twostepcub's music chart for December 21, 2012...

Hey gang, I'm back with my top-100 tunes for the week. This week Ne-Yo claims the top spot for the first week, while Canadian rockers Three Days Grace (pictured above) hover under the top-10. A former big hit by Owl City & Carly Jepsen drops off my chart, while songs by Ellie Goulding, Olly Murs, and Atlas Genius make the biggest leaps (moves of 10+ places highlighted in red). If you're reading this, we must be okay!

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

There are eight debuts on this week's chart (highlighted in blue), and if you click on any of those names, it'll direct you to their official website. And here they all are, after the break...

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The top song spending its first week on the chart is a song I've been jamming enough to make it my phone ringtone - Seattle-area rapper Macklemore, his musical collaborator Ryan Lewis, and featured singer Wanz on the extra-funky trip to the "Thrift Shop" and this is fucking awesome!

Maroon 5 are back with the third single from their Overexposed album, and let me say that the video makes the song ten times better...

Former Gap Band lead singer turned quiet storm king Charlie Wilson returns with "My Love Is All I Have" from his upcoming album Love Charlie, and I'm happy a man who will be 60 next month is still churning out hits...

Vermont alt-rockers Grace Potter & The Nocturnals arrive with a song that my fave from The Voice this year, Amanda Brown, did an awesome job of, "Stars"...

Of Monsters and Men, from the town of Gardur on the southwestern tip of Iceland, have one of the biggest songs on my chart this year with "Little Talks", and also come in with its followup, "Mountain Sound"...

Canadian singer Nelly Furtado's career may has cooled a little since her big collaborations with Timbaland, but the second single to reach my top-100 from her latest album debuts, called "Parking Lot"...

I have compared French singer M. Pokora to being that country's version of Ricky Martin, and he gets his first hit on my list with "Envole-Toi" ("Fly Away"), featuring singer Tal (who has shown up here with "Le Sens De La Vie" earlier this year) from the outstanding tribute album to the songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman Generation Goldman that is available from Amazon in the States...

Finally, Justin Bieber may not be up for a Grammy, but he's here with Nicki Minaj with "Beauty & A Beat"...

That's it for now...I'll be back tomorrow with another Song of the Day, Candletime, and my five-part "chart sweeps" of the latest songs making the Billboard magazine weekly music charts. See you then!

PS you can check out my recap of this year's biggest songs on my personal chart for 2012 by clicking here...