Twostepcub's music chart for August 17, 2007...

Well, I'm happy but way sunburnt from a day at "rodeo school", but I'm chilling with my tunes for the week. This week Finger Eleven reach the top for the first time, while Plain White T's (pictured above), a Sugarbear fave, move within the top-10. This week there's another exodus, as songs by Mat Kearney, Jennifer Lopez, Jody Watley, Jake Owen, Emerson Drive, and Brad Paisley leave the chart, and Rascal Flatts, Dierks Bentley, Bob Sinclar, Matchbox Twenty, and Clay Walker make big moves. And as usual, linkmania is in effect - you can click on any artist name to go to their website (rightclick to bring it up in another window). Now please let me hit the Powerball! Please!

This Week Song/Artist (last Weeks position in parentheses)
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1. Paralyzer - Finger Eleven (2)
2. Rehab - Amy Winehouse (1)
3. Umbrella - Rihanna (5)
4. Makes Me Wonder - Maroon5 (3)
5. I Told You So - Keith Urban (4)
6. What I've Done - Linkin Park (7)
7. Hey There Delilah - Plain White T's (8)
8. I Need You - Tim McGraw f/Faith Hill (13)
9. Home - Daughtry (9)
10. Because Of You - Ne-Yo (10)
11. Rockstar - Nickelback (14)
12. 4 In The Morning - Gwen Stefani (12)
13. Who Knew - Pink (19)
14. Icky Thump - White Stripes (18)
15. Lost In This Moment - Big & Rich (7)
16. Do You Know? (The Ping Pong Song) - Enrique Iglesias (17)
17. Thks Fr Th Mmrs - Fall Out Boy (21)
18. Dig - Incubus (16)
19. Stand Back (Remixes) - Stevie Nicks (20)
20. Never Again - Kelly Clarkson (11)
21. U & Ur Hand - Pink (15)
22. First Time - Lifehouse (22)
23. Put 'Em Up - Edun (23)
24. The Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani f/Akon (24)
25. Defying Gravity - Idina Menzel (26)
26. Rollercoaster - Erika Jayne (29)
27. My Destiny - Kim English (27)
28. Feel Together - Ben Macklin f/Tiger Lily (33)
29. Tarantula - Smashing Pumpkins (31)
30. Capital G - Nine Inch Nails (30)
31. Rapture 2007 - iio (25)
32. Can't Keep It A Secret - Jacinta (28)
33. Take Me There - Rascal Flatts (59)
34. Free & Easy (Down The Road I Go) - Dierks Bentley (51)
35. (You Want To) Make A Memory - Bon Jovi (39)
36. Never Wanted Nothing More - Kenny Chesney (40)
37. Big Girls Don't Cry - Fergie (43)
38. Lost And Found - Delerium (45)
39. Whine Up - Kat Deluna (42)
40. Teardrops On My Guitar - Taylor Swift (41)
41. Because Of You - Reba McEntire f/Kelly Clarkson (46)
42. Before It's Too Late - Goo Goo Dolls (44)
43. Stranger - Hilary Duff (55)
44. If You're Gonna Leave - Emerson Hart (49)
45. Tough - Craig Morgan (48)
46. Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood (38)
47. When You're Gone - Avril Lavigne (57)
48. All Around The World - Lionel Richie (32)
49. Everyday America - Sugarland (56)
50. Summer Love - Justin Timberlake (50)
51. Feels Like Home - Meck f/Dino (61)
52. Sound Of Freedom - Bob Sinclar (66)
53. How I Feel - Martina McBride (53)
54. Time - Speakerbox (64)
55. Johnny Cash - Jason Aldean (35)
56. If Everyone Cared - Nickelback (47)
57. A Different World - Bucky Covington (58)
58. All At Once - The Fray (62)
59. All My Friends Say - Luke Bryan (68)
60. Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne (34)
61. All Good Things (Must Come To An End) - Nelly Furtado (36)
62. How Far We've Come - Matchbox Twenty (84)
63. Proud Of The House We Built - Brooks & Dunn (65)
64. Face Down - Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (54)
65. These Are My People - Rodney Atkins (67)
66. I Wonder - Kellie Pickler (52)
67. Wrapped - George Strait (37)
68. So Far - Miguel Migs (83)
69. Fall - Clay Walker (91)
70. Wait For You - Elliott Yamin (86)
71. A Little More You - Little Big Town (71)
72. If You're Reading This - Tim McGraw (85)
73. Like This - Kelly Rowland f/Eve (DEBUT)
74. Don't Stop The Music - Rihanna (DEBUT)
75. Say It Right - Nelly Furtado (73)
76. Alive - Tim Rex Experiment (60)
77. Sorry - Kaskade (70)
78. Beautiful Liar - Beyonce & Shakira (63)
79. Extraordinary - Mandy Moore (75)
80. The World Is Mine - David Guetta (69)
81. You're The One - Ono (72)
82. Cry For You - September (74)
83. Everything - Michael Buble (81)
84. When We Die - Bowling For Soup (92)
85. Live Love Dance - Ron Perkov (DEBUT)
86. Beautiful Disaster - Jon McLaughlin (82)
87. Never Too Late - Three Days Grace (DEBUT)
88. My Man - Amuka (DEBUT)
89. Lovestoned - Justin Timberlake (DEBUT)
90. Find Out Who Your Friends Are - Tracy Lawrence (80)
91. Famous In A Small Town - Miranda Lambert (DEBUT)
92. Dreaming With A Broken Heart - John Mayer (DEBUT)
93. It's Not Over - Daughtry (88)
94. Online - Brad Paisley (DEBUT)
95. Love Me If You Can - Toby Keith (97)
96. Living Our Love Song - Jason Michael Carroll (100)
97. Hollywood - Collective Soul (DEBUT)
98. I Just Died In Your Arms - Leana (99)
99. Little Wonders - Rob Thomas (89)
100. Say This Sooner - The Almost (DEBUT)

