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Rob's Top 30 -- September 6, 2003
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* * * NO. 1 * * * 1 week(s) at #1
TW LW 2W Wks Song-Artist Peak
*1 -- -- 39 For Better Or Worse-Debbie Gibson No. 1 (1)
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*2 -- -- 26 Lost In Your Eyes-Debbie Gibson No. 1 (12)
*3 -- -- 6 Forever Young-Rod Stewart No. 3
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* * * ELECTRIFYING ENTRY / HIGHEST DEBUT * * *
E4 NEW > 1 Greatest Love Of All-Whitney Houston No. 4
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5 1 1 7 Here Without You-3 Doors Down No. 1 (3)
*6 3 4 8 Why Don't You & I-Santana f/Alex Band No. 3
7 2 2 16 I'm Glad-Jennifer Lopez No. 2 (2)
8 4 5 11 Why Can't I?-Liz Phair No. 4
9 5 3 21 Unwell-Matchbox Twenty No. 1 (2)
10 6 7 14 Where Is The Love?-Black Eyed Peas No. 1 (1)
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11 7 6 19 Swing, Swing-The All-American Rejects No. 1 (3)
*12 10 12 8 Punk Rock 101-Bowling For Soup No.10
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!!! ROBBIE ROCKET / GREATEST GAINER !!!
!13 19 24 4 Forever And For Always-Shania Twain No.13
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14 8 8 23 Fighter-Christina Aguilera No. 1 (5)
15 9 10 18 The Remedy (I Won't Worry)-Jason Mraz No. 3
16 12 11 33 Girl All The Bad Guys Want-Bowling For Soup No. 1 (2)
17 11 9 18 Miss Independent-Kelly Clarkson No. 1 (1)
*18 17 22 4 Low-Kelly Clarkson No.17
19 13 13 16 What Do You Do-The Troys No.11
20 14 14 37 All The Things She Said-t.A.T.u. No. 1 (1)
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*21 22 26 4 Can't Hold Us Down-Christina Aguilera/Lil' Kim No.21
22 15 15 40 Don't Mess With My Man-Nivea/Jagged Edge No. 1 (2)
23 16 17 12 Breathe-Blu Cantrell No.16
*24 27 30 3 Heaven-Live No.24
*25 23 25 5 Something That You Said-Bangles No.23
26 18 16 13 Flying Without Wings-Ruben Studdard No. 1 (1)
27 20 18 35 Something-Lasgo No. 5
28 21 19 17 Peacekeeper-Fleetwood Mac No. 1 (3)
29 24 20 50 Disease-Matchbox Twenty No. 2 (4)
*30 29 -- 2 The Boys Of Summer-The Ataris No.29
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Key: TW = This Week, LW = Last Week, 2W = 2 Weeks Ago, Wks=Weeks on RT30
Peak = highest RT chart position to date for that particular song
Robbie Rocket = greatest point gainer (not necessarily the week's
biggest leaper in chart position) on the entire chart
FLASHBACK: #1 on the RT charts -- September 5...(this week in history):
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1 year ago (2002) -- "Just Like A Pill," Pink
5 years ago (1998) -- "Crush," Jennifer Paige
10 years ago (1993) -- "Can't Help Falling In Love," UB40
15 years ago (1988) -- "Love Bites," Def Leppard
No Ordinary Day - This Is The Night:
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xx 25 21 39 Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous-Good Charlotte No. 2 (3)
xx 26 23 8 This Is The Night-Clay Aiken No.22
xx 28 28 57 Ordinary Day-Vanessa Carlton No. 1 (3)
xx 30 27 20 Clocks-Coldplay No. 6
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* Getting Married Today...An unusual shakeup at the top of the chart
definitely deserves an explanation. Four oldies, including three
re-entries, would only enter upon a life changing experience...which is
what we had last weekend. Yep, after nine years, my girlfriend and I
finally GOT MARRIED on Saturday night! Our first dance as husband and
wife was Debbie Gibson's "For Better Or Worse," which vaults to #1 this week.
