As of this morning's Mediabase charts, Bucky Covington's "A Different World" has done a hop into the #30 spot on the Top 500, and moved back up to #32 on the weighted rankings. Congratulations, Bucky! We're expecting a wild chart week ahead, as the dust settles from two huge superstar releases, and a few of the more mature hits make a graceful descent from the upper berths.
Our best way to keep Bucky's climb going? Keep requesting, of course! There are plenty of resources in the "Radio Info" section of our sidebar, or simply pick up the phone and call your favorite local country station to request "A Different World". (And after you do that, check out the newly-formed, fun and free official Bucky Covington street team, complete with a very lively message board...)
News post next--come on back!
(Many thanks to a kind anon in comments for the Mediabase heads-up.)
Im a little confused with the weighted chart. Bucky has more spins than a few of the people above him. Looking at that he should be in 30th on that chart too. Any ideas?
ReplyDeleteI am curious about what happened to "Alyssa Lies". It was at the top of the chart for so long and now it has just vanished. Is that normal?
ReplyDeleteHello, Anon and Beesims, and those are two very good questions! Anon, I have heard and read so many different things about exactly how the weighted charts are weighted that I'm looking for a definitive written explanation from an industry source that will answer your excellent question once and for all. In the meantime, here's one explanation, taken from an article posted at industry site AllAboutCountry.com in February of this year:
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"Weights are determined by a formula that uses AQH Persons and market size. (AQH stands for Average Quarter Hours). That weight is multiplied by the number of spins a song gets to arrive at the "points" that song gets. For example, a song getting 10 plays at a station with a weight of 5 gets 50 points. The Top 50 songs are ranked by Points -- not by raw spins."
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So...the market size and how many people are listening plays a role in how the weighted chart works. (A spin in Atlanta counts for more than a spin in Canton, OH.)
That is, I am sure, just the tip of the iceberg as far as how "weighting" works, but at least it explains why some songs with more spins are ranked lower than some with fewer--if one spin reaches 10,000 people as opposed to 5000, it's worth more there.
Beesims, I am going to have to go with "not normal"--I noticed that too and have no idea why! The label is busy promoting Jason's nice new single, but I am sure "Alyssa Lies" is still being spun all over. Hope someone has a good answer for us!
Alyssa Lies probably went recurrent. Songs go recurrent once they start to fall after being on the chart 20 weeks. This allows room for the songs below to move up the chart. This is from Billboard:
ReplyDeleteAt the end of 2006, we revised our policy to remove descending titles to recurrent after 20 weeks when they fall below No. 10 in either Nielsen BDS detections rankings or audience rankings.
Thanks, Anon 11:36!
ReplyDeleteI am giving myself the V-8 smack on the forehead--just because my local country station waited until January (I kid you not--did I mention how tight my hometown station's playlist is?) to start playing the song didn't mean that it was relatively new. "Alyssa Lies" first went for adds in October. It's officially a recurrent on the Radio & Records country chart as of this week.
Thanks for the info, Anon--much appreciated!
LOL Winnie!! People were naming the songs in WKML's top 5, and I was wondering why I had never, ever heard of them. At first I thought I just wasn't recognizing the names.
ReplyDeleteWe'll be hearing ADW sometime in May, lol!
Laurianne