Artist Countdown: The Pointer Sisters Top 35 Hits 9pm ET

The Pointer Sisters are an American R&B recording girl group from Oakland, California that achieved mainstream success during the 1970s and 1980s. Spanning over three decades, their repertoire has included such diverse genres as pop, disco, jazz, electronic music, bebop, blues, soul, funk, dance, country and rock. The Pointer Sisters have won three Grammy Awards and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994. The group had 13 US top 20 hits between 1973 and 1985.

The group had its early origins when sisters June and Bonnie Pointer began performing in clubs in 1969 as “Pointers, a Pair”. The line-up grew to a trio when sister Anita Pointer joined them. They scored a record deal with Atlantic Records and released several unsuccessful singles. The trio grew to a quartet when sister Ruth joined in December 1972. They then signed with Blue Thumb Records, recorded their debut album, and began seeing more success, winning a Grammy Award in 1975 for Best Country Vocal Performance for “Fairytale” (1974). Bonnie left the group in 1978 to commence a solo career with only modest success.

The group achieved its greatest commercial success as a trio during the 1980s consisting of the line-up of June, Ruth, and Anita, winning two more Grammy’s for the top 10 hits “Jump (For My Love)” (1984) and “Automatic” (1984). The groups other US top 10 hits are “Fire” (1979), “He’s So Shy” (1980), “Slow Hand” (1981), the remixed version of “I’m So Excited” (1984) and “Neutron Dance” (1985). June Pointer, who left the group in 2004, died of cancer in 2006. She was replaced by Ruth’s daughter Issa Pointer. This trio had a number two hit in Belgium in 2005, covering “Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves” with Belgian singer Natalia. Since 2009, the group has consisted of Anita, Ruth and Ruth’s granddaughter Sadako Pointer. – Wikipedia

Artist Countdown: Ed Sheeran Top 40 @edsheeran

Edward Christopher “Ed” Sheeran (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Born in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire and raised in Framlingham, Suffolk, he moved to London in 2008 to pursue a musical career. In early 2011, Sheeran released an independent extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project, which caught the attention of both Elton John and Jamie Foxx. He then signed to Asylum Records. His debut album, +, containing the singles “The A Team” and “Lego House”, was certified quintuple platinum in the UK. In 2012, Sheeran won two Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. “The A Team” won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In 2014 he was nominated for Best New Artist at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards.

Sheeran’s popularity abroad began in 2012. In the US he made a guest appearance on Taylor Swift’s fourth studio album, Red, and wrote songs for One Direction. “The A Team” was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards and he performed the song in duet with Elton John during the ceremony. He spent much of 2013 touring North America as the opening act for Swift’s The Red Tour. In autumn 2013 Sheeran performed three sold out shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden as a headline act. His second studio album titled x (read as “multiply”) was released worldwide on 23 June 2014, charting at number one in the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200. It was nominated for Album of the Year at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards. As part of his x world tour, Sheeran will play three concerts at London’s Wembley Stadium in July 2015, his biggest solo shows to date. – Wikipedia

1	Thinking Out Loud
2	Sing
3	Don’t
4	The A Team
5	I See Fire
6	Lego House
7	Give Me Love
8	Afire Love
9	Make It Rain
10	Everything Has Changed (Taylor Swift featuring Ed Sheeran)]
11	One
12	Photograph
13	Bloodstream (with Rudimental)
14	Drunk
15	Small Bump
16	The Man
17	Old School Love (Lupe Fiasco featuring Ed Sheeran)
18	You Need Me, I Don’t Need You
19	All About It (Hoodie Allen featuring Ed Sheeran)
20	Watchtower (Devlin featuring Ed Sheeran)
21	Wish You Were Here (Richard Jones, Nick Mason, Mike Rutherford, David Arnold and Ed Sheeran)
22	I’m a Mess
23	Tenerife Sea
24	Nina
25	Gold Rush
26	Kiss Me
27	Hush Little Baby (Wretch 32 featuring Ed Sheeran)
28	Candle in the Wind
29	Runaway
30	Autumn Leaves
31	Take It Back
32	Young Guns (Lewi White featuring Ed Sheeran, Yasmin, Griminal & Devlin)
33	Friends
34	Sunburn
35	Even My Dad Does Sometimes
36	Everything You Are
37	U.N.I.
38	Grade 8
39	Little Bird
40	Wake Me Up

