AT20 - February 21

[Hervard]

The show still is a Top 20:

LC TC SONG/ARTIST
01 01 Forever And For Always/Shania Twain (7th week #1)
03 02 Calling All Angels/Train
02 03 Unwell/Matchbox Twenty
04 04 The First Cut Is The Deepest/Sheryl Crow
05 05 Drift Away/Uncle Kracker f/Dobie Gray
08 06 You Raise Me Up/Josh Groban
06 07 White Flag/Dido
07 08 Dance With My Father/Luther Vandross
09 09 Big Yellow Taxi/Counting Crows f/Vanessa Carlton
11 10 Invisible/Clay Aiken
12 11 Have You Ever Been In Love/Celine Dion
10 12 Look Through My Eyes/Phil Collins
13 13 Ain't No Mountain High Enough/Michael McDonald
15 14 100 Years/Five For Fighting
14 15 Sunrise/Simply Red
16 16 Here Without You/3 Doors Down
18 17 Why Don't You And I/Santana f/Alex Band
17 18 You Make Me Feel Brand New/Simply Red
19 19 Fallen/Sarah McLachlan
XX 20 This One's For The Girls/Martina McBride

Dropper:
From #20: Love's Divine/Seal

AT20 Extras:
Fields Of Gold/Sting
The Sign/Ace Of Base
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)/Marvin Gaye
You Gotta Be/Des'ree

Long Distance Dedications:
Kind & Generous/Natalie Merchant
Unwell/Matchbox Twenty

AT20 Archives:
1975: Black Water/Doobie Brothers
1982: Leader Of The Band/Dan Fogelberg
1989: My Heart Can't Tell You No/Rod Stewart
1992: What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted/Paul Young
1998: My Heart Will Go On/Celine Dion

Looks like there's only going to be two Long Distance Dedications per week from now on. When they played "Mercy Mercy Me" as a second extra in Hour 2, I got that feeling. Also, I found myself wondering why they were repeating the second verses in so many songs and I was thinking that maybe there was going to be only four AT20 Archive songs instead of the usual five (that happened the other weekend, as I recall). But when they played the fifth Archive song, I was wondering what was up, especially since they played it after the number five song instead of after number three like they usually do. But it was all because the second Long Distance Dedication was a song that was also in the countdown.
The biggest jumper on the survey is what could be the next number one song after Shania Twain (unless Train makes it after all), "You Lift Me Up" by Josh Groban. It looks poised to take the top spot of the R&R A/C chart real soon and could also do so on AT20, but I have a feeling it'll take awhile, since it's higher up on the R&R chart (owing to being played on Delilah, I imagine). Or maybe it'll pull a "Beautiful" and peter out at number two on AT20 while spending two months atop the R&R chart. As a result, "Forever And For Always" might stay up there for a long time and become the top song of 2004.
I wonder if the fact that there are now only two Long Distance Dedications has anything to do with the AT10 rumor?

[Arson]

Maybe there has been fewer long distance dedications sent in since the demise of the real AT40 (I don't know what to call the current show).

I wish they wouldn't repeat the second verses of songs. More extras would definitely be preferable.

I hope they introduce a "heading for the chart" or "next up" feature, although there probably aren't enough up and coming songs for them to do this week after week (plus they probably don't want too many unfamiliar songs on the survey - maybe that's why they are considering AT10?).

I woke up in time to hear "This One's For the Girls", but I'm disappointed Seal's song dropped out. Any chance he will re-enter?

[johnnywest]

ulij20 said:

I wonder if the fact that there are now only two Long Distance Dedications has anything to do with the AT10 rumor?

I'm not sure what one has to do with the other. Casey lost well over a hundred stations with AT40 so I imagine that's the reason why there are only 2 LDDs per week.

[ChartKid]

Is there any word on "Here Without You" going for adds on AC?

[Mega248]

ChartKid said:

Is there any word on "Here Without You" going for adds on AC?

Since it's already top 20 without ever going for adds, I doubt they'd bother having it do so now.