twostepcub's music chart for December 10, 2010..
The countdown to Christmas continues, but now it's time for my top-100 tunes for the week. This week Bruno Mars spends a third week at number one, while country family group The Band Perry (pictured above) jumps into the top-5. Singles by Katy Perry, Ralphi Rosario and Abel Aguilera, and The Script make the biggest moves (10+ moves marked in red), while former big hits by Flo Rida, Darius Rucker, Sara Bareilles, Brandon Flowers, Selena Gomez & The Scene, Yolanda Be Cool, and Lady Antebellum drop out. Link-O-Rama is in effect, so you can click on the highlighted name of any of the artists to go to their website...Brrrrrr!This Week Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)
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1. Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars (1)
2. Only Girl (In The World) - Rihanna (2)
3. Teenage Dream - Katy Perry (3)
4. If I Die Young - The Band Perry (8)
5. As She's Walking Away - Zac Brown Band f/Alan Jackson (6)
6. Raise Your Glass - Pink (11)
7. Radioactive - Kings Of Leon (7)
8. Animal - Neon Trees (4)
9. Tighten Up - The Black Keys (13)
10. Secrets - OneRepublic (12)
11. Waiting For The End - Linkin Park (19)
12. Just A Dream - Nelly (14)
13. Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons (15)
14. Say You'll Haunt Me - Stone Sour (9)
15. DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love - Usher f/Pitbull (10)
16. Like A G6 - Far East Movement f/Cataracs & Dev (20)
17. Stuck Like Glue - Sugarland (5)
18. Dynamite - Taio Cruz (18)
19. Rhythm Of Love - Plain White T's (21)
20. Misery - Maroon 5 (16)
21. Mama's Song - Carrie Underwood (31)
22. September - Daughtry (17)
23. Hands - Ting Tings (24)
24. Barbra Streisand - Duck Sauce (36)
25. Dirty Picture - Taio Cruz f/Ke$ha (26)
26. In For The Kill - La Roux (30)
27. All In - Lifehouse (23)
28. Give A Little More - Maroon 5 (42)
29. Firework - Katy Perry (76)
30. Get Outta My Way - Kylie Minogue (22)
31. Turn On The Radio - Reba McEntire (38)
32. Above All - Sylvia Tosun (34)
33. Mine - Taylor Swift (33)
34. Take Over Control - Afrojack f/Eva Simons (39)
35. Put You In A Song - Keith Urban (43)
36. Hollywood - Michael Buble (41)
37. My Best Theory - Jimmy Eat World (27)
38. For The First Time - The Script (62)
39. If I Had You - Adam Lambert (25)
40. Voices - Chris Young (45)
41. Love The Way You Lie - Eminem f/Rihanna (37)
42. Anything Like Me - Brad Paisley (46)
43. Smack You - Kimberly Cole (50)
44. I'm In Love (I Wanna Do It) - Alex Gaudino (40)
45. I Like That - Richard Vission vs Static Revenger f/Luciana (51)
46. What Do You Got? - Bon Jovi (52)
47. Destination - Tony Moran f/Ultra Nate (61)
48. Marry Me - Train (58)
49. Love All Over Me - Monica (44)
50. Only Prettier - Miranda Lambert (54)
51. Jar Of Hearts - Christina Perri (55)
52. To Paris With Love - Donna Summer (32)
53. I Like It - Enrique Iglesias f/Pitbull (49)
54. The Sound Of Sunshine - Michael Franti & Spearhead (47)
55. Miami 2 Ibiza - Swedish House Mafia f/Tinie Tempah (75)
56. Sometimes I Cry - Eric Benet (64)
57. Impossible - Anberlin (57)
58. Fuck You / Forget You - Cee-Lo Green (60)
59. Love-Hate-Sex-Pain - Godsmack (59)
60. Peacock - Katy Perry (66)
61. Why Wait - Rascal Flatts (63)
62. Somewhere With You - Kenny Chesney (77)
63. Felt Good On My Lips - Tim McGraw (67)
64. Undisclosed Desires - Muse (72)
65. Farmer's Daughter - Rodney Atkins (70)
66. Let's Celebrate - The Ones f/Nomi Ruiz (68)
67. C'mon Get Funky - Ralphi Rosario & Abel Aguilera f/Tamara Wallace (97)
68. Loca - Shakira f/Dizzee Rascal (DEBUT)
69. The Breath You Take - George Strait (69)
70. Hang With Me - Robyn (DEBUT)
71. My Kinda Party - Jason Aldean (73)
72. Memories - David Guetta f/Kid Cudi (RE-ENTRY)
73. We R Who We R - Ke$ha (78)
74. Somewhere - DJ Mog f/Sarah Lynn (74)
75. Cooler Than Me - Mike Posner (71)
76. Someone Else Calling You Baby - Luke Bryan (82)
77. Start A Fire - Ryan Star (79)
78. Porn Star Dancing - My Darkest Days f/Zakk Wylde (86)
79. This Ain't No Love Song - Trace Adkins (80)
80. Sunglasses - Divine Brown (81)
81. When A Woman Loves - R. Kelly (91)
82. Stereo Love - Edward Maya f/Vika Jigulina (83)
83. You Are - Charlie Wilson (93)
84. Over The Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'Ole (84)
85. Wildflower - JaneDear Girls (85)
86. Maybe - Sick Puppies (96)
87. World So Cold - Three Days Grace (87)
88. Smoke A Little Smoke - Eric Church (98)
89. Strip Me - Natasha Bedingfield (92)
90. The Flood - Take That (DEBUT)
91. Sick Of You - Cake (DEBUT)
92. What's My Name - Rihanna f/Drake (94)
93. Parachute - Ingrid Michaelson (DEBUT)
94. Perfect - Hedley (99)
95. Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Steven Lee & Granite f/Zander Bleck (100)
96. Singin' In The Rain/Umbrella - Glee Cast (DEBUT)
97. Hello World - Lady Antebellum (DEBUT)
98. Forget You - Glee Cast (DEBUT)
99. Bullets In The Gun - Toby Keith (DEBUT)
100. Real - James Wesley (DEBUT)
This week ten new songs debut on my list (marked in yellow), as well as a strong re-entry. There's also links in orange that'll take you to classic videos by these artists.
