twostepcub's music chart for September 10, 2010

Hey folks, it's time for my top tunes for the week. This week Sara Bareilles spends a second week on top, while Rob Thomas (pictured above) makes it into the top-5. Former big hits by Jerrod Niemann, Meck, Thirty Seconds From Mars, and Taio Cruz drop out, and songs by Yoko Ono, Sugarland, and Katy Perry make the biggest moves (21 songs jump 10 places or more, they're marked in red). Link-o-rama is still in effect, so you can click on any of the highlighted names of artists to go to their website for more info, to hear music, video, and more. Tap tap tap!

This Week Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)
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1. King Of Anything - Sara Bareilles (1)
2. Misery - Maroon5 (4)
3. If It's Love - Train (2)
4. Mockingbird - Rob Thomas (8)
5. Glitter In The Air - Pink (5)
6. All The Lovers - Kylie Minogue (3)
7. Animal - Neon Trees (13)
8. California Gurls - Katy Perry f/Snoop Dogg (7)
9. Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready) - Alicia Keys (9)
10. In One Ear - Cage The Elephant (11)
11. Free - The Zac Brown Band (6)
12. Lay Me Down - Dirty Heads (12)
13. Lisztomania - Phoenix (17)
14. I'm In - Keith Urban (15)
15. Fire With Fire - Scissor Sisters (19)
16. Dynamite - Taio Cruz (21)
17. I Like It - Enrique Iglesias f/Pitbull (29)
18. The Catalyst - Linkin Park (30)
19. Alejandro - Lady GaGa (14)
20. Pretty Good At Drinking Beer - Billy Currington (31)
21. Your Love Is My Drug - Ke$ha (18)
22. All In - Lifehouse (34)
23. Dancing On My Own - Robyn (16)
24. The Crow & The Butterfly - Shinedown (20)
25. Rockstar 101 - Rihanna (25)
26. Breakeven - The Script (22)
27. There Goes My Baby - Usher (27)
28. 4th of July (Fireworks) - Kelis (32)
29. Strobelight - Kimberley Locke (23)
30. Figure It Out - Dave Aude f/Isha Coco (40)
31. Commander - Kelly Rowland f/David Guetta (26)
32. Little White Church - Little Big Town (37)
33. Bulletproof - La Roux (28)
34. September - Daughtry (38)
35. Love Like Crazy - Lee Brice (35)
36. Dirty Talk - Wynter Gordon (24)
37. Roll With It - Easton Corbin (42)
38. Come Back Song - Darius Rucker (46)
39. Love The Way You Lie - Eminem f/Rihanna (43)
40. The Boys Of Fall - Kenny Chesney (44)
41. DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love - Usher f/Pitbull (54)
42. I Run To You - Lady Antebellum (52)
43. We No Speak Americano - Yolanda Be Cool f/DCup (49)
44. Half Of My Heart - John Mayer f/Taylor Swift (39)
45. Our Kind Of Love - Lady Antebellum (47)
46. Another Way To Die - Disturbed (50)
47. Waka Waka (This Time For Africa) - Shakira (48)
48. All About Tonight - Blake Shelton (58)
49. Lately - Macy Gray (56)
50. The Only Exception - Paramore (55)
51. Home - Goo Goo Dolls (51)
52. Airplanes - B.o.B f/Hayley Williams (36)
53. Why Would You Stay? - Kem (57)
54. Bittersweet - Fantasia (66)
55. Happiness - Alexis Jordan (41)
56. Cooler Than Me - Mike Posner (63)
57. Smile - Uncle Kracker (59)
58. Stuck Like Glue - Sugarland (73)
59. Crossfire - Brandon Flowers (69)
60. Nightmare - Avenged Sevenfold (67)
61. Need You Now - Lady Antebellum (45)
62. All Over Me - Josh Turner (64)
63. Secrets - OneRepublic (72)
64. Club Can't Handle Me - Flo Rida f/David Guetta (76)
65. Ridin' Solo - Jason Derulo (65)
66. Beautiful Monster - Ne-Yo (77)
67. The Truth - Kris Allen f/Pat Monahan (71)
68. If I Had You - Adam Lambert (81)
69. Undo It - Carrie Underwood (68)
70. I Told You So - Solange (75)
71. Teenage Dream - Katy Perry (86)
72. Love Dealer - Esmee Denters f/Justin Timberlake (80)
73. Alive - Goldfrapp (33)
74. The Radio - Get Far (84)
75. Pop Goes The World - The Gossip (87)
76. Wouldnit (I'm A Star) - Yoko Ono (94)
77. This Afternoon - Nickelback (70)
78. Fuerte - Nelly Furtado (91)
79. Wavin' Flag - K'naan (79)
80. This Ain't Nothin' - Craig Morgan (82)
81. Vertigo - Giulietta (93)
82. Rhythm Of Love - Plain White T's (89)
83. Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons (DEBUT)
84. If I Die Young - The Band Perry (DEBUT)
85. Finding My Way Back - Jaheim (85)
86. Bad Company - Five Finger Death Punch (88)
87. One (Your Name) - Swedish House Mafia f/Pharrell (DEBUT)
88. Mine - Taylor Swift (92)
89. Why Wait - Rascal Flatts (96)
90. Impossible - Anberlin (100)
91. Farmer's Daughter - Rodney Atkins (95)
92. The Sound - Switchfoot (DEBUT)
93. V.I.P. - Zayra (DEBUT)
94. Speakers - Days Difference (98)
95. Sunshine - Steve Azar (97)
96. The Breath You Take - George Strait (DEBUT)
97. Magic - B.o.B f/Rivers Cuomo (DEBUT)
98. Restlessness - Bastien Laval (99)
99. Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars (DEBUT)
100. Way Out Here - Josh Thompson (DEBUT)

