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

Hey everyone, I'm busy workin' the nightshift, and it's time for my top-100 tunes for the week. This week Adele spends an amazing seventh week at #1 with "Someone Like You", surpassing the six-week reign of "Rolling In The Deep", while David Guetta and Usher (pictured above) make it into the top-5 in its fourth week on my list. Former big hits by Keith Urban, Matt Nathanson, and Coldplay drop off my list, while singles by the Fray, Luke Bryan, and Bruno Mars make the biggest leaps (moves of 10+ places highlighted in red). Link-O-Rama is still in full effect, so you can click on any of the highlighted artist names to go to their official website for more info about them. Boy Boy, Crazy Boy...

This Week Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)
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1. Someone Like You - Adele (1)
2. Nothing - The Script (2)
3. Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie - Red Hot Chili Peppers (3)
4. Without You - David Guetta f/Usher (8)
5. You & I - Lady GaGa (6)
6. Mr. Know It All - Kelly Clarkson (10)
7. Walk - Foo Fighters (5)
8. The Sound Of Winter - Bush (9)
9. Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People (4)
10. God Gave Me You - Blake Shelton (12)
11. We Found Love - Rihanna f/Calvin Harris (21)
12. Baggage Claim - Miranda Lambert (15)
13. Not Over You - Gavin DeGraw (7)
14. Crawling Back To You - Daughtry (18)
15. Moves Like Jagger - Maroon5 f/Christina Aguilera (13)
16. Brighter Than The Sun - Colbie Caillat (11)
17. Sexy And I Know It - LMFAO (29)
18. We Owned The Night - Lady Antebellum (24)
19. Loca People - Sak Noel (19)
20. In The Dark - Dev (20)
21. Just A Kiss - Lady Antebellum (16)
22. Sparks Fly - Taylor Swift (22)
23. So In Love - Jill Scott f/Anthony Hamilton (17)
24. I Got You - Thompson Square (26)
25. Crazy Girl - The Eli Young Band (25)
26. Tonight Tonight - Hot Chelle Rae (14)
27. You Make Me Feel... - Cobra Starship f/Sabi (30)
28. Don't Hold Your Breath - Nicole Scherzinger (33)
29. Paradise - Coldplay (43)
30. Papi - Jennifer Lopez (35)
31. In The Air - Morgan Page f/Sultan & Ned Shepard, BT, & Angela McCluskey (37)
32. Stereo Hearts - Gym Class Heroes f/Adam Levine (39)
33. Wepa - Gloria Estefan (23)
34. Life Of The Party - Charlie Wilson (34)
35. It Girl - Jason Derulo (45)
36. Show Me - Jessica Sutta (40)
37. When We Stand Together - Nickelback (49)
38. Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO (31)
39. Save The World - Swedish House Mafia (32)
40. Let It Rain - David Nail (41)
41. Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) - Katy Perry (27)
42. Little Bad Girl - David Guetta f/Taio Cruz & Ludacris (28)
43. Floor On Fire - Taylor Dayne (51)
44. Keep Me In Mind - The Zac Brown Band (58)
45. Tonight - Seether (55)
46. Elle Me Dit - Mika (38)
47. One More Drinking Song - Jerrod Niemann (48)
48. Easy - Rascal Flatts f/Natasha Bedingfield (54)
49. Make It Stop (September's Children) - Rise Against (50)
50. All Your Life - The Band Perry (62)
51. Good Life - OneRepublic (46)
52. Cough Syrup - Young The Giant (64)
53. If I Die Young - The Band Perry (47)
54. Fool For You - Cee-Lo Green f/Melanie Fiona or Philip Bailey (66)
55. Tattoos On This Town - Jason Aldean (65)
56. Cinema - Benny Benassi f/Gary Go (56)
57. Jet Lag - Simple Plan f/Natasha Bedingfield (61)
58. Up All Night - Blink-182 (36)
59. Collide - Leona Lewis f/Avicii (44)
60. Heart Skips A Beat - Olly Murs f/Rizzle Kicks (60)
61. Here For A Good Time - George Strait (57)
62. It Will Rain - Bruno Mars (79)
63. Give Me Everything - Pitbull f/Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer (59)
64. Love Slayer - Joe Jonas (72)
65. Heartbeat - The Fray (85)
66. Bring It Back - Global Deejays (81)
67. Not Again - Staind (68)
68. All About Tonight - Pixie Lott (70)
69. Kiss Me Slowly - Parachute (77)
70. Mediate - INXS f/Tricky (71)
71. Country Must Be Countrywide - Brantley Gilbert (76)
72. If It's Love - Kem f/Chrisette Michele (73)
73. Heaven - O.A.R. (74)
74. Drink In My Hand - Eric Church (84)
75. New Age - Marlon Roudette (75)
76. Pressure - Nadia Ali f/Starkillers & Alex Kenji (78)
77. The One That Got Away - Katy Perry (DEBUT)
78. I Don't Want This Night To End - Luke Bryan (98)
79. Love You Like A Love Song - Selena Gomez & The Scene (DEBUT)
80. Cost Of Livin' - Ronnie Dunn (80)
81. Invisible - Skylar Grey (DEBUT)
82. Reality - Kenny Chesney (DEBUT)
83. Rain - C&C Music Factory (DEBUT)
84. Skyscraper - Demi Lovato (88)
85. Helena Beat - Foster The People (86)
86. I Got Nothin' - Darius Rucker (90)
87. Stay - Tyrese (95)
88. Rain Over Me - Pitbull f/Marc Anthony (89)
89. Storm Warning - Hunter Hayes (91)
90. Lightning - The Wanted (97)
91. Read All About It - Professor Green f/Emeli Sande (DEBUT)
92. Bottoms Up - Nickelback (100)
93. Got 2 Luv U - Sean Paul f/Alexis Jordan (94)
94. Face On The Floor - Chevelle (DEBUT)
95. 1,000 Ships - Rachel Platten (99)
96. Lights - Ellie Goulding (DEBUT)
97. Take A Back Road - Rodney Atkins (93)
98. Earthquake - Labrinth f/Tinie Tempah (DEBUT)
99. Out Of My Head - Theory Of A Deadman (DEBUT)
100. Amen - Edens Edge (DEBUT)

