выборка популярных с условием по дате

CREATE TABLE `{pref}_music_cats` (
  `cid` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `title` varchar(55) NOT NULL,
  `descr` varchar(255) default NULL,
  `dir` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `pid` smallint(5) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`cid`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=1 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;


CREATE TABLE `{pref}_music_songs` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `uid` smallint(3) NOT NULL,
  `cid` smallint(3) NOT NULL,
  `singer` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `song` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `url` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `preview` varchar(255) default NULL,
  `date` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `loads` smallint(3) NOT NULL,
  `votes` smallint(4) NOT NULL,
  `totalvotes` smallint(4) NOT NULL,
  `comments` smallint(4) NOT NULL,
  `status` int(1) NOT NULL,
  `ip_sender` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;

$result = $db->sql_query("SELECT id, singer, song FROM ".$prefix."_music_songs WHERE status !='0' ORDER BY loads DESC LIMIT ".$limit);