Posted January 6, 201114 yr Based on cumulative totals from weekly Top 100 Airplay charts, here's the 75 biggest Airplay hits of 2010. POSITION / LW POSITION / ARTIST / TITLE / PLAYS / AUDIENCE (MILLIONS) 1. (1) Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg - California Gurls 69,298 1,383.5 2. (2) Lady GaGa - Alejandro 64,905 1,268.3 3. (3) Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind (Part II) 73,472 1,239.4 4. (4) Lady GaGa - Bad Romance 71,864 1,216.8 5. (5) Scouting For Girls - This Ain't A Love Song 61,515 1,179.1 6. (6) Plan B - She Said 71,114 1,101.8 7. (7) Owl City - Fireflies 51,891 1,015.2 8. (9) Cee-Lo Green - Forget You 45,861 1,011.1 9. (8) Kylie Minogue - All The Lovers 56,192 1,001.6 10. (10) Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling 57,432 848.8 11. (11) Michael Buble - Haven't Met You Yet 50,476 826.4 12. (18) Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are 45,933 798.7 13. (13) B.o.B. feat. Hayley Williams - Airplanes 36,750 793.6 14. (12) Florence & The Machine - You've Got The Love 48,750 791.4 15. (14) Taio Cruz - Dynamite 39,385 788.2 16. (19) Tinie Tempah - Pass Out 25,454 768.5 17. (17) The Wanted - All Time Low 47,305 767.4 18. (15) Lady Gaga feat. Beyonce - Telephone 42,871 757.6 19. (16) Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart 50,773 752.9 20. (20) Eminem feat. Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie 30,490 749.0 21. (21) Enrique Iglesias feat. Pitbull - I Like It 52,185 745.9 22. (24) Take That - The Flood 31,893 740.5 23. (22) Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire 51,573 729.9 24. (23) Olly Murs - Please Don't Let Me Go 48,561 717.9 25. (27) Katy Perry - Teenage Dream 37,875 689.8 26. (28) The Script - For The First Time (Times Are Hard) 40,925 686.8 27. (25) Usher feat. Will.I.Am - OMG 31,555 686.0 28. (29) Jason Derulo - In My Head 36,010 674.2 29. (26) Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Love 45,110 674.0 30. (31) Travie McCoy feat. Bruno Mars - Billionaire 30,595 671.0 31. (30) Rihanna - Rude Boy 34,546 651.8 32. (32) Pixie Lott - Cry Me Out 45,622 649.7 33. (33) Rihanna - Te Amo 40,525 648.5 34. (34) JLS - One Shot 37,259 648.2 35. (35) Alexandra Burke feat. Pitbull - All Night Long 50,726 642.9 36. (36) Cheryl Cole - Parachute 42,516 624.5 37. (37) Robbie Williams - You Know Me 45,204 619.7 38. (38) B.o.B. feat. Bruno Mars - Nothin' On You 30,365 614.5 39. (40) Flo Rida feat. David Guetta - Club Can't Handle Me 28,544 612.3 40. (41) Yolanda Be Cool & D Cup - We No Speak Americano 21,971 610.9 41. (39) Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway 48,609 604.9 42. (43) Example - Kickstarts 23,201 593.4 43. (42) 3OH!3 feat. Katy Perry - Starstrukk 23,126 588.9 44. (49) Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World) 30,193 585.5 45. (51) JLS - Love You More 29,276 582.9 46. (44) Eliza Doolittle - Pack Up 28,371 574.2 47. (46) Tinie Tempah feat. Eric Turner - Written In The Stars 18,431 563.2 48. (45) Jason Derulo - Ridin' Solo 26,705 556.5 49. (47) Ke$ha - Tik Tok 27,811 546.9 50. (48) Alexandra Burke feat. Flo Rida - Bad Boys 40,718 546.1 51. (50) Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed 25,953 543.3 52. (55) Journey - Don't Stop Believin' 38,926 536.4 53. (52) Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody 35,971 532.8 54. (53) Timbaland feat. Katy Perry - If We Ever Meet Again 30,932 531.8 55. (54) Robbie Williams & Gary Barlow - Shame 26,248 531.7 56. (56) Westlife - What About Now 38,949 513.6 57. (57) Scissor Sisters - Fire With Fire 21,411 485.8 58. (67) Mike Posner - Cooler Than Me 23,175 484.2 59. (58) Iyaz - Replay 21,046 484.1 60. (69) Katy Perry - Firework 24,480 481.1 61. (66) Labrinth - Let The Sun Shine 18,318 472.3 62. (64) Cheryl Cole - Promise This 24,511 469.5 63. (63) Michael Buble - Hollywood 17,247 468.7 64. (59) Train - Hey, Soul Sister 29,625 468.5 65. (60) Alexandra Burke - Broken Heels 29,744 461.9 66. (61) Taio Cruz - Break Your Heart 31,067 458.2 67. (62) Brandon Flowers - Crossfire 12,869 452.6 68. (65) Rihanna - Russian Roulette 29,731 449.7 69. (68) Alicia