Michael Johns Was THE #1 Most Requested At AOL Radio

When I first reported this story on Thursday (See the original June 11th story here) based on an AOL Blog from that morning, I was more than happy to give you the news that Michael Johns' first single "Heart On My Sleeve" was one of the Top 11 songs requested that day in a contest held by AOL Radio.

AOL asked its listeners to send Twitter requests so they could launch a new Tweet Requests radio station. What wasn't known at the time that I published the first report, were the exact number of requests for the the Top 11 artists and songs. We just knew Michael Johns had done well based on preliminary reports from AOL Radio's blog.

Today, I am most pleased to announce that Michael Johns was in fact THE #1 most requested artist that day. Here's the news as it was confirmed in this Tweet from AOLRADIO a few hours ago:

"aolradio Well the #'s are in: It looks like the Michael Johns fans won by a mile - Johns was the most requested artist by a mile on Wednesday.about 7 hours ago from TweetDeck"

I've followed their news on Twitter and at AOL Radio on a daily basis since the launch of their Tweet Request station, and I'm loving every minute of finally finding a station that truly listens to the fans. Not only is Michael's single in heavy rotation at the first ever (that I'm aware of) Tweet Request station, they've also added his new single to their New Pop First channel as well as their Pop Idols station.

AOL Radio has more than 350 Sports, News, Talk and Music stations from which you can choose your favorite genre. Personally, I plan on listening to every one of their stations where they put Michael Johns' music in the rotation. Michael's debut album Hold Back My Heart will be released on June 23rd, which will give me at least 11 more songs to requests from my AOL radio stations. :D

You can listen to 30 second snippets of all 12 songs from the Hold Back My Heart album HERE. Cheers, and to Michael Johns, congratulations on being the most requested.

Michael Johns "Heart On My Sleeve" Among Most Requested At AOL Radio

Michael Johns new single "Heart on My Sleeve" from his debut album Hold Back My Heart (to be released June 23) was among the Top 11 most requested songs at AOL Radio yesterday when they launched an All Tweet radio station.

Those artists that had the highest number of request will be in heavy rotation according to news from the AOL Radio website. If you haven't heard Michael Johns' new single on the radio yet, now is your chance to hear it, if it hasn't already hit your local radio stations! The link at the bottom will take you directly to The Tweet Request channel.


The following article is from AOL Radio's Blog:

Your 11 Most Requested Songs for 'Tweet Requests'
Posted Jun 11th 2009 8:14AM by T.C.

We received thousands of tweet requests yesterday as part of our Tweet Requests station launch and again, want to thank everyone for their input.

There were 11 songs that we tallied through requests, replies and DMs on Twitter that we'd like to call out. Below are the 11 most requested songs that you guys wanted. Below, the songs are ranked in alphabetical order by artist/band.

11 Most Requested Songs for AOL Radio on Twitter 6/10

3OH!3, 'Don't Trust Me'
Anarbor, 'Let the Games Begin'
Cash Cash, 'Party in Your Bedroom'
Cobra Starship, 'Good Girls Go Bad' (feat. Leighton Meester)
Collective Soul, 'Staring Down'
David Cook, 'Bar-Ba-Sol'
David Cook, 'Come Back to Me'
Michael Johns, 'Heart on My Sleeve'
Jonas Brothers, 'Paranoid'
New Found Glory, 'Listen to Your Friends'
Seether, 'Careless Whisper'

Runner-Ups Include: 10 Years, 'Actions & Motives'; Kris Allen, 'No Boundaries'; The Cab, 'Bounce'; Company of Thieves, 'Oscar Wilde'; David Cook, 'Light On'; Elliott Yamin, 'Fight For Love'; Envy on the Coast, 'Mirrors'; Owl City, 'Strawberry Avalanche', Sick Puppies, 'You're Going Down'; Thriving Ivory, 'Hey Lady'

Artist/Band with Most # of Requested Songs in the Station: Collective Soul

Congratulations to the artists and the fans as well! As a result of your efforts, these songs are in heavy rotation on the 'Tweet Requests' station which is now live on AOL Radio. You can find it in the 'Themes' genre or by clicking on the link below.

More stats will be posted throughout the day as we have them.

Listen to Tweet Requests on AOL Radio

Fontana Announces Michael Johns Hold Back My Heart Release

Click on the speaker to hear "Heart On My Sleeve"!

Here's what the ad for Michael Johns' debut album Hold Back My Heart looked in the Fontana new release book for 6-23-09. After a wait that seemed like forever, his album release date is so close now you can almost reach out and touch it. Seeing the announcement from Fontana makes it seem so much more real.

Since Michael was kind enough to offer a slideshow for his fans to post on our pages to go along with the album and single release, I decided to use the same program to add pics from the Fontana website annoucement and share them with you.

I didn't realize that the slideshow Michael provided his fans included the single "Heart On My Sleeve" in its entirety until I went back to that site to make this slideshow for the Fontana news. I wrote about the slideshow in my last blog, added it to three different blogs, MySpace, Facebook, and Twittered about it, but never knew how special this little gadget was. How embarrassing not knowing what you've spent so much time posting. I was happy just having the pics.

I would've screamed that same news from the highest hilltops if I'd known the single was attached. For those of you that didn't add the slideshow to your page because I didn't tell you it included the single, you can still find the embed code for the picture widget at the following link. When you get yours, be sure you click on the little speaker and listen to "Heart On My Sleeve".

Follow the link below:
GET YOUR MICHAEL JOHNS SLIDESHOW FEATURING HIS SINGLE HERE!