(It had previously peaked at #5 in 1995). Our second song, the bridal
party dance, was "Lost In Your Eyes" by Debbie Gibson (which had spent 12
weeks at #1 back in 1989). The father-daughter dance was "Forever Young"
by Rod Stewart. To understand that, you have to understand the symbolism
of the song title. Young is my wife's maiden name (get it?). "Forever
Young" hits a new peak of #3 this week (it originally peaked at #6 in
1988). And the fourth dance, the mother-son dance, was Whitney Houston's
"Greatest Love Of All." That was one of my Mom's favorite songs while
growing up (and mine as well). And to prove that I'm still not THAT
old, "Greatest" was even before my chart existed. As a result, it finally
makes its debut at #4 this week. Had my chart been around then, it
would've been a #1 hit for sure. Overall, it was a great night. The best
day of my life was definitely worth the wait :)...
* Keeping you forever and for always...Due to the shakeup, the chart is
loaded with backward bullets this week, but one song makes a healthy
half-dozen spot gain. Shania Twain's "Forever And For Always" wins this
week's Robbie Rocket honors by moving 19-13. My bride, a modern day
(1994-present) country music fan, wanted this song in the wedding from the
start...but I didn't really care for it. About 5-6 weeks ago, I finally
started liking the song. And four weeks ago, I finally charted it. So
the gain represents a combination of me liking the song more & more each
week, the meaning of the wedding, and hearing it at the reception. It
could still go #1 but it'll probably land around the top five. Not bad
for a superstar artist who is still looking for that crossover pop hit
from this album...
WHAT'S IN ROB'S MP3 PLAYER? (May 3)
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Well, Napster's on the fritz, which meant I had to go on a "Who
Moved My Cheese" hunt. It'll be only a matter of time before
the RIAA gets its hands on this cheese, too, but at least it's an
alternative for the time being...
Here are the most recent 10 tracks I've downloaded:
* Swing, Swing-The All-American Rejects
* La Isla Bonita-Madonna
* Deeper And Deeper-Madonna
* If You Needed Somebody-Bad Company
* There's The Girl-Heart
* You're Not Alone-Chicago
* You Know You're Right-Nirvana
* Now-Def Leppard
* I Am Mine-Pearl Jam
* Dilemma-Nelly/Kelly Rowland
* Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)-Los Del Rio
Now Featuring New: Now Featuring New: Now Featuring:
* * * * * THE THEN AND MAYBE NOW ARTIST REVIEW * * * * *
The Then & Now artist review will now only be taken via
requests. If you'd like to see an artist or two reviewed in
"Then & Now," send your choices to RT30!
Last time out, we selected Rod Stewart and Whitney Houston.
This week's selected artist is Debbie Gibson.
RT30's best of...
DEBBIE GIBSON DEBBIE GIBSON (con't)
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1. For Better Or Worse 6. Two Young Kids
2. Lost In Your Eyes 7. Red Hot
3. Shake Your Love 8. Naturally
4. Out Of The Blue 9. Think With Your Heart
5. Will You Love Me Tomorrow? 10. You Don't Have To See
ROD STEWART WHITNEY HOUSTON
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1. Forever Young 1. Greatest Love Of All
2. Love Touch 2. I Wanna Dance With Somebody...
3. Lost In You 3. Where Do Broken Hearts Go
4. Rhythm Of My Heart 4. How Will I Know
5. Downtown Train 5. So Emotional
If you have a reader request for your favorite artist (or any artist
in general), e-mail RT30 and I'll get to it ASAP.
