Monday Morning Mediabase Update: Feb 6-12

How long has LMB been out?  It seems like it is starting to get some traction.

Hmmm…that’s a good question.  I think maybe mid-November – before the album came out Thanksgiving week.

No Kellie :(

LMB has sort of crept up on the HAC chart. It’ll be interesting to see if it gets any adds today. It can’t go much further without new stations play it.

Finally Go James

I’m going to try and highlight as many of last night’s performers as I can with today’s i-tunes and HDD updates. With last night’s spotlight at the Grammys being on Whitney, I’ll do the same again as I did yesterday with the i-tunes update today for the last time.

James, get your butt to a few more radio stations!
Let’s see how high this can go.

CHR/Pop

15 10 KELLY CLARKSON Stronger
(What Doesn… 7323 5519 1804 51.342

+215 Spins

-114 Bullet

+1.732 AI

HAC

8 5 KELLY CLARKSON Stronger (What
Doesn… 3572 2927 645 24.146

+85 Spins

-31 Bullet

+0.79 AI

6 8 KELLY CLARKSON Mr.
Know It All 2737 3068 -331 17.228

-58 Spins

-13 Bullet

-0.38 AI

7 12 DAUGHTRY Crawling
Back To You 2548 2928 -380 12.412

-1 Position

-55 Spins

-27 Bullet

-0.309 AI

31 31 ADAM LAMBERT Better
Than I Know M… 488 368 120 2.267

+1 Position

+29 Spins

+15 Bullet

+0.099 AI

45 36 JAMES DURBIN Love Me
Bad 279 209 70 0.665

+3 Positions

+18 Spins

+11 Bullet

+0.087 AI

AC

5 5 KELLY CLARKSON
Mr.
Know It All 1557 1443 114 12.894

+41 Spins

+51 Bullet

+0.151 AI

14 14 DAUGHTRY Crawling
Back To You 306 282 24 1.045

-1 Position

+2 Spins

-4 Bullet

+0.027 AI

24 23 KELLY CLARKSON Stronger (What
Doesn… 114 88 26 0.624

+1 Position

+4 Spins

+3 Bullet

+0.015 AI

37 34 CLAY AIKEN Bring
Back My Love 26 31 -5 0.017

+3 Positions

-1 Spin

-1 Bullet

-0.001 AI

55 39 ELLIOTT YAMIN 3 Words
19 7 12 0.013

+7 Positions

+5 Spins

+4 Bullet

+0.004 AI

Country

19 19 SCOTTY MCCREERY The
Trouble With Gir… 2529 2397 132 16.265

+1 Position

+9 Spins

-44 Bullet

+0.125 AI

29 28 CASEY JAMES Let’s
Don’t Call It … 1170 1064 106 6.171

+38 Spins

+30 Bullet

+0.348 AI

34 35 LAUREN ALAINA Georgia
Peaches 824 700 124 4.348

+27 Spins

+2 Bullet

+0.316 AI

Urban

44 38 JENNIFER HUDSON Think
Like A Man f/N… 488 331 157 2.181

+2 Positions

+22 Spins

-11 Bullet

+0.105 AI

Urban AC

14 13 JENNIFER HUDSON I Got
This 543 525 18 3.052

+1 Position

0 Spins

-3 Bullet

+0.028 AI

23 26 RUBEN STUDDARD June
28th (I’m Singl… 218 234 -16 0.841

+1 Position

-2 Spins

-6 Bullet

-0.018 AI

Christian AC

5 5 MANDISA Waiting
For Tomorrow 807 844 -37 3.266

-11 Spins

-2 Bullet

-0.007 AI

Smooth Jazz

0 27 KELLY CLARKSON Mr.
Know It All 24 0 24 0.143

+6 Positions

+3 Spins

+3 Bullet

+0.021 AI

Canada-CHR/Pop

30 28 KELLY CLARKSON Stronger
(What Doesn… 522 399 123 3.655

+1 Position

+32 Spins

+14 Bullet

+0.257 AI

31 30 ONE DIRECTION What
Makes You Beaut… 489 357 132 3.189

+20 Spins

-1 Bullet

+0.205 AI

Canada-HAC

8 6 KELLY CLARKSON Stronger
(What Doesn… 769 643 126 5.575

+1 Position

+26 Spins

+9 Bullet

+0.088 AI

28 31 DAUGHTRY Crawling
Back To You 207 212 -5 0.882

-1 Position

0 Spins

+3 Bullet

+0.009 AI

32 38 ADAM LAMBERT Better
Than I Know M…
193 187 6 1.485

-1 Position

0 Spins

-2 Bullet

-0.003 AI

61 41 ONE DIRECTION What
Makes You Beaut… 173 69 104 0.658

+1 Position

+9 Spins

0 Bullet

+0.025 AI

Canada-Main AC
5 11 KELLY CLARKSON Mr.
Know It All 237 295 -58 2.22

-3 Positions

-12 Spins

-20 Bullet

-0.05 AI

18 20 DAUGHTRY Crawling
Back To You 153 151 2 1.325

0 Spins

0 Bullet

-0.054 AI

48 26 KELLY CLARKSON Stronger
(What Doesn…
103 37 66 0.622

+11 Spins

+8 Bullet

+0.038 AI

Canada-Country

43 42 SCOTTY MCCREERY The
Trouble With Gir… 119 119 0 0.438

+3 Positions

+3 Spins

+6 Bullet

-0.017 AI

He toured radio all January. It looks like it paid off. 

Thanks Pan, I just checked All Access and noted that Love Me Bad moved up to #36 on HAC. 

It seems like Cumulus are allowing their auto adds on the country addboard this week.

It was officially released Nov 22nd. Looks like the recent radio tour is paying off. I hope it continues to climb for the remainder of this month so that Wind-up will finally release something else next month. And I think it’s time for a new rock single, now that Football Season is over Stand Up has lost all its appeal.

It seems that if James is going to play something on American Idol, it’s gonna be LMB….

Hopefully by then he’ll have a new single to promote.
We’ll see.