Artist Countdown: Sarah McLachlan Top 30 Hits 6pm ET @SarahMcLachlan

Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC (born January 28, 1968) is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2009, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan’s best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards (out of four nominations) and four Juno Awards. In addition to her personal artistic efforts, she founded the Lilith Fair tour, which showcased female musicians on a scale that had never been attempted before. The Lilith Fair concert tours took place from 1997 to 1999, and resumed in the summer of 2010. On May 6, 2014, she released her first album of original music in four years, titled Shine On.

1	Angel
2	Fallen
3	Adia
4	I Will Remember You
5	Building a Mystery
6	Silence    (with Delerium)
7	Sweet Surrender
8	Sing    (with Annie Lennox)
9	Stupid
10	U Want Me 2
11	Good Enough
12	Possession
13	Time After Time (with Cyndi Lauper)
14	Ice Cream
15	The Path of Thorns (Terms)
16	Into the Fire
17	World on Fire
18	One Dream
19	Drawn to the Rhythm
20	Hold On
21	Loving You Is Easy
22	Forgiveness
23	Vox
24	Steaming
25	Full of Grace
26	Illusions of Bliss
27	In Your Shoes
28	Walkin’ Good  (with Heart)
29	Love Beside Me
30	Monsters

Artist Countdown: Lady Antebellum Top 25 Hits 6pm ET @ladyantebellum

Lady Antebellum is an American country music group formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 2006. The trio is composed of Hillary Scott (lead and background vocals), Charles Kelley (lead and background vocals, guitar), and Dave Haywood (background vocals, guitar, piano, mandolin). Scott is the daughter of country music singer Linda Davis, and Kelley is the brother of pop singer Josh Kelley.

The group made its debut in 2007 as guest vocalists on Jim Brickman’s single “Never Alone”, before signing to Capitol Records Nashville. Lady Antebellum has released four albums for Capitol: Lady Antebellum (2008), Need You Now (2010), Own the Night (2011), and Golden (2013), plus one Christmas album (2012’s On This Winter’s Night) and two extended plays. A fifth album, 747, is slated for release in September 2014. Their first three albums are certified platinum or higher by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The group has fifteen charted singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, of which eight have reached number one; all of their singles have charted within the Billboard Hot 100 as well. Of their singles, the most successful is 2009’s “Need You Now”, which spent five weeks at number one on the Hot Country Songs charts, in addition to topping the Adult Contemporary chart and reaching number two on the Hot 100.

Lady Antebellum was awarded Top New Duo or Group by the Academy of Country Music and New Artist of the Year by the Country Music Association in 2008. They were nominated for two Grammy Awards at the 51st Grammy Awards; and two more at the 52nd Grammy Awards. Of these nominations, they took home the award for Best Country Performance by Duo or Group with Vocals for “I Run to You”. More recently on April 18, 2010, the group was awarded Top Vocal Group, Song of the Year (“Need You Now”), and Single of the Year (“Need You Now”) at the 44th ACM Awards. The group won five awards at the 53rd Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year and Record of the Year for “Need You Now”. Lady Antebellum was also awarded the “Best Country Album” award at the 54th Grammy Awards. By August 2013, the group has sold more than 12.5 million digital singles and 10 million albums in the United States. – Wikipedia

