December 28, 200717 yr Author Here is the chart of December 22, 2007: 20 Wyclef Jean & Akon - Sweetest Girl NEW 19 Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah 4 Down 18 Foo Fighters - The Pretender 5 Down 17 Gwen Stefani - Now That You Got It 2 Up 16 Foo Fighters - Long Road To Ruin 2 Up 15 Craig David - Hot Stuff 1 Down 14 Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love 2 Up 13 Rihanna & Ne-Yo - Hate That I Love You 1 Down 12 Kanye West - Good Life 5 Up 11 50 Cent & Justin Timberlake - Ayo Technology Stay => 10 Sugababes - About You Now 9 Down 9 Linkin Park - Shadow Of The Day Stay => 8 Fergie - Clumsy 2 Up 7 Nicole Scherzinger - Baby Love 1 Up 6 Kylie Minogue - 2 Hearts 1 Up 5 Britney Spears - Gimme More 1 Up 4 Avril Lavigne - Hot Stay => 3 Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music 2 Up 2 Timbaland & OneRepublic - Apologize 1 Up 1 Alicia Keys - No One 1 Up Where is last week's number 1?... At number 10!!! By falling 9 places, "About You Now" by Sugababes becomes the biggest faller from number 1 EVER! I'm not sure the girls are happy that they have broken exactly this record... So far the biggest falls from the top were: "All For You" by Janet Jackson, which went 1-8; and "Truly, Madly, Deeply" by Savage Garden, which went 1-7. The song that replaces "About You Now" at the top is "No One" by Alicia Keys. I would never have guessed that looking at the beginning of its chart run: 10-6-9-10... But in the end it went all the way to number 1! There are, of course, some contenders - "Apologize" by Timbaland and OneRepublic continues climbing back, reaching number 2 this week and seeking to return to the top spot. And Rihanna scores her sixth Top 3 hit with "Don't Stop The Music". Having in mind that all the previous five did become number ones, maybe this will be the sixth in a row? "Clumsy" by Fergie goes 10-8, equalling the peak position of "Glamorous" and beating the number 9 peak of "Fergalicious". Another song which reaches a new peak position is "Good Life" by Kanye West. Here is its curious chart run: 16-13-OUT-OUT-OUT-20-14-OUT-17-12 It has appeared in the chart three different times, entering outside the Top 15, then making a climb into the Top 15 and leaving the chart after that! Going by that logic, I'd expect it not to appear in next week's chart... and that seems even more likely as next week it's probably going to be the chart of the whole year! Which means that maybe the song at number 20 is the last new entry of 2007. It's quite a nice surprise for me to see "Sweetest Girl" by Wyclef Jean and Akon debut in European Top 20. Wyclef's last appearance in the chart was very successful as his collaboration with Shakira "Hips Don't Lie" became a number 1... Otherwise, his last solo single in the chart dates back to 2001 when "Perfect Gentleman" peaked at number 10.
January 8, 200817 yr Author It turns out that in the last week of 2007 there wasn't a chart for the whole year but a normal edition of European Top 20! Here is the chart of December 29, 2007: 20 Wyclef Jean & Akon - Sweetest Girl Stay => 19 Colbie Caillat - Bubbly NEW 18 Gwen Stefani - Now That You Got It 1 Down 17 50 Cent & Justin Timberlake - Ayo Technology 6 Down 16 Foo Fighters - The Pretender 2 Up 15 Craig David - Hot Stuff Stay => 14 Kanye West - Good Life 2 Down 13 Linkin Park - Shadow Of The Day 4 Down 12 Sugababes - About You Now 2 Down 11 Rihanna & Ne-Yo - Hate That I Love You 2 Up 10 Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love 4 Up 9 Nicole Scherzinger - Baby Love 2 Down 8 Fergie - Clumsy Stay => 7 Kylie Minogue - 2 Hearts 1 Down 6 Foo Fighters - Long Road To Ruin 10 Up 5 Britney Spears - Gimme More Stay => 4 Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music 1 Down 3 Avril Lavigne - Hot 1 Up 2 Alicia Keys - No One 1 Down 1 Timbaland & OneRepublic - Apologize 1 Up I was almost sure that this would be a chart for the whole year... but I was wrong. Still, it's possible that the chart of 2007 becomes broadcast in the beginning of the following year - it has happened several times in previous years... I just knew "Apologize" by Timbaland and OneRepublic would reclimb to the top! Here is its chart run so far: 5-2-1-4-3-2-1 When it fell from the top to number 4, that was a big shock... but it has since climbed one place every week and thus spends a second week at number 1 now. What's really remarkable is that during the three weeks between its two appearances at the top there have been two other chart-toppers - "About You Now" by Sugababes and "No One" by Alicia Keys. But, interestingly