That’s looking like the most likely scenario at this point but I really hope by the time that happens he’ll have a new single out. I’m so over that song and I bet he is too.

For people like James and even Adam, they have to personally sell themselves by going to radio stations.   Adam starts visiting east coast stations today so hopefully we will see some movement on his single.    I am glad to see LMB move up the charts.   Unless you are an idol called Kelly, it is a slow climb up the charts.  

It was officially released Nov 22nd. Looks like the recent radio tour is paying off. I hope it continues to climb for the remainder of this month so that Wind-up will finally release something else next month. And I think it’s time for a new rock single, now that Football Season is over Stand Up has lost all its appeal

Wouldn’t that be a total of 4 songs so far released off this album which hasn’t even sold 100K copies to date?  That seems like a big investment in something that doesn’t seem to have gone anywhere. 

Also why do they need to release a different song on different formats.  Isn’t there one song that can be played on both?

Idol Chatter: Idol Airplay Chart

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/idolchatter/post/2012/02/kelly-clarksons-stronger-goes-top-10-at-top-40/1

TW/LW

1 1 Kelly Clarkson, Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) (12335 spins) (#23 AC, #5 Hot AC, #10 Top 40)
2 2 Kelly Clarkson, Mr. Know It All (7652) (#5 AC, #8 Hot AC)
3 3 Daughtry, Crawling Back To You (4238) (#13 AC, #11 Hot AC)
4 4 Scotty McCreery, The Trouble With Girls (3870) (#20 Country)
5 5 Jason Aldean/Kelly Clarkson, Don’t You Wanna Stay (2571)
6 6 Carrie Underwood, Before He Cheats (2369)
7 7 Brad Paisley/Carrie Underwood, Remind Me (2266)
8 9 Daughtry, Home (1518)
9 8 Adam Lambert, Whataya Want From Me (1434)
10 11 Casey James, Let’s Don’t Call It A Night (1307) (#28 Country)
==================================================
15 21 Lauren Alaina, Georgia Peaches (1032) (#35 Country)
24 23 Mandisa, Waiting For Tomorrow (830)
25 29 Adam Lambert, Better Than I Know Myself (817) (#31 Hot AC)
27 27 Kris Allen, Live Like We’re Dying (799)
30 33 Jennifer Hudson, I Got This (622) (#13 Urban AC)
34 38 Jennifer Hudson, Think Like A Man f/Ne-Yo (590) (#39 Urban)
40 40 Mandisa, Stronger (423)
45 48 James Durbin, Love Me Bad (327) (#38 Hot Ac)
52 50 Ruben Studdard, June 28th (I’m Single) (229) (#26 Urban AC)
59 55 Scotty McCreery, I Love You This Big (162)
68 69 Kellie Pickler, 100 Proof (105)
72 61 David Cook, Fade Into Me (88)
74 75 Adam Lambert, If I Had You (82)
82 76 Lauren Alaina, Like My Mother Does (51)
84 74 Kellie Pickler, Tough (47)
90 78 James Durbin, Stand Up (34)
94 89 Clay Aiken, Bring Back My Love (27) (#35 AC)
96 Kellie Pickler, Didn’t You Know How Much I… (20)

I think they should stick with LMB. Lauching singles is very expensive for an indie label.

i-tunes

Singles
1. I Will Always Love You – Whitney Houston
2. Rolling in the Deep – ADELE
4. Set Fire to the Rain – ADELE
5. Someone Like You – ADELE
6. Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) – Kelly Clarkson
7. Paradise – Coldplay
12. Part of Me – Katy Perry
29. Walk – Foo Fighters
36. Mean – Taylor Swift
42. Princess of China – Coldplay & Rihanna
43. Moves Like Jagger (Studio Recording from “The Voice” Performance) [feat. Christina Aguilera] – Maroon 5
50. Rumour Has It – ADELE
51. If I Die Young – The Band Perry
54. Don’t You Wanna Stay (with Kelly Clarkson) – Jason Aldean
62. Pumped Up Kicks – Foster the People
74. Barton Hollow – The Civil Wars
80. Stereo Hearts (feat. Adam Levine) – Gym Class Heroes
83. Chasing Pavements – ADELE
89. My Valentine – Paul McCartney
103. Make You Feel My Love – ADELE
105. Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) – Kelly Clarkson
115. Mr. Know It All – Kelly Clarkson
122. Drink On It – Blake Shelton
130. Sexy and I Know It (Glee Cast Version feat. Ricky Martin) – Glee Cast
139. Turning Tables – ADELE
142. The Trouble With Girls – Scotty McCreery
150. Smooth Criminal (Glee Cast Version) [feat. 2CELLOS (Sulic & Hauser)] – Glee Cast
156. Say Aah (The Voice Performance) – Lindsey Pavao
167. One and Only – ADELE
181. We Are Young (Glee Cast Version) – Glee Cast
185. Rhinestone Cowboy – Glen Campbell
191. Tattoos On This Town – Jason Aldean
196. We Take Care of Our Own – Bruce Springsteen
197. Walk – Foo Fighters
198. Lovesong – ADELE
199. Remind Me (Duet with Carrie Underwood) – Brad Paisley
205. I Will Always Love You (Hex Hector Radio Mix – Remastered) – David Foster, Dolly Parton & Whitney Houston
211. La Isla Bonita (Glee Cast Version feat. Ricky Martin) – Glee Cast
278. Don’t You Remember – ADELE
279. Don’t You Wanna Stay (with Kelly Clarkson) – Jason Aldean
297. Respect – Melanie Amaro
327. Fly Over States – Jason Aldean
354. Beautiful (SMASH Cast Version) [feat. Katharine McPhee] – SMASH Cast
361. Wouldn’t It Be Nice – The Beach Boys
377. Let Me Be Your Star (SMASH Cast Version) [feat. Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty] – SMASH Cast
385. He Won’t Go – ADELE
387. Human Nature (Glee Cast Version) – Glee Cast
390. Bamboleo / Hero (Glee Cast Version) – Glee Cast
426. Breakaway – Kelly Clarkson
428. Georgia Peaches – Lauren Alaina
437. Before He Cheats – Carrie Underwood
445. Take It All – ADELE
448. I Can’t Make You Love Me (Live) – ADELE
454. Far Away (feat. Chris Richardson) – Tyga
456. Camouflage – Brad Paisley
489. Since U Been Gone – Kelly Clarkson
528. Already Gone – Kelly Clarkson
532. I Will Always Love You – Dolly Parton
569. I Love You This Big – Scotty McCreery
580. Hometown Glory – ADELE
629. Mr. Know It All – Kelly Clarkson
633. Undo It – Carrie Underwood
702. Cowboy Casanova – Carrie Underwood
704. Rolling in the Deep (Live) – ADELE
714. Bad Day – Daniel Powter
715. Oh! Darling (The Voice Performance) – Juliet Simms
716. Crawling Back to You – Daughtry
719. I’ll Be Waiting – ADELE
724. Let’s Don’t Call It a Night – Casey James
759. Black or White (Glee Cast Version) – Glee Cast
760. Because of You – Kelly Clarkson
787. Without You (Glee Cast Version) – Glee Cast
813. Don’t Wanna Lose You (Glee Cast Version) – Glee Cast
817. Jesus, Take the Wheel – Carrie Underwood
818. Bad (Glee Cast Version) – Glee Cast
823. Think Like a Man (feat. Rick Ross) [from the Motion Picture “Think Like A Man”] – Jennifer Hudson & Ne-Yo
844. Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera & Mac Miller) [Remix] – Maroon 5
849. My Life Would Suck Without You – Kelly Clarkson (Single)
873. Rumour Has It / Someone Like You (Glee Cast Version) – Glee Cast
876. Trouble (The Voice Performance) – Tony Lucca
946. A Little Less Conversation (Glee Cast Version) – Glee Cast
948. All-American Girl – Carrie Underwood
951. Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ (Glee Cast Version) – Glee Cast
983. Better Than I Know Myself – Adam Lambert
991. Better In Time – Leona Lewis
996. Surfer Girl – The Beach Boys
1015. Make You Feel My Love (Live) – ADELE

