Rick Dees 2/28/04 chart's weird

[richie]

The chart posted at rick.com is way off of what it should be. If I use the 2/20 R&R chart, 17 songs are one position off(up or down), 3 are two off, 5 are three off, 2 are four off, and 2 are 5 positions off. Also the two songs that should have dropped off, The Voice Within and Salt Shaker(which was then to re-enter later) did not. Can anyone explain this?
I hope it isn't a sign of things to come in future weeks. It would be nice if one of the 2 countdown shows was at least
almost right.

[FreakyFlyBry]

He probably used midweek data from Mediabase.

[Keith3000]

Rick hasn't done this for a while. Does this mean that there'll possibly be some countdown special next weekend?

[Michael1973]

Here's something I was totally unaware of until my brother pointed it out to me today.  Rick Dees always uses mid-week data (hence, a super-slow chart) every year on Academy Awards weekend.

That didn't sound right at all when he said it, but I looked back at previous years and darned if Rick's chart wasn't horribly slow every time, and unusually fast the next week.  (Up until last year, the Academy Awards were held on the fourth weekend of March.)

Any theories on this?

[FreakyFlyBry]

He also must've used mid-week data on his Hot AC countdown, since "Unwell" was #17, and went recurrent on the corresponding week.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Maybe Rick attends or works with the Academy Awards?! LOL!! Maybe that's why those awards are so boring!

[mst3k]

Moo said:

Maybe Rick attends or works with the Academy Awards?! LOL!! Maybe that's why those awards are so boring!

And why the presenters' jokes are unfunny!