twostepcubchart for April 20, 2012...

Hey folks, time for my top-100 tunes for the week. This week Gotye and Kimbra spend a seventh week at #1, while Adele (pictured above) now has two songs in the top-5. Nicki Minaj has the only track moving at least ten places, while former big hits by Gavin DeGraw and Havana Brown drop out. Link-O-Rama is still in effect, so you can click on any of the highlighted artist names to go to their website (now thanks to Blogger it'll automatically go to a new window. Yay!)

This Week       Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)
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1. Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye f/Kimbra (1)
2. We Are Young - fun. (2)
3. Set Fire To The Rain - Adele (3)
4. I Won't Give Up - Jason Mraz (5)
5. Rumour Has It - Adele (13)
6. Turn Me On - David Guetta f/Nicki Minaj (4)
7. Glad You Came - The Wanted (11)
8. Bully - Shinedown (10)
9. Domino - Jessie J (6)
10. Part Of Me - Katy Perry (12)
11. Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) - Kelly Clarkson (7)
12. Drive By - Train (8)
13. Love On Top - Beyonce (9)
14. Alone With You - Jake Owen (14)
15. Feel So Close - Calvin Harris (15)
16. Wild Ones - Flo Rida f/Sia (21)
17. Levels - Avicii (17)
18. Give Me All Your Luvin' - Madonna f/Nicki Minaj & MIA (22)
19. Lonely Boy - Black Keys (16)
20. Titanium - David Guetta f/Sia (18)
21. A Woman Like You - Lee Brice (26)
22. These Days - Foo Fighters (20)
23. Ours - Taylor Swift (19)
24. Tonight Is The Night - Outasight (30)
25. Run - Matt Nathanson f/Sugarland (29)
26. A Thousand Years - Christina Perri (28)
27. It Will Rain - Bruno Mars (23)
28. Paradise - Coldplay (24)
29. International Love - Pitbull f/Chris Brown (33)
30. Ai Se Eu Te Pego - Michel Telo (31)
31. We Found Love - Rihanna f/Calvin Harris (27)
32. Dancing Away With My Heart - Lady Antebellum (36)
33. Don't Stop (Color On The Walls) - Foster The People (25)
34. Respect - Melanie Amaro (38)
35. Not Your Fault - AWOLnation (35)
36. Love You Like A Love Song - Selena Gomez & The Scene (32)
37. Over You - Miranda Lambert (43)
38. Fine By Me - Andy Grammer (40)
39. Good Feeling - Flo Rida (39)
40. Banjo - Rascal Flatts (44)
41. Starships - Nicki Minaj (51)
42. Naked - Dev & Enrique Iglesias (46)
43. Next To Me - Emeli Sande (45)
44. Drink on It - Blake Shelton (48)
45. Face To The Floor - Chevelle (41)
46. Love After War - Robin Thicke (34)
47. Good Girl - Carrie Underwood (54)
48. Better Than I Used To Be - Tim McGraw (50)
49. No Hurry - The Zac Brown Band (53)
50. Gold On The Ceiling - Black Keys (58)
51. Thank You - Estelle (56)
52. Lullaby - Nickelback (52)
53. She Gets Down On Her Knees - Yoko Ono (57)
54. Girl Gone Wild - Madonna (DEBUT)
55. R.E.S.P..E.C.T. - RLP & Barbara Tucker f/Lil' Jon (55)
56. Better Than I Know Myself - Adam Lambert (60)
57. Woo - Anthony Hamilton (59)
58. Tongue Tied - Grouplove (64)
59. F U Betta - Neon Hitch (47)
60. Shadow Days - John Mayer (62)
61. Cough Syrup - Young The Giant (61)
62. The One That Got Away - Katy Perry (49)
63. Never Forget - Dave Aude f/Lena Katina (67)
64. Changed The Way You Kiss Me - Example (68)
65. Satellite - Rise Against (65)
66. Wild One Too - Jack Back f/David Guetta, Nicky Romero & Sia (DEBUT)
67. Even If It Breaks Your Heart - Eli Young Band (72)
68. Midnight City - M83 (74)
69. Charlie Brown - Coldplay (69)
70. Be Your Freak - Kenny Dope f/Josh Milan (71)
71. Fly Over States - Jason Aldean (76)
72. What Makes You Beautiful - One Direction (RE-ENTRY)
73. If You Ever Come Back - The Script (80)
74. You Don't Know Her Like I Do - Brantley Gilbert (78)
75. A Simple Song - The Shins (77)
76. Eyes Open - Taylor Swift (DEBUT)
77. Watching You Watch Him - Eric Hutchinson (82)
78. Surrender - Paul Oakenfold (66)
79. Oh My Goodness - Olly Murs (DEBUT)
80. Got My Country On - Chris Cagle (84)
81. Springsteen - Eric Church (88)
82. Drunk On You - Luke Bryan (DEBUT)
83. Ships In The Night - Mat Kearney (89)
84. Alone Again - Alyssa Reid f/Jump Smokers (86)
85. Where I Come From - Montgomery Gentry (85)
86. Rock The Boat - Bob Sinclar f/Pitbull (92)
87. This Ole Boy - Craig Morgan (91)
88. Sexy & I Know It - LMFAO (73)
89. Heart Skips A Beat - Olly Murs f/Rizzle Kicks (93)
90. Somethin' 'Bout A Truck - Kip Moore (90)
91. Time Is Love - Josh Turner (DEBUT)
92. Let's Don't Call It A Night - Casey James (94)
93. She Doesn't Mind - Sean Paul (97)
94. Insomnia - L2 (96)
95. Beekeeper's Daughter - All-American Rejects (DEBUT)
96. Paso (The Nini Anthem) - Sak Noel (DEBUT)
97. Remember Everything - Five Finger Death Punch (98)
98. Turn Up The Music - Chris Brown (DEBUT)
99. Favorite Song - Colbie Caillat f/Common (DEBUT)
100. Boyfriend - Justin Bieber (DEBUT)