Flashback: 1994 - 1990 - 1991 - 1999 - 1996:Flashback
Rob's Top 10 -- September 3, 1994
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TW LW 2W Wks Song-Artist ## 1 week(s) at No. 1 ##
*1 2 5 10 Fall Down-Toad The Wet Sprocket
*2 4 6 8 You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast-Spin Doctors
3 1 1 15 Round Here-Counting Crows
4 3 2 13 Shine-Collective Soul
*5 9 17 11 Come To My Window-Melissa Etheridge
6 7 10 11 Can You Feel The Love Tonight-Elton John
*7 13 16 4 Fantastic Voyage-Coolio
8 5 4 12 Black Hole Sun-Soundgarden
*9 16 23 4 Lucky One-Amy Grant
*10 14 11 15 Stay-Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
Others:
*13 22 -- 2 All I Wanna Do-Sheryl Crow
*14 20 24 3 Wild Night-John Mellencamp
*15 23 22 18 Don't Turn Around-Ace Of Base
*20 26 -- 2 I'll Make Love To You-Boyz II Men
*22 24 -- 2 Rain King-Counting Crows
*23 28 -- 12 Misled-Celine Dion
*24 NEW > 1 When Can I See You-Babyface
*25 -- -- 15 I'll Remember-Madonna
*26 NEW > 1 The Way She Loves Me-Richard Marx
*27 30 -- 31 The Sign-Ace Of Base
*28 NEW > 1 Come Out And Play-The Offspring
*29 NEW > 1 Endless Love-Luther Vandross/Mariah Carey
*30 NEW > 1 Good Times-Edie Brickell
The RT30 Readers Personal Music Chart Links:
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Bill is at http://www.geocities.com/tunedon
Chris is at http://www.massivesmash.com/hits.html
Cj is at http://geocities.com/astericky/
Dar is at http://www.dstroyerradio.com/
Denis is at http://www.sheremeta.net/music/
Greg is at http://www.geocities.com/gregbdown/
Jason is at http://www.angelfire.com/va/top50countdown/top50.html
Jay is at http://thehits.cjb.net/
John is at http://www.angelfire.com/wi/HotTips/17.html
Kik is at http://www.angelfire.com/music5/kik/
Luke is at http://www.angelfire.com/music4/luke_sounds/chart.html
Nick is at http://www.geocities.com/youmakemesick247/chart.html
Talk About Music Charts (great link!):
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Charts Central at http://chartscentral.cjb.net/
The RT30 Readers Top 5 -- September 6, 2003
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This week's RT30 readers' top5...
TW LW 2W CWC Song-Artist * 1 consecutive updates(s) at #1 *
1 -- -- 1 "Can't Hold Us Down," Christina Aguilera f/Lil' Kim
2 -- -- 1 "Going Under," Evanescence
3 -- -- 1 "Bright Lights," Matchbox Twenty
4 -- -- 1 "Where Is The Love," Black Eyed Peas
5 -- -- 1 "Why Can't I?" Liz Phair
And this week's randomly selected featured voter is...Nick
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Nick's Top 5:
#1 Going Under-Evanescence
#2 Here Without You-3 Doors Down
#3 (There's Gotta Be) More To Life-Stacie Orrico
#4 Harder To Breathe-Maroon 5
#5 The Boys Of Summer-The Ataris
To vote in the RT30 readers top5, send your top5 tunes of the week
to robbie@pgh.nauticom.net
The Handian's (Raf!) top 5 Singles -- December 26, 2002
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#1 --> "'03 Bonnie & Clyde," Jay-Z
#2 --> "Jenny From The Block," Jennifer Lopez
#3 --> "Lose Yourself," Eminem
#4 --> "Bump, Bump, Bump," B2K & P. Diddy
#5 --> "Hey Ma," Cam'ron
Billboard's Top 10 Albums -- September 13, 2003
http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/bb200.jsp
TW LW Album-Artist ** 1 Week(s) At Number 1 **
*1 -- Love & Life-Mary J. Blige
*2 -- Metamorphosis-Hilary Duff
3 1 The Neptunes Present...Clones-Various Artists (1 week at #1)
4 2 Greatest Hits Volume II And Some Other Stuff-Alan Jackson (form #1)
*5 -- Drankin' Patnaz-YoungBloodZ
