Lets Digest Some Top 40 Radio

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Many people (Dem Indie Kids, Metalheads, et la.) have it set in their minds Top 40 radio is the devil, everything that’s wrong with the world, why God hates us, etc. For the most part, I’m right on that bandwagon, but there are some highlights in today’s Top 40 radio, and there are many, many lowlights. Lets digest some Top 40 Radio!

• Lets kick things off with the top 5. The summer’s champs are all invited, it seems, at No. 1, Kanye’s excellent “Stronger”, I think I’ve made my fair share of commentary on Kanye and this song. Skipping Timbalalnd’s neverdying “The Way I Are” (#2), Pink, who became relevant with a snappy titled track, “U+UR Hand”, struck radio gold with “Who Knew” (#3, last week). Justin Timberlake, who has just released his 6th Top 40 single from his Future Sex/Love Sounds, is riding his “Lovestoned” at No. 5. I’m leaving out, of course, Timbaland’s new single, “Apologize” featuring One Republic. Sigh.

MP3 | Pink – Who Knew

• The rest of the Top 20 is uneventful and tone deaf. The only stand out songs: Daughtry’s “Over You” (#7), Colbie Caillat’s sweet “Bubbly” (#9), ans Finger Eleven’s “Paralyzer” (#18).

MP3 | Daughtry – Over You
MP3 | Colbie Callait – Bubbly
MP3 | Finger Eleven – Paralyzer

•  The bottom half of Top 40 Radio is embedded with true gems, naturally. Thank Allah Alternative Rock is finding it’s place in Pop Radio (Daughtry is #8, you serious?!). Even though they are in the bottom half, this could be a slow, but steady movement of banishing songs like The Way I Are (#2), Apologize (#5), Crank That (#12), Bartender (#20), and Me Love (#24) down to the bowels of radio hell. These soldiers of alt. rock? matchbox twenty (How Far We’ve Come, #22), My Chemical Romance (Teenagers, #23), Fall Out Boy (I’m Like A Lawyer, #32), and The Last Good Night (Pictures of You, #36).

MP3 | matchbox twenty – How Far We’ve Come
MP3 | Fall Out Boy – I’m Like A Lawyer

R&R Top 40 Radio -

CHR/TOP 40 NATIONAL AIRPLAY ©

Issue Date: 10/19/2007

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STRONGER KANYE WEST ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM/IDJMG

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1 week(s) at number 1

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WHO KNEW PINK LAFACE/ZOMBA

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LOVESTONED JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE JIVE/ZOMBA

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ROCKSTAR NICKELBACK ROADRUNNER/ATLANTIC/LAVA

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OVER YOU DAUGHTRY RCA/RMG

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BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY FERGIE WILL.I.AM/A&M/INTERSCOPE

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BUBBLY COLBIE CAILLAT UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC

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WAKE UP CALL MAROON 5 A&M/OCTONE/INTERSCOPE

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HATE THAT I LOVE YOU RIHANNA FEAT. NE-YO SRP/DEF JAM/IDJMG

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CRANK THAT (SOULJA BOY) SOULJA BOY TELL’EM COLLIPARK/INTERSCOPE

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WAIT FOR YOU ELLIOTT YAMIN HICKORY/RED

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WHEN YOU’RE GONE AVRIL LAVIGNE RCA/RMG

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THE GREAT ESCAPE BOYS LIKE GIRLS COLUMBIA

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HEY THERE DELILAH PLAIN WHITE T’S FEARLESS/HOLLYWOOD

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GIMME MORE BRITNEY SPEARS JIVE/ZOMBA

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PARALYZER FINGER ELEVEN WIND-UP

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HOW FAR WE’VE COME MATCHBOX TWENTY MELISMA/ATLANTIC

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CYCLONE BABY BASH FEAT. T-PAIN ARISTA/RMG

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TEENAGERS MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE REPRISE

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ME LOVE SEAN KINGSTON BELUGA HEIGHTS/EPIC

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FIRST TIME LIFEHOUSE GEFFEN

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I DON’T WANNA BE IN LOVE (DANCE FLOOR ANTHEM) GOOD CHARLOTTE DAYLIGHT/EPIC

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TATTOO JORDIN SPARKS JIVE/ZOMBA

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CLUMSY FERGIE WILL.I.AM/A&M/INTERSCOPE

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LET IT GO KEYSHIA COLE FEAT. MISSY ELLIOTT & LIL’ KIM IMANI/GEFFEN

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S.O.S. JONAS BROTHERS HOLLYWOOD

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GOOD LIFE KANYE WEST FEAT. T-PAIN ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM/IDJMG

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MAKE ME BETTER FABOLOUS FEAT. NE-YO DESERT STORM/DEF JAM/IDJMG

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PICTURES OF YOU THE LAST GOODNIGHT VIRGIN

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DO IT WELL JENNIFER LOPEZ EPIC

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LOVE LIKE THIS NATASHA BEDINGFIELD FEAT. SEAN KINGSTON PHONOGENIC/EPIC

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LIKE THIS MIMS CAPITOL

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That wasn’t too horrible was it?

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