AT10 - June 26, 2004

[Hervard]

LC TC SONG/ARTIST
03 01 The First Cut Is The Deepest/Sheryl Crow
01 02 White Flag/Dido
02 03 100 Years/Five For Fighting
05 04 This One's For The Girls/Martina McBride
07 05 Ain't No Mountain High Enough/Michael McDonald
06 06 Love's Divine/Seal
08 07 Drift Away/Uncle Kracker f/Dobie Gray
04 08 You Raise Me Up/Josh Groban
09 09 Just For You/Lionel Richie
10 10 Calling All Angels/Train

AT10 Extras:
When A Man Loves A Woman/Michael Bolton
Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough/Patty Smyth & Don Henley
Change The World/Eric Clapton

Long Distance Dedications:
I Can Only Imagine/MercyMe
I Could Not Ask For More/Edwin McCain

AT10 Archives:
1971: Just My Imagination/The Temptations
1972: Morning Has Broken/Cat Stevens
1979: Babe/Styx
1980: Brass In Pocket (I'm Special)/The Pretenders
1980: Working My Way Back To You/Forgive Me Girl/The Spinners
1999: Someday/Sugar Ray
2001: My Baby You/Marc Anthony
2002: Wherever You Will Go/The Calling
2002: A New Day Has Come/Celine Dion
2003: Invisible/Clay Aiken

AT10 Spotlight: Summer Songs
Soak Up The Sun/Sheryl Crow
If This Is It/Huey Lewis & The News
Endless Summer Nights/Richard Marx
Summer Breeze/Seals & Crofts
Summer of '69/Bryan Adams
Cruel Summer/Bananarama
Conga/Miami Sound Machine
Kokomo/The Beach Boys

Wow, there's an ongoing battle between Dido and Sheryl Crow for the top spot. This is, what, the third time Sheryl has recaptured the number one position? Something like that. I'm surprised that Five For Fighting hasn't snuck a week or two in yet. Maybe they'll be number one during the time Martina McBride tops the R&R AC chart, however long that may be. Not sure when or even if she'll be #1 on AT10.
It's not too often that a song makes the biggest jump one week and the biggest drop the next, but Josh Groban does just that. It moved from 8-4 last week and I was wondering if the popularity of the version by the original authors of the song, Selah, on Christian stations had anything to do with it. Well, if it did, it sure didn't last long, as Josh is back to #8. But it'll probably hang around that spot for awhile, or maybe even continue its yo-yo move - whatever it does, it probably isn't going to leave the chart anytime soon, along with the other moldy-oldie songs near the bottom of the chart, since I don't see any songs entering the Top Ten anytime soon. I wonder if they're going to do just a Top Ten chart for the year ender, since they're not going to have enough songs to make a full Top 30 chart at this rate.
Looks like I have a correct streak going, regarding my predictions of the Spotlight, since I predicted that last week would be Father's Day and this week would be Summer Songs. Will Patriotic Songs be next week? We'll have to see. In case you're wondering what "If This Is It" has to do with summer, check out the video. There are many beach scenes in the video, including a funny one at the end. A bunch of heavyset people arrive at the beach and a shark starts attacking.
Also, it would have been nice if they had played the new version of "Summer Breeze" by Seals & Crofts, since that's apparently at #17 this week. But that would mean playing more than three current songs and we all know we can't have that!
They didn't do any 1960s songs for former #1 songs this week, but they did do several early 1970s hits, plus an early 1980 hit, which was actually a remake of a 1960s hit. This was a case when the remake was better than the original (IMO, anyway). I'm sorry, but Frankie Valli sounds like he's on the pot, trying to force out a huge turd when he's singing the original. Of course, I heard the Spinners version before I ever heard the Four Seasons one, so...
Conversely, they played several songs from this century as well (and is it me, or have they played "Wherever You Will Go" as an archive song several times this year already? Or was it a LDD?) They even played one that was on the chart earlier this year ("Invisible") even though Casey said it was from 2003, which it was, since it came out that year (then again, "My Baby You" came out in 2000, but Casey called it a 2001 song, since that was the year it peaked).
Well, I'll be back next week to post the July 4 show. We'll see if my predictions are right about the Spotlight.

