RADIO REPORT: What’s Popping At Top 40 Radio This Week (March 1-2, 2021)

It’s time once again to analyze the airwaves and find out if your favorite new releases will be lighting up your local station’s playlist this week. Which tunes will climb to the top and which ones will hit a stop? Here are the three titles impacting this week at the Top 40 format:

CARDI B, “Up” (Atlantic)
Album: TBA (2021)
Past T40 History: This performer is headed up the chart per usual with the song that recently became her ninth top 40 entry here.

FAT JOE featuring AMORPHOUS, “Sunshine (The Light)” (RNG/EMPIRE)
Album: TBA (2021)
Past T40 History: Despite earning airplay at other formats in recent years, Fat Joe hasn’t hit the top 40 here since the fall of 2005.

GLASS ANIMALS, “Heat Waves” (Wolf Tone/Republic)
Album: Dreamland (2020)
Past T40 History: After a delayed impact, this tune is sailing through the 30’s on the pop chart. It’s the band’s first top 40 hit here.

Next week: Make no mistake, because Maroon 5 and Megan Thee Stallion are coming for the top of the adds report…

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RADIO ACTIVE — A Weekly Chart CHRonicle (February 28, 2021)

Welcome to Radio Active, a Sunday evening report from POP! Goes The Charts that gets to the chart of the matter: all the highlights from the CHR/Top 40 chart, as published by Mediabase 24/7 and Mediabase Research. Who’s licensed to appear at #1 this week? A look at what’s popping at the format may drive you to figure it out:

OUT FOR A DRIVE: In just its seventh week on the list, “Driver’s License” by Olivia Rodrigo charges down the Top 40 highway and parks it in the top spot. It’s her first #1 song at the format, which is not too shabby for her first ever charting hit. Now, how long will it continue to dominate? The answer to that, and when it will reach #1 at the Hot AC format, will be revealed soon.

Daya picks up her sixth top 40 single with “Bad Girl”, lifting from 41-38. It’s her first time in the region since early 2018. Australian newcomer Masked Wolf also makes the top 40 with “Astronaut In The Ocean”, up from 43-40. His first top 40 release has already made it this high (or higher) on the national charts in a number of countries in Europe, as well as his home country.

New entries from Conan Gray and AJR land just outside the top 50, with “Overdrive” entering at #43 and “Way Less Sad” starting at #46. The two tracks should have enough action to hit the top 40 next week, unless the forthcoming collaboration from Maroon 5 and Megan Thee Stallion or another larger release blocks their entrance temporarily.

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Highlights from Adam’s Top 40: February 28, 2021

Still got the drive.

DEBUTS
40. The Strumbellas – Greatest Enemy
39. P!nk & Willow Sage Hart – Cover Me In Sunshine | HIGHEST DEBUT

TOP GAINERS
34. Conan Gray – Overdrive (40) | BIGGEST MOVER
17. Dua Lipa – We’re Good (22)

THIS WEEK’S TOP TEN
10. Taylor Swift featuring HAIM – No Body, No Crime (12) | PEAK: #10
09. Passenger – Sword From The Stone (10) | PEAK: #09
08. Miley Cyrus featuring Dua Lipa – Prisoner (04) | PEAK: #01 for four weeks
07. Chris Cornell – Watching The Wheels (07) | PEAK: #07
06. The Knocks featuring Foster The People – All About You (08) | PEAK: #06
05. Taylor Swift – Willow (06) | PEAK: #05
04. Tones And I – Fly Away (02) | PEAK: #01 for two weeks
03. Ed Sheeran – Afterglow (03) | PEAK: #02
02. Ava Max – My Head & My Heart (05) | PEAK: #02
01. Olivia Rodrigo – Driver’s License (01) | PEAK: #01 for two weeks

