This Weeks' Top Recurrents
According to Radio and Records
29 Feb 2008
CHR/Pop Recurrents
1. Rihanna feat. Ne-Yo - Hate That I Love You
2. Timbaland feat. Keri Hilson - The Way I Are
3. Colbie Caillat - Bubbly
4. Kanye West - Stronger
5. Daughtry - Over You
6. Baby Bash feat. T-Pain - Cyclone
7. Pink - Who Knew
8. Good Charlotte - I Don't Wanna Be In Love (Dance Floor Anthem)
9. Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry
10. Pink - U + Ur Hand
11. Nickelback - Rockstar
12. Justin Timberlake - Lovestoned
13. Fall Out Boy - Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
14. Maroon 5 - Wake Up Call
15. Rihanna feat. Jay-Z - Umbrella
16. Soulja Boy Tell'em - Crank That (Soulja Boy)
17. Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
18. Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder
19. Timbaland feat. Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake - Give It To Me
20. T-Pain feat. Yung Joc - Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin')
AC Recurrents
1. Bon Jovi - (You Want To) Make A Memory
2. Gwen Stefani feat. Akon - The Sweet Escape
3. John Mayer - Waiting On The World To Change
4. Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
5. Fray - How To Save A Life
6. Carrie Underwood - Before He Cheats
7. Daniel Powter - Bad Day
8. James Blunt - You're Beautiful
9. Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
10. Eagles - How Long
11. Kelly Clarkson - Because Of You
12. Michael Buble - Everything
13. KT Tunstall - Black Horse & The Cherry Tree
14. Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway
15. Los Lonely Boys - Heaven/Cielo
16. Lifehouse - You And Me
17. Rascal Flatts - What Hurts The Most
18. Nickelback - Far Away
19. Kimberley Locke - Band Of Gold
20. Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved
Urban AC Recurrents
1. Ledisi - Alright
2. Robin Thicke - Lost Without U
3. Jill Scott - Hate On Me
4. Angie Stone feat. - Betty Wright Baby
5. Aretha Franklin With Fantasia - Put You Up On Game
6. Tank - Please Don't Go
7. Robin Thicke - Can U Believe
8. Fantasia - When I See U
9. Mary J. Blige - Be Without You
10. Gerald Levert - In My Songs
11. Brian Mcknight - Find Myself In You
12. Tank - Heartbreaker
13. Luther Vandross - Think About You
14. Chrisette Michele - If I Have My Way
15. Anthony Hamilton - Can't Let Go
16. Will Downing - After Tonight
17. Kirk Franklin - Looking For You
18. Joe - If I Was Your Man
19. Kirk Franklin - Imagine Me
20. Tamia - Me
Triple A Recurrents
1. Eddie Vedder - Hard Sun
2. Snow Patrol - Shut Your Eyes
3. Robert Plant / Alison Krauss - Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On)
4. Matchbox Twenty - How Far We've Come
5. Spoon - The Underdog
6. Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals - In The Colors
7. Gomez - See The World
8. Killers - Read My Mind
9. Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
10. Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good
11. Paolo Nutini - New Shoes
12. Bruce Springsteen - Radio Nowhere
13. Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah
14. Modest Mouse - Missed The Boat
15. Kooks - She Moves In Her Own Way
16. Paolo Nutini - Last Request
17. Colbie Caillat - Bubbly
18. Fray - How To Save A Life
19. Lifehouse - First Time
20. Fray - Over My Head (Cable Car)
Smooth Jazz Recurrents
1. Brian Simpson - What Cha Gonna Do?
2. Najee - Come What May
3. Jeff Golub feat. Richard Elliot - Ain't No Woman (Like The One I Got)
4. Paul Taylor - Ladies' Choice
5. Keiko Matsui - Black River
6. Down To The Bone - Parkside Shuffle
7. Four80east - Noodle Soup
8. Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds - Fire And Rain
9. Rick Braun & Richard Elliot - R N R
10. Brian Bromberg - Cantaloupe Island
11. Norman Brown - Let's Take A Ride
12. Marion Meadows - Remember Me
13. Kim Waters - Got To Give It Up
14. U-Nam - Street Life
15. Corinne Bailey Rae - Trouble Sleeping
16. John Legend - Save Room
17. Euge Groove - Born 2 Groove
18. Robin Thicke - Lost Without U
19. Paul Brown - Rhythm Method
20. Chaka Khan feat. Michael Mcdonald - You Belong To Me
Check out the charts in full on Radio and Records' official website. According to R&R, recurrents are titles that have appeared on the chart for 20 or more weeks and have fallen below the top 20.
Also, browse through other music charts on "My Thoughts In Stereo".
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Music Charts on "My Thoughts In Stereo"
Starting this week, I have decided to keep track of specific music charts by way of this blog. Partially for work, and partially for personal purposes, I've always referred to music charts as a gauge of what's going on in the international music scene.
