twostepcub's music chart for October 15, 2010...

Hey folks, it's time for my top 100 tunes for the week. This week Maroon 5 spends a second week in the number one spot, while Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull (pictured above) move up in the top-10. Singles by Kylie Minogue, The Black Keys, and The Zac Brown Band make the biggest jumps (songs that move more than ten spots highlighted in red), while former big hits by Alicia Keys, Usher, Uncle Kracker, and Lee Brice drop out. Link-O-Rama is still in effect, so you can click on the highlighted names of any of the artists below to go to their website. Also, the orange highlights go to youtube videos of our debuting artists. Is that Carol Channing?

This Week Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)
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1. Misery - Maroon 5 (1)
2. DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love - Usher f/Pitbull (4)
3. Animal - Neon Trees (3)
4. King Of Anything - Sara Bareilles (2)
5. Dynamite - Taio Cruz (5)
6. If It's Love - Train (6)
7. I Like It - Enrique Iglesias f/Pitbull (8)
8. Teenage Dream - Katy Perry (12)
9. September - Daughtry (9)
10. Come Back Song - Darius Rucker (11)
11. All In - Lifehouse (13)
12. The Only Exception - Paramore (14)
13. We No Speak Americano - Yolanda Be Cool f/DCup (17)
14. Roll With It - Easton Corbin (18)
15. Figure It Out - Dave Aude f/Isha Coco (10)
16. Little White Church - Little Big Town (20)
17. Get Outta My Way -Kylie Minogue (35)
18. Our Kind Of Love - Lady Antebellum (19)
19. Stuck Like Glue - Sugarland (27)
20. The Catalyst - Linkin Park (7)
21. If I Had You - Adam Lambert (28)
22. I Run To You - Lady Antebellum (23)
23. Love The Way You Lie - Eminem f/Rihanna (25)
24. Club Can't Handle Me - Flo Rida f/David Guetta (34)
25. Another Way To Die - Disturbed (26)
26. Crossfire - Brandon Flowers (31)
27. Mockingbird - Rob Thomas (15)
28. Beautiful Monster - Ne-Yo (33)
29. California Gurls - Katy Perry f/Snoop Dogg (21)
30. Pretty Good At Drinking Beer - Billy Currington (16)
31. You Lost Me - Christina Aguilera (38)
32. The Boys Of Fall - Kenny Chesney (32)
33. Why Would You Stay? - Kem (37)
34. Lay Me Down - Dirty Heads (24)
35. Bittersweet - Fantasia (36)
36. Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons (41)
37. Wouldnit (I'm A Star) - Yoko Ono (39)
38. Lisztomania - Phoenix (22)
39. Secrets - OneRepublic (42)
40. Nightmare - Avenged Sevenfold (40)
41. Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars (45)
42.Cooler Than Me - Mike Posner (44)
43. One (Your Name) - Swedish House Mafia f/Pharrell (43)
44. If I Die Young - The Band Perry (48)
45. Say You'll Haunt Me - Stone Sour (57)
46. 4th Of July (Fireworks) - Kelis (29)
47. As She's Walking Away - Zac Brown Band f/Alan Jackson (64)
48. All Over Me - Josh Turner (52)
49. Home - Goo Goo Dolls (49)
50. Waka Waka (This Time For Africa) - Shakira (46)
51. Rhythm Of Love - Plain White T's (56)
52. Round & Round - Selena Gomez & The Scene (62)
53. Could You Believe - ATB (58)
54. Fire With Fire - Scissor Sisters (30)
55. Bulletproof - La Roux (50)
56. Radioactive - Kings Of Leon (DEBUT)
57. My Best Theory - Jimmy Eat World (61)
58. Body Shots - Kaci Battaglia f/Ludacris (66)
59. Pop Goes The World - The Gossip (59)
60. Fuerte - Nelly Furtado (60)
61. To Paris With Love - Donna Summer (DEBUT)
62. Half Of My Heart - John Mayer f/Taylor Swift (54)
63. The Radio - Get Far (67)
64. Mine - Taylor Swift (68)
65. The Sound Of Sunshine - Michael Franti & Spearhead (75)
66. Love All Over Me - Monica (71)
67. VIP - Zayra (69)
68. Only Girl (In The World) - Rihanna (83)
69. Why Wait - Rascal Flatts (73)
70. Impossible - Anberlin (72)
71. Turn On The Radio - Reba McEntire (85)
72. Lately - Macy Gray (47)
73. Tighten Up - The Black Keys (91)
74. Anything Like Me - Brad Paisley (84)
75. Eternity - Guru Josh Project (77)
76. Kick-Ass - Mika vs. RedOne (DEBUT)
77. Voices - Chris Young (79)
78. Farmer's Daughter - Rodney Atkins (82)
79. The Breath You Take - George Strait (81)
80. Restlessness - Bastien Laval (80)
81. I'm In Love (I Wanna Do It) - Alex Gaudino (98)
82. Jar Of Hearts - Christina Perri (86)
83. Just A Dream - Nelly (89)
84. Can It Stay - Gerald Levert (88)
85. What Do You Got? - Bon Jovi (99)
86. Rebound - Lori Michaels (90)
87. Speakers - Days Difference (87)
88. How I Got To Be This Way - Justin Moore (92)
89. Alejandro - Lady GaGa (55)
90. All About Tonight - Blake Shelton (63)
91. Mama's Song - Carrie Underwood (DEBUT)
92. Sometimes I Cry - Eric Benet (DEBUT)
93. Say I Love You - Taborah (93)
94. Stereo Love - Edward Maya f/Vika Jigulina (94)
95. Start Without You - Alexandra Burke f/Laza Morgan (95)
96. Way Out Here - Josh Thompson (96)
97. Empire State Of Mind - Glee Cast (DEBUT)
98. The Sound - Switchfoot (RE-ENTRY)
99. Boys Or Girls - L2 (DEBUT)
100. My Kinda Party - Jason Aldean (DEBUT)

