AT10 - August 28, 2004

[Hervard]

LC TC SONG/ARTIST
01 01 100 Years/Five For Fighting
03 02 This One's For The Girls/Martina McBride
02 03 This Love/Maroon5
04 04 White Flag/Dido
06 05 First Cut Is The Deepest/Sheryl Crow
05 06 Ain't No Mountain High Enough/Michael McDonald
07 07 Love's Divine/Seal
09 08 Heaven/Los Lonely Boys
10 09 You Raise Me Up/Josh Groban
RE 10 Just For You/Lionel Richie

Droppers:
From #8: Drift Away/Uncle Kracker f/Dobie Gray (scattered applause)

AT10 Extras:
Time After Time/Cyndi Lauper
When Can I See You/Babyface
Sweet Love/Anita Baker

Long Distance Dedications:
She's Got A Way/Billy Joel
I Could Not Ask For More/Edwin McCain

AT10 Archives:
1964: Where Did Our Love Go/The Supremes
1970: Band Of Gold/Freda Payne
1979: Old Time Rock & Roll/Bob Seger
1980: Hit Me With Your Best Shot/Pat Benatar
1982: Edge Of Seventeen/Stevie Nicks
1985: Summer Of '69/Bryan Adams
1985: The Power Of Love/Huey Lewis & The News
1990: Free Fallin'/Tom Petty
1993: Dreamlover/Mariah Carey
1999: Man! I Feel Like A Woman/Shania Twain
2000: I Need You/Lionel Richie

AT10 Spotlight (Artists who have made significant comebacks after ten years or more)
What A Wonderful World/Louis Armstrong
Father And Daughter/Paul Simon
Don't Know Much/Linda Ronstadt f/Aaron Neville
Smooth/Santana f/Rob Thomas
Love Will Keep Us Alive/The Eagles
One/The Bee Gees
Go Your Own Way/Wilson Phillips
Stand By Me/Ben E. King

It was cool that they played the new version of "Go Your Own Way", since I had never heard it before. We would have heard it a few times had the show remained AT20, but that was not the case and the song did not hit the Top Ten, though it sure started out looking like it might, but then it suffered almost the same fate as the 2002 Trio (the songs "Insatiable", "Song For The Lonely" and "Still", which debuted in the Top 20 on the AC Chart yet didn't get anywhere near the Top Ten - actually, "Insatiable" didn't debut in the Top 20, but made a huge move from near the bottom of the chart). But "Go Your Own Way" at least made it near the Top Ten, I believe.
Also, I was glad to hear "Father And Daughter" again. That song sort of got cheated out of airplay on AT20, too, since it had been on the countdown for a week or two before AT20 switched to that new Mediabase chart that went by audience impressions. But I believe it had been played as an extra once or twice in the past year.
They did a pretty good job with the AT20 Archives, playing at least one song from all five decades that they use (I don't think they'd play anything from the 1950s. Come to think of it, I don't believe they've ever played anything before 1964. Perhaps next year, the earliest will be 1965?)
The chart was a little on the ho-hum side. Lionel Richie re-entered the Top Ten via vacuum effect with "Just For You". That's the second time since AT10 began that such an event happened. And, ironically, the other song that happened to is the song that drops out this week, "Drift Away". You might remember that back in May, "Drift Away" dropped off the chart as "Love's Divine" entered the chart, then the next week, "Unwell" was automatically dropped from the chart via the 50/10 recurrent rule and "Drift Away" was sucked back into the countdown. "This Love" drops back to #3, but I have a feeling that could be the next #1 song, since there's not really much of anything else growing anywhere on the countdown and the songs in the Top Two have been around for quite sometime now. We'll have to wait and see what happens, I guess.

[BillboardBoy]

Lionel Richie re-entered the Top Ten via vacuum effect with "Just For You". That's the second time since AT10 began that such an event happened. And, ironically, the other song that happened to is the song that drops out this week, "Drift Away".

Here's more "Drift Away" irony: if the song had stayed on this week, it would have tied in nicely to this week's theme. In fact, Dobie Gray holds the record for the longest comeback on the AC Chart.

There are so many comeback acts that didn't get played (i.e. the Beatles, the Righteous Brothers, David Cassidy, etc.) that I'm sure this theme will pop up again, probably next year, with totally different acts.

Good choice of theme, by the way.

One that I would NOT be looking forward to hearing is "songs that spent the most weeks at #1." Can you imagine having to sit through "Drift Away," "You'll Be In My Heart," "Because You Loved Me" and "Hero" all in the same show? However, I do like "A New Day Has Come."

[mst3k]

ulij20 said:

Droppers:
From #8: Drift Away/Uncle Kracker f/Dobie Gray (scattered applause)

More like "massive standing ovation".

[Hervard]

That would work, too. I got "scattered applause" from a player's guide to the Zelda Game on Nintendo 64, after you changed the water level in the Water Temple for the umpteenth and last time.

Now, Dido has the longest running song on the chart. Only time will tell when that song falls out of the Top Five.

[Hervard]

BillboardBoy said:

Good choice of theme, by the way.

One that I would NOT be looking forward to hearing is "songs that spent the most weeks at #1." Can you imagine having to sit through "Drift Away," "You'll Be In My Heart," "Because You Loved Me" and "Hero" all in the same show? However, I do like "A New Day Has Come."

Not to mention "Change The World", "Breathe" and "I Knew I Loved You". They'd probably choose one or the other of Celine's hits, since they usually don't do more than one song by the same artist (unless it's specifically one artist - haven't they done that once this year?) in the same Spotlight. I sure hope they don't do that one, too, but I'm sure they probably will eventually. If they do, I hope they choose "A New Day Has Come".

[BillboardBoy]

unless it's specifically one artist - haven't they done that once this year?

Not yet, but there was a week when 2 songs by Huey Lewis were played. But I don't think both were "theme" songs.

[ChartKid]

ulij20 said:

  I got "scattered applause" from a player's guide to the Zelda Game on Nintendo 64, after you changed the water level in the Water Temple for the umpteenth and last time.

I HATE that temple! >:(

[Hervard]

Yeah, the Water Temples are usually a pain in the butt (the one in Majora's Mask - ARGH! Wasted a whole day on that one, and that was with the Player's Guide!)

[Michael1973]

I didn't really think that Louis Armstrong or Ben E. King fit the theme very well.  Granted, they did return to the charts after a long absence, but in both cases it was due to a re-release of a very old song.  Everyone else that was featured went back into the studio after a long hiatus and recorded new material, so those two seemed out of place to me (especially since Louis Armstrong had long since passed away when he made his "comeback".)

And where was Tina Turner?  I'd have thought for sure that she would have been included.

[johnnywest]

Michael1973 said:

And where was Tina Turner?  I'd have thought for sure that she would have been included.

There were a lot of people missing. But looking at my Whitburn book, she just barely had 10 years between "Nutbush City Limits" and "Let's Stay Together," so she was probably at the very bottom of the list.