I suppose it started with my fixation on those old chart shows from Casey Kasem (which was on RT and on KC for a time) and Rick Dees (which was on RT for the most part). As I joined the radio industry, the music being played on radio became very diverse- and so you now have different charts tracking airplay and record sales for different radio formats.
Radio and Records or R&R is an industry magazine I've been reading up on (at least as much as I can, anyway) since my early radio days at 99.5 RT. Even to this day, it has always been an invaluable tool to any radio or record industry executive. I've always had it bookmarked, and I continue to refer to their charts on a weekly basis.
I thought I might as well do all that via this blog- check out the pertinent music activity for my current line of work. And so with that, I'll be tracking the following music charts:
1. CHR/Pop - Contemporary Hit Radio or Top 40, is the most popular of all these music charts, hence the term 'pop'. It gives anyone at the very least a reference point of the general feel of the music atmosphere at a particular point in time. Then again, pop music doesn't appeal to everybody, and so you have a wide variety of other 'alternative' formats.
2. AC - The Adult Contemporary format is essentially pop music for a more mature audience; it's CHR radio that's generally devoid of hard rock, hip-hop, teen pop and dance tracks.
3. Urban AC- more like a personal preference, really. Urban AC is mostly soul and R&B music- music that typically caters to an African-American audience, but without the rap or heavy hip-hop.
4. Triple A- is your Adult Album Alternative radio format. Some call it 'underground' , others would refer to it as 'progressive'. It caters (again) to a more mature market, but it differs from regular AC in that it has more a diverse sound- drawing from alternative rock, alternative country, blues, jazz, folk, even world music, but tends to stay away from heavy rock and rap.
5. Smooth Jazz - is also known as new adult contemporary (or NAC). It draws more from pop jazz than it does traditional jazz, but also has R&B, soul and funk elements.
I like keeping track of music so I have an idea who to keep my eyes and ears on- whether looking out for a particular CD, or knowing what song gets used in the soundtrack for certain songs and movies, or just watching out for bits on music and entertainment news.
I'll also be keeping track of the most popular recurrents every week. Recurrents are songs still frequently aired on a radio station even several months after the initial debut. According to Radio and Records, recurrents are:
So watch out for these charts. I'll try to keep em as regular as possible.
Cheers, everyone!
I suppose it started with my fixation on those old chart shows from Casey Kasem (which was on RT and on KC for a time) and Rick Dees (which was on RT for the most part). As I joined the radio industry, the music being played on radio became very diverse- and so you now have different charts tracking airplay and record sales for different radio formats.
Radio and Records or R&R is an industry magazine I've been reading up on (at least as much as I can, anyway) since my early radio days at 99.5 RT. Even to this day, it has always been an invaluable tool to any radio or record industry executive. I've always had it bookmarked, and I continue to refer to their charts on a weekly basis.
I thought I might as well do all that via this blog- check out the pertinent music activity for my current line of work. And so with that, I'll be tracking the following music charts:
1. CHR/Pop - Contemporary Hit Radio or Top 40, is the most popular of all these music charts, hence the term 'pop'. It gives anyone at the very least a reference point of the general feel of the music atmosphere at a particular point in time. Then again, pop music doesn't appeal to everybody, and so you have a wide variety of other 'alternative' formats.
2. AC - The Adult Contemporary format is essentially pop music for a more mature audience; it's CHR radio that's generally devoid of hard rock, hip-hop, teen pop and dance tracks.
3. Urban AC- more like a personal preference, really. Urban AC is mostly soul and R&B music- music that typically caters to an African-American audience, but without the rap or heavy hip-hop.
4. Triple A- is your Adult Album Alternative radio format. Some call it 'underground' , others would refer to it as 'progressive'. It caters (again) to a more mature market, but it differs from regular AC in that it has more a diverse sound- drawing from alternative rock, alternative country, blues, jazz, folk, even world music, but tends to stay away from heavy rock and rap.
5. Smooth Jazz - is also known as new adult contemporary (or NAC). It draws more from pop jazz than it does traditional jazz, but also has R&B, soul and funk elements.
I like keeping track of music so I have an idea who to keep my eyes and ears on- whether looking out for a particular CD, or knowing what song gets used in the soundtrack for certain songs and movies, or just watching out for bits on music and entertainment news.
I'll also be keeping track of the most popular recurrents every week. Recurrents are songs still frequently aired on a radio station even several months after the initial debut. According to Radio and Records, recurrents are:
"...titles that have appeared on the chart for 20 or more weeks and have fallen below the top 20."The way I see it, recurrents are your more popular songs which have somehow managed to maintain a sizeable (and seemingly sustaining) amount of airplay and sales, and therefore, a persistent deal of likeability. For many radio stations, these songs are 'defining' titles that pretty much make up a signature sound.
So watch out for these charts. I'll try to keep em as regular as possible.
Cheers, everyone!
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