American Top 40 - May 1, 2004

[Cerebro]

AMERICAN TOP 40 - MAY 1, 2004
LW TW Artist - Title
-- 40 Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
38 39 Murphy Lee featuring Jermaine Dupri - Wat Da Hook Gon Be
40 38 Three Days Grace - (I Hate) Everything About You
33 37 Twista featuring Kanye West and Jamie Foxx - Slow Jamz
-- 36 Jay-Z - Dirt Off Your Shoulder
35 35 Simple Plan - Perfect
34 34 Trapt - Headstrong
-- 33 Sean Paul featuring Sasha - I'm Still In Love With You
31 32 No Doubt - It's My Life
32 31 Baby Bash featuring Frankie J. - Suga Suga
28 30 3 Doors Down - Away From The Sun
21 29 Sarah Connor - Bounce
24 28 Eamon - F**k It (I Don't Want You Back)
25 27 3 Doors Down - Here Without You
29 26 Switchfoot - Meant To Live
AT40 Correspondent:  Dylan (RadioNow 93.1, WNOU Indianapolis)
27 25 Blink-182 - I Miss You
23 24 OutKast - Hey Ya!
22 23 Kimberley Locke - 8th World Wonder
11 22 Hilary Duff - Come Clean
30 21 Usher - Burn
20 20 Avril Lavigne - Don' Tell Me
15 19 Sheryl Crow - The First Cut Is The Deepest
18 18 Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl
10 17 Linkin Park - Numb
26 16 Mario Winans featuring Enya and P. Diddy - I Don't Wanna Know
19 15 Black Eyed Peas - Hey Mama
16 14 Nickelback - Someday
09 13 OutKast featuring Sleepy Brown - The Way You Move
14 12 Jessica Simpson - Take My Breath Away
12 11 Cassidy featuring R. Kelly - Hotel
Extra:  Mis-Teeq - Scandalous
17 10 Beyonce' featuring Lil' Flip - Naughty Girl
13 09 Hoobastank - The Reason
06 08 Chingy featuring J. Weav - One Call Away
08 07 J-Kwon - Tipsy
Out Of The Box:  OutKast - Roses
07 06 D12 - My Band
04 05 Jessica Simpson - With You
05 04 Evanescence - My Immortal
Double-Play:  Evanescence featuring Paul McCoy - Bring Me To Life
03 03 Britney Spears - Toxic
02 02 Maroon5 - This Love
01 01 Usher featuring Lil' Jon and Ludacris - Yeah!  ** 3 weeks @ no. 1 **

DROPPERS:
Ludacris featuring Shawnna - Stand Up (from 39)
Fuel - Falls On Me (from 37)
Nick Cannon featuring R. Kelly - Gigolo (from 36)

NOTES/COMMENTARY:
[/li][li] Okay, so Murphy Lee is at #63 on the equivelant R&R recurrentless chart.  What the hell is it still doing in the top 40?
[/li][li] Quoteth Ryan on 3 Doors Down:  "...moving back up 2 to number 30".  Um...dyslexic much?
[/li][li] For those of you keeping score at home, this is Jet's 4th week stuck at #18.

[mst3k]

Meant to ask this a few days ago... is it just me, or is the www.at40.com site down?

*edit* never mind, it's working now... wtf

[StephL]

During the 1st hour of this weeks' WT40, Dees takes a cheapshot at an unnamed countdown host.  Hmmm, I wonder who he was talking about? ;)

[Edf85]

StephL said:

During the 1st hour of this weeks' WT40, Dees takes a cheapshot at an unnamed countdown host.  Hmmm, I wonder who he was talking about? ;)

What did he say?

[StephL]

Navigate to the 10 minute mark of this unedited mp3. Link expires in 7 days.

s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1CC75FF1ADD5D22B6D5C0F641B711280

[No Brakes]

While I'm at school we don't get the AT40 here. Does it still have all the same jingles like Casey's Top 40, or is it all revamped and "new" now?

[Edf85]

StephL said:

Navigate to the 10 minute mark of this unedited mp3.  Link expires in 7 days.

s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1CC75FF1ADD5D22B6D5C0F641B711280

Doesnt work

[Cerebro]

rkwo said:

While I'm at school we don't get the AT40 here. Does it still have all the same jingles like Casey's Top 40, or is it all revamped and "new" now?

Nope. All revamped. Other than the name, it's an entirely different show.

[StephL]

Sorry about the bad link.  Not sure what is wrong with that website.  Instead, I'll just post what was said:

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Dees:  Glad to talk to Utah right now.  What's Up?

Caller:  Hello Rick, how are you?

Dees:  I couldn't be better.  Thank you so much.  Who is this please?

Caller:  I'm Karen Tinos from Salt Lake City.

