Now that Blake’s fist single, “Break Anotha,” has been released to radio, we’ll be posting weekly Mediabase updates. Mediabase tracks radio play according to station format. So, if you want to discuss Blake’s radio play stats, this is the place to do it! We’ll also have a weekly thread for sales reports once those start rolling in after the release of Audio Day Dream.
Here’s how things shake out this week:
“Break Anotha”: 88 Pop (-), 124 HAC (-), 959 Rhy (-)
The empty parentheses indicate last week’s airplay position. Most of Blake’s spins have been on Pop/Top 40 stations. See the full chart here.
Here’s the “Quick Cut” info on “Break Anotha.” It provides a snapshot of how the single is doing across station formats.
Remember, “Break Anotha” officially goes for adds on November 20.
Timbaland didn’t write the song. I don’t know all the details but I think OneRepublic has had “Apologize” in its repertoire since like 2004. I guess at some point along the way when Timba was mentoring Ryan he heard “Apologize” and added his beats to it, put it on his album, and the rest is history.
Apologize, as off my Timbaland cd–
I Mosley, R Tedder
VA Beach Music Publishing/Warner Chappell Publishing, ascap
Midnite Mircale Music ascap
Produced by Greg Wells and Ryan tedder
Co-Produced by Timbaland for timbaland productions
Recorded at TheStudio, Palms lasVegas
under license from Columbia Records
pertinent info anyways. No date given of writing it.
I agree with all of you about relaxing. I had not heard “Tattoo” on the radio at all until yesterday. I hear Apologize pretty much every day and they always say it’s by One Republic. I love the morning show DJs I listen to. They went to the AI finale and interviewed Jordin and Blake afterwards. I e-mailed them a few days ago but haven’t heard back from them yet. I know BA would fit well with the other music they play so I am hoping to hear it on the radio soon.
They always say “by Timbaland”, here. And yes, I am just relaxing. Things are going a-clip, so I’m happy. :-D
Girls,
Things have just gotten interesting on the AllAccess.com page. I was just checking there because they update twice daily just as Mediabase does. I was checking the top 40 mainstream to see if any new stations had added BA to their list of hot pics and well, one has! We lost Canton, OH yesterday where that was concerned and got West Palm Beach in it’s place but tonight we have a new station which makes it 7 again just like it was yesterday morning. LOL Here is the new station they added to that list tonight:
KHHT/Tulsa, Ok
Thanks Pam! I didn’t realize we lost Canton. That’s the station that is only a couple of hours from me. Bummer. But, it’s all good and evens out.
Crystal,
I guess I should have clarified that post sorry. LOL We didn’t lose Canton. What actually happened was that the station took BA off their Hot pics list, but you are right about one thing, it does seem to even out in the end. That station in Tulsa, I hadn’t seen that one on the list of stations before under the hot pics section until tonight and to see B’s name there with the other’s listed there was nice to see! I’m sure we may lose a the song as “hot” pic to a station or 2 occasionally, but so far, it’s looking good!
Anxious to see if Blake won the Challenge again in Utah for the 6th night in a row…the page was not update yet this morning…
*bites nails*
Video today!! WOO! I’ll be sending snuggly thoughts for him and his bad self.
Bully…he did:)
http://www.utahsvfx.com/page.php?page_id=10141
Guys, this is a kind of a strange Mediabase report. You’ll see why in a minute. LOL
Ok, here are the #’s on BA.
We are now down to 29 stations the playing the song, but actually the news gets a lot better from here.
The quick cut chart is showing that BA is now up to 212 spins. This is the breakdown in spins.
HAC 12
POP 144
The Mediabase chart is showing BA is now getting 142 spins with his rank up 3 to #71 on the Mediabase chart today. The song had been holding at #74 for 2 days.
Here are the top 6 format leaders:
1. Memphis
2. Hartford
3. XM Radio
4. Seattle
5. Rochester
6. Canton, OH
The stations playing have gone from 45 to 29. So my question is when it says how many stations are playing does it mean a sample of the song, or that the station was playing the song that particular day?
