Personal Charts: 8/21/06 - 8/27/06

[mtm4319]

Stone Sour are holding off a tough group of competitors -- this is their 5th week on top, and might make it for a 6th. I haven't posted a chart in about 3 weeks, so "Chasing Cars" at #2 might not seem that odd. But its chart run -- ...18-14-10-8-7-7-7-7-8-4-2 -- proves otherwise. However, it's Evanescence that is most likely to replace "Through Glass" at the top, leapfrogging the also-quickly-rising "Original Fire". AFI peaked at #2 last week; it has surpassed the #4 peak of "Girl's Not Grey" to become their biggest hit.

Like "Chasing Cars", you'll have to look below the surface to appreciate the oddity of "The Kill"'s chart run. It rose 9-8* in its 8th week in the top 50, which isn't all that unusual until you see that this is its 30th week in the top 100. All those weeks lounging around in the 70s sure added up:
85-73-65-64-64-58-59-60-67-77-(2 wks off)-98-92-91-82-75-71-72-76-77-71-73-76-50-35-22-16-12-9-9-8
This is going to set up a very interesting situation in 3 1/2 months when my year-end chart comes out. I haven't decided how to weight positions yet, but I don't think it will be straight inverse from 100 to 1. Moreover, I might decide to follow 2004 and 2005 and not directly base my year-end chart on my weekly charts at all -- even though the only reason I started to chart album tracks in 2006 was for that purpose.

The bullets all the way through #13 make this week's upper echelon quite strong. Gomez makes a nice rebound, leapfrogging Red Jumpsuit. The Killers are struggling a bit, and probably won't make the top 10 or even top 15. Muse are coming on strong, but it also has high burnout potential.

I alluded to this in my Report Card grades (if anyone actually made it to my remarks in the Active Rock section) -- "Follow The Sun Down" has made by far the greatest gains in the past two weeks. I'd recommend it to anyone who can even tolerate Shinedown's slower tracks. It's better than probably all of them. (If you choose to listen to their MySpace page, though, it'll be a slightly different version than the one I've been listening to.)

Most of the action in the top 50 is concentrated in the upper half. Most of the tracks below She Wants Revenge at #32 are fairly stagnant. AFI's "Prelude 12/21", at 1 minute 34 seconds, is actually not the shortest top 50 hit in my chart's history. Liam Lynch's "United States of Whatever", a top 10 hit in 2002, beats it by 5 seconds. Alien Ant Farm and Head Automatica, both already in double-digit weeks and running out of time to rise, sneak into the top 50.

Not a whole lot of time these days to listen to new music, but 4 tracks off Breaking Benjamin's new album make appearances after I listened to it in full while driving to Auburn last week.

#100 is an honorary-type designation this week. I happened to catch a topic in the Pulse forum about a local Urban DJ quitting on air, being fed up with years of low pay ($6?! I make more than that!) and people talking behind her back. As you might guess, her final words on air were "I quit this bitch!" UrbanInsite.com linked to a rap by "Tazz Daddy" that serves as the #100. Another version consisting mostly of her rant (with "I quit this bitch" after every line), in addition to the actual audio file, contributed "points" as well.

[a Nick O!]

