Welcome to the Raptor Top 40!!!
Methodology: 40% Mediabase Pop radio audience impressions + 40% digital single sales + 20% music video play.
Note: For a song that debuts with high first week sales, I divide the first week sales by 6, the second week sales by 3, the third week sales by 2 and so on so by the sixth week a song is on the market its full sales are calculated in the chart so to keep sales in line with airplay. Also, because of my scant resources, if a song falls below #50 on the Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart, its sales are NOT calculated because I do not have access to the places below #50 on this chart. It may skew the results a hair, but it saves me time as well.
I am running a month behind intentionally so I can get in the hang of doing the chart each week and it gives me leeway in case I miss a week. For each chart dated on a Sunday, the official Pop Mediabase chart from the previous Sundayis used, the digital sales chart from the previous Wednesday is used and the music video chart from the previous Thursday is used:
5/31/09
1. Black Eyed Peas- Boom Boom Pow
2. Lady Gaga- Poker Face
3. Shinedown- Second Chance
4. Katy Perry- Waking Up In Vegas
5. Kelly Clarkson- I Do Not Hook Up
6. 3OH!3- Don’t Trust Me
7. Beyonce- Halo
8. Miley Cyrus- The Climb
9. Pitbull- I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)
10. Jamie Foxx- Blame It
11. P!nk- Please Don’t Leave Me
12. Eminem- We Made You
13. Britney Spears- If U Seek Amy
14. Flo Rida- Right Round
15. Green Day- Know Your Enemy
16. Flo Rida- Sugar
17. Kid Cudi- Day ‘N’ Nite
18. Lady Gaga- Lovegame
19. All-American Rejects- Gives You Hell
20. Soulja Boy- Kiss Me Thru The Phone
21. Kristinia DeBarge- Goodbye
22. The Fray- You Found Me
23. Kelly Clarkson- My Life Would Suck Without You
24. Nickelback- If Today Was Your Last Day
25. Sean Kingston- Fire Burning
26. Jeremih- Birthday Sex
27. Jesse McCartney- How Do You Sleep?
28. Keri Hilson- Knock You Down
29. Kanye West- Amazing
30. All-American Rejects- The Wind Blows
31. T.I.- Dead And Gone
32. Keith Urban- Kiss A Girl
33. The Airborne Toxic Event- Sometime Around Midnight
34. Fast Life Yungstaz- Swag Surfin’
35. The Fray- Never Say Never
36. Soulja Boy- Turn My Swag On
37. Rob Thomas- Her Diamonds
38. Matt Nathanson- Come On Get Higher
39. Rick Ross- All I Really Want
40. Plain White T’s- 1, 2, 3, 4
If you have any questions, feel free to ask!