THE MAJOR'S MASSIVE MEMORIES

A VAST COLLECTION OF CLASSIC HIT SONGS REPRESENTING 21 YEARS OF GREAT MEMORIES FOR MAJOR HITWAVES

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PK	WKS	PTS	YRS	SONG TITLE & COMMENTS	ARTIST / SITE
1	23	424	2005 & 2006	Check On It 2006 MASSIVE Memory Music Award Winner for Best Pop Dance Hit. Some songs have 'it' on first hearing. Check. It was a catchy - even addictive - out-of-the-box smash that I couldn't help but sing along out loud to whenever it came on the radio. Some songs never get old and tired. Check. I can hear it today and love it as much as I did when I first heard it. It's an instant classic ! It's a MASSIVE Memory !	Beyoncé Ft. Slim Thug
1	27	599	2005 & 2006	Dirty Little Secret 2006 MASSIVE Memory Music Award Winner for Best Pop Rock Hit. In December 2005 I joined the XM Satellite Radio revolution. My favourite station since the beginning has been the continuous countdown that is '20 On 20'. One of the biggest hits on there at the start was this smash that I literally discovered on my new world of satellite radio. It was one of their most-played hits during the first couple of months of 2006.	The All-American Rejects
1	33	558	2005 & 2006	Everytime We Touch It was recorded early on in 2005 and released as a single in Canada first and then in the U.S. many months later that Summer. It took awhile for the most courageous of the major-market U.S. Top 40 stations to try it out on their airwaves, but once they did Americans were hooked on its catchy chorus and HI-NRG dance beat. It eventually expanded nationwide in 2006 to become one of the hottest hits of the year.	Cascada
2	25	520	2005 & 2006	Gold Digger 2005 MASSIVE Memory Music Award Winner for Best Hip Hop Hit. Kanye West insulted the President as well as half the nation shortly after Hurricane Katrina damaged much of New Orleans, and then he scored the biggest hit of his entire career. It entered our chart at # 2, and it spent 7 weeks in a row there. It's the most weeks in a row at # 2 for a hit that did not reach # 1 in nearly 4 years - since Nickelback peaked at # 2 for 8 weeks in a row with "How You Remind Me".	Kanye West Ft. Jamie Foxx
1	27	397	2005	Lose Control 2005 MASSIVE Memory Music Award Winner for Best Pop Dance Hit. Our 'Pure Dance Era' may have ended early on in 2004, but dance music on our chart has not dissipated. Back in June when this hit entered our chart I wrote the following footnote: This has the potential to become the club dance anthem of the Summer Of 2005. It's got that late-1980s Stock, Aitken, & Waterman Eurodance sound to it. It sort of reminds me of "Respectable" from Mel & Kim with a little "Gonna Make You Sweat" from C + C Music Factory mixed in.	Missy Elliott Ft. Ciara & Fatman Scoop
1	27	569	2005 & 2006	Photograph It was nominated for Best Hard Rock Hit for both our 2005 and 2006 MASSIVE Memory Music Awards, and it lost for both years to The Killers' "Somebody Told Me" (2005) and Fall Out Boy's "Sugar, We're Goin' Down" (2006). But now it's time for redemption. It's a MASSIVE Memory - for "All The Right Reasons". It was on our chart for 27 weeks - 14 in 2005 and 13 in 2006 - and the middle 23 of those 27 weeks were in our TOP 5. It was our # 19 smash in 2005 and our # 17 smash in 2006.	Nickelback
1	18	368	2005	Somebody Told Me 2005 MASSIVE Memory Music Award Winner for Best Hard Rock Hit. It was a hit everywhere else in 2004, but it wasn't until the first week of March in 2005 when it made its very late debut here on our chart. Its late entry was no fluke. It ended up spending 18 weeks on our chart through July including 7 weeks in a row at # 1. It was the 2ND biggest hit of 2005 by a debut artist, and the 9TH biggest hit overall.	The Killers
1	25	491	2005 & 2006	Sugar, We're Goin' Down 2006 MASSIVE Memory Music Award Winner for Best Hard Rock Hit. I first heard Fall Out Boy's rockin' debut smash at the end of August 2005 on Tampa Florida's 93.3-FLZ. It took a couple of months for it to eventually make it onto our chart, but once it did it was MASSIVE. It spent a full 9 weeks in a row at # 1 to become our longest-running rock hit at # 1 since Creed's "Higher" spent 13 weeks at # 1 in 2000.	Fall Out Boy
6	8	113	2005	Untitled (How Could This Happen To Me ?) 2005 MASSIVE Memory Music Award Winner for Best Pop Ballad Hit. Simple Plan's 3RD hit on our chart since 2004 was their follow-up to the # 1 smash "Welcome To My Life". It's the closer on their 2004 CD "Still Not Getting Any ...". It's lyrics are chilling: How could this happen to me ? I've made my mistakes. Got nowhere to run. The night goes on, and I'm fading away. I'm sick of this life. I just wanna scream. How could this happen to me ?	Simple Plan