twostepcub's music chart for August 12, 2011...

Hey folks, it's been a week on the picket line, but taking a break today for my top-100 unemployed tunes for the week. This week Katy Perry takes over the top spot, while the dance trio Swedish House Mafia (pictured above) make the biggest move in the top-10. Songs by Maroon5, Kylie Minogue, and Ricky Martin make the biggest jumpes (moves of 10+ places highlighted in red), while former big hits by Incubus, Parachute, Robyn, and Lifehouse drop out. Link-O-Rama is still in effect, so you can click on the highlighted names of any of the artists to go to their website for more info on them (right-click, and you can use a different tab or window). Who's the road cone now?

This Week Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)
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1. Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) - Katy Perry (3)
2. Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO (2)
3. The Edge Of Glory - Lady GaGa (1)
4. Give Me Everything - Pitbull f/Ne-Yo, Afrojack, & Nayer (4)
5. Good Life - OneRepublic (7)
6. Save The World - Swedish House Mafia (10)
7. Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People (5)
8. Don't You Wanna Stay - Jason Aldean f/Kelly Clarkson (8)
9. Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall - Coldplay (9)
10. Rolling In The Deep - Adele (6)
11. Walk - Foo Fighters (15)
12. The Lazy Song - Bruno Mars (12)
13. Mr. Saxobeat - Alexandra Stan (11)
14. Save Me, San Francisco - Train (16)
15. Price Tag - Jessie J f/B.o.B (13)
16. Country Song - Seether (14)
17. Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love) - Kylie Minogue (37)
18. Knee Deep - Zac Brown Band f/Jimmy Buffett (26)
19. Tomorrow - Chris Young (19)
20. Just Can't Get Enough - Black Eyed Peas (20)
21. If I Die Young - The Band Perry (28)
22. Never Gonna Leave This Bed - Maroon 5 (18)
23. Keep Your Head Up - Andy Grammer (25)
24. Tonight Tonight - Hot Chelle Rae (32)
25. So In Love - Jill Scott f/Anthony Hamilton (27)
26. Super Bass - Nicki Minaj (36)
27. Just A Kiss - Lady Antebellum (31)
28. Country Gill (Shake It For Me) - Luke Bryan (29)
29. Best Thing I Never Had - Beyonce (41)
30. Who Says - Selena Gomez & The Scene (30)
31. Set Fire To The Rain - Adele (39)
32. Am I The Only One - Dierks Bentley (34)
33. Dirt Road Anthem - Jason Aldean f/Kelly Clarkson (33)
34. You Are A Tourist - Death Cab For Cutie (24)
35. Till Death - Wynter Gordon (42)
36. You & Tequila - Kenny Chesney f/Grace Potter (40)
37. I'm Into You - Jennifer Lopez f/Lil' Wayne (38)
38. Don't Wanna Go Home - Jason Derulo (43)
39. Judas - Lady GaGa (23)
40. Rope - Foo Fighters (21)
41. Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5 f/Christina Aguilera (67)
42. Where Them Girls At - David Guetta f/Flo Rida & Nicki Minaj (44)
43. Dirty Dancer - Enrique Iglesias f/Usher & Lil' Wayne (59)
44. Addiction - Medina (45)
45. Homeboy - Eric Church (47)
46. Barefoot Blue Jean Night - Jake Owen (51)
47. Arms - Christina Perri (52)
48. Freak Of Nature (Mas) - Ricky Martin (68)
49. Pieces Of Me - Ledisi (54)
50. Changing - Airborne Toxic Event (50)
51. Faster - Matt Nathanson (61)
52. Far Away - Marsha Ambrosius (48)
53. Fuckin' Perfect - Pink (49)
54. What A Feeling - Alex Gaudino f/Kelly Rowland (69)
55. Panic - Sublime With Rome (56)
56. Love Done Gone - Billy Currington (58)
57. Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie - Red Hot Chili Peppers (DEBUT)
58. Remind Me - Brad Paisley f/Carrie Underwood (66)
59. Till The World Ends - Britney Spears (53)
60. Run The World (Girls) - Beyonce (55)
61. E.T. - Katy Perry f/Kanye West (46)
62. Honey Bee - Blake Shelton (60)
63. I Smile - Kirk Franklin (64)
64. Here For A Good Time - George Strait (74)
65. Your Surrender - Neon Trees (65)
66. Long Hot Summer - Keith Urban (78)
67. If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away - Justin Moore (57)
68. Worldwide - Roger Sanchez (73)
69. Hey Mama - Mat Kearney (81)
70. Crazy Girl - Eli Young Band (70)
71. Just Fishin' - Trace Adkins (75)
72. Lies Of The Beautiful People - Sixx:AM (72)
73. Lost In You - Three Days Grace (77)
74. Take A Back Road - Rodney Atkins (79)
75. California King Bed - Rihanna (76)
76. The A Team - Ed Sheeran (86)
77. All That You Are - Goo Goo Dolls (95)
78. (It) Feels So Good - Steve Tyler (80)
79. Don't Stop The Party - Black Eyed Peas (83)
80. Love Don't Run - Steve Holy (82)
81. If It's Love - Kem f/Chrisette Michele (91)
82. Glad You Came - The Wanted (92)
83. Man Down - Rihanna (87)
84. The Last Goodbye - David Cook (84)
85. Louder - DJ Fresh f/Sian Evans (89)
86. So Far Away - Avenged Sevenfold (96)
87. I Love You This Big - Scotty McCreery (88)
88. Sun & Moon - Above & Beyond f/Richard Belford (94)
89. Not Over You - Gavin DeGraw (DEBUT)
90. Young Blood - The Naked & Famous (DEBUT)
91. True Love - George Acosta (DEBUT)
92. How We Roll - Loick Essien (93)
93. Brighter Than The Sun - Colbie Caillat (DEBUT)
94. I Wanna Go - Britney Spears (DEBUT)
95. The Story Of Us - Taylor Swift (DEBUT)
96. Made In America - Toby Keith (100)
97. Love How It Hurts - Scouting For Girls (DEBUT)
98. Pretty Ugly - Yenn (98)
99. Let It Rain - David Nail (DEBUT)
100. Loud Music - Michelle Branch (DEBUT)