[johnnywest]

Uncle said:

It's not too often that a song makes the biggest jump one week and the biggest drop the next, but Josh Groban does just that.

Did Casey mention that it was the biggest dropper? I know he hasn't done that in years, maybe not since the Watermark days.

[Hervard]

Yeah, he said that it was last week's biggest mover and now it's this week's biggest dropper. If it hadn't been last week's biggest move, he probably wouldn't have mentioned it.

[johnnywest]

I'm surprised to see that there wasn't a mention of Ray Charles' death, but that'll probably come next week.

[JCMF3]

They played "Someday" as an "archived" song??? That song didn't even make it out of the bottom parts of the AC chart.

[chebingeo]

johnnywest said:

I'm surprised to see that there wasn't a mention of Ray Charles' death, but that'll probably come next week.

I wonder if he'll play his version of America the Beautiful for the 4th?

[Hervard]

JCMF3 said:

They played "Someday" as an "archived" song???  That song didn't even make it out of the bottom parts of the AC chart.

They must like that song or something, since they also played it on the AT20 Top 60 of 2000 countdown even though the song wasn't even on the chart that year and, as you said, it only peaked in the twenties on the AC chart. But, as I've said many times before, the year end chart for 2000 broke the record for the most warped year end countdown.

[Michael1973]

One thing I've noticed about the extras Casey plays (on both shows) is that they aren't necessarily songs that performed well on their respective charts, but rather songs that fit the respective format.

"Someday" didn't do well at AC because AC wasn't playing that type of music in 1999, but they play it a lot now so it's more fitting.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Sheryl Crow is still #1? I'm thinking it odd that the song is still in my Top 100 after 8 months. And 'Calling All Angels' at #10? Wow! I should prolly follow this chart more often.

[chebingeo]

Uncle said:

They must like that song or something, since they also played it on the AT20 Top 60 of 2000 countdown even though the song wasn't even on the chart that year and, as you said, it only peaked in the twenties on the AC chart.  But, as I've said many times before, the year end chart for 2000 broke the record for the most warped year end countdown.

AC stations tend to play "familiar" songs a year or two after the song is popular. It's why you hear some obscure songs on AC stations, they're usually from the beginning of the 00's.

IE, The AC station here just added "Here Without You" a couple of weeks ago because it was such a huge hit and an overwhelming majority know the song. They also play "I'm Like a Bird" which was a very minor AC hit, but is a very familiar song for pop and Hot AC listeners.

[Hervard]

The said:

Sheryl Crow is still #1? I'm thinking it odd that the song is still in my Top 100 after 8 months. And 'Calling All Angels' at #10? Wow! I should prolly follow this chart more often.

Yeah, the turnover rate of songs on the AT10 chart is very, very slow, with roughly one debut per month. That was sort of the purpose of cutting back the chart from 20 songs, because we were basically hearing the same songs week after week. Now, with more "Extra" songs, that has been alleviated.

[Hervard]

chebingeo said:

AC stations tend to play "familiar" songs a year or two after the song is popular.  It's why you hear some obscure songs on AC stations, they're usually from the beginning of the 00's.

Yeah, AT20/AT10 has played "I Need To Know" by Marc Anthony several times even though it never made the weekly AT20 chart (it came close, however, and lasted 20 weeks on the chart as it fluctuated between 21 and 30, back in late 1999 and early 2000. If that song had come out about a year later, it would easily have made the Top Ten, especially since the follow-up, "You Sang To Me" was a number one AC hit and "My Baby You" was a big Top Ten song.

[johnnywest]

The said:

Sheryl Crow is still #1? I'm thinking it odd that the song is still in my Top 100 after 8 months.

You mean you make your own Top 100 chart every week? It would be hard enough for me to find 10 songs I liked well enough.