twostepcub's music chart for June 4, 2010...

Hey everyone, it's time for my tunes for the week. This week British R&B singer Taio Cruz has his first week at the #1 position, while OneRepublic (pictured above) hang on in the top-10. The biggest jumps are from songs by Macy Gray, Train, and School Gyrlz, while former big hits by Alice In Chains and Ke$ha drop out. Link-O-Rama is still in effect, so you can click on the highlighted names of any artist on here to go to their website. And I met Lisa James Otto!

This Week Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)
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1. Break Your Heart - Taio Cruz f/Ludacris (2)
2. In My Head - Jason Derulo (6)
3. Whataya Want From Me - Adam Lambert (1)
4. Telephone - Lady GaGa f/Beyonce (4)
5. Need You Now - Lady Antebellum (5)
6. Breakeven - The Script (7)
7. Rude Boy - Rihanna (3)
8. All The Right Moves - OneRepublic (8)
9. Life After You - Daughtry (9)
10. Superman Tonight - Bon Jovi (11)
11. All I Ever Wanted - Kelly Clarkson (21)
12. OMG - Usher f/will.i.am (22)
13. Alors On Danse - Stromae (14)
14. Heartbreak On Vinyl - Blake Lewis (10)
15. Pyramid - Charice (15)
16. I Never Told You - Colbie Caillat (20)
17. I Am - Mary J. Blige (12)
18. Naturally - Selena Gomez & The Scene (18)
19. Hey, Soul Sister - Train (19)
20. Resistance - Muse (16)
21. Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap (13)
22. Between The Lines - Stone Temple Pilots (24)
23. Rocket - Goldfrapp (17)
24. Video Phone - Beyonce f/Lady GaGa (28)
25. Halfway Gone - Lifehouse (23)
26. Uprising - Muse (26)
27. Imma Be - Black Eyed Peas (31)
28. All Or Nothing - Theory Of A Deadman (29)
29. Dust In Gravity - Delerium f/Kreesha Turner (35)
30. Ain't Back Yet - Kenny Chesney (34)
31. Freeze - Bimbo Jones (38)
32. Lay Me Down - Dirty Heads (39)
33. Haven't Met You Yet - Michael Buble (25)
34. Window Seat - Erykah Badu (44)
35. Memories - David Guetta f/Kid Cudi (36)
36. Gettin' Over You - David Guetta f/Chris Willis, Fergie & LMFAO (47)
37. Everything To Me - Monica (41)
38. The Man I Want To Be - Chris Young (42)
39. Drummer Boy - Debi Nova (40)
40. Just Say Yes - Snow Patrol (30)
41. According To You - Orianthi (27)
42. Fearless Love - Melissa Etheridge (32)
43. Rock Your Body - Black Eyed Peas (49)
44. This Afternoon - Nickelback (46)
45. Live Like We're Dying - Kris Allen (37)
46. Water - Brad Paisley (56)
47. The House That Built Me - Miranda Lambert (51)
48. The Good Life - Three Days Grace (53)
49. Still - Tim McGraw (52)
50. 1901 - Phoenix (50)
51. Stereo Love - Edward Maya f/Vika Jigulina (58)
52. Beauty In The World - Macy Gray (72)
53. If It's Love - Train (73)
54. Rain Is A Good Thing - Luke Bryan (59)
55. I Gotta Get To You - George Strait (57)
56. Breathe - Ryan Star (62)
57. Something Like A Party - School Gyrlz (77)
58. Wrong Baby Wrong - Martina McBride (60)
59. Crazy Town - Jason Aldean (61)
60. Shark In The Water - VV Brown (67)
61. I Keep On Lovin' You - Reba McEntire (63)
62. Unstoppable - Rascal Flatts (64)
63. Keep On Loving You - Steel Magnolia (65)
64. Rise! - Vernessa Mitchell (78)
65. Take Control - Julissa Veloz (70)
66. Mountain Man - Crash Kings (33)
67. American Honey - Lady Antebellum (45)
68. She Won't Be Lonely Long - Clay Walker (71)
69. Fistful Of Tears - Maxwell (54)
70. Waves Of Change - Samantha James (76)
71. Savior - Rise Against (66)
72. Alejandro - Lady GaGa (92)
73. Glitter In The Air - Pink (83)
74. There Goes My Baby - Usher (74)
75. Mockingbird - Rob Thomas (81)
76. Half Of My Heart - John Mayer f/Taylor Swift (88)
77. Nothing On You - B.o.B f/Bruno Mars (82)
78. Can U Hear Me - Altar f/Amannda (79)
79. Gimmie That Girl - Joe Nichols (75)
80. California Girls - Katy Perry f/Snoop Dogg (DEBUT)
81. Your Love Is My Drug - Ke$ha (DEBUT)
82. Love Like Crazy - Lee Brice (84)
83. Baby - Justin Bieber f/Ludacris (85)
84. Backwoods - Justin Moore (80)
85. Hate To Love - Alex Sayz f/Evi (87)
86. Lover, Lover - Jerrod Niemann (91)
87. Pray For You - Jaron & The Long Road To Love (DEBUT)
88. Like You Do - Angel Taylor (89)
89. This Is War - Thirty Seconds To Mars (DEBUT)
90. Airplanes - B.o.B f/Hayley Williams (94)
91. Every Dog Has Its Day - Toby Keith (95)
92. Good Times - RollDeep (96)
93. Cryin' Like A Bitch - Godsmack (93)
94. Undo It - Carrie Underwood (DEBUT)
95. Right Here Right Now - BWO (DEBUT)
96. Work Hard, Play Harder - Gretchen Wilson (98)
97. Don't Believe - Mehrzad Marashi (99)
98. Smile - Uncle Kracker (100)
99. Kandi - One EskimO (DEBUT)
100. Unthinkable (I'm Ready) - Alicia Keys (DEBUT)

