Here are your very abbreviated Monday Morning Medibase Updates (Top 30/40/50/whatever in major formats only).
Bucky Covington:
“I Want My Life Back”: ^40 Country (41)
Carrie Underwood:
“I Told You So”: 8 Country (1)
Daughtry:
“No Surprise”: ^26 HAC (43), ^43 Pop (59)
à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“What About Nowà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ : ^3 AC (5)
David Archuleta:
“A Little Too Not Over You”: 36 AC (33)
“Crush”: ^10 AC (10)
David Cook:
“Come Back To Me”: ^16 HAC (17), ^34 AC (37), ^46 Pop (47)
“Light On”: ^11 AC (12)
Jennifer Hudson:
“If This Isn’t Love”: 2 UAC (2), 34 Urban (34)
Kellie Pickler:
“Best Days of Your Life” : ^19 Country (18)
Kelly Clarkson:
“I Do Not Hook Up”: ^13 Pop (18), ^20 HAC (24)
“My Life Would Suck Without You”: 4 HAC (4), 11 Pop (8), ^21 AC (23)
Lakisha Jones:
“Let’s Go Celebrate”: ^33 UAC (33)
Mandisa:
“My Deliverer”: ^10 CAC (10)
Michael Johns:
“Heart on my Sleeve”: ^29 AC (30)
Ruben Studdard:
“Together”: 19 UAC (21)
Song Co-written by Chris Sligh:
“Here Comes GoodBye”: ^23 AC (22)
Note: Numbers indicate position on the chart while numbers in brackets indicate the position on the chart the previous week. à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã‹^à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ indicates that the song has a bullet in that format.
Season 8 Spins (Thanks to consumedbywords for posting how to do this!)
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Adam: “Cryin” : 2 Pins (1 HAC, 1 AC)
Adam: “One” : 17 Spins (9 HAC, 4 Pop, 4 AC)
Danny: “Dance Little Sister”: 3 Spins (2 HAC, 1 Rhy)
Danny: “You Are So Beautiful” : 8 Spins (1 HAC, 1 Pop, 5 AC, 1 AAA)
Kris: “Apologize” : 7 Spins (3 HAC, 1 Pop, 2 AC, 1 Rhy)
Kris: “Heartless”: 22 Spins (8 HAC, 9 Pop, 2 AC, 2 CanPop, 1 Rhy)
Guess this means LO went recurrent on HAC, huh? Oh well, Go CBTM!
Patiently waiting for HDD, I’m curious about both DC and Elliott’s album numbers this week. Fingers crossed for both.
Wow – Kris had 22 spins and Adam 17. Good job!
^^ actually 29 and 19 lol
It’s still weird to not find the Magic Rainbow on AC. I believe it’s still on the Billboard version, isn’t it? So it will have charted for an entire year!
Interesting that Kris has had more radio spins than Adam some weeks.
CBTM seems to be trying to fight through some of the “wind-resistance” on CHR. (Get it “wind” resistance, eh? Eh? You see what I did there? Yeah? Yuk, yuk, yuk…. fizz….)
Anyway, now it needs some new stations playing it, and some new adds, of course….
I asked this is the concert thread– but is ZG confirmed to be Archie’s new single? It’s definitely got more verve, but doesn’t the chorus melody sound similar to a slightly altered chorus of TMH, only sped-up?
Well, hopefully, it’s upbeat enough to crack through the ceiling that ALTNOY (and CBTM) bumped into….
noctem, it doesn’t seem likely that ZG will be a radio single, but nobody knows for sure. It seems more likely that it could be an iTunes release, but everything’s just speculation at this point.
I think ZG has the best potential of any Archie song I heard to do well on current CHR. It’s still a crapshoot, but with better odds IMHO.
CHR has seriously gone to the dogs. *sigh*
Oh, USA Today’s Idol Airplay Chart is up.
Yep – crazy, isn’t it. Mediabase and NielsenBDS (which feeds the Billboard charts) use slightly different recurrency rules. So the immortal Magic Rainbow is still charting actively in its 52nd week on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart (i.e. the AC airplay chart). It hit the top ten in that format six weeks after the finale, and has been in the top ten for 45 consecutive weeks (including 15 weeks at #1). I’m sad to say that it will, however, be retired to recurrent after 52 weeks since it is no longer in the top five on that format.