Albums
1. 21 – ADELE
2. Whitney – The Greatest Hits – Whitney Houston
3. Mylo Xyloto – Coldplay
4. 19 – ADELE
5. Barton Hollow – The Civil Wars
7. Stronger – Kelly Clarkson
10. My Kinda Party – Jason Aldean
11. 2012 GRAMMY Nominees – Various Artists
13. The Bodyguard (Original Soundtrack Album) – Whitney Houston
14. Kisses On the Bottom – Paul McCartney
15. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
16. Whitney Houston – Whitney Houston
17. Doo-Wops & Hooligans (Deluxe Version) – Bruno Mars
19. Own the Night – Lady Antebellum
21. Sigh No More – Mumford & Sons
22. Wasting Light – Foo Fighters
24. Whitney – Whitney Houston
26. The Preacher’s Wife (Original Soundtrack Album) – Whitney Houston
28. Doo-Wops & Hooligans – Bruno Mars
30. I Look to You – Whitney Houston
34. Wasting Light (Deluxe Version) – Foo Fighters
35. Bangarang – Skrillex
36. Stronger (Deluxe Version) – Kelly Clarkson
37. The Band Perry – The Band Perry
42. Torches – Foster the People
43. Speak Now – Taylor Swift
44. Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites – Skrillex
45. Whitney Houston (The Deluxe Anniversary Edition) – Whitney Houston
50. My Love Is Your Love – Whitney Houston
51. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) – Rihanna
53. For Emma, Forever Ago – Bon Iver
58. iTunes Festival: London 2011 – EP – ADELE
59. Foo Fighters: Greatest Hits – Foo Fighters
60. I’m Your Baby Tonight – Whitney Houston
61. F.A.M.E. – Chris Brown
62. Bon Iver (Deluxe Edition) – Bon Iver
63. 20 Greatest Hits – Glen Campbell
65. Sounds of Summer – The Very Best of The Beach Boys – The Beach Boys
66. Duets II – Tony Bennett
69. Loud – Rihanna
73. Waiting to Exhale (Original Soundtrack Album) – Various Artists
77. Red River Blue (Deluxe Version) – Blake Shelton
83. iTunes Live from SoHo – ADELE
84. Hands All Over – Maroon 5
85. Teenage Dream – Katy Perry
87. Fearless – Taylor Swift
88. Songs About Jane – Maroon 5
90. It Won’t Be Soon Before Long – Maroon 5
91. The Beach Boys: 20 Good Vibrations – The Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 – The Beach Boys
96. Need You Now – Lady Antebellum
100. Hands All Over (Deluxe Version) – Maroon 5
101. Clear As Day – Scotty McCreery
111. Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded – Rihanna
117. Ghost On the Canvas – Glen Campbell
118. Glen Campbell: All The Best – Glen Campbell
137. Pink Friday (Deluxe Version) – Nicki Minaj
140. Back to Black – Amy Winehouse
144. At Last! (Remastered) – Etta James
165. A Rush of Blood to the Head – Coldplay
169. Lioness: Hidden Treasures – Amy Winehouse
171. Just Whitney – Whitney Houston
184. One Wish – The Holiday Album – Whitney Houston
188. Dance Vault Mixes: Whitney Houston – The Unreleased Mixes (Collector’s Edition) – Whitney Houston
190. X & Y – Coldplay
191. More Monsters and Sprites – Skrillex
194. Paper Airplane – Alison Krauss & Union Station
202. Blood Bank – EP – Bon Iver
205. The Foundation (Deluxe Version) – Zac Brown Band
216. Break the Spell – Daughtry
243. Break the Spell (Deluxe Version) – Daughtry
245. Wide Open – Jason Aldean
247. Taylor Swift (Bonus Track Version) – Taylor Swift
276. Wildflower – Lauren Alaina
287. The Best of Bonnie Raitt On Capitol 1989-2003 – Bonnie Raitt
292. 100 Proof – Kellie Pickler
299. Glen Campbell: Greatest Hits – Glen Campbell
301. Loaded: The Best of Blake Shelton – Blake Shelton
302. Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace – Foo Fighters
304. Pink Friday – Nicki Minaj
336. Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends – Coldplay
386. Red – Dia Frampton
412. Some Hearts – Carrie Underwood
423. Glee: The Music, Vol. 7 – Glee Cast
427. Lady Antebellum – Lady Antebellum
436. One of the Boys – Katy Perry
458. Love Songs – Etta James
478. Play On – Carrie Underwood
488. The Bodyguard (Original Soundtrack Album) – Various Artists
502. Breakaway – Kelly Clarkson
508. The Essential Etta James – Etta James
519. Foo Fighters: Greatest Hits (Deluxe Edition) – Foo Fighters
537. Duets – An American Classic – Tony Bennett
580. Pink Friday (Deluxe Edition) – Nicki Minaj
627. Pet Sounds (40th Anniversary) – The Beach Boys
644. The Love E.P. – Corinne Bailey Rae
658. Frank – Amy Winehouse
674. What If We Were Real – Mandisa
678. Come Through for You – Javier Colon
690. Glee: The Music, Vol. 1 – Glee Cast
699. Born In the U.S.A. – Bruce Springsteen
701. Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
704. Teenage Dream – Katy Perry
708. Memories of a Beautiful Disaster – James Durbin
718. Fearless (Platinum Edition) – Taylor Swift
736. Wingspan: Hits and History – Paul McCartney
762. The Rhinestone Cowboy – Glenn Campbell
822. Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters
884. Soul Surfer (Music from the Motion Picture) – Various Artists
887. Good Evening New York City – Paul McCartney
895. Viva la Vida / Prospekt’s March (Bonus Track Version) – Coldplay
919. The Ultimate Tony Bennett – Tony Bennett
950. Glee: The Music Presents The Warblers – Glee Cast
953. Glee: The Music, Vol. 6 – Glee Cast
967. Raising Sand – Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
985. Carnival Ride – Carrie Underwood
990. All I Ever Wanted (Deluxe Version) – Kelly Clarkson
1021. F.A.M.E. (Deluxe Version) – Chris Brown

