twostepcub's music chart for October 3, 2008...

Hey folks, happy October! It's time for my tunes for the week. This week Coldplay hangs on for an eighth week at the top, while Rihanna (pictured above) is closing in in the top-3. The biggest jumps come from Metallica, Georgie Porgie, and Nadia Ali (big jumps in red), while big hits by Lifehouse, Yoko Ono, Daughtry, Saving Abel, and the Disturbed drop off the list. Link-o-rama is in full effect, so you can click on the name of any artist/band to go to their website.

MMM...Chicken Korma...

This Week Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)
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1. Viva La Vida - Coldplay (1)
2. All Summer Long - Kid Rock (2)
3. Disturbia - Rihanna (4)
4. Do You Believe Me Now - Jimmy Wayne (6)
5. Closer - Ne-Yo (5)
6. Love Remains The Same - Gavin Rossdale (3)
7. I'm Yours - Jason Mraz (7)
8. American Boy - Estelle f/Kanye West (9)
9. What About Now - Daughtry (11)
10. I Kissed A Girl - Katy Perry (8)
11. Shake It - Metro Station (13)
12. The Time Of My Life - David Cook (10)
13. Don't Think I Don't Think About It - Darius Rucker (15)
14. Shut Up And Let Me Go - The Ting Tings (22)
15. Spotlight - Jennifer Hudson (21)
16. Into The Nightlife - Cyndi Lauper (18)
17. Shattered (Turn The Car Around) - O.A.R. (26)
18. Just Dance - Lady GaGa f/Colby O'Donis (20)
19. If I Never See Your Face Again - Maroon5 f/Rihanna (12)
20. You're The Only One - Eric Benet (24)
21. Come On Get Higher - Matt Nathanson (25)
22. Rise Above This - Seether (23)
23. Let It Die - Foo Fighters (17)
24. Give It 2 Me - Madonna (14)
25. Bottle It Up - Sara Bareilles (19)
26. Pocketful Of Sunshine - Natasha Bedingfield (16)
27. Chasing Pavements - Adele (31)
28. All I Ever Wanted - Chuck Wicks (32)
29. And I Try - Bimbo Jones (35)
30. Believe - Staind (37)
31. It's Not My Time - 3 Doors Down (27)
32. I Love To Move In Here - Moby (47)
33. Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis (29)
34. Control Yourself - Erin Hamilton (34)
35. You Make Me Feel - AnnaGrace (43)
36. Broken - Lifehouse (42)
37. Here With Me - Alyson (38)
38. Heaven Sent - Keyshia Cole (39)
39. Relentless - Jason Aldean (41)
40. Waitin' On A Woman - Brad Paisley (40)
41. Give Some Love - Antoine Clamaran f/Lulu Hughes (33)
42. The Little Things - Colbie Caillat (45)
43. You Look Good In My Shirt - Keith Urban (30)
44. I Decided - Solange (36)
45. Better In Time - Leona Lewis (52)
46. I Still Miss You - Keith Anderson (28)
47. Move For Me - Kaskade f/Deadmau5 (48)
48. Angel - Natasha Bedingfield (54)
49. Just A Dream - Carrie Underwood (51)
50. Strangers - Christian George (50)
51. You Turned The Tables - Robin (61)
52. One Step At A Time - Jordin Sparks (56)
53. You're Gonna Go Far, Kid - The Offspring (67)
54. Love Remembers - Craig Morgan (58)
55. Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven - Kenny Chesney (57)
56. Leavin' - Jesse McCartney (49)
57. I'll Walk - Bucky Covington (65)
58. Troublemaker - Weezer (71)
59. Take A Bow - Rihanna (44)
60. In This Life - Delta Goodrem (62)
61. Let It Go - Tim McGraw (78)
62. Troubadour - George Strait (63)
63. Beating My Heart - Jon McLaughlin (74)
64. Every Word - Ercola (66)
65. Magic - Robin Thicke (73)
66. Can You Feel That Sound - Georgie Porgie (89)
67. Stop & Stare - OneRepublic (60)
68. Holler Back - The Lost Trailers (70)
69. The Day That Never Comes - Metallica (100)
70. Pork & Beans - Weezer (46)
71. Black & Gold - Sam Sparro (86)
72. In Color - Jamey Johnson (84)
73. We Don't Have To Turn Back Now - Puddle Of Mudd (81)
74. Crash & Burn - Nadia Ali (96)
75. Should've Said No - Taylor Swift (69)
76. We Break The Dawn - Michelle Williams (53)
77. She Never Cried In Front Of Me - Toby Keith (80)
78. Love's Gonna Lead You Back - Jason Antone (79)
79. Boyfriend - Alphabeat (DEBUT)
80. GoGo Girl - DJ Timbo (82)
81. Bossy - Lindsay Lohan (DEBUT)
82. The River - Noel Gourdin (72)
83. All I Want To Do - Sugarland (75)
84. Re-Education (Through Labor) - Rise Against (DEBUT)
85. When I Grow Up - Pussycat Dolls (85)
86. So What - Pink (94)
87. I'm Not Over - Carolina Liar (93)
88. Country Man - Luke Bryan (90)
89. Johnny & June - Heidi Newfield (91)
90. Looking For A Good Time - Lady Antebellum (98)
91. Crush - David Archuleta (DEBUT)
92. The One - Kylie Minogue (88)
93. Heartbroken - T2 f/Jodie Aysha (DEBUT)
94. Roll With Me - Montgomery Gentry (99)
95. Frozen - Tami Chynn (DEBUT)
96. Damaged - Danity Kane (77)
97. Just Stand Up - Artists Stand Up To Cancer (DEBUT)
98. I Don't Care - Apocalyptica f/Adam Gontier (DEBUT)
99. Sounds So Good - Ashton Shepherd (DEBUT)
100. Looking 4 Men - Rosabel f/Tamara Wallace (DEBUT)