This week a whopping eleven songs enter my top-100 for the week. First off is ex-Destiny Child Kelly Rowland along with rapper/TV actor Eve, with "Like This". It seems like it's more of an Eve record, I can barely discern Rowland on here, but the dance mix is bopping nonetheless..



(here's the original video - doing her Rihanna move)



Speaking of Rihanna, she's climbing the top-5 with "Umbrella", but puts the followup "Don't Stop The Music" as the second highest debut. The remix big-time samples Michael Jackson to good effect..



Next up is singer Ron Perkov, teaming up with producer/mixer Tony Moran, with "Live, Love, Dance", which continues Moran's success with the "Tour De Beats" sound...

Listen: "Live Love Dance (Tony Moran Full Mix)" [Link to listen]

Three Days Grace is a band in the Hinder/Nickelback/3 Doors Down vein, so if you like that, you'll like their "boy-band grunge" of "Never Too Late"...



Amuka, aka Sheila Brody, comes back to the list with "My Man". It's in the same bitchy mode as "Appreciate Me" though not at crazy-catchy. Here's a short short clip of her performing the song at a dance club..



Listen: "My Man (Klubjumpers Remix}" [Link to listen]

Justin Timberlake never ceases to amaze. For a mainstream pop artist, he doesn't cut crap. here he is with "Lovestoned"...



Miranda Lambert can rock your socks off, if she's not setting fire to your cheating ass. She turns it down a notch was the corny but cute "Famous In A Small Town"..



If rumors are true, John Mayer can't be too much "Dreaming With A Broken Heart", here live from New York City..



Brad Paisley is a fave of mine, especially his comic numbers, but this hasn't totally won me over yet, though it's not as awful as I thought. Here's "Online"...



Collective Soul's back with the breezy summertime jingle, "Hollywood". Not as infectious as their last album, but does the trick to try to give them airplay in the post-wave movement. Here goes a fan video using clips from the "Grey's Anatomy" spinoff "Private Practice"..



and finally, The Almost, with "Say This Sooner", a rock hybrid in the All American Rejects vein.



Save drive, sugarbear, the light's on for ya...