Top 10 Next In Line:
1. Joy Oladokun – Breathe Again (1)
2. Mike Posner featuring Stanaj & Yung Bae – Momma Always Told Me (5)
3. Silk City & Ellie Goulding – New Love (3)
4. MisterWives – Superbloom (9)
5. Joshua Bassett – Lie Lie Lie (6)
6. Shawn Hook – Take Me Home (7)
7. Nessa Barrett featuring Jxdn – La Di Die (10)
8. Ella Henderson & Tom Grennan – Let’s Go Home Together (-)
9. Elle King & Miranda Lambert – Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home) (-)
10. The Band CAMINO – 1 Last Cigarette (-)

In The Mix:
Maisie Peters – John Hughes Movie (new)
Moon Taxi – Say
Nick Jonas – Spaceman (new)
Zak Abel – Be Kind (new)
Zoe Wees – Girls Like Us

Chart Notes:

• Olivia Rodrigo scores a second week at #1 on my personal chart with “Driver’s License”, her very first entry to date. The track climbs to #1 on this weekend’s Top 40 radio update, while also remaining atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart. One of last week’s debuts from Conan Gray is now the Biggest Mover this time around, as “Overdrive” lifts from 40-34. P!nk and her 9-year-old daughter Willow Sage Hart have the Highest Debut of the week at #39 with “Cover Me In Sunshine”, which is beginning to pick up some airplay at the Hot AC format in both the U.S. and Canada, while The Strumbellas enter at #40 with the CanCon-approved “Greatest Enemy”.

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ADAM’S TOP 40 FLASHBACK: February 26, 2017

This chart is all about Julia.

It’s the start of another weekend, which means it’s time for another trip back into the archives on Adam’s Top 40 Flashback! Every Saturday, the day before my latest top 40 goes up for the week, I feature the highlights of a past countdown. They’re all here — the hit songs, the songs that flopped, and the songs that may be a little embarrassing to reflect on.

This week, we stroll back four years and find out what was topping my chart for the week of February 26, 2017…

Debuts:
40. NOAH KAHAN, “Young Blood”
37. JP COOPER, “September Song”

Biggest Mover(s):
MICHAEL BUBLÉ, “I Believe In You” (33-21, twelve spots)

10. KATY PERRY featuring SKIP MARLEY, “Chained To The Rhythm” (up 6)
Album: Witness (2017, Capitol Records)
Peak: #1 for four weeks

09. JULIA MICHAELS, “Issues” (up 1)
Album: Nervous System (EP) (2017, Republic Records)
Peak: #1 for one week

08. ONEREPUBLIC, “Let’s Hurt Tonight” (steady, second week)
Album: Oh My My (2016, Mosley/Interscope Records)
Peak: #8 for two weeks

07. LP, “Lost On You” (down 3)
Album: Lost On You (2016, Vagrant/BMG/RCA Records)
Peak: #2

06. ED SHEERAN, “Castle On The Hill” (up 1)
Album: ÷ (2017, Atlantic Records)
Peak: #2 for four weeks

05. DANIEL POWTER, “Delicious” (up 1)
Album: Giants (EP) (2018, KDS Farrell/Warner Bros. Records – Japan)
Peak: #5

04. JULIA BRENNAN, “Inner Demons” (down 1)
Album: Inner Demons (EP) (2016, Columbia Records)
Peak: #3

03. MUNA, “I Know A Place” (up 2)
Album: About U (2017, RCA Records)
Peak: #1 for two weeks

02. RAG’N’BONE MAN, “Human” (steady, second week)
Album: Human (2017, Columbia Records)
Peak: #1 for six weeks

01. ZAYN & TAYLOR SWIFT, “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” (steady, second week)
Album: Fifty Shades Darker (Soundtrack) (2017, Universal Studios-Republic Records)
Peak: #1 for two weeks

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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of February 26, 2021

Make some space for the man.