1	Need You Now
2	Just a Kiss
3	Downtown
4	Bartender
5	I Run to You
6	Compass
7	Goodbye Town
8	We Owned the Night
9	American Honey
10	Our Kind of Love
11	Dancin’ Away with My Heart
12	Wanted You More
13	Love Don’t Live Here
14	Hello World
15	Lookin’ for a Good Time
16	Learning to Fly
17	Ready to Love Again
18	When You Got a Good Thing
19	Love This Pain
20	All for Love
21	I Was Here
22	Golden
23	Out of Goodbyes (with Maroon 5)
24	Walking After Midnight (w/Anna Wilson)
25	Stars Tonight

Artist Countdown: Cyndi Lauper Top 25 Hits 6pm ET @cyndilauper

Cynthia Ann Stephanie “Cyndi” Lauper (born June 22, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and LGBT rights activist whose career has spanned over four decades. Her debut solo album She’s So Unusual (1983) was an instant commercial success. The album was the first debut female album to chart four top-five hits on the Billboard Hot 100—”Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” “Time After Time,” “She Bop,” and “All Through the Night,” earning Lauper the Best New Artist award at the 27th Grammy Awards in 1985. Her success continued with the soundtrack from the motion picture “The Goonies” and her second record, True Colors (1986), which included the number one hit of the same name, and “Change of Heart,” which peaked at number 3 and earned Lauper two nominations at the 29th Grammy Awards in 1987.

Lauper has been celebrated for her ongoing humanitarian work over the last 30 years, particularly as an advocate for gay and transgender rights in the U.S. Her charitable efforts were recognized in 2013, when the singer was invited as a special guest to attend President Barack Obama’s second-term inaugural ceremony. – Wikipedia

1	Girls Just Want to Have Fun
2	Time After Time
3	She Bop
4	True Colors
5	I Drove All Night
6	All Through the Night
7	Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)
8	Change of Heart
9	What’s Going On
10	The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough
11	Money Changes Everything
12	Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)
13	My First Night Without You
14	The World Is Stone
15	Who Let in the Rain
16	You Don’t Know
17	That’s What I Think
18	Into the Nightlife
19	Ballad of Cleo and Joe
20	Same Ol’ Story
21	I’m Gonna Be Strong
22	When You Were Mine
23	Boy Blue
24	A Night to Remember
25	Sisters of Avalon

Artist Countdown: Taylor Swift Top 50 Hits 6pm ET @taylorswift13

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 14 to pursue a career in country music. She signed with the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. The release of Swift’s self-titled debut album in 2006 established her as a country music star. “Our Song”, her third single, made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number one song on the Hot Country Songs chart. She received a Best New Artist nomination at the 2008 Grammy Awards.

Swift is known for narrative songs about her personal experiences. As a songwriter, she has been honored by the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Swift’s other achievements include seven Grammy Awards, twelve Billboard Music Awards, eleven Country Music Association Awards and seven Academy of Country Music Awards. To date, she has sold over 26 million albums and 75 million digital single downloads. In addition to her music career, Swift has appeared as an actress in the ensemble comedy Valentine’s Day (2010) and the animated film The Lorax (2012). As a philanthropist, Swift supports arts education, children’s literacy, natural disaster relief, LGBT anti-discrimination efforts, and charities for sick children. – Wikipedia

Original Chart 12/13/12
Update 6/9/14

1	We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
2	Love Story
3	I Knew You Were Trouble
4	You Belong with Me
5	Mine
6	Begin Again
7	Red
8	Both of Us (B.o.B featuring Taylor Swift)
9	22
10	Everything Has Changed (featuring Ed Sheeran)
11	State of Grace
12	Speak Now
13	Eyes Open
14	Sweeter Than Fiction
15	White Horse
16	Safe & Sound (featuring The Civil Wars)
17	Back to December
18	Mean
19	Fifteen
20	Teardrops on My Guitar
21	Should’ve Said No
22	Highway Don’t Care (with Tim McGraw)
23	Sparks Fly
24	Ours
25	Jump Then Fall
26	Fearless
27	Crazier
28	Our Song
29	Picture to Burn
30	The Last Time (featuring Gary Lightbody)
31	I Almost Do
32	The Moment I Knew
33	Half of My Heart (John Mayer featuring Taylor Swift)
34	All Too Well
35	The Story of Us
36	Stay Stay Stay
37	If This Was a Movie
38	You’re Not Sorry
39	Two Is Better Than One (Boys Like Girls featuring Taylor Swift)
40	Breathless
41	Untouchable
42	Tim McGraw
43	Change
44	Treacherous
45	Starlight
46	Holy Ground
47	The Lucky One
48	Sad Beautiful Tragic
49	Come Back… Be Here
50	Girl at Home