enough, Sugababes' single itself had the same fate - it also went to number 1, then fell and there were two other chart-toppers before it returned to the top (and the funniest thing is that one of them was "Apologize")... As I commented a few weeks ago, such a thing had only happened twice in the history of MTV European Top 20... but now it has happened twice in one year! I'm just waiting for the day when a song will return to number 1 after three other songs have been there... "Don't Stop The Music" by Rihanna falls 3-4 but her other single in the chart, the duet with Ne-Yo "Hate That I Love You" climbs to number 11, thus reaching a new peak position. The other artist with two singles in the chart - Foo Fighters - are doing much better. Their older song "The Pretender" reclimbs 18-16... And what about "Long Road To Ruin"? Now that's a surprise! Just look at the beginning of its chart run: 19-14-18 It looked like it was going to leave the chart quite soon... Instead it reclimbed two places to number 16 last week... Still, nothing that impressive. But this week it makes a 10-place climb to number 6!!! "Long Road To The Top"? I don't know... I just know that there is a tendency for Foo Fighers singles that aren't successful around Europe to do well in this chart - "Resolve" reached number 5... There is only one new entry at number 19 this week - "Bubbly" by Colbie Caillat. I was going to say that I'm very glad when there is a new entry in the chart that hasn't entered the UK chart but is doing well in other European countries... Then I checked that and I was shocked to find out that "Bubbly" did spend a single week in the UK chart... at number 72?! In any case, the song is successful around Europe so it deserves being in European Top 20.
January 8, 200817 yr I dont get MTV's obession with Foo Fighters and Linkin Park. Its not like their singles are huge hits in Europe to climb to high in the Euro chart.
January 8, 200817 yr Author I agree about Foo Fighters - I can accept that "Best Of You" and "The Pretender" entered the chart as they did comparatively well in Europe... but neither of them deserved reaching number 2! And neither "Resolve", nor "Long Road To Ruin" should have entered the chart... On the other hand, Linkin Park's singles usually do well around Europe... although it's true that "Shadow Of The Day" is not among their most successful ones...
January 9, 200817 yr These kind of things show that the MTV European top 20 is NOT based on sales -_- (BTW Gwen Stefani - Now That You Got It was a flop too, and WTF Avril Lavigne - Hot #3?)
January 18, 200817 yr Author Well, at least since 1994 every year there has been a chart for the whole year... But not this time! I'll post the charts of 2008 in a new thread but let me first review the year 2007 in MTV European Top 20. 137 different songs appeared in the chart during the year. This doesn't mean anything by itself so let's compare - in the period 2000-2006 there was no single year with more than 114 songs in the chart! And even when we look at the 90's - the "Golden Age" of European Top 20: there has been a bigger total of songs in the chart only in 1992, 1993 and 1998. So 2007 was a busy year for new entries! ...and for re-entries. There were 12 re-entries in the chart in 2007 - a joint second place with 1999 (the most re-entries happened in 1998). And two songs re-entered the chart twice!!! Just to compare with the period 2000-2005 when there were NO re-entries at all (and in 2006 - only one)... Also, the chart of November 17, 2007 contained the second highest number of entries ever - SIX (5 new entries and one re-entry). In addition, there was a week with five new entries and countless weeks with four new entries... While in 2001 and 2002 there were no weeks with more than three new entries! Another anti-record from the 2000's comes from 2003 - then no song debuted in the Top 10 (the highest new entry during the whole year was at number 12)! In 2007 there were numerous Top 10 debuts, including some very high ones... And especially "What Goes Around... Comes Around" by Justin Timberlake, which entered the chart straight at number 2 (!), thus joining the two other songs that have done the same in the chart's history - "Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman" by Bryan Adams and "Scream" by Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson. Only two songs have ever debuted higher (obviosly at the very top) - "Back For Good" by Take That and "Candle In The Wind '97" by Elton John. Since I mentioned the top... In 2007 we