There’s a galaxy of New Music Friday releases just waiting to be explored, including the current albums from Madison Beer and Robin Schulz, as well as the latest singles from Nick Jonas and Post Malone. Houston, we don’t have a problem with streaming these:

Notable albums out this week: Architects‘s For Those That Wish To Exist (iTunes), Bones Owens‘s Bones Owens (iTunes), Bonnie Tyler‘s The Best Is Yet To Come (iTunes), Confetti‘s The Circus: Act I (iTunes), Josh Groban‘s Harmony (Deluxe) (iTunes), Julien Baker‘s Little Oblivions (iTunes), Lucy Spraggan‘s Choices (iTunes), Madison Beer‘s Life Support (iTunes), Robin Schulz‘s IIII (iTunes), Sad Night Dynamite‘s Sad Night Dynamite (iTunes), Sheppard‘s Kaleidoscope Eyes (iTunes), Willie Nelson‘s That’s Life (iTunes)

Notable EPs out this week: Charlotte Sands‘s Special (iTunes), Laura Mvula‘s 1/F (iTunes), Pilar Victoria‘s Hi, My Name Is Pily! (iTunes), PRETTYMUCH’s Smackables (Deluxe) (iTunes)

New digital singles that you can buy this week include:
“1 Last Cigarette”, The Band CAMINO (iTunes)
“2019”, Martin Jensen & Georgia Ku (iTunes)
“Alameda”, Lewis Del Mar (iTunes)
“All She Wrote”, SIX60 (iTunes)
“AP”, Pop Smoke (iTunes)
“Arms”, Jack Newsome (iTunes)
“Be Kind”, Zak Abel (iTunes)
“Bed”, Joel Corry, RAYE & David Guetta (iTunes)
“Breakeven”, Josh Cumbee (iTunes)
“Bukowski”, 1990Nowhere (iTunes)
“But Cha”, KYLE featuring Josh Golden (iTunes)
“Clouds”, Slayyyter (iTunes)
“Conceited”, Curtis Waters (iTunes)
“Cross Country”, Breland (iTunes)
“Debra”, I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME (iTunes)
“Disco Body Parts”, Yung Bae featuring AWOLNATION (iTunes)
“Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)”, Elle King & Miranda Lambert (iTunes)
“Everybody Hates Me”, Coach Party (iTunes)
“Exposure”, Shelley FKA DRAM (iTunes)
“F U Jack”, Andi (iTunes)
“Feeling Free”, Two Another & Pretty Boy Aaron (iTunes)
“Fiji Fine”, Bren Joy (iTunes)
“Flirted With You All My Life”, Bright Eyes (iTunes)
“Ghost Town”, EBEN (iTunes)
“Go Big”, YG featuring Big Sean (iTunes)
“Heartbreak In This City”, Steps & Michelle Visage (iTunes)
“(Here’s To The) Prom Queen”, Peter McPoland (iTunes)
“High Worry”, Bantug (iTunes)
