twostepcub's top tunes for March 22, 2013...

It's time for my top-100 tunes for this past week, as Macklemore & Ryan Lewis hang on for a fourth week at #1, while Carrie Underwood (pictured above) moves into the top-10. Songs by Emeli Sande, Olly Murs, and Imagine Dragons make the biggest jumps on the list (moves of 10+ places highlighted in red). Countdown is progressing!

This Week              Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses)
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1. Thrift Shop - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis f/Wanz (1)
2. Better Dig Two - The Band Perry (3)
3. Tornado - Little Big Town (4)
4. Try - Pink (2)
5. Radioactive - Imagine Dragons (10)
6. Catch My Breath - Kelly Clarkson (7)
7. Troublemaker - Olly Murs f/Flo Rida (5)
8. Carry On - fun. (8)
9. Two Black Cadillacs - Carrie Underwood (11)
10. Sweet Nothing - Calvin Harris f/Florence Welch (6)
11. Mountain Sound - Of Monsters And Men (13)
12. Lover Of The Light - Mumford & Sons (16)
13. Don't You Worry Child - Swedish House Mafia f/John Martin (9)
14. Daylight - Maroon 5 (14)
15. Madness - Muse (15)
16. Locked Out Of Heaven - Bruno Mars (12)
17. Clarity - Zedd (19)
18. Stubborn Love - The Lumineers (18)
19. Girl On Fire - Alicia Keys (17)
20. Trojans - Atlas Genius (20)
21. Ho Hey - The Lumineers (21)
22. Flavor - Tori Amos (22)
23. When I Was Your Man - Bruno Mars (27)
24. I Knew You Were Trouble - Taylor Swift (28)
25. Adorn - Miguel (25)
26. I Will Wait - Mumford & Sons (26)
27. I Could Be The One - Avicii vs. Nicky Romero (37)
28. Next To Me - Emeli Sande (48)
29. Somebody's Heartbreak - Hunter Hayes (31)
30. Wanted - Hunter Hayes (30)
31. Overjoyed - Matchbox Twenty (23)
32. Little Black Submarines - Black Keys (24)
33. It's Time - Imagine Dragons (33)
34. Tip It On Back - Dierks Bentley (34)
35. You & I - Avant f/Keke Wyatt (39)
36. Little Talks - Of Monsters And Men (32)
37. Merry Go 'Round - Kacey Musgraves (41)
38. My Love Is All I Have - Charlie Wilson (44)
39. The Lucky Ones - Kerli (29)
40. Mermaid - Train (42)
41. Beam Me Up (Kill-Mode) - Cazzette (49)
42. Every Storm (Runs Out Of Rain) - Gary Allan (38)
43. We Are Young - Vassy (35)
44. Change - Churchill (36)
45. Ay Mama Mia - Mayra Veronica (55)
46. Hero - Family Of The Year (52)
47. Clown - Emeli Sande (47)
48. Oh Mama Hey - Chris Cox + DJ Frankie f/Crystal Waters (58)
49. Stay - Rihanna f/Mikky Ekko (51)
50. One Of Those Nights - Tim McGraw (50)
51. I Drive Your Truck - Lee Brice (54)
52. Downtown - Lady Antebellum (60)
53. Take A Walk - Passion Pit (43)
54. Sure Be Cool If You Did - Blake Shelton (56)
55. Alive - Krewella (59)
56. Lessons In Love (All Day, All Night) - Neon Trees f/Kaskade (46)
57. Begin Again - Taylor Swift (40)
58. Turn Around - Conor Maynard f/Ne-Yo (62)
59. Come Along - Vicci Martinez f/Cee-Lo Green (63)
60. Rum & Raybans - Sean Kingston f/Cher Lloyd (61)
61. How Country Feels - Randy Houser (45)
62. If I Didn't Have You - Thompson Square (67)
63. The Pit - Silversun Pickups (69)
64. Lego House - Ed Sheeran (76)
65. Tears Of Joy - Faith Evans (65)
66. I Can Take It From There - Chris Young (71)
67. Because We Can - Bon Jovi (68)
68. Everybody's Beautiful - Miasha (82)
69. Mirrors - Justin Timberlake (79)
70. Army Of Two - Olly Murs (86)
71. Rest Of My Life - Ludacris f/David Guetta f/Usher (81)
72. Alone Together - Daley f/Marsha Ambrosius (72)
73. Suit & Tie - Justin Timberlake f/Jay-Z (73)
74. Hollow - Alice In Chain (74)
75. Mama's Broken Heart - Miranda Lambert (83)
76. C'mon - Ke$ha (78)
77. Tempest - Deftones (77)
78. Pirate Flag - Kenny Chesney (84)
79. The Only Way I Know - Jason Aldean f/Luke Bryan & Eric Church (64)
80. Put The Gun Down - ZZ Ward (80)
81. Beat Don't Stop - C-Rod f/Jason Walker (85)
82. Beneath Your Beautiful - Labrinth f/Emeli Sande (70)
83. So High - Jay Sean (87)
84. Gone, Gone, Gone - Phillip Philliips (92)
85. Demons - Imagine Dragons (100)
86. Give It All We Got Tonight - George Strait (91)
87. Just Give Me A Reason - Pink f/Nate Ruess (DEBUT)
88. Language - Porter Robinson (88)
89. One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks) - One Direction (89)
90. Scream & Shout - will.i.am f/Britney Spears (90)
91. Bones - Young Guns (98)
92. Rebel Beat - Goo Goo Dolls (96)
93. Hall of Fame - The Script f/will.i.am (93)
94. Hold Me - Yoko Ono f/Dave Aude (DEBUT)
95. Harlem Shake - Baauer (95)
96. Love And War - Tamar Braxton (DEBUT)
97. Ain't Messin' Around - Gary Clark, Jr. (DEBUT)
98. Pompeii - Bastille (DEBUT)
99. Feel This Moment - Pitbull f/Christina Aguilera (DEBUT)
100. As Your Friend - Afrojack f/Chris Brown (DEBUT)

There are seven new songs on my chart this week (highlighted in blue), and I've included links to their official website (a mini Link-O-Rama, if you will). Here they are, after the break...

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The top entry at #87 is the third single from Pink's excellent The Truth About Love album, "Just Give Me A Reason" featuring Nate Ruess, the lead singer of fun. Both singers are still in my top-10 with "Try" and "Carry On", respectively...

Yoko Ono just turned 80 last month, and yet she has another club hit on her hands, as the Dave Aude' rework of "Hold Me" makes it on my list at #94...



R&B singer, sister of Toni, and reality show player Tamar Braxton comes in at #96 with "Love And War"...

Blues-rocker Gary Clark Jr. scores his first hit on my list at #97 with "Ain't Messin' Around"...

British electropop group Bastille also nab their first appearance on my chart at #98 with "Pompeii"...

I know if I watched more TV, i'd be sick of Pitbull and XTina's "Feel This Moment" hawking the new Dancing With The Stars season, but not yet, so it's here at #99...

The final entry at #100 is Dutch DJ/producer Afrojack with "As Your Friend" featuring Chris Brown...

That does it for my chart for the week...tomorrow I'll have another Song of the Day, Candletime, and my five-part "chart sweeps" of the new songs reaching the Billboard singles charts. See you then!