AT10 - August 14, 2004

[Hervard]

LC TC SONG/ARTIST
01 01 100 Years/Five For Fighting (7 weeks at #1)
02 02 This One's For The Girls/Martina McBride
04 03 Ain't No Mountain High Enough/Michael McDonald
03 04 White Flag/Dido
06 05 This Love/Maroon 5
05 06 First Cut Is The Deepest/Sheryl Crow
07 07 Love's Divine/Seal
08 08 Drift Away/Uncle Kracker f/Dobie Gray
09 09 Just For You/Lionel Richie
10 10 You Raise Me Up/Josh Groban

AT10 Extras:
I Just Called To Say I Love You/Stevie Wonder
I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song/Jim Croce
My Guy/Mary Wells
Margaritaville/Jimmy Buffett

Long Distance Dedication:
The Heart Of The Matter/Don Henley

AT10 Archives:
1966: Reach Out (I'll Be There)/The Four Tops
1971: Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)/Marvin Gaye
1976: You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine/Lou Rawls
1979: Dim All The Lights/Donna Summer
1981: Celebration/Kool & The Gang
1982: Wasted On The Way/Crosby Stills & Nash
2001: All Or Nothing/O-Town
2002: Complicated/Avril Lavigne
2003: If You're Not The One/Daniel Bedingfield
2004: Sunrise/Simply Red

AT10 Spotlight: Big songs from 1989
Like A Prayer/Madonna
Another Day In Paradise/Phil Collins
Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)/Enya
Wind Beneath My Wings/Bette Midler
She Drives Me Crazy/Fine Young Cannibals
The Best/Tina Turner
Right Here Waiting/Richard Marx
Eternal Flame/The Bangles
As Long As You Follow/Fleetwood Mac

Interesting spotlight. Maybe they'll feature songs from a certain year sporadically throughout the next few years until they cover all the years, except maybe for years this century, since that's a little too current (although they did feature four Archive songs from the 2000s). I figured they'd play "Second Chance" by 38 Special, since that song was the top song of 1989, before the number one song, but instead they played a song that you don't hear very often on AC radio, "As Long As You Follow" by Fleetwood Mac. Also, not played much anymore is "The Best" by Tina Turner, which was also featured as part of the Spotlight. Archive songs not played that often include "Mercy Mercy Me", "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine", "Dim All The Lights" and "Wasted On The Way". So they had a pretty good selection of songs this week, although they played "Margaritaville" by Jimmy Buffett for what seems like the hundredth time. And they have played a few other Jimmy Buffett songs on the show before. I remember "Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes" on at least one occasion, and even his remake of the Van Morrison classic "Brown-Eyed Girl". I think it would be cool if they played "Fins", since that's my favorite Jimmy Buffett song.

[Michael1973]

Actually, there is one station in my listening area that plays "The Best" on a regular basis. Still, I'm glad that they threw in at least a few spotlight songs that aren't horribly overplayed.

[chebingeo]

SNOOZEFEST 2004!!!

[Hervard]

Oh, and I forgot to mention: No debuts this week. This was theoretically supposed to be the week for there to be a debut song, but it was not to be.

[chebingeo]

On the current Mediabase update, Kkmberley Locke has made the top 10. Unfortunately, the wrong song (Josh Groban) was kicked off.

[Hervard]

What do you mean by "the wrong song"?

[Mega248]

ulij20 said:

What do you mean by "the wrong song"?

He means that Uncle Kracker's 75-weeker should have been kicked off instead.

The good news is that Los Lonely Boys look ready to enter the top 10 on R&R in a week or two, which should bump Uncle Kracker out unless Lionel Richie starts losing spins like crazy.

[BillboardBoy]

1989 was an excellent choice for a year. It's rather monumental for me because that's the year I graduated from high school.

And as mentioned, it was a good choice of songs this week. My favorite song from 1989, "Orinoco Flow," was played, although I would have preferred to hear the album version instead, which is longer. "Like A Prayer" is probably my favorite Madonna song from that year, although I also like "Oh Father." But that song never hit the AC chart. I'm glad they went with "Another Day In Paradise" over "Two Hearts," because "Two Hearts" has really been overplayed. "As Long As You Follow" is one of my favorite Fleetwood Mac songs so I was happy to hear that. My local Top 40 radio station used to play that, but it never hit the Top 40. "The Best" is my favorite Tina Turner song. I don't recall Casey playing that since it was on CT40 15 years ago. "Sunrise" and "Wasted On The Way" are also great songs. I was also wondering if Casey would play "Second Chance." But it was already played earlier this year as an LDD and so many songs this year have been repeated, that I'm not gonna complain about that.

In the future, I'd like to hear songs from 1994 and 1999.