Rolling 2006 US Charts Thread

but the last group before PCD to accomplish 4 top 20 hits from their debut album was
HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH!
hold my hand #10
let her cry #9
only wanna be with you #6
time #14

maroon 5 did give them a good run for the money.

Below that... Kath McPhee's take on 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' (in this day and age? Good grief) debuts at #12, along with a sudden sense of dread that I'm going to have to put it in the Jukebox. Urgh. On a similar note - 'Shoulder Lean' is #31. Uck. Jessica Simpson's 'A Public Affair' debuts on the 100 at 39, and 'Sexy Love' is Ne-Yo's third hit this year at #50.

glancing at the chart - did 'why you wanna' really peak at 29? dixie chicks still hanging in there which surprises me a bit actually. pearl jam not haning in there - no surprise. interesting debut @ 34 on the albums chart.

yung joc + shakira >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> gnarls barkley + nelly flirtado btw

that reminds me - anyone know the name of that incredibly dramatic older 'wise' (role written for ron isley but isn't ron isley) male + younger cute aaliyah entrant female pro-abstinence r&b song? or the name of that eeny meany miny mo synth-kazoo hip-hop song?

Ashlee's "Invisible" is invisible compared to Jessica's "A Public Affair" ("Invisible" is in the 50s on Mediabase's mainstream airplay chart and somewhere below 50 on the Billboard main chart); deservedly so, as "Invisible" is the first song Ashlee's released (at least in the U.S.) that she didn't write, and she's got 25 or so songs that are better, including several of the album rejects. Whereas "A Public Affair" is a really nice Madonna "Holiday" evocation. Hope it keeps rising.

Bundle of minor climbers from 13 to 17, with Pants!, Cherish, Portrait Of the Artist As A Young Dro, Sean-eh and Kelis all inching towards the top 10. Rather more substantial climbs propel E-40 and Ne-Yo to 22 and 24 respectively, with John Cocking Mayer a new entry at #25. Erupting into the 50 - Chingy ft. Tyrese (#44) and The Wreckers (#48). NOW 22 is Bonnie Prince Album.

In other news, Ronnie Milsap's album is way the hell down the Country albums, like in the 40s. Can they not release a single? I vote for "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" or "Time Keeps Ticking Away" or whatever that one's called.

Pants! can practically taste the top 10 as they climb to 11, accompanied by slight upward edgings from Cherish (13) and Kelis (16). 'U And Dat' and 'Sexy Love' make their top 20 bows at 18 and 19 respectively. Reasonable climbs for John Cobblers Mayercamp (21), Bromsgrove Hilton (29), Simpson The Elder (30), Chingy (37) and The Wreckers (43).

NEU INS FUNFZIG: 'Janet' & 'Nelly' climb to 25 from 63. Ashlee Gon' Knock You Ahhht makes its debut on the Hot 100 at 28. Yung Joc's Difficult Second Single climbs to 42 from 66, and Rascal Flatts' 'Me & My Gang' gives them three singles in the top 50 at #50.

Jessica Simpson makes large gains, as 'A Public Affair' climbs from 30 to 14. Pants! might have peaked just outside the top ten, slipping from 11 to 15.

Significant climbers outside the 20 - Ashlee's "I Think That Jessica And Me Are Both The Greatest, In Our Own Kind Of Ways" (#21), Chingy & Tyrese's "The Most Acceptable Compromise Of Both Worlds" (#26), Yung Joc (#30) and Roddernee Atkins (#36). New in the #50: Nickelback (#43), FUCKING SNOW PATROL (#47), Steve Holy (#49) and sodding Blue October (#50).

I vote for "Something Dry," easily one of the best country tracks of the year.

One of my favorite performers, Various Artists, is atop the album chart. Flyleaf has climbed back up to 67th, probably on the strength of opening for Korn on the Family Values tour. This is an album that's been selling 10 to 12 thousand copies a week for about six months with no let up, will probably keep its pace long enough to go gold.

I feel rather alone on this thread. Where's bloody Swygart? (Oh, I forgot, I still owe him an email.)