LW TW artist "title" [peak(weeks at peak) weeks on chart, t=total]
01 01 AFI "Miss Murder" [1(8t) 19w]
02 02 Eighteen Visions "Tonightless" [1(2) 16w]
03 03 30 Seconds to Mars "The Kill" [1(1) 27w]
05 04 AFI "Love Like Winter" [4(3t) 11w]
07 05 AFI "Summer Shudder" [5(2t) 11w]
04 06 Avenged Sevenfold "Seize the Day" [4(1) 43w]
08 07 Atreyu "Ex's and Oh's" [3(3) 24w]
06 08 HIM "Killing Loneliness" [6(1) 10w]
10 09 Tool "Vicarious" [2(4) 19w]
11 10 Avenged Sevenfold "Bat Country" [1(33) 62w]
09 11 Avenged Sevenfold "Beast and the Harlot" [1(12t) 70w]
12 12 Avenged Sevenfold "Burn It Down" [3(6) 59w]
13 13 Angels and Airwaves "The Adventure" [6(1) 14w]
14 14 Avenged Sevenfold "The Wicked End" [2(6t) 59w]
15 15 Avenged Sevenfold "Strength of the World" [3(7t) 59w]
16 16 AFI "Kill Caustic" [16(2) 11w]
17 17 AFI "The Missing Frame" [17(3t) 11w]
19 18 AFI "Prelude 12/21" [18(1) 11w]
18 19 Avenged Sevenfold "Blinded in Chains" [12(3t) 48w]
21 20 Atreyu "Shameful" [7(2) 23w]
ROCKET1
24 21 AFI "Endlessly, She Said" [21(1) 6tw]
20 22 Avenged Sevenfold "Trashed and Scattered" [10(1) 44w]
25 23 Lostprophets "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)" [23(1) 7tw]
23 24 Red Hot Chili Peppers "Tell Me Baby" [23(1) 12tw]
22 25 Avenged Sevenfold "Betrayed" [11(1) 53w]
27 26 Tool "Wings for Marie (Pt I)/10,000 Days (Wings Pt II)" [18(1) 13w]
26 27 Avenged Sevenfold "M.I.A." [8(3t) 42w]
31 28 Lostprophets "Can't Stop, Gotta Date with Hate" [28(1) 7w]
30 29 AFI "Affliction" [27(3) 10w]
28 30 Avenged Sevenfold "Sidewinder" [18(2) 43w]
29 31 Red Hot Chili Peppers "Dani California" [5(2) 20w]
32 32 AFI "The Interview" [29(1) 10w]
34 33 Muse "Knights of Cydonia" [33(1) 3w]
33 34 Eighteen Visions "Truth or Consequence" [33(2) 5w]
ROCKET2
38 35 Lostprophets "Always All Ways (Apologies, Glances and Messed Up Chances)" [28(2) 7w]
43 36 AFI "37mm" (DEBUT)
45 37 Lostprophets "Can't Catch Tomorrow (Good Shoes Won't Save You This Time)" (RE-ENTRY) [35(1) 5tw]
-- 38 Tool "The Pot" (DEBUT)
39 39 Red Hot Chili Peppers "Hard to Concentrate" [32(1) 13w]
ANCHOR
35 40 Panic! at the Disco "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" [30(1) 10w]

Falling off:
36 41 Eighteen Visions "Coma" [36(2) 4w]
37 43 Eighteen Visions "Black and Bruised" [37(1) 4w]
40 44 Eighteen Visions "The Sweetest Memory" [40(1) 1w]

The Contenders:
41 42 Eighteen Visions "Victim" (41)
44 45 Justin Timberlake "SexyBack" (44)
47 46 AFI "The Killing Lights" (44)
48 47 AFI "Kiss and Control" (43)
54 48 Lostprophets "Broken Hearts, Torn Up Letters and the Story of a Lonely Girl" (48)
42 49 Bleeding Through "Love in Slow Motion" [5(2) 30w]
-- 50 Lostprophets "Everybody's Screaming!!!"
55 51 Gnarls Barkley "Crazy" (51)
-- 52 Lostprophets "Everyday Combat"
-- 53 Lostprophets "A Town Called Hypocrisy"
-- 54 The Fray "How to Save a Life" (52)
-- 55 The Killers "When You Were Young"
50 56 Evanescence "Call Me When You're Sober" (50)
51 57 Bleeding Through "Return to Sender" [13(1) 25w]

Nick's Notes:
AFI songs generally rebound because I listened to the album in the car. "Seize the Day" slips because I'm not hearing it anywhere, dammit. Atreyu's tunes rebound because I also listened to their album in the car. "Killing Loneliness" slips because I didn't hear it this past week. Tool songs rebound due to listening to that album in the car. "Bat Country" rebounds because I heard it on the radio.

Lostprophets songs rebound because I also listened to their album in the car the other day. "Tell Me Baby" slips because I didn't hear it this past week.

I heard "Crazy," "How to Save a Life" and "When You Were Young" again on the radio the other day. I did not, however, hear the new Evanescence tune this past week, so down it goes. Thanks for reading.