Can someone explain to me what these figures from Idol Chatter are?  For example, Adam is #25 – last week #29?  And James #45 – last week #48?  On what charts?  I’m sorry I can never seem to keep this stuff straight!

The Idol Chatter chart is just something put together to compare airplay by only artists who’ve been on Idol. The numbers don’t really mean much. They just give you a general idea of whether songs are gaining or losing spins. For example being 4 on the list doesn’t actually mean ythe song is charting #4 on any Billboard or Mediabase chart.

I would personally prefer it if Wind-up would concentrate exclusively on only one format before trying to crack others, starting with rock radio.

Off the top of my head I can think of one song on MOABD that is suitable for rock and pop radio – Deeper. Back For More can also make it on both formats but it’s not on the CD so it won’t generate as many album sales.

Oh…thank you for explaining that to me!  That seems like a waste of time for Idol Chatter though.  What difference does it make how they are doing compared to other Idols?  I’m only interested in how they are doing out in the music world.

Well Kelly has a decade of hits behind her so it’s not surprising. James is a new artist and Adam needs to prove that he’s not a one hit wonder.

The only songs released from Memories of a Beautiful Disaster are LMB and Stand UP. Stand UP was released without radio support, sort of as an afterthought since it was being promoted by the NFL. 

Standup and LMB are the only singles released off the album. What other two songs are you referring to?
Windup promoted LMB, but the NFL was behind most of Standup’s promo.

As for one song for both Rock and HAC, that’s really hard, they’re very different formats. I’d personally like to see Higher Than Heaven or Outcast as the next single. Neither is suited for HAC.

Idol Chatter is part of the bubble and in the bubble competition amongst Idols has and is still very important….song play helps to keep the competition aspect of American Idol alive and well.

I don’t have time to do the complete rundown of adds so far but So far TTWG 2 auto adds from Cumulus stations. 

Addboard

I would be happy with that scenario too. TBH at this point anything will do, EVERY other song on MOABD (except maybe Screaming) is better than both LMB and Stand Up.

Sigh, contrary to what the Idol bubble wants to believe Adam has already proved he is not a one hit wonder.  IIHY went top 20 on Pop radio and #30 on the Hot 100 which constitutes a “hit” even if not a huge one.  However I do agree he is not at the level where radio will automatically play his songs.

And yet even with LMB moving up the chart, the song isnt selling, because its mediocre at best. Performing that on Idol=fail.

The chances of Wind-up releasing another “one HAC, one rock” single is slim. If they release another single it will be for one format. As noted above, theyre an indie label, and major labels dont even continue socking money into multiple singles unless they see money is being made. IMO the only reason why they did it this time was because with the NFL tie-in they figured SU would get some free publicity.

Glad to see that some Cumulus stations have auto added TTWG. But does that mean they’ll play it more than once or twice a week–on the weekly countdown show or stuck in the wee hours of the morning? Oh well, I guess you can’t have everything…just happy it got added!

BITM’s got a good bullet on HAC ahead of the video starting on VH1 and a round of radio promo.  I think that song will be fine on that format. :)

Didn’t see LMB coming! Let’s see if they can get that to go any higher.

Good for Kelly – song and album still hanging in there through what is sure to be the Grammy & Whitney onslaught on ITunes. Yay Civil Wars getting a boost even though they didn’t do a whole song!

Idol Chatter compares all Idols which could be considered a waste of time. Top 40/Mainstream music will always get more spins & be higher on that chart because according to Mediabase it has about double the spins as the 2nd best spun genre chart. 

Here’s the numbers in terms of Mediabase. The #1 song in top 40/mainstream had 13,700 spins last week. In comparison, for last week in spins, the #1 song in top 40/rhythmic had 5,200 spins. The #1 song in the country genre had about 6,400. The #1 song in urban had 3,700 spins last week. The #1 song in rock had 2,000 spins last week. 

