The song “If I Go Away,” performed by Jon Peter Lewis and written by Sky Elobar with additional lyrics and music by Jon Peter Lewis and Alex Gibson, hit the charts for Idol Waves internet radio. For the week of Aug. 26, “If I Go Away” ranked #19 with the station. You can see the chart HERE
UPDATE: "If I Go Away" climbed to #17 for the week ending Sept 1, #14 for the week ending Sept. 8, #13 for the week ending Sept. 15, #11 for the week ending Sept. 22, #9 for the week ending Oct. 13, #8 for the week ending Oct. 20, #7 for the week ending Oct. 31, #6 for the week ending on Jon's album release day and birthday--Nov. 7, and #4 for the week ending Nov. 21!!!!! Congrats Jon!!!! Also, the station has rotated many of Jon's other songs into their playlist.

UPDATE: 10/27/06 "Man Like Me" has now been added to the rotation on Idol Waves Radio. Vote for it too!

UPDATE: 11/14/06 "It's Christmas," "Gypsy Queen," and "Man From Amsterdam" have all been added to the rotation.

UPDATE: 11/22/06 "Boy Next Door," "What's Wrong," "Stories From Hollywood," "Burning in Hello," and "Rodeo" have been added.

UPDATE: 12/5/06 "California Christmas" debuted at #2 on the Holiday song chart. "It's Christmas" came in at #7

12/25/06 Merry Christmas Jon from your fans and other lovers of great music, who voted "It's Christmas" into the number 2 spot for 2 days now.

12/28/06 "It's Christmas" is still at #2 and now "California Christmas" has come back to the chart at #9.

4/11/06 "Gypsy Queen" is now charting. It hit #13 last week, so continue to vote for it.



This station is on live365. You can join live365 for free and listen to this station from this LINK

Once you become a member, you can give “If I Go Away” a thumbs up rating to help improve its ranking. Although you can vote for a song as long as it appears on the player, apparently only one vote per computer will count each time the song plays.

I will try to alert folks when the song is playing so that you can listen in and vote for it. I heard it at about 9:10 a.m. Eastern this morning, though I don't know if there is a pattern to when a song plays.

You might also be interested in the HOMEPAGE for Idol Waves Radio. Their site has a forum, and when I get a chance, I will join there and start a thread about "If I Go Away."

People genuinely like this song from Jon. Not just some people. Lots of people. Cool people. People who know what they are talking about.

On most every Tuesday, J.D. Matthews does a Top 20 Countdown show on Idol Waves. The show is entertaining. Tune in at approximately the following times:
Eastern-- 1:00 a. m., 11:30 a.m., 3:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m.
Central--12:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m.
Mountain--11:00 p.m., 9:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m.
Pacific--10:00 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: artslvr,

Thanks for posting this! It's so exciting all the attention Jon is getting!

Now I need to go join.

If I go away is playing right now!

You should have at least 4 minutes to vote for the song from now

I should clarify that you give the song a thumbs up right there on the player.

Aw yeah... that's rad!

Thanks for the info Artsy!

I'll give it a !

If I go away is playing right now. You should have at least 5 minutes to vote for it from now

Thanks Gidget for saying you will vote for Jon. I would just like to see him climb in that chart. Good publicity for him and the album.

I was in the living room talking to my husband when the song came on this time. It took me a minute to register what I was hearing coming from this room. This is the second time I have heard the song come on after Mandissa's song called "I Will Survive." I haven't had sense enough to look at what was the song before that, but if you hear Mandissa, Jon may be next. It has been fun to listen to this station and hear what the other people from American Idol have been doing. For instance, did you know that Elliot Yamin sings on a Christian rap song called "Sound Doctrine"? It was noteworthy since I believe Elliot is Jewish, yet there he is singing, "He gave his life for me, yes he did." I have also been able to hear stuff from Kelly Clarkson that I don't usually hear. Also Bucky sings "Superstition," which took me off guard.
More character acting from a singer, I guess.

"If I Go Away" is on once again. Not many of all of you are on the forum right now, but just in case someone wants to vote, you can do it now for sevearl minutes. I think I will stop alerting folks now unless someone tells me it is useful to you. Unfortunately, I wasn't paying attention again to know what comes before Mandissa.

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Originally posted by artslvr:
Thanks Gidget for saying you will vote for Jon. I would just like to see him climb in that chart. Good publicity for him and the album.