Keys - Doesn't Mean Anything 31,116 437.6 70. (70) Usher feat. Pitbull - DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love 19,500 432.3 71. (71) The Saturdays - Ego 23,440 425.2 72. (72) Fyfe Dangerfield - She's Always A Woman 30,415 424.5 73. (73) Ne-Yo - Beautiful Monster 19,909 420.2 74. (80) The Saturdays feat. Flo Rida - Higher 20,491 419.7 75. (74) David Guetta feat. Chris Willis, Fergie & LMFAO - Gettin' Over You 13,433 414.1 TOP 50 AIRPLAY ARTISTS OF 2010 POSITION / ARTIST / TOTAL PLAYS / TOTAL AUDIENCE 1. Lady GaGa 212,294 3,687.5 2. Katy Perry 185,711 3,675.1 3. Rihanna 176,638 3,465.6 4. Alicia Keys 167,684 2,694.5 5. JLS 125,282 2,135.9 6. Bruno Mars 108,595 2,124.4 7. Alexandra Burke 151,111 2,108.5 8. Cheryl Cole 120,702 1,935.5 9. Jason Derulo 94,292 1,872.8 10. Tinie Tempah 58,202 1,855.0 11. Black Eyed Peas 118,599 1,849.6 12. Pitbull 71,323 1,821.1 13. Michael Buble 85,727 1,707.4 14. Taio Cruz 89,790 1,681.2 15. Kings Of Leon 99,925 1,647.5 16. Plan B 84,276 1,640.2 17. Scouting For Girls 77,138 1,620.5 18. Robbie Williams 94,993 1,583.2 19. Flo Rida 89,753 1,578.2 20. B.o.B. 36,807 1,564.5 21. Beyonce 93,568 1,496.4 22. David Guetta 71,372 1,467.9 23. Ke$ha 63,642 1,397.0 24. Kylie Minogue 75,329 1,387.8 25. Snoop Dogg 69,298 1,383.5 26. Pixie Lott 77,553 1,367.4 27. Usher 58,988 1,312.6 28. The Saturdays 67,250 1,236.2 29. The Wanted 72,262 1,212.2 30. Cee-Lo Green 49,455 1,209.3 31. Owl City 53,828 1,141.2 32. Florence & The Machine 54,475 1,124.1 33. Take That 46,060 1,029.5 34. Ellie Goulding 45,139 1,022.2 35. Enrique Iglesias 65,995 1,018.5 36. The Script 60,925 1,010.3 37. Olly Murs 62,049 953.0 38. 3OH!3 32,560 932.5 39. Example 30,063 926.1 40. Timbaland 46,609 925.8 41. Eminem 32,437 875.5 42. Will.I.Am 40,954 859.6 43. Eliza Doolittle 33,951 818.8 44. Jay Sean 34,493 815.8 45. Hayley Williams 36,750 793.6 46. Chipmunk 27,809 697.9 47. Travie McCoy 30,595 671.0 48. Scissor Sisters 27,450 654.8 49. Professor Green 19,630 622.4 50. Fyfe Dangerfield 32,914 618.0 Airplay chart number ones of 2010: Lady GaGa - Bad Romance (3 weeks) Owl City - Fireflies (4 weeks) Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind (Part II) (2 weeks) JLS - One Shot (1 week) Cheryl Cole - Parachute (2 weeks) Scouting For Girls - This Ain't A Love Song (5 weeks) Plan B - She Said (4 weeks) Alexandra Burke feat. Pitbull - All Night Long (1 week) Kylie Minogue - All The Lovers (1 week) Lady GaGa – Alejandro (2 weeks) Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg - California Gurls (5 weeks) Eliza Doolittle - Pack Up (1 week) Ne-Yo - Beautiful Monster (1 week) The Saturdays - Missing You (2 weeks) Taio Cruz - Dynamite (1 week) Brandon Flowers - Crossfire (1 week) Robbie Williams & Gary Barlow - Shame (1 week) Cee-Lo Green - Forget You (6 weeks) Take That - The Flood (5 weeks) Ellie Goulding - Your Song (3 weeks) Matt Cardle - When We Collide (1 week) Edited January 6, 201114 yr by MJ2006
January 6, 201114 yr POSITION / LW POSITION / ARTIST / TITLE / PLAYS / AUDIENCE (MILLIONS) 1. (1) Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg - California Gurls 69,298 1,383.5 2. (2) Lady GaGa - Alejandro 64,905 1,268.3 3. (3) Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind (Part II) 73,472 1,239.4 29. (26) Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Love 45,110 674.0 36. (36) Cheryl Cole - Parachute 42,516 624.5 62. (64) Cheryl Cole - Promise This 24,511 469.5 Airplay chart number ones of 2010: Cheryl Cole - Parachute (2 weeks) Alexandra Burke feat. Pitbull - All Night Long (1 week) Cheryl really did well with "Fight For This Love" considering the massive airplay it had in 2009. What a monster hit. Didn't know "Parachute" was 2 weeks at number 1 and Alexandra hit number 1 :) Katy Perry for the 2010 summer anthem. Really amazing. All of the top 3 sounded great on the radio :D
January 6, 201114 yr Based on cumulative totals from weekly Top 100 Airplay charts, here's the 75 biggest Airplay hits of 2010. <snip> BTW, I've set up my spreadsheet to calculate radio plays/ratings for 2011, so perhaps we could cross-check sometimes?
