American Top 40 - March 20, 2004

[Cerebro]

AMERICAN TOP 40 - MARCH 20, 2004
LW TW Artist - Title
39 40 50 Cent - In Da Club
29 39 Good Charlotte - Hold On
40 38 Kanye West - Through The Wire
33 37 Lil' Jon and The East Side Boyz featuring Ying Yang Twins - Get Low
34 36 Nelly, P. Diddy, and Murphy Lee - Shake Ya Tailfeather
37 35 Black Eyed Peas - Hey Mama
-- 34 J-Kwon - Tipsy
30 33 Beyonce' featuring Sean Paul - Baby Boy
35 32 Kimberley Locke - 8th World Wonder
32 31 Maroon5 - Harder To Breathe
AT40 Rewind (2001):  Shaggy featuring Rayvon - Angel
27 30 Murphy Lee featuring Jermaine Dupri - Wat Da Hook Gon Be
38 29 Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl
26 28 Ludacris featuring Shawnna - Stand Up
28 27 Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes
24 26 Trapt - Headstrong
Extra:  Usher - Burn
31 25 Cassidy featuring R. Kelly - Hotel
25 24 Nelly featuring Justin Timberlake - Work It (Remix)
23 23 Simple Plan - Perfect
20 22 No Doubt - It's My Life
16 21 Beyonce' - Me, Myself And I
19 20 Janet Jackson - Just A Little While
22 19 Sarah Connor - Bounce
18 18 Fuel - Falls On Me
14 17 Baby Bash featuring Frankie J. - Suga Suga
11 16 3 Doors Down - Here Without You
AT40 Correspondant:  Hot 88.9, Ottawa, Canada
17 15 Nick Cannon featuring R. Kelly - Gigolo
21 14 Chingy featuring J. Weav - One Call Away
15 13 Hilary Duff - Come Clean
13 12 Sheryl Crow - The First Cut Is The Deepest
10 11 Twista featuring Kanye West and Jamie Foxx - Slow Jamz
Out Of The Box:  Switchfoot - Meant To Live
09 10 OutKast - Hey Ya!
12 09 Maroon5 - This Love
06 08 Nickelback - Someday
08 07 Eamon - F**k It (I Don't Want You Back)
05 06 Linkin Park - Numb
07 05 Usher featuring Lil' Jon and Ludacris - Yeah!
02 04 OutKast featuring Sleepy Brown - The Way You Move
04 03 Evanescence - My Immortal
01 02 Jessica Simpson - With You
03 01 Britney Spears - Toxic ** 1 week @ no. 1 **

DROPPER:
Kelly Clarkson - The Trouble With Love Is (from 36)

[Crushcrushchris]

Cerebro said:

AMERICAN TOP 40 - MARCH 20, 2004
LW TW Artist - Title
39 40 50 Cent - In Da Club

:o >:( Get OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cerebro]

Imaginary said:

:o >:( Get OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wondered how long it would take to elicit that type of response. One whole minute. Impressive.

C'mon, Fiddy. Time for you to leave...

[Crushcrushchris]

Cerebro said:

Wondered how long it would take to elicit that type of response.  One whole minute.  Impressive.

C'mon, Fiddy.  Time for you to leave...

LOL :)

But 50 >:(

[af18c]

Imaginary said:

:o >:( Get OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please!
They have to drop this! Whats the WOC? 50?

[Mega248]

Please!
They have to drop this! Whats the WOC? 50?

It first debuted on AT40 56 weeks ago.

[mst3k]

Cerebro said:

39 40 50 Cent - In Da Club
29 39 Good Charlotte - Hold On
40 38 Kanye West - Through The Wire
33 37 Lil' Jon and The East Side Boyz featuring Ying Yang Twins - Get Low
34 36 Nelly, P. Diddy, and Murphy Lee - Shake Ya Tailfeather
37 35 Black Eyed Peas - Hey Mama
-- 34 J-Kwon - Tipsy

Six of the first seven songs played are rap. Eyeball would like this part of the countdown.

[Crushcrushchris]

Cerebro said:

AMERICAN TOP 40 - MARCH 20, 2004
LW TW Artist - Title
Out Of The Box:  Switchfoot - Meant To Live

Good for Switchfoot This should move them up quite a bit :)

[chebingeo]

Surprised OOTB wasn't another rap as apparently it's Ryan's genre of choice.

RST40 loses more credibility each week just based on one position.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

You people act like 50 Cent is on the chart 10 times all with songs over a year old. It's not that big a deal. It kinda adds some fun to the chart!

[af18c]

Mega248 said:

It first debuted on AT40 56 weeks ago.

$100 says if it falls off next week, itll re-enter the next.

[Cerebro]

af18c said:

$100 says if it falls off next week, itll re-enter the next.

Or he'll play it as an AT40 Rewind. Y'know, because it was (will be) number one a year ago this week.

[mst3k]

The said:

It kinda adds some fun to the chart!

