Here are your very abbreviated Monday Morning Medibase Updates (Top 30/40/50 in major formats only).
Bucky Covington:
“I’ll Walkâ€: ^30 Country (31)
Carrie Underwood:
“Just a Dream”: ^33 Country (50)
“Last Nameâ€: ^43 HAC (42)
“So Smallâ€: 49 AC (49)
Chris Sligh:
“Empty Meâ€: ^10 CAC (11)
Clay Aiken:
“On My Way Hereâ€: 29 AC (28)
Daughtry:
“Feels Like Tonightâ€: 6 HAC (6), ^8 AC (9)
“What About Nowâ€: ^22 HAC (30)
David Cook:
“Time of My Lifeâ€: ^4 AC (6), ^9 HAC (10), ^34 Pop (34)
Jennifer Hudson:
“Spotlightâ€: ^13 AC (15), ^29 Urban (29)
Jordin Sparks:
“No Air†with Chris Brown: ^16 AC (15), 17 HAC (16), 35 Urban (33)
“One Step At A Time†: ^26 Pop (29), ^44 HAC (47)
“Tattooâ€: 9 AC (10)
Josh Gracin:
“We Weren’t Crazyâ€: ^9 Country (11)
Kelly Pickler:
“Don’t You Know You’reâ€: ^31 Country (33)
Kimberley Locke:
“Fallâ€: 24 AC (21)
Mandisa:
“Voice of a Savior”: ^33 CAC (34)
Phil Stacey:
“Identityâ€: 45 CAC (41)
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.
I think it’s gone as far as it can go on Pop and I think that’s ok. But I wonder if that Mediabase ad I posted yesterday is an indication RCA isn’t quite done with it and are still hoping it will go further? The AC movement surprises me. A couple of weeks ago it really slowed down and it looked like even getting to Top 10 was a bit tough so how it managed get to 4 already is mindboggling.
Also, anyone know what this is?
http://www.radioandrecords.com/RRWebSite/
Where it has listings under the July 18 issue it says this:
? is this a magazine they sell in stores?
At the time, several people suggested the slowdown had to do with the July 4 weekend when many stations tossed out their regular spins and played special formats, instead. Looks as if that may have been the case. His upward push on AC has been really strong for the last week or so, and not too shabby on HAC, either, although not nearly as dramatic. As for pop, I did see him at #33 this morning, but it does look as if it would take a miracle of radio play to get him much beyond that. Stranger things have happened, though, so who knows?
As always, thank you, Kirsten.
Trina, R&R is a trade publication similar to Billboard, but it focuses primarily on radio airplay instead of sales. You may be able to pick it up in some specialty bookstores, but it’s mostly a subscriber-based publication. I believe it used to be used to compile the American Top-40 radio show charts (Casey Kasem-era), but now I think Ryan’s show uses Mediabase exclusively.
Actually, R&R is now owned by Billboard. It’s targeted towards those in the music industry as opposed to the general public.
lol! There was a time when I wondered if you, Kirsten, and you, ladymadonna, were the same person, because I’d see one of you here and one of you at TWOP and you reported many of the same juicy statistics. But unless “you’re” talking to “yourself,” I guess not, huh? :) I appreciate both of you!
Ha! Just like Clark Kent and Superman…never seen posting on the same board at the same time…
Actually I credit (or should that be blame?) Kristen, along with Ken Barnes, for helping fuel my stats addiction. And thanks for the clarification on R&R, Kristen - I didn’t realize Billboard had bought them out.
LOL.
Oops. Sorry! I love them stats and finding out all those little interconnections. Glad you are having fun with them too. Thanks for putting me in the same sentence as the amazing Mr. Barnes.
R&R used to report the Mediabase numbers until it was purchased by Billboard and then it switched to Nielsen’s BSD monitoring service.
BTW I just found the following snippet at wiki (so take it with a grain of salt):
I’m not sure if that has been posted here yet, but since this is the Mediabase chart, it seems relevant. So, we may be able to return to the full charts in a few weeks.
It’s disturbing how happy that single sentence just made me.
Me too. Being without data bothers me. I also am in throe to Ken Barnes’ numbers.
Me, too! I was turning into a statistical dry drunk. :)
Another numbers freak weighing in - I’ve been trying to predict sales numbers for TWOP based on each mornings placement on iTunes.
Please, I hope so! Mediabase was just greedy to do something like that…
Anyway, are the SoundScan numbers publicly available or do we have to rely on Ken Barnes for that?
To feed our compulsion. . .I just re-checked AllAccess for their reporting of current Mediabase stats. TOML is now #1 in “spincrease” AND #1 in “taking off” for AC.
It is kind of addictive, isn’t it?
When I checked itunes top songs earlier today, ToML had bounced back up to #43. (Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean increased sales, but still…. More data….)
SoundScan numbers are not legally publicly available. They are copyrighted (or something). SS has been known to send out cease and desist orders to sites that leak them. But, there are sites that leak them (please don’t name them here; the fewer the references the less likely those sites will get letters).
Ken Barnes is permitted by SS to publish numbers based on a set of rules he follows (only three significant digits and nothing under 100). Subscribing to SS is actually very expensive and even USA Today doesn’t have a subscription (he gets them from some guy he knows).
Whoa, TOML is up from #9 to #7 on HAC this morning. Pretty rainbow.