January 6, 201114 yr Cheryl really did well with "Fight For This Love" considering the massive airplay it had in 2009. What a monster hit. Didn't know "Parachute" was 2 weeks at number 1 and Alexandra hit number 1 :) Katy Perry for the 2010 summer anthem. Really amazing. All of the top 3 sounded great on the radio :D Well, Alejandro and Empire State of Mind II sounded good on the radio the first few times, because you know the tracks from before-hand, but they're only album tracks, and then you want them to be picked as singles, and then you finally hear them on the radio, and it just feels so good. It's like "Wow, I can't believe these songs are now being broadcast to millions of people". You know everybody's going to be loving the songs in a month or two. But it gets very tiring the 600th time you hear them. :(
January 6, 201114 yr Most of the positions seem to make or kinda make sense to me. The few that I seriously don't understand is #14 and probably #35. I guess I didn't pay much attention to the performance of those tracks in the weekly airplay charts. Edited January 6, 201114 yr by FM11
January 6, 201114 yr Most of the positions seem to make or kinda make sense to me. The few that I seriously don't understand is #14 and probably #35. I guess I didn't pay much attention to the performance of those tracks in the weekly airplay charts. Based on what I hear on the radio (which isn't representative of the whole country), You've Got the Love seems about right at #14, and I would've expected All Night Long to be higher. There was about a month where All Night Long was literally everywhere on commercial radio!! It was insane! :o
January 6, 201114 yr 1. Lady GaGa 212,294 3,687.5 2. Katy Perry 185,711 3,675.1 3. Rihanna 176,638 3,465.6 4. Alicia Keys 167,684 2,694.5 Wow, 4 strong females dominating airplay!
January 6, 201114 yr The top 3 on the artist airplay chart would probably be the top 3 on the Buzzjack airplay chart too. :lol: It's funny to see Pitbull at #12! I guess he just features on so many singles!!
January 6, 201114 yr Author 1. Lady GaGa 212,294 3,687.5 2. Katy Perry 185,711 3,675.1 3. Rihanna 176,638 3,465.6 4. Alicia Keys 167,684 2,694.5 Wow, 4 strong females dominating airplay! It was nearly an all female Top 5, but Alexandra Burke got knocked down a couple of places this week.
January 7, 201114 yr It was nearly an all female Top 5, but Alexandra Burke got knocked down a couple of places this week. Thats a shame but good to see her so high with no R1 support.
January 7, 201114 yr 1. Lady GaGa 212,294 3,687.5 2. Katy Perry 185,711 3,675.1 3. Rihanna 176,638 3,465.6 4. Alicia Keys 167,684 2,694.5 Wow, 4 strong females dominating airplay! And it's all american. UK radios should play more UK artists. It seems to me they play more and more americans each year.
January 7, 201114 yr And it's all american. UK radios should play more UK artists. It seems to me they play more and more americans each year. Yep. Only 21 out of 50 are UK artists. Shame that one country doesn't give the right promotion or appreciation to her own music, and just find more interesting to play songs from US (just because they are bigger names). Music produced by UK artists is like 1000 times better than most garbage from US.
January 7, 201114 yr Yep. Only 21 out of 50 are UK artists. Shame that one country doesn't give the right promotion or appreciation to her own music, and just find more interesting to play songs from US (just because they are bigger names). Music produced by UK artists is like 1000 times better than most garbage from US. I really hope 2011 will be better but I am not holding out much hope.Sadly commercial radio must take alot of the blame for this.As pleased as I am that they support acts I like like Alexandra, Nicky Minaj and Shontelle that R1 does not.Not sure why commercial radio do not support the likes of Diana Vickers, Marina and Nadine.European radio and American radio especially do not touch UK acts much these days yet UK radio will whore out anything as long as it is American. 21 out of 50 is just a disgrace, rather shocked that again X-factor acts are doing so well yet people complain that Simon Cowell is killing homegrown music.
