AT20 - January 24, 2004

[Hervard]

LC TC SONG/ARTIST
02 01 Unwell/Matchbox Twenty (8th week #1)
03 02 Drift Away/Uncle Kracker f/Dobie Gray
01 03 Forever And For Always/Shania Twain
04 04 Calling All Angels/Train
07 05 The First Cut Is The Deepest/Sheryl Crow
05 06 Dance With My Father/Luther Vandross
09 07 Look Through My Eyes/Phil Collins'
08 08 Big Yellow Taxi/Counting Crows f/Vanessa Carlton
10 09 White Flag/Dido
06 10 Have You Ever Been In Love/Celine Dion
12 11 You Raise Me Up/Josh Groban
11 12 Invisible/Clay Aiken
13 13 Sunrise/Simply Red
15 14 Fallen/Sarah McLachlan
14 15 I Can Only Imagine/MercyMe
17 16 Ain't No Mountain High Enough/Michael McDonald
16 17 Why Don't You And I/Santana f/Alex Band
18 18 Here Without You/3 Doors Down
XX 19 100 Years/Five For Fighting
19 20 Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered/Rod Stewart

Dropper: Peace (Where The Heart Is)/Jim Brickman f/Collin Raye (will it return again soon??)

AT20 Extras:
Woman/John Lennon
Red Red Wine/UB40
Heaven Knows/Donna Summer

Long Distance Dedications:
I'm Already There/Lonestar
Angel/Sarah McLachlan
Nobody Knows/Tony Rich Project

AT20 Archives:
1978: Just The Way You Are/Billy Joel
1983: Baby Come To Me/Patti Austin & James Ingram
1985: You're The Inspiration/Chicago
1987: Shake You Down/Gregory Abbott
1990: Downtown Train/Rod Stewart

As you can see, the chart has stabilized since last week. It's just as boring as it usually is, with only two songs moving up two spots, although the Celine Dion song takes an unusually big drop.

[Hot AC Archiver]

Next 3 songs below #20 with an increase in audience over last week:

"You Make Me Feel Brand New" - Simply Red
"The Voice Within" - Christina Aguilera
"Breathe"- Michelle Branch

[Arson]

Thanks for posting the chart. :) I didn't get a chance to listen this morning.

I don't understand why AC hasn't latched onto "The Voice Within". The song is easy to like and very suited to the format. I mean, it should be in the top 5 along with "Fallen", "White Flag" and "You Raise Me Up".

Instead, songs like "Unwell", 'Drift Away" and "Calling All Angels" continue to block the way at the top of the chart, while relatively newer songs retain lower positions and make miniscule movements.

Sometimes, it's just a little frustrating.

[Hervard]

Arson said:

Thanks for posting the chart. :) I didn't get a chance to listen this morning.

I don't understand why AC hasn't latched onto "The Voice Within". The song is easy to like and very suited to the format. I mean, it should be in the top 5 along with "Fallen", "White Flag" and "You Raise Me Up".

Instead, songs like "Unwell", 'Drift Away" and "Calling All Angels" continue to block the way at the top of the chart, while relatively newer songs retain lower positions and make miniscule movements.

Yeah, but at least (IMO, anyway) it wasn't as bad as the songs hogging the top positions of the chart in 2002 (i.e. "Hero", "Superman (It's Not Easy)"). I still sort of like the songs you mentioned above, but you are right, A/C should start concentrating on the newer songs.

So I guess Tim McGraw's cover of "Tiny Dancer" is out of the running, huh? That's too bad, it was such a great rendition. But then again, A/C stations would rather just play "Forever And For Always" over and over again.

[Jeffster]

Arson said:

I don't understand why AC hasn't latched onto "The Voice Within". The song is easy to like

It's also easy to dislike. It starts out okay, but like most of Christina's recent songs, she starts overscreeching it later in the song and ruins it.

Sometimes, it's just a little frustrating.

Yes, it is. She has so much vocal talent and chooses to waste it by oversinging bad songs.

