Z100 TOP 100 OF 2004

[Moonshadow]

The Z100 year-end countdown is a favorite of mine, and I have all of them since their sign-on in 1983. Here's their 2004 list:

01 Yeah! – Usher feat. Ludacris, Lil Jon
02 My Immortal – Evanescence
03 She Will Be Loved – Maroon 5
04 Breakaway – Kelly Clarkson
05 Meant To Live – Switchfoot
06 This Love – Maroon 5
07 Turn Me On – Kevin Lyttle
08 The Reason – Hoobastank
09 Hey Mama – Black Eyed Peas
10 Pieces Of Me – Ashlee Simpson
11 Numb – Linkin Park
12 On The Way Down – Ryan Cabrera
13 With You – Jessica Simpson
14 My Happy Ending – Avril Lavigne
15 Leave (Get Out) - JoJo
16 Everytime – Britney Spears
17 Dare You To Move - Switchfoot
18 Move Ya Body – Nina Sky
19 Broken – Seether feat. Amy Lee
20 Dip It Low – Christina Milian
21 My Boo – Usher and Alicia Keys
22 Toxic – Britney Spears
23 I Don’t Wanna Be – Gavin DeGraw
24 Hey Ya! - OutKast
25 Don’t Tell Me – Avril Lavigne
26 Lose My Breath – Destiny’s Child
27 Ocean Avenue - Yellowcard
28 Over and Over – Nelly and Tim McGraw
29 Breaking The Habit – Linkin Park
30 I Don’t Wanna Know – Mario Winans
31 Just Lose It - Eminem
32 The Way You Move – OutKast feat. Sleepy Brown
33 1985 – Bowling For Soup
34 Let’s Get It Started – Black Eyed Peas
35 Welcome To My Life – Simple Plan
36 Naughty Girl - Beyonce
37 Burn - Usher
38 Someday - Nickelback
39 Take My Breath Away – Jessica Simpson
40 True – Ryan Cabrera
41 I Miss You – Blink-182
42 My Band – D12
43 White Flag - Dido
44 It’s My Life – No Doubt
45 Oye Mi Canto – N.O.R.E. feat Nina Sky
46 Come Clean – Hilary Duff
47 Baby, It’s You - JoJo
48 Lean Back – Terror Squad feat. Fat Joe, Remy
49 Alone - Lasgo
50 One Thing – Finger Eleven
51 Goodies - Ciara
52 Angels – Jessica Simpson
53 Tempted To Touch – Rupee
54 Dat Sexy Body - Sasha
55 Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet
56 I’m Still In Love With You – Sean Paul feat. Sasha
57 I Hate Everything About You – Three Days Grace
58 Something Happened On The Way To Heaven – Deborah Cox
59 How Come – D12
60 Rumors – Lindsay Lohan
61 Suga Suga – Baby Bash
62 Like A Prayer – Mad’house
63 Dude – Beenie Man feat. Ms. Thing
64 Shadow – Ashlee Simpson
65 If I Ain’t Got You – Alicia Keys
66 F**k It (I Don’t Want You Back) – Eamon
67 Tipsy – J-Kwon
68 The First Cut Is The Deepest – Sheryl Crow
69 Hotel – Cassidy feat. R. Kelly
70 Somebody Told Me – The Killers
71 Dirt Off Your Shoulder – Jay-Z
72 Caught Up – Usher
73 8th World Wonder – Kimberly Locke
74 Sunshine – Lil’ Flip feat. Lea
75 Memory – Sugarcult
76 Stand Up – Ludacris feat. Shawna
77 Confessions Part II – Usher
78 Predictable – Good Charlotte
79 Milkshake – Kelis
80 Since U Been Gone – Kelly Clarkson
81 Work It – Nelly and Justin Timberlake
82 Falls On Me – Fuel
83 Slow Motion – Juvenile
84 Beautiful Soul – Jesse McCartney
85 One Call Away – Chingy
86 One Last Time – Eminem
87 White Houses – Vanessa Carlton
88 My Place – Nelly feat. Jaheim
89 You’re The Only One – Maria Mena
90 Soldier – Destiny’s Child
91 Drop It Like It’s Hot – Snoop Dogg
92 Hold On – Good Charlotte
93 I Like That – Houston
94 Nobody’s Home – Avril Lavigne
95 Culo – Pitbull
96 Car Wash – Christina Aguilera feat. Missy Elliot
97 Daughters – John Mayer
98 What You Waiting For? – Gwen Stefani
99 Slow Jamz – Twista
100 Sunday Morning – Maroon 5

[allow that]

"Caught Up" higher than "Confessions Part 2"? Weird!