By the way, a question I have for you all. Why did Cascada's "Everytime We Touch" hit? I like the song fine, but there are plenty of others like it that hit in Europe and Asia and Canada and Mexico but never do anything in the U.S., so why did this one get airplay? Was there a movie or ad tie-in?

Anyway, yes, as stated upthread Ferg y Ferg tops the chart after a mere three weeks on. There's top 10 debuts for Sean Paul ft. Keyshia Cole (#7) and - yes! - P!ATD!, who finally make it to #10 after 23 weeks. Fuck all really happens in the rest of the top 20, 'Sexy Love''s climb to #14 being the only major ascent of note. Other large climbs include Nickelback (43 to 29), The Wreckers (42 to 34), Snow Patrol (35 to 47), and, er, 'SOS', which is back up from 48 to 36. Two songs debut inside the 50 - Five For Fighting's 'The Riddle' climbs from 86 to 40 in its third week on, and is fucking horrible. Breaking Benjamin's 'The Diary Of Jane' is up from 55 to 50, and isn't really that much better.

I'm pretty sure 'Knights Of Cydonia' being top 20 in Modern Rock is still the thing that makes me happiest in the US charts.

I don't get why they're not playing "Supermassive Black Hole." "Knights" is a very strange choice for a single. And it's kind of annoying.

Now, here are specific charts (there are probably more if I can find out how to get 'em; I'm not sure Mediabase intends these full charts for the general public, since from their basic site they only link you to charts that list the highest 40 tracks):

country<

country w/ recurrents

mainstream top 40

mainstream top 40 w/ recurrents

Christian AC

Christian AC w/ recurrents

mainstream urban

mainstream urban w/ recurrents

alternative

alternative w/ recurrents

AC overall

AC overall w/ recurrents

CHR/pop(I think that this and the mainstream top 40 lists are now identical)

CHR/pop w/ recurrents(ditto)

CHR Rhythmic

CHR Rhythmic w/ recurrents

active rock

active rock w/ recurrents

Limitations of these numbers: Obviously, they only take into account stations that report to Mediabase, and they don't take into account size of listenership or what time of day a song is played.

The basic Mediabase URL is http://w2.mediabase.com/mmrweb/AllAccess.

For KDIS in Los Angeles, click on "7-Day Reports," click on "Station Playlists," tick "Station" rather than "Market," then type in "KDIS" and hit "Go," then click on "7-Day Playlist" on the right. Radio Disney has 51 affiliates, I think, so multiply each song's number by 51 to get national plays.

If you want to know whois playing a song, find it on some list and then click on the song. For instance, if you go to the "Rhythmic" list you see that the Pack's "Vans" is 25th with 1775 plays. If you click on "Vans," you get a list of the 20 stations in the genre ("Rhythmic") that are playing it the most. (Tops is WNHT-FM in Fort Wayne, with an incredible 121 plays. That's once every one-and-a-half hours.) Note that this won't list the stations in other formats (e.g., "Mainstream Urban" and "Mainstream Top 40") that are also playing it. If you go to the Mainstream Top 40 chart you'll see that "Vans" is 52nd with with 470 plays (up from 368 the week earlier). Also, for a song that's neither a "format leader" nor a "format starter" ("Vans" got played this week in Oklahoma City, Denver, San Antonio, and Seattle for the first time), you're out of luck unless you accidentally stumble on the station. Ebony Eyez "In Ya Face" got 5 plays on Mainstream Top 40 last week, but I can't get any info as to where.

(Checking further for Ashlee, I see that "Invisible" got the bulk of its airplay - 47 of its 63 plays - from two Wisconsin stations, one in Madison and one in Green Bay.)

site:http://w2.mediabase.com/mmrweb/AllAccess/Charts.asp "Kenny Chesney"

For some reason the results will get you some charts but not others (gives me a link to Mainstream Top 40 when I search for Kenny Chesney, but not Country).

Outside ae that, the most terrifyinggg advance is probably that of Nickelback, who go from 19 to 23 in their fourth week on. New in the 50: Ciara (#21 from #80), The Killers (new at #29), Brookeamania ft. Pauw Waww (#33 from #52), Justin Timberlake (#35 from #52 in its sixth week - you get the feeling this might be underperforming just a bit?), Jibbs (#39 from #69), and Hinder (#49 from #61).