Like I said the station here played a sample last Friday but when I called into to request they said the song was not on their playlist yet. Can someone explain?
It’s not a strange report. Like I said yesterday when we were seeing that 45 or 40 stations were playing the song a lot of those were stations gave the song a sample spin or a test spin. If they gave it a couple of spins but never played it again they won’t be counted as a station playing it anymore because technically, they aren’t. It’s moving up in spins because some of the format leaders are upping the spins. The bullet slowed down a little but sometimes songs can go up in rank when songs near it slow down more.
Quickcut data counts the amount of spins to date and are combined from all formats so that number will likely never drop. So even if a station gave it one spin and never played it again it will still count in the quickcut data.
A lot of stations won’t play a certain song until it’s added to their playlist. Was the full song played or a sample?
Ok, that makes a little bit more sense now. Thanks for the clarification.
Thanks Lisa,
That is what I was asking.
ETA They played a sample
Lisa, thank you SO MUCH for sharing your knowledge with us. :) The real test is going to start on 11/20. *crosses fingers*
Exactly, once the radio adds are in effect on Nov 20th, a lot of more stations will have the song on their playlists and also his song will finally be available on I-Tunes. I really think BA is going to do amazingly well. The song is catchy as hell and perfect for Top 40 format.
I am so happy he is up to #71! Yay for winning the Utah contest 6 nights on a row! Wow!
ROght now he must be getting ready to shoot his video! Can’t wait to see that!
BA was played in Canada for the first time this morning!!!! WOO HOO!!!! I was so excited!!! CHUMFM had put up a little voting thingy on their site to ask the listeners if they like BA or not. He was played this morning…. YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s awesome! I’m guessing you still haven’t calmed down from the excitement? hee! That’s great that the station is asking for listener input.
Does anyone know when BA will be on Itunes? After the 20th? or maybe before?
According to the AllAccess.com site, BA is now a hot pic for 8 stations and this is the newest one:
WHKF/Harrisburgh, PA
Here is the Mediabase report for 10/9 on BA:
Blake is now up to 238 spins according to the quick cut info chart:
16 HAC
218 POP
The Mediabase chart shows he’s up to 152 spins. He is down just 1 notch to #72 on the Mediabase chart.
The format leaders are still the same. It’s awesome to see the spins increasing!
Oh, one more station has been added to the list of hot pics on the AllAccess.com site which now brings the total up to 9 stations! Yay!
WIHB/Charleston, SC
After exchanging a few PM’s with the evening DJ, and only one call each to her and the afternoon DJ, the local station here is going to play BA in a “Bump It or Dump It” feature on Wed. The evening DJ PM’d me last night to tell me! She’d been pushing for the song for me. I like to think my contact had at least a little something to do with it, lol. Now I need to find people to call in to Bump It! Anyone out there in WV, or SE Ohio?
Now, since I don’t normally follow radio, so have only heard one other of these segments in the background. I believe they did play some previews of a new Akon song last week before they ran the actual segment.
Crystal,
That just shows your determination! I’m proud of you!
Yay Crystal! Thanks for your contact work with her, and spreading the shibby-ness! *hugs*
I’m thinking of joining a myspace of our local station for very similar reasons. They check out your website then, and of course Break Anotha and Blake are all over it, right? MMmm.
Here are the Mediabase #’s and they are looking better!
On the quick cut info chart, it shows BA now having 270 spins.
POP 250
HAC 16
The Mediabase chart shows BA up to 176 spins with his ranking up 1 notch to #71
Yay Great news for today 11/11/07.
The Mediabase chart shows BA up to 192 spins with his ranking up 3 notches to #68
Yay! He keeps going up. We are just one week away of the radio adds.
The quick cut info chart shows 300 spins and the breakdown looks like this:
18 HAC
278 POP
The news is very good today indeed!
Thanks Pam!
I don’t know how to get that specific info.
Your welcome! Here are the top 7 format leaders:
Memphis
Seattle
Hartford, CT
Rochester, NY
XM Radio
Canton, OH
Modesto, CA