twostepcub's music chart for July 15, 2011...

Hey folks, this week flew by, but alas it's time for my top-100 tunes for the week. This week LMFAO are at #1 for a fourth week, while anti-hipster darlings Foster The People (pictured above) climb up within the top-10. Former big hits by Keith Urban, INXS, Colbie Caillat, Chris Brown, and 30 Seconds To Mars drop off my list, while tracks by Selena Gomez, The Band Perry, and Hot Chelle Rae make the biggest jumps (moves of 10+ places highlighted 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 for more goods on them. Expectum Patronus!

This Week Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)
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1. Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO (1)
2. The Edge Of Glory - Lady GaGa (6)
3. Price Tag - Jessie J f/B.o.B (3)
4. Rolling In The Deep - Adele (2)
5. You Lie - The Band Perry (5)
6. Mr. Saxobeat - Alexandra Stan (7)
7. Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People (9)
8. Country Song - Seether (4)
9. Mean - Taylor Swift (13)
10. Give Me Everything - Pitbull f/Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer (15)
11. Never Gonna Leave This Bed - Maroon 5 (10)
12. Good Life - OneRepublic (12)
13. Don't You Wanna Stay - Jason Aldean f/Kelly Clarkson (14)
14. The Lazy Song - Bruno Mars (16)
15. Fuckin' Perfect - Pink (11)
16. Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) - Katy Perry (26)
17. Rope - Foo Fighters (8)
18. Something To Believe In - Parachute (22)
19. Adolescents - Incubus (24)
20. Judas - Lady GaGa (20)
21. I Need A Dollar - Aloe Blacc (25)
22. For The First Time - The Script (18)
23. E.T. - Katy Perry f/Kanye West (21)
24. Just Can't Get Enough - Black Eyed Peas (28)
25. Tomorrow - Chris Young (29)
26. Save Me, San Francisco - Train (34)
27. Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall - Coldplay (35)
28. You Are A Tourist - Death Cab For Cutie (38)
29. Help Is On The Way - Rise Against (19)
30. Call Your Girlfriend - Robyn (30)
31. Fade - Kristine W. (23)
32. Mirrors - Natalia Kills (32)
33. Far Away - Marsha Ambrosius (27)
34. Country Girl (Shake It For Me) - Luke Bryan (36)
35. Keep Your Head Up - Andy Grammer (37)
36. Just A Kiss - Lady Antebellum (42)
37. Sweat - Snoop Dogg vs. David Guetta (17)
38. Save The World - Swedish House Mafia (62)
39. Till The World Ends - Britney Spears (39)
40. So In Love - Jill Scott f/Anthony Hamilton (55)
41. Fuck You (Forget You) - Cee-Lo Green (31)
42. Knee Deep - Zac Brown Band f/Jimmy Buffett (50)
43. World Keeps Turning - Sylvia Tosun (33)
44. Am I The Only One - Dierks Bentley (52)
45. Dirt Road Anthem - Jason Aldean f/Ludacris (49)
46. If I Die Young - The Band Perry (82)
47. Who Says - Selena Gomez & The Scene (87)
48. Hollywood Tonight - Michael Jackson (40)
49. If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away - Justin Moore (53)
50. Addiction - Medina (56)
51. Homeboy - Eric Church (61)
52. Tonight Tonight - Hot Chelle Rae (78)
53. Where Them Girls At - David Guetta f/Flo Rida & Nicki Minaj (67)
54. Born This Way - Lady GaGa (54)
55. You & Tequila - Kenny Chesney f/Grace Potter (69)
56. 4Evermore - Anthony David f/Algebra (60)
57. Changing - Airborne Toxic Event (58)
58. I'm Into You - Jennifer Lopez f/Lil' Wayne (71)
59. Move With It - Linnea (63)
60. We Own The Night - Andrea Rosario (64)
61. Run The World (Girls) - Beyonce (73)
62. Super Bass - Nicki Minaj (74)
63. On The Floor - Jennifer Lopez f/Pitbull (59)
64. Sing - My Chemical Romance (44)
65. Paris (Ooh La La) - Grace Potter & The Nocturnals (51)
66. Honey Bee - Blake Shelton (68)
67. Falling In - Lifehouse (57)
68. Catch A Fire - John LePage & Debby Holiday f/LFB (70)
69. Walk - Foo Fighters (DEBUT)
70. I Smile - Kirk Franklin (72)
71. Panic - Sublime With Rome (81)
72. Arms - Christina Perri (79)
73. Changed The Way You Kiss Me - Example (83)
74. Your Surrender - Neon Trees (75)
75. Riptide - Sick Puppies (77)
76. Not My Daddy - Eva (82)
77. I Wouldn't Be A Man - Josh Turner (80)
78. Barefoot Blue Jean Night - Jake Owen (88)
79. Set Fire To The Rain - Adele (93)
80. Crazy Girl - The Eli Young Band (90)
81. Faster - Matt Nathanson (85)
82. Remind Me - Brad Paisley f/Carrie Underwood (94)
83. See The New Hong Kong - Josie Cotton (DEBUT)
84. Lies Of The Beautiful People - Sixx:AM (86)
85. Just Fishin' - Trace Adkins (89)
86. Pieces Of Me - Ledisi (91)
87. Love Done Gone - Billy Currington (DEBUT)
88. (It) Feels So Good - Steven Tyler (92)
89. Don't Stop The Party - Black Eyed Peas (99)
90. California King Bed - Rihanna (97)
91. Bounce - Calvin Harris f/Kelis (95)
92. The A Team - Ed Sheeran (96)
93. Don't Wanna Go Home - Jason Derulo (DEBUT)
94. Love Don't Run - Steve Holy (DEBUT)
95. Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5 f/Christina Aguilera (DEBUT)
96. Vamos A La Playa - Loona (100)
97. Lost In You - Three Days Grace (RE-ENTRY)
98. Here For A Good Time - George Strait (DEBUT)
99. I Love You This Big - Scotty McCreery (DEBUT)
100. Sail - AWOLnation (DEBUT)

