New York’s Top 40 Fans Discover This New Artist Named Timbaland

noah | December 26, 2007 10:40 am
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In years past, New York top 40 powerhouse Z100 turned over its Christmas programming to a commercial-free all-seasonal-music block, but they’ve abandoned that practice in recent years, no doubt because other stations had hopped on that bandwagon back in late November. (Although I would like to register a complaint about not hearing Bruce Springsteen’s version of “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” at all this year until approximately 11:05 a.m. yesterday. In the NYC metro area, no less! What the hell?) In its place, the station is running its Top 100 of 2007 countdown on what seems to be endless loop, and given that I spent a lot of time in cars these past two days and this chart deviates just enough from the year-end Hot 100 to be kinda interesting, I figured I’d share it. Timbaland took the top two spots, with the “The Way I Are” placing at No. 1 and the still-not-very-good Scott Storch dis track “Give It To Me” somehow landing at No. 2.

THE GOOD: Two Pink tracks–“Who Knew and the oft-censored “U & Ur Hand”–placed in the top 10, as did Nelly Furtado’s “Say It Right.” Also, Elliott Yamin wound up being the highest-charting American Idol alum of the year who wasn’t Daughtry*, with “Wait For You” (No. 19) just nosing out “Before He Cheats” (No. 20). THE BAD: In a year that was pretty lackluster for rock-on-pop-radio to begin with, the highest-charting representative of the genre is… the limp, sub-CW-theme “The Great Escape” by Boys Like Girls, which landed at No. 8. Is it because they played the Jingle Ball? I’m seriously curious. THE WHAAAA? At approximately 7 p.m. Monday, the Best New Artist voting (part of some listener polls that are running in conjunction with this list’s airing/trying to pad the station’s web stats before the year ends) was led by the moptopped Jonas Brothers, with Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana in second place. In third place? Timbaland. Hey, if he keeps it up in the polls, maybe he could get a Disney Channel show of his own!

1 Timbaland & Keri Hilson – The Way I Are 2 Timbaland & Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake – Give It To Me 3 Pink – U + Ur Hand 4 Justin Timberlake – What Goes Around Comes Around 5 Fergie – Big Girls Dont Cry (Personal) 6 Nelly Furtado – Say It Right 7 Pink – Who Knew 8 Boys Like Girls – The Great Escape 9 Kat DeLuna & Elephant Man – Whine Up 10 Daughtry – It’s Not Over 11 Diddy & Christina Aguilera – Tell Me 12 Fall Out Boy – Thnks Fr Th Mmrs 13 Justin Timberlake – Summer Love 14 Timbaland & OneRepublic – Apologize 15 Rihanna & Jay-Z – Umbrella 16 50 Cent & Justin Timberlake – Ayo Technology 17 Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Face Down 18 Kanye West – Stronger 19 Elliott Yamin – Wait For You 20 Carrie Underwood – Before He Cheats 21 Gwen Stefani – The Sweet Escape 22 Plain White Ts – Hey There Delilah 23 Gym Class Heroes – Cupid’s Chokehold 24 Ne-Yo – Because Of You 25 Maroon 5 – Makes Me Wonder 26 Diddy & Keyshia Cole – Last Night 27 Daughtry – Home 28 T-Pain & Yung Joc – Buy U A Drank 29 Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend 30 Colbie Caillat – Bubbly 31 Justin Timberlake – Lovestoned/I Think She Knows 32 Lumidee & Tony Sunshine – She’s Like The Wind 33 Fergie – Glamorous 34 Sean Kingston – Beautiful Girls 35 Rihanna & Ne-Yo – Hate That I Love You 36 Good Charlotte – I Don’t Wanna Be In Love 37 Alicia Keys – No One 38 Yung Berg & Junior – Sexy Lady 39 Kelly Clarkson – Never Again 40 Britney Spears – Gimme More 41 Nickelback – Rockstar 42 Akon – Dont Matter 43 Jordin Sparks – Tattoo 44 Beyonce & Shakira – Beautiful Liar 45 Ciara – Like A Boy 46 Katharine McPhee – Over It 47 Beyonce – Irreplaceable 48 My Chemical Romance – Welcome To The Black Parade 49 Rihanna – Shut Up And Drive 50 Fabolous & Ne-Yo – Make Me Better 51 Paramore – Misery Business 52 Paula DeAnda & Dey – Walk Away Remember Me 53 Avril Lavigne – When Youre Gone 54 Fergie – Clumsy 55 Akon & Snoop Dogg – I Wanna Love You 56 All-American Rejects – It Ends Tonight 57 Chris Brown – Wall To Wall 58 Daughtry – Over You 59 Hellogoodbye – Here In Your Arms 60 Omarion & Timbaland – Ice Box 61 Jonas Brothers – S.O.S. 62 Ludacris & Mary J. Blige – Runaway Love 63 Matchbox Twenty – How Far We’ve Come 64 Kanye West & T-Pain – Good Life 65 Nickelback – If Everyone Cared 66 Chris Brown & T-Pain – Kiss Kiss 67 Maroon 5 – Wake Up Call 68 Miley Cyrus – See You Again 69 Lloyd & Lil Wayne – You 70 Amy Winehouse – Rehab 71 Shop Boyz – Party Like A Rockstar 72 Boys Like Girls – Hero Heroine 73 Sean Kingston – Me Love 74 Avril Lavigne – Keep Holding On 75 Lloyd – Get It Shawty 76 Linkin Park – What I’ve Done 77 Soulja Boy – Crank That Soulja Boy 78 Fall Out Boy – I’m Like A Lawyer With The Way I’m Always Trying To Get You Off (Me & You) 79 Hilary Duff – With Love 80 Enur & Nataja – Calabria 81 Dashboard Confessional – Stolen 82 Robin Thicke – Lost Without U 83 Finger Eleven – Paralyzer 84 Chenelle & Baby Cham – I Fell In Love With The DJ 85 Rihanna – Dont Stop The Music 86 Backstreet Boys – Inconsolable 87 Fall Out Boy – This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race 88 Sean Kingston – Take You There 89 Hinder – Better Than Me 90 Celine Dion – Taking Chances 91 Mims – This Is Why I’m Hot 92 Britney Spears – Piece Of Me 93 John Mayer – Waiting On The World To Change 94 Baby Bash – Cyclone 95 Linkin Park – Shadow Of The Day 96 Jennifer Lopez – Do It Well 97 Taylor Swift – Teardrops On My Guitar 98 Natasha Bedingfield & Sean Kingston – Love Like This 99 Ashley Tisdale – He Said She Said 100 Nelly Furtado – Do It

Top 100 of 2007 [z100.com] [Photo: Getty]

* OK OK I initially forgot about Daughtry’s Idol connection since he’s, you know, actually selling records these days. Hey, did you notice that there are no Taylor Hicks songs on this countdown either?