There are ten new songs on my list (highlighted in yellow), and here they are, along with links to the artists' previous hits in orange.

The debut making the biggest splash marks the return of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the seminal alt-rock band from southern California. After releasing their first record in 1984, the band enjoyed five years of underground success before truly breaking through in 1991 with the CD Blood Sugar Sex Magik and the big hit "Under The Bridge". The group scored two more top-10 pop hits with "Scar Tissue" and "Dani California". Five years since their last album, the boys (minus John Frusciante, who left amicably), are back with a track heralding their forthcoming work I'm With You. Here's "The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie" (well, the 'audio' clip, the official video will premiere August 17 evening)...



Singer-songwriter Gavin Degraw is recovering from an assault in New York City a week ago, and I wish him a speedy recovery. In the meantime, he enters with a new song that hopes to surpass the top-10 pop placing of his 2004 hit "I Don't Want To Be". Here's "Not Over You"...



Next up is the Naked and Famous, a rock band from Auckland, New Zealand, with their first hit which was a charttopper in their homeland. From their Passive Me, Agressive You CD, here's "Young Blood"...



DJ George Acosta from Miami grazed the bottom of the dance sales charts with a remake of New Order's "Blue Monday" back in 2005, and now brings his own trance composition to the club play charts with some vocal help from Fisher on "True Love"....



Soft-rock singer and Jennifer Aniston doppelganger Colbie Caillat has had her biggest success so far with her first single, the top-5 pop and #1 adult contemporary hit "Bubbly". Her latest, just in time for the summer, is "Brighter Than The Sun"...



With "I Wanna Go", Britney Spears has racked up three top-10 hits from one album for the first time in her career. One the those, "Hold it Against Me", was her fourth #1 pop hit, amazing since three of those came after her much-publicized meltdown (the other? Her first single, "Baby One More Time") . Goes to show a little crazy in this country these days can spur some business...



Taylor Swift bested Britney with six top-40 singles so far from her latest CD, including the hits "Mine", "Back To December", and the title track "Speak Now". In fact, fourteen songs all made the top-100, including this #41 hit, which is finding a hope not on country radio but on adult pop, here's "The Story Of Us"...



British band Scouting for Girls had their biggest hit in England last year with the amazing "This Ain't A Love Song", a tune I was certain was to become a smash here in the states, like Kings Of Leon's "Use Somebody". Oh well, you can't get 'em all right. Their latest comes from the same record, and it's "Love How It Hurts", and it's just as epic...



Country hunk David Nail follows up his top-10 hit "Red Light" and top-20 "Turning Home" with his first single from his sophomore CD, here's "Let It Rain"...



The final debut is by Michelle Branch who is back to a solo career after a stint in the country duo the Wreckers and a #1 country hit with "Leave The Pieces". Her best showing on her own has been with the pop top-10 hit "All I Wanted", though she supported Santana on the top-5 "The Game Of Love". Her latest also has her playing some "Loud Music"...



Solidarity!