This week there are nine new songs on my list (highlighted in yellow), here they are along with some history and links to old hit videos in orange.

The top debut is by the Foo Fighters, who are still in my top-20 with "Rope", which has spent twenty weeks (its entire chart life) at #1 on Billboard's top Rock Songs list. That song was their 8th charttopper in the Alternative Rock genre, stretching back to "Learn To Fly" back in 1999. Dave Grohl is a master of picking the right director for his videos, and his latest doesn't disappoint. Here's the Falling Down-esque "Walk"...



Josie Cotton was a comic new wave singer from the 80's who's most well-known for the Valley Girl highlight "Johnny, Are You Queer". That song made VH1's list of the top-100 one-hit wonders, even though that song never hit the pop chart, while two others of hers had - the biggest being "He Could Be The One" in 1984. This year Josie sees a mini-revival since following a remake of "Johnny" scraping the dance charts earlier this year, her new single "See The New Hong Kong" makes it into the US dance club top-20...



Country hunk Billy Currington's last four radio singles made it to #1 on the country chart ("People Are Crazy", "That's How Country Boys Roll", "Pretty Good At Drinking Beer", and "Let Me Down Easy"). His latest has already climbed top-20, and it's a fun summer ditty that may go the distance. Here's "Love Done Gone"...



Jason Derulo topped the US pop chart in 2009 with "Whatcha Say", which sampled the electronica artist Imogen Heap's song "Hide And Seek" in the chorus. His newest single, the first from his upcoming sophomore CD, also cribs for its chorus, but this time goes back way farther, this time to the Harry Belafonte classic "Banana Boat Song (Day-O)" along with the beat from Robin S.'s "Show Me Love". One thing, Jason "Don't Wanna Go Home"...



Steve Holy has had ten top-40 country hits, but only two of them made the top-20. Mind, both those two went all the way to #1: "Good Morning Beautiful" in 2001, and "Brand New Girlfriend" five years later. I'm sure with those odds that Holy hope his latest climbs the 4 places into the top-20 with his latest, "Love Don't Run" (which happens to be five years after "BNG"...)



The Voice has done better for its mentors than its competitors - each of the four has had a top-20 song since its premiere (well, counting the fact that Cee-Lo Green already was riding high from "Fuck You"). Blake Shelton's Honey Bee is already a country #1, and now the two remaining judges pair off for a Voice-exclusive song that made the US pop top-10. Adam Levine's Maroon 5 have had 3 prior top-10ers, with one #1 ("Makes Me Wonder") to their credit. Christina has scored four pop #1s, though her last ("Lady Marmalade") was way back in 2001, two years before Maroon5's first single. The song that brings them both back is "Moves Like Jagger"...



Next up is the singer with the most #1 hits on the country chart ever, with 44 dating all the way back to 1982 with "Fool Hearted Memory" (which was from the Klaus Kinski movie The Soldier), to 2008's "River Of Love". Strait just turned 59, proving you don't have to be young to be "Here For A Good Time"....



This week sees the first appearance of this year's winner of American Idol, Scotty McCreery. I make no bones in admiting I'm done with Idol, between the stunt-casting of judges to the total mediocre talent pool they dredge up, to the teen-girl fanbase multivoting their neutered boycrushes to the top. And damn if McCreery doesn't look like a smug-ass Alfred B Neumann from Mad Magazine. But he did find his niche (hell, his EP is only sold at WALMART), and has a middling country chart hit so far to show from it. Here's "I Love You This Big"...



The last entry is far far from Idol-ness. AWOLnation is the latest band from Aaron Bruno, who last was seen fronting a band I adored a few years back, Under The Influence Of Giants, with their retro-70s track "Mama's Room". Bruno's latest endeavor completely goes alt-rock with the screech non-rhythmic burner, "Sail"...



Next up tomorrow, Potter!