A snapshot of Idols’ singles radio play culled from Mediabase charts as of this morning. Find out where your favorite Idol stands on the radio after the jump.
Ace Young:
“Addicted”: ^126 Pop (160), ^226 HAC (-)
Blake Lewis:
“Break Anotha”: 766 Pop (211)
“How Many Words”: 57 Pop (55), 464 Rhy (452)
Bucky Covington:
“I’ll Walk”: ^72 Country (-)
“It’s Good to Be Us”: 22 Country (15)
Carrie Underwood
“All American Girl”: ^72 HAC (73)
“Crazy Dreams”: ^146 Country (-)
“Crying”: 443 Country (122)
“Ever Ever After”: 137 Country (98)
“Flat on the Floor”: ^195 Country (241)
“How Great Thou Art”:^72 CAC (78), ^224 Country (-)
“I Know You Won’t”: 430 Country (276)
“I told You So”: 455 Country (107)
“I’ll Stand By You”: 94 AC (66)
“Last Name”: ^11 Country (11)
“More Boys I Meet”: 95 Country (94)
“So Small”: 26 CAC (25), ^66 HAC (69), ^70 AC (75)
“Star Spangled Banner” : 222 Country (146)
“Wasted” : ^76 AC (91), 261 HAC (220)
“Wheel of the World”: ^456 Country (-)
“Whenever You Remember”: ^322 HAC (-)
“You Won’t Find This”: 114 Country (101)
Chris Sligh:
“Empty Me”: ^18 CAC (18), ^244 HAC (322), 384 AC (403)
Daughtry:
“Crashed”: ^83 HAC (110)
“Feels Like Tonight”: 2 HAC (2), 13 Pop (13), ^16 AC (18),85 Alt (86), ^132 AAA (164), 460 Rhy (469)
“Home”: 5 AC (5), 269 Alt (270), 544 AAA (374)
“It’s Not Over”: 1022 AAA (1044)
“Over You”: 20 AC (20), 180 Alt (184), ^429 AAA (-)
“Rocket Man”: ^133 HAC (136)
“What About Now”: ^156 Pop (491), 416 HAC (174)
Elliott Yamin :
“A Song For You”: 137 AC (128)
“Free”: ^557 Pop (-), ^227 AC (-)
“Moody’s Mood for Love”: ^226 AC (-)
“One Word”: ^226 AC (-)
Fantasia:
“Hood Boy” Featuring Big Boi: ^681 UAC (-)
“I’m Not that Type”: 1502 Urban (1127)
“Put You Up On Game..” with Aretha Franklin: 448 Urban (310)
“Two Weeks Notice”: 334 UAC (287), ^1207 Urban (-)
George Huff:
“A Brighter Day”: 264 UAC (180), 310 CAC (228), ^325 Urban (568), ^347 Rhy (499)
“You Know Me”: 415 Gospel (292), 1146 UAC (468)
Jon Peter Lewis:
“Break the Silence”: ^290 HAC (-)
Jordin Sparks:
“No Air” with Chris Brown: ^2 Pop (2), ^5 Rhy (8), ^8 Urabn (13), ^25 HAC (30), ^49 UAC (81), ^56 AC (59), ^437 CAC (-)
“One Step At a Time”: ^194 Pop (-)
“The Star-Spangled Banner”: 221 Country (160), ^272 CAC (-), 742 Pop (404)
“Tattoo”: ^11 AC (20)
Josh Gracin:
“We Weren’t Crazy”: ^25 Country (25)
Katharine McPhee:
“Real Love” featuring Elliott Yamin: ^247 HAC (399), 447 Pop (293)
Kellie Pickler:
“Things That Never Cross…”: 23 Country (19)
Kelly Clarkson:
“Maybe”: ^496 Pop (-)
“Sober”: ^323 HAC (-)
Kimberley Locke:
“Band of Gold”: ^252 HAC (412)
“Fall”: ^17 AC (19), 258 HAC (256), ^472 Pop (-)
Mandisa:
“God Speaking”: 30 CAC (29)
“Only the World”: ^88 AC (196), ^315 HAC (-)
“Voice of a Savior”: 71 CAC (70), 386 AC (321)
Paula Abdul:
“Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow”: ^27 AC (31), 108 Pop (88), 144 HAC (98), 1411 Rhy (485)
Phil Stacey:
“If You Didn’t Love Me”:^33 Country (32), 209 CAC (176)
“Search Me, O God”: 250 CAC (261)
Ruben Studdard:
“Imagine” with Ray Charles: ^365 UAC (654)
“Make Ya Feel Beautiful”: 998 Urban (704)
Taylor Hicks:
“Just to Feel That Way”: ^356 HAC (-)
Season 7 (just checking Pop, HAC and AC)
Carly: “Without You”: ^245 AC
David A: “When You Believe”: ^311 HAC
David C: “Always Be My Baby”: ^135 HAC, ^171 Pop
Jason C: “I Don’t Wanna Cry”: ^307 HAC
Kristy: “Forever”: ^205 AC , ^306 HAC, ^521 Pop
Syesha: “Vanishing”: ^233 HAC
Note: Numbers indicate position on the chart while numbers in brackets indicate the position on the chart the previous week. ‘^’ indicates that the song has a bullet in that format.
