twostepcub's music chart for December 14, 2012..

Hey gang, it's time for my top-100 tunes for the week...this time out Adele claims her fifth consecutive #1 on my chart with "Skyfall", while six-time Grammy nominees the Black Keys (pictured above) jump right below the top-10. The biggest jumps are made by songs by Labrinth, Olly Murs, and Jason Aldean (moves of 10+ places highlighted in red), while a former big hit by Lee Brice drops out. Forced again?!?!?!

This Week                Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)
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1. Skyfall - Adele (1)
2. Madness - Muse (2)
3. Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself) - Ne-Yo (3)
4. I Will Wait - Mumford & Sons (4)
5. Some Nights - fun (5)
6. Ho Hey - The Lumineers (6)
7. Don't You Worry Child - Swedish House Mafia f/John Martin (7)
8. Locked Out Of Heaven - Bruno Mars (12)
9. Adorn - Miguel (9)
10. Blow Me (One Last Kiss) - Pink (8)
11. Little Talks - Of Monsters And Men (13)
12. Little Black Submarines - Black Keys (18)
13. Chalk Outline - Three Days Grace (17)
14. Too Close - Alex Clare (10)
15. Gangnam Style - PSY (11)
16. One More Night - Maroon 5 (16)
17. Home - Philip Phillips (19)
18. Try - Pink (26)
19. Die Young - Ke$ha (23)
20. It's Time - Imagine Dragons (20)
21. Diamonds - Rihanna (21)
22. She Wolf (Falling To Pieces) - David Guetta f/Sia (22)
23. Fastest Girl In Town - Miranda Lambert (15)
24. 50 Ways To Say Goodbye - Train (24)
25. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - Taylor Swift (25)
26. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye - Luke Bryan (14)
27. Southern Comfort Zone - Brad Paisley (28)
28. The One That Got Away - Jake Owen (30)
29. Sweet Nothing - Calvin Harris f/Florence Welch (36)
30. Candy - Robbie Williams (35)
31. The A Team - Ed Sheeran (31)
32. Take A Walk - Passion Pit (32)
33. Creepin' - Eric Church (33)
34. Feel Again - OneRepublic (34)
35. Hall Of Fame - The Script f/will.i.am (27)
36. Cruise - Florida Georgia Line (38)
37. Everything That I Got - Kristine W. f/Bimbo Jones (29)
38. Goodbye In Her Eyes - The Zac Brown Band (41)
39. Lately - Anita Baker (39)
40. Miss Me - Andy Grammer (37)
41. Til My Last Day - Justin Moore (43)
42. Girl On Fire - Alicia Keys (46)
43. El Cerrito Place - Kenny Chesney (45)
44. Your Body - Christina Aguilera (49)
45. Send Me Your Love - Taryn Manning f/Sultan & Ned Shepard (40)
46. Come Wake Me Up - Rascal Flatts (51)
47. I'm Moving On - Yoko Ono (47)
48. She's So Mean - Matchbox Twenty (48)
49. One Day/Reckoning Song - Asaf Avidan & The Mojo (53)
50. My Oh My - Tristan Prettyman (52)
51. Finally Found You - Enrique Iglesias f/Sammy Adams (57)
52. Beneath Your Beautiful - Labrinth f/Emeli Sande (64)
53. Catch My Breath - Kelly Clarkson (61)
54. How Country Feels - Randy Houser (58)
55. Lost In The Echo - Linkin Park (55)
56. Did It For The Girl - Greg Bates (56)
57. Don't Mind - Mary J Blige (59)
58. Troublemaker - Olly Murs f/Flo Rida (70)
59. Every Storm (Runs Out Of Rain) - Gary Allan (67)
60. My Everything - Noelia (50)
61. Something For The Weekend - Dave Aude f/Luciana (66)
62. Beer Money - Kip Moore (62)
63. Kill Your Heroes - AWOLnation (63)
64. I Cry - Flo Rida (68)
65. Anna Sun - Walk The Moon (60)
66. Overjoyed - Matchbox Twenty (71)
67. Thinkin Bout You - Frank Ocean (74)
68. Good Time - Owl City f/Carly Rae Jepsen (44)
69. Begin Again - Taylor Swift (76)
70. Winner - Pet Shop Boys (65)
71. Better Dig Two - The Band Perry (81)
72. True Believers - Darius Rucker (72)
73. Been Away Too Long - Soundgarden (77)
74. Spectrum - Zedd f/Matthew Koma (54)
75. Don't Fail Me Now - Melanie Amaro (75)
76. We Come Running - Youngblood Hawke (80)
77. As Long As You Love Me - Justin Bieber f/Big Sean (69)
78. Between The Raindrops - Lifehouse f/Natasha Bedingfield (78)
79. I Don't Deserve You - Paul van Dyk f/Plumb (79)
80. Tip It On Back - Dierks Bentley (84)
81. Trojans - Atlas Genius (85)
82. Live While We're Young - One Direction (86)
83. Wanted - Hunter Hayes (87)
84. Anything Could Happen - Ellie Goulding (RE-ENTRY)
85. Don't Stop The Party - Pitbull f/TJR (DEBUT)
86. The Only Way I Know - Jason Aldean f/Luke Bryan & Eric Church (98)
87. Don't Wake Me Up - Chris Brown (89)
88. Missin' You Crazy - Jon Pardi (88)
89. Tornado - Little Big Town (DEBUT)
90. Itchin' On A Photograph - Grouplove (90)
91. Stubborn Love - The Lumineers (DEBUT)
92. Only Love - Ben Howard (92)
93. Little Things - One Direction (93)
94. Soldier - Gavin DeGraw (96)
95. Where Did You Go? - Morgan Page, Andy Caldwell & Jonathan Mendelsohn (97)
96. Something New - Girls Aloud (DEBUT)
97. Hurts Like Heaven - Coldplay (DEBUT)
98. Over You - Cassadee Pope (DEBUT)
99. Tonight (Best I Ever Had) - John Legend f/Ludacris (RE-ENTRY)
100. Sonnentanz - Klangkarussell (RE-ENTRY)

