twostepcub's music chart for August 28, 2009...

Hey guys, it's a rainy Friday night and time for my tunes for the week. This week Katy Perry spends a third week on top and in Vegas, while rock band Cage The Elephant (pictured above) sneaks into the top-10. Former big hits by Miley Cyrus, Kellie Pickler, Livvi Franc, Lady GaGa, and Deborah Cox drop off the chart, while tunes by Beyonce, U2, and Kristine W. make the biggest jumps (marked in red). Link-O-Rama is still in effect so you can click on the highlighted name of any artist to go to their website (right-click and you can use a different tab or window)...Bottoms Up!

This Week Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)
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1. Waking Up In Vegas - Katy Perry (1)
2. Use Somebody - Kings Of Leon (2)
3. Please Don't Leave Me - Pink (5)
4. Her Diamonds - Rob Thomas (4)
5. When Love Takes Over - David Guetta f/Kelly Rowland (3)
6. New Divide - Linkin Park (6)
7. No Surprise - Daughtry (9)
8. Panic Switch - Silversun Pickups (8)
9. Ain't No Rest For The Wicked - Cage The Elephant (11)
10. LoveGame - Lady GaGa (10)
11. Second Chance - Shinedown (7)
12. Hush Hush - Pussycat Dolls (14)
13. I'll Just Hold On - Blake Shelton (13)
14. You Belong With Me - Taylor Swift (12)
15. 21 Guns - Green Day (16)
16. Fire Burning - Sean Kingston (19)
17. Crazy Possessive - Kaci Battaglia (21)
18. Never Say Never - The Fray (18)
19. Love Etc. - Pet Shop Boys (15)
20. Give You Everything - Erika Jayne (20)
21. Fallin' For You - Colbie Caillat (25)
22. Let The Feelings Go - AnnaGrace (22)
23. Closer To Love - Mat Kearney (23)
24. If Today Was Your Last Day - Nickelback (17)
25. I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas (31)
26. I Do Not Hook Up - Kelly Clarkson (24)
27. Another Day - Sophia May (29)
28. People Are Crazy - Billy Currington (28)
29. Bulletproof - La Roux (41)
30. Boots On - Randy Houser (34)
31. Battlefield - Jordin Sparks (39)
32. Pretty Wings - Maxwell (32)
33. Money's Too Tight To Mention 2009 - Simply Red (43)
34. Sing - Wynonna (36)
35. Life In Technicolor II - Coldplay (30)
36. Evacuate The Dancefloor - Cascada (46)
37. Halo - Beyonce (33)
38. Say Hey (I Love You) - Michael Franti & Spearhead (50)
39. Magnificent - U2 (27)
40. Wild At Heart - Gloriana (42)
41. I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) - Pitbull (45)
42. Come Back To Me - David Cook (37)
43. Armageddon - Jessica Jarrell (48)
44. On The Ocean - K'Jon (44)
45. Be Alright - Kristine W. (59)
46. Goodbye - Kristinia DeBarge (58)
47. I Run To You - Lady Antebellum (26)
48. Barefoot & Crazy - Jack Ingram (52)
49. Infinity 2008 - Guru Josh Project (49)
50. She Is Love - Parachute (51)
51. Stay - Safetysuit (56)
52. Living For The Night - George Strait (54)
53. The Point Of It All - Anthony Hamilton (53)
54. Sweet Dreams - Beyonce (82)
55. Knock You Down - Keri Hilson f/Kanye West (60)
56. Staring Down - Collective Soul (66)
57. Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas (57)
58. Patron Tequila - Paradiso Girls f/Lil Jon & Eve (62)
59. Alright - Darius Rucker (55)
60. The Sound Of Madness - Shinedown (61)
61. Notion - Kings Of Leon (67)
62. Body Rock - Oceana (38)
63. It's A Business Doing Pleasure With You - Tim McGraw (77)
64. Back It Up - Gia Bella (47)
65. Somewhere Around Midnight - Airborne Toxic Event (65)
66. Last Chance - Ginuwine (70)
67. Drop A House - DJ DeMarko f/Heather Leigh West (73)
68. Attention Whore - Deadmau5 f/Melleefresh (78)
69. She Wolf - Shakira (DEBUT)
70. Never Give U Up - Raphael Saadiq f/Stevie Wonder & CJ (74)
71. Be There - Howie Day (81)
72. 99 Times - Kate Voegele (76)
73. Big Green Tractor - Jason Aldean (83)
74. Summer Nights - Rascal Flatts (75)
75. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight - U2 (91)
76. Runaway - Love & Theft (90)
77. Celebration - Madonna (DEBUT)
78. Good Girls Go Bad - Cobra Starship f/Leighton Meester (DEBUT)
79. Rose Of Jericho - BT (DEBUT)
80. Only You Can Love Me This Way - Keith Urban (94)
81. Love Your Love The Most - Eric Church (85)
82. I Remember - Deadmau5 & Kaskade (DEBUT)
83. Red Light - David Nail (89)
84. That's Not My Name - The Ting Tings (RE-ENTRY)
85. Jungle Drum - Emiliana Torrini (86)
86. Small Town USA - Justin Moore (88)
87. Smile - Uncle Kracker (97)
88. Just Go - Lionel Richie (80)
89. Down - Jay Sean f/Lil Wayne (DEBUT)
90. Sounds Like Life To Me - Darryl Worley (92)
91. Savior - Rise Against (DEBUT)
92. Welcome To The Future - Brad Paisley (96)
93. Ignorance - Paramore (DEBUT)
94. Never Leave You - Tinchy Stryder f/Amelle (DEBUT)
95. Can't Live Without You - Charlie Wilson (100)
96. American Ride - Toby Keith (98)
97. The Fixer - Pearl Jam (DEBUT)
98. Gettin' You Home (The Black Dress Song) - Chris Young (DEBUT)
99. Lasse-Toi Aller Bebe - Collectif Metisse (DEBUT)
100. Manos Al Aire - Nelly Furtado (DEBUT)

