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>>That begs another question. Why is AT40 so far behind >>the Radio and Records chart? > >It's mainly a matter of AT40's production timetable >combined with the way R&R dates their charts (as >opposed to Billboard). Take this upcoming weekend's >AT40 for example: the airdate will be May 4-5. The >airplay data used is obtained by Mediabase 24/7 (hi, >Rob!) for the week of April 15-21 (Monday thru >Sunday). R&R takes this data to compile the charts >that Casey uses, and the charts are posted on their >website on Wednesday, April 24. The actual printed >magazine is dated April 26 (the "official" chart date) >as this is the day that most subscribers receive their >copies. Meanwhile, AT40's staffers have been busy >writing their stories and getting ready to record >Casey, which happens sometime during the week of April >22-26 (I keep forgetting exactly which days Casey does >which show, but it's during that week). The show is >then edited, burned to CD, and sent out to radio >stations where it airs the following weekend (May >4-5). (I've probably screwed up a few details, but >close enough. Billboard, by the way, uses a similar >monitoring period for their airplay charts from BDS, >and updates their website on Thursday, April 25, and >mails out their printed magazines to arrive on Monday, >April 29, with an "official" chart date of "the week >ending May 4", which is why the original AT40 was >always in sync with the Billboard chart date... >except, of course, for the earliest shows, but we >won't get into that here.)

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