Oh and damn, I just noticed that Daughtry’s NS is already #43 on pop. The going is so much easier once you’ve reached “name-artist” status….
hi noctem…. nobody knows for sure what the final disposition of zero gravity will be… i’d love for it to be a radio single – with a new mix that captures the raw and live energy david brings to it in a concert setting…. i ‘ve listened to it several times since you made the comment about the melody being derivative of tmh, and i can’t hear it, but who knows….. it’s seems to be a universal favorite among fans and non fans, domestic and international, so we’ll just have to see how it plays out….
What format is CanPop? I don’t recall seeing that one before, but then again I don’t always catch the weekly report…
noctem ~ No surprise there. (See what I did there too? LOL)
Satellite radio has been instrumental in shaping today’s radio playlists. I think it’s interesting that David Cook has sold the numember of CDs that he is reported to have sold with no real radio hit except TOML. Archie seems to be about average for today’s pop artists. Cook, I really question some of these numbers. Some reviewer in the Phillipines even remarked that the fans didn’t seem to know very many of the songs he sang at Sat. concert.
^^ I’m sure SoundScan would love to answer those questions. LMAO
HDD update:
NOW IN: 55.94%
27 20 CARRIE UNDERWOOD ARISTA NASHVILLE 9,674
CARNIVAL RIDE
15 22 KELLY CLARKSON RCA/RMG 9,184
ALL I EVER WANTED
44 43 DAVID COOK 19/RCA/RMG 4,801
DAVID COOK
^^ Looks like DC is reverting back to pre-Mother’s Day levels… any guesses from the DC numbers guru’s on the final based on this update?
Also, LMAO’ing with Jolene (heh, I made it a verb). Yes, there is a mass conspiracy involving Soundscan, 19Evil, iTunes, retailers, etc. to goose DCTR’s numbers. Besides, which, I’m confused by the logic here– the 1.1 mil is for US sales, so the fact that one reviewer in the Phillipines thought that fans there didn’t know his songs is related to his sales totals in the US, how?
^^ Don’t you just love conspiracies? Ooh, shady.
I would guess a return to around 7-8K, indeed the region he was in before Mother’s Day. I’d also guess we’ll have to wait for Brian’s update to know his numbers this week, because he probably won’t appear in the final HDD update. Next week, I’m betting he’ll be back in there.
Elliott, you deserve better.
He sure does. *sigh*
Oh, come now. One of you (us, hehe) Cook fans out there hacked the system and fixed the numbers. You know you did
Cookie might not have major radio hits but I swear his songs come on every time I turn around. I was out and about Saturday and went into Subway and heard Time of My Life (a/k/a song that will never die) there, then in the car Light On, then came home and heard Come Back to Me…
And if it wasn’t Cookie there were Idol songs everywhere – shoot, I went to the grocery store and heard Taylor’s “Do I Make You Proud?” LOL!
Sigh, Elliott. He’s so awesome… love, love his voice… his album is great…
No wait, haven’t you heard the best conspiracy of them all? It was actually RCA who was buying up hundreds of thousands of Cook’s CDs! Can’t recall where exactly where I came across this ace-theory, but it’s to me BY FAR the most plausible. After all, what could be a more sound business model for a music label, after investing a dollar or whatever it costs them to produce each disc, then to turn around and buy them all back at retail price down the line? Those mad financial geniuses!
^^^”the fact that one reviewer in the Phillipines thought that fans there didnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t know his songs is related to his sales totals in the US, how?”
That reviewer does not know his facts!…i’m not surprised since the target market of the newspaper he is writing for (Manila Bulletin) are retirees…no one reads that paper anymore! How could the Davids have attracted AT LEAST 50,000 people witout them knowing about their songs in the album?…….tsss!
I am not sure what DCTR numbers will be. But I am guessing between 9 and 10 thousand. I could be completely wrong but looking at last weeks numbers at this point and this weeks numbers this is what I come up with. YMMV
Damn that sneaky RCA anyway.
LOL!
Haha, of course. On a related note, have you guys seen this article from Forbes about Idol’s top earners? DC apparently earned an estimated 2 million since June 2008. With all the speculation about the restrictive contracts Idols get, and how little they earn relative to 19R/M/whatever, I’m guessing DC earning 2 mill means the label and his management are doing pretty well as well. Also, go Archie with 1.3mil.
Thanks for the local perspective, RV65!