This week there are eight new songs on my list, and the highest debut is by Katy Perry, who placed four singles on my chart from her debut album, and now previews her next album with a little help from rapper Snoop Dogg. It seems to be in contention for the "jam of the summer", with good reason. Here's "California Girls" (well, the music anyways, the video isn't released yet)...



Next up is not mess Ke$ha, whose "Tik Tok" just dropped out, to be replaced by the total bubblejam "Your Love Is My Drug". It's the other "Jam of the summer" contender, though this video is freaky, like I gotta be on drugs to watch it and understand it freaky.



Jaron Lowenstein formerly made waves at the turn of the century with his twin brother Evan as "Evan and Jaron" with the top-15 pop hit "Crazy For This Girl". Now Jaron has formed a country band, Jaron and the Long Road To Love, and his first single, a great little male kiss-off song, is "Pray For You", where Jamie Pressley gets a little payback...



Another "epic" video that hasn't been released yet is Jerod Leto's rock outfit Thirty Seconds To Mars' "This Is War".. Here's an audio clip..



Another week, another American Idol debut. No, no DeWeezer or Litterbox. It's a true Idol, Carrie Underwood, with her latest, "Undo It" (though in all fairness I have to say I hope she's not holed into rewriting "Before He Cheats" over and over again for success).



And for something completely different, how about some Swedish disco? Alexander Bard had been the frontman for one of my favorite wacky dance groups of the 90s, Army Of Lovers, who had hits like "Crucified" and "Israelism". Since then he has produced groups like Alcazar, before forming another unit called BWO, which stands for Bodies Without Organs (huh?). Their latest single has finally cracked the US market, and it's "Right Here, Right Now"... Crazy video, commence!



Next up is UK indie rock group One EskimO, which includes Kristian Leontiou, who had some success in Britain as a solo artist. The new outfit's first big success is Kandi...



And finally, the totally amazing Alicia Keys has her third US single from her latest CD The Element of Freedom debut, and the powerful video takes a stand on the prejudice towards interracial relationships. Here's "Unthinkable (I'm Ready)"...



Be well, everybody....