Happy, Sleeping w/ a Friend, You & TIHWR are in the top 10
There You'll Be debuts! Love that song!
Sweater Weather, All of Me and DH falling hard though
Hi Y'all. So about another month of charts went by and I provided literally no Chart Update. Well, the best news is I did track the chart weeks of each week, including this week
Before I go into my usual speial between the top 40 Chart and my personal life, I would like to reflect a little bit about this post in particular.
This Is My 10,000th Post on ATRL
I decided to save my 10,000th post for this thread because this is the thread that is the one that is so closely connected with my entire time on this forum site. In becoming a really active member back in 2012 (and secretly compiling my top 40 chart), I have grown as a member from barely posting at all in 2011 to reaching my 1000th post in my elimination post in top member. Even in my times I have taken a break from activity online, I would still keep my tally of my 40 favorite song of the week. Through thick and thin, from having a beef with MiddleofSelena to voting for Compass on Lord of Countdown's Top 10 thread, this chart has always been present.
I am glad to be a poster on this site and I will continue to post and to make top 40 charts
Now, an update about my personal life. I would like to say i am appreciative of the support I've been given by certain members over my last update. Things have been definitely improving. I am borrowing an older computer then the one i had before the month chart update, I have my car back (the best thing ever), and things are starting to improve in my schooling. Not everything is better and relieved, but at this time (within the past 3 weeks at least), things have improved immensely compared to a month ago.
Highlights of April Charts
- Luke Bryan's distography is filling up most of the chart (ironically around the same time last year i had Will Young dominating my countdown. Link Here
-Lady Antebellum's Compass remains an obsession of mine and near the top of the countdown.
- 3 different #1's in the past 3 weeks (Miley Cyrus - Adore You, Luke Bryan - Play It Again, & Lady Antebellum - Compass)
Here are the April Charts:
4-3-14
4-10-14
4-17-14
4-24-14 with analysis
Hello everyone, Welcome to my actual weekly update! In getting my life back in place has come buckets of assignments and chores that have distracted me from doing a proper chart update. Big projects are oddly coming to completion at the end of my April, which is just a pain. I will say I have become much more serious about my education after getting my car back and a laptop, but in some ways I still feel behind. I am not sure if personally education wise I can keep up, but I'm doing what I can to succeed.
Now onto the crutch that keep many years of my life in a better & positive, my music. This week we see Luke Bryan's Play It Again climb back to #1 after Lady Antebellum's Compass took a jump back to the top of the chart last week. Bryan has become someone I've been stanning for as the years progress, and this week is a testament to it. His songs that i treated as singles within my singles chart have arrived onto the countdown (noted: in order of release onto my top 40): I Don't Want This Night to End (#27), Crash My Party (#31), Drunk on You (#23), Do I (#10), That's My Kind of Night (#7), Rain Is A Good Thing (#18), This Is How We Roll (#9).
We also see Neon Tree's Sleeping With A Friend drift into the #3 spot, making it their highest charting single to date. Faith Hill's The Way You Love Me, the song of my Spring Break, also falls 3-6 this week.
In some odd sense, more songs in my top 10 are actually a lot older songs songs that are in my countdown way past their glory days! It makes me want to create some sort of recurrent rule (I usually don't want to implement one since it would not show what my favorite songs of the week really and truly are, but still its getting to be a mess)! For example, Lady Antebellum's Need You Now jumped 21-5 this week! Its probably because of the success of Compass, but still! Also aside from other Luke Bryan re-entries, Sugababes Push The Button and Selena Gomez's Come & Get It are older singles in the top 10 dominating past their time of success. Its weird for y'all to see these odd chart re-entries, but these are the songs of my week, so you and i will have to deal with it (and it will make for a very interesting year end countdown )
First Chart of May
Beginning a new month and the closing of my school semester, the number 1 song remains to be the same one as the one that hit #1 on my Birthday Compass by Lady Antebellum finally returns to the top again for the 4th time in its chart reign. With this, Lady Antebellum ties Will Young for the most weeks at #1 since the SC Top 40 format change!
Longest Running #1 singles
15 Weeks
Alicia Keys - No One
14 Weeks
Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
13 Weeks
T-Pain - Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin')
12 Weeks Lady Antebellum - Compass
Will Young - Believe
Adele - Someone Like You*
*During format change and was the old format's #1 song during the convergence from August 2011 to January 2012
11 Weeks
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance - 11 Weeks
10 Weeks
Lady Gaga - Paparazzi
Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
9 Weeks
Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry
Beyoncé - Irreplaceable
Mary J. Blige - Be Without You
8 Weeks
Katy Perry - E.T. (feat. Kanye West
Beyoncé - Check On It
7 Weeks
Alexandra Burke - Tonight
Katy Perry - Last Friday Night (TGIF)
Keri Hilson - Knock You Down
Lady Gaga - Poker Face
6 Weeks
Lady Antebellum - Need You Now
Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown - No Air
Akon - Smack That
Cassie - Me & U
Sean Paul - Temperature
This historic week will probably be Lady A's last week at the top since its been overplayed and its time to move on to other singles.
Other songs making way on the top 40 is Luke Bryan's Play It Again holds the runner up spot this week after switching with Compass twice for the top spot. It will likely revert to the top next week. Also we see 2 songs gain signifigantly this week and raise into the top 5. Justin Timberlake's Not A Bad Thing lifts 16-3 and Brantley Gilbert's Bottoms Up debuts at #5 this week.
Other then those eventful moves, most of the top 40 remains still impacted with Country Music and Top 40 Pop Songs.
Here is the rest of the top 40, I'm okay if you shade the fact I have way too many older songs/re-entries.:
Notes:
-What is also up to date is the recurrents charting on my countdown. My unspoken rule is any song I like from the week will be featured (alongside the Billboard Top 100 Top 10).
-For color coding, the Yellow are the top 5 song gainers of the week, the Red are the songs that dropped heavily this week. The Blue and Green are both entries onto the countdown, Blue being the top song debuting on my chart and Green being the top song to re-enter my chart.
Sleeping With a Friend, The Man debut 
Hope you're fine! 
4-3-14
(and it will make for a very interesting year end countdown 
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Compass by Lady Antebellum finally returns to the top again for the 4th time in its chart reign. With this, Lady Antebellum ties Will Young for the most weeks at #1 since the SC Top 40 format change! 
Slay Zune.