twostepcub's music chart for February 22, 2013...

Hey gang, it's finally Friday, and time for my top-100 tunes for the week. This week Calvin Harris and Florence Welch take over the top spot with "Sweet Nothing", while Kelly Clarkson (whom I duly believe over Clive Davis - and pictured above) lurks right below the top-10.  Songs by Tori Amos, Vicci Martinez, and Churchill make the biggest jumps (moves of 10+ places highlighted in red), while former big hits by Ed Sheeran, fun, Justin Moore, and The Script drop out. Swedish meatballs!!!!!

This Week           Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)
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1. Sweet Nothing - Calvin Harris f/Florence Welch (2)
2. Thrift Shop - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis f/Wanz (6)
3. Try - Pink (1)
4. Locked Out Of Heaven - Bruno Mars (4)
5. Don't You Worry Child - Swedish House Mafia (3)
6. Better Dig Two - The Band Perry (7)
7. Little Black Submarines - Black Keys (5)
8. Madness - Muse (8)
9. Ho Hey - The Lumineers (9)
10. Troublemaker - Olly Murs f/Flo Rida (10)
11. Catch My Breath - Kelly Clarkson (11)
12. Tornado - Little Big Town (20)
13. Girl On Fire - Alicia Keys (14)
14. Radioactive - Imagine Dragons (22)
15. Southern Comfort Zone - Brad Paisley (15)
16. Daylight - Maroon 5 (21)
17. Adorn - Miguel (13)
18. Every Storm (Runs Out Of Rain) - Gary Allan (19)
19. Mountain Sound - Of Monsters And Men (23)
20. I Will Wait - Mumford & Sons (18)
21. Carry On - fun (25)
22. Little Talks - Of Monsters and Men (16)
23. Stubborn Love - The Lumineers (27)
24. Two Black Cadillacs - Carrie Underwood (32)
25. How Country Feels - Randy Houser (17)
26. Overjoyed - Matchbox Twenty (30)
27. Trojans - Atlas Genius (35)
28. Home - Phillip Phillips (24)
29. Clarity - Zedd (37)
30. It's Time - Imagine Dragons (28)
31. Lover Of The Light - Mumford & Sons (45)
32. Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself) - Ne-Yo (26)
33. Skyfall - Adele (29)
34. The Lucky Ones - Kerli (42)
35. I Knew You Were Trouble - Taylor Swift (36)
36. Wanted - Hunter Hayes (40)
37. Diamonds - Rihanna (33)
38. Goodbye In Her Eyes - The Zac Brown Band (34)
39. Don't Stop The Party - Pitbull f/TJR (39)
40. Somebody's Heartbreak - Hunter Hayes (46)
41. Change - Churchill (56)
42. Flavor - Tori Amos (72)
43. Take A Walk - Passion Pit (43)
44. Begin Again - Taylor Swift (44)
45. Leaving - Pet Shop Boys (47)
46. We Are Young - Vassy (51)
47. Tip It On Back - Dierks Bentley (48)
48. The Only Way I Know - Jason Aldean f/Luke Bryan & Eric Church (49)
49. Between The Raindrops - Lifehouse f/Natasha Bedingfield (53)
50. I Found You - The Wanted (50)
51. Lessons In Love (All Day, All Night) - Neon Trees f/Kaskade (55)
52. You & I - Avant f/Keke Wyatt (54)
53. Mermaid - Train (57)
54. Merry Go 'Round - Kacey Musgraves (64)
55. Crying On A Suitcase - Casey James (61)
56. Beauty And A Beat - Justin Bieber f/Nicki Minaj (62)
57. Every Day - Eric Prydz (58)
58. My Love Is All I Have - Charlie Wilson (68)
59. Beam Me Up (Kill-Mode) - Cazzette (59)
60. Impossible - James Arthur (60)
61. Clown - Emeli Sande (73)
62. One Of Those Nights - Tim McGraw (66)
63. Sorry - Ciara (69)
64. Beneath Your Beautiful - Labrinth f/Emeli Sande (38)
65. Gold 2012 - Spandau Ballet (65)
66. Hero - Family Of The Year (70)
67. Va Va Voom - Nicki Minaj (71)
68. Days Turn Into Nights - Delerium (78)
69. Come Along - Vicci Martinez f/Cee-Lo Green (87)
70. Get Up (Rattle) - Bingo Players f/Far East Movement (75)
71. Gangnam Style - PSY (41)
72. Stay - Rihanna f/Mikky Ekko (77)
73. Big Banana - Havana Brown f/R3hab (63)
74. Heaven Nor Hell - Volbeat (74)
75. Next To Me - Emeli Sande (RE-ENTRY)
76. I Drive Your Truck - Lee Brice (81)
77. Because We Can - Bon Jovi (89)
78. Sure Be Cool If You Did - Blake Shelton (80)
79. If I Didn't Have You - Thompson Square (93)
80. When I Was Your Man - Bruno Mars (DEBUT)
81. Suit & Tie - Justin Timberlake f/Jay-Z (85)
82. The Pit -Silversun Pickups (86)
83. Let There Be Cowgirls - Chris Cagle (88)
84. Stand Up - All That Remains (94)
85. Tears Of Joy - Faith Evans (95)
86. Carry On - Avenged Sevenfold (96)
87. One And Only - Cherry Cherry Boom Boom (97)
88. Rum & Raybans - Sean Kingston f/Cher Lloyd (100)
89. Learn To Love Again - Lawson (91)
90. Alone Together - Daley f/Marsha Ambrosius (90)
91. Die Young - Ke$ha (87)
92. Scream & Shout - will.i.am f/Britney Spears (92)
93. Put The Gun Down - ZZ Ward (DEBUT)
94. I Could Be The One - Avicii vs. Nicki Romero (DEBUT)
95. Alive - Krewella (RE-ENTRY)
96. I Love It - Icona Pop f/Charli XCX (DEBUT)
97. Just A Fool - Christina Aguilera f/Blake Shelton (DEBUT)
98. Supercharged - Kwanza Jones (DEBUT)
99. Drinking From The Bottle - Calvin Harris f/Tinie Tempah (99)
100. Up & Up - Haddaway f/Mad Stuntman (DEBUT)

