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Star 100.7 (October 5, 2004)

LOGON NOW: Listen to new music from this week's featured artists and predict the hits >>

GWEN STEFANI
What Are You Waiting For

No Doubt front runner, Gwen Stefani is out with her first solo single, "What You Waiting For" Gwen wanted to do something she couldn't do in No Doubt - make an "80's album." "I wanted fake drumbeats, a Salt 'N' Pepa kind of sound, and I couldn't do that with No Doubt." Hint: It WILL definitely chart so listen to it a few times and then log on to the Music Challenge page and vote!

U2
Vertigo

U2's new single "Vertigo" is in this week's Music Challenge. Their new album HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB is their 11th studio album (the last one was released in 2000). It'll be in stores at the end of November. "Vertigo" is already making a bomb-size impact on U.S. radio outlets.

JET
Look What You've Done

"Look What You've Done" is the 3rd single from Jet's debut album GET BORN. "Look What You've Done" is a passionate, heartfelt ballad, quite the opposite from the hard-rocking sound of "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" Log on to the Music Challenge to tell us what you think.

GOO GOO DOLLS
Give A Little Bit

The Goo Goo Dolls have a new single this week on the Music Challenge. It's called "Give A Little Bit" and it's acutally a remake of the 1977 hit by Supertramp.The Goo Goo Dolls' version will be available as a CD/DVD package, filmed in their hometown of Buffalo, NY.

CONGRATULATIONS TO Christina Guinther, winner of Round 1 of the Music Challenge!!! Total Points: 165,000

The Top 25 players from Round 1:

USERNAME POINTS
cabuch 165000
amyhad 159800
egmarsha 155350
jashel 152650
tfuller 152350
tstonefld 151950
gimmykimmy 151900
missrauter 149250
jkdj 149200
kayne 148850
aiken4olivia 148700
maximo23 147350
mandiilyn 144800
kcsmawm1 144250
blacksiren 143400
alineric 142600
rheastew 141350
pajamasam 139550
jamiam 139200
dreverett 138850
kmr 138700
mde2snobrd 138450
cstotz 137450

The Star Store offers a 50% discount on most of the CD's featured in the Music Challenge, like Lenny Kravitz, Switchfoot and Britney Spears - CD's are just $7.99. Take advantage of this incredible offer now!

Star Store >>

Help us decide what songs are played on Star! Sign up to be part of the Music Advisory Board and help influence the chart! Your opinion is very important to us because we use it to help determine the popularity of the music we play, and how often to play it! It also affects the ranking songs on the Star Top 20 Countdown (it makes up 25% of our calculation methods!). And if you're a Freeloader, it's a great way to gain more Freeloader points - you'll recieve 500 Star points each time you complete a survey. Register NOW and every few weeks, we'll send you an email, inviting you to rate 30 songs currently on Star 100.7.


Featured Artists

Featured Prizes

Top 20 Countdown

How to Play

Statistics

Star Music Store

Greg and Jen's Insider Tips

Music Advisory Board

Concert Announcements

1 Breakaway
Kelly Clarkson
2 She Will Be Loved
Maroon 5
3 1985
Bowling For Soup
4 Dare You To Move
Switchfoot
5 Lady
Lenny Kravitz

The Top 20 Countdown results are determined in the following ways:

1. Results from the Star 100.7 Music Advisory Board

2. Weekly Request totals from histar.com

3. Sales of singles on the I-Tunes Music Download chart

4. Airplay on Star 100.7

[ The Entire Top 20 ]

The idea behind the new scoring system is to make it easier to follow, and more fun! It also rewards you for being ACCURATE and not just for being CLOSE

We’ve received your emails and phone calls asking us to explain the new scoring legend in detail, so here's how it works:

Let's assume you predicted a song to land in the Top 10.

Week 1: The song doesn't chart >> Your point balance remains 0.

Week 2: The song goes to 14th place (Top 15) >> Your point balance remains 0.

Week 3: The song goes to 7th place (Top 10) >> Your point balance becomes 1,000.

Week 4: The song goes to #1 (Top 5) >> Your point balance becomes 0 again.

So just like the first round, your point balance goes up and down on a per week basis (as we input the charts). The difference with round two is that the idea is to reward people for predicting the song totally accurate and not for anything else (such as coming close to the correct position).

1,150 points it the most you can get per song. 1,000 points if you predicted correctly and the song peaked at the position you chose. 100 points just for playing, and 50 points if you voted with the majority of the people who play
.

"When making your song predictions, take into consideration the artist's history on Star. Is it an artist that has had their songs played in 'heavy rotation' or have you noticed you don't hear their songs being played very often? Whether or not you like the song personally, take this into consideration when making your decision and good luck on your predictions"

[ Greg & Jen ]

10.08Air Supply
10.10Norah Jones
10.20Jimmy Buffet

[ Concert Calendar ]


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