Rick Dees 2003 Year End 40-1 12/27-12/28

[StephL]

Just before the broadcast ended, Dees posted this chart on his website. Oh well.

40. Stuck - Stacie Orrico
39. All The Things She Said - T.a.t.u.
38. Right Thurr - Chingy
37. No Letting Go - Wayne Wonder
36. I Know What You Want - Busta Rhymes/Mariah Carey
35. Intuition - Jewel
34. Addicted - Simple Plan
33. Rock Wit U - Ashanti
32. Lose Yourself - Eminem
31. If You're Not The One - Daniel Bedingfield
30. Drift Away - Uncle Kracker/Dobie Gray
29. Harder To Breathe - Maroon 5
28. Sing For The Moment - Eminem
27. The Remedy - Jason Mraz
26. Baby Boy - Beyonce/Sean Paul
25. Why Don't You And I - Santana/Alex Band
24. Are You Happy Now - Michelle Branch
23. Cry Me A River - Justin Timberlake
22. Don't Mess With My Man - Nivea/Brian & Brandon Casey
21. Mesmerize - Ja Rule/Ashanti
20. Bump Bump Bump - B2K
19. Can't Hold Us Down - Christina Aguilera/Lil Kim
18. Here Without You - 3 Doors Down
17. Fighter - Christina Aguilera
16. Angel - Amanda Perez
15. Picture - Kid Rock/Sheryl Crow
14. Beautiful - Christina Aguilera
13. Get Busy - Sean Paul
12. Shake Ya Tailfeather - Nelly/P. Diddy/Murphy Lee
11. Crazy In Love - Beyonce
10. All I Have - Jennifer Lopez/LL Cool J
09. I'm With You - Avril Lavigne
08. Miss Independent - Kelly Clarkson
07. Unwell - Matchbox Twenty
06. Ignition - R. Kelly
05. Rock Your Body - Justin Timberlake
04. In Da Club - 50 Cent
03. Bring Me To Life - Evanescence/Paul McCoy
02. When I'm Gone - 3 Doors Down
01. Where Is The Love - Black Eyed Peas

[j]

Looks like the calendar year Mediabase year end chart.

[Rob64]

I'm recording the show right now onto MP3. The #1 song sucks

[billme]

No surprise!!! After all, this song took the Billboard award as song of the year. It was my guess that Rick Dees would have at #1.

The only thing that puzzles me is on the Award show the group's leader (Will-I-Am?) said that it's nice that radio has room for positive songs, while this song is not that positive.

It was the perfect song during the week that there were school shooting in the state I reside.

[Edf85]

Rob64 said:

I'm recording the show right now onto MP3. The #1 song sucks

:)

[Hervard]

Did anyone happen to catch the Hot A/C version of the show? I was driving around in St. Joseph county listening to 20: The Countdown Magazine and a song came on that I didn't like, so I switched the station and happened upon one broadcasting the Rick Dees show and he just got finished playing "Your Body Is A Wonderland" by John Mayer. I turned back to the station that 20: Countdown was on and finished listening to that one and decided to switch back to the station that was playing Rick Dees only to find that they were playing regular programming. I was thinking, "That's funny, they'd just started the show" (I later realized that the John Mayer song had been played last week, but I don't think the station rebroadcast Part 1, because I heard YBIAW at around fifteen minutes past the hour and it would have been played at fifteen minutes BEFORE the hour, based on its position on the CHR/Pop chart. So I was wondering, what number was the song on the Hot A/C show?

[Edf85]

ulij20 said:

Did anyone happen to catch the Hot A/C version of the show? I was driving around in St. Joseph county listening to 20: The Countdown Magazine and a song came on that I didn't like, so I switched the station and happened upon one broadcasting the Rick Dees show and he just got finished playing "Your Body Is A Wonderland" by John Mayer. I turned back to the station that 20: Countdown was on and finished listening to that one and decided to switch back to the station that was playing Rick Dees only to find that they were playing regular programming. I was thinking, "That's funny, they'd just started the show" (I later realized that the John Mayer song had been played last week, but I don't think the station rebroadcast Part 1, because I heard YBIAW at around fifteen minutes past the hour and it would have been played at fifteen minutes BEFORE the hour, based on its position on the CHR/Pop chart. So I was wondering, what number was the song on the Hot A/C show?

