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" Hot Hot Hot " - Buster Poindexter (aka David Johansen) from the album Buster Poindexter (1987) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #45 This week's "robbed hit" was a campy remake of a world-music song by one of the giants of 70s punk music, David Johansen, who was the lead singer of the New York Dolls, a band that combined the energy of the full-throttle punk of Iggy Pop with the trashy genderfuck glam of David Bowie. Their classic " Personality Crisis " was on Rolling Stone magazine's Top 500 rock songs list, as their debut album from 1973 did the same. The group disintegrated by the end of the decade, with Johansen releasing a few solo rock albums, with a live medley of 60s band the Animals' hits " We Gotta Get Out Of This Place/Don't Bring Me Down/It's My Life " getting airplay enough to reach #12 on Billboard 's then-new Mainstream Rock radio chart in 1982. In 1987, Johansen took a left turn an recorded an album unde...

" Rhythm Of Love " - Yes from the album Big Generator (1987) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #40 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 1 Today's Song of the Day is by the British progressive rock group Yes , whose 1987 album Big Generator returned them to the American pop top-40 with " Love Will Find A Way ". The second single from the record was the massive-sounding "Rhythm Of Love", written by band members Chris Squire, Trevor Rabin, Tony Kaye, and lead singer Jon Anderson. The Beach Boys-esque vocal acappella lead-in was a nice touch... "Rhythm Of Love" became their sixth and most recent top-40 pop hit in the U.S. in February of 1988. The single did much better on rock radio, climbing all the way to #2. After the tour behind this album, the band fractured apart, with Anderson joining drummer Bill Bruford, keyboardist Rick Wakeman, and guitarist Steve Howe in a side project named after the quartet's surnames. The band had a reunion of...

" Out Of The Blue " - Debbie Gibson from the album Out Of The Blue (1987) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #3 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 13 Today's Song of the Day comes from Debbie Gibson , the teen "pop prodigy" who danced into our hearts in 1987 with back to back top-5 hits in " Only In My Dreams " and " Shake Your Love ". The third single from her debut album was the title track, "Out Of The Blue", a midtempo teen-pop love song that sounded a lot more polished that the usual Tiger Beat fare, especially notable since Debbie wrote the song herself and co-produced it with Fred Zarr... "Out Of The Blue" became the third big hit from Out Of The Blue , reaching the top-3 on the American pop chart in April of 1988. The single also climbed up to #16 on Billboard 's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart, and the 12" single popped in at #44 on their Dance Club Play list. Internationa...

I'm ready to wrap up this week's "Music Sweeps" checking out the songs making the charts in Billboard magazine with the latest dance jams in the clubs and on the radio... On the DJ-polled Dance Club Play chart, remixer Dave Aude' brings Olivia Newton-John to the top of the dance chart for the first time, and with her daughter Chloe Lattanzi, for " You Have To Believe "... Singer/producer B. Howard lands the top new entry at #41 with "Don't Say You Love Me"... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

Part four of this week's "music sweeps" has the latest hits on country radio as monitored by Billboard magazine... On their Country Airplay radio chart, Old Dominion spends a second week at #1 with their " Break Up With Him "... Country rocker Eric Church makes a big return up at #36 with "Mr. Misunderstood" the title track to his just-released album which debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 albums list... (click below to see the rest of the post)

We're at the "hump" of today's "music sweeps", sampling the songs making their way on to the charts in Billboard magazine , and this time I'm serving up the latest on R&B radio... On the main R&B/Hip Hop Airplay chart, Drake spends a fifth week on top with "Hotline Bling"... Rapper Yo Gotto pops in at #42 with "Down In The DM"... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

Round two of this week's "music sweeps" is up with the latest hits on rock radio as monitored by Billboard magazine. On their main Rock Airplay chart, the Cold War Kids hang on to the top spot for a third week with " First "... British modern rock kings Coldplay return up at #24 with the first single from their upcoming A Head Full of Dreams album, "Adventure Of A Lifetime"... (Click below to see the rest of the post)