Here are your very abbreviated Monday Morning Medibase Updates (Top 30/40/50/whatever in major formats only).
Bucky Covington:
“I’ll Walkâ€: ^16 Country (17)
Carrie Underwood:
“Just a Dream”: ^7 Country (8)
Chris Sligh:
“Arise”: ^48 CAC (77)
“Empty Meâ€: 11 CAC (11)
Daughtry:
“Feels Like Tonightâ€: 6 AC (6)
“What About Nowâ€: ^6 HAC (6), ^20 Pop (23), ^35 AC (39)
David Archuleta:
“Crush”: ^16 Pop (20), ^18 AC (18), ^28 HAC (31)
David Cook:
“Time of My Lifeâ€: 2 AC (2), 9 HAC (8), 33 Pop (36)
Jennifer Hudson:
“Spotlightâ€: 1 UAC (2), ^7 Urban (10)
Jordin Sparks:
“No Air†with Chris Brown: ^13 AC (13)
“One Step At A Time†: ^4 Pop (5), ^18 HAC (21), ^41 AC (48), ^43 Rhy (46)
“Tattooâ€: 9 AC (10)
Josh Gracin:
“Unbelievable (Anne Marie)”: 50 Country (50)
Kellie Pickler:
“Don’t You Know You’reâ€: ^23 Country (23)
Kristy Lee Cook:
“15 Minutes of Shame”: ^39 Country (40)
Mandisa:
“Voice of a Savior”: ^25 CAC (25)
Artists Stand Up To Cancer:
“Just Stand Up”: ^22 AC (21), 34 Pop (31), 42 HAC (39), 45 Rhy (45), ^47 Urban (47)
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’m not sure it’s ‘official’ yet… but congrats to jennifer on her first #1 on a major music format (UAC). best of luck on her upcoming CD release.
Congrats to Jennifer.
YAY Bucky. Good for him. Archie’s song is heading in the right direction. Crush will be in the Top 10 soon. I wonder when he will have time to do more radio promos. I guess working on his CD is the main thing right now.
It will probably get to 14 rather soon on pop and hit a lull for a while.
pardon my ignorance…..what is the significance of a “bullet”?
A “bullet” shows that the song is increasing in spins. Songs without bullets have a decrease in spins. I started including the bullets because rankings from week to week don’t give the entire picture. A song may have an increase in spins, but may fall down the chart (because they get passed by another song rising faster) or it may be loosing spins while “falling up” the chart (because other songs are falling faster). It gives a better idea of the momentum of the songs.
Mediabase uses a little arrow to indicate that a song is increasing in spins, so now, I do the same (if a song has a Mediabase arrow, it gets a ^)
A “spin” is everytime an song is played on the radio. Arbitron (and other surveying companies) have determined what the average listening audience is for each station during each time period. So, if the spin occurs during the “drive home” on a popular station in a big city it is considered to have been heard by more listeners (Audience Impressions or AI) than if it’s played at 2 am on an unloved station in a small market. So, “spins” and “AI” are what drive the airplay charts. Pop rankings are based strictly on “spins”. Country rankings are based on “AI”.
“Bullets” got their start on Billboard. Billboard has for years put a bullet symbol beside songs that are rising at a quickly. Here is what Fred from BB Chart Beat said on the subject:
“When bullets are awarded, we grade on the curve. That means the percentage of gain needed to win a bullet changes from week to week, to reflect market activity. In a week where most albums experience a gain, such as a week before Christmas when consumers purchase more product than usual, you would need a larger gain than usual to be awarded a bullet.”
BB Chart Beat
In my area, radio stations started playing crush more. Two weeks ago, they usually played it at night, but they played crush during day time this week. Even I heard that some radio stations added crush to their playlist as a “new song”. I know…West coast side is kinda slow….:-(
Thanks Kirsten, you are my Chart Idol! very impressive.;-)
Well Crush got to 15 today on media base. Will hit 14 tomorrow. and then it will sit for a while. lol