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    Friday's here, and it's time to run down my top 100 "hit" tunes from the previous week. Foo Fighters fly on at #1 for a third week, while the soul supergroup Silk Sonic (pictured above) leaps four spots into the runner-up position. Songs from Lil Nas X, Imagine Dragons, and Sam Hunt make the biggest jumps (moves of 10+ places highlighted in red ), while former big hits from Jason Derulo, AJR, Cannons, Raiche, BANNERS, and Niko Moon drop off my list. And everything is Spotify playlisted below for five and a half hours of listening goodness. If patience is a virtue, I'm a saint...   This Week          Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Waiting On A War - Foo Fighters (1) 2. Leave The Door Open - Silk Sonic (6) 3. Save Your Tears - The Weeknd (2) 4. My Head and My Heart - Ava Max (4) 5. Driver's License - Olivia Rodri...

" Everlasting Love " - Gloria Estefan from the album Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me (1994) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #27 (two weeks) Weeks in the Top-40: 10 Today's song of the day comes from the Cuban-American pop singer Gloria Estefan , who took her remake of the disco classic " Turn The Beat Around " to the pop top 20 in America in the fall of 1994. Even her old band, the Miami Sound Machine, would also score a top-20 dance hit with " Jambala ", both appearing in the Sylvester Stallone movie The Specialist. However that would mark the first time a lead single from one of her studio albums would fail to make the top ten here. In the UK, they rushed out a second single from the covers album, a take on Mel Carter's " Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me ", which just missed the top ten at #11, while making it to #22 in Ireland as well. When the chart run of "Turn the Beat Around" ended in America, they released another disco-fied re...

" Gay Man " is the new single and video from Rupaul's Drag Race alumnus Manila Luzon   Coming from her recent album Rules , the extravaganza of dance beats is perfect for today's parade, instead of the usual Britney/Rihanna/Whitney blaring.

" Supermodel (You Better Work) " - RuPaul from the album Supermodel Of The World (1993) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #45 This week's "robbed hit" comes from an icon in the LGBT community who took the art of the drag queen into the mainstream (whether she wanted to or not), RuPaul Charles. Born in San Diego, RuPaul and her sisters moved to Atlanta with her divorced mom as a teen. There, she started the gender bending fashion through the punk movement, and starred in the cult movie Star Booty in the later 1980s. Her first taste of a national exposure came when fellow Georgians the B-52s included her in their video for their own breakthrough single " Love Shack " in 1989. But still, she worked underground in bands and appearances in Atlanta and then New York City through the beginning of the next decade. What was crucial to RuPaul's success is the concurrent establishment of the production partnership World of Wonder, originally started by film...

Friday's here, and it's time to run down my top 100 tunes from the previous week. After a month we finally have a new #1 from singer/songwriter Lauv, while Weezer (picture above) take their cover of Toto's "Africa" into the top five. Former big hits from Panic At The Disco, A Great Big World, Morgan Evans, Alessia Cara, and Alice Merton drop off my list, while songs from Luke Combs, Benny Blanco/Halsey/Khalid, and Jess Glynne make the biggest jumps (moves of 10+ places highlighted in red ). Happy birthday, kiddo! This Week              Song/Artist (last week's position in parentheses) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. I Like Me Better - Lauv (2) 2. Gold Rush - Death Cab For Cutie (4) 3. Boo'd Up - Ella Mai (1) 4. Africa - Weezer (6) 5. Girls Like You - Maroon 5 f/Cardi B (3) 6. Tequila - Dan + Shay (10) 7. Beyond - Leon Bridges (7) 8. Natural - I...

" It's Gonna Be A Lovely Day! " - S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M. introducing Michelle Visage from the album The Bodyguard (Original Soundtrack) (1992) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #34 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 2 Today's song of the day comes from the same album that brought us yesterday 's SOTD, the soundtrack to the Whitney Houston/Kevin Costner movie The Bodyguard . Houston already had scored two big hits from the record, with the record-breaking #1 cover of " I Will Always Love You " and her cover of Chaka Khan's " I'm Every Woman ". While the latter was climbing the charts, another song from the record was released as well, and it was yet another "cover" record. Recorded under the moniker S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M. (the periods there because there already was a Soul System), it really was the studio creation of remixers and producers Rob Clivilles and David Cole, who are best known for their other act, the C + C Music Factory...

Not for the weak-hearted, " Girly " is the new single from singer/songwriter John Duff , who is serving up Mariah Carey in "Heartbreaker" realness in this campy video featuring Willam and Bianca Del Rio from Rupaul's Drag Race .