Personal Charts: 12/18/06 - 12/24/06

[a Nick O!]

LW TW artist "title" [peak(weeks at peak) weeks on chart, t=total]
01 01 AFI "Love Like Winter" [1(6) 28w]
02 02 My Chemical Romance "Welcome to the Black Parade" [2(7t) 13w]
03 03 Justin Timberlake featuring T.I. "My Love" [3(3) 14w]
08 04 My Chemical Romance "Famous Last Words" [4(1) 6w]
04 05 Avenged Sevenfold "Seize the Day" [1(11) 60w]
06 06 (+44) "When Your Heart Stops Beating" [6(2) 6w]
05 07 Tool "The Pot" [4(3t) 18w]
07 08 Justin Timberlake f/ Timbaland "SexyBack" [6(1) 17w]
ROCKET
15 09 Deftones "Hole in the Earth" [9(1) 13tw]
14 10 Red Hot Chili Peppers "Snow ((Hey Oh))" [10(1) 12tw]
16 11 Muse "Map of the Problematique" [11(1) 15w]
12 12 AFI "Miss Murder" [1(8t) 36w]
11 13 The Killers "When You Were Young" [3(4) 17w]
10 14 Muse "Knights of Cydonia" [4(2) 20w]
ANCHOR
09 15 Red Hot Chili Peppers "Tell Me Baby" [7(2) 29tw]
13 16 Eighteen Visions "Tonightless" [1(2) 33w]
18 17 AFI "Summer Shudder" [5(2t) 28w]
20 18 Bleeding Through "Love in Slow Motion" [5(2) 33tw]
17 19 30 Seconds to Mars "The Kill" [1(1) 44w]
19 20 AFI "Endlessly, She Said" [16(1) 23tw]
21 21 Bleeding Through "For Love and Failing" [11(1) 27tw]
22 22 Atreyu "Shameful" [7(2) 40w]
23 23 Atreyu "The Theft" [13(2) 18tw]
24 24 Avenged Sevenfold "Beast and the Harlot" [1(12t) 87w]
30 25 30 Seconds to Mars "From Yesterday" [25(1) 4w]
27 26 AFI "The Missing Frame" [17(3t) 28w]
25 27 HIM "Killing Loneliness" [5(1) 27w]
26 28 Avenged Sevenfold "Trashed and Scattered" [10(1) 61w]
28 29 Avenged Sevenfold "Bat Country" [1(33) 79w]
31 30 Avenged Sevenfold "Burn It Down" [3(6) 76w]
29 31 Atreyu "Ex's and Oh's" [3(3) 41w]
32 32 Avenged Sevenfold "Blinded in Chains" [12(3t) 65w]
33 33 My Chemical Romance "This Is How I Disappear" [33(3) 6w]
34 34 AFI "Kill Caustic" [15(1) 28w]
38 35 Bleeding Through "Kill to Believe" [22(1) 17tw]
36 36 Avenged Sevenfold "The Wicked End" [2(6t) 76w]
35 37 AFI "Prelude 12/21" [14(1) 28w]
37 38 Avenged Sevenfold "Strength of the World" [3(7t) 76w]
39 39 Avenged Sevenfold "Betrayed" [11(1) 70w]
40 40 Avenged Sevenfold "M.I.A." [8(3t) 59w]


The Contenders:
41 41 Lostprophets "A Town Called Hypocrisy" (41)
42 42 Lostprophets "Can't Catch Tomorrow (Good Shoes Won't Save You This Time)" [35(1) 6tw]
51 43 Tenacious D "The Pick of Destiny" (43)
47 44 Bleeding Through "Return to Sender" [13(1) 25w]
45 45 (+44) "Chapter 13" (45)
46 46 My Chemical Romance "I Don't Love You" (42)
53 47 My Chemical Romance "House of Wolves" (41)
-- 48 Lupe Fiasco "Kick, Push" (48)
49 49 Nelly Furtado "Say It Right" (49)
48 50 Eighteen Visions "Truth or Consequence" [25(3) 18tw]
50 51 Avenged Sevenfold "Sidewinder" [18(2) 56w]
43 52 Evanescence "Call Me When You're Sober" [19(3) 14w]
44 53 Snow Patrol "Chasing Cars" (42)
52 54 Bleeding Through "Tragedy of Empty Streets" [32(1) 10w]
-- 55 Clipse f/ Pharrell "Mr. Me Too"
-- 56 Lupe Fiasco "I Gotcha"
-- 57 Lupe Fiasco f/ Jonah Matranga "The Instrumental"
60 58 Tenacious D "Classico" (58)
-- 59 Clipse f/ Slim Thug "Wamp Wamp (What It Do)"
56 60 Lostprophets "Broken Hearts, Torn Up Letters and the Story of a Lonely Girl" (48)

Nick's Notes:
Let's see. I was obsessed with "Famous Last Words" last week and am reasonably sure that'll be my next #1. I mean, though I haven't heard it there yet, it's already storming radio. How could it not be next? "My Love" isn't strong enough to get a #1, nor is "Black Parade" at this point.

