CMJ ISSUE 1371 WEEK 46

I hope everyone out there is getting ready for a great thanksgiving. This week saw VERY low numbers across the board but that did not slow Tv on the Radio from taking over at #1. The Preatures took #1 most added.

I hesitate to really talk too much about the chart this week or even over the next few weeks but I am more than happy to go over things if anyone has any questions.  I would like to tackle my favorite records of the year and also have a debate about Favorite vs Best. I think they are vastly different.

This week though  I want to look back to 7 weeks ago. Issue 1364. Specifically the ADDS.

Showing Radio 200 Adds Chart For Issue #1364

TW	TA	Artist	Recording	Label
1	100	FOXYGEN	And Star Power	Jagjaguwar
2	74	MINUS THE BEAR	Lost Loves	Dangerbird
3	69	S	Cool Choices	Hardly Art
4	68	BASS DRUM OF DEATH	Rip This	Innovative Leisure
5	64	EX HEX	Rips	Merge
6	55	HISTORY OF APPLE PIE	Feel Something	Marshall Teller
7	53	BUDOS BAND	Burnt Offering	Daptone
8	44	VASELINES	V For Vaselines	Rosary
9	42	RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE	Mended With Gold	Saddle Creek
10	41	BARR BROTHERS	Sleeping Operator	Secret City
11	38	EMPIRES	Orphan	Chop Shop
12	32	CHRISTOPHER OWENS	A New Testament	Turnstile
13	28	GERARD WAY	Hesitant Alien	Warner Brothers
14	26	DINOSAUR FEATHERS	Control	Ernest Jenning
15	24	HOMESHAKE	In The Shower	Sinderlyn
16	23	VAN ALLEN BELT	Heaven On A Branch	Nonstop Everything
17	23	GREY GORDON	Forget I Brought It Up	No Sleep
18	22	LAETITIA SADIER	Something Shines	Drag City
19	20	SOFT SWELLS	Floodlights	Modern Outsider
20	18	AUSMUTEANTS	Order Of Operation	Goner

These were the 20 records that were able to get on the adds list. I asked my stations to tell me every company that contacts them what all went for adds that week. Then I kept track of what happened. I thought It would be fun to look at . Lets see if It is. 

Overall according to my stations there were 44 adds being pushed at radio from 11 different companies.  The most that week was 8 adds and a few companies had only one add. 

I thought that those companies with less adds would do better over the course of each project. This was not entirely the case. The company with 8 adds got 3 of their adds on the adds list and over the course of the projects they charted 4 of them.  

There were 3 companies that had 5 adds each. Each had very different results. Two of those companies had all 5 of their adds chart, although neither had all of the adds on the Adds list while the third was only able to get one ADD on the list and only charted 2 throughout the past weeks. 

Lets take a look at that list again and see how they did in regards to charting. 

Showing Radio 200 Adds Chart For Issue #1364

TW	TA	Artist	Recording	Label
1	100	FOXYGEN	Peak at #3
2	74	MINUS THE BEAR	Peak at #21
3	69	S	Peak at #26
4	68	BASS DRUM OF DEATH	Peak at #21
5	64	EX HEX	Peak at #6
6	55	HISTORY OF APPLE PIE	Peak at #44
7	53	BUDOS BAND	Peak at #12
8	44	VASELINES	Peak at #50
9	42	RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE	Peak at #54
10	41	BARR BROTHERS	Peak at #43
11	38	EMPIRES	Peak at #69
12	32	CHRISTOPHER OWENS	Peak at #67
13	28	GERARD WAY	Peak at #57
14	26	DINOSAUR FEATHERS	Peak at #82
15	24	HOMESHAKE	Peak at #42
16	23	VAN ALLEN BELT	Peak at #140
17	23	GREY GORDON	Peak at #182
18	22	LAETITIA SADIER	Peak at #98
19	20	SOFT SWELLS	Peak at #182
20	18	AUSMUTEANTS	Peak at #76

I think its pretty cool that all of the records that made the adds list charted on the chart. However I should note there are several records that did not make the ADDS list that went on to chart Higher than those listed above, I counted 10 in total.  The highest of those was a band called The Gromble and they peaked at #119.

The biggest overachievers, as far as chart position goes, were Ex Hex that outperformed all but the #1 spot ahead of them. And Budos Band that were only beaten by Ex Hex and Foxygen.  

So in general it does look like getting on the ADDS list is a very good indicator of future chart success. It also looks like overall your position on the chart does show how a record will do although not as much as I might of thought.  It is also hard to draw any conclusion from just one chart.