twostepcub's music chart for November 19, 2010...

Hey folks, it's time for my top tunes for the week. This week Katy Perry spends a third week at number one, while Bruno Mars (pictured above) leaps into the top-3. Previous big hits by Ne-Yo, Kem, Dirty Heads, and Kenny Chesney drop out, while tracks by Pink, La Roux, and Maroon 5 make the biggest jumps (10+ moves marked in red). Link-O-Rama is still is effect, so you can click on the highlighted name of any of the artists to go to their website. Gobble Gobble!

This Week Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)
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1. Teenage Dream - Katy Perry (1)
2. Animal - Neon Trees (2)
3. Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars (9)
4. DJ Got Us Falling In Love - Usher f/Pitbull (4)
5. Misery - Maroon 5 (6)
6. Stuck Like Glue - Sugarland (8)
7. Get Outta My Way - Kylie Minogue (3)
8. Only Girl (In The World) - Rihanna (18)
9. September - Daughtry (7)
10. Come Back Song - Darius Rucker (5)
11. Radioactive - Kings Of Leon (13)
12. Club Can't Handle Me - Flo Rida f/David Guetta (12)
13. Say You'll Haunt Me - Stone Sour (17)
14. Dynamite - Taio Cruz (11)
15. If I Had You - Adam Lambert (10)
16. As She's Walking Away - Zac Brown Band f/Alan Jackson (20)
17. If I Die Young - The Band Perry (21)
18. Secrets - OneRepublic (22)
19. King Of Anything - Sara Bareilles (14)
20. Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons (25)
21. Tighten Up - The Black Keys (31)
22. Crossfire - Brandon Flowers (15)
23. All In - Lifehouse (19)
24. To Paris With Love - Donna Summer (28)
25. Round & Round - Selena Gomez & The Scene (26)
26. Just A Dream - Nelly (32)
27. I Like It - Enrique Iglesias f/Pitbull (23)
28. We No Speak Americano - Yolanda Be Cool f/DCup (16)
29. Love The Way You Lie - Eminem f/Rihanna (29)
30. Rhythm Of Love - Plain White T's (30)
31. My Best Theory - Jimmy Eat World (36)
32. Hands - Ting Tings (40)
33. Body Shots - Kaci Battaglia f/Ludacris (34)
34. Waiting For The End - Linkin Park (42)
35. Love All Over Me - Monica (35)
36. Dirty Picture - Taio Cruz f/Ke$ha (43)
37. Mine - Taylor Swift (39)
38. Raise Your Glass - Pink (56)
39. If It's Love - Train (27)
40. Mama's Song - Carrie Underwood (46)
41. The Sound Of Sunshine - Michael Franti & Spearhead (45)
42. Like A G6 - Far East Movement f/Cataracs & Dev (50)
43. I'm In Love (I Wanna Do It) - Alex Gaudino (47)
44. Turn On The Radio - Reba McEntire (48)
45. I Run To You - Lady Antebellum (33)
46. Roll With It - Easton Corbin (24)
47. Anything Like Me - Brad Paisley (51)
48. Above All - Sylvia Tosun (62)
49. In For The Kill - La Roux (67)
50. Hollywood - Michael Buble (58)
51. One (Your Name) - Swedish House Mafia f/Pharrell (49)
52. The Only Exception - Paramore (44)
53. Kick-Ass - Mika vs. RedOne (53)
54. Bittersweet - Fantasia (52)
55. Voices - Chris Young (61)
56. Put You In A Song - Keith Urban (64)
57. Waka Waka (This Time For Africa) - Shakira (57)
58. What Do You Got? - Bon Jovi (60)
59. Impossible - Anberlin (59)
60. Cooler Than Me - Mike Posner (54)
61. Love-Hate-Sex-Pain - Godsmack (63)
62. Give A Little More - Maroon 5 (80)
63. Take Over Control - Afrojack f/Eva Simons (75)
64. Jar Of Hearts - Christina Perri (70)
65. Why Wait - Rascal Flatts (65)
66. Fuck You - Cee-Lo Green (66)
67. How I Got To Be This Way - Justin Moore (68)
68. Marry Me - Train (76)
69. You Lost Me - Christina Aguilera (37)
70. Only Prettier - Miranda Lambert (71)
71. I Like That - R Vission vs Static Revenger f/Luciana (83)
72. Farmer's Daughter - Rodney Atkins (72)
73. The Breath You Take - George Strait (74)
74. Let's Celebrate - The Ones f/Nomi Ruiz (86)
75. Felt Good On My Lips - Tim McGraw (DEBUT)
76. Sometimes I Cry - Eric Benet (81)
77. Barbra Streisand - Duck Sauce (DEBUT)
78. My Kinda Party - Jason Aldean (78)
79. Can It Stay - Gerald Levert (79)
80. This Ain't No Love Song - Trace Adkins (82)
81. Start A Fire - Ryan Star (85)
82. Undisclosed Desires - Muse (92)
83. Smack You - Kimberly Cole (99)
84. Somewhere - DJ Mog f/Sarah Lynn (84)
85. We R Who We R - Ke$ha (DEBUT)
86. Sunglasses - Divine Brown (91)
87. Miami 2 Ibiza - Swedish House Mafia f/Tinie Tempah (95)
88. Destination - Tony Moran f/Ultra Nate (DEBUT)
89. Your Love Is A Song - Switchfoot (89)
90. Stereo Love - Edward Maya f/Vika Jigulina (93)
91. Peacock - Katy Perry (DEBUT)
92. Someone Else Calling You Baby - Luke Bryan (98)
93. Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) - My Chemical Romance (97)
94. Going Strong - Natalia Flores (DBEUT)
95. As Good As Sin - Chris "The Greek" Panaghi f/Sophia Cruz (DEBUT)
96. Strip Me - Natasha Bedingfield (RE-ENTRY)
97. World So Cold - Three Days Grace (DEBUT)
98. Wildflower - The JaneDear Girls (100)
99. Porn Star Dancing - My Darkest Days f/Zakk Wylde (DEBUT)
100. When A Woman Loves - R. Kelly (DEBUT)