“Higher (Nathan Dawe Remix)”, Clean Bandit featuring Iann Dior (iTunes)
“Hold On To Me”, Lauren Daigle (iTunes)
“Hollywood Hills”, Casey Baer featuring 12AM (iTunes)
“I Can’t Get High”, Royal & The Serpent (iTunes)
“I Used To Be Cool (Remix)”, Bright Light Bright Light & Jujubee (iTunes)
“I’ll Get Better”, SVEA & Call Me Loop (iTunes)
“Ilomilo (Live)”, Billie Eilish (iTunes)
“I’m Every Woman”, Tinashe (iTunes)
“It Takes Two”, Fiji Blue (iTunes)
“John Hughes Movie”, Maisie Peters (iTunes)
“Josh”, Peach PRC (iTunes)
“June 1st”, Ant Clemons (iTunes)
“Just Because”, Mallory Merk (iTunes)
“Leave A Little Love”, Alesso & Armin Van Buuren (iTunes)
“Let The Bad Times Roll”, The Offspring (iTunes)
“Like A Ship”, Leon Bridges & Keite Young (iTunes)
“Like This”, 2KBaby featuring Marshmello (iTunes)
“Look What You’ve Done”, Zara Larsson (iTunes)
“Love You Now, Love You Later”, Ben Kessler (iTunes)
“Madness”, Zayde Wølf (iTunes)
“Minefields (Live Acoustic)”, Faouzia & John Legend (iTunes)
“More”, Mansionair (iTunes)
“My Ways”, Sycco (iTunes)
“Never Was”, Reaves (iTunes)
“New Ceilings”, Dava (iTunes)
“Older Overnight”, LOVA (iTunes)
“Only Wanna Be With You”, Post Malone (iTunes)
“Open Up The Heavens”, Jade Bird (iTunes)
“Out Loud”, Fairlane, ROZES & JT Roach (iTunes)
“Parking Lot” and “Real Life”, Claire Rosinkranz (iTunes)
“Paul”, Cavetown (iTunes)
“Perfect On Me”, Ryan Mack (iTunes)
“Queen”, Charm La’Donna (iTunes)
“Roots”, Cautious Clay (iTunes)
“Rotate”, Becky G featuring Burna Boy (iTunes)
“She Broke My Heart”, Noah Schnacky (iTunes)
“Sick Of You”, Suriel Hess (iTunes)
“Slowly”, NewDad (iTunes)
“Soldier On”, Dylan Dunlap (iTunes)
“Somebody Does”, Tigirlily (iTunes)
“Something”, Dayglow (iTunes)
“Spaceman”, Nick Jonas (iTunes)
“Spoiled”, Ant Saunders (iTunes)
“Stay Up”, Evan Giia (iTunes)
“Tell Me I’m Pretty (String Version)”, Brynn Elliott (iTunes)
“The Past Is The Past”, Brandy Clark featuring Lindsey Buckingham (iTunes)
“The Runaround”, Joshua Speers (iTunes)
“U F**ked Up”, The Astronomers (iTunes)
“Universe”, Scarypoolparty featuring Nothing, Nowhere. (iTunes)
“Virtual Reality”, Renforshort (iTunes)
“When We Love”, LZRD x Sam Tinnesz (iTunes)
“Whirlwind”, Sam Ryder (iTunes)
“You Hear Georgia”, Blackberry Smoke (iTunes)