[Pipa]

Picpak's 50

For the week of August 21 - 27/06

1. Nickelback - Far Away
2. Blue October f/ Imogen Heap - Congratulations
3. Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
4. Muse - Knights of Cydonia
5. Deadboy and the Elephant Men - Stop, I'm Already Dead
6. Tool - The Pot
7. AFI - Miss Murder
8. Hinder - Lips of an Angel
9. Nickelback - Rockstar
10. The Mars Volta - Viscera Eyes
11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cheated Hearts
12. Jet - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
13. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
14. Towers of London - Air Guitar
15. Keane - Is It Any Wonder?
16. The Feeling - Fill My Little World
17. Billy Talent - Red Flag
18. Sloan - Who Taught You To Live Like That
19. AFI - Love Like Winter
20. Blue October - Into The Ocean
21. Buckcherry - Next 2 You
22. Under The Influence of Giants - Mama's Room
23. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby
24. Evanescence - Call Me When You're Sober
25. Cobra Starship - Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)
26. The Pink Spiders - Little Razorblade
27. The Knife - Silent Shout
28. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Face Down
29. Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
30. Tom Petty - Saving Grace
31. Breaking Benjamin - Diary of Jane
32. Raconteurs - Hands
33. Audioslave - Original Fire
34. Papa Roach - To Be Loved
35. The Fray - How To Save A Life
36. Raconteurs - Intimate Secretary
37. Everclear - Hater
38. Wolfmother - Woman
39. Angels and Airwaves - Do It For Me Now
40. Dark New Day - Follow The Sun Down
41. Needtobreathe - Haley
42. Franz Ferdinand - Eleanor, Put Your Boots Back On
43. Mobile - See Right Through Me
44. Starewell - Blurrier
45. Sonic Youth - Incinerate
46. Anberlin - Audrey, Start The Revolution!
New: 47. Skillet - Rebirthing
48. Nickelback - Savin' Me
49. Trapt - Disconnected (Out Of Touch)
New: 50. The Trews - I Can't Say

[Mega248]

Eth's Top 50
August 26, 2006

2W LW TW Artist Title (peak position)[WOC]

02  02  01  AFI "Miss Murder"(#1, 1 week)[19]
03  03  02  LOSTPROPHETS "Rooftops"(#2)[16]
01  01  03  KEANE "Is It Any Wonder?"(#1, 10 weeks)[20]
04  04  04  SNOW PATROL "Chasing Cars"(#4)[10]
07  05  05  STONE SOUR "Through Glass"(#5)[9]
11  09  06  FIVE FOR FIGHTING "The Riddle"(#6)[7]
05  06  07  FRAY "How To Save A Life"(#2)[16]
10  08  08  RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS "Face Down"(#8)[8]
06  07  09  HARD-FI "Hard To Beat"(#6)[15]
12  11  10  RASCAL FLATTS "Me And My Gang"(#10)[13]
08  10  11  SNOW PATROL "Hands Open"(#4)[19]
20  15  12  COLDPLAY "The Hardest Part"(#12)[8]
09  12  13  DRESDEN DOLLS "Sing"(#8)[17]
16  14  14  JACK'S MANNEQUIN "Dark Blue"(#14)[12]
13  13  15  DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE "Crooked Teeth"(#1, 3 weeks)[30]
21  18  16  GNARLS BARKLEY "Crazy"(#16)[15]
35  27  17  EVANESCENCE "Call Me When You're Sober"(#17)[4]
15  16  18  ROCK KILLS KID "Paralyzed"(#14)[16]
22  20  19  SHAWN MULLINS "Beautiful Wreck"(#19)[14]
24  21  20  EDITORS "Munich"(#20)[9]
28  25  21  CHRIS RICE "When Did You Fall"(#21)[20]
25  23  22  ANGELS AND AIRWAVES "The Adventure"(#22)[11]
26  24  23  MUSE "Knights of Cydonia"(#23)[10]
14  17  24  RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS "Dani California"(#4)[20]
33  30  25  BLUE OCTOBER "Into The Ocean"(#25)[5]
18  19  26  RASCAL FLATTS "What Hurts The Most"(#14)[18]
31  29  27  KILLERS "When You Were Young"(#27)[6]
32  31  28  RASCAL FLATTS "Life Is A Highway"(#28)[6]
36  32  29  RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS "Tell Me Baby"(#29)[5]
17  21  30  MUTE MATH "Chaos"(#1, 1 week)[33]
40  34  31  CARBON LEAF "Learn To Fly"(#31)[4]
19  26  32  DANIEL POWTER "Bad Day"(#4)[28]
30  33  33  MAT KEARNEY "Nothing Left To Lose"(#30)[11]
23  28  34  HOOBASTANK "Inside of You"(#15)[16]
46  39  35  88 "All 'Cause of You"(#35)[3]
37  36  36  PAUL OAKENFOLD f/ BRITTANY MURPHY "Faster Kill Pusscat"(#36)[6]
---  44  37  TOM SATORI "One More Whiskey"(#37)[2]
47  41  38  RISE AGAINST "Ready To Fall"(#38)[3]
48  42  39  JOJO "Too Little Too Late"(#39)[3]
39  38  40  AUDIOSLAVE "Original Fire"(#38)[6]
27  35  41  RIHANNA "S.O.S."(#9)[24]
29  37  42  HARD-FI "Cash Machine"(#1, 3 weeks)[29]
---  ---  43  DANIEL POWTER "Jimmy Gets High"(#43)[1]
---  48  44  NICKELBACK "Far Away"(#38)[8]
34  40  45  MICHAEL BUBLE "Save The Last Dance For Me"(#6)[31]
38  43  46  FORT MINOR f/ HOLLY BROOK "Where'd You Go"(#18)[20]
---  ---  47  30 SECONDS TO MARS "The Kill"(#47)[1]
---  ---  48  DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL "Don't Wait"(#48)[1]
41  45  49  PANIC! AT THE DISCO "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage" (#6)[26]
44  49  50  FRAY "Over My Head"(#1, 3 weeks)[42]