Colombian siren Shakira has had the second most stable success of any of the artists who emerged from the "Latin Explosion" of 1999 (though Enrique Iglesias is still a bit ahead). Her biggest success was the 2006 #1 hit "Hips Don't Lie" with Wyclef Jean. These days while Wyclef is trying to help Haiti, Shakira is now teaming with another rap artist, this time British powerhouse Dizzee Rascal, who's last album Tongue N Cheek has produced four UK #1 hits, including "Dance Wiv Me" which stayed on top for four weeks there. Their new collaboration is the second single from Shakira's new Spanish and English-language album Sale el Sol (after the worldwide World Cup hit "Waka Waka"), and she's going "Loca"...
Swedish singer Robyn is a study in perseverance. In 1997 she released her debut album, Robyn Is Here, which sent two songs into the US top 10 - "Do You Know (What It Takes)" and "Show Me Love". After an eight year dry spell, she started her comeback in England with her self-titled album, which contained four UK top-40 hits, including the number one "With Every Heartbeat". This year she released three EPs of music titled Body Talk, which contained one of the best songs of this year, "Dancing On My Own". The best of the three mini-sets have been combined as a full-length CD, and is one I recommend highly. The next single is the thoughtful "Hang With Me"....
In the United States, Take That was a one-hit wonder with the 1995 top-ten hit "Back For Good". In Britain, they are an industry. Like ABBA proportions industry. With eleven number-one records (and another fourteen making the top-40), the quintet was the epitome of the boy-band. Each of the members had a lead in at least one of the group's hits, though the majority were behind Gary Barlow. Three of the 11 #1 hits were on top for a whopping four weeks - their first #1 "Pray", "Back For Good", and their comeback single "Patience". Robbie Williams left in 1995 to pursue a solo career that for awhile overshadowed that of his former group, and Barlow and fellow member Mark Owen have also had top-5 success on their own, though not in any level like Williams. After reconciling this past year, they are back with the first single from the album Progress, which has sold a million copies - an astounding amount for Britain. Here's "The Flood"...
Indie-rock darlings from Sacremento, CA, Cake had their biggest hit with the 1998 modern-rock #1 "Never There". After a series of member changes, but retaining lead singer John McCrea and (thankfully) trumpeter Vince DiFiore, the group is back with "Sick Of You"...
The next song was a recent British top-10 hit by ex-Girls Aloud and current X-Factor judge Cheryl Cole. It's now released by indie-pop singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson who co-wrote the song. She is definitely someone I feel I should check out more, after two excellent adult-pop top-20 hits in "The Way I Am" and "Maybe". Here is "Parachute"...
This week two songs from the cast of Glee come in to replace their US top-10 version of Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream". Fitting, since surprisingly their recording of their other American top ten hit, "Don't Stop Believin'" was just nominated for a Grammy for best pop group vocal. I have qualms with that definition of a "group", even though I'm quite happy with the show's success. The "Substitute" episode featured guest star Gwyneth Paltrow, and in both songs here she sings lead (or co-lead). Glee's music is always best when they mix it up a little from the original, and this is a great example. Two completely different genres are mashed as the film classic "Singin' In The Rain" is segued into the Rihanna jam "Umbrella". Rain, umbrella. Knock me over with the irony...
Lady Antebellum had one of the biggest selling and most played songs of this year with the ode to drunk-dialing "Need You Now", the title cut from a CD that's sent all three singles to #1 on the US country chart, and built on the success of "I Run To You", which was the biggest country hit of 2009, and recently resurrected adult-pop hit (it just fell from my countdown this week). Their latest (and possibly fourth #1 from the CD) is the ballad "Hello World"...
And we're back to Gwyneth and the cast of Glee with the sanitized version of the song at #58 on my chart, Cee-Lo Green's, ahem, "Forget You", which I am so tickled that has been nominated for Record and Song of the Year Grammys. Daaaaamn!
And now for something completely different...Toby Keith. The country singer turned Fox News stooge has had nineteen country number-one singles in the US, including two six-week charttoppers, "Beer For My Horses" (with Willie Nelson) and "As Good As I Once Was". His latest is the cinematic "Bullets For My Gun"...
The last debut is by country singer James Wesley (last name Prosser), who has his first country top-40 hit with "Real", which references the reality-show glut...
and now to snuggle in with some warm covers... Cheers!
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