Rolling 2006 US Charts Thread

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).

It's taken a few weeks for radio to warm to it -- if radio ever does, that is. I'd be surprised if this peaked more than one week in the Top Ten.

Chicago radio is playing the hell out of it.

WBBM-FM Chicago - 96.3 FM (Rhythmic)
lw TW Artist Title spinsTW spinslw +/- Reach/Mill
1 1 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Sexyback 112 111 1 4.2449
3 2 CASSIE Me & U 104 106 -2 4.2027
2 3 BROOKE HOGAN About Us (f/ Paul Wall) 102 108 -6 4.1347
4 4 CHERISH Do It To It 99 103 -4 4.0106
6 5 YOUNG DRO Shoulder Lean f/TI 86 95 -9 3.3543
10 6 PUSSYCAT DOLLS Buttons 84 62 22 3.3608
5 7 PAULA DEANDA Doing Too Much (f/ Baby Bash) 82 103 -21 3.3302
9 8 KELIS Bossy 65 65 0 2.4867
7 9 FIELD MOB F/CIARA So What 64 76 -12 2.5208
12 10 YUNG JOC I Know You See It 62 55 7 2.4912

Here are Chicago's two Top 40 stations' current playlists:

B96* Top 10:

1 It's Goin' Down - Yung Joc
2 Get Up - Ciara (featuring Chamillionaire)
3 Deja Vu - Beyonce and Jay-Z
4 So What - Field Mob (featuring Ciara)
5 About Us - Brooke Hogan and Paul Wall
6 Me and U - Cassie
7 Torn - Letoya
8 Do It To It - Cherish
9 Sexy Back - Justin Timberlake
10 Gimme That - Chris Brown

Kiss 103.5** Top 10:

1. Sexy Back - Justin Timberlake
2. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
3. Buttons - Pussycat Dolls ft. Snoop Dogg
4. Over My Head - Fray
5. I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic! At the Disco
6. Do It to It - Cherish
7. So What - Field Mob ft. Ciara
8. Crowded - Jeannie Ortega
9. Give It Up to Me - Sean Paul
10. U and Dat - E-40 ft. T-Pain

*"Chicago's Hits and Hip-Hop" = Top 40 without any rock, generally speaking; worth noting that "SexyBack" is currently their #1 request

**more comprehensive Top 40 station

I don't know his overseas totals, but Jutified is triple platinum, and two of its singles hit Top Five -- all in spite of N'Sync.

Interestingly, this station is not only giving more plays to "Vans" than is any other rhythmic station that reports to Mediabase, it's giving more plays to "Bossy," "Me & U," and "London Bridge" as well. I wonder what's doing in Fort Wayne?

[Goes to Wikipedia]

Fort Wayne is a city in northeastern Indiana, USA and the county seat of Allen County. As of 2005, an estimated 248,341 lived in the city proper. The MSA has a population of 502,141, as of the 2004 update of the 2000 census. Nearly equidistant from Detroit, Michigan, Chicago, Illinois, and Cincinnati, Ohio, it has historically served as a transportation and communications center for the region, and an incubator for many products and companies, much more so than its size might suggest.

Fort Wayne is named after Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne....

There are 90,915 housing units at an average density of 444.6/km² (1,151.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 75.45% White, 17.38% Black or African American, 0.39% Native American, 1.56% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 2.91% from other races, and 2.26% from two or more races. 5.78% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Whiter than I'd have expected. Maybe it's got a lot of punks and sk8ers who are giving the Pack a lift. They got their Vans on but they look like sneakers. You're wearin coke whites but my Vans are cleaner.

Yeah, but they're not playing the Pack, who are getting most of their biggest support in California and are doing very little in the Midwest. In fact, unless you count Charleston, West Virginia, and places like Oklahoma City and Tulsa as "Midwest," there's no other station in the Midwest that's giving them more than 20 spins (unless that station doesn't report to Mediabase). Compare to 120 spins in Fort Wayne.

Randy Orton's giving it the rub, baby! Randy Orton to save the US top 100! Next week: he shits in Rascal Flatts handbag.