So an Idol that even has a top 20 hit on Top 40/Mainstream will always be at the top of Idol Chatter charts because of the amount of spins in that genre. An Idol who stays in the country genre & doesn’t crossover like Kellie Pickler or Scotty will usually not be #1 on Idol Chatter even if they’re in the Top 5 in country because country still has only half of top 40/mainstream spins.

Billboard article on sales for Whitney:

http://www.billboard.com/news?utm_source=most_recent#/news/whitney-houston-poised-to-re-enter-billboard-1006171752.story

Excerpt:

Though Nielsen SoundScan’s sales tracking week ends at the close of
business tonight (Feb. 12), sources suggest that the album could
sell over 50,000 copies in the day-and-a-half after her passing on Feb. 11. That sum would enable the set to re-enter the top 20 of the chart easily — if not the top 10.

Love me bad wad on ryans show at the end of Oct I think

Love Me Bad has been out at least since November. It has had a slow climb to reach the Top 40 and I would be surprised if it gets much higher on the chart, although you never know.

Congrats to all the ex-Idols who reached milestones this week!

CHART DATE: 02/13/2012
LAST UPDATE: 02/13/2012 12:25:27
NOW IN: 36.20%

LWTWartist / albumlabelpower index

1 1ADELEXL/COLUMBIA113,998
21
— 2NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 41CAPITOL/EMI83,307
VARIOUS ARTISTS
— 3VAN HALENINTERSCOPE79,535
DIFFERENT KIND OF TRUTH
7 42012 GRAMMY NOMINESSUNIVERSAL REPUBLIC18,482
VARIOUS ARTISTS
— 5DIERKS BENTLEYCAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI16,572
HOME
15 6LUKE BRYANCAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI13,620
TAILGATES & TANLINES
6 7TIM MCGRAWCURB12,136
EMOTIONAL TRAFFIC
5 8KIDZ BOP KIDSRAZOR & TIE12,048
KIDZ BOP 21
18 9ADELEXL/COLUMBIA11,547
19
1010LMFAOINTERSCOPE11,453
SORRY FOR PARTY ROCKING

James certainly knows how to sell himself. That’s a great asset for him because as we’ve seen, Wind Up promo budget is, well, let’s say very limited to be nice. :( 

LMB was basically on its way to the morgue just a couple weeks ago. It’s thanks to James charming the pants off of all the local radio PDs he’s visited since January during his extensive radio tour that LMB is back from the dead. I don’t know if this boost is temporary or not, but I’m happy for James that he has the personality it takes to overcome his label’s limitations to a degree.

As for the next single, I hope it happens, and since Wind Up can’t handle 2 singles, I hope they stick to one format this time, rock preferably. Not as lucrative obviously, but that’s the one James wants. Mick Mars hinted that Outcast, the track he played on, might be the next single. I’m fine with that, and the Mick Mars association could give James needed cred for Rock radio.

CHART DATE: 02/13/2012
LAST UPDATE: 02/13/2012 12:30:16
NOW IN: 37.17%

LW TW artist / album label power index
1 1 ADELE XL/COLUMBIA 113,998
21
— 2 NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 41 CAPITOL/EMI 83,307
VARIOUS ARTISTS
— 3 VAN HALEN INTERSCOPE 79,535
DIFFERENT KIND OF TRUTH
7 4 2012 GRAMMY NOMINESS UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 18,482
VARIOUS ARTISTS
— 5 DIERKS BENTLEY CAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI 16,572
HOME
15 6 LUKE BRYAN CAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI 13,620
TAILGATES & TANLINES
6 7 TIM MCGRAW CURB 12,136
EMOTIONAL TRAFFIC
5 8 KIDZ BOP KIDS RAZOR & TIE 12,048
KIDZ BOP 21
18 9 ADELE XL/COLUMBIA 11,547
19
10 10 LMFAO INTERSCOPE 11,453
SORRY FOR PARTY ROCKING

23 12 JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW 11,063
MY KINDA PARTY

– 13 PAUL MCCARTNEY HEAR MUSIC 10,819
KISSES ON THE BOTTOM

- 15 WHITNEY HOUSTON RCA 10,203
WHITNEY – THE GREATEST HITS

20 17 LADY ANTEBELLUM CAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI 8,920
OWN THE NIGHT

11 19 RIHANNA DEF JAM/IDJ 7,812
TALK THAT TALK

13 20 KELLY CLARKSON 19/RCA 7,086
STRONGER

31 22 THE BAND PERRY REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 6,689
THE BAND PERRY

30 25 SCOTTY MCCREERY MERC NASH/19/INTERSCOPE 6,153
CLEAR AS DAY
–33 THE CIVIL WARS SENSIBILITY MUSIC 4,600
BARTON HOLLOW

46 36 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 4,145
SPEAK NOW

47 37 BRUNO MARS NEW ELEKTRA 3,633
DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS

37 39 DAUGHTRY 19/RCA 3,248
BREAK THE SPELL

39 41 KELLIE PICKLER BNA 3,114
100 PROOF

27 44 COLDPLAY CAPITOL/EMI 2,901
MYLO XYLOTO

45 46 FOSTER THE PEOPLE STARTIME/COLUMBIA 2,484
TORCHES

– 47 MAROON 5 A&M/OCTONE 2,351
HANDS ALL OVER

–50 LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE 2,172
BORN THIS WAY

HDD Sales Chart

Wouldn’t that be a total of 4 songs so far released off this album which hasn’t even sold 100K copies to date?  That seems like a big investment in something that doesn’t seem to have gone anywhere.  

Also why do they need to release a different song on different formats.  Isn’t there one song that can be played on both?

Stand Up was being played in some football stadiums, so I’m sure that the thought process was to release the single to rock stations, so that they could take advantage of the cross promotion.  It’s not unusual to release more than one single, especially to when someone’s genre is rock, both Nickelback and Daughtry did it.  But, it’s always been clear that the main song, the one that was getting the bulk of the promotion was LMB.  

