Mediabase Alternative Top 30 show (weekend of 12.20.2014-12.21.2014)
– from the Saturday Morning Mediabase Alternative Currents-only Charts.
Notes:
- Modest Mouse + Yelawolf debut.
- Royal Blood +2 for Leap Of The Week.
- Fall Out Boy + Bastille + New Politics -3 each for Biggest Loser Of The Week.
- Will the Foo Fighters hold for another week @#1?
- Today is the last regular chart of 2014.
- Next Weekend: Top 60 of 2014 [60-31], 01.03.2015: Top 60 of 2014 [30-1]
- Normal Countdown resumes on 01.10.2015, with all the points reset.
Hour 1
30 TV On The Radio “Happy Idiot” [3|30] [=] [3]
29 Yelawolf “Till It’s Gone” [1|29] [D] [2]
Bonus: Joywave “Somebody New”
28 Rise Against “Tragedy + Time” [3|27] [-1] [9]
27 The Kooks “Bad Habit” [6|26] [-1] [15]
EX: Deftones “Diamond Eyes” (2010)
26 U2 “Every Breaking Wave” [6|25] [-1] [26]
25 Glass Animals “Gooey” [5|24] [-1] [20]
CB1: The Dirty Heads “Sound Of Change”
24 Modest Mouse “Lampshades On Fire” [1|24] [D] [7]
23 Catfish and The Bottlemen “Kathleen” [5|23] [=] [32]
EX: Kongos “Come With Me Now” (2014)
22 New Politics “Everywhere I Go (Kings & Queens)” [13|19] [-3] [107]
21 George Ezra “Budapest” [8|21] [+1] [47]
Hour 2
20 Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness “Cecilia And The Satellite” [7|20] [+1] [51]
19 Robert DeLong “Long Way Down” [4|19] [+1] [35]
EX: Seether “Driven Under” (2003)
18 Bush “The Only Way Out” [12|18] [=] [103]
17 Bear Hands “Agora” [17|17] [=] [171]
16 Fitz and The Tantrums “Fools Gold” [16|13] [-1] [173]
CB2: Linkin Park “Final Masquerade”
15 Lorde “Yellow Flicker Beat” [12|10] [+1] [207]
14 Bastille “Flaws” [21|5] [-3] [398]
Bonus: Alt-J “Every Other Freckle”
13 Banks “Beggin For Thread” [11|13] [=] [122]
12 Royal Blood “Figure It Out” [9|12] [+2] [96]
EX: Incubus “Anna Molly” (2006)
11 Bleachers “Rollercoaster” [14|11] [+1] [183]
Hour 3
10 Big Data/Joywave “Dangerous” [37|1(1x)] [-1] [844]
9 Vance Joy “Riptide” [32|1(5x)] [+1] [783] [RECURRENT, 2/4 Bonus Weeks]
EX: No Doubt “Spiderwebs” (1995)
8 Fall Out Boy “Centuries” [15|4] [-3] [317]
7 Walk The Moon “Shut Up And Dance” [11|7] [+1] [174]
6 Arctic Monkeys “R U Mine?” [14|6] [+1] [206]
EX: Rage Against The Machine “Sleep Now In The Fire” (1999)
5 Imagine Dragons “I Bet My Life” [8|5] [+1] [169]
4 Cage The Elephant “Cigarette Daydreams” [16|4] [=] [264]
Bonus: Milky Chance” Flashed Junk Mind”
3 Milky Chance “Stolen Dance” [27|1(10x)] [=] [675]
2 Hozier “Take Me To Church” [25|2] [=] [516]
1 Foo Fighters “Something From Nothing” [10|1(5x)] [=] [264]
Falloffs:
28 The Black Keys “Gotta Get Away” [16|8] [260]
29 Weezer “Back To The Shack” [21|5] [390] [RECURRENT, <15]
EX: Extra songs, almost always older than 6-12 months old
Bonus: new uncharted.
Countdown Bound: Song outside Top 30 and moving upward and/or positive bullet.
Airs on Saturdays from 9PM-12:05AM CDT. Reairs at: Sundays from 4:55-8PM, Wednesday Overnights from 3:00AM-6:05AM, and a countdown-only edition Fridays from 2:00PM-4:15PM.