No Mediabase report next week.
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Smart market move by Elliott Yamins camp get ” Free ” out thier on the radio waves to take advantage of his appearnce on AI but then do most artist do it also.
Did Elliott’s “Wait for You” finally disappear? Looks like David C. is doing okay.
Do you only keep track of Idol finalists, or for all contestants?
> Do you only keep track of Idol finalists, or for all contestants?
I try to track all Idol finalists and semi-finalists. I skip the auditioners because there are way too many of them. It takes a while to compile this list and I’ll only check for those that I know have songs out. It’s quite possible that I miss people and I appreciate it when others give me the heads up.
If there is interest in reports on a given auditioner, I could add them to the list.
> Did Elliott’s “Wait for You” finally disappear?
It’s still getting a lot of spins (2397 last week), but it has moved to the recurrent charts. If a song charts on the official charts (e.g. Top 40), then if it goes below a certain threshold, it goes to recurrents. That’s why some songs that never chart hang around forever with their 1 or 2 spins while bit hits tend to disappear from these charts sooner.
Thanks, Kirsten. Even if it’s just a few spins, it’s good to see Ace’s name up there again!
I know that Sarah Burgess and Brooke Barrettsmith have been on and off of the charts lately, I’m not aware of any others on there but I could be wrong.
Since few non-finalists make the charts, it isn’t a lot more to add generally.
Hey, Ace is on the list! Go Ace!
Kristy Lee charted higher this week for Forever than Anyway. Kirsten, did she chart on Country?
Pecking through the charts to find them is what’s tough. I’ve looked through those media base charts, and compiling this data can be quite tedious.
Giving Kirsten the heads up about non-finalists that you know are charting would be helpful.
As always, thanks Kirsten for the great numbers! :).
Kirsten or Mj- I didn’t think that the current Idol’s Itune track were permitted to be played on the radio??? Is this correct or am I dreaming???
Exactly. I don’t even remember the names of all the auditioners. If anybody finds out about an Idol or auditioner with a new single (or hears them on the radio), let me know and I’ll watch out for them.
Brooke Barrettsmith:
“Farewell”: 654 Pop (656)
I could not find any spins for Sarah or her single “Dangerouz”. She doesn’t even show up in the QuickCut search page.
Kristy did not chart on Country this week. She did get two spins (for 316) for “Anyway” on the Monitored Country chart last week.
They’ve always been allowed to play Idol songs on the radio during the competition. I think that Idol even makes them available to them (I know they put together video packages for the entertainment and talk shows). Typically something like “Did you hear so-and-so on Idol last night? It was terrible/terrific. Let’s give a listen”. Free promo for the show.
Kirsten- AH HA. But can they, the songs, be put into regular rotation at a radio station???
ETA- Sorry kirsten…but I am a total radio-tard when it comes to this stuff. Thank goodnes for you and MJ. Else I would be lost. :)
Certainly. Radio stations can pretty much play what they want (so long as the follow the FCC regulations). Elliott is a prime example. Some of the Richmond stations had his performance songs (e.g. “A Song for You”) on regular rotation for months (I believe that they now play the tracks from his CD).
Labels will try to “encourage” the stations to play the latest singles from their artists, but the radio stations aren’t bound by that.
Thanks Kirsten. Mariah’s Forever has been on the R&B chart at 10 & 15 for the past 2 days on iTunes. Higher than the other covered Mariah songs!