Weekend Update

Total Popular Music Week of: August 18, 2013 For Radio ... From Radio ... By Radio The Original 21st Century Mass Appeal Hit Music Radio Format Still several thousand total plays ahead of the runner-up, and still above the record 23,000 level, Robin Thicke's BLURRED LINES nabs a fifth straight week at Number One on the new Super Sixty, now online ... But this week's big chart news is two Big Breakers -- Katy Perry's ROAR and Lady Gaga's APPLAUSE -- which are also this week's first two Top TPM Gainers. Katy's newest single, adding 8469 total plays from zero a week ago, becomes our biggest Big Breaker ever, making its debut at #14. Gaga's entry is also impressive, even if somewhat less so, +3556 from 0, entering the new Super Sixty at #29 ... This week's third greatest gain belongs to Lana Del Rey's SUMMERTIME SADNESS, +1977, up 20-19 ... Fourth of the top gainers is Avicii's WAKE ME UP, +1310, rising 40-32 ... The fifth and sixth greatest of the gainers round out those (of 18 overall) that qualify as SuperGainers (+800 or more). They are Lorde's ROYALS, +1123, entering at #42 from Hitbound last week, and Capital Cities' SAFE AND SOUND, +1030, up 8-7, the only SuperGainer in the Top 10 of the new Sixty. The main TPM Super Sixty chart -- online at TotalPopularMusic.com -- also offers this week's featured new songs, Hitbounds, and the 50-position TPM Recurrents chart. And each song listed -- more than 120 in all -- provides an On Demand link to instantly hear (and view) the song, via its music video in a full screen new window. The separate "Super Sixty Airplay" chart is available at our main website, and is also published at TotalPopularMusic.Blogspot.com. A full listing of this week's Top TPM Gainers is found below the "Super Sixty Airplay" chart at both locations. "Total Popular Music" is the PPM-friendly "Original 21st Century Mass Appeal Hit Music Radio Format" from Mark Harris Broadcast Consulting -- featuring "All the Hits for All the Listeners - For Radio / From Radio / By Radio" -- able to deliver double digit shares from a 6 to 60 total demographic, while especially targeting any audience segment desired within that wide span. When launched in 2007, many thought "The New Mass Appeal Hit Music Radio Format" wouldn't work -- but they are now trying to duplicate it! (Contact Mark Harris at MHBC for more specifics!) Total Popular Music Projected: August 25, 2013 Our new "Projections Monitor 30" (projecting August 25) sees Robin Thicke's BLURRED LINES getting a sixth week at TPM Number One, with the first five filled by the same songs comprising the first five this week -- but with a couple of flip flops. Maroon 5's LOVE SOMEBODY will be up 3-2, while Imagine Dragons' RADIOACTIVE slips 2-3. Bruno Mars' TREASURE will be up 5-4, as Anna Kendrick's CUPS (When I'm Gone) moves back 4-5. Katy Perry's ROAR, after an amazing debut this week, is projected to jump 14-8 in its second week. The new PM30 also projects Lana Del Rey's SUMMERTIME SADNESS to leap 19-13, and Lady Gaga's APPLAUSE to skyrocket 29-19 in its second week. Not an "indicator chart" nor a "building chart" -- and definitely not a chart "representing the collective opinion of the publication's editorial board in ranking the current potency of commercial recordings" -- the TPM Projections Monitor is scientifically compiled utilizing our exclusive TotalsProjectionsMonitor -- incorporating current airplay and trending data. This listing from Mark Harris Broadcast Consulting is both a projection of what the Top 30 on the next week's Super Sixty might look like, and a proactive programming guide for the Total Popular Music radio format. The PM30 can also be a useful programming guide for radio Program Directors of progressive Hot Adult (Hot AC/Adult Top 40) stations, and CHR-Top40 stations seeking adult listeners in the 25-34 demographic. [The "Projections Monitor 30 is also available at TotalPopularMusic.Blogspot.com.]