twostepcub's music chart for December 31, 2010...

Happy New Years Eve, folks, and it's time for my top tunes for the week. This week Pink takes over the #1 spot, while Katy Perry (just waking up, above) jumps back into the top-5. Former big hits by Daughtry, Taio Cruz, Brad Paisley, Monica, and Eminem drop off, while tracks by Bruno Mars, Lady Antebellum, and Blake Shelton make the biggest moves (jumps of 10+ places highlighted in red). Link-O-Rama is still in effect, so you can click on the highlighted name of any of the artists to go to their website for more info and music. Let the ball drop!

This Week Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)
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1. Raise Your Glass - Pink (3)
2. Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars (1)
3. Waiting For The End - Linkin Park (4)
4. Firework - Katy Perry (9)
5. Tighten Up - The Black Keys (5)
6. Only Girl (In The World) - Rihanna (2)
7. Secrets - OneRepublic (8)
8. Teenage Dream - Katy Perry (6)
9. Mama's Song - Carrie Underwood (14)
10. Just A Dream - Nelly (12)
11. Animal - Neon Trees (10)
12. Barbra Streisand - Duck Sauce (16)
13. Radioactive - Kings Of Leon (11)
14. Give A Little More - Maroon 5 (18)
15. Rhythm Of Love - Plain White T's (17)
16. For The First Time - The Script (20)
17. If I Die Young - The Band Perry (7)
18. Like A G6 - Far East Movement f/Cataracs & Dev (13)
19. DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love - Usher f/Pitbull (19)
20. Turn On The Radio - Reba McEntire (24)
21. Miami 2 Ibiza - Swedish House Mafia f/Tinie Tempah (31)
22. As She's Walking Away - Zac Brown Band f/Alan Jackson (15)
23. Dynamite - Taio Cruz (23)
24. Take Over Control - Afrojack f/Eva Simons (26)
25. Put You In A Song - Keith Urban (27)
26. Say You'll Haunt Me - Stone Sour (22)
27. Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons (21)
28. Marry Me - Train (34)
29. Voices - Chris Young (39)
30. Somewhere With You - Kenny Chesney (40)
31. All In - Lifehouse (29)
32. Mine - Taylor Swift (32)
33. I Like That - Richard Vission vs Static Revenger f/Luciana (37)
34. Loca - Shakira f/Dizzee Rascal (44)
35. Smack You - Kimberly Cole (36)
36. Above All - Sylvia Tosun (28)
37. In For The Kill - La Roux (25)
38. C'mon Get Funky - R Rosario & A Aguilera f/T Wallace (43)
39. Destination - Tony Moran f/Ultra Nate (41)
40. Only Prettier - Miranda Lambert (45)
41. Grenade - Bruno Mars (71)
42. Louder (Put Your Hands Up) - Chris Willis (58)
43. Misery - Maroon 5 (33)
44. Undisclosed Desires - Muse (50)
45. Sometimes I Cry - Eric Benet (46)
46. Memories - David Guetta f/Kid Cudi (52)
47. Jar of Hearts - Christina Perri (47)
48. Hang With Me - Robyn (48)
49. What Do You Got? - Bon Jovi (42)
50. Hollywood - Michael Buble (35)
51. We R Who We R - Ke$ha (56)
52. Felt Good On My Lips - Tim McGraw (54)
53. You Are - Charlie Wilson (63)
54. Maybe - Sick Puppies (62)
55. Why Wait - Rascal Flatts (57)
56. World So Cold - Three Days Grace (61)
57. Someone Else Calling You Baby - Luke Bryan (65)
58. Hands - Ting Tings (38)
59. Hello World - Lady Antebellum (79)
60. Peacock - Katy Perry (60)
61. Sick Of You - Cake (69)
62. My Kinda Party - Jason Aldean (66)
63. Get Outta My Way - Kylie Minogue (49)
64. Porn Star Dancing - My Darkest Days f/Zakk Wylde (64)
65. What's My Name - Rihanna f/Drake (75)
66. The Time [Dirty Bit] - Black Eyed Peas (78)
67. The Breath You Take - George Strait (68)
68. When A Women Loves - R. Kelly (72)
69. Start A Fire - Ryan Star (73)
70. Dog Days Are Over - Florence & The Machine (DEBUT)
71. Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Steven Lee & Granite f/Zander Bleck (76)
72. The Emergency - BT (86)
73. One Hot Pleasure - Erika Jayne (DEBUT)
74. Bullets In The Gun - Toby Keith (84)
75. Who Are You When I'm Not Looking - Blake Shelton (92)
76. Smoke A Little Smoke - Eric Church (80)
77. I Like It - Enrique Iglesias f/Pitbull (77)
78. Strip Me - Natasha Bedingfield (82)
79. If I Had You - Adam Lambert (70)
80. Parachute - Ingrid Michaelson (81)
81. Wildflower - JaneDear Girls (83)
82. Oye Baby - Nicola Fasano f/Pitbull (90)
83. Let Me Down Easy - Billy Currington (93)
84. Shake Me Down - Cage The Elephant (DEBUT)
85. Can't Be Friends - Trey Songz (DEBUT)
86. Back To December - Taylor Swift (94)
87. I'm Doing Me - Fantasia (91)
88. Perfect - Hedley (88)
89. Stereo Love - Edward Maya f/Vika Jigulina (89)
90. Shut The Front Door (Got My Girls) - Tiffany Dunn (DEBUT)
91. Who's That Chick - David Guetta f/Rihanna (DEBUT)
92. Sweet Serendipity - Lee DeWyze (100)
93. Closer To The Edge - 30 Seconds To Mars (99)
94. Sing - My Chemical Romance (DEBUT)
95. Real - James Wesley (96)
96. From A Table Away - Sunny Sweeney (98)
97. Heroes - X Factor Finalists 2010 (97)
98. Bottoms Up - Trey Songz f/Nicki Minaj (DEBUT)
99. Your Song - Ellie Goulding (DEBUT)
100. Poison - Nicole Scherzinger (DEBUT)