[Mega248]

Exactly. Christina has an incredible voice, but "I Turn To You" and "The Voice Within" are the only two of her nine singles where she actually shows it. And as Cribbins mentioned, she oversings somewhat on "The Voice Within", which is why "I Turn To You" is by far my favorite song from her.

[BillboardBoy]

Dropper: Peace (Where The Heart Is)/Jim Brickman f/Collin Raye (will it return again soon??)

I'm pretty sure it's run its 20-week course.

[Hervard]

Who knows? I thought "In A Little While" by Uncle Kracker had run its 20-week course, too and it re-entered this past fall I believe (or at least late summer).

[BillboardBoy]

This is just a theory, but I think when a song is moved to recurrent on the Top 30 R&R chart, then there's little chance of it coming back. (Of course there are exceptions, like " Don't Know Why" and "Can't Fight The Moonlight. ")

But it seems that when a song merely slides off the R&R Top 30, which is what "In A Little While" did, then it's "safe" to appear on Casey's AC chart, as long as it's not accruing any more weeks in the R&R Top 30.

In other words, you've got to keep tabs on the R&R chart to know how things are working on Casey's chart. Kind of like not being able to follow the first season of The Colbys without keeping up on Dynasty.

[Hervard]

BillboardBoy said:

This is just a theory, but I think when a song is moved to recurrent on the Top 30 R&R chart, then there's little chance of it coming back. (Of course there are exceptions, like " Don't Know Why" and "Can't Fight The Moonlight. ")

But it seems that when a song merely slides off the R&R Top 30, which is what "In A Little While" did, then it's "safe" to appear on Casey's AC chart, as long as it's not accruing any more weeks in the R&R Top 30.

In other words, you've got to keep tabs on the R&R chart to know how things are working on Casey's chart. Kind of like not being able to follow the first season of The Colbys without keeping up on Dynasty.

Oh, so "Peace (Where The Heart Is) was on the R&R chart the whole time? I didn't stop to think of that -it was probably in the Top 20 all the time, too, since I'd hear it on Delilah constantly.
Yeah, I did notice that songs that fall off the R&R chart via the recurrent rule are also removed from the chart that AT20 uses. That is, unless they're still in the Top Ten of that chart (as "Hero" spent an extra week on the chart last year having been removed from the corresponding R&R chart). Even when AT20 was using that weird Mediabase chart for the last few months of 2000 and the first half of 2001, songs did this. That explains the 18-14-off move of Gloria Estefan's "Can't Walk Away From Love" and how "Thank You For Loving Me" by Bon Jovi slipped off the chart the same week as the chart was "purged" of older songs. It would otherwise have been sucked back up the chart (as "Can I Have This Kiss Forever" by Whitney and Enrique did the week AT20 switched charts).

" Don't Know Why" wasn't really an exception, as it was re-released and when it went back up into the Top Fifteen it was allowed to rechart. I don't know what they did to allow "Can't Fight The Moonlight" to chart again - they used some weird recurrent rule for that one.

[johnnywest]

on't Know Why" wasn't really an exception, as it was re-released and when it went back up into the Top Fifteen it was allowed to rechart. I don't know what they did to allow "Can't Fight The Moonlight" to chart again - they used some weird recurrent rule for that one.

"Can't Fight The Moonlight" was re-released. Even though it didn't hit the Top 40 the first time it came out in 2000, LeAnn wanted to put it out again under her new contract.

" Don't Know Why" seemed to be let back on the chart after it did so well at the Grammys.

[EvanJ]

ulij20 said:

It would otherwise have been sucked back up the chart (as "Can I Have This Kiss Forever" by Gloria and Enrique did the week AT20 switched charts).

You typed the same artist twice in a row. It's "Could I Have This Kiss Forever" by Whitney and Enrique.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

EvanJ said:

You typed the same artist twice in a row. It's "Could I Have This Kiss Forever" by Whitney and Enrique.

Really? :O For years I thought it was Gloria!!! :O:O:O

[Hervard]

EvanJ said:

You typed the same artist twice in a row. It's "Could I Have This Kiss Forever" by Whitney and Enrique.

Oops, I guess I was still thinking about the Gloria Estefan song.