DROPPERS:

42  46  ---  NICK LACHEY "What's Left of Me"(#12)[23]
43  47  ---  MUTE MATH "Typical"(#9)[24]
45  50  ---  HIM "Rip Out The Wings of A Butterfly"(#8)[27]

[crash46]

The top 46 for the week of 8-27-06

TW LW Wk Artist - Title (peak)
46 39 11 Dresden Dolls - Sing (27)
45 -- 01 Evanescence - Call Me When You're Sober (45)
44 46 02 Fall Out Boy - A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More "Touch Me" (44)
43 44 06 Muse - Map Of The Problematique (41)
42 42 04 Panic! At The Disco - There's A Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought Of It Yet (42, 2w)
41 41 03 Buckcherry - Crazy Bitch (41, 2w)
40 33 16 Rinôçérôse - Cubicle (18)
39 32 18 Mudvayne - Fall Into Sleep (13, 2w)
38 -- 01 AFI - Love Like Winter (38)
37 43 02 Tool - The Pot (37)
36 36 05 Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push (36, 2w)
35 37 04 Dresden Dolls - Sex Changes (35)
34 29 28 Matchbook Romance - Monsters (3, 3w)
33 35 08 Snow Patrol - Hands Open (33)
32 40 02 Peeping Tom (featuring Rahzel & Dan The Automator) - Mojo (32)
31 26 33 Panic! At The Disco - The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage (5 weeks at #1)
30 31 15 People In Planes - If You Talk Too Much (My Head Will Explode) (29)
29 24 16 Damone - Out Here All Night (16, 3w)
28 34 03 Angels & Airwaves - The Adventure (28)
27 30 07 Lostprophets - 4:AM Forever (27)
26 28 07 Atreyu - Untitled Finale (26)
25 22 17 Rock Kills Kid - Paralyzed (7)
24 27 07 Bleeding Through - Line In The Sand (24)
23 18 16 Anna Nalick - Breathe (2am) (16)
22 25 04 Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars (22)
21 23 06 Muse - Invincible (21)
20 20 08 Clipse (featuring Pharrell) - Mr. Me Too (20, 3w)
19 21 09 Keane - Is It Any Wonder (19)
18 17 12 Avenged Sevenfold - Beast And The Harlot (17)
17 16 23 The All-American Rejects - Move Along (8, 2w)
16 19 09 Anti-Flag - The Press Corpse (16)
15 15 22 Panic! At The Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies (5, 2w)
14 14 20 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California (3, 3w)
13 13 13 Wolfmother - Woman (13, 2w)
12 11 14 She Wants Revenge - These Things (11)
11 07 17 The Fray - Over My Head (Cable Car) (7, 2w)
10 08 29 30 Seconds To Mars - The Kill (5 weeks at #1)
09 10 10 Placebo - Infra-red (9)
08 09 14 Lostprophets - Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast) (8)
07 12 05 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby (7)
06 05 18 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (4, 4w)
05 06 10 Stone Sour - Through Glass (5)
04 04 13 Rise Against - Ready To Fall (4, 3w)
03 03 18 Tool - Vicarious (3, 10w)
02 02 20 AFI - Miss Murder (11 weeks at #1)
01 01 12 Muse - Knights of Cydonia (2 weeks at #1)
d r o p p e r s :
-- 45 15 Dresden Dolls - Dirty Business (18, 2w)
-- 38 22 Matisyahu - Youth (11)