This Week in the Alt Rock Charts
A quick look at this week’s Alt Rock charts (week ending 10/30):
1. Foo Fighters - The Pretender
Last week: 1 spins: 2624 last week: 2601 move: 23
2. Linkin Park - Bleed It Out
Last week: 2 spins: 1840 last week: 1873 move: -33
3. Paramore -Misery Business
Last week: 3 spins: 1789 last week: 1819 move: -30
4. Jimmy Eat World - Big Casino
Last week: 5 spins: 1788 last week: 1752 move: 36
5. Seether - Fake It
Last week: 6 spins: 1785 last week: 1732 move: 53
6. Three Days Grace - Never Too Late
Last week: 4 spins: 1732 last week: 1792 move: -60
7. Finger Eleven - Paralyzer
Last week: 7 spins: 1646 last week: 1717 move: -71
8. Serj Tankian - Empty Walls
Last week: 8 spins: 1575 last week: 1434 move: 141
9. White Stripes - You Don’t Know What Love Is.
Last week: 10 spins: 1354 last week: 1272 move: 82
10. Flyleaf - All Around Me
Last week: 9 spins: 1250 last week: 1287 move: -37
As much as I’d love to see Paramore knock the Foos or LP out of the top 2 spots, I don’t think that’s gonna happen. Maybe Jimmy Eat World can do it.
Other items of interest:
11. Against Me! - Thrash Unreal
Last week: 12 spins: 1118 last week: 1085 move: 33
So close to being in the top 10….give it a couple of weeks.
16. Silversun Pickups – Well Thought Out Twinkles
Last week: 17 spins: 917 last week: 841 move: 76
Here’s some momentum – 76 more spins!
26. Smashing Pumpkins - That’s The Way (My Love Is)
Last week: 27 spins: 564 last week: 559 move: 5
I thought for sure this song was dead a couple of weeks ago.
31. Coheed and Cambria - The Running Free
Last week: 31 spins: 474 last week: 411 move: 63
Album was released this week and they got some pub for scaring the bejesus out of some college kids in KS with their logo. Nice.
34. Feist - 1,2,3,4
Last week: 39 spins: 420 last week: 325 move: 95
It’s the ipod song coming to take over the charts.
35. Radiohead - Bodysnatchers
Last week: 45 spins: 376 last week: 272 move: 104
You knew that a Radiohead song was gonna chart. It was just the matter of which one.
40. Hives - Tick, Tick, Boom
Last week: 44 spins: 272 last week: 286 move: -14
Opening up for Maroon 5 is going to expose them to a bunch of people that might not hear them otherwise.
48. VHS or Beta - Can’t Believe A Single Word
Last week: 49 spins: 231 last week: 222 move: 9
A lot of people said this was gonna be the song that launched this band into the mainstream.
P.S. Notice how all three of KBZT’s Anniversary bands have songs on the chart? I don’t see that as a bad thing. It’s because of stations like KBZT that bands like this have a chance on radio. So mad props to my boys there.