Next week, the new albums from A Day To Remember, Kings Of Leon and Zara Larsson are among the larger releases on the schedule. For Adam’s personal picks of the week, listen to the PGTC Friday Faves list on Spotify!

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ADD LIB — Brace For (CHR) Impact (February 23, 2021)

Welcome to Add Lib, your Tuesday report on POP! Goes The Charts that’s mad about CHR/Top 40 adds, based on the station data provided by Mediabase 24/7 and Add Board. This week: the pop panel shifts into overdrive for Conan Gray. Let’s add ’em up:

GRAY SLAYS: As he looks for his third top 40 hit at the format, Conan Gray is off to a great start with “Overdrive”. With 45 adds during the session, it’s the Most Added song at Top 40 radio this week. Labelmates Glass Animals take second place with 41 new commitments on “Heat Waves”, their current top five track on the Alternative radio list. Rounding out the top three, AJR picks up a nice 24 adds for “Way Less Sad”, still two weeks ahead of its official impact date. The release either led or tied for first at both the Alternative and Hot AC formats this week.

Charting singles from Daya, Dua Lipa and Masked Wolf returned to the top ten on the adds report this week.

We’ll see you for more chart activity next Tuesday on the birthday week edition of the report!

MOST ADDED — THIS WEEK’S TOP TEN
1. CONAN GRAY, “Overdrive” (Republic)
2. GLASS ANIMALS, “Heat Waves” (Republic)
3. AJR, “Way Less Sad” (S-Curve/Hollywood)
4. DAYA, “Bad Girl” (Sandlot/AWAL)
5. DUA LIPA, “We’re Good” (Warner)
6. MASKED WOLF, “Astronaut In The Ocean” (Elektra/EMG)
7. CARDI B, “Up” (Atlantic)
8-T. G-EAZY featuring CHRIS BROWN & MARK MORRISON, “Provide” (RCA)
8-T. SZA, “Good Days” (Top Dawg/RCA)
8-T. THE KID LAROI, “Without You” (Grade A/Columbia)

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RADIO REPORT: What’s Popping At Top 40 Radio This Week (February 22-23, 2021)

It’s time once again to analyze the airwaves and find out if your favorite new releases will be lighting up your local station’s playlist this week. Which tunes will climb to the top and which ones will hit a stop? Here are two singles impacting this week at the Top 40 format:

CONAN GRAY, “Overdrive” (Republic)
Album: TBA (2021)
Past T40 History: Gray reached the top 30 in the fall with his ballad “Heather”. He’s now looking for his third top 40 song to date.

G-EAZY featuring CHRIS BROWN & MARK MORRISON, “Provide” (RCA)
Album: TBA (2021)
Past T40 History: This track samples Morrison’s “Return Of The Mack”, his signature song that reached #4 at this format in 1997.

Next week: Fat Joe is ready to light up the format with some sunshine, as he aims for his first top 40 hit since 2005.

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RADIO ACTIVE — A Weekly Chart CHRonicle (February 21, 2021)

Welcome to Radio Active, a Sunday evening report from POP! Goes The Charts that gets to the chart of the matter: all the highlights from the CHR/Top 40 chart, as published by Mediabase 24/7 and Mediabase Research. Ready for our rocket ride to planet pop? It’s time for all you audio astronauts to discover what’s popping at the format this week:

ALIVE AT “35”: Pop superstar Ariana Grande remains at the top for a second week with “34+35”, the second consecutive chart-topper from her recent studio album Positions. However, Grande’s hit is likely to be unseated next week, as Olivia Rodrigo cruises down the highway of hits from 5-2 with “Driver’s License”.

New to the top 40, Cardi B moves from 44-39 with “Up”, while SZA rises a spot from 41-40 with “Good Days”. It’s the ninth top 40 song here for the former and the sixth for the latter. (Had Mediabase credited Cardi B for her featured slot on Ed Sheeran‘s “South Of The Border” that she shared with Camila Cabello, it would be her tenth.)

Format newcomers Masked Wolf and Jessia lead three new entries in the top 50 with their current viral tracks “Astronaut In The Ocean” and “I’m Not Pretty”, which debut at #43 and #44, respectively. Further down, G-Eazy lands at #48 with his Chris Brown and Mark Morrison-assisted “Provide”, which samples the latter’s 1997 hit “Return Of The Mack”.

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Highlights from Adam’s Top 40: February 21, 2021

Driven to reach the top.

DEBUTS
40. Conan Gray – Overdrive
39. Anson Seabra – Walked Through Hell | HIGHEST DEBUT

TOP GAINERS
22. Dua Lipa – We’re Good (34) | BIGGEST MOVER
17. Jessia – I’m Not Pretty (22)
14. JP Saxe & Maren Morris – Line By Line (19)

THIS WEEK’S TOP TEN
10. Passenger – Sword From The Stone (13) | PEAK: #10
09. Gwen Stefani – Let Me Reintroduce Myself (09) | PEAK: #09
08. The Knocks featuring Foster The People – All About You (10) | PEAK: #08
07. Chris Cornell – Watching The Wheels (08) | PEAK: #07
06. Taylor Swift – Willow (05) | PEAK: #05
05. Ava Max – My Head & My Heart (06) | PEAK: #05
04. Miley Cyrus featuring Dua Lipa – Prisoner (04) | PEAK: #01 for four weeks
03. Ed Sheeran – Afterglow (02) | PEAK: #02
02. Tones And I – Fly Away (01) | PEAK: #01 for two weeks
01. Olivia Rodrigo – Driver’s License (03) | PEAK: #01 for one week | NEW #1

