AT20 - 1/17/04

[Hervard]

My main reaction to this week's chart was, "HUH??" This chart was extremely weird. I realize that year end countdowns might figure into this, but there are still a few things that don't add up. Here is the chart:

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

Droppers:
From #16: Tiny Dancer/Tim McGraw
From #20: The Voice Within/Christina Aguilera

AT20 Extras:
You're So Vain/Carly Simon
Stay/Jackson Browne
I Can See Clearly Now/Jimmy Cliff

Long Distance Dedications:
I'll Be There For You/The Rembrandts
Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley/Will To Power
Back Here/BBMak

AT20 Archives:
1984: Holiday/Madonna
1984: I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues/Elton John
1985: Easy Lover/Philip Bailey & Phil Collins
1997: Un-Break My Heart/Toni Braxton
2000: I Knew I Loved You/Savage Garden

Now, back to the main chart. I'm sure you notice that there are two huge rebounds into the Top Ten. At number six, we have Celine Dion, who had dipped two spots to number fourteen last week, but this week, she's suddenly back in the Top Ten, moving up eight. Any other time, that would be the biggest jumper of the week, but right above her, we have Luther Vandross, who catapults ten spots up to number five which is the biggest mover on the countdown of the decade so far. The old record (after 1/1/2000) was the nine spot jump of "Cruisin'" by Huey Lewis & Gwyneth Paltrow back on 10/21/00 (the week that AT20 switched to that Mediabase chart with the weird recurrent rule). My question is, how the hell did these two songs all of a sudden regain enough plays to be back up in the Top Ten? If it's the year end countdowns, how come "Look Through My Eyes" moves back down four spots? It was on AT20 as I recall, as was "Sunrise", which plunges seven spots to number thirteen. Did AT20 go back to using the R&R chart? Or did they switch to yet another Mediabase chart? As I said, there are some things about this chart that just don't add up.

[BillboardBoy]

Did AT20 go back to using the R&R chart?

It was simply a matter of AT20 going from the R&R chart that was used in early January (probably to avoid most of the Christmas music) and then going back to the "audience impressions" chart. BTW, what was the last song to jump 10 spots on the AC chart?

Another highlight: Ed mentioned that "Peace (Where the Heart Is)" re-entered for a record-setting 4th time. I forget what the other songs were that re-entered 3 times, but I know one of them was "Back Here" by BBMak.

[Hot AC Archiver]

I don't have the audience numbers for the 1/10 show, so I unfortunately can't see if they were radically different than this week's. This chart could reflect actual audience changes from last week, because on the corresponding R&R AC chart (1/9), Celine moved up 7 and Luther 4. If those increased spins were in the largest markets, the audience numbers might have increased significantly.

At any rate, here are the songs that are "Next in Line" for this week's show. Since I don't have audience numbers for last week, these are the next 3 songs below #20:

"You Make Me Feel Brand New" - Simply Red
"Tiny Dancer" - Tim McGraw
"100 Years" - Five for Fighting

[Hervard]

Oh, so AT20 was using the R&R chart for the past month or so and then went back to the Mediabase chart? That explains a few things. I was wondering why "Tiny Dancer" had fallen out after taking a nice jump to number sixteen last week.

Is "The Voice Within" by Christina Aguilera close to the Mediabase chart?

[Hot AC Archiver]

"The Voice Within" is at #25 on the audience chart for the 1/17 show.

[Hervard]

What's number 24, just to round out the Top 25?

[Arson]

at20fantoo said:

At any rate, here are the songs that are "Next in Line" for this week's show. Since I don't have audience numbers for last week, these are the next 3 songs below #20:

"You Make Me Feel Brand New" - Simply Red
"Tiny Dancer" - Tim McGraw
"100 Years" - Five for Fighting

I hope "100 Years" or "You Make Me Feel Brand New" enters the countdown next week so I can hear it...

I woke up early this morning to hear the debuts, but it was just "Peace (Where the Heart Is)" (I think I tuned in each time this song re-entered the countdown) and "Here Without You" (it would have been interesting if they had played a different version of the song, but it was the same one).

So Luther Vandross was the record setting mover they mentioned at the beginning of the countdown... I was trying to think of which new song could be making such an impact, but couldn't come up with any.

[Hervard]

Arson said:

I hope "100 Years" or "You Make Me Feel Brand New" enters the countdown next week so I can hear it...

I woke up early this morning to hear the debuts, but it was just "Peace (Where the Heart Is)" (I think I tuned in each time this song re-entered the countdown) and "Here Without You" (it would have been interesting if they had played a different version of the song, but it was the same one).

So Luther Vandross was the record setting mover they mentioned at the beginning of the countdown... I was trying to think of which new song could be making such an impact, but couldn't come up with any.

Me neither. When Casey said "The Voice Within" had dropped out, I was like, "Well then what could it be?" because TVW was the only debut last week.
I wonder what number Luther will be next week?

[chebingeo]

Ed McMann hosted this week.

Jim Brickman re-enters for a record 4th time.
Rod Stewart last's hit "These Foolish Things" peaked at #12.
Josh Groban's favorite past time is playing video games.
Clay Aiken recently got a dog and named it "Raleigh."
Story on how Dido got her name.

#1 in 1989: Fleetwood Mac - As Long As You Follow
#1 in 1999: Celine Dion & R Kelly - I'm Your Angel
#1 in 2003: Santana & Michelle Branch - Game of Love

[Hot AC Archiver]

ulij20 said:

What's number 24, just to round out the Top 25?

#24: Stand by Your Side - Celine Dion