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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.) > >It could be worse. Another countdown show, until >mid-February, was generally two weeks behind the R&R >chart and at times was THREE weeks behind. With all >the stats mentioned above, that means they were using >data that was nearly a month old.

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