twostepcub's music chart for September 2, 2011...

Hey folks, I'm still at home recouping and figured it's time for my top-100 tunes for the week. This week Katy Perry spends a fourth week on top, while teenbopper idols Hot Chelle Rae (pictured above) sneak into the top-10. Former big hits by Alex Gaudino, Chris Young, Jennifer Lopez, Foo Fighters, Jason Aldean, and Britney Spears drop out, while tracks by Blink-182, Blush, and Colbie Caillat make the biggest jumps (songs that move 10+ places highlighted in red). Link-O-Rama is still in effect, so you can click on any of the 100+ artists below highlighted to go to their official website for more info, music, videos, tour info, you name it. Don't make me laugh! Please!

This Week Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)
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1. Last Night (T.G.I.F.) - Katy Perry (1)
2. Save The World - Swedish House Mafia (3)
3. Walk - Foo Fighters (4)
4. Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO (2)
5. Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love) - Kylie Minogue (6)
6. Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall - Coldplay (8)
7. If I Die Young - The Band Perry (9)
8. The Edge Of Glory - Lady GaGa (5)
9. Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People (7)
10. Tonight Tonight - Hot Chelle Rae (11)
11. Best Thing I Never Had - Beyonce (16)
12. Save Me, San Francisco - Train (12)
13. Good Life - OneRepublic (10)
14. Super Bass - Nicki Minaj (18)
15. Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5 f/Christina Aguilera (21)
16. Knee Deep - Zac Brown Band f/Jimmy Buffett (14)
17. Rolling In The Deep - Adele (15)
18. Just A Kiss - Lady Antebellum (23)
19. Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie - Red Hot Chili Peppers (29)
20. So In Love - Jill Scott f/Anthony Hamilton (22)
21. Give Me Everything - Pitbull f/Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer (13)
22. Country Girl (Shake It For Me) - Luke Bryan (24)
23. Am I The Only One - Dierks Bentley (25)
24. Set Fire To The Rain - Adele (26)
25. Mr. Saxobeat - Alexandra Stan (17)
26. Keep Your Head Up - Andy Grammer (19)
27. You & Tequila - Kenny Chesney f/Grace Potter (28)
28. Don't You Wanna Stay - Jason Aldean f/Kelly Clarkson (20)
29. Till Death - Wynter Gordon (30)
30. Dirty Dancer - Enrique Iglesias f/Usher & Lil' Wayne (34)
31. Someone Like You - Adele (38)
32. Faster - Matt Nathanson (44)
33. Barefoot Blue Jean Night - Jake Owen (43)
34. Freak Of Nature (Mas) - Ricky Martin (36)
35. Don't Wanna Go Home - Jason Derulo (35)
36. Nothing - The Script (48)
37. The Lazy Song - Bruno Mars (27)
38. Arms - Christina Perri (39)
39. California King Bed - Rihanna (49)
40. Long Hot Summer - Keith Urban (46)
41. Pieces Of Me - Ledisi (45)
42. Love Done Gone - Billy Currington (51)
43. Country Song - Seether (31)
44. All That You Are - Goo Goo Dolls (56)
45. Price Tag - Jessie J f/B.o.B (33)
46. Remind Me - Brad Paisley f/Carrie Underwood (52)
47. Just Can't Get Enough - Black Eyed Peas (32)
48. Who Says - Selena Gomez & The Scene (40)
49. Not Over You - Gavin DeGraw (59)
50. Talking To The Universe - Yoko Ono (58)
51. Here For A Good Time - George Strait (54)
52. Where Them Girls At - David Guetta f/Flo Rida & Nicki Minaj (42)
53. Brighter Than The Sun - Colbie Caillat (71)
54. Up All Night - Blink-182 (75)
55. Panic - Sublime With Rome (50)
56. Crazy Girl - Eli Young Band (61)
57. Behind The Wheel 2011 - Depeche Mode (DEBUT)
58. Man Down - Rihanna (68)
59. Take A Back Road - Rodney Atkins (66)
60. I Smile - Kirk Franklin (60)
61. Hey Mama - Mat Kearney (63)
62. Worldwide - Roger Sanchez (62)
63. I Wanna Go - Britney Spears (76)
64. Lost In You - Three Days Grace (69)
65. Just Fishin' - Trace Adkins (67)
66. Lowlife - Theory Of A Deadman (DEBUT)
67. Undivided - Blush f/Snoop Dogg (87)
68. If It Isn't Love - Kem f/Chrisette Michele (72)
69. Glad You Came - The Wanted (73)
70. God Gave Me You - Blake Shelton (82)
71. Little Bad Girl - David Guetta f/Taio Cruz & Ludacris (86)
72. I Got You - Thompson Square (84)
73. She Makes Me Wanna - JLS f/Dev (83)
74. Right There - Nicole Scherzinger f/50 Cent (RE-ENTRY)
75. Love Don't Run - Steve Holy (79)
76. So Far Away - Avenged Sevenfold (78)
77. Danza Kuduro - Don Omar f/Lucenzo (92)
78. Let It Rain - David Nail (90)
79. Loud Music - Michelle Branch (85)
80. I Love You This Big - Scotty McCreery (81)
81. Sunset In July - 311 (88)
82. Sail - AWOLnation (RE-ENTRY)
83. Cinema - Benny Benassi f/Gary Go (93)
84. Make It Stop (September's Children) - Rise Against (DEBUT)
85. Welcome To St. Tropez - DJ Antoine vs Timati f/Kalenna (DEBUT)
86. One More Drinking Song - Jerrod Niemann (DEBUT)
87. Sparks Fly - Taylor Swift (DEBUT)
88. Not Again - Staind (DEBUT)
89. Stand - Lenny Kravitz (91)
90. Nur Noch Kurz Die Welt Retten - Tim Bendzko (94)
91. Heaven - Emeli Sande (DEBUT)
92. French Can Can (Monsieur Sainte Nitouche) - Inna Modja (DEBUT)
93. Made In America - Toby Keith (95)
94. Life Of The Party - Charlie Wilson (99)
95. Lighters - Bad Meets Evil f/Bruno Mars (97)
96. Sun Is Up - Inna (RE-ENTRY)
97. Promises - Nero (DEBUT)
98. Raise Your Weapon - Deadmau5 (DEBUT)
99. Country Must Be Countrywide - Brantley Gilbert (DEBUT)
100. Swagga Jagga - Cher Lloyd (100)