There are eleven new songs on my list (highlighted in yellow), and here they are, along with a little about the artists with links to clips of their earlier hits in orange.

The highest entry this week is the seventh "single" from Katy Perry's blockbuster Teenage Dream. All five of those promoted to radio became #1 hits (the "sixth", "Peacock" was really only promoted in the dance clubs, and became a charttopper in its own right there. In fact, the lead single "California Gurls" was released a year and a half ago! Four also made the top on my chart (CG, "Teenage Dream", "Firework", and the still-charting "Last Friday Night"). If her latest makes #1, she'll pass Michael Jackson's Bad to have the most #1's from a single album. SHe ups the ante with an epic video for "The One That Got Away"...



Selena Gomez & the Scene follow up their #1 dance/top 40 pop hit "Who Says" with the 80's-nostalgic "Love You Like A Love Song"...



Holly Brook Hafermann started her career recording under her first and middle names, even scoring a US top-5 pop hit with "Where'd You Go" supporting Linkin Park side-project Fort Minor. After changing her stage name to Skylar Grey, her stock catapulted after co-writing Eminem and Rihanna's "Love The Way You Lie" as well as co-writing and singing on Diddy-Dirty Money's "Coming Home" and Dr. Dre's "I Need A Doctor". Her first successful solo single is charting the highest in the dance clubs courtesy of a remix, and it's "Invisible" (here in the original version)...



Every one of Kenny Chesney's non-Christmas CDs since the new millennium have reach the pinnacle of the Country Album chart, and his latest, Hemingway's Whiskey, brings out its fifth single with "Reality", hoping to add to his #1 single count which includes faves "How Forever Feels" and "There Goes My Life"...



Possibly the best dance record made in the early 90's, C&C Music Factory's "Gonna Make You Sweat" is one of those songs that defies the current rule of "all fast, all the time" dance music, which could explain its timelessness. Also a giant pop hit, Robert Clivilles and David Cole followed that up with two more top-5 pop hits, "Here We Go (Let's Rock & Roll)" and "Things That Makes You Go Hmmm...". After rapper Freedom Williams didn't return for their second CD, the collective grazed the top-40 only one more time with "Do You Wanna Get Funky" before founding member (and "C") David Cole passed on from AIDS-related spinal meningitis in 1995. Musical partner Rob Clivilles continued remixing and releasing records, and in the last year revived the "C&C" brand with French DJ Eric Kupper and have a dance hit again with vocals by Scarlett Santana on "Rain"...



British rap artist Professor Green had two big hit singles in the UK with remakes of INXS' "I Need You Tonight" and the SOS Band's "Just Be Good To Green (Me)" with the awesome Lily Allen. He's back going the full Eminem "Love The Way You Lie" with a track featuring Scottish singer Emeli Sande, who placed on my list (and the UK #2 position) with "Heaven". Here they are together on "Read All About It"...



Alt-metal group Chevelle hail from the northern suburbs of Chicago, and they can boast two #1 mainstream rock hits with "Send The Pain Below" and "Vitamin R". The group is back with "Face To The Floor"...



The winner of last year's BRIT awards "Critics' Choice", Ellie Goulding has put out six singles from her debut album, Lights, including two top-5 hits with "Starry Eyed" and her remake of Elton John's "Your Song" which made my list as well. Her latest is getting a push on American adult pop radio, and it's the title track from a very highly recommended CD. Here's "Lights"...



English singer-songwriter Labrinth (nee' Timothy McKenzie) made his name backing up rapper Tinie Tempah on that artist's for two massive singles "Pass Out" and "Frisky". His first lead-artist hit, "Let The Sun Shine", made the top-3, as did his newest, featuring Tempah, "Earthquake"...



Canadian jockrockers Theory Of A Deadman follow their rockin' track "Lowlife" with the more subdued "Out Of My Head"...



The final debut of by new country trio Edens Edge from Arkansas, with their debut single which has slowburned up the sountry singles chart for the past 30+ weeks with "Amen"...



Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!