As far as how many copies those songs have sold, these aren’t pop songs, and neither song has gotten the amount of exposure that’s going to result in them selling a lot of copies.  

Wonder why HDD is coming in at 37%?  It’s definitely hard to extrapolate/interpolate whichever term we decided upon:)…

Actually Lexie, it did come in at 36.20%.  The post is a little further down but Whitney didn’t come in until the 2nd update.  My guess is that the 2nd update is i-tunes but that’s just a guess.

Nice to see Elliott get an add in a decent sized market – Milwaukee.

I would personally prefer it if Wind-up would concentrate exclusively on only one format before trying to crack others, starting with rock radio.  

The only problem with this is that it’s going to be extremely hard to get rock stations to play a song from anyone who has been on American Idol.  Since Howard Benson was involved in James’ album, it’s a sure bet that the songs were meant to be pushed to HAC and Pop, and not Rock stations.   

I think that James’ label and management have the right idea about how to ingratiate him to the rock crowd.  They can’t rely on rock stations, so just continue to send him to rock festivals and promote him to print and media outlets that cover rock acts.  He has to build a solid reputation first, before they are going to give him a shot, and that’s something that will take a while to happen.

Yeah, there’s nothing like making the DJs laugh to get on their good side, and James can be really funny at times with his impressions and stuff.  I follow my local radio station on twitter and after they had James in for an interview they tweeted that if you missed the interview you could check it out on their website (as they always do after they interview someone), and I tweeted back thanks, I would check it out because I had missed it.  And they actually tweeted me back again saying they really enjoyed having him there, that the interview was really fun and they were sure I would enjoy it.  It was one of the interviews where he had them all laughing, so it seems like he made a good impression with them.  I’ve tweeted them about other interviews they had with other artists and they never replied to me like that before. 

Looks like James must’ve made a very good impression for them to reply to you! James is a born entertainer, whether on stage or in interviews, just like he must be a hoot behind closed doors too. I wouldn’t be surprised if his new reputation as a fun guest earns him a SNL spot in the future. :D

Country adds (Monitored) (Does not include Canadian stations)

Casey J (3)-LDCIAN

Scotty (3)-TTWG

Kelly (1)-MKIA

Lauren (1)-GP

Addboard

Well, I think James would have to make an impression on a much larger scale than local radio DJs to be considered for something that big.  But one step at a time.  At least he’s gaining ground lately with LMB.

Oh yeah, of course lol. 

Does iTunes report to HDD more than once?  If not, I don’t think that was iTunes reporting, since Kelly’s sales total didn’t change at all.

One Directions’s “WMYB” and Chris Rene’s “Young Homie” will be released to iTunes USA tonight. At least 1D single will be. 

Yay for Scotty getting 3 adds at this point in the game:)) 

As for making friends with djs and pds, Scotty wowed two of the haters this past weekend in Seattle..they had been vocal about not liking him, now they both are saying he’s one of their favorite country artists, he was unreal in concert:)))

I suppose the reason I thought it was i-tunes was because of Whitney popping up with that 2nd update but I could be wrong.  :)

It’s gonna be interesting to find out how his 13 million views on youtube actually translate into sales…

 Glad to see that some Cumulus stations have auto added TTWG. But does that mean they’ll play it more than once or twice a week–on the weekly countdown show or stuck in the wee hours of the morning? Oh well, I guess you can’t have everything…just happy it got added! 

I doubt that they will increase their spins. For some reason Cumulus just allowed all of their auto adds this week for every artist. Usually they block them. 

As for making friends with djs and pds, Scotty wowed two of the haters this past weekend in Seattle..they had been vocal about not liking him, now they both are saying he’s one of their favorite country artists, he was unreal in concert:))) 

That is really good to hear! And it was about time.

I think radio promotion can really help some artists a lot. Casey for example has only been doing radio promotion for months now and most of these radio stations plays his song more after the visits, this week alone he will be doing 7 different stations. I think all of this radio promo that has helped Casey to get into the top 30. It is what most new artists do. If you have some good skills live (singing or in Casey’s case guitar playing) and you have an agreeable personality then it can be really be helpful.

 Maybe it’s not all that unusual, but  though LMB was available for purchase before the album dropped (Nov 21),  it didn’t “go for adds” until the day after (Nov 22)

Not sure where the stats are coming from, but LMB’s supposed to be #36 HAC now. ?? Can anyone confirm?

“Casey for example has only been doing radio promotion for months now and most of these radio stations plays his song more after the visits, this week alone he will be doing 7 different stations.”

He’s been working is arse off. I’m really really happy that it’s paying off for him.

I don’t know how significant this is and maybe it was expected, but Kelly got 2 big auto adds today:

* KAMP-FM
  spins 15
 Top 40 
Los Angeles
RCA
CBS Radio
 Rank – 2
 2/13/2012 6:00:00 AM

* WXRK-FM
  spins 37 
Top 40 
New York
RCA
CBS Radio
Rank - 1
 2/13/2012 6:00:00 AM

Pam posted the info on the first page of this thread.

It says #38, not #36

Found it, thanks. I was looking at the stats Kirsten posted above instead.

The AllAccess report at this moment for HAC is showing LMB at #36 on the rolling report, #38 on the published report. I think that’s where the confusion is lying.

“As for making friends with djs and pds, Scotty wowed two of the haters this past weekend in Seattle..they had been vocal about not liking him, now they both are saying he’s one of their favorite country artists, he was unreal in concert:)))”

Yeah, I remembered those DJ´s from last year. I had to grind my teeth because they were really provocative to listen to, when talking about Scotty, and they  also gave Hunter H. a hard time . That´s why it came as a pleasant surprise now to see them vocal their mind change and send several tweets with super positive words about Scotty as a person (from the interview) and performer in Tacoma. It´s nice to see them change,  especially when it´ll lead to them playing Scotty´s music a lot more.  