This week sees a big turnaround, with a dozen new songs (highlighted in yellow) and three re-entries on my list. Here are the debuts, with a little about the artists and links to their previous hits in orange.

The highest new, well, not-so new song is by my all-time favorite music group, Depeche Mode. Formed in the late 70s in the southeast English town of Basildon, the proto-newwavers first hit the top-10 in their homeland in 1981 with the classic "Just Can't Get Enough", written by then-member Vince Clarke (who later left to go on to forming Yaz and Erasure). Although extremely successful in the UK, the boys didn't get their big American break until 1990, and the US top-10 "Enjoy The Silence". This past year, the group released a collection of remixes of their hits, including this nugget off the Music For The Masses album. The original single version merged the song with the oldie "Route 66", but this year sees "Behind The Wheel 2011" remixed by none other than Vince Clarke...



Canadian rock outfit Theory Of A Deadman fill the void between Nickelback CDs with the first single from their latest CD, The Truth Is... Mind, their last CD charted eight songs on various charts, including the rock #1 stripper-anthem "Bad Girlfriend" and the #4 adult-pop "Not Meant To Be". Here's their white-trashy clip featuring actor Donal Logue, "Lowlife"...



After spending over a year on the Billboard rock chart with "Savior" in 2009, Chicagoans Rise Against had their highest-charting rock hit earlier this year with the New Orleans homage "Help Is On The Way", and now follow it up with a track with a video dealing with sexual identity, bullying, and suicide in an amazingly frank and honest way. Here's "Make It Stop (September's Children)"...



Next up is Swiss DJ Antoine (Konrad), who is based in the town of Basel, where the countries of Switzerland, France, and Germany meet. Two years ago he scored a global dance hit that found play on some US club stations, "Underneath". This time he goes on vacation, with a little help from Russian rapper Tamati and American singer Kalenna, who is 1/2 of Sean Combs' latest project Diddy-Dirty Money, who placed their biggest hit this year with "Coming Home". Their collaboration has made the top-10 in all three of his hometown's bordering countries, as well as Austria, and it's "Welcome To St. Tropez"...



Country singer Jerrod Niemann has his third hit following the #1 "Lover, Lover" and top-5 "What Do you Want" with a song I can really relate to right now, "One More Drinkin' Song"...



Taylor Swift's latest CD, Speak Now, has put five previous songs on my list, including "Mine" and "Mean" that both peaked in the runner-up spot on Billboard's Country chart. "Sparks Fly" makes her sixth, and it includes footage from her latest concert tour.



Massachussetts rock band Staind have scored four number-one hits on either the mainstream or alternative rock charts, including two that did both, the also-pop-top-5 "It's Been Awhile" in 2001 and "So Far Away" two years later. Aaron Lewis and the guys are back (with a new drummer) for "Not Again"...



After being the featured vocalist on two UK top-10 hits by rap artists, "Diamond Rings" with Chipmunk and "Never Be Your Woman" with Wiley Scottish electronica artist Emeli Sande has her first lead-act UK top-10 hit with "Heaven"...



There are two "Inna"'s on my list this week, and the first is Inna Modja from the West African country of Mali, the site of the original "Timbuktu". Her first hit is a top-5 smash in France, and is a half-English, half-French slice of retro heaven. Here's "French Cancan (Monsieur Sante Nitouche)"



London electronica duo Nero have had a good year - they've already had two UK top-20 hits with "Me and You" and "Guilt" (which made #8 a couple months ago). Now they can boast both a #1 CD in Britain and their first #1, "Promises"...



Joel Zimmerman, a.k.a. Deadmau5, was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, which I can imagine would be a wonderful place visually to be a child in. He's had three #1 dance airplay hits in the US, "Move For Me" and "I Remember" (with Kaskade), and "Ghosts N Stuff". He is back with "Raise Your Weapon"...



The last new song is by country singer-songwriter Brantley Gilbert, who co-wrote Jason Aldean's #1 country hit (and top-10 pop hit) "Dirt Road Anthem". His latest CD Halfway To Heaven includes his original version with country-rapper Colt Ford, as well as his first hit of his own, "Country Must Be Countrywide"...



Three songs also re-enter my list, starting with a track that grazed my chart for one week when it was a British top-3 hit. Now it's become her first US top-40 as a lead act, and it's ex-Pussycat Doll and future X-Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger with "Right There" with rapper 50 Cent...



Eclectic rock outfir AWOLnation returns with "Sail"...



and finally, returning for a third run is Romanian dance artist Inna (yes, the other Inna) with "Sun Is Up"...



Happy Labor Day, everyone!