RADIO REPORT: What’s Popping At Top 40 Radio This Week (November 29-30, 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’s one song impacting this week at the Top 40 format:

ADELE, “Oh My God” (Melted Stone/Columbia)
Album: 30 (2021)
Past T40 History: While “Easy On Me” remains at #2 again this week, the follow-up hit is already flying at the format, charting at #38.

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RADIO ACTIVE — A Weekly Chart CHRonicle (November 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. For some heat waves and hits for a cool end of November, it’s time to see what’s popping at the format this week:

A DOZEN REASONS TO STAY: “Stay” extends its stay at #1 on the Top 40 radio chart for a twelfth week, as the enduring track from The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber continues to perform very well at the format. As noted last weekend, “Stay” now ties the plays-per-week era record for the most weeks at #1, first accomplished by Donna Lewis in November 1996 with “I Love You Always Forever”. Will the two men establish another piece of chart history next week, or will Adele‘s “Easy On Me” (up 3-2) ease up a notch and take the top spot? Stay tuned…

Due to several weeks of strong airplay following a resurgence on TikTok and streaming services, “Heat Waves” re-enters the list way up at #8 for Glass Animals. The song previously peaked at #14 earlier this year.

In other Adele news, she debuts at #38 with the second single from her new album 30. “Oh My God” is her 11th top 40 entry to date.

Newcomer Benson Boone debuts at #46 with “Ghost Town”, while Taylor Swift slides into the top 50 with her re-recorded version of “All Too Well” at #50. The latter single recently started at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, boosted by an extended rendition that runs just over ten minutes in length.

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RADIO REPORT: What’s Popping At Top 40 Radio This Week (April 27-28, 2020)

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 four tracks impacting this week at the Top 40 format:

AJR, “Bang!” (S-Curve)
Album: TBA (2020)
Past T40 History: After “Dear Winter” barely reached #40 for a week in December, this might become the trio’s fifth top 40 entry.

ALEC BENJAMIN, “Oh My God” (Artist Partner/Atlantic)
Album: These Two Windows (2020)
Past T40 History: In March 2019, he scored his only chart single here with “Let Me Down Slowly”, which spent two weeks at #50.

FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS, “I Just Wanna Shine” (Elektra/EMG)
Album: All The Feels (2019)
Past T40 History: The six-member band last appeared in the top 40 at the format in early 2017, when “HandClap” peaked at #28.

SURF MESA featuring EMILEE, “ILY (I Love You Baby)” (Astralwerks/Capitol)
Album: TBA (2020)
Past T40 History: Both acts are new to this format. The track interpolates Frankie Valli’s 1967 song “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”.

With a larger amount of shifting adds dates given the current pandemic, we’ll see what new titles head to the format on Monday.

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