twostepcub's music chart for March 18, 2011...

Hey everyone, it's the first day of spring, and time for my top-100 tunes for the week. This week Pink makes it to #1, while Adele (pictured above) leaps into the top-5. Songs by Adele, Maroon 5, and Sara Bareilles make the biggest jumps (moves of 10+ places highlighted in red), while former big hits by the Plain White T's, Chris Young, Kenny Chesney, Cher, Rihanna, Black Eyed Peas, Robbie Williams, and Nelly drop out. Link-O-Rama is still in effect, so you can click on any of the highlighted artists to go over to their website (right-click to use another tab or window). I've also included orange links to more videos from the debut artists. What's Naavi for "fall asleep"?

This Week Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)
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1. Fuckin' Perfect - Pink (3)
2. Grenade - Bruno Mars (2)
3. Dog Days Are Over - Florence + The Machine (1)
4. Tonight (I'm Lovin' You) - Enrique Iglesias f/Ludacris (5)
5. Rolling In The Deep - Adele (9)
6. Firework - Katy Perry (6)
7. For The First Time - The Script (7)
8. Hello - Martin Solveig f/Dragonette (8)
9. Maybe - Sick Puppies (4)
10. Born This Way - Lady GaGa (18)
11. S&M - Rihanna (21)
12. Shake Me Down - Cage The Elephant (12)
13. Better Than Today - Kylie Minogue (15)
14. Waiting For The End - Linkin Park (10)
15. Raise Your Glass - Pink (11)
16. Sing - My Chemical Romance (20)
17. Marry Me - Train (13)
18. Colder Weather - The Zac Brown Band (26)
19. Who's That Chick - David Guetta f/Rihanna (19)
20. Tighten Up - Black Keys (16)
21. Higher - Taio Cruz f/Kylie Minogue & Travie McCoy (29)
22. Fuck You/Forget You - Cee-Lo Green (32)
23. This - Darius Rucker (28)
24. What's My Name - Rihanna f/Drake (14)
25. Secrets - OneRepublic (17)
26. Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars (22)
27. Back To December - Taylor Swift (27)
28. Jar Of Hearts - Christina Perri (31)
29. You Are - Charlie Wilson (25)
30. A Year Without Rain - Selena Gomez & The Scene (30)
31. Hello World - Lady Antebellum (33)
32. Don't You Wanna Stay - Jason Aldean f/Kelly Clarkson (36)
33. The Cave - Mumford & Sons (45)
34. Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons (34)
35. Hold It Against Me - Britney Spears (39)
36. Can't Be Friends - Trey Songz (24)
37. Move On Fast - Yoko Ono (47)
38. Let Me Down Easy - Billy Currington (42)
39. Help Is On The Way - Rise Against (49)
40. Rocketeer - Far East Movement f/Ryan Tedder (50)
41. Little Miss - Sugarland (48)
42. Rock Tonight - J786 (37)
43. We R Who We R - Ke$ha (35)
44. Who Are You When I'm Not Looking - Blake Shelton (40)
45. What The Hell - Avril Lavigne (55)
46. What Do You Want - Jerrod Niemann (52)
47. Closer To The Edge - 30 Seconds To Mars (51)
48. Sanity - Hannah (58)
49. Someone Like You - Adele (73)
50. Rope - Foo Fighters (DEBUT)
51. Take Over Control - Afrojack f/Eva Simons (43)
52. Someone Else Calling You Baby - Luke Bryan (46)
53. Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not - Thompson Square (64)
54. Isolation - Alter Bridge (56)
55. I Need Love - DJ Yiannis f/Georgie Porgie (57)
56. Party Of The Year - Jipsta f/Sandy B (60)
57. I'm Doing Me - Fantasia (59)
58. This Is Country Music - Brad Paisley (62)
59. Sleepyhead - Passion Pit (63)
60. Stuck Like Glue - Sugarland (72)
61. Uncharted - Sara Bareilles (81)
62. Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (66)
63. Seek Bromance - Tim/Berg (71)
64. I Do - Colbie Caillat (78)
65. From A Table Away - Sunny Sweeney (67)
66. The Shape I'm In - Joe Nichols (70)
67. Naked - Consuelo Costin f/Massi & DeLeon (69)
68. Lay With You - El DeBarge f/Faith Evans (76)
69. Baby Likes To Bang - Zayra (65)
70. Stay The Night - James Blunt (74)
71. New Low - Middle Class Rut (77)
72. Never Gonna Leave This Bed - Maroon 5 (94)
73. A Little Bit Stronger - Sara Evans (83)
74. Heart Like Mine - Miranda Lambert (84)
75. Price Tag - Jessie J. f/B.o.B (82)
76. Family Man - Craig Campbell (80)
77. Howling For You - Black Keys (DEBUT)
78. I Won't Let Go - Rascal Flatts (98)
79. So Delicious - Salme f/Noa Tylo (DEBUT)
80. Bleed Red - Ronnie Dunn (DEBUT)
81. This Night - Mask Munkeys (86)
82. Twist Of Love - Kimberly Davis (DEBUT)
83. Real - James Wesley (85)
84. Georgia Clay - Josh Kelley (88)
85. Got That Feeling - Bad Boy Bill f/Eric Jag (DEBUT)
86. Diamond Eyes - Shinedown (DEBUT)
87. Yeah 3X - Chris Brown (90)
88. Where Do I Go From You - Clay Walker (92)
89. Coming Home - Diddy-Dirty Money f/Skylar Grey (89)
90. Freefallin' - Zoe Badwi (96)
91. Live A Little - Kenny Chesney (DEBUT)
92. My Body - Young The Giant (97)
93. Champion - Chipmunk f/Chris Brown (95)
94. Love Letter - R. Kelly (DEBUT)
95. Stay - Hurts (99)
96. Keep Your Head Up - Andy Grammer (DEBUT)
97. Sun Is Up - Inna (RE-ENTRY)
98. Celui - Colonel Reyel (100)
99. On The Floor - Jennifer Lopez f/Pitbull (DEBUT)
100. E.T. - Katy Perry f/Kanye West (DEBUT)