This week there are nine new songs (highlighted in yellow), and the highest entry is by English folk-rock band Mumford & Sons. Named for their singer (Mark Mumford), they have scored a top-10 album and two top-40 singles in the UK, including this one, "Little Lion Man"...



Next up is country family trio The Band Perry, who show unusual depth for a new act with the melancholy but beautiful "If I Die Young"...



The Swedish House Mafia is a collective of DJ's from, yes, Sweden, that currently includes three DJs on DJMag's top-100 poll of 2009: Axwell (#14), Steve Angello (#20), and Sebastian Ingrosso (#25). Each has worked with many dance act, and for their first bonified act hit, the 'Mafia' recruited uber-producer and NERD member Pharrell Williams to sing on "One (Your Name)"...



San Diegans Switchfoot are back with a song about civil rights leader John M. Perkins - in fact, it's subtitled "John Perkin's Blues". Perkins, a sharecropper, became involved in civil rights promotion through the church, and the (semi) Christian rock group honors him with "The Sound". It include interview clips, which are really relevant in this anti-immigrant wave.



Zayra (Alvarez) was a contestant on "Rock Star: Supernova" (the second season of the show where INXS' next singer came from). She came only in eighth, but proves to be the first to land a spot on the singles charts with the dance club hit "VIP", though the Puerto Rican's "Dad" is not "Mick Jagger"...



Next is the billionth hit single for country legend George Strait, whose Twang album has produced 4 top-20 singles, the latest being "The Breath You Take"...



B.o.B and Bruno Mars just dropped out of my top-100 with "Nothin' On You", but each return with a new song apiece. B.o.B now teams with the lead singer of modern rock gods Weezer, Rivers Cuomo, for the bouncy and nonsensical hit "Magic"...



Meanwhile, Bruno Mars (who is really Peter Hernandez) has his first solo chart hit after stinting on BoB's "Nothin' On You" and Travie McCoy's "Billionaire". It's got a really cool video with an inventive use of cassette tape. here's "Just The Way You Are"...



And finally, country singer Josh Thompson from Wisconsin follows up his hit "Beer On The Table" with the redneck-baiting of "Way Out Here"...



and that's all, folks...