"Toxic" only #22? ???

And, "Over and Over" seems way too high. It's only that high because of how big a chart hit it is, because Z100 actually added it late and didn't have in heavy rotation til about 2 weeks ago...

[extra extra]

unno, that list looks a little strange...


hey is there anyway you could PLLLLLEEEEEEEEASSSE post the charts from 1998-2003. it would be a huge help since z100 is one of my favorite stations!

[allow that]

britneyjsfan119 said:

hey is there anyway you could PLLLLLEEEEEEEEASSSE post the charts from 1998-2003. it would be a huge help since z100 is one of my favorite stations!

Wow, the late 90's Lists would be GREAT!

[Moonshadow]

Z100 is strange about their year-end countdowns and tries, not very successfully, to adjust for end-of-year hits.   

Take a look at Lasgo's "Alone".  Added on KTU in June of '03 and on Z100 on October 1st of that same year, it landed at #98 on the '03 countdown.  Yet, it makes it to #49 this year, having been removed from their playlist the first week in Feb.  And #77's Confessions Pt. II, a #1 Billboard hit, was definitely much more popular.  Why would someone remember Alone as a member of the top half of the songs of 2004?  Whether it's because of a lack of decent dance music on CHR radio (the last time there was significant dance crossover was ~2001) or because the list generated is ranked somewhat according to the opinions of Cubby and the rest of the staff, strange predicaments always crop up with ranking any songs that span two years (Hey Ya..#40 in 03, #24 in 04). 

The other Z100 Top 100's I've compiled are hosted by Plannine's Top 30 website.  The direct link is:

www.ct30.com/z100/more.txt

[extra extra]

thank you very very much!

[GoWVUGo]

Sasha- Dat Sexy Body higher than Snoops "Drop it like its Hot"? OK, anyways...

[allow that]

GoWVUGo said:

Sasha- Dat Sexy Body higher than Snoops "Drop it like its Hot"? OK, anyways... 

It should be. The countdown should be based on what the station has been playing. Sasha has been played in medium rotation, but without a stop, since July. Z100 only started playing Snoop a little over a month ago.

[friday]

Z100's chart always seems strange when first looked at. Like "Slow Jamz" at #99 strikes me as odd, since I would've figured that would've gotten played to heck this year. But I've seen it speculated that the chart is mostly based on listener requests so that could be a reason. Thanks for posting this, by the way. I should try to listen to this online sometime this weekend or next.

And thank you, thank you, thank you for that website! It's so exciting to me to see those old year-end chart, especially the ones from 1993-95. I can really see what they mean when they say Z100 was practically an alternative station then. Here are a few songs that stood out to me:

Belly - Feed The Tree (#95 1993)
Depeche Mode - Walking In My Shoes (#99 1993)
Porno For Pyros - Pets (#87 1993)
Pearl Jam - Black (#42 1993)
Love Spit Love - Am I Wrong (#90 1994)
Danzig - Mother (#100 1994) (Danzig!)
Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days (#79 1994)
Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline (#29 1994)
Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter (#20 1994)
Foo Fighters - I'll Stick Around (#91 1995) (Higher than Mariah Carey's "Fantasy"!)
White Zombie - More Human Than Human (#80 1995)
Hole - Violet (#70 1995)
Rancid - Time Bomb (#56 1995)
Matthew Sweet - Sick Of Myself (#26 1995)
Sponge - Molly/Plowed (#25/#12 1995)

I mean, the 1995 chart could pass for a pop-leaning alternative chart if it could. Makes me wish I was more of an alternative music fan when I was 9.

[Moonshadow]

1993-1995 as well as 98 and 00 were the hardest to track down.  I can't help but laugh when looking at the 95 countdown: Hurt, by Nine Inch Nails...and then the dance remix of Total Eclipse of the Heart.  Good stuff.  And even though I do like it, and remember hearing it constantly during my junior year of high school...why was Jumpin Jumpin the #1 song of 2000???

I'm gonna post the 2004 weekly playlists soon, as I've kept track.  It's interesting to see that "Yeah" held the #1 spot for only 3 weeks, as compared to the July 4th through Labor Day #1 run of "Turn Me On".