After the new year, I'll get to go back and listen to (+44) some more, so hopefully the title track can peak well within the Top 5. I wouldn't necessarily rule out "The Pot" from returning to the Top 5 just yet. The Deftones came to town last weekend and I pumped myself up beforehand by spinning their 3rd-5th CDs. (I didn't have time to go back and add in the first two.) "Snow" I would expect Top 5 from, but not a #1.

I spun Muse a little bit recently, causing the track to reset its peak just outside the Top 10. (Meanwhile, I'm still waiting to hear "Starlight" for the 2nd? 3rd? time on radio, while "Knights of Cydonia" is becoming tiresome, despite my best efforts, as is "The Kill.")

I'm not sure how long Tenacious D can possibly last. I just definitively listened to Clipse and Lupe's albums. Unfortunately for Gwen, doing the same for hers didn't result in anything yet except for "Wind It Up" winding up in the 60s. "Say It Right" is treading water. "Chasing Cars" is probably done. That seemed to be short-lived. That's it for this week. One more weekly chart and then it's 2007 time. Goodnight, all.

[Pipa]

Picpak's 50

For the week of December 18 - 24/06

1. Priestess - Lay Down
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow ((Hey Oh))
3. Kasabian - Shoot The Runner
4. Starewell - Those Who Matter
5. Nickelback - Far Away
6. Aerosmith - Devil's Got a New Disguise
7. Billy Talent - Fallen Leaves
8. Priestess - Talk To Her
9. Stone Sour - Sillyworld
10. Wolfmother - White Unicorn
11. Fall Out Boy - It Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race
12. Eighteen Visions - Broken Hearted
13. Switchfoot - Oh! Gravity
14. Kasabian - Empire
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby
16. Rob Thomas - Streetcorner Symphony
17. The Feeling - Never Be Lonely
18. The Knife - Silent Shout
19. Jet - Stand Up
20. Rockstar Supernova - Be Yourself and Five Other Cliches
21. The Blood Arm - Suspicious Character
22. Daughtry - It's Not Over
23. Jet - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
24. The Feeling - Love It When You Call
25. Sloan - Ill Placed Trust
26. Blue October - Into The Ocean
27. Bullet For My Valentine - All These Things I Hate
28. Papa Roach - Forever
29. Relient K - Must Have Done Something Right
30. Three Days Grace - Pain
31. The Exies - Different Than You
32. Ok Go - Here It Goes Again
33. Depeche Mode - Martyr
34. Breaking Benjamin - Breath
35. P.O.D. - Going In Blind
36. The Mars Volta - Viscera Eyes
37. Angels and Airwaves - The War
38. Rockstar Supernova - Headspin
39. Wolfmother - Dimension
40. Goo Goo Dolls - Let Love In
41. Deadboy and the Elephant Men - Stop, I'm Already Dead
42. Stabilo - Don't Look In Their Eyes
43. Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
44. Kasabian - Me Plus One
45. Rise Against - Prayer for a Refugee
46. Tom Petty - Flirting With Time
New: 47. Tomi Swick - Easy Company
New: 48. Young Love - Discotech
New: 49. Smash Mouth - So Insane
50. Tool - Jambi

[mtm4319]

There's really been a slowdown at the top, with songs 1-5 remaining the same for the past 3 weeks now. "The Only One" is certainly a worthy #1, but I'm not sure if it's worthy of 8 weeks, which is around what it may wind up with. Whatever replaces it might wind up doing so by default, as I can't find another #1 caliber song right now (besides the ones that have already been there) in the whole top 50 (including "Plan B", which I've already played the crap out of).

"Polaris" surprisingly holds on and may even sneak into the top 10 as Ludacris falls. "Can't Catch Tomorrow" and "Lying Is the Most Fun..." keep trucking along.

