Savannah said:

You're missing a lot before, too... Thieves In The Temple, Get Off, D&P, Insatiable, Money Don't Matter 2Night, My Name Is Prince, 7, Damn U, etc... I'm fairly certain all those hit the top 100.

alandail said:

The last big hits that Prince had that lasted on the US Pop Charts for a few weeks instead of "spiking" were Batdance -TMBGITW - Cream due to the intense power of a good music video to do the promo. The power of the video is amazing. If your video gets boring fast, so will the single. Plus you forgot Lovesign spiked at 72, Insatiable spiked at 77
Holy River spiked at 58 and Money Don't Matter peaked at 22

alandail said:

A day later and it's 349 urban spins (+276 vs 87 a week ago) and now has 53 of the 70 stations, on Urban AC, it's a +77 and is now on 16 of the 42 stations

anyone in Ft. Myers needs to request Call My Name at WXKB-FM - this is the only CHR/Pop station that has added it - give it lots of requests and maybe others will join in.

Also, add these links to the ones on the first page to check for stations to call

http://www.mmr247.com/mmr...format=Y0R

http://www.mmr247.com/mmr...e=PRINCMN+

http://www.mmr247.com/mmr...e=PRINCMN+

It seems to be doing better on the Urban stations than Musicology did, Musicology did quite well on the Urban AC stations (it's still in the top 10 there), it's too early to tell just how well it'll do, but calling in requests are sure to help. Urban stations are a bigger market by far than Urban AC, and the two combine I think to make the billboard R&B chart.

i think a million days is getting a bit of airplay in Australia

alandail said:

Dig. I also have to say this here in Atlanta Hot 107.9 is playing 'Call My Name' this is major because they never have since they started in the late 90's have played a Prince track. I about passed out when I heard it on the radio today. I think 'CMN' should be the next single and video for this album because I think it will re-ignite sales. Yeah for Prince and this whole wonderfull album. He deserves all the love that he is getting.
Prince

alandail said:

another day later and it's 383 urban spins (+278 vs 105 a week ago). Urban AC is now a +93. Both formats need requests to keep moving it up.

chiltonmusic said:

Now that they are playing it, call them and let them know you want to hear it more. It's a snowball effect you're after - get it played enough that others will hear it and request it. Make sure they know that there are lots of Prince fans in Atlanta. Make it a goal to get it played at least once by every DJ all day.

alandail said:

another big surge - a day later it's 440 urban spins (+311 vs 129 a week ago) on 55 stations. Urban AC is now +114 on 17 stations. It's surprising there aren't more urban AC stations playing it since Musicology is still on the top 10 on those stations.

I can guarentee that will be 441 spins as I am now listening to Call My Name on the radio as I type this. WIZF in Cincinnati plays it at the exact same time every mornng about 10:45am. The female DJ always gives it extreme props after its played. This is going Top 10 Urban for sure

>>It's surprising there aren't more urban AC stations playing it<<

Yeah , its wierd though. Check RadioandRecords.com on the UrbanAC chart they have Call My Name at #30 , yet list it as going for adds this week.

newpower99 said:

I wondered if they'd go for adds to get the number of urban AC stations up. This song is going to do far better than Musicology (I still don't understand why they didn't send that one to top 40 radio while the video was everywhere). Any word on a call my name video?

Call my name should get him a best male vocal grammy nomination too.

Any word on a call my name video? <<<

They are shooting it tomorrow. See thread in News on home page about casting call for extras

newpower99 said:

cool - I wonder how long it takes to get that edited and released to MTV/VH1/BET?

Also, it'd be interesting to know if Call My Name was planned to be a 2nd release, or if radio just started playing it and it snowballed. I noticed when the album came out, a few songs got played, and call my name started building airplay right away.

alandail said:

They probably had "Call My Name" in mind as the second single. It's the obvious choice for R&B radio. And so it's also the prime choice for pop, as far as the Hot 100 goes. I can't remember the last time a song made the R&B top 20 and didn't reach the Hot 100---probably back in the early 90s. R&B makes up a huge chunk of the Hot 100 radio panel nowadays, and most top 40 programmers make decisions based on songs doing well on R&B. If "Call My Name" makes the Urban top 10, which is entirely possible (and likely), Prince will have a guaranteed top 40 hit on the Hot 100. I think Janet's "I Want You" is the lowest charting pop hit (no.57) to reach the R&B top 20 in a few years.