January 7, 201114 yr I really hope 2011 will be better but I am not holding out much hope.Sadly commercial radio must take alot of the blame for this.As pleased as I am that they support acts I like like Alexandra, Nicky Minaj and Shontelle that R1 does not.Not sure why commercial radio do not support the likes of Diana Vickers, Marina and Nadine.European radio and American radio especially do not touch UK acts much these days yet UK radio will whore out anything as long as it is American. 21 out of 50 is just a disgrace, rather shocked that again X-factor acts are doing so well yet people complain that Simon Cowell is killing homegrown music. Indeed sad! I love Marina & the Diamonds and you barely listen any of her songs! Not even in the list! It's all in the media. Everyone will listen a song produced by Rihanna, Eminem, Lady GaGa, Britney etc., even if it's not good and that is happening worldwide. I think those acts got the money to support the material or garbage they produced, but when it comes to UK acts they are way to small (in money) for a worldwide promotion (give money for radio/tv support, new videos...). And don't forget the trend: anything foreign is better from our own product!
January 7, 201114 yr Yeah, most of the UK artists doing well are down to the X Factor. :o I wonder what it'd be like without the X Factor! Although I'd guess with no X Factor, some other medium would come to "replace it", so to speak, as there'd be that gap in the market, sort of. :lol: It must be so difficult to get mainstream as a UK artist. What the likes of Tinie Tempah, Diana Vickers, even Eliza Doolittle have done last year, is pretty incredible tbh. I remember before Once was released, I used to listen to the radio, and she'd be doing an interview, then an hour later, I'd be listening to another station, and she'd be on there too, doing another interview! She worked so hard at the time! Edited January 7, 201114 yr by Eric_Blob
January 7, 201114 yr Yeah, most of the UK artists doing well are down to the X Factor. :o I wonder what it'd be like without the X Factor! Although I'd guess with no X Factor, some other medium would come to "replace it", so to speak, as there'd be that gap in the market, sort of. :lol: It must be so difficult to get mainstream as a UK artist. What the likes of Tinie Tempah, Diana Vickers, even Eliza Doolittle have done last year, is pretty incredible tbh. I remember before Once was released, I used to listen to the radio, and she'd be doing an interview, then an hour later, I'd be listening to another station, and she'd be on there too, doing another interview! She worked so hard at the time! I can clearly see why the last few years have seen a complete domination of the UK charts by American acts.I did not know that radio was so biased towards the yanks.I wonder if the video airplay year end chart would show the same thing.It is rather sad and shows why acts like Diana, Alesha,Marina, Eliza, Joe, most Indie acts and even Ellie to a certain extent have one huge debut single and the follow up singles barely scrap the Top 20. Edited January 7, 201114 yr by marrb
January 7, 201114 yr I can clearly see why the last few years have seen a complete domination of the UK charts by American acts.I did not know that radio was so biased towards the yanks.I wonder if the video airplay year end chart would show the same thing.It is rather sad and shows why acts like Diana, Marina, Eliza, Joe, most Indie acts and even Ellie to a certain extent have one huge debut single and the follow up singles barely scrap the Top 20. Of course and video airplay charts will be the same! In the last few years the number of international superstars have increased so musc (Lady GaGa, Katy Perry, Rihanna etc.) so in a single year is more possible some of them to release something! And when such huge names release anything, media will give them their deserved (?) attention.
January 7, 201114 yr Yeah. Also, what I find with most commercial radio stations is that their playlist is basically the charts. So they will play British songs if they get really high in the charts, but they very rarely play them before, unless they're established artists. Pass Out is the classic example. Very, very rarely played outside of Radio 1 before it was released, but after it got to #1, commercial radio stations suddenly started playlisting it. But obviously, this makes it very difficult, as you struggle to get into the charts in the first place without radio airplay, and without radio airplay, it's very difficult to get into the charts. It's quite a circular tbh. And, in the other sense, if the charts were 90% British songs, then the playlists of those commercial radio stations would be 90% British songs. Those particular radio stations don't have anything against the country the song comes from, the genre of the song, etc. But again, we can't get 90% British songs in the charts without general radio support (note, I definitely don't want 90% British songs in the chart, I'm just exaggerating a bit :lol:). It's like another circle. Once you're in the circle, it's fine, so long as you continue giving out good songs, but if you're not "in the circle", it's very difficult to get in there. Another possible route to success is if you feature on popular songs done by another artist. Bruno Mars did this well on a worldwide scale this year, by appearing on two massive hip hop songs (Nothin' On You and Billionaire), and was already hugely famous before he released his debut single. Labrinth has done this on a UK scale. Again, he featured on two massively popular hip hop songs (Pass Out and Frisky), so by the time he released his first single, he was already quite well-known, and I know a few radio stations that played the song well before its release.
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