Rick Dees 04/25/2009

[gin]

WO LW
27 40 40 GOTTA BE SOMEBODY - NICKELBACK
32 39 39 HOT N COLD - KATY PERRY
30 38 38 I'M YOURS - JASON MRAZ
32 30 37 LET IT ROCK - KEVIN RUDOLF F/LIL WAYNE
15 32 36 I HATE THIS PART - PUSSYCAT DOLLS
20 34 35 UNTOUCHED - VERONICAS
01 SS 34 PARANOID - KANYE WEST
06 33 33 AMERICA'S SUITEHEARS - FALL OUT BOY
01 -- 32 THAT'S NOT MY NAME - THE TING TINGS[/b]
26 23 31 LIVE YOUR LIFE - T.I. F/RIHANNA
16 29 30 SINGLE LADIES (PUT A RING ON IT) - BEYONCE
02 35 29 WELCOME TO THE WORLD - KEVIN RUDOLF[/B]
23 25 28 JUST DANCE - LADY GAGA F/COLBY O'DONIS
03 31 27 DON'T TRUST ME - 3OH!3
04 27 26 DAY N NITE - KID CUDI
05 28 25 I LOVE COLLEGE - ASHER ROTH
07 24 24 TURNIN ME ON - KERI HILSON F/LIL WAYNE
02 26 23 SUGAR - FLO RIDA
22 21 22 LOVE STORY - TAYLOR SWIFT
05 22 21 SECOND CHANCE - SHINEDOWN
11 20 20 CANDLE (SICK AND TIRED) - WHITE TIE AFFAIR
16 15 19 SOBER - PINK
09 19 18 HALO - BEYONCE
04 18 17 BLAME IT - JAMIE FOXX F/T-PAIN
07 16 16 THE CLIMB - MILEY CYRUS
06 17 15 IF U SEEK AMY - BRITNEY SPEARS
16 09 14 HEARTLESS - KANYE WEST
06 14 13 LOVE SEX MAGIC - CIARA F/JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
10 13 12 HOW DO YOU SLEEP? - JESSE MCCARTNEY
13 10 11 MAD - NE-YO
11 12 10 BEAUTIFUL - AKON
16 07 09 CIRCUS - BRITNEY SPEARS
05 11 08 BOOM BOOM POW - BLACK-EYED PEAS
08 08 07 KISS ME THRU THE PHONE - SOULJA BOY
15 06 06 YOU FOUND ME - THE FRAY
12 05 05 MY LIFE WOULD SUCK WITHOUT YOU - KELLY CLARKSON
15 02 04 GIVES YOU HELL - ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS
12 04 03 DEAD AND GONE - T.I. F/JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
12 01 02 RIGHT ROUND - FLO RIDA
11 03 01 POKER FACE - LADY GAGA

SS: Please Don't Leave Me - Pink

Dropoffs:
Crack A Bottle - Eminem f/Dr. Dre & 50 Cent - from 37, 7 weeks on
Womanizer - Britney Spears - from 36, 27 weeks on

[atlantaboy]

^Yeah he's really shafting Matt Nathanson...(puttin the Ting Tings ahead of him etc.)

[Battle601]

Both Rick Dees' chart and the AT40 have their own flaws. As much as Rick likes to keep his chart current, he'll tend to skip and leave out some songs. Whereas the AT40 is too heavy on recurrents and slow on current selections.

Generally, a current song moving upward on Mediabase that ranks lower than the mid-30s in CHR has a slim to none chance of getting airplay on AT40 as a breakout, let alone on the actual chart - a lot of that depends on how fast the songs move up and how quickly they get sampled.

In this week's case, they sampled The Offspring as a breakout (#34 on Mediabase) and Pitbull (who's #31) as an extra. Next week, Pitbull should begin charting and I figure it will be Eminem and/or Kelly Clarkson (and given how they are both already in the #20's they just might be immediate entries) while Kanye West and/or Nickelback (who should get moved up a few ranks with recurrents taken into account) might become breakouts.

Whereas with Rick, he's a little more lenient towards songs below the mid-30s and even low 40s in Mediabase to the point of cherry-picking some of them, and they end up charting at the expense of a few others (i.e. Kanye West instead of Matt Nathanson).

[gin]

Apr 26, 2009 8:56:47 GMT -5 Battle601 said:

Whereas with Rick, he's a little more lenient towards songs below the mid-30s and even low 40s in Mediabase to the point of cherry-picking some of them, and they end up charting at the expense of a few others (i.e. Kanye West instead of Matt Nathanson).

I completely agree; I'm glad someone else noticed this, too. That's actually why I like his chart so much, though, because the underdog songs have a chance, and it's a fun surprise when they make it.

I actually do think Matt Nathanson will debut eventually. Rick can't keep snubbing him; he's doing too well on Mediabase to be ignored at this point.

[Juanca]

Rick Dees' ignoring Matt is even worse than last year's AT40 ignoring September, though. This is just TOO much for a song that has been this long inside the Top 40 and is already in the Top 25!

[David]

Apr 26, 2009 8:56:47 GMT -5 Battle601 said:

Whereas the AT40 is too heavy on recurrents and slow on current selections.

They're not slow on recurrents. AT40 has no recurrents. They do the songs based on an overall Top 40 and not the current Top 40.

[atlantaboy]

Apr 27, 2009 0:37:00 GMT -5 Juanca said:

Rick Dees' ignoring Matt is even worse than last year's AT40 ignoring September, though. This is just TOO much for a song that has been this long inside the Top 40 and is already in the Top 25!

Yeah IMO kinda defeats the purpose of havin a Top 40 countdown if it doesn't reflect what's actually bein played nationwide...meanwhile COGH's bullet is goin back up (over +200 I think) so wonderin how Dees'll cover himself when he finally has to play it

[gin]

Apr 27, 2009 15:21:46 GMT -5 atlantaboy said:

Apr 27, 2009 0:37:00 GMT -5 Juanca said:

Rick Dees' ignoring Matt is even worse than last year's AT40 ignoring September, though. This is just TOO much for a song that has been this long inside the Top 40 and is already in the Top 25!

Yeah IMO kinda defeats the purpose of havin a Top 40 countdown if it doesn't reflect what's actually bein played nationwide...meanwhile COGH's bullet is goin back up (over +200 I think) so wonderin how Dees'll cover himself when he finally has to play it

It'll probably debut at 38 or something... how pathetic would that be.

Does anyone remember how he snubbed Calabria 2008 last year? And Hollywood's Not America? I thought that was ridiculous.