For some reason, Mediaguide.com, which is a comprehensive airplay only chart, by format, is making it's "subscription" charts public, for now. This means you can see the Top 100 songs on each chart, rather than the Top 30 to 50, and it shows a few interesting things regarding Sometimes and COBL. More on that in a minute.
mediabase.com, another chart service based on radio play, looks like this today:
Hot AC
Sometimes slips from 16 to 17
Triple A
Sometimes is still at 3
Mainstream Rock - Comprehensive Top 30 (including "recurrents")
Vertigo show up at 26 this week
Net Music Countdown
Pop/Hits Radio
Sometims drops one to 18
Hot AC
Sometimes rises one spot to 10
Mediaguide.com - all charts are Top 100
AC
Sometimes goes from 41 to 46 but increased in plays. It's peak position is 41 and it has spent 14 weeks in the Top 100.
Alternative
COBL moves from 88 to 84 in it's 2nd week on the chart.
Pop/Hits Radio
Sometimes slides from 66 to 73 in it's 10th week on the chart where it peaked at 62.
Hot AC
Sometimes down 4 to 24 but with increased plays after 18 weeks on the chart and a peak position of 16.
Mainstream Rock
COBL up 12 from 49 to 37 in it's 5th week on the chart. Sometimes down 4 to 54 after 14 weeks on the chart and a peak position of 43.
Triple A
Sometimes still at 3 during it's 19th week on the chart where it peaked at #1 for some 10 weeks or so.
COBL rises 10 positions to 47 in just it's 3rd week on the chart.
In summary, Sometimes was/is a modest and also rather lengthy radio hit in the U.S. It is very close to being the #1 played song on Triple A Format (Rock, with overlap into Modern Rock and Adult Top 40) for 2005, and since it's holding steady at 3 after a long stay at the top, it should get the top position in a few weeks. Depending on how long it hangs around and what other songs hit this chart this year, Sometimes could very well end up being the most played song of the year on Triple A radio. There are some 50 stations, covering many of the major markets, that are included in the Triple A weekly survey/chart.
Billboard has matched up pretty well with the radio-play only charts on the Adult Top 40, or Hot AC, as the song has been between 15-17 for 6 weeks on BB, Radio and Records, and mediabase.com. It's at 24 on Mediaguide, but songs 15-25 are separated by very few plays. Also, the radio play charts all have Pop/Hits Radio as a format and Mainstream Hits as a format...I think that's why the BB "Pop Airplay" chart doesn't match the radio only charts...too many formats in the U.S.
Finally, COBL is off to a decent start on radio, especially considering that we have no commercial release or download in the U.S. and no video yet that I know of...however, VH1 removed Sometimes from their playlist and had COBL featured on their homepage last week as the "Editor's pick", stating
"U2 - "City of Blinding Lights"
With Bono toning down the bluster and a skillful blend of Edge guitars and punctuating piano, the centerpiece ballad of How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb is a thrilling tour de force.
The video may be on VH1 already, I don't know. It is no coincidence that VH1 is so pro-U2 now that I know that Bill Flanagan runs the network. More charts to come in a few days.
mediabase.com, another chart service based on radio play, looks like this today:
Hot AC
Sometimes slips from 16 to 17
Triple A
Sometimes is still at 3
Mainstream Rock - Comprehensive Top 30 (including "recurrents")
Vertigo show up at 26 this week
Net Music Countdown
Pop/Hits Radio
Sometims drops one to 18
Hot AC
Sometimes rises one spot to 10
Mediaguide.com - all charts are Top 100
AC
Sometimes goes from 41 to 46 but increased in plays. It's peak position is 41 and it has spent 14 weeks in the Top 100.
Alternative
COBL moves from 88 to 84 in it's 2nd week on the chart.
Pop/Hits Radio
Sometimes slides from 66 to 73 in it's 10th week on the chart where it peaked at 62.
Hot AC
Sometimes down 4 to 24 but with increased plays after 18 weeks on the chart and a peak position of 16.
Mainstream Rock
COBL up 12 from 49 to 37 in it's 5th week on the chart. Sometimes down 4 to 54 after 14 weeks on the chart and a peak position of 43.
Triple A
Sometimes still at 3 during it's 19th week on the chart where it peaked at #1 for some 10 weeks or so.
COBL rises 10 positions to 47 in just it's 3rd week on the chart.
In summary, Sometimes was/is a modest and also rather lengthy radio hit in the U.S. It is very close to being the #1 played song on Triple A Format (Rock, with overlap into Modern Rock and Adult Top 40) for 2005, and since it's holding steady at 3 after a long stay at the top, it should get the top position in a few weeks. Depending on how long it hangs around and what other songs hit this chart this year, Sometimes could very well end up being the most played song of the year on Triple A radio. There are some 50 stations, covering many of the major markets, that are included in the Triple A weekly survey/chart.
Billboard has matched up pretty well with the radio-play only charts on the Adult Top 40, or Hot AC, as the song has been between 15-17 for 6 weeks on BB, Radio and Records, and mediabase.com. It's at 24 on Mediaguide, but songs 15-25 are separated by very few plays. Also, the radio play charts all have Pop/Hits Radio as a format and Mainstream Hits as a format...I think that's why the BB "Pop Airplay" chart doesn't match the radio only charts...too many formats in the U.S.
Finally, COBL is off to a decent start on radio, especially considering that we have no commercial release or download in the U.S. and no video yet that I know of...however, VH1 removed Sometimes from their playlist and had COBL featured on their homepage last week as the "Editor's pick", stating
"U2 - "City of Blinding Lights"
With Bono toning down the bluster and a skillful blend of Edge guitars and punctuating piano, the centerpiece ballad of How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb is a thrilling tour de force.
The video may be on VH1 already, I don't know. It is no coincidence that VH1 is so pro-U2 now that I know that Bill Flanagan runs the network. More charts to come in a few days.
