COLLEGE RADIO RECAP WEEK 33

It was a crap week at college radio. It really felt like a lot of stations were just phoning it in. One station has reported the exact same playlist for 3 weeks in a row. Next week will be a full month! Can't wait to find out.

We are looking at historic lows in the number of reporting stations in the summer but we can still look at some fun things on the chart. I thought it might be fun to look how the correlation to a top add equates to the position on the chart.

We will start with the first ADD week of the year and look at the first 10 add weeks. We will only be looking at the top five adds of each week unless there is a huge outlier

Week 1 of the year--Issue 1422

TW	TA	Artist	Recording	Label
1	50	OH WONDER	Oh Wonder	PEAKED AT #10
2	42	KRISP	Sonic Monarch	PEAKED AT #58
3	36	PRINCE	HITNRUN Phase Two	PEAKED AT #12
4	33	REVERSING FALLS	Reversing Falls 2	PEAKED AT #77
5	27	VARIOUS ARTISTS	30th Century Records Compilation, Volume 1	PEAKED AT #108

So easily the top added record ended up on top but the first thing I see is Prince at #3, crazy to think of what kind of bounce he would of seen had this record been later in the  year, much like the David Bowie bounce. 

WEEK 2--ISSUE 1423 

1	106	DAVID BOWIE	Blackstar	PEAKED AT #1
2	70	CAGE THE ELEPHANT	Tell Me I'm Pretty	PEAKED AT #4
3	60	BESNARD LAKES	A Coliseum Complex Museum	PEAKED AT #5
4	56	SPOOK SCHOOL	Try To Be Hopeful	PEAKED AT #9
5	46	WRAY	Hypatia	PEAKED AT #12
6	38	JULIEN BAKER	Sprained Ankle	PEAKED AT #11

Well this one was almost perfect. I included Julien because she did peak above the #5 most added record. No real shocks here. 

WEEK 3--ISSUE 1424 

1	111	HINDS	Leave Me Alone	PEAKED AT  #2
2	61	DRESSY BESSY	Kingsized	PEAKED AT #13
3	49	ADRIAN YOUNGE	Something About April II	PEAKED AT #7
4	47	GANG OF YOUTHS	The Positions	PEAKED AT #31
5	43	MILK LINES	Ceramic	PEAKED AT #18

Oh 2 major discrepancies here.  Interesting that Adrian Younge was able to get top 10 over Dressy Bessy. Even more interesting that Milk lines had a much higher peak than Gang Of Youths. 

WEEK 4--1425 

TW	TA	Artist	Recording	Label
1	106	TY SEGALL	Emotional Mugger	PEAKED AT #1
2	74	SHEARWATER	Jet Plane And Oxbow	PEAKED AT #6
3	71	DAUGHTER	Not To Disappear	PEAKED AT #5
4	50	RINGO DEATHSTARR	Pure Mood	PEAKED AT #16
5	49	ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER	New View	PEAKED AT #17
6	45	BASIA BULAT	Good Advice	PEAKED AT #21
7	42	CHAIRLIFT	Moth	PEAKED AT #25
8	39	NIGHT BEATS	Who Sold My Generation	PEAKED AT #11

For the most part this lines up pretty well. Sure #2 went above #3 at one point but what is up with Night Beats?!  I can only speculate that the mailing was not done in time for ADDS.  

WEEK 5--1426 

1	108	DIIV	Is The Is Are	PEAKED AT #1
2	84	HIGH HIGHS	Cascades	PEAKED AT #13
3	75	MASS GOTHIC	Mass Gothic	PEAKED AT #11
4	53	ST. LUCIA	Matter	PEAKED AT #45
5	48	BENJI HUGHES	Songs In The Key Of Animals	PEAKED AT #29
6	45	RECORD COMPANY	Give It Back To You	PEAKED AT #30

Pretty crazy how much better Benji Huges and Record Company did over St. Lucia. The ADD difference is not that much but still you would think top 30 would be obtainable if the two records below you got it. 