This week ten new songs enter my chart (marked in yellow), and the highest debut is by country star Tim McGraw. After ten studio albums, McGraw is reportedly leaving his longstanding home at Curb Records. There he racked up twenty-two #1 country hits on Billboard's charts, including two top-10 national pop hits, "Please Remember Me" and "It's Your Love" with wife Faith Hill. He also crossed over to his biggest pop hit, the top-3 "Over And Over" with rapper Nelly (on this week's chart with "Just A Dream). All 22 of those country #1s are on his forthcoming Number One Hits compilation coming out November 30, as well as his latest single, already a top-20 country hit, even though its country roots are rather tenuous. Here's "Felt Good On My Lips"...



Now for a song I feel you would either love or detest. American DJ Armand Van Helden has remixed countless classic dance tunes, as well as having a decent career as an artist, placing five top-10 club songs on the charts, as well as having a #1 pop hit in the UK with "You Don't Know Me". A-Trak (Alain Macklovitch) is from Montreal, and has worked with Kanye West and Kid Cudi. The two have been recording under the moniker Duck Sauce, and have had a top-40 hit in England before with the disco-y "aNYway". Now the duo have gone viral with a video that includes such hip-hop legends as Kanye, Pharrell, ?uestlove, and Santigold. All with a song that simply cribs music from ultra-uncool German group Boney M, with one single name repeated throughout the jam. "Barbra Streisand". That's it. Take it as you will, I think it's way fun...



Ke$ha brings the trash-disco back with her fifth consecutive top-10 pop hit as a lead artist, and her second #1 after her debut single "Tik Tok" at the begininng of this year. She has promoted the song as an anthem of pride for the gay youth bullied into a string of suicides, and you can't go wrong with that. Love. Her. Here she is with "We R Who We R"...



Next up is a collaboration of two essential dance music artists. DJ legend Tony Moran is celebrating his third decade in the biz, and in that time besides reworking a lot of my favorite songs, has placed two #1 songs on the chart with "Keep Your Body Working" (with Martha Wash) and "Walk Away" (with Kristine W.). Singer Ultra Nate has also been around since the eighties, and has had eight #1 club play singles. Two of those top-10 pop singles in England: "Free" and "Found A Cure". Together they return with a great true-to-form house stomper. Here's "Destination"...



Katy Perry is on a hot streak, and follows her #1 hits "California Gurls" and "Teenage Dream" with a song not released as a single (or particularly liked by her label) but with an underground following in the gay community. With a blatant double-entendre like "Peacock", that's not too surprising. Here she is on Letterman performing the club hit live...



Natalia Flores was born in the Central American nation of Guatemala, and she's had two singles hit the Billboard dance chart - the top-30 "Angel On The Dancefloor" with Dave Matthias, and her first hit on my chart, "Going Strong"...



There are a few great DJs debuting this week, and Chris "The Greek" Panaghi is another NY-based spinsters that is worth a listen. He's had ten charting dance hits including his top-5 best "The Time". His latest, sung by Sophia Cruz, is "As Good As Sin"...



There are two hard-rockin' Canadian bands coming onto my list, and the elder of the two is post-grunge outfit Three Days Grace. They have had six number-one rock hits from their three top-10 CDs, with two of those songs ("Pain" and "Break")remaining on top for over 10 weeks. "Break" was from their latest CD, Life Starts Now, which also has the latest single, "World So Cold"...



The other set of Canucks actually also come from the same eastern Ontario town of Norwood. In fact, My Darkest Days was started by Matt Walst, the brother of Three Days Grace's bassist Brad. The group was mentored by Nickelback's Chad Kroeger, and it's not a shock that their first hit emulates that group's stripper-rock anthems. They get a boost from uber-guitarist Zakk Wylde, who was Ozzy Osbourne's axeman before forming his own outfit Black Label Society. Both Chad and Zakk appear in the sleazy clip for "Porn Star Dancing"...



And bringing up the rear, a man who knows a lot of (mostly underage) rear, R. Kelly. His legal troubles have eclipsed his stellar singing career, racking up eight #1 R&B hits as well as two pop charttoppers, "Bump N Grind" from 1994 and his duet with Celine Dion, "I'm Your Angel". Every one of his solo albums either hit #1 or #2 in the US save for his last (which made #4), and two more collaboration CDs with Jay-Z made the top-2 as well. His latest is from his forthcoming disc Love Letter, and it's a welcome retro-soul return. Here's "When A Woman Loves"...



Take care, and have a great Thanksgiving, Americans!