Dees:  Hello Karen.  Anything at all you want, we'll do that.  First of all, you're listening to the countdown on this 1st weekend of May and what is you initial response?

Caller:  Well, first of all, I want to say I listen to you every single weekend.  I love your show.  I love the way you put together the show, the way you talk about each artist, and the information you give about them, and the music you play.

Dees:  Aren't you nice, Karen.  Thank you so much.  We love to do it.

Caller:  Oh sure.  However, I... listening to this other guy on some other countdown...

Dees:  No.

Caller:  Yes.

Dees:  Hold on. Hold on.  Hold on.  You listen to another countdown?   Hold on.  Hold on.  Go ahead.  Go ahead.

Caller:  But...  But...  All he does is just talk about himself and to be honest with you,  he's NAUSEATING.

Dees:  Well Karen, I..  You know, I can't agree with you about the... um the talking about himself part.   <laughtrack>

Caller: <giggles>

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[Edf85]

Oh its on the rick.com website too

[lacrosseboy]

rkwo said:

While I'm at school we don't get the AT40 here. Does it still have all the same jingles like Casey's Top 40, or is it all revamped and "new" now?

Well, it's weird to describe. At first it took a dramatic departure from Casey's AT40. But I've noticed that it has been reverting back to the original version. It sounds more modern now compared to before.

At first they wouldn't mention chart information from the past, now you hear more of that. I'm hearing things that are written into the script which Casey used to do, then during Ryan's first couple weeks weren't ever done. And now they rae back. So it's changed, but it's also the same.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[billme]

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Let me quote from Mr. Seacrest from the 5/1/04 show, "We just make things up as we go."

[95-7 Ben FM]

on AT40.com, Sugababes (not Yellowcard) have #40.

[Cerebro]

benq104957 said:

on AT40.com, Sugababes (not Yellowcard) have #40.

Odd.  The actual broadcast has 40-37 as:

40 Yellowcard
39 Murphy Lee
38 Three Days Grace
37 Twista

The web site has:

40 Sugababes
39 Twista
38 Three Days Grace
37 Nick Cannon

The web site chart also claims that the top 32 are all holding their positions from last week.  Um...no.  Totally false.

I don't know what the web editor was smoking this week.

EDIT: Just noticed that the 4/24 chart on at40.com is screwed up too! The 4/17 chart looks alright. Geez, and I thought Rick Dees' web editors were bad.

[lacrosseboy]

billme said:

Let me quote from Mr. Seacrest from the 5/1/04 show, "We just make things up as we go."

Which isn't true, its almost all scripted except for when Ryan ad-libs.

[EvanJ]

Torin said:

Which isn't true, its almost all scripted except for when Ryan ad-libs.

Do you work for American Top 40 or something?

[hamjerzee]

Take it from a guy who has a countdown show...you can't "make things up as you go along. EvanJ is totally right, but sometimes we radio hosts have to lie. Most times you know when you're being lied to. (Like then. If I heard that I wouldn't have believed it.)

And if I made a big deal about it...sorry.

[lacrosseboy]

EvanJ said:

Do you work for American Top 40 or something?

Nope.  I have a friend who is a staff member on the show though.  So I learn quite a bit of what goes on around the show and how things are done.  I personally can tell when Ryan is reading, or when he is ad-libbing.  I don't know how to describe it, but I also do the morning announcements at school and when I adlib something I feel that it sounds obvious.  So he does adlib, like in the intros, making a joke about the artists, etc.

[billme]

Agreed,

The line “we make things up as we go” is Mr. Seacrest’s effort to add humor to the show not to be a cold hard fact of truth. 

However, the show is experimenting with a lot of different elements and hasn’t developed a set format for the listener to look forward each week.  We really don’t know what he will do next week just like Rick Dees skipping songs without notice.  The point made on Rick Dees show (during this thread) is well taken.  Seacrest talks a lot about what he likes and thinks on AT40 during his ad-libbing. 

Now, this falls into one of five interactive mistakes that DJs make as authored by Todd Mitchem “Abusing The Microphone”.  Quoting from Todd, “audiences do not care to hear your thoughts on life every five minutes.  Based upon years of observation, I can say that this behavior will hurt your relationship with your audience.” 

What can Seacrest do to improve?  Avoid the creation of his star power and center on the human-interest element of the musicians.  Also, know what you want to say prior to saying it (especially with his TV show).  Then, speak with a purpose and clear direction without repeating the same phrases over and over while cutting down on filler words (ahh, umm).

The irony lies in the fact that when Larry King asked Seacrest to fill-in on his Larry King Live! Show, he didn’t want to do it if there was a script.  When Larry told him there was no script, Seacrest gladly filled-in interviewing Nick & Jessica because he’s more comfortable without any pre-scripted words.  Now, AT40 is mainly script based.