1973: Al Green - Call Me

[mcatzilut]

Between a dozen articles due, editing responsibilities, and classwork, I think I may have actually burnt myself out on writing this week. Every word I write, I feel like I've seen and written that word before. Recently. That can't be good. None of it seems fresh. I need some new verbs, some new nouns. I need a new bloody set of pronouns to work

Comments

[koganbot]

I don't have the definitive figures, but "Tim McGraw" charted country in 2006 (though it peaked in January 2007 at number 6 country; peaked on the Hot 100 at 40, don't know what month, though it was this year); it is now listed on Mediabase's country airplay chart as a "recurrent"; if Mediabase follows the same criteria as Billboard, this means the song has been on the country charts for at least 20 weeks and has had times where it's dipped below the top 50. This doesn't mean you can't decide that 2007 is its year of greatest impact. It's certainly a worthy song.

[koganbot]

The country charts have a much more restrictive criteria for "recurrent". If I recall, I think it takes out songs that are not in the top 10.

[justfanoe]

erg, that was me.

[koganbot]

Greg, that's surely not right, as there are nine songs in the country top 25 right now that have been in the charts for more than 20 weeks, and only two of them have even made it into the top 10, one of which, Joe Nichols' "I'll Wait For You," took 32 weeks to get there. And then again, Mediabase may not use the same criteria as Billboard. The basic point is that "Tim McGraw," being a recurrent, must have been in the charts for a at least 20 weeks before becoming one, so it must have started its chart run in early November at the very latest; and actually, according to Great American Country it broke onto the country charts the week of July 20.

Fred Bronson Speaks

[justfanoe]

OK, here's what Fred Bronson has to say:

"The recurrent removal policy on our country charts changes from time to time due to fluctuating business conditions. At 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. This is only a subtle change from the prior rule, which removed such descending titles after 20 weeks when they fell below No. 15."

So the key piece I missed is that it removes DESCENDING songs that are not in the top 10. That makes more sense. At least in the top 25, one of the songs out of the top 10 with more than 20 weeks on the chart appear to be descending, so this matches with the charts this week. Joe Nichols is still in the top 10, which explains why it's not recurrent. Songs climb the country charts extremely slowly, which probably explains why they bump the recurrent bar up to top 10.