Summarized: What was "Your Body Is A Wonderland" on Rick Dees Hot AC?

[Mega248]

Rob64 said:

I'm recording the show right now onto MP3. The #1 song sucks

So does #38, #35, #34, #26, #23, #20, #19, #17, #16, #13, #12, #11 and #8.

[Diablo Cody™]

what a sucky #1.

[Hervard]

Edf85 said:

Summarized: What was "Your Body Is A Wonderland" on Rick Dees Hot AC?

Yes, I just wanted to prevent any questions like, "Why do you want to know what number that particular song was" ;)

[FreakyFlyBry]

I just realized something.

"She Hates Me" is nowhere to be found on the entire top 100 :o :o :o

I guess it didn't have enough "hard spins" ;)

[Cerebro]

FreakyFlyBry said:

I just realized something.

"She Hates Me" is nowhere to be found on the entire top 100 :o :o :o

I guess it didn't have enough "hard spins" ;)

No, I think it probably has to do with the fact that it went gold during the year. Thus, it probably wasn't on the Mediabase list Rick used which is likely to be comprised of only currents and recurrents.

[Hervard]

computerfreak said:

what a sucky #1.

It's not that bad, IMO. At least it wasn't that revolting "In Da Club". Of the Top 40 songs of the year, that was definitely my least favorite. Damn WKSC for calling it their #1 song of 2003!

[radiorules]

Why is Christina all over the place on every year end chart? On the biased R & R/AT40 year end chart she has no song in the top ten, "Beautiful" at #11 and "Fighter and "Can't Hold Us Down" at #21 and #23. On the Billboard Year End Mainstream chart, she has two top 20's, with "Beautiful" all the way at #4, "Can't Hold Us Down" at #19, and "Fighter" no where to be seen in the top 20. Then on the Rick Dees/Mediabase Chart, Christina has 3 top 20's, with "Beautiful" all the way down to #14, "Fighter" all the way up to #17, and "Can't Hold Us Down" at #19 once again.

I'm gonna take the average positions of the 3 songs and that's what's gonna do it for me.

Beautiful (#4, #11, #14)=#10
Can't Hold Us Down (#19, #19, #23)=#20
Fighter (#17, #21, ??)=Somwhere between #21-#25

So this way, Christina has a top ten, two top 20's and 3 top 25's. Christina fans everywhere can now be satisfied.

[Mega248]

Why the hell is "She Hates Me" gold anyway?

[j]

Rick should know better that to play 3 songs by the same artist in the same hour. He solved that problem of Mariah Carey having too many #1s in his Top 80 of the 1990s special by simply removing some of Mariah's #1s and pretending they don't exist (notably One Sweet Day). I suggest he do the same here.

[Hervard]

Was there anything notable during the first hour? WNDV had a stupid ballgame and started the show two hours ahead of time. And then, of course, Kiss FM only runs the last three hours of the show, for reasons that still remain unknown.

[Hervard]

jae said:

Rick should know better that to play 3 songs by the same artist in the same hour. He solved that problem of Mariah Carey having too many #1s in his Top 80 of the 1990s special by simply removing some of Mariah's #1s and pretending they don't exist (notably One Sweet Day). I suggest he do the same here.

The songs rank where they rank, regardless of who does them. I don't think he should have removed Mariah's songs from the Top 80. She had tons of number ones in the 1990's; simple as that. He should have played them no matter what.
Casey Kasem did the same thing on his Top A/C hits of the 1990s by allowing each artist no more than two songs each. As a result, many Celine Dion songs that were worthy of making the cut did not.
So who cares if Xtina had three hits in the same hour? They finished the year with about the same number of plays - that is, unless Rick fudged around with the chart and did this on purpose. Then, it would be another story. But if it happened naturally, so be it.
That's just my opinion, however, and nothing more.