This week there are ten new songs, starting with a band from Denmark that's been having much success in Britain. Alphabeat's third single from their eponymic debut album, "Boyfriend", followed their "Fascination" and "10000 Nights" into the top-20 in the UK, and with good cause. The retro-early-80's style if great in its own right, but former Stock-Aiken-Waterman mixer Pete Hammond was called in to give the tune it's own Bananarama-esque makeover. Awesomely fun, and my pick hit of the week, and the video is tops too, with the plucked from the past dancers and cassettes of doom....



Next up is actress/singer/tabloid fodder/celebre-lesbian Lindsay Lohan proving that a cute danceable song and pro-Tools can craft anybody into a hit. "Bossy" is a by-numbers but enjoyable dance tune, and Mike Rizzo's remix is the best, with his trademark drama synths and pop sensibility. It's not groundbreaking, but it's a very respectable return to the radio for Lohan.



Chicago neo-punk band Rise Against's third major-label album, Appeal To Reason, comes out next week, and the first single from the album, "Re-Education (Through Labor)" is their first appearance on my list (two previous songs, "Prayer For The Refugee" and "The Good Left Undone" almost made it). Staying true to their leftist political views, the song rails against the current world evils done in the name of religion and greed. Cool video starting with a quote from John Kennedy...

Re-Education (Through Labor) @ Yahoo! Video

American Idol winner David Cook's "The Time Of My Life" drops from the top-10 this week, so it's only fitting that his season's runner-up, David Archuleta, debuts with his first post-idol original song, "Crush". It's a lot more polished and adult than I had expected, and the production is very safely in the boy-band ballad mode his audience is looking for when his debut album drops in November...



Mysteriously-named T2 is a DJ/producer from Leeds, a city in northern England. His style is called bassline, which evolved from 2-step garage dance music of the late 90's, to a four-four beat that sometimes is paired with sped-up female R&B vocals, in this case supplied by Jodie Aysha, who wrote their song "Heartbroken", which was a smash in the UK last year (making it to #2 on the official British chart).



Tami Chynn hails from Kingston, Jamaica (born Tami Chin to a Chinese/Cherokee father and African/British Mother), and has been active in the reggae scene for a couple years. Her current album is more pop/R&B oriented, and first single "Frozen" is cool and smooth like current star Rihanna's music is, as she pairs with Senegalese superstar Akon...



The latest all-star charity single is "Just Stand Up" credited to "Artists Stand Up To Cancer", and it's a who-who of female superstars. On the studio version, appearing in order, are Beyonce, Carrie Underwood, Rihanna, Sheryl Crow, Fergie, Leona Lewis, Keyshia Cole, Miley Cyrus, LeAnn Rimes, Natasha Bedingfield, Ciara, Melissa Etheridge, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, and Ashanti. WOW. And delightfully, it's not the usual paste-together diva-trip. This clip has the lyrics and who's singing..



(And here's the live version, with a couple substitutes in singing)

Just Stand Up LIVE Performance @ Yahoo! Video

Well we had some Danes debut, now for some Finns. From Finland, that is. Heavy Metal band Apocalyptica hails from Helsinki and specialize in using the cello (yes, the cello) as the prominent instrument in their work, as three of the four members are cellists. They team up with singer Adam Gontier from the Canadian rock band Three Days Grace, for the Gothic "I Don't Care"...



Country singer Ashton Shepherd follows up her hit "Takin' Off This Pain" with the breezy "Sounds So Good", which "sounds so much like Sugarland!...



And finally, super DJ's Ralph Rosario and Abel Aguilera, under the name Rosabel, have had five #1 dance songs in Billboard. This time, they recruit singer Tamara Wallace (the lead singer of Funky Green Dogs) for "Looking 4 Men"...



take care.