Gotcha! It can get confusing lol.

I PRAY that this jump in the charts does not mean LMB will be performed on Idol. I’m sorry but I can’t stand the thought of that. He needs to perform anything else to make the most out of the opportunity.

Yeah, same here. I hope Wind Up understands James won’t have a better opportunity to promote a new single than when he performs on Idol. LMB should be retired before his Idol performance. *praying too*

Yeah, same here. I hope Wind Up understands James won’t have a better opportunity to promote a new single than when he performs on Idol. LMB should be retired before his Idol performance. *praying too*

Adds (Monitored)

Kelly (12)-WDKY (4 AC, 2 Canada-CHR/Pop, 2 HAC, 4 CHR/Pop)

Kelly (11)-MKIA (8 AC, 1 Country (WUSN-Chicago #3), 1 HAC, 1 Smooth AC)

Daughtry (5)-CBTY (4 AC, 1 CHR/Pop)

Adam (4)-BTIKM (HAC)

One Direction (4)-WMYB (2 Canada-HAC, 1 Canada-CHR/Pop, 1 CHR/Pop)

Casey J (3)-LDCIAN (Country)

Scotty (3)-TTWG (Country)

Elliott (2)-3 Words (AC)

Ruben (2)-June 28th (I’m Single) (Urban AC)

JHud f/Ne-Yo (1)-TLAM (Urban AC)

Lauren (1)-GP (Country)

Mandisa (1)-WFT (Christian AC)

Addboard

Sorry! I kept clicking back to the first page to make sure it said 36. lol
Congrats to James for his nice jump on HAC!
Have the adds come in for today yet? How many did James get?

Those Kelly adds are significant because kamp rarely plays her stuff. Don’t know her history with xrk. But I think the fact that these 2 added along with kiis indicates that Stronger has a really really great chance of going to #1 on the pop AirPlay chart. Those are the 3 biggest urban leaning chr stations. Can’t remember the last time kamp added an idol ( including Kelly). I think it’s gonna happen. Everyone move outta Kelly’s way!!

Pam posted the info a few minutes ago. James didn’t get any new adds today.

Two of Adam’s Hot AC adds are auto adds from big market stations — WBMX in Boston and KIMN in Denver

Yeah, Pam and I posted at the same time! I already deleted that portion of my comment.

Yay! for two big market adds!

I can’t remember the order Kelly’s singles were released, but looking at the mediabase adds board, it looks like this might be the only previous one that got official add from either KAMP or WXRK

Already Gone (WXRK)

(NOTE: historical adds don’t seem to be available on mediabase for older singles like SYBG or Breakaway)

Meanwhile, MKIA got an official add from a country station in Chicago today. :)

” Those are the 3 biggest urban leaning chr stations. Can’t remember
the last time kamp added an idol ( including Kelly). I think it’s gonna
happen. Everyone
move outta Kelly’s way!!”

Thanks, I was hoping that these adds were good news.  It’s great that not only have all 3 NYC Top 40 stations and both LA Top 40 stations added WDKY, but they are all giving it a good number of spins.  :)

” Those are the 3 biggest urban leaning chr stations. Can’t remember
the last time kamp added an idol ( including Kelly). I think it’s gonna
happen. Everyone
move outta Kelly’s way!!”

Thanks, I was hoping that these adds were good news.  It’s great that not only have all 3 NYC Top 40 stations and both LA Top 40 stations added WDKY, but they are all giving it a good number of spins.  :)

I think Adele is probably helping Kelly because her huge popularity is so much about the great voice. Will Kelly has a great and powerful voice too.  Even better IMO sorry about that.

It’s hard to believe Stronger won’t hit #1 on Pop. 

BTIKM does have a bigger audience than the 4 songs ahead of it. The problem for the song is that to reach an audience of 10 Million you need to be around 14 or 15 on the HAC chart. At this rate, the song will take awhile to get there.To get more audience the song has to get more adds on Pop where so far it has yet to hit the top 50. Slow progress wouldn’t be bad but this single is to get folks excited for an album dropping in a month.

What did I do? :)

Stronger will go to #1. BTIKM needs to pick up the pace so that folks are excited for an album dropping in March.

I know less than nothing about this really, but it seems logical that time is not on Adam’s side with album coming out in about a month.  Hurry up little song.  I am sick and tired of giant Idol sophmore slumps.  I have my fingers crossed for a smallish slump.

All these numbers make me crazy …

I just wanna know one thing from all of you ‘experts’ who know far more than I do …

Are these good numbers for Adam?

I think that RCA would be happier if more radio stations were playing BTIKM right now. That’s the bottom line on all these numbers. 

 I don’t listen to KAMP unless I happen upon it during my channel flipping during commercials while in the car, but that add really surprises me in a good way.    On Friday I just randomly was on their website looking at their playlist and if what they have on there is correct (yes.com hasn’t been working right lately to check), they play an Adele song, usually SFTTR, and a Drake song every.single.hour. with some other songs inbetween.  I wish I was joking but their playlist is really that narrow.

 wow, so Kelly should won 7 Grammy next year :))

I’ve lost my 1010 for some odd reason.  I am very hopeful that the video will help a lot.  It seems that people like it because it has over 2,700,000 views.  Then again I have know idea if that is a lot of views either.

I think it would be awesome if she did, and I will hold to my opinion that she is the best female pop singer there is today.  I think Alicia Keys is just fantastic also. What bothers me about Adele’s singing is that she sounds like she is straining her voice.  Her vocal issues attest to this I think.  I know I am out of step with just about everyone on this so will freely admit I am undoubtedly wrong.

All these numbers make me crazy …

I just wanna know one thing from all of you ‘experts’ who know far more than I do …

Are these good numbers for Adam?

He’s doing fine on HAC.  He’s not speeding up the charts, and the adds are slow, but at least they are coming.  I think a lot will depend on what these HAC stations are doing.  If we see them increasing spins, then more stations will add it, and it will look good to the Pop stations.  

