COLLEGE RADIO RECAP WEEK 39 CMJ ISSUE 1412

What a week! I really thought early on we were going to plow past last weeks 247 stations, in the end we did have more stations but only 13. Creeping on up though so thats good to see.

Beach House is a beast. We are all competing for #2 at this point. Last week Beach House had just over 70% of the stations this week they were up to 72% of all stations. At one point early on there were only 4 stations, out of around 30, that did not have Beach House on their charts. So you guys like Beach House.

The volume of ADDS right now is pretty crazy and with the CMJ marathon taking a week of reporting away from us next week should be even crazier. This week there were 14 records that had 30+ adds. The top add, Dead Weather topped out at 83 adds.  I was surprised how tight all the adds were and that Dead Weather did not get above 100 ADDS but with so many to pick from it meant we had so many in the 30's and it brought down that top #. I would not be shocked to see the same thing happen again this next week as well as the week after CMJ.

The real question on the charts is who will knock off Beach House!? The current group of records in the top 10 are so far behind that it would take at least another 2 weeks of huge gains and also huge drops from Beach House to get up there. So lets start looking at this weeks ADDS.

TW	TA	Artist	Recording	Label
1	83	DEAD WEATHER	Dodge And Burn	Third Man
2	69	JULIA HOLTER	Have You In My Wilderness	Domino
3	54	WORLD IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE AND I AM NO LONGER AFRAID TO DIE	Harmlessness	Epitaph
4	53	COKE WEED	Mary Weaver	Beyond Beyond Is Beyond
5	47	JR JR	Jr Jr	Warner Bros
6	45	WAND	1,000 Days	Drag City
7	43	DUNGEN	Allas Sak	Mexican Summer
8	42	KURT VILE	B'lieve I'm Goin Down...	Matador
9	42	SILVERSUN PICKUPS	Better Nature	New Machine
10	42	OBERHOFER	Chronovision	Glassnote
11	37	BLITZEN TRAPPER	All Across This Land	Vagrant
12	36	SMALL BLACK	Best Blues	Jagjaguwar
13	33	DARWIN DEEZ	Double Down	Lucky Number
14	30	MERCURY REV	The Light In You	Bella Union
15	27	SHEEPDOGS	Future Nostalgia	Dine Alone
16	26	FUTUREBIRDS	Hotel Parties	Easy Sound
17	23	EDITORS	In Dream	Pias
18	21	PALEHOUND	Dry Food	Exploding In Sound
19	18	JOHN GRANT	Grey Tickles, Black Pressure	Partisan
20	15	SPENCER RADCLIFFE	Looking In	Run For Cover

Who out of this group do you think will challenge for #1?   The record I think we should all look out for is Kurt Vile. I ask stations who they are excited about each week and the answer overwhelmingly was Kurt Vile this week. If we look at the charts he is already at #58.  Look out for this record.  

Early on, as I mentioned, it seemed like we were going to have a huge increase in the number of stations reporting. It only ended up being 13 stations though. However if we include the stations that were INVALID it would of been an increase of 23 stations.   With new MD' starting up it's easy to not know what you are doing. So lets look at some common mistakes with the Invalid charts. 

Look at just this stations top 10. 

Rank	Artist	Recording	Label	User Supplied Version
1	COLD WAR KIDS *	Miracle Me *	*	waiting for CMJ verification
2	CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH *	In This Home of Ice *	*	waiting for CMJ verification
3	WESTKUT *	0700 *	*	waiting for CMJ verification
4	DAMIEN RICE *	The Box *	*	waiting for CMJ verification
5	JACK + ELIZA *	Quarter Past the Hour *	*	waiting for CMJ verification
6	JACK AND ELIZA	Gentle Warnings	Yebo
7	CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH *	Details of War *	*	waiting for CMJ verification
8	WETKUST *	Dishwasher *	*	waiting for CMJ verification
9	DAMIEN RICE	My Favorite Faded Fantasy	Warner Brothers
10	COLD WAR KIDS *	Bottled Affection *	*	waiting for CMJ verification

The rest of the chart is pretty much the same. Damien Rice, Cold War Kids, Alt-J over and over again.  On the CMJ charts we have seen an increase in the number of singles reported however CMJ is an ALBUM based chart. So that means if there is just a single out then its ok to chart that single however if the full record is out you need only to report that album.  

This next station is the most common error we see and is very easy to fix

11	METHOD MAN	The Meth Lab	Tommy Boy
12	MEGA RAN	RNDM	RandomBeats
13	K-OS	Can't Fly Without Gravity	Dine Alone
14	MEGA RAN	RNDM	RandomBeats
15	PARIS	Pistol Politics	Guerilla Funk
16	PETE ROCK	Petestrumentals 2	Mello Music Group
17	MOKA ONLY	Magikal Weirdness	Urbnet

Reporting the same record twice. I have never used the CMJ system from a station perspective and from what I hear there are some exciting new changes coming but I don't understand why the system lets a station report 2 of the same record if its not allowed. Perhaps there is a warning given to the station, I don't know but there should be. 

Here is another station with that same issue: 

18	DAMAGED BUG	Cold Hot Plumbs	Castle Face
19	DE LUX	Generation	Innovative Leisure
20	LAPALUX	Lustmore	Brainfeeder
21	MIAMI HORROR	All Possible Futures	Dine Alone
22	LAPALUX	Lustmore	Brainfeeder
23	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	Blurryface	Fueled By Ramen-Atlantic

This next mistake is a little more rare and I am not even sure how it happens : 

8	MARY PAIR AND THE GROOVIES *	Electro cosmic *	*	waiting for CMJ verification
9	BRIKA	Voice Memos	Art House
Empty
11	PANDA BEAR MEETS THE GRIM REAPER *	Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper *	*	waiting for CMJ verification
12	PIONEER OF NOTHING *	You Blew It *	*	waiting for CMJ verification
13	DODOS	Individ	Polyvinyl

But you do see this happen from time to time. 

So those are some examples of what not to do. I know whenever I see an Invalid chart I try and reach out to the station to let them know what is wrong and that they have time to fix it. I am sure others do the same.   

Thank you for reading! Lets talk on twitter. 

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