This week there are thirteen new songs to the chart, as well as the Ting Ting's "That's Not My Name" re-entering...

The highest debut is by Columbian-American singer Shakira. It's amazing that she's been absent for 2 years, when her collaboration with Beyonce, "Beautiful Liar" was hitting it big. Her latest is the sensual "She Wolf", with the craziest girl-howl (and not in a scary way)...

She Wolf @ Yahoo! Video

And who could be hotter than Shakira? Madge, that's who. Yes, Madonna's back again with the leadoff single from her greatest hits collection. It's basically a pastiche of every dance hit she's had before, but that's not too bad at all. Here's "Celebration"...



Next up is American dance artist/producer/DJ BT (Bryan Transeau). It's an instrumental track that brings him back to his trance-music roots. Here's "Rose Of Jericho"..



And while we're listening to trance, here's another great trance artist, Kaskade, who pairs with Canadian DJ Deadmau5, who already is climbing my chart with "Attention Whore". Their dreamy collab is "I Remember"...



Next up is Jay Sean, who was born Kamaljit Singh Jhooti in London. The R&B singer of Asian-Indian heritage already has had 6 top-40 hits in the UK, and now spices his cool funk with a Lil Wayne with "Down"...

Down Featuring Lil Wayne @ Yahoo! Video

Punk rock band Rise Against have already been on my chart with songs like the excellent "Re-Eductation (Through Labor)" and "Audience Of One". They set the stage for their upcoming CD with the track "Savior"...



Another rock CD forthcoming is Paramore's latest, and the first single from that is the rockin' "Ignorance"...



British artist Tinchy Stryder, who is in the "grime" (which combines house, island, and hip-hop) genre of dance music, pairs up with Sugababes singer Amelle for the fun "Never Leave You"...



And the biggest anticipated rock album this fall is Pearl Jam's upcoming CD, available at Target...It was striking going there last week and finding the vinyl single of PJ's latest, "The Fixer" there. Big Kudos!!!!



Country singer Chris Young won the singing talent show Nashville Star, and two years later his first truly big country hit emerges - "Gettin' You Home (The Black Dress Song)"...



The last two debuts are both foreign language faves of mine. The first is by Collectif Metisse. With members from France, America, North Africa and Reunion Island, the group comes on with the fun-filled summer hit "Lasse-Toi Aller Bebe" (Let's Go Baby)...



And last is Nelly Furtado. A recurrent hitmaker, she previews her latest Spanish language album with "Manos Al Aire" (Hands In The Air)...



I HATE "School Nights"!!!!