twostepcub's music chart for January 14, 2011...

Hey everyone, I'm back from St. Louis, and it's time for my top-100 tunes for the week. This week Katy Perry takes over the top spot, while OneRepublic (pictured above) hangs on in the top-10. Former big hits by The Band Perry, Miranda Lambert, Kimberly Cole, La Roux, Sylvia Tosun, and Maroon 5 drop out, while tracks by Cher, Cage The Elephant, and Cake make some of the biggest jumps (moves of 10+ spaces marked in red). Link-O-Rama is still in effect, so you can click on any of the highlighted artist names to go to their website. Arches! are those Golden?

This Week Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)
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1. Firework - Katy Perry (2)
2. Raise Your Glass - Pink (1)
3. Waiting For The End - Linkin Park (3)
4. Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars (4)
5. Tighten Up - The Black Keys (5)
6. Secrets - OneRepublic (6)
7. Mama's Song - Carrie Underwood (7)
8. For The First Time - The Script (9)
9. Grenade - Bruno Mars (17)
10. Give A Little More - Maroon 5 (11)
11. Rhythm Of Love - Plain White T's (13)
12. Only Girl (In The World) - Rihanna (8)
13. Just A Dream - Nelly (10)
14. Miami 2 Ibiza - Swedish House Mafia f/Tinie Tempah (16)
15. Animal - Neon Trees (15)
16. Barbra Streisand - Duck Sauce (12)
17. Somewhere With You - Kenny Chesney (22)
18. Turn On The Radio - Reba McEntire (18)
19. Put You In A Song - Keith Urban (21)
20. Take Over Control - Afrojack f/Eva Simons (20)
21. Teenage Dream - Katy Perry (14)
22. Marry Me - Train (24)
23. Voices - Chris Young (25)
24. Louder (Put Your Hands Up) - Chris Willis (32)
25. Loca - Shakira f/Dizzee Rascal (29)
26. DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love - Usher f/Pitbull (19)
27. Undisclosed Desires - Muse (35)
28. Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons (28)
29. Dynamite - Taio Cruz (27)
30. I Like That - Richard Vission vs Static Revenger f/Luciana (30)
31. Like A G6 - Far East Movement f/Cataracs & Dev (26)
32. C'mon Get Funky - Ralphi Rosario & Abel Aguilera f/Tamara Wallace (34)
33. We R Who We R - Ke$ha (41)
34. Maybe - Sick Puppies (44)
35. Radioactive - Kings Of Leon (23)
36. Dog Days Are Over - Florence + The Machine (50)
37. All In - Lifehouse (33)
38. Say You'll Haunt Me - Stone Sour (36)
39. One Hot Pleasure - Erika Jayne (49)
40. Memories - David Guetta f/Kid Cudi (42)
41. World So Cold - Three Days Grace (51)
42. Sick Of You - Cake (57)
43. Jar Of Hearts - Christina Perri (45)
44. You Are - Charlie Wilson (48)
45. Hang With Me - Robyn (46)
46. Someone Else Calling You Baby - Luke Bryan (53)
47. The Emergency - BT (59)
48. What's My Name - Rihanna f/Drake (60)
49. Hello World - Lady Antebellum (54)
50. Felt Good On My Lips - Tim McGraw (52)
51. Mine - Taylor Swift (39)
52. You Haven't Seen The Last Of Me - Cher (82)
53. Destination - Tony Moran f/Ultra Nate (38)
54. The Time (Dirty Bit) - The Black Eyed Peas (62)
55. What Do You Got? - Bon Jovi (55)
56. Shake Me Down - Cage The Elephant (74)
57. Who Are You When I'm Not Looking - Blake Shelton (65)
58. My Kinda Party - Jason Aldean (58)
59. When A Woman Loves - R. Kelly (63)
60. Bullets In The Gun - Toby Keith (64)
61. Back To December - Taylor Swift (71)
62. Start A Fire - Ryan Star (67)
63. Can't Be Friends - Trey Songz (73)
64. Oye Baby - Nicola Fasano f/Pitbull (76)
65. The Breath You Take - George Strait (66)
66. Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Steven Lee & Granite f/Zander Bleck (70)
67. Sometimes I Cry - Eric Benet (56)
68. Smoke A Little Smoke - Eric Church (72)
69. Tonight (I'm Fuckin' You) - Enrique Iglesias f/Ludacris & DJ Frank E (DEBUT)
70. Let Me Down Easy - Billy Currington (75)
71. As She's Walking Away - Zac Brown Band f/Alan Jackson (37)
72. Who's That Chick - David Guetta f/Rihanna (87)
73. Closer To The Edge - 30 Seconds To Mars (83)
74. Sing - My Chemical Romance (84)
75. Not Giving Up On Love - Armin Van Buuren f/Sophie Ellis-Bextor (85)
76. Why Wait - Rascal Flatts (69)
77. I'm Doing Me - Fantasia (77)
78. Parachute - Ingrid Michaelson (80)
79. Wildflower - The JaneDear Girls (79)
80. Hey Sexy Lady - iSquare (DEBUT)
81. Hello - Martin Solveig f/Dragonette (95)
82. What Do You Want - Jerrod Niemann (DEBUT)
83. Please Don't Go - Mike Posner (DEBUT)
84. Sweet Serendipity - Lee Dewyze (90)
85. Shut The Front Door (Got My Girls) - Tiffany Dunn (86)
86. This Is Country Music - Brad Paisley (100)
87. Perfect - Hedley (88)
88. From A Table Away - Sunny Sweeney (94)
89. Stereo Love - Edward Maya f/Vika Jigulina (89)
90. When We Collide - Matt Cardle (DEBUT)
91. Porn Star Dancing - My Darkest Days f/Zakk Wylde (81)
92. Real - James Wesley (93)
93. Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (97)
94. Mr. Romeo - Emii (DEBUT)
95. Oui...Mais Non - Mylene Farmer (99)
96. We Are The People - Empire Of The Sun (96)
97. Notbroken - Goo Goo Dolls (DEBUT)
98. Your Song - Ellie Goulding (98)
99. Rock Tonight - J786 (DEBUT)
100. Surfin' Bird - The Trashmen (DEBUT)