Yes, if by "fun" you mean "boring." And it's not just 50... it's all the other recurrents clogging up the bottom half of the show (50 is just the most extreme example). New music would be nice to hear.

[insect2]

af18c said:

Please!
They have to drop this! Whats the WOC? 50?

I believe this is its 30th non-consecutive week.

[hamjerzee]

Well 50 Cent might be gone within the next 30 weeks, but once he leaves, we have a whole new bunch of songs whom we can place our frustrations of RST40...

After 50 Cent (31 non-consecutive weeks):

#37: Lil' Jon f/ The Eastside Boyz & Ying Yang Twins: Get Low (29 consecutive weeks)
#36: Nelly f/ P. Diddy & Murphy Lee: Shake Ya Tailfeather (36 non-consecutive weeks)
#33: Beyoncé f/ Sean Paul: Baby Boy (30 consecutive weeks)
#36: Maroon 5: Harder To Breathe (36 non-consecutive weeks)
#26: Trapt: Headstrong (31 consecutive weeks)
#23: Simple Plan: Perfect (25 consecutive weeks)
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Above #20:
#17: Baby Bash f/ Frankie J: Suga Suga (25 consecutive weeks)
#16: 3 Doors Down: Here Without You (34 consecutive weeks, likely to break 40 or 45 before they're done)
#08: Nickelback: Someday (25 consecutive weeks)

This will never come to an end.

[mst3k]

This makes me wonder what AT40's yearend countdown for 2004 will look like... probably a bit like Rick Dees', where songs that went recurrent before the start of the chart year still show up on the yearend chart.

[lacrosseboy]

That's what I'm afraid of--excessive amounts of recurrents.

AT40 always had some recurrents in the yearend shows, and Casey stated once (2002 yearend I believe) that some particular song charted the previous year, but had enough steam to pull it through on to the yearend chart.

[Hervard]

Torin said:

That's what I'm afraid of--excessive amounts of recurrents.

AT40 always had some recurrents in the yearend shows, and Casey stated once (2002 yearend I believe) that some particular song charted the previous year, but had enough steam to pull it through on to the yearend chart.

And those were songs that were on the chart within the chart year (which usually starts the first week in December of the previous year, due to deadline purposes). That's the good thing about R&R's year end chart; a song has to be on the chart for at least one week during the chart year to be counted for the year-end Top 100. If not, it would be full of recurrents and other songs that would have otherwise made the list would be shut out. I think that maybe the staff of AT40 might want to take that into consideration when computing the year end chart.
But probably not; I'm sure we'll have to hear "In Da Club" again.

[Hervard]

HamJerzee said:

Well 50 Cent might be gone within the next 30 weeks, but once he leaves, we have a whole new bunch of songs whom we can place our frustrations of RST40...

After 50 Cent (31 non-consecutive weeks):

#37: Lil' Jon f/ The Eastside Boyz & Ying Yang Twins: Get Low (29 consecutive weeks)
#36: Nelly f/ P. Diddy & Murphy Lee: Shake Ya Tailfeather (36 non-consecutive weeks)
#33: Beyoncé f/ Sean Paul: Baby Boy (30 consecutive weeks)
#36: Maroon 5: Harder To Breathe (36 non-consecutive weeks)
#26: Trapt: Headstrong (31 consecutive weeks)
#23: Simple Plan: Perfect (25 consecutive weeks)
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Above #20:
#17: Baby Bash f/ Frankie J: Suga Suga (25 consecutive weeks)
#16: 3 Doors Down: Here Without You (34 consecutive weeks, likely to break 40 or 45 before they're done)
#08: Nickelback: Someday (25 consecutive weeks)

This will never come to an end.

Hey, I'd rather hear any of those songs than "In Da Club". I just beef about that song like everyone else because I hate it so much. If it was a halfway decent song, I wouldn't mind at all.

[lacrosseboy]

ulij20 said:

I think that maybe the staff of AT40 might want to take that into consideration when computing the year end chart.

Hopefully they do, but the staff doesn't really have much say over what goes on with the show anymore.

I do like the fact that at least AT40's history is not ignored like it was in Shadoe's days. You can actually hear Ryan saying "That song spent 5 weeks at #1 on AT40..." or "AT40 was created by my man Casey Kasem and Don Bustany."

If I recall correctly, in the first Shadoe show, he did an AT40 history walk, but after that nothing. The only reference to the show's creator was in the credits.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

I should get back to writing down all the AT40s again. Or just continue my AT40 archives with using the new AT40 charts (all of which are on these boards but I hope they aren't getting deleted) so then we can see exactly how many weeks certain songs have on.

[Hot AC Archiver]

Torin said:

If I recall correctly, in the first Shadoe show, he did an AT40 history walk, but after that nothing.  The only reference to the show's creator was in the credits.

Shadoe probably wasn't allowed to mention Casey after the first show since Casey was going to be a competitor to AT40. That isn't the case this time since Casey "retired" from pop countdown shows.