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    Saturday's here, and it's time to run down my top "hits" from the previous week. Chappell Roan remains at #1 for a seventh week, while Cage The Elephant (pictured above) climbs into the top ten. Songs from Leon Bridges, AWOLNATION, and Seether make the biggest jumps (moves of 10+ places highlighted in red ), while former big hits from Pearl Jam, SZA, Cody Johnson, DJO, and Chase Matthew drop off my chart. And under the list everything is Spotify playlisted for 5 1/2 hours of the biggest in pop, rock, R&B, country, and dance music.  We're a month away, kiddos... This Week                Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Good Luck, Babe! - Chappell Roan (1) 2. Die With A Smile - Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars (4) 3. Birds Of A Feather - Billie Eilish (2) 4. I Can Do It With A Broken Heart - Taylor Swift (6) 5. Please Please

    " Come Clean " - Hilary Duff from the album Metamorphosis (2003) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #35 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 2   Today's song comes from actress and singer Hilary Duff , who was born in Houston, Texas, but moved with her sister and mother to Los Angeles when she was only six years old to ostensibly start a career as a child in show business (with her sister even younger). After appearing in commercials and bit parts acting, in 1998 Duff starred in the straight to video release Casper Meets Wendy , a "prequel" to the successful 1995 film version of Casper . Hilary's big break came at the start of 2001 when she was cast in the title character of the Disney Channel show Lizzie McGuire . The show became a huge success on the network, and a year later, amongst a truckload of merchandise around the show, a soundtrack was released, which peaked at #31 on the Billboard 200 sales tally and spent over a year on the list, going on to sell

    " 100 Years " - Five For Fighting from the album The Battle For Everything (2004) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #28 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 13 Today's song comes from Five For Fighting , the moniker for pop singer/songwriter John Ondrasik. Andrew's second album, and first on the Aware imprint of EMI Records, America Town , scored the artist his first hit with " Superman (It's Not Easy) ", which reached the top-20 on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 at the end of 2001. (Fun side note - it was nominated in the Pop Duo/Group category at the Grammys.) In 2004, Ondrasik returned with his second album on the label, The Battle For Everything . The lead single from the set was "100 Years". Written by John and produced by Gregg Wattenberg, the song's lyrics play with numbers in relation to a human lifetime, with the critical puberty age of fifteen anchoring it. With milestones of young love, making a family, midlife crises, and coasting thr

    " When The Sun Goes Down " - Kenny Chesney and Uncle Kracker from the album When The Sun Goes Down (2004) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #26 (two weeks) Weeks in the Top-40: 10   Today's song comes from Kenny Chesney , who in the early 2000s was riding high playing off the beachcomber persona (that Jimmy Buffett actually perfected), but got a little serious with the lead single from his upcoming 2004 studio album When The Sun Goes Down , " There Goes My Life ", which topped Billboard magazine's Country Airplay chart for seven weeks and crossed over to the top-40 on their all-genre Hot 100 at the close of 2003. At the same time, that fall Chesney released a Christmas Album All I Want For Christmas Is A Real Good Tan , which hit #42 on the Billboard 200 and #4 on the Country Albums list, going on to sell over a million copies. Seven of its tracks got enough airplay to place on the Country Airplay chart, with the title track climbing to #30.   For the follow-

    " Are You Gonna Be My Girl " - Jet from the album Get Born (2003) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #29 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 6   Today's song comes from the rock group Jet, who came together in Melbourne, Australia in the beginning of the new millenium, with siblings Nic on lead vocals and guitar and Chris Cesler on drums bringing in Doug Armstrong on bass and Cameron Muncey as lead guitarist. Armstrong was replaced by Mark Wilson, and the band released an EP (extended play single) Dirty Sweet in 2002. With buzz from that sold-out mini-set Jet was signed to Elektra Records, and all four of its tracks would be on the band's debut album Get Born . The lead single from the record, originally released in their home country in the summer of 2003, was "Are You Gonna Be My Girl". Written by Nic and Cameron, the record captures the raw energy of the garage rock of the late 60's early 70's. The lyrics are simplistic with blues-like phrasing that puts