"Ladies and Gentlemen" is a pretty weak #50, but I couldn't justify "What Goes Around..." leapfrogging it already because, with only rare exceptions, I didn't debut songs straight into the top 50 when I had a top 100. Maybe that'll change in a few months if I'm paying attention to fewer songs overall, but not in week 2 of the slimmer chart. "A Special Christmas Box" (aka... well, I won't spoil the real title if you haven't watched it) is a hilarious SNL skit that comes nearly a year to the day after "Lazy Sunday". I don't watch the show much anymore, but everyone has been saying it's the best sketch since "Lazy Sunday" (and YouTubers seem to agree). I never gave "Here (In Your Arms)" a fair shake after being disappointed by "Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn", but I listened to it on a friend's MySpace page this week and liked it. "If Everyone Cared" is a nice improvement over "Far Away" in the Nickelback-chick-song department.

P.S. The title at the top of my .PNG should say "December 22, 2006". The chart still comes out on Fridays.

[crash46]

Final chart of 2006 and the year end chart is ready to go as soon as I have the time to start posting it.

The top 46 for the week of 12-24-06

TW LW Wk Artist - Title (peak)[/font][/color]
46 -- 01 Killers - A Great Big Sled (46)
45 -- 01 The Raconteurs - Level (45)
44 36 10 Flyleaf - Fully Alive (28)
43 -- 01 All-American Rejects - It Ends Tonight (43)
42 -- 01 My Chemical Romance - Famous Last Words (42)
41 42 03 Pepper - No Control (41)
40 43 02 Rise Against - Prayer Of The Refugee (40)
39 41 04 The Strokes - You Only Live Once (39)
38 31 09 Papa Roach - To Be Loved (29)
37 -- 01 Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race (37)
36 39 04 Lostprophets - The New Transmission (36)
35 37 06 Gnarls Barkley - Gone Daddy Gone (40, 2w)
34 29 37 AFI - Miss Murder (11 weeks at #1)
33 35 06 Blue October - Into The Ocean (33)
32 40 03 The Killers - Bones (32)
31 27 22 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby (1 week at #1)
30 38 03 (+44) - When Your Heart Stops Beating (30)
29 34 04 Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down (29)
28 30 10 Army Of Anyone - Goodbye (28)
27 22 18 Evanescence - Call Me When You're Sober (6)
26 23 23 Muse - Map Of The Problematique (17)
25 26 09 Tenacious D - The Pick Of Destiny (25)
24 19 29 Muse - Knights of Cydonia (8 weeks at #1)
23 28 04 Muse - Starlight (23)
22 25 06 Placebo (featuring Alison Mosshart) - Meds (22)
21 18 11 Shiny Toy Guns - Le Disko (18, 3w)
20 24 05 My Chemical Romance - Dead! (20)
19 20 06 Atreyu - Shameful (19)
18 17 14 The Mars Volta - Viscera Eyes (16, 3w)
17 21 05 30 Seconds To Mars - From Yesterday (17)
16 14 13 Bullet For My Valentine - Tears Don't Fall (10)
15 13 17 Say Anything - Alive With The Glory (7, 2w)
14 15 11 Sparta - Taking Back Control (14)
13 16 11 Taking Back Sunday - Liar (It Takes One To Know One) (13)
12 10 14 OK Go - Here It Goes Again (9, 2w)
11 09 15 Deftones - Hole In The Earth (7, 2w)
10 12 14 The Fray - How To Save A Life (10)
09 06 21 Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars (4, 2w)
08 11 08 Angels And Airwaves - The War (8)
07 08 16 Avenged Sevenfold - Seize The Day (7)
06 05 12 Killers - When You Were Young (5, 2w)
05 07 08 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow ((Hey Oh)) (5)
04 03 19 Tool - The Pot (2 weeks at #1)
03 04 16 My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade (2 weeks at #1)
02 02 12 Incubus - Anna Molly (2, 2w)
01 01 18 AFI - Love Like Winter (6 weeks at #1)[/color]
d r o p p e r s :[/font][/color]
-- 46 29 Rise Against - Ready To Fall (4, 3w)
-- 45 01 Thursday - Counting 5-4-3-2-1 (45)
-- 44 26 Placebo - Infra-red (5)
-- 33 10 Plain White T's - Hate (I Really Don't Like You) (25)
-- 32 11 Kill Hannah - Lips Like Morphine (12)[/color]

[friday]