Toby Knapp was right when he said that PDs would have to figure out where the song fit, and right now, HAC PDs are saying that it’s a HAC song.  That doesn’t mean that it’s going to always be below the top 50 on Pop, it just means that Pop PDs are going to take their time adding it, and that the song will have to show that it has found an audience on HAC before a lot of pop PDs will give it a chance.

Thanks so much for your comprehensive answer … so if I understand you correctly, you’re saying that BTIKM is doing good on HAC but it’s a little behind on CHR because of ‘where the song fits’.  So it has to prove itself on HAC first before it takes off or climbs on CHR.  Do I have this right?

Pretty much.  RCA could also spend a lot of money, and try to get some Pop leaders on board to help them promote the song.  Adam will appear on some huge stations this week, and now we just have to see if they will start playing the song, and if they do, how much will they play it.  With WWFM, RCA worked out a deal where Z100 was playing the song 100 times a week from the start, so maybe they’ll do something like that again.

What was the deal that RCA worked out?

RCA worked out a deal for Z100 to support the song just like Jive did with Kris Allen and LLWD, and Interscope just did with Madonna’s single.  These deals are nothing new.  In exchange for the support the labels promise that artists, not necessarily the ones whose music is getting the airplay, will do radio station sponsored shows and interviews, or that the stations will get other exclusives, like being the first ones to play a song.

Looking at the HAC media base chart:

http://www.mediabase.com/mmrweb/insideradio/charts.asp?format=3&showyear=y&dpt=n

I noticed that only 3 of the top 10 songs have positive bullets. So 7 of the top 10 are dropping. It looks to me that there will be quite a bit of shuffling going on soon. (I’m not really a chart watcher so maybe this is a common occurrence but just caught my eye). Also noticed that Madonna’s new song is still sitting under Adam and doesn’t seem to be picking up much steam. If I’m reading the chart right Adam got an additional 120 spins this past week and Madonna only had 84 additional spins in the past 7 days.The Goyte song is really moving up. Also there are only 23 spins between Adam and the next song sitting at #30 and it doesn’t seem to be getting new spins as fast as Adam.

It looks to me that if each station that has been playing his song just gives it one or two more spins a day he could really start to move.
 

Also for grins I’m looking at the “Add history”  list for BTIKM and sorted the list based on Number of spins last week.

http://addboard.mediabase.com/SongAddHistory.asp?startdate=&ob=6

Interestingly enough the station that gave the song the most spins is “20 on 20″ a SiriusXM top 40 station (60 spins last week).

The next four stations (in order of spins) are all HAC stations in California (two in San Fransisco, one in Fresno and one in Palm springs) for a total of 138 spins.

Then weirdly at the other end of the chart is a Top40 station in Wilmington, DE that added on 1/3 and hasn’t spun the song once. 

Just looking at Top40 spins (not counting the SiriusXM mentioned above) the next top40 stations with the most spins are three stations in PA and one in VT for a total 62 spins.

True, every label makes deals. The more important the artist, the more the artist has to offer the station, the better the deal will be! Those spins from Z100 didn’t just fall from the sky! ;) In other words, you WANT the artist to have enough interest from radio stations to get the best deals.

The more that the artist is in demand, the more they have to offer in a trade-off!

Madonna, Gaga or Katy Perry are the types of artists that get the every hour types of deals.

Does anyone know anything about Rick Salvador Productions?  I guess it is a marketing agent that promotes to radio, contracted by record labels?  Anyway, both Adam Lambert and James Durbin are listed on their list of projects for this week on their website.

BTIKM is doing good on HAC. The bullet is strong and it is getting some big market adds every week. VH1 will start playing the video this weekend which always seems to help Adam’s songs. Adam is also just starting his big promo push on the East Coast this week, including some heavy hitters over the next couple of days!

No one can really predict where a song fits. There are many songs in the top 40 on CHR at this time that don’t sound like “Pop songs”. It really is too early to predict what BTIKM will do on CHR, or overall for that matter. Right now, it is just one giant guessing game and no one knows how it will all end up!

But, like I said before, sometimes the deals don’t have anything to do with the artist whose song is getting played.  Sometimes, a new artist has very little to offer a radio station, so having them play at a concert or give an interview isn’t that big of a deal, and may not result in a lot of support, but labels have plenty of artists, and I’m sure that people like Britney Spears, Gaga, and others have been used to help get new artists airplay. 

Yes, of course. It is nice when the artist is actually someone that the radio station is excited about using for things like the acoustic shows they film and in turn use on their site. It is probably harder for those unknown artists who are just starting out or artists that have a really low interest level.

I saw where Madonna is in the process of filming the video for her “new song”. I guess we will have to listen to another one of her songs around the clock at some point in the near future.

Wow, you just changed your comment I was replying to.

The BTIKM Video is up on iTunes and is up to #27 already!!

Actually is up to #23 and has to overcome 10(ten) Whitney Houston videos

Does anyone have access to the Billboard Adult pop top #40? I can only get the top #20 – maybe on Pulse?? I have seen several tweets about Love Me Bad debuting on the Billboard Adult pop top #40.

I love both Kelly and Adele, so I’m not going to choose who is the better singer. They are both awesome. For me the difference is that Adele has better material. I would love to hear what Kelly could do with songs of the caliber of some of those on 21.

elliegrll  HAC PDs haven’t had a problem with adding and playing it, even if they haven’t added it in droves.

Well I think your statement that they haven’t added in “droves” is misleading; perhaps I’m reading the media base chart wrong but Adam got a total of 504 spins on 53 different stations.

http://www.mediabase.com/mmrweb/insideradio/charts.asp?format=3&showyear=y&dpt=n

The next song above him was only played on 33 stations. You have to go up to the song sitting at #22 before you find a song that’s being played across more stations (#22 was spun on 66 stations). For comparison Adele’s song at #1 was spun on 92 stations.

Adam actually has been added to more stations than the songs on the chart around him. No he doesn’t have the same adds as the songs at the top but he has had quite a few adds.

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