Ooops. I missed a week somehow. No matter. Last week I would've reported that Taylor Swift maintained her lead for a sixth week, making the first song in nearly two years to spend that many weeks at #1 (the last one being "Jesus Take The Wheel" by Carrie Underwood). Sugarland and Rascal Flatts were breathing down #1's neck, pushing down records by Montgomery Gentry and Keith Urban as Brad Paisley crept up to #5.
Which is where we start this week. Paisley leaps to #1, giving him six consecutive #1 hits, spanning approximately two years: "When I Get Where I'm Going", "The World", "She's Everything", "Ticks", "Online", and now "Letter To Me", perhaps the best of the lot. ("Alcohol" was his last song not to reach #1, making it only as far as #4.)
What's perhaps most surprising about Paisley's jump to #1 is the drop of "Stay" by Sugarland from #2 to #4. Montgomery Gentry's "What Do Ya Think About That" is also now unbulleted as they float back up to #3. I should remark that, if my random sampling of radio stations in Arizona, California, and Nevada are any indication, Sugarland's and Montgomery Gentry's records probably got as much airplay as any typical #1, and Taylor Swift's ditty just got more. Sigh.
There's a lot less happening in positions 6-25. #7-25 all have bullets, some moving up, some staying put, some sliding down. Hanging in there are some older records like Chuck Wicks's "Stealing Cinderella" (down to #14), Craig Morgan's "International Harvester", one of my favorites on the chart right now (up to #15), Jason Aldean's "Laughed Until We Cried" (up to #19), Bucky Covington's "It's Good To Be Us" (up to #20), and newcomer group Lady Antebellum, with another one of my favorites, "Love Don't Live Here". That song has taken quite a bit of time to develop at radio, and in its sixteenth week it moves up 3 to #24. Two songs in the top 25 have been on the charts for twenty-seven weeks each: "What Kinda Gone" by Chris Cagle (holding at #18), and Emerson Drive's "You Still Own Me", slipping down to #23. It'll be interesting to see if either of those maintains enough momentum to put it into the top 10, and how long it will take.
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Blah blah blah! I love that song, almost as much as "Gone". The Antebellum song is easy breezy cover girl. I wish I could hear it on the radio. Both male and female singers are quite attractive.
("Blah blah blah!" refers to "What Do Ya Think About That". Uh, I hope.)
I love the Lady Antebellum song. Oddly, the video channels had been airing a weird "pre-release" (?) version of the video, and they just put forth a sort of revamped, flashier video. They're both good. And, yeah, it's an attractive group. Of 3 people, by the way.
you know, reading this makes me really miss listening to the big 98 back home in nashville.. gerry house and the house foundation for life!
so i decided to turn it on the live stream just now.
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