 There are six debuts on my chart this week (highlighted in blue), and if you click on any of the artists' names, you can connect to their official website. But now, here they are, after the break...

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The top song spending its first week on my list this week is by Latin rapper Pitbull, with the third song from his Global Warming album to reach my chart. "Don't Stop The Party" features dance artist TJR, whose "Funky Vodka" this track is based on. And who can pass up Pit shirtless?

Little Big Town return with the followup to their #1 country hit "Pontoon", and "Tornado" goes as far from that rivertime fun as possible..and between this song and the Band Perry's new one the best in country music came at the end of this year...

  

Folk-rock trio the Lumineers are this in my top-10 (and contending to place big on my year-end chart), and they place a second song on my top-100 with "Stubborn Love"...

British girl-group legends Girls Aloud have had an untouchable streak of 20 top-10 singles in Great Britain, and they return with a new retrospective Ten (please, release it in the States!) and one of the new songs on the set, the fierce "Something New", pops on my chart as well...

The next entry is the fifth song from Coldplay's latest Mylo Xyloto to reach my chart, "Hurts Like Heaven". It features a animated video directed by Mark Osborne, who is working on another film adaptation of my favorite book from my childhood, The Little Prince....

The last debut this week is by the ex-Hey Monday singer that most likely will win The Voice this season, Cassadee Pope, with a cover of Miranda Lambert's "Over You" that so far is the biggest selling performance on iTunes this season. The original, a fave of mine, is on track to appear in my year-end best-of...(and BTW the studio recording is better than this pitchy mess)...

  
That does is for this week....as I mentionned, in the last ten days of the year I'll be counting down the 100 biggest songs on my chart for the year, along with a special top-40 of my favorite musical nuggets that should have been big this year. A hint, about a quarter of the songs on this week's list have a good chance of showing up on the big 100 of 2012...

But before that...tomorrow I'll bring another Song of the Day, candletime, and my five-part "chart sweeps" of the newest songs making their way on the singles charts in Billboard magazine. See you then!