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Post by Shadoe Fan on May 27, 2024 14:30:00 GMT -5
"Flowers" by Miley Cyrus is spending its 49th week at #1 on the Mediabase HAC chart this week (May 26). Could you imagine Casey saying that on American Top 10?!
Over at HAC, it's spending its 72nd week on the chart, a new record for that format. 71 weeks of those are in the top 20, so that also would've been something to hear on AT20. It has been in the top 10 for 69 weeks, a record as well.
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Post by mrjukebox on May 27, 2024 18:57:55 GMT -5
I believe that "Flowers" has now spent 51 non-consecutive weeks at # 1 on the Mediabase AC chart.
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Post by Michael1973 on Jun 2, 2024 22:05:05 GMT -5
I've long held the opinion that the AC chart no longer serves any purpose. AC stations long ago stopped focusing on current music, only playing maybe one or two recent hits per hour. That was why Casey's AC countdown changed from a top 20 to a top 10, and that was two decades ago. The reason one song can stay at #1 for nearly a year is because they aren't adding any newer hits to the rotation that could replace it.
Consider too the fact that a two-year-old song might fall off the AC chart due to recurrent rules, but a six-year-old song can keep re-entering near the bottom every few weeks, even if only one station in the country is playing it.
Your mileage may vary, of course.
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Post by mrjukebox on Jul 26, 2024 14:22:14 GMT -5
As of this week,"Flowers" is atop the Mediabase AC airplay chart for 60 non-consecutive weeks.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jul 26, 2024 17:09:26 GMT -5
This even goes back to 1999. A couple of examples with year-end charts:
"You'll Be In My Heart" was so "popular" it appeared in three year-end charts.
"I Hope You Dance" was the #1 song of 2001 (AT20 AC), and was #7 for 2002.
AC has been a dying genre...
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Post by doofus67 on Jul 26, 2024 22:17:57 GMT -5
Meanwhile, on Billboard's AC chart, "Flowers" is in week 57 at #1. The last time it was below the top five was early March of last year. "Unstoppable" by Sia has been just that; it's been hanging around the top five every week since October of 2022!
That's weird about "I Hope You Dance." It debuted on the Country chart in March of 2000, and finished in the top five for that year. So AC is almost as slow to add songs when they're relatively new as it is to drop them when they ought to have run their course.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jul 27, 2024 7:48:47 GMT -5
Meanwhile, on Billboard's AC chart, "Flowers" is in week 57 at #1. The last time it was below the top five was early March of last year. "Unstoppable" by Sia has been just that; it's been hanging around the top five every week since October of 2022! That's weird about "I Hope You Dance." It debuted on the Country chart in March of 2000, and finished in the top five for that year. So AC is almost as slow to add songs when they're relatively new as it is to drop them when they ought to have run their course. "Unstoppable", great song. "I Hope You Dance" debuted on AT40 in January 2001 (I'm not sure which week, but it peaked around #24 in my birthday week). I don't have all the AC shows (got all the year-ends, though). Will have the country shows in the near future; it hit #1 in June 2000 on the country chart, I think. Was #2 for the year on ACC. |
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jul 27, 2024 9:15:33 GMT -5
I toyed with the idea of doing some countdowns featuring the A/C (Easy Listening) charts from the 1960's-80's, and did a few demo style shows but found that the charts from the 1960's had songs that were almost too boring (show tunes and mellow Top 40) and when the 1970's began the A/C charts and Top 40 were nearly identical.
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Post by Michael1973 on Jul 27, 2024 20:40:49 GMT -5
AC has been a dying genre... Definitely agree with this. My local AC station has actually added 70s music back into the playlist over the past year. Remember when radio was gradually eliminating 50+ year old music because it was too old? Now they can't find enough current music to appeal to their audience, so they're reverting to oldies to fill the gap. I keep wondering what the format will be like in another 40 years. Will we still be hearing "September" and "Hotel California" when those songs are 90 years old? |
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Post by mkarns on Jul 28, 2024 21:17:22 GMT -5
We finally have a new Mediabase AC #1. Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control”, which was #1 on CHR AT40 for three weeks in April and May, dethrones “Flowers” after a record breaking 57 non consecutive weeks.
And regarding “Adult Contemporary”’s increasing distance from the C part of AC, let’s not forget how every November and December so many AC stations go all-Christmas, giving most of their airtime for several weeks to songs that are decades old.
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