Monday Morning Mediabase Update – 09/20/09
Here are your Monday Morning Mediabase Updates (Top 30/40/50/whatever in major formats only).
Brooke White:
“Radio Radio”: ^29 AC (32)
Bucky Covington:
“I Want My Life Back”: 45 Country (33)
Carrie Underwood:
“Cowboy Casanova” : ^12 Country (24)
Daughtry:
“No Surprise”: ^2 HAC (2), 9 Pop (9), ^11 AC (13)
David Cook:
“Come Back To Me”: 10 HAC (9), ^14 AC (14)
Elliott Yamin:
“Can’t Keep On Loving…”: ^33 AC (33)
Jennifer Hudson:
“Giving Myself”: ^29 UAC (28)
Jordin Sparks:
“Battlefield”: 8 Pop (7), ^17 HAC (17), 25 AC (24)
Kellie Pickler:
“Didn’t You Know How…”: 44 Country (51)
Kelly Clarkson:
“Already Gone”: ^16 HAC (18), ^26 Pop (27)
Lakisha Jones:
“Same Song”: 27 UAC (26)
Mandisa:
“He is With You”: ^28 CAC (29)
Michael Johns:
“Heart on My Sleeve”: ^24 AC (25)
Phil Stacey:
“You’re Not Shaken”: 15 CAC (16)
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.
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6 Responses to “Monday Morning Mediabase Update – 09/20/09”
Is there somewhere I can find definitions for HAC, AC, CAC, UAC, etc.?
Is there somewhere I can find definitions for HAC, AC, CAC, UAC, etc.?
HAC = Hot Adult Contemporary
AC = Adult Contemporary
CAC – not sure, but it is christian music
UAC – urban adult contemporary
Basically anything with “adult contemporary” in the title is meant to appeal to adults as opposed to the teen and young 20s audience targeted by CHR (Contemporary Hits Radio i.e. Top 40 i.e. Pop) stations. If it has AC in the title it plays recurrent (read: old) songs along with whatever would appeal to adults in the regular version of that format.
So UAC takes songs “grown ups would like” from Urban radio and mixes them with older R&B and soul songs. HAC mixes CHR stuff that is less raunchy and/or “hard” and mixes it with soft rock and older pop hits. You get the idea.
AC just plays nothing but old songs. Even the newest AC songs are generally at least 6 months old on other charts.
Yep. The first C stands for Christian.
Thanks Kirsten!
CAC ‘“ not sure, but it is christian music
Yep. The first C stands for Christian.
Hey, y’all. From DCO:
Radio Station Formats (including AAA, AC, HAC, CHR, etc.): Helpful wiki link. Here’s another link to an explanation of different radio formats.