There are nine songs making their debut on my list (debuts marked in yellow), though one of them is almost 50 years old. I've included links to their previous hits (marked in orange).

The highest new song is by Enrique Iglesias, who follows up his top-10 hit "I Like It" with the more direct "Tonight (I'm Fucking You)". Iglesias had two #1 US hits straddling the Millenium, "Bailamos" in 1999 and "Be With You" from 2000. His latest has some backup from rapper Ludacris, who has also placed two #1 US singles with "Stand Up" and "Money Maker", as well as Denver DJ Frank E.



iSquare are a four-member dance music outfit from Los Angeles named after a building in Hong Kong. Their first hit is "Hey Sexy Lady"...



Jerrod Niemann scored a number #1 country hit (and top-10 2SC hit) with "Lover, Lover". His latest is the ballad "What Do You Want". It featured Terry Bradshaw's daughter (and co-writer) Rachel on backup vocals, and the song is from the excellent Judge Jerrod and the Hung Jury CD...



Detroit native Mike Posner follows up his US and UK top-10 hit "Cooler Than Me" with the 80's-style blippy-pop of "Please Don't Go". Sounds a lot like Stevie B to me...



Next up is this season's winner of Britain's X-Factor, Mr. Potato Hea-errr, I mean Matt Cardle, with a cover of a song by Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro that was originally titled "Many Of Horror". Cardle's version, "When We Collide", turned out to escape the Facebook campaigns to stop him from becoming #1 in the UK, making this single the #2 selling single in Britain in 2010 in the process.



Ohio-born singer Emii has her first hit with the dance track "Mr. Romeo"...



The Goo Goo Dolls pulled off the rare feat of transforming from a alt-punk rock to a mainstream rock outfit and having success, with three charttopping modern rock hits (which were also top-10 pop hits) to their name - "Name", "Iris", and "Slide". Their latest is the second single from their third top-10 album Something For The Rest of Us. Here's "Notbroken"...



The artist J786 is a mysterious moniker who according to his/her/their website is making music "so he can raise money for the American Medical Fund". Not sure what this "fund is" but the song is pretty catchy. Here's "Rock Tonight"...



And finally, the song that was behind one of the Facebook campaigns to prevent the X Factor winner's single (in this case, Matt Cardle's "When We Collide") from being the Christmas #1 single in Britain. Last year, they were successful in getting Rage Against The Machine's "Killing In The Name" to the top spot. This year, in choosing a song by garage-rock stalwarts the Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird" into the top-3 still is quite amazing. As Family Guy's Peter Griffin asks "don't you know about the word?"



EVERYbody knows that the bird is the word!