I was in the living room talking to my husband when the song came on this time. It took me a minute to register what I was hearing coming from this room. This is the second time I have heard the song come on after Mandissa's song called "I Will Survive." I haven't had sense enough to look at what was the song before that, but if you hear Mandissa, Jon may be next. It has been fun to listen to this station and hear what the other people from American Idol have been doing. For instance, did you know that Elliot Yamin sings on a Christian rap song called "Sound Doctrine"? It was noteworthy since I believe Elliot is Jewish, yet there he is singing, "He gave his life for me, yes he did." I have also been able to hear stuff from Kelly Clarkson that I don't usually hear. Also Bucky sings "Superstition," which took me off guard.
More character acting from a singer, I guess.

I've heard of "Idol Waves Radio," but haven't been to the sight yet. I'd have to be there at the right time to hear when Jon song's come on. I'm not surprised people like it-all sorts of people-it's a great song! And "Man Like Me," is too! Have you heard all of that yet?
I wanted to comment on what you said about Elliott singing on a Christian song, being most likely he's Jewish. They're are some Jews who are Christian, I've seen a few!
That sounds like a pretty good station; would love to check it out sometimes!

"If I Go Away" has risen on this CHART to #17 for the week ending Sept 1, so that is a good bump up considering we only knew about this for at most 2 and a half days out of that week of airplay. Clearly, between some of us voting for the song and other people voting too, the song has done well.

So although I realize that Jon's ranking on this particular chart may not be extremely important in the grand scheme of things, I nevertheless feel obligated to try this little experiment for another week. It is like rooting for my home football team to come from the underdog position. So for another week, I will continue to try to alert people when Jon's song plays. I know there may be lurkers out there who will want to vote.

Flooding a station based in a certain city with requests for a certain song can actually turn the station against the artist, so I would not advocate people requesting the song from a station that they can't even listen to since they don't live in that city. But this is different since it helps this station to have us listening to it. And it is an internet station that most of us would enjoy and continue listening to.

So go LISTEN and then vote!

Thanks for your help one and all.

Woo hoo #17!

This time the song came on immediately after Bucky Covington singing, of all things, "Superstition." LOL Jon did such an amazing job on that song at the AI concert. Right now, for some reason, my player is stuck showing Jon's song and the two before it. Ah well, far be it from ME to take advantage of such a situation. . .

I discovered that Idol Waves Radio will apparently do something new now. A guy named J. D. Matthews will be doing a show 4 times today where he will play the top 20 songs of the previous week. Read about it HERE. The show will air at 10:00 a.m. Central. I am not sure if the other times listed are Eastern or Central, but I will assume they are listed as Central, so the other times 2:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 2 a.m. Central. Since I came in on this show when he was on number 8, I missed hearing if he actually did play "If I Go Away," but all the other songs have followed the current chart precisely. I assume he played Jon early in the show.

So anyone who wants to hear Jon can tune in. Unfortunately, I don't believe people can vote for IIGA during this show. It will still be fun to hear Jon come on the radio, however. These times may change, but this looks like the plan, at least.

Eastern-- 11 am, 3:30 pm, 8:30 p.m, 3 a.m
Central--see above
Mountain--9 am, 1:30 pm, 6:30 pm, 1 a.m
Pacific--8 am, 12:30 pm, 5:30 pm, midnight

I am tired, so if I got these wrong, someone please tell me. Jon should be on in the first part of the show since he is at number 17 right now. So only three songs will play before him and maybe some other misc. stuff. If this show really does play 4 times a day, it will be a great vehicle for exposing new people to Jon's music. There is value in listening at other times and voting so Jon can stay in the top 20.

Hey guys, J.D. Matthews here.

You're correct about the those times listed being Central. And those other times you listed are correct. I appreciate the response, especially so quickly after the show premiered! I hope the rest of you catch the show when it airs later on today.

JPL was indeed at the number 17 slot.

Votes are tallied by listener stats and the number of requests for a given song. So if you'd like to see it chart higher, you can send requests for the song to Idol Waves.

Thanks again for letting me know you're out there. I'll try to visit again soon!

Sweet, thanks for coming by the site, JD!!!

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Originally posted by jdmatthews:
Hey guys, J.D. Matthews here.

You're correct about the those times listed being Central. And those other times you listed are correct. I appreciate the response, especially so quickly after the show premiered! I hope the rest of you catch the show when it airs later on today.

JPL was indeed at the number 17 slot.

Votes are tallied by listener stats and the number of requests for a given song. So if you'd like to see it chart higher, you can send requests for the song to Idol Waves.

Thanks again for letting me know you're out there. I'll try to visit again soon!

Thanks JD! So does that mean you live in the central timezone? Welcome to the site And we hope you will visit us from time to time...

I am just wondering how you like Jon's song?

Thanks JD. I'll be tuning in later today. Welcome to JPLm! Hope you can come by and chat with us about music. What are your favorite "Idol" songs at the moment?