[allow that]

Moonshadow, thanks for posting the link to all the lists. Whoa, they brought back memories from junior high when Z100 was definitely an Alternative station that happened to play TLC once a night.

In 1995 for example, the only Non-Alternative song in the Top 20 is the Real McCoy. Of course, most of the rest wouldn't be considered Alternative today, but back then Natalie Merchant and the Goo Goo Dolls WERE Alternative based.

Moonshadow, you should stick around and post here a lot more!

[irice22]

Yay for "White Houses" in the Top 100!

[gbaby]

I maintain that that chart is inaccurate. I've been an avid listener of Z-100 for over two years now, and this does not match the songs that they have played.

[Moonshadow]

Well, maybe it is somewhat fallible, especially considering that Mario Winans, Beyonce, and Britney all held the #1 spot for a few weeks at some point during the year.  Also, there probably isn't a mathematical formula ranking these songs.  But in what sense do you mean inaccurate?  They did play all of these at some point this year, and you can bet that anything in the Top 10 they played the hell out of.  Sure, a few that made the Top 100 countdown could have been replaced with better picks...

Did "Car Wash" make that big a splash?  No, it was played for about 3 weeks at the end of August.  Songs like Mis-teeq's "Scandalous," or Sarah Connor's "Bounce," or even Mynt's "How Did You Know?" and Angel City's "Love Me Right", all of which held the lower portions of the surveys, could have replaced that lousy pick.  And as hot as Lil Jon is, Pitbull's summer track "Culo" should have been buried during Labor Day weekend.  Oh, and I forgot about January's monster successful collaboration that everyone was talking about...Nelly and JT's "Work It" (?!).  The lack of good dance explains Mad'house's "Like A Prayer" doing so well, a song that went to #83 on KTU's 2002....yes, 2002 countdown.

OK...so while I agree that there could have been better picks, for the most part, the countdown does match.  

[gbaby]

Moonshadow said:

Well, maybe it is somewhat fallible, especially considering that Mario Winans, Beyonce, and Britney all held the #1 spot for a few weeks at some point during the year.  Also, there probably isn't a mathematical formula ranking these songs.  But in what sense do you mean inaccurate?  They did play all of these at some point this year, and you can bet that anything in the Top 10 they played the hell out of.  Sure, a few that made the Top 100 countdown could have been replaced with better picks...

"She Will Be Loved" did not get that much airplay. It should be in the 20s', IMO. And that's just the beginning. You don't want me to get started. ;)

[KricketNP84]

Once again, this countdown majorly surprised me, especially "Everytime" above "Toxic" and Hoobastank coming in at only #8. You couldn't turn on the radio without hearing that song every other minute...

"Yeah" and "My Immortal" were predictable to be 1&2, but after that...

[sinceubeengone7]

i suspect that there is no formula for this countdown, perse. i think what they do is gather all #1's and give the #1 spot to the one that stayed on top for the longest, give #2 spot for the second song that stayed on top for the longest, etc.

i don't get why people are surprised that 'toxic' is higher than 'everytime'. the first song mentioned is clearly the bigger hit.

it's a pleasant surprise to see kelly with 2 entries. SUBG was released like 2 months ago.

[friday]

KC said:

i don't get why people are surprised that 'toxic' is higher than 'everytime'. the first song mentioned is clearly the bigger hit.

Except "Everytime" is higher than "Toxic" and that's why people are surprised.

[EvanJ]

KC said:

i suspect that there is no formula for this countdown, perse. i think what they do is gather all #1's and give the #1 spot to the one that stayed on top for the longest, give #2 spot for the second song that stayed on top for the longest, etc.

Moonshadow already posted that that's not what happened.

[rayato2k4]

At least they got Switchfoot right. 'Meant' and 'Dare' in the Top 20 Woo-hoo!

[Walking Contradiction]

Jersey said:

Moonshadow, thanks for posting the link to all the lists. Whoa, they brought back memories from junior high when Z100 was definitely an Alternative station that happened to play TLC once a night.

In 1995 for example, the only Non-Alternative song in the Top 20 is the Real McCoy. Of course, most of the rest wouldn't be considered Alternative today, but back then Natalie Merchant and the Goo Goo Dolls WERE Alternative based.

Ah, those were the days...

[britrocks16]

Toxic #22??