12/23/06

TW LW Artist - Song
40 De Jojo - Too Little Too Late
39 De My Chemical Romance - Famous Last Words
38 De Goo Goo Dolls - Let Love In
37 De Three Days Grace - Pain
36 38 Snow Patrol - You're All I Have
35 36 Flyleaf - Fully Alive
34 30 The Killers - When You Were Young (6 weeks at #1)
33 40 Muse - Starlight
32 37 Brand New - Sowing Season (Yeah)
31 35 Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
30 29 Saosin - Voices
29 34 Sparta - Taking Back Control
28 21 Tenacious D - The Pick of Destiny
27 25 +44 - When You're Heart Stops Beating
26 24 Evans Blue - Beg
25 27 Shiny Toy Guns - Le Disko
24 28 Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
23 16 The Raconteurs - Level
22 20 KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See
21 23 Crossfade - Drown You Out
20 22 Angels & Airwaves - The War
19 26 Fall Out Boy - This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race
18 12 Say Anything - Alive With the Glory of Love
17 14 Evanescence - Call Me When You're Sober (3 weeks at #1)
16 18 U2 - Window in the Skies
15 19 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (Hey Oh)
14 17 Disturbed - Land of Confusion
13 15 Mat Kearney - Nothing Left to Lose
12 11 The Fray - How to Save a Life
11 10 Taking Back Sunday - Liar
10 07 U2 and Green Day - The Saints Are Coming
09 04 Placebo - Meds
08 13 Panic! At the Disco - Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off
07 06 Kill Hannah - Lips Like Morphine
06 08 The Killers - Bones
05 09 30 Seconds to Mars - From Yesterday
04 05 Blue October - Into the Ocean
03 03 My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade (2 weeks at #1)
02 02 Incubus - Anna Molly (3 weeks at #1)
01 01 AFI - Love Like Winter (3 weeks at #1)

Falling Off:
-- 31 Deftones - Hole In the Earth
-- 32 Gnarls Barkley - Gone Daddy Gone
-- 33 Stone Sour - Through Glass
-- 39 30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill

So some of you may have noticed that I haven't posted a chart in quite a while. Well, while it never officially died, it was on life support for much of the year (hence the absence of weeks and peak right now), but I'm gonna revive it, try to keep it up for all of 2007, and hopefully log all the incomplete 2006 charts in time to make a year-end chart. (And I might tinker with the scoring next year, too, but we'll see.)

Meanwhile, I'm gonna attempt to comment on all forty songs here. AFI continues to pound ahead, but I feel like there hasn't been a truly dominant #1 for at least two months. They'll probably hold on for the rest of the year, though. I thought Incubus would be #1 right now, but they and MCR and solid right now. Blue October is buffering this week until :30, "Bones" and Panic! begin to do battle in the new year. "Bones" might be the favorite since it feels like it gets better with every listen. Kill Hannah will have probably logged a solid half-year on the chart next week; truly one of the more surprising events this year. Placebo also had one (or should I say two) of the biggest surprises this year; "Infrared" possibly scraped the top ten over the summer. Boo "Window in the Skies" cutting the rug from under "The Saints are Coming," but the video play allowed it to last long enough.

Thank goodness TBS managed to hit the top ten (twice) this time around. I could probably have never justified to myself owning all three albums otherwise. The Fray were an absolute powerhouse this year; HTSAL might log enough weeks in '07 to make that year's chart. "Nothing Left to Lose" was just one of those songs that grew on me over a few months, and it's getting its due now. "Land of Confusion" got a late boost due to the video suddenly showing up on MTV2. "Snow" might just peak high on name cred; I haven't truly felt it yet. Even if CMWYS wasn't Evanescence at the top of their game, that's four-for-four (not counting "Everybody's Fool") in the top 2 for them (with "Broken" reaching #3). Say Anything's fall might be softened for a month by me putting the song on my iPod. FOB should easily get a second top 10. AAA had better success with the first two singles, but they had a very solid debut year, to say the least.

Crossfade just knows how to make good hard rock singles. KT should be doing better, but possibly won't. "Level" was better than the consensus would have one believe. Nelly could get her third official top 10 with "Say It Right." "Le Disko" had a breakthrough for me when I envisioned a perverted, Cronenberg-esque video, but then backfired when I compared it to the actual video. "Beg" was criminally overlooked when it was out. It was easily the best of their three singles. +44 did alright, but, while I haven't heard the entire album, I feel like they might have done better if they just called themselves "Blink-182." I'm glad the D managed to get their hit on my chart, after my unforgivable passing on "Tribute." Sparta is exploding, and Saosin might too if they can just gain some traction.

