CMLCI Midweek Update Page Posted

As I mention earlier this week, the  midweek update for the CMLCI has its own page.  To see the midweek voting results, just click on the CMLCI Midweek Update Page link at the top of the page.

So far only 3 people have voted, so I am hoping for a few more between now and early Sunday morning.  If you are reading this and have no clue what the CMLCI is, just click on the CML Chart Interactive link at the top of the page to see what it is and to vote if you want.

Thanks for the visit!

CML Top 60 for 11/15 to 11/21/09

This week’s Top 60 is now online.

For the third week in a row, the Top 5 songs are the same songs, but in a different order.  Brad Paisley slides down to #5 this week with his former CML #1 “Welcome to the Future”, while the Zac Brown Band’s former CML #1 “Toes” hang in at #4.  Moving up two places to #3, is Trace Adkins’ “All I Ask For Anymore.”  Craig Morgan’s “Bonfire” holds steady at #2, while Luke Bryan’s “Do I” holds on to the #1 spot for the second week in a row.

There are only two debuts this–the aforementioned Brad Paisley has his latest “American Saturday Night” debuting at #47, while new band The Band Perry comes in at #52 with their debut single “Hip to My Heart.”  Check back later this week to read my single review on these two songs.

You can have a hand in creating the Top 60 for 11/22 to 11/28/09 by voting in this week’s CML Chart Interactive.  Click on the CMLCI link in oder to get to the link to vote and to read up on what the CMLCI is.

Thanks, as always, for the visit and feel free to surf around!

CMLCI Results–11/15 to 11/21/09 edition

Here are the results from the last CMLCI:

4-Star Poll:
Sarah Buxton- “Outside My Window” (4 votes)
Jake Owen- “Eight Second Ride” (2 votes)
Carrie Underwood- “Cowboy Casanova” (2 votes)
Jason Michael Carroll- “Hurry Home” (0 votes)
Taylor Swift- “Fifteen” (0 votes)

3-Star Poll:
Blake Shelton w/Trace Adkins- “Hillbilly Bone” (3 votes)
Kenny Chesney w/Dave Matthews- “I’m Alive” (2 votes)
Martina McBride- “I Just Call You Mine” (1 vote)
Lost Trailers- “Country Folks (Livin’ Loud)” (1 vote)
Jason Aldean- “The Truth” (1 vote)
Gary Allan- “Today” (0 votes)
Dierks Bentley- “I Wanna Make You Close Your Eyes” (0 votes)
Reba McEntire- “Consider Me Gone” (0 votes)
Jimmy Wayne w/Hall & Oates- “Sara Smile” (0 votes)

2-Star Poll
Miranda Lambert- “White Liar” (4 votes)
Tim McGraw- “Southern Voice” (2 votes)
Gretchen Wilson- “Work Hard, Play Harder” (2 votes)
Josh Thompson- “Beer on the Table” (0 votes)

 

This week’s CMLCI, for the 11/22 to 11/28/09 edition on the CML Chart, is now online.  This week a 4-Star and a 2-Star song are being removed.  This means, once again, there is no 5-Star Poll (there will be one next week barring a miraculous turnaround on the charts by two songs).  One song will win the 4-Star and 3-Star polls, while two songs will win the 2-Star poll.  Click on the CMLCI link to vote.

I will do something new with the CMLCI Midweek Updates this week.  I am going to create a separate page to post the results so that if you do not want to see the results before voting, you don’t have to. By creating a post that you may see when coming to this blog, I could either discourage you from voting or inadvertently make you vote differently than you would if the song you wanted to vote for is way far behind. I will create this page Wednesday or Thursday, depending on when I can get to it.  The page will include a warning at the top of the page to read this page only if you have voted, are not going to vote, or are not going to be effected by the results when you vote.

Check out the new page…

The CML Chart will have a few changes starting in January.  These changes are outlined in the CML Chart 2010 Changes page.  Take a look to see what is changing.

CML Top 60 for the 11/8 to 11/14 edition now online.

This week’s Top 60 is now online.

The same five songs are in the Top 5 this week, just in a different order.  Holding steady at #5 is “All I Ask For Anymore” by Trace Adkins.  Falling down three to #4  is last week’s #1 “Toes” by the Zac Brown Band.  Sliding down one spot to #3 is the former #1 “Welcome to the Future” by Brad Paisley.  Coming in at #2, up 2 spots, is “Bonfire” by Craig Morgan.  Our #1 this week belongs to Luke Bryan with “Do I.”  This is Luke’s first CML #1, so congratulations to him.

This week, there are three new songs–Gretchen Wilson’s “Work Hard, Play Harder” at #53, Bucky Covington’s cover of Nickelback’s “Gotta Be Somebody” at #56, and Lee Ann Womack’s “There Is a God” at #59.  Check back later this week for my review of these singles. 

Please check out the CML Chart Interactive to see how you can help make the CML Chart each week.

CMLCI Results–11/8/09

The CML Chart Interactive for the 11/8 to 11/14/09 edition of the CML Chart is now closed.  Here are the results:

2-Star Poll
“Today” by Gary Allan (4 votes)
“Southern Voice” by Tim McGraw (3 votes)
“Whistlin’ Dixie” by Randy Houser (3 votes)

As you can see, the voting was close this week with the winner being “Today” by Gary Allan

 

The CML Chart Interactive for the 11/15 to 11/21/09 edition of the CML Chart is now online.  This week, only one song is to be removed, and that song was a 4-Star song.  This means there is no 5-Star Poll and that you are voting for only one song on the other polls.  Thanks for the visit!