There are ten new entries on my final chart for the year (debuts highlighted in yellow). I also included links to their previous hits (links highlighted in orange).

Last week the cast of Glee placed their cover of this week's highest debuting song on my list (this week that version drops out). It's by Florence + The Machine, who just nabbed a nomination for a Grammy for Best New Artist. Florence Welch uses the moniker for her changing backup, and the London-based singer has had four top-40 hits in her homeland, including her biggest which was a live recording from the Brit Awards with rapper Dizzee Rascal (on this week's chart backing up Shakira, btw) on "You Got The Dirtee Love", which mashed up her previous UK cover of the Candi Staton classic "You Got The Love". Her new US single, which is breaking on both Rock and Adult Pop stations, was nominated for an MTV video award, which wasn't surprisedly considering how striking it is. Here's "Dog Days Are Over"...



American dance-music singer Erika Jayne has had a perfect record so far - four #1 club hits out of four single releases ("Rollercoaster", "Stars", "Give You Everything" and "Pretty Mess"). That's one each year. 2011 looks promising, as her latest is at #2 on Billboard's dance Chart. It's called "One Hot Pleasure"...



Next up is the rock band Cage The Elephant, who have had a great year in 2010, with two number-one singles on the Alternative Rock chart ("Back Against The Wall" and "In One Ear"). The neo-roots group from Kentucky preview their sophomore records with "Shake Me Down"...



The next singer has two songs making their first appearance on my chart. Each are blowing up on different formats, and first up is the song that's been #1 on the R&B chart for eight weeks and counting, eclipsing the run of his previous #1 R&B hit "I Invented Sex". The single is the break-up track "Can't Be Friends"...



Tiffany Dunn is originally from Phoenix, Arizona, and her first chart hit is the dance-club jam "Shut The Front Door (Got My Girls)"..



The next song is by two artists already represented in my top-100. French DJ-of-the-moment David Guetta is still mining his outstanding One Love CD, with the re-released Kid Cudi track "Memories" in the upper half of my list. That album also contained his biggest US hit, the pop top-5 "Sexy Bitch" with Akon. Rihanna just celebrated her eighth and ninth US #1 with "What's My Name" and "Only Girl (In The World)", which are still on my chart as well. Her longest-running charttoppers are her flagship single "Umbrella" and the song that just dropped out here, "Love The Way You Lie" with Eminem. Guetta and Rihanna's new collaboration is a bubblegum-dance song, here's "Who's That Chick?"...



Emo-rock band My Chemical Romance have had five previous top-10 hits on the Modern Rock chart, including the pop top-10 and ModRock #1 "Welcome To The Black Parade". The second single from their excellent new CD Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys makes its way to become their sixth. Here's the epic "Sing"...



Now it's time for Trey Songz' other debut, the pop hit "Bottoms Up". The single, which features eclectic rapper Nicki Minaj, so far eclipsed the perfomance of Trey's other pop top-10 hit "Say Aah". "Bottoms Up" is his ode to the club, and the bottle service in the back I'll never take part in...



English singer Ellie Goulding has her biggest single (passing the rank of her debut UK top-5 single "Starry Eyed") with a remake of Elton John's classic "Your Song" which is being used in an ad campaign for British department-store chain John Lewis. For a song used in a commercial, let alone a seasonal-timed one, it's a delightfully precious version...



The last debut is by former Pussycat Doll lead singer and current The Sing-Off judge (in the Paula Abdul position), Nicole Scherzinger. Nicole has had a tough time shirking the PCD persona, managing a single US pop hit backing up Diddy/Puff Daddy/Sean Combs/whatever with "Come To Me", and a single UK top-20 as a lead artist (backed by will.i.am) with "Baby Love" (which made my top-40 back in 2008). Her latest is her biggest British success, making the top-3, though it yet is to be released in the states, even after her Sing-Off stint and her winning turn on Dancing With The Stars. Give this girl a break!



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