1 1 FERGIE LONDON BRIDGE 106320 -7 114249 306320
2 2 GNARLS BARKLEY CRAZY 86320 -2 87883 956664
5 3 PUSSYCAT DOLLS BUTTONS 59359 -3 61208 672693
3 4 FURTADO*NELLY PROMISCUOUS 59038 -11 66728 1238622
6 5 AGUILERA*CHRISTINA AIN'T NO OTHER MAN 47844 -7 51647 580729
8 6 CASSIE ME & U 46568 1 45880 581251
12 7 PAUL*SEAN GIVE IT UP TO ME 44186 30 33913 213140
10 8 PANIC! AT THE DISCO I WRITE SINS NOT TRAGEDIES 43037 6 40607 753557
7 9 SIMPSON*JESSICA PUBLIC AFFAIR 42248 -16 50208 248311
4 10 BEYONCE DEJA VU 41882 -37 66327 182858

1 1 TITO 'EL BAMBINO' Caele (Caile) 650 684 -34 6.734
2 2 RAKIM & KEN Y Down 630 683 -53 8.536
6 3 TOBY LOVE Tengo Un Amor(f/Raki... 599 507 92 7.433
4 4 DADDY YANKEE Machucando 543 540 3 4.716
3 5 DON OMAR Angelito 531 563 -32 5.171
5 6 CALLE 13 Atrevete Te, Te! 483 533 -50 3.914
9 7 CASSIE Me & U 482 441 41 3.741
11 8 TITO 'EL BAMBINO' Flow Natural (f/ Bee... 477 430 47 4.771
7 9 SHAKIRA F/WYCLEF JEAN Hips Don't Lie 466 452 14 2.958
12 10 DON OMAR Salio El Sol 434 406 28 5.400

normally when i do get to the big city i gorge myself on the top 40 and urban (can't remember the right billboard term for the station), but this last time the car i was borrowing had sirius and i flipped around on that. theres like 8 hip-hop stations w/no commercials and a lot of them play pretty good shit except the djs are really terrible and like to talk over the songs even while people are rapping.

Both songs are all right. I really like the way the beat in "Sexy Love" has that drum-corps cadence that's been popular lately but really toned down and in the service of a slow jam. And "When You're Mad" has this one chord that kills me every time I hear it -- I think Ne-Yo in general takes cues from old-school R&B in song structure and chord progressions, which is nice to hear.

Exactly, where else do you hear anything that reminds of 1991 house music on your standard hip-hop/r and b station any more. I'll take it any day.

And yes, the drums and the bass of "Sexy Love," along with the MJ vocals, are perfection.

Yeah, it actually sounds a little like "Human Nature"!

Artist / Title / New Stations / New Spins
EVANESCENCE Call Me When You're Sober 15 283
JOJO Too Little Too Late 9 112
NICKELBACK Far Away 5 67
CHINGY Pullin' Me Back 5 52
NICK LACHEY I Can't Hate You Anymore 4 41
RIHANNA We Ride 1 28
LUDACRIS Money Maker (f/Pharrell) 1 28
TEDDY GEIGER These Walls 3 28
HEDLEY On My Own 3 27
THE PACK Vans 1 27
NE-YO Sexy Love 2 24
JIBBS Chain Hang Low 2 23
HINDER Lips Of An Angel 3 22
JESSE MCCARTNEY Right Where You Want Me 2 18
AFI Miss Murder 1 18
FRANKIE J That Girl 1 17
YOUNG DRO Shoulder Lean f/TI 2 17
RASCAL FLATTS What Hurts The Most 2 16
JOANNA Let It Slide 2 16
CODE RED Summer Jam 1 16

I'm guessing that by "new spins" they mean spins on stations that weren't playing the song previously.

I'm kinda meh on the Evanescence single; I like the lyrics, but it has neither the punch nor the beauty of "Bring Me to Life." It's good enough, but I think Flyleaf's "I'm So Sick" is this year's standard for the subgenre (whatever the subgenre is: angst-metal gothpop?).