The Other Strange Thing On AT20 This Weekend

[Michael1973]

For years on the first regular show of the year, Casey has used an unpublished Mediabase chart for AT20. He would treat the countdown as if all the songs had been frozen in position since the previous show 3 weeks earlier. He did not do that this year.

On the regular show of 2004, Casey used the 12/10/04 HotAC chart as you would expect. On this show he used the unpublished chart as always, but used the positions from the 12/17/04 chart to indicate song movement. As a result, "Daughters" didn't get played as a #1 song even though it topped the HotAC chart. Casey did mention it as "last week's #1" at the start of the show, but did not mention it when he played the song later on.

Any thoughts on this?

[Hervard]

It's easy; Casey doesn't like "Daughters" and couldn't stomach the idea of introducing it as this week's number one song.

No, seriously, I don't know what the deal was, but I know that if I listened to AT20 (no station in the Chicago or South Bend area - that I know of - airs the show), I would have been very disappointed about this, seeing that "Daughters" is my favorite song.

[Jeffster]

Sounds really confusing. So, Daughters only spent one week at number one? That doesn't happen very often these days on the AC/Hot AC charts. Who took over as number one this week?

[BrettVW]

"Give a Little Bit" climbed to number one this week.

[Scott Lakefield]

They probably did this in order to not "cheat" "Daughters" out of being called a #1 song, despite the one week there was a chart without a regular AT20 show. Seems fair to me.