saw the least successful number 1 EVER. Until then, no chart-topper had spent less than 8 weeks in the chart... Well, "Window In The Skies" by U2 managed to stay in European Top 20 for a mere 6 weeks. And exactly the opposite - another number 1, "Say It Right" by Nelly Furtado, spent 28 weeks in the chart, thus becoming the second longest stayer in European Top 20 ever. The record holder is "Asereje" by Las Ketchup with 29 weeks but they were spread between two years so "Say It Right" is the song to have spent the most weeks in the chart in a single year. Back to unlucky chart-toppers - "About You Now" by Sugababes scored the biggest fall from number 1 EVER, falling to number 10 (the previous "record" had been 1-8)... What about the biggest movements in the chart in general? The biggest fall in 2007 was 2-16, achieved by "Ayo Technology" by 50 Cent and Justin Timberlake. On the other hand, the biggest climbs were two 16-place climbs - "Gimme More" by Britney Spears went 19-3 and "Hot" by Avril Lavigne went 20-4... and they did that in consecutive weeks! An honourable mention deserves "Ruby" by Kaiser Chiefs, which climbed 15 places from number 19 to number 4. There were lots of curious situations during the year... But the most impressive was the Rihanna case when she had two songs in the chart in three consecutive weeks but the two songs were different in each of the three weeks - the first week "Shut Up And Drive" and "Don't Stop The Music" were in the chart, the following week - "Shut Up And Drive" and "Hate That I Love You"... and the third week - "Don't Stop The Music" and "Hate That I Love You"! This was such an unique situation that I don't think anything similar will ever happen... But all these are just statistics. Let me also say something about the essence of the chart. In the past few years, it was difficult to believe that this was actually the EUROPEAN Top 20 as most of the songs in the chart were by American acts. If there were European acts in the chart, they came from the UK. So I was extremely happy to see in 2007 some songs from other European countries in the chart - like "Summer Wine" by Ville Valo and Natalia Avelon; "Fairytale Gone Bad" by Sunrise Avenue; "What Have You Done" by Within Temptation; "Monsoon" by Tokio Hotel; "D.A.N.C.E." by Justice; "Rise Up" by Yves Larock; "The Kiss Of Dawn" by HIM; "I Found U" by Axwell; "With Every Heartbeat" by Robyn and Kleerup; "Amaranth" by Nightwish... During the 2000's I hoped that someday MTV European Top 20 would return to its glory days from the 90's when it was REALLY interesting. At different times during 2007 I thought that maybe, just maybe that was happening... Well, now that the year has finished, looking at it, I can definitely say that it's true - 2007 was the year when European Top 20 finally returned to its great status!!!!!! Now let's just hope 2008 will be even better!
January 18, 200817 yr Thank you Bobiloko for this recap of 2007 chart action.You are right about that 2007 was more interesting compared to the previous 2-3 years.I'll add some other facts from this past year:"What Goes Around... Comes Around" by Justin Timberlake, which entered the chart straight at number 2,didn't went to the top as i thought,and spent all of it's weeks in the top 10(relegated from no.8)."Window In The Skies" by U2 was one of the most surprising winners and repeated the case with "The saints are coming"-quick relegation with only a few weeks in the chart,despite being such a big hit.I was happy to see Paolo Nutini,Mark Ronson and Within Tempation in the chart,no matter that they didn't last long.This is the chart of the year 2007,made by points(there is only one difference compared with M.Tolksdorf's version-he published the last chart of 2007 as first in 2008): 1. Nelly Furtado /Say It Right 2. Timbaland & Keri Hilson/ The Way I Are 3. Rihanna & Jay-Z /Umbrella 4. Gwen Stefani & Akon /The Sweet Escape 5. Linkin Park /What I've Done 6. Beyoncé Knowles & Shakira/ Beautiful Liar 7. Kanye West & Daft Punk/ Stronger 8. Justin Timberlake/ What Goes Around...Comes Around 9. Avril Lavigne/ Girlfriend 10. 50 Cent & Justin Timberlake/ Ayo Technology 11. Nelly Furtado/ All Good Things (Come To An End) 12. Maroon 5 /Makes Me Wonder 13. Rihanna/ Shut Up And Drive 14. Foo Fighters/ The Pretender 15. Mika/ Grace Kelly 16. Fergie/ Big Girls Don't Cry 17. Christina Aguilera/ Hurt 18. Sugababes /About You Now 19. Justin Timberlake /Lovestoned 20. Justin Timberlake/ My Love Edited April 5, 200817 yr by tsetsi81
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