This week there are a dozen new songs on my list, and the highest is the latest to debut in the top half of the chart (all the debuts highlighted in yellow). It's the return of the Foo Fighters, the rock group led by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. Grohl and his mates have actually way outlived the legacy of his former band, with three Grammy Awards for best Rock Album under their belt, as well as 8 number-one alternative-rock hits, including two that made the pop top-20 ("Learn To Fly" and "Best Of You"). That number also includes their newest single, which also debuted at #1 on the US Rock Songs chart. They also make great videos, as proven by "Rope"...



Next up is the Black Keys, whose "Tighten Up" is so far one of my biggest songs of the year (in a couple weeks I'll recap the quarter-year so far), and their followup is a song they performed on Saturday Night Live awhile back. Here's "Howling For You", done up as the most hysterical movie promo ever (Sir Todd Bridges?)...



Salme (Dahlstrom) is a dance-music singer from Sweden who now resides in New York who before this year had a minor top-40 dance chart hit with "C'mon Y'All". Her newest is a collaboration with Noa Tylo, and it's "So Delicious" to have made that dance top-10...



Now for one half of the duo who have had twenty US country radio hits, Brooks & Dunn. Ronnie Dunn, along with partner Kix Brooks, came out of the box with their first single, "Brand New Man" reaching the top in 1991, and had their last in 2005 with "Play Something Country". After ten studio albums (which I have) and numerous other awesome hits, the boys 'broke' the group up, and Ronnie's first hit since that is "Bleed Red"...



Kimberly Davis was on the dance club charts (as well as my chart) last year with the track "Get Up", and she is back with another hit with "Twist Of Love"...



There are a lot of dance songs out of the dozen coming on my list (guess it's the joy of spring coming), and the next is by two underground dance DJs. Bad Boy Bill (aka William Renkosik) is from Chicago, and his brand of electro-house music has resulted in two #4 club hits (and hits on my list as well) with "Falling Anthem" and "Do What U Like". His latest teams Bill up with DJ Eric Jag for "Got That Feeling"...



Rock outfit Shinedown is back with the sixth single from the Deluxe Edition of their CD The Sound Of Madness, which also produced their top-10 pop hit "Second Chance". It's also from the appropriately-titled film The Expendables, and it's "Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)...



Kenny Chesney is another like Ronnie Dunn with a longstanding track record - a dozen hit studio albums, as well as nineteen #1 country hits from 1997's "She's Got It All" to this year's "Somewhere With You". The third single from his latest CD, Hemingway's Whiskey, is the upbeat "Live A Little"...



R. Kelly had his first #1 R&B hit (and top-40 pop hit)in 1992 with the group Public Annoucement with "Honey Love". After leaving the group after one album, Kelly had his first solo #1 pop and R&B hit with "Bump & Grind" a couple years later. One more #1 hit later ("I'm Your Angel" with Celine Dion", the first #1 hit since Billboard changed over to including real sales/airplay statistics), Kelly has been more famous being the baddest boy in soul music until Chris Brown came around. His latest CD is a welcome return to old-school R&B, and the second hit from that album is it's title track, "Love Letter"...



Andy Grammer has his first adult-pop hit with the positive "Keep Your Head Up"...



It's debatable that Jennifer Lopez is qualified to be a judge on singing competition American Idol, although the thin-voiced singer/dancer/actor/diva has scored four US #1 Pop hits - "If You Had My Love", "I'm Real", "Ain't It Funny", and "All I Have". And I admit, those records, produced as they are, are entertaining. And here we come to her latest, which plays to her dance (read: gay) base quite nicely. In full diva mode, J-Lo in "On The Floor"...



The final debut of the dozen is by Katy Perry, who so far has the biggest hit of the year with "Firework". Will it make #1 for the quarter-year? Stay tuned in a couple week. Meanwhile her latest hit features a cameo from Kanye West, and it's called "E.T."...



Spring ahead!