World Chart 10/18/2003

[FreakyFlyBry]

LW TW Artist Title Label woc
3 1 DIDO White Flag Arista 9
1 2 BLACK EYED PEAS feat. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Where Is The Love? A&M 15
4 3 CHRISTINA AGUILERA FEAT. LIL' KIM Can't Hold Us Down RCA 11
2 4 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Señorita Jive 10
6 5 STACIE ORRICO Stuck Virgin 9
8 6 STING FEAT. VICENTE AMIGO Send Your Love A&M 8
11 7 COLDPLAY God Put A Smile Upon Your Face Parlophone 10
5 8 SIMPLY RED Fake V2 13
7 9 ROBBIE WILLIAMS Something Beautiful Chrysalis 12
14 10 BLU CANTRELL feat. SEAN PAUL Breathe Arista 9
15 11 GOOD CHARLOTTE Girls And Boys Epic 8
9 12 DANNII MINOGUE Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling London 12
10 13 SHANIA TWAIN Forever And For Always Mercury 11
19 14 THE RASMUS In The Shadow Playground 6
20 15 NELLY, P. DIDDY & MURPHY LEE Shake Ya Tailfeather Bad Boy 6
17 16 MELANIE C Yeh Yeh Yeh Virgin 6
18 17 LUMIDEE Never Leave You Universal 8
22 18 MOBY VS. PRINCESS SUPERSTAR Jam For The Ladies Mute 4
12 19 MICHELLE BRANCH Are You Happy Now? Maverick 14
23 20 SERTAB ERENER Every Way That I Can Sony 7
13 21 MATCHBOX 20 Unwell Atlantic 14
16 22 THALIA feat. FAT JOE I Want You Virgin 11
27 23 ELTON JOHN Are You Ready For Love Southern Fried 3
25 24 JENNIFER LOPEZ Baby I Love U Epic 5
30 25 EVANESCENCE Going Under Wind-up 5
29 26 JANE'S ADDICTION Just Because Capitol 4
21 27 BEYONCE feat. JAY-Z Crazy In Love Columbia 16
32 28 CHINGY Right Thurr Capitol 5
34 29 OUTLANDISH Aicha RCA 3
35 30 EAGLE-EYE CHERRY Skull Tattoo Polydor 3
40 31 ELVIS PRESLEY Rubberneckin' (Paul Oakenfold Remix) RCA 2
37 32 NICKELBACK Someday Roadrunner 2
36 33 WESTLIFE Hey Whatever RCA 2
24 34 NO ANGELS Someday Polydor 8
NEW 35 SHANIA TWAIN Thank You Baby! Mercury 1
39 36 GLORIA ESTEFAN Wrapped Epic 2
NEW 37 LENE MARLIN You Weren't There Virgin 1
26 38 EMINEM Business Interscope 13
NEW 39 LENE It's Your Duty Polydor 1
31 40 SEAN PAUL Get Busy Atlantic 19

Hits On The Horizon
BLONDIE Good Boys Epic
STACIE ORRICO (There's Gotta Be) More To Life Virgin
MARY J. BLIGE Love @ 1st Sight MCA
Border Breakouts
TEXAS Carnival Girl Universal
LORNA Te Traigo El…(Papi Chulo) Time
DESTINY'S CHILD I Know Columbia
EROS RAMAZZOTTI Un Attimo Di Pace BMG

[allow that]

Dido's song is massive. She's deserving IMO.

Mary J is only "on the horizon" w/ L@1S? I figured the sng would have come and gone already, if at all.

[Keith3000]

Interesting how "Stuck" is still gaining in international airplay and is finally in the Top 5.

"Business" was also quite a big international hit it seems; I don't seem to remember "The Real Slim Shady" doing well at all in 2000.

[allow that]

Keith, what are the radio stations in Dubai like?

[Keith3000]

Jersey said:

Keith, what are the radio stations in Dubai like?

Basically, Adam, we have about six popular English language FM stations, of which 4 are mostly CHR-based. However, they tend to play a bigger variety of music than pop stations in the States. I mean, today for example, I heard Linkin Park's "Faint" followed by "Frontin'" and then Del Amitri's "Roll To Me". One station is a mostly Oldies station and another is an international news and sports station. There are some foriegn language stations in French, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, and Arabic, but, naturally, I don't listen to those.

The radio PD's and DJ's on the CHR stations are from both the States and the UK, so we get a kind of mix of current American and European tracks. There also a few local DJ's who play a sample of popular local club songs and stuff. We get most of the syndicated radio shows from the States like AT40, Rick Dees, World Chart, Country Countdown, Out of Order w/ Jed the Fish, Open House Party, and some others.

Only thing is there's no satellite radio here, lol!

[allow that]

Wow Keith, that's awesome. I wouldn't have thought Dubai wqs mush a music mecca. Nor did I think it was so multi-cultural that there would be stations in as many languages as you mentioned.

[j]

Keith3000 said:

There are some foriegn language stations in French, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, and Arabic, but, naturally, I don't listen to those.

But Arabic isn't foreign in Dubai.

It looks like Baby I Love U! is a flop on the "World" Chart. I bet the other "World" Chart favorite artist will go straight to #1 with "Me Against The Music" tho.

What on earth is Destiny's Child's "I Know"?

[Keith3000]

Jersey said:

Wow Keith, that's awesome. I wouldn't have thought Dubai wqs mush a music mecca. Nor did I think it was so multi-cultural that there would be stations in as many languages as you mentioned.

It's a nice place; you should stop by sometime dude. It's only a 4 hour flight from Italy! ;)

j said:

But Arabic isn't foreign in Dubai.

It looks like Baby I Love U! is a flop on the "World" Chart. I bet the other "World" Chart favorite artist will go straight to #1 with "Me Against The Music" tho.

What on earth is Destiny's Child's "I Know"?

You're right; Arabic's actually the official language of the UAE, so "foreign" is the wrong term to use.

However, interestingly, there are many more expatriates in Dubai than local Arab residents, and English is much more widely spoken than any other language (it's the first language of so many westerners and the second language of basically everyone else who lives there). I guess Dubai is one of the few ciites that have this attribute.

Regarding the World Chart, I'm surprised "Baby, I Love You' flopped--not because I think it's a quality song but because J-Lo has such an excellent track record on this chart. I agree that Britney's new song will be huge. All these international radio stations love Britney Spears and seem to overplay all her songs, regardless of how good the songs really are. Almost all her songs, with a few exceptions, have reached the Top 3. As for the Destiny's Child song, I've never heard it before, and didn't even know they have a new single out!

[FreakyFlyBry]

I believe that Destiny's Child song is from the Fighting Temptations soundtrack.

I'm also surprised J-Lo's flopping, since everything else from her has made top 3.

And Britney will hit #1, more than likely.

[laguy03]

I think Cant Hold Us Down is the only single from this album that didnt hit #1