AT10 - 7/31/04

[Hervard]

LC TC SONG/ARTIST
01 01 100 Years/Five For Fighting (5 weeks at #1)
06 02 Ain't No Mountain High Enough/Michael McDonald
02 03 This One's For The Girls/Martina McBride
03 04 White Flag/Dido
05 05 First Cut Is The Deepest/Sheryl Crow
04 06 Love's Divine/Seal
07 07 This Love/Maroon 5
08 08 Drift Away/Uncle Kracker f/Dobie Gray
10 09 Just For You/Lionel Richie
09 10 You Raise Me Up/Josh Groban

AT10 Extras:
Wonderful Tonight/Eric Clapton
Beautiful/Christina Aguilera
The End Of The Innocence
Who Loves You/Four Seasons

Long Distance Dedication:
Everywhere/Fleetwood Mac

AT10 Archives:
1967: I Second That Emotion/Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
1974: Piano Man/Billy Joel
1975: Sister Goldenhair/America
1976: You Are The Woman/Firefall
1995: Kiss From A Rose/Seal
1998: Truly Madly Deeply/Savage Garden
2000: You Sang To Me/Marc Anthony
2000: Breathe/Faith Hill
2000: Cruisin'/Huey Lewis f/Gwyneth Paltrow
2002: A Thousand Miles/Vanessa Williams
2003: Forever And For Always/Shania Twain

Wonder why there weren't any archive songs from the 1980s?  Well....

AT10 Archives: #1 Songs of the Year from the 1980s:
1980: Call Me/Blondie
1981: Bette Davis Eyes/Kim Carnes
1983: Every Breath You Take/The Police
1985: Crazy For You/Madonna
1986: Stuck With You/Huey Lewis & The News
1987: I Wanna Dance With Somebody Who Loves Me/Whitney Houston
1988: Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car/Billy Ocean

Note that all of those year end #1's came from the Pop chart, although Casey didn't say that in any of the spotlite intros.  It was a very interesting choice.  The ones he left out were 1982 ("Open Arms" by Journey), 1984 ("Jump" by Van Halen) and 1989 ("Miss You Much" by Janet Jackson).  The last two I understand, because they don't lend themselves to the AC format at all, but "Open Arms" would have been doable, wouldn't it?  I mean, come on, did we really have to hear "Truly Madly Deeply" for the umpteenth time, not to mention "Forever And For Always" which fell out of the survey not long ago?  Oh well, it's not like we don't hear "Open Arms" every day on Lite Rock and 80s stations, right?
I wonder if they'll have #1s from the 1990s in the near future?  Most of the ones from the  Pop charts would fit that format, too, since they've all been on the AC chart as well, except for "End Of The Road" by Boyz II Men, but I've heard that played on Lite Rock stations before, so actually, the 1990s would fit even more than the 1980s, since, as mentioned above, one of the years contained a dance/hip-hop song that would be unplayable on AC stations and 1984's top song was a hard rock number that the AT10 affiliates might get a lot of flak for playing.  Anyway, we'll have to see what pans out.
The most interesting point on the countdown is the sudden 6-2 move by Michael McDonald's rendition of the Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell classic "Ain't No Mountain High Enough".  Of course, this may be a fluke; remember a few weeks back when Josh Groban suddenly recovered 8-4 and then fell back to 8 next week?  Something similar might happen to "Mountain" next week, though it may not fall quite as far, but you never know.  We'll have to wait and see next week.
Next week or the week after is when we're due for a debut song (as there's usually a new entry near the beginning of the month).  What song do you think it'll be?  And which song will fall out of the chart to make way for the song?  Currently, it looks to be a toss-up between Josh Groban and Lionel Richie, since those songs seem to be flip-flopping near the bottom of the chart.  Maybe both of them will fall out the same week and we'll have a rare two-debut chart?
Nah!

[EvanJ]

The 2000 version of "Cruisin' " was by Huey Lewis and Gwyneth Paltrow.

[johnnywest]

Is this topic for AT40 or AT10? ;)

[BillboardBoy]

Note that all of those year end #1's came from the Pop chart, although Casey didn't say that in any of the spotlite intros.

He did mention it at the very top of the show though.

Unfortunately, 98.7 in Phoenix doesn't air AT10 anymore (Mix 96.9 picked up AT20 recently). But the show can just barely be heard on a Flagstaff station.

[Hervard]

BillboardBoy said:

Note that all of those year end #1's came from the Pop chart, although Casey didn't say that in any of the spotlite intros.

He did mention it at the very top of the show though.

Really?  I thought he just said number one songs of the year.  I don't remember him specifying which charts they came from.

[Hervard]

johnnywest said:

Is this topic for AT40 or AT10?  ;)

I just discovered my mistake before I read your post.  I guess I was just thinking about AT40 and how Avril Lavigne's latest hasn't debuted yet even though it's riding high on the R&R chart.

[BillboardBoy]

Really? I thought he just said number one songs of the year. I don't remember him specifying which charts they came from.

I've got the first hour on tape somewhere. When I find it, I'll transcribe it.

I come back after a couple of months and you're Ronald McDonald? What's this world coming to?

[Hervard]

Well, I was going by the handle Ronald McDonald, but I changed it back fast because, with that post about me bitching about an incident at McDonald's a few years back, I realized it didn't look good, so now I'm back to ulij20 until I can come up with another handle. Back in June, I was changing my handle like I changed my clothes (i.e. Long Duk Dong, Fonzie, Uncle Buck, Fenton Hardy, and so forth)

[johnnywest]

ulij20 said:

Well, I was going by the handle Ronald McDonald, but I changed it back fast because, with that post about me bitching about an incident at McDonald's a few years back, I realized it didn't look good, so now I'm back to ulij20 until I can come up with another handle.  Back in June, I was changing my handle like I changed my clothes (i.e. Long Duk Dong, Fonzie, Uncle Buck, Fenton Hardy, and so forth)

A McDonald's incident? I know it's off topic, but please do tell!

[Hervard]

Basically, I was PO'ed when I was ordering something at McDonald's and they got the order wrong and I basically had to pay twice for the thing that I didn't get the first time around. The workers were apparently all incompetent, since they were making mistakes as though they were in the middle of a big rush, yet they looked like they weren't busy at all. For the full scoop, look in the topic in The Lounge called "Things that annoy the heck out of you - The Sequel". It's on either page 2 or 3.