This week there are eight debuts on my list (marked in yellow), and the first is by Tennessee's Followhills, known as the Kings Of Leon. After three much-buzzed about albums (and a following in England), the group found mega-success in the last two years with their breakthrough CD Only By The Night, which produced three #1's on Billboard's Alternative rock chart - "Sex On Fire", "Notion", and the song which turned out to be one of the biggest hits of any genre last year, "Use Somebody". They're back with a new CD that's coming out this coming Tuesday, Come Around Sundown, and the preview single for that makes their fourth top modern-rock song. Here's "Radioactive"...



Next is a legend of dance music.Donna Summer has scored fifteen #1 hits on Billboard's Dance chart, putting her at third all-time, while on the pop chart she made it to the top four times, with such diverse offerings as the theatrical "MacArthur Park", the ode-to-da-ho of "Bad Girls", the sexual yearning of "Hot Stuff", and the ultimate diva-off with Barbra Streisand, "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)". Thirty-five years after her first hit "Love To Love You Baby", Summer is still going strong, and her new single heralding her (I assume) favorite city already in the top-5. Here's "To Paris With Love"...



The movie Kick-Ass was one of the rare sleeper movies out of the Marvel Comics adaptations. Having kids in a quite violently movie possibly didn't help it becoming the juggernaut the X-Men were, but at least it didn't pander to its audience. Six months since the movie opened in the US, the title song from the movie is making its way up the dance chart, with a collaboration by Beirut-by-way-of-London favorite of mine Mika (of the #1 UK hit "Grace Kelly"), and Moroccan-by-way-of-Sweden superproducer/writer RedOne (Nadir Khayat, who has produced tons of hits recently, most notably Lady GaGa). Here's "Kick-Ass"...



Carrie Underwood has now had three number one albums, as well as ten number-one country singles, as well as a pop #1 with "Inside Your Heaven". Wow. What a nice epitaph for the upcoming trainwreck that American Idol will be. Her latest hit is a beautiful song which I'm sure with become a Mother's Day standard. Here's "Mama's Song", and try not to cry watching this...



The former Mr. Halle Berry, Eric Benet, is best known for his #1 R&B hit (and top-40) "Spend My Life With You". His latest sounds a lot like old D'Angelo, and that's a good thing. Here is "Sometimes I Cry"...



Well I am happy as all getout that Glee is back on the air for a second season. The first episode has already sent a song into the top-10 selling singles in the US, and it's a remake of one of the biggest songs of the past year. Here's their take on "Empire State Of Mind"...



Next is sister act L2, who used to go by the name of the Labbadia Sisters, which I guess seems sort of wrong. I don't know why, just wrong. The New Yorkers' first hit is a top-10 dance single called "Boys Or Girls"...

L2 - Boys Or Girls (Lenny B Vocal Club Mix) by lennyb

Lastly, country singer Jason Aldean has had four country number-one hits in the last five years: "Why" (my personal favorite), "She's Country", "Big Green Tractor", and "The Truth". The fact that the last three were from his last album alone should say how fast he's breaking right now. His latest is the title track for his upcoming CD, My Kinda Party....



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