"Lazy Eye" might be overstated right now, but better than me passing on it completely. Brand New's gonna do well in '07. f***in' Muse. Every time they put out a song, I say to myself "I can't see myself liking this." Yet I don't turn the station enough when it comes on, and eventually I don't bother trying, and as a result, I come around and love the song. It's happened every time since "Time Is Running Out", and I can't explain it. It's like that one team in the NFL each season who you don't think can win when you look at the matchup, yet somehow always manages to pull it out. "When You Were Young" could be their first song not to break 26 weeks, despite being their fourth #1. Flyleaf keeps plugging along, doing just enough to avoid the axe. Hopefully, "You're All I Have" will gain some ground once "Chasing Cars" dies down, if that ever happens. Three Days Graces also just knows how to make good hard rock songs. The GGD haven't really put out a bad song from this album, but this is the first I've liked enough to chart. MCR should get their fifth straight top ten, assuming I didn't chart an album cut in early '06. And yes, I can't believe that happened either.

If you're still reading, thanks.

[Mega248]

Eth's Top 50
December 23, 2006

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

01 01 01 BLUE OCTOBER "Into The Ocean"(#1, 11 weeks)[22]
03 02 02 KILLERS "When You Were Young"(#3)[23]
04 04 03 AUGUSTANA "Boston"(#3)[10]
02 03 04 CARBON LEAF "Learn To Fly"(#2)[21]
06 05 05 TOM SARTORI "One More Whiskey"(#5)[19]
07 06 06 AFI "Love Like Winter"(#6)[16]
10 09 07 LOSTPROPHETS "The New Transmission"(#7)[11]
08 07 08 ANBERLIN "Audrey, Start The Revolution!"(#7)[15]
11 10 09 DRESDEN DOLLS "Backstabber"(#8)[12]
21 15 10 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS "Snow (Hey Oh)"(#9)[9]
14 12 11 MADONNA "Jump"(#11)[7]
05 08 12 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS "Tell Me Baby"(#3)[22]
12 13 13 ROB THOMAS "Street Corner Symphony"(#12)[9]
17 14 14 HOOBASTANK "Born To Lead"(#14)[9]
09 11 15 COLDPLAY "The Hardest Part"(#2)[25]
13 16 16 EDITORS "Munich"(#2)[26]
24 21 17 SUGARCULT "Do It Alone"(#17)[8]
18 18 18 JOJO "Too Little Too Late"(#18)[20]
25 22 19 INCUBUS "Anna Molly"(#19)[9]
31 25 20 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE "Welcome To The Black Parade"(#25)[6]
20 20 21 STACIE ORRICO "I'm Not Missing You"(#20)[17]
35 28 22 FALL OUT BOY "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race"(#22)[5]
16 17 23 WEIRD AL YANKOVIC "White And Nerdy"(#12)[14]
29 24 24 ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS "It Ends Tonight"(#24)[6]
15 19 25 CHRIS RICE "When Did You Fall"(#6)[37]
19 23 26 LOSTPROPHETS "Rooftops"(#1, 5 weeks)[33]
38 32 27 MERCYME "So Long Self"(#27)[4]
32 30 28 SWITCHFOOT "Oh Gravity"(#28)[8]
33 33 29 JOHN MAYER "Waiting On The World To Change"(#29)[7]
22 26 30 LACUNA COIL "Enjoy The Silence"(#22)[15]
23 27 31 FIVE FOR FIGHTING "The Riddle"(#3)[24]
--- 43 32 HELLOGOODBYE "Here In Your Arms"(#32)[2]
26 29 33 STONE SOUR "Through Glass"(#4)[26]
48 41 34 KILLERS "A Great Big Sled"(#34)[3]
45 38 35 +44 "When Your Heart Stops Beating"(#35)[3]
41 36 36 MUSE "Starlight"(#36)[4]
27 31 37 OK GO "Here It Goes Again"(#24)[14]
40 39 38 COLDPLAY "White Shadows"(#38)[6]
28 34 39 88 "All 'Cause of You"(#17)[20]
--- 46 40 NELLY FURTADO "Say It Right"(#40)[2]
30 35 41 SNOW PATROL "Chasing Cars"(#2)[27]
34 37 42 KEANE "Is It Any Wonder?"(#1, 10 weeks)[37]
--- 48 43 TENACIOUS D "The Pick of Destiny"(#43)[2]
36 40 44 WEIRD AL YANKOVIC "Trapped In A Drive-Thru"(#28)[12]
37 42 45 MUTE MATH "Progress"(#34)[11]
39 44 46 GNARLS BARKLEY "Gone Daddy Gone"(#22)[17]
42 45 47 EVANESCENCE "Call Me When You're Sober"(#9)[21]
--- --- 48 FRAY "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"(#48)[1]
43 47 49 DARK NEW DAY "Follow The Sun Down"(#31)[13]
44 49 50 AFI "Miss Murder"(#1, 2 weeks)[36]

DROPPERS:

46 50 --- RASCAL FLATTS "Me And My Gang"(#9)[29]