WEEK 6--1427 

TW	TA	Artist	Recording	Label
1	119	WILD NOTHING	Life Of Pause	PEAKED AT #3
2	110	DR. DOG	The Psychedelic Swamp	PEAKED AT #3
3	80	PORCHES	Pool	PEAKED AT #5
4	58	CLOUD CULT	The Seeker	PEAKED AT #16
5	50	SUNFLOWER BEAN	Human Ceremony	PEAKED AT #11
6	49	JUNIOR BOYS	Big Black Coat	PEAKED AT #27
7	44	DEEP SEA DIVER	Secrets	PEAKED AT #19
8	39	BASEMENT	Promise Everything	PEAKED AT #22

I remember this ADD week well as I was working DR. Dog. Crazy that the top 3 adds all went top 5 but nothing really crazy.  I did notice that the number 7 and 8 added records did better than the #6 most added thought that was worth including 

WEEK 7 1428 

TW	TA	Artist	Recording	Label
1	102	RA RA RIOT	Need Your Light	PEAK AT #8
2	73	LILY AND MADELEINE	Keep It Together	PEAK AT #23
3	71	SO PITTED	Neo	PEAK AT #29
4	57	JEZABELS	Synthia	PEAK AT #27
5	57	FLORIST	The Birds Outside Sang	PEAK AT #28

Well you can't get much closer than that.  Nothing too shocking. 

WEEK 8--1429 

TW	TA	Artist	Recording	Label
1	145	ANIMAL COLLECTIVE	Painting With	PEAKED AT #1
2	92	QUILT	Plaza	PEAKED AT #5
3	68	TEEN	Love Yes	PEAKED AT #18
4	56	MOTHERS	When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired	PEAKED AT #13
5	55	DEATH BY UNGA BUNGA	Pineapple Pizza	PEAKED AT #14
6	50	GAZEBOS	Die Alone	PEAKED AT #30
7	43	DIRTY NIL	Higher Power	PEAKED AT #36
8	43	MOUNT MORIAH	How To Dance	PEAKED AT #40
9	42	MAVIS STAPLES	Livin' On A High Note	PEAKED AT #15

I think that might be the biggest abnormality we have seen yet. Mavis Staples comes in way behind #5 most added but almost best their peak. There is actually an easy explanation for that. A record like Mavis Staples is powered by the larger AAA stations so for charting purposes it takes less of them to achieve a good result 

WEEK 9--1430

TW	TA	Artist	Recording	Label
1	96	SANTIGOLD	99cents	PEAK AT #2
2	89	YUCK	Stranger Things	PEAK AT #8
3	77	VIOLENT FEMMES	We Can Do Anything	PEAK AT #8
4	67	CHARLES BRADLEY	Changes	PEAK AT #3
5	50	POLICA	United Crushers	PEAK AT #17

WEEK 10--1431 

1	104	THAO AND THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN	A Man Alive	PEAK AT #1
2	96	M. WARD	More Rain	PEAK AT #7
3	65	LA SERA	Music For Listening To Music To	PEAK AT #15
4	51	DAMIEN JURADO	Visions Of Us On The Land	PEAK AT #13
5	47	PRINCE RAMA	Xtreme Now	PEAK AT #38
6	44	NADA SURF	You Know Who You Are	PEAK AT #22

Pretty straightforward. Nada Surf barely got beat out for #5 most added so its easy to say that Prince Rama overachieved on the ADDS side of things. 

So that was fun. For me at least. Overall I think the top 3 ADDS stand up or at the very least you can say it matters when you get #1 most added. Not a single record that got #1 most added was passed on the charts by someone lower in that week. Of course there are exceptions the biggest this year being BADBADNOTGOOD .. Lets look at that week

TW	TA	Artist	Recording	Label
1	73	BLOOD ORANGE	Freetown Sound	PEAK AT #3
2	62	BAT FOR LASHES	The Bride	AT #7 NOW
3	57	BADBADNOTGOOD	IV	PEAK AT #1
4	44	BROODS	Conscious	PEAK AT #20
5	39	LISA PRANK	Adult Teen	PEAK AT #36

It is worth noting that Blood Orange went up from #5 to #4 this week but it had already peaked at #3 previously. Bat for lashes was at #8 for 2 weeks in a row before moving up to #7 and is now at its current peak. It really has been a while since I have seen the #3 most added record get #1 when the 2 adds ahead of it did not get to #1. So that is the biggest outlier so far this year.  But It looks like overall you can still use the ADDS chart as a predictor for future success.

As far as what happened on the charts THIS week. We saw the Avalanches finally take the #1 spot on the chart.  Dinosaur Jr and Thee oh Sees should fight it out for next week!

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