*6 9 Dangerously In Love-Beyonce (1 week at #1) (1 million RIAA)
*7 7 Fallen-Evanescence (2 million RIAA)
8 5 Bad Boys II Soundtrack (4 weeks at #1) (1 million RIAA)
9 11 Jackpot-Chingy (500,000 RIAA)
*10 21 A Rush Of Blood To The Head-Coldplay (2 million RIAA)
FLASHBACK: #1 on the Hot 100 -- September 5....(this week in history):
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5 years ago (1998) -- "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing," Aerosmith
10 years ago (1993) -- "Can't Help Falling In Love," UB40
15 years ago (1988) -- "Monkey," George Michael
20 years ago (1983) -- "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)," Eurythmics
25 years ago (1978) -- "Grease," Frankie Valli
30 years ago (1973) -- "Brother Louie," Stories
35 years ago (1968) -- "People Got To Be Free," The Rascals
40 years ago (1963) -- "My Boyfriend's Back," The Angels
45 years ago (1958) -- "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu..." Domenico Modugno
What is RT30 listening to? Click on the Playlists:
http://www.wprr.com/html/playlist.html
http://www.majic1049.com/playlist.shtml
Find any radio station's web page:
http://wmbr.mit.edu/stations/states/PA.html
Radio & Records Top 10 Pop Singles -- September 5, 2003
http://www.rronline.com
TW LW Song-Artist ** 4 Week(s) At Number 1 **
1 1 Where Is The Love?-Black Eyed Peas
*2 3 Shake Ya Tailfeather-Nelly f/P. Diddy & Murphy Lee
3 2 Crazy In Love-Beyonce' f/Jay-Z (2 weeks at #1)
*4 5 Can't Hold Us Down-Christina Aguliera f/Lil Kim
*5 8 Right Thurr-Chingy
*6 7 Senorita-Justin Timberlake
7 4 Are You Happy Now?-Michelle Branch
8 6 Unwell-Matchbox Twenty
*9 16 The Remedy (I Won't Worry)-Jason Mraz
10 9 Miss Independent-Kelly Clarkson (6 weeks at #1)
American Top 40 (with Casey Kasem) --
AT40
Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 --
http://www.rick.com/top40/fchart.html
Billboard's Hot 100 Top 10 -- September 13, 2003
http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/hot100.jsp
TW LW Song-Artist ** 2 Week(s) At Number 1 **
*1 1 Shake Ya Tailfeather-Nelly, P.Diddy & Murphy Lee (soundtrack cut)
*2 3 Right Thurr-Chingy
3 2 Crazy In Love-Beyonce Featuring Jay-Z (8 weeks at #1)
*4 9 Baby Boy-Beyonce Featuring Sean Paul
*5 6 Get Low-Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz Featuring Ying Yang Twins
6 5 Into You-Fabolous Featuring Tamia Or Ashanti
*7 7 Frontin'-Pharrell Featuring Jay-Z
8 4 P.I.M.P.-50 Cent
9 10 Where Is The Love?-Black Eyed Peas
10 8 Unwell-Matchbox Twenty (album cut)
Radio & Records Hot Adult Contemporary Chart -- September 5, 2003
http://www.rronline.com
TW LW Song-Artist ** 1 Week(s) At Number 1 **
1 2 Calling All Angels-Train
2 1 Unwell-Matchbox Twenty (19+ weeks at #1)
*3 3 Why Don't You & I-Santana/Alex Band
4 4 Are You Happy Now?-Michelle Branch
5 5 The Remedy (I Won't Worry)-Jason Mraz
6 6 Drift Away-Uncle Kracker Featuring Dobie Gray
7 7 Bring Me To Life-Evanescence
*8 11 Heaven-Live
9 8 Amazing-Josh Kelley
10 9 When I'm Gone-3 Doors Down
Radio & Records Top 10 Alternative Chart -- September 5, 2003
http://www.rronline.com
TW LW Song-Artist ** 6+ Week(s) At Number 1 **
1 1 Faint-Linkin Park
2 2 So Far Away-Staind
3 4 Creatures (For A While)-311
4 3 The Boys Of Summer-The Ataris
*5 6 Weak And Powerless-A Perfect Circle
*6 5 Show Me How To Live-Audioslave
*7 8 Bottom Of A Bottle-Smile Empty Soul
*8 12 Someday-Nickelback
*9 11 Going Under-Evanescence
10 7 Send The Pain Below-Chevelle
Radio & Records Top 10 Country Chart -- September 5, 2003