Top 10 Next In Line:
1. Joy Oladokun – Breathe Again (3)
2. Smith & Thell – Radioactive Rain (1)
3. Silk City & Ellie Goulding – New Love (4)
4. P!nk & Willow Sage Hart – Cover Me In Sunshine (10)
5. Mike Posner featuring Stanaj & Yung Bae – Momma Always Told Me (5)
6. Joshua Bassett – Lie Lie Lie (6)
7. Shawn Hook – Take Me Home (9)
8. Ant Clemons featuring Justin Timberlake – Better Days (7)
9. MisterWives – Superbloom (-)
10. Nessa Barrett featuring Jxdn – La Di Die (-)

In The Mix:
Ella Henderson & Tom Grennan – Let’s Go Home Together (new)
Meduza featuring Dermot Kennedy – Paradise
Moon Taxi – Say
The Strumbellas – Greatest Enemy (new)
Zoe Wees – Girls Like Us

Chart Notes:

• Olivia Rodrigo claims her first #1 song on my personal chart with “Driver’s License”, rising from 3-1. It’s already topped the Billboard Hot 100 survey and looks to be one of the early favorites for the best-performing single of the year. Dua Lipa blasts from 34-22 with this week’s Biggest Mover in the countdown, “We’re Good”. Newcomer Anson Seabra has the Highest Debut at #39 with “Walked Through Hell”, as a new song from Conan Gray sneaks in at #40. “Overdrive” is his third top 40 entry to date.

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ADAM’S TOP 40 FLASHBACK: February 19, 2012

This 2012 chart is looking fine.

It’s the start of another weekend, which means it’s time for another trip back into the archives on Adam’s Top 40 Flashback! Every Saturday, the day before my latest top 40 goes up for the week, I feature the highlights of a past countdown. They’re all here — the hit songs, the songs that flopped, and the songs that may be a little embarrassing to reflect on.

This week, we stroll back nine years and find out what was topping my chart for the week of February 19, 2012…

Debuts:
39. KARMIN, “Brokenhearted”
38. FUN. featuring JANELLE MONÁE, “We Are Young”
31. KATY PERRY, “Part Of Me”

Biggest Mover(s):
REBECCA FERGUSON, “Nothing’s Real But Love” (38-32)
MATT CARDLE, “Amazing” (30-24, six spots)

10. COLDPLAY featuring RIHANNA, “Princess Of China” (steady, second week)
Album: Mylo Xyloto (2011, Capitol Records)
Peak: #10 for two weeks

09. ONE DIRECTION, “One Thing” (steady, second week)
Album: Up All Night (2012, Syco/Columbia Records)
Peak: #5

08. MAT KEARNEY, “Ships In The Night” (steady, second week)
Album: Young Love (2011, Universal Republic Records)
Peak: #8 for four weeks

07. OLLY MURS, “Dance With Me Tonight” (down 2)
Album: In Case You Didn’t Know (2011, Syco/Columbia Records)
Peak: #3 for three weeks

06. ANDY GRAMMER, “Fine By Me” (steady, third week)
Album: Andy Grammer (2011, S-Curve Records)
Peak: #4 for two weeks

05. TRAIN, “Drive By” (up 2)
Album: California 37 (2012, Columbia Records)
Peak: #1 for three weeks

04. GRAFFITI6, “Free” (steady, second week)
Album: Colours (2012, Capitol Records)
Peak: #1 for four weeks

03. ADELE, “Set Fire To The Rain” (down 1)
Album: 21 (2011, XL/Columbia Records)
Peak: #1 for three weeks

02. KELLY CLARKSON, “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” (up 1)
Album: Stronger (2011, 19/RCA Records)
Peak: #2 for four weeks

01. GOTYE featuring KIMBRA, “Somebody That I Used To Know” (steady, second week)
Album: Making Mirrors (2012, Fairfax/Universal Republic Records)
Peak: #1 for seven weeks

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