There are seven new song of my list this week (highlighted in blue), and here they are, after the jump (I've included links to their official website as well if you click on their names in the chart)....

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The highest entry on my chart (besides Emeli Sande' re-entering at #75) is the followup to Bruno Mars' single "Locked Out Of Heaven", which topped my chart at the beginning of the year. The latest, "When I Was Your Man", is a slow heartbreak ballad..

Shooting in at #93 is the first hit on my list for Abingdon, Pennsylvania singer ZZ Ward. I expect big things from her, judging from "Put The Gun Down"...

Swedish dance music star Avicii had one of the biggest hits on my chart last year with the Etta James-cribbing "Levels", and now he and Dutchman Nicky Romero are back at #94 with "I Could Be The One", the current #1 song in Britain...

Another Swedish dance act, Icona Pop, pop in at #96 with "I Love It" featuring Charli XCX....

Two of the coaches from last season's The Voice come together at #97 as Blake Shelton guests on Christina Aguilera's "Just A Fool"...

Newcomer Kwanza Jones scores her first single on my chart at #98 with "Supercharged"....

The final debut on my list this week is the first in twenty years for Trinidadian/German dance singer Haddaway, with "Up & Up" featuring the Mad Stuntman. Haddaway had four straight top-10 hits in Britain in 1993 with everybody's favorite head "banger" "What Is Love" leading the pack, while his guest had a big club hit that same year with "I Like To Move It"...

That does it for this weeks list, I'll be back tomorrow with another Song of the Day, Candletime, and my five-part "chart sweeps" of the latest songs on Billboard magazine's music charts. Good night!