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

The highest debut belongs to Madonna, who has her eighth #1 album with her latest, MDNA, and her last single, "Give Me All Your Luvin'", made the pop Top-10, tying with Elvis Presley for the record of most top-10 hits in the rock era (also tying the Beatles for third-place for most top-40 pop hits).The followup is the bouncy "Girl Gone Wild" complete with a video borrowing ideas from "Vogue" and "Justify My Love"...

The Flo Rida/Sia collaboration "Wild Ones" has just jumped into my top-20, and a remix under the moniker of "Jack Back" featuring French DJ David Guetta (making his third on my chart this week), Dutch DJ Nicki Romero, and Sia's vocals on "Wild One Two"...

The hottest movie of this year so far was been the Hunger Games, and from the soundtrack to that country ingenue Taylor Swift has two cuts, "Safe And Sound" with the alt-country duo Civil Wars, and her single that's getting play on adult pop radio, "Eyes Open"...

British X Factor runner-up Olly Murs has proven to have had the biggest pop career of all the male contestants of that show, since while his previous hit "Heart Skips A Beat" is just now topping the charts in Germany, his second followup to that, "Oh My Goodness" is breaking through in his homeland becoming a top-10 airplay success there. Hint - pick up his excellent In Case You Didn't Know CD, even on import, it's so worth it.

Country spring breaker Luke Bryan follows his #1 hit "I Don't Want This Night To End" with "Drunk On You"...

Also on the country tip, crooner Josh Turner is back with his low, booming voice previewing his upcoming CD Punching Bag with the breezy "Time Is Love", which reminds me of his former #1 "Would You Go With Me"...

Oklahoma power-pop outfit the All-American Rejects have accrued three top-10 singles in the US, including the #1 pop radio hit "Gives You Hell" from 2008. After a four year break, their fourth album, Kids In The Street, came out three weeks ago, and the first single from that is top-30 on adult-pop radio. Here's "Beekeeper's Daughter"...

Spanish DJ Sak Noel gave us the international novelty dance hit of last year with the crude "Loca People", and this year the party continues with "Paso (The Nini Anthem)"...

Chris Brown is back from stirring up shit, appearing on a zillion songs (like Pitbull's "International Love"), and collaborating with the woman who had a restraining order on him (on "Birthday Cake"),  to top the British charts and score a dance hit with "Turn Up The Music"...

California soft-rock singer Colbie Caillat teams up with rapper Common for her third single off of her All Of You CD, and off the heels of her #2 adult-pop hit "Brighter Than The Sun". The result is "Favorite Song"...

And finally, it's the Biebs. Justin Bieber, that is, who at all of 18 is still the teen heartthrob de jour. Mind you, he's only had two top-10 singles in the US, "Baby" and "Never Say Never", both of which are now overtaken by the success of his latest, "Boyfriend"...

And roaring back on to my list is the former #1 British hit by boyband One Direction that's now top-5 in the States, "What Makes You Beautiful"...

Rain Rain water my plants....