's "You're Still The One"?

Thanks.

[Libra]

GordonUM said:

This week, as they're set to take over #1 at Pop and Hot AC, Green Day's "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" will be the first song ever to go to #1 on six major formats in R&R.

BUT...chances are high that they will lose it at both AAA and Active Rock by tonight. On AAA, Jack Johnson is only 15 spins away with a bullet of 64, and Green Day are bulletless. On Active Rock, Three Days Grace are roughly the same margin behind with a triple-digit bullet (+114), and Green Day are again bulletless.

So unfortunately, it looks like Mariah & Boyz II Men may simply keep the record all to themselves. :(

[EvanJ]

Well it's more impressive to top six formats at once, but Green Day will still have topped six formats with one song.

[GordonUM]

Yeah, when I was doing these listings I was just looking for how many formats a song has topped overall, not just simultaneously.

But I checked, and "One Sweet Day" did indeed spend two weeks topping all five charts simultaneously.

However, out of the other five songs that were four-format #1s before Green Day ("Name", "One Headlight", "Kryptonite", "With Arms Wide Open" and "How You Remind Me"), none was on top of all four formats simultaneously. "How You Remind Me" came closest; it fell from #1 on Rock and Alternative (and held #1 on Active Rock) in the same week it moved up to #1 on Pop. So "BOBD" has already become the first Rock song to top four formats simultaneously, and this week it'll become the first song to top six formats overall. The only question is if it can become the first song to top six formats simultaneously (or the second to top five simultaneously).

As for Country songs, it looks like "Breathe" has been the only one to top Hot AC and no country song since the 80s has topped CHR/Pop. Shania's had three AC #1s: "You're Still The One", "From This Moment On" and "Forever And For Always", but her biggest Hot AC hits, "You're Still The One" and "That Don't Impress Me Much" only hit #6. "Amazed" hit #2 on AC and #7 on Hot AC.

[Dan G.]

FINAL UPDATE


Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams tops six formats this week.

CHR/Pop:
#1 - 8481 (425 ahead of #2)

Hot AC:
#1 - 3571 (118 ahead of #2)

Rock:
#1 - 908 (300 ahead of #2)

Triple A:
#1 - 531 (13 ahead of #2)

Active Rock:
#1 - 1949 (27 ahead of #2)

Alternative:
#1 - 2555 (709 ahead of #2)


--DanG

[Keith3000]

DanG82 said:

FINAL UPDATE


Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams tops six formats this week.

CHR/Pop:
#1 - 8481 (425 ahead of #2)

Hot AC:
#1 - 3571 (118 ahead of #2)

Rock:
#1 - 908 (300 ahead of #2)

Triple A:
#1 - 531 (13 ahead of #2)

Active Rock:
#1 - 1949 (27 ahead of #2)

Alternative:
#1 - 2555 (709 ahead of #2)


--DanG

[britrocks16]

Update plz...if there is one needed...

[Matt4319]

Has a song ever become #1 on both Urban AC and Hot AC? If not, what's the highest a #1 Hot AC song has reached on Urban AC (or vice versa)?

And as far as most formats overall, does Santana's "Smooth" hold that record? I believe it charted on Pop, Hot AC, AC, Active Rock, Rock, Rhythmic, and Smooth Jazz (and maybe others).

[britrocks16]

admin said:

Has a song ever become #1 on both Urban AC and Hot AC?  If not, what's the highest a #1 Hot AC song has reached on Urban AC (or vice versa)?

And as far as most formats overall, does Santana's "Smooth" hold that record?  I believe it charted on Pop, Hot AC, AC, Active Rock, Rock, Rhythmic, and Smooth Jazz (and maybe others).

One Sweet Day hit #1 on Urban AC and Hot AC.

[agon666]

For the update:

Audioslave topped all three rock charts. That's all so far, I believe.

[GordonUM]

Yes, as of the 6/17 charts, Audioslave's "Be Yourself" is the only new addition to the list, though "We Belong Together" has already topped Rhythmic and Urban and could top Pop and Urban AC in the near future.

[Deleted]

"We Belong Together" is now #1 Pop / Rhythmic / Urban. It may still top Urban AC.

[britrocks16]

I'm pretty sure it will hit #1 on Urban AC!

[GordonUM]

Congratulations to Mariah, as "We Belong Together" makes it to #1 on Urban AC as of the 7/22/05 chart, while holding on to #1 at Pop, Rhythmic and Urban.

This makes it the first song to top all four of those formats, as well as the second non-rock song to top four or more formats, and the third song to top four or more simultaneously.

[MinusName]

Looks like "Photograph" could be added to this list shortly, it's already topped both Rock and Active Rock.  Hot AC could come within the next few weeks, we'll have to wait and see about Pop, and I doubt it will top Alternative with some new songs from The Strokes and System Of A Down.