http://www.rronline.com
TW LW Song-Artist ** 6+ Week(s) At Number 1 **
*1 1 It's Five O'Clock Somewhere-Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett
2 2 No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems-Kenny Chesney
*3 3 What Was I Thinkin'?-Dierks Bentley
*4 4 Real Good Man-Tim McGraw
*5 7 Help Pour Out The Rain (Lacey's Song)-Buddy Jewell
6 5 Forever And For Always-Shania Twain
*7 9 This One's For The Girls-Martina McBride
*8 10 Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me-Keith Urban
*9 11 A Few Questions-Clay Walker
*10 12 Tough Little Boys-Gary Allan
Radio & Records Top 10 Adult Contemporary Singles -- September 5, 2003
http://www.rronline.com
TW LW Song-Artist ** 14 Week(s) At Number 1 **
1 1 Drift Away-Uncle Kracker f/Dobie Gray
2 2 Have You Ever Been In Love-Celine Dion
*3 3 Unwell-Matchbox Twenty
*4 5 Dance With My Father-Luther Vandross
5 4 If You're Not The One-Daniel Bedingfield
*6 7 Forever And For Always-Shania Twain
*7 6 Hole In The World-Eagles
*8 9 Big Yellow Taxi-Counting Crows
9 8 The Game Of Love-Santana f/Michelle Branch (former #1)
*10 10 Can't Stop Loving You-Phil Collins
Billboard's Top 10 R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks -- September 13, 2003
http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/airplay/rnb.jsp
TW LW Song-Artist ** 5 Week(s) At Number 1 **
1 1 Frontin'-Pharrell Featuring Jay-Z
*2 2 Get Low-Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz Featuring Ying Yang Twins
*3 4 Right Thurr-Chingy
*4 5 Shake Ya Tailfeather-Nelly, P. Diddy & Murphy Lee
*5 7 Baby Boy-Beyonce Featuring Sean Paul
*6 6 Into You-Fabolous Featuring Tamia Or Ashanti
7 3 P.I.M.P.-50 Cent
*8 11 Damn!-YoungBloodZ Feautring Lil Jon
*9 13 Thoia Thoing-R. Kelly
*10 16 Can't Stop, Won't Stop-Young Gunz
This Week's Top 10 TV Shows -- September 1 - September 7, 2003
http://www.usatoday.com/life/enter/tv/letnandp.htm/
TW LW Song-Artist ** 1 Week(s) At Number 1 **
*1 -- Monday Night Football Opener-ABC (Thursday, 9:07 PM) (19.1 million
2 -- 2003 NFL Showcase-ABC (Thursday, 9:00 PM) (17.3 million viewers)
3 2 CSI-CBS (Thursday, 9:00 PM) (14.5 million viewers)
4 4 Law & Order-NBC (Wednesday, 10:00 PM) (13.0 million viewers)
t5 -- NFL Post Game-Fox (Sunday, 7:28 PM) (12.3 million viewers)
t5 12 Law & Order-NBC (Sunday, 10:00 PM) (12.3 million viewers)
7 1 Everybody Loves Raymond-CBS (Monday, 8:59 PM) (11.7 million viewers
8 6 King Of Queens-CBS (Monday, 9:30 PM) (11.4 million viewers)
t9 3 CSI:Miami-CBS (Monday, 10:00 PM) (11.2 million viewers)
t9 12 Law & Order CI-NBC (Sunday, 9:00 PM) (11.2 million viewers)
Key:
* = I watched that show :)
This is Robbie signing off by saying, "Life's blessing, life's curse, For
better or worse, I'm with you..."
Available at the RT30 music web site:
http://www.nauticom.net/www/robbie/music.html
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2001 Lifehouse -- Hanging By A Moment
2000 Vertical Horizon -- Everything You Want
1999 Jewel -- Hands
1998 Natalie Imbruglia -- Torn
1997 Jewel -- You Were Meant For Me
1996 Celine Dion -- It's All Coming Back To Me Now
1995 The Rembrandts -- I'll Be There For You
1994 Ace Of Base -- The Sign
1993 Debbie Gibson -- Losin' Myself
1992 Mariah Carey -- I'll Be There
1991 Bryan Adams -- (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
1990 Madonna -- Vogue
1989 Debbie Gibson -- Lost In Your Eyes
1988 Debbie Gibson -- Out Of The Blue
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