Artist Countdown: Seal Top 35 Hits 6p ET @Seal

Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel (born 19 February 1963), known by his mononym Seal, is a British R&B and soul singer-songwriter.

Seal has won numerous music awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1992, four Grammy Awards, and an MTV Video Music Award. Seal is known for his numerous international hits, including “Kiss from a Rose”, which appeared on the soundtrack to the 1995 film Batman Forever. He has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. He is a coach on The Voice Australia.  (Source: Wikipedia)

1	Crazy
2	Kiss from a Rose
3	Future Love Paradise
4	Love’s Divine
5	Get It Together
6	Amazing
7	The Beginning
8	Prayer for the Dying
9	Fly Like an Eagle
10	Killer
11	Newborn Friend
12	Walk on By
13	My Vision (Jakatta featuring Seal)
14	Human Beings
15	The Right Life
16	Don’t Cry
17	Waiting for You
18	Secret
19	Les Mots (Mylène Farmer et Seal)
20	This Could Be Heaven
21	It’s Alright
22	It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World
23	A Change Is Gonna Come
24	I Can’t Stand the Rain
25	Let’s Stay Together
26	Stand by Me
27	Wishing on a Star
28	I’m Alive
29	If I Could
30	Lost My Faith
31	If You Don’t Know Me by Now
32	I Am Your Man
33	Weight of My Mistakes
34	If I’m Any Closer
35	Manic Depression (Jeff Beck feat. Seal)

Artist Countdown: Peter Gabriel Top 30 6p ET @itspetergabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and humanitarian activist who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis.

After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. His 1986 album, So, is his most commercially successful, and the album’s biggest hit, “Sledgehammer”, won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards. The song is the most played music video in the history of the station.

More recently, Gabriel has focused on producing and promoting world music and pioneering digital distribution methods for music as well as his involvement in humanitarian efforts. Gabriel has won numerous music awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1987, six Grammy Awards, thirteen MTV Video Music Awards, the first Pioneer Award at the BT Digital Music Awards, and in 2007 he was honoured as a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI London Awards for his “influence on generations of music makers”. In recognition of his many years of human rights activism, he received the Man of Peace award from the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in 2006, and in 2008, TIME magazine named Gabriel one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Gabriel was also awarded the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2007, and the Polar Music Prize in 2009. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010 and he is to be inducted as a solo artist in 2014.  (Source: Wikipedia)

1	Sledgehammer
2	Big Time
3	Steam
4	Digging in the Dirt
5	Don’t Give Up (with Kate Bush)
6	Games Without Frontiers
7	Shock the Monkey
8	In Your Eyes
9	Solsbury Hill
10	Red Rain
11	Kiss That Frog
12	Biko
13	Lovetown
14	The Barry Williams Show
15	More Than This
16	Shakin’ the Tree (with Youssou N’Dour)
17	Blood of Eden (with ‘Sinéad O’Connor)
18	Secret World
19	Burn You Up, Burn You Down
20	That Voice Again
21	While the Earth Sleeps (with Deep Forest)
22	No Self-Control
23	Kiss of Life
24	Down to Earth (with The Soweto Gospel Choir)
25	I Have the Touch
26	Growing Up
27	Darkness
28	The Book of Love
29	I Don’t Remember
30	Modern Love