CMLCI Midweek Update

With about 72 hours to go in the CMLCI, it’s time to look at the voting so far.  This is the first week that I am doing this as my new voting system (using surveymonkey.com) doesn’t allow me to show you the voting results right after your vote.  We’ll see if this post inspires more people to vote.  Here are the current vote totals:

2-Star Poll
“Today” by Gary Allan- 4
“Southern Voice” by Tim McGraw- 2
“Whistlin’ Dixie” by Randy Houser- 1

There have been 7 votes placed so far, which is just about the average number of votes each week.  My goal someday is to get between 10-20 votes every week.  If you have been voting every week, I truly appreciate you taking the time to participate. I enjoy creating the chart (the Excel part and creating the webpages) and blogging about it every week and I feel even better when you, the readers, can get involved.

Thanks for the visit!  If you haven’t voted already, click on the CMLCI link at the top of the page to read a little about the CML Chart Interactive and to find the link to the polls.

Top 60 for 11/1 to 11/7/09 Now Online

The 11/1 to 11/7/09 edition of the CML Chart is now online.

The Top 3 remains the same this week as “Toes” by Zac Brown Band spends its second week at #1, with Brad Paisley’s “Welcome to the Future” and Luke Bryan’s “Do I”  right behind him.  New to the Top 5 this week is “Bonfire” by Craig Morgan who moves up to #4 thanks to its win on the CMLCI.  Sliding back one spot to #5 is “All I Ask For Anymore” by Trace Adkins.

“Whistlin’ Dixie” by Randy Houser leads the Top 60 debuts this week, coming in at #53.  Jack Inrgam gets a little help from Patty Griffin on “Seeing Stars,” which debuts at #56.  The last debut song is the first country single from Uncle Kracker, “Smile,” which debuts at #60. Check back later this week to read my single reviews of these songs.

Help make the 11/8 to 11/14/09 edition of the CML Chart by participating in the CML Chart Interactive.  Click on the CMLCI link at the top of the page for a little info on the CMLCI and to find the link to this week’s poll.  Thanks for the visit!

 

CMLCI Results: 11/1 to 11/7/09 edition

The polls are closed and here is the results:

5-Star Poll: There were only two songs in the running this week for one open spot on the 5-Star “roster.”  After the voting was said and done, both songs were tied!  The tiebreaker, longest on the chart, was applied and the winner ends up “Bonfire” by Craig Morgan.

4-Star Poll: Everyone was voting for 3 songs out of 5 choices this week.  The three winners were each picked by 75% of the voters: “Need You Now” by Lady Antebellum, “Red Light” by David Nail, and “Runaway” by Love & Theft.

3-Star Poll: Once again, everyone was voting for 3 songs, but there were 9 to choose from (since there can be 10 2-Star songs at a time, the 10th one did not qualify for the CMLCI this week). Receiving the most votes was “Eight Second Ride” by Jake Owen. Second place went to “Cowboy Casanova” by Carried Underwood.  There were three songs tied for third, but only one of them could win.  The tiebreaker (longest on chart) was applied and the winner of the third spot was “Hurry Home” by Jason Michael Carroll.

2-Star Poll: This week, I had you vote for the one song you did not want to win this poll since there were 3 songs needed to win and only 4 to pick from.  However, this will be the last time this happens. Since I finally figured out that I could set the number of votes needed to answer a question, I will no longer be doing the “pick one not to win” type of polls, since I think people were not reading the instructions.  Anyway, this week 50% of the votes were for “Today” by Gary Allan NOT to win, so the other three move up: “Hillbilly Bone” by Blake Shelton w/Trace Adkins, “Country Folks (Livin’ Loud)” by the Lost Trailers, and “I Wanna Make You Close Your Eyes” by Dierks Bentley.

The new CMLCI is up and running.  The 11/8 to 11/14/09 edition CMLCI has only one poll as only a 2-Star song is being removed.  This week, only three songs matched any of the criteria for being included on the 2-Star Poll, so there are not that many to choose from.

Starting this week, I am going to give a midweek update on how the voting is going.  I am unable to display the results when you’re voting and there is no way for me to share them with individuals on the free account there.  I will display the number of votes for each song in each poll.  The CMLCI gets anywhere between 6-10 voters a week (including myself).  If you are a regular voter and know other people who my be interested in becoming a part of the CMLCI, please spread the word.  I would love to get to the maximum 100 votes I can get each week on my polls!

Thanks for the visit!

CML Top 60 for 10/25 to 10/31/09

The latest Top 60 is now online!

We have a new #1 this week as “Toes” by the Zac Brown Band leaps 3 places thanks to its win in the CML Chart Interactive for this week’s chart.  Sliding down a notch each is “Welcome to the Future” by Brad Paisley, the #1 for the last three weeks, and “Do I” by Luke Bryan.  Don’t be surprised if either song return to their previous spots as both songs had gains in their points for the week.  Rounding out the Top 5 are two newcomers–”All I Ask For Anymore” by Trace Adkins at #4 and “Only You Can Love Me This Way” by Keith Urban, both of whom were CMLCI winners as well.

There are 5 new songs this week.  The highest debut checks in at #53 and is the latest from Blake Shelton (with a little help from Trace Adkins) “Hillbilly Bone”.  At #54 this week is the latest from Joe Nichols, “Gimmie That Girl.”  Toby Keith’s “Cryin’ For Me (Wayman’s Song)” debuts at #56, Rodney Atkins’ “Chasin’ Girls” debuts at #57 and new band Houston County’s “I Can’t Make It Rain” debuts at #60.  Check back later this week as I do single reviews for each of the new songs.

Thanks for the visit!  Please help make next week’s chart by voting in the CMLCI.  Just click on the appropriate link to take you to that page for some information and the link to the voting pages.