Magazine covers, TV appearances, a sold-out tour, a top-selling album...the only thing missing in this 'comeback' is a genuine hit single. Get ready folks, 'cause here it comes....

They probably had "Call My Name" in mind as the second single.


i bet they did cos it was on the sticket alongside musicology on the cover of the cd, i know it doesnt always pan out as them being the singles but thats seems to be how its happening now!

wow, prince is going to be in the top 100? maybe even add to the top 40 again! how many top 40 songs does he have? in the UK its 40 isnt it? much be about that in the USA too?

from http://www.fmqb.com


Prince "Call My Name" (NPG/Columbia).



Let’s be honest, many of us thought or may still think of Prince as being a little left of center dating back to the time he changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol. Nowadays the artist many of us knew as one of the premiere talents in music has delivered an outstanding set of songs that is simply quintessential Prince. Many, especially younger programmers, will begin to understand how and why artists such as an Alicia Keys have been so inspired by this true musical genius. A Prince album is a musical journey, one that he hopes the public wants to experience, but you still need that one track that will pull people in. "Call My Name" could be that one. It’s a super sexy passionate track that should seduce your female core with ease! The Musicology CD along with his performance at this year’s Grammy Awards reminds me of just a few of the reasons why I started working in this business in the first place. Not that he ever really left, but the Prince we all know and love is back! BET ON IT!

Universaluv said:

Some people don't realize the power of seduction

alandail said:

Today it's 475 spins (+294 vs 181 a week ago) and is ranked #45 on 58 stations. Just 12 more to go now to be on all of the Urban stations. Urban AC is now a +126 on 18 stations.

It's on the top of the urban taking off chart now too

http://www.mmr247.com/mmr...p?chart=U1

It's starting to get play on CHR/Rhytmic too, today it's 104 spins (+73 vs 31 a week ago)

it's the fastest climbing song on urban AC now

http://www.mmr247.com/mmr...p?chart=U2

Yes, I heard it on the radio myself. It was on WBLS here in New York.

That was a surprise to me considering that this was not even a single yet. But then again, when SOTT came out, they ran "Adore" to the ground as well, and wasn't a single either. Just goes to show how great Prince's ballads are.

alandail said:

made more progress over the weekend. It's now

#41 with 504 spins (+199 vs 305 a week ago) on Urban on 58 stations
#20 with 249 spins (+110 vs 139 a week ago) on Urban AC (where prince now has two songs in the top 20) on 22 stations and going for adds today

This should combine to put prince in the top 40 on the next billboard R&B chart

also, it's

#77 with 144 spins (+99 vs 45 a week ago) on CHR/Rhythmic

it's also getting airplay in New York now on WKTU
http://www.mmr247.com/mmr...de=PRINCMN
[This message was edited Mon May 24 19:24:48 2004 by alandail]

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alandail said:

I heard this from a friend who's a total pop music nut. He was like, "What's that new Prince song I heard on KTU? Not the stupid James Brown one, the ballad?" He said it was the first P song he's liked since "Most Beautiful Girl" and thought it would be a huge hit.

renfield said:

They did cancel the video shooting
Has anyone heard it on the west coast? Shout outs?!

RomeoMustDie said:

They didn't cancel the shoot, they only canceled having NPGMC members be part of the shoot and instead used professional extras.

alandail said:

it's now

#20 Urban AC with 265 spins (+82) - just 6 spins from #19
#39 Urban with 510 spins (+114)
#69 CHR/Rhythmic with 177 spins (+115)

now it's

#18 Urban AC with 323 spings (+105 vs 218 a week ago) on 33 stations
#40 urban with 555 spins (+74)
#61 CHR/Rhythmic with 224 spins (+115)

haven't updated this in a while, but the song is again gaining momentum

#8 on urban AC with 592 spins (+171) on all 42 stations
#36 on urban with 638 spins (+54)
#59 on CHR/Rhythmic with 270 spins (+53)

it's really starting to gain momentum now.

#7 with 886 spins (+181) on urban AC
#35 with 800 spins (+105) on Urban
#62 with 293 spins on CHR/Rhytmic (-4)
#185 with 7 spins on CHR/pop

that's 1986 total spins