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Here's the top ten hits in Germany this week, according to their official singles chart , as "Despacito" from Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee takes a third week at the top... 1. " Despacito " - Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee (1) 2. " No Roots " - Alice Merton (3) 3. " Shape Of You " - Ed Sheeran (2) 4. " Tuesday " - Burak Yeter featuring Danelle Sandoval (4) 5. " I'm The One " - DJ Khaled featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, and Lil' Wayne (7) 6. " Swalla " - Jason Derulo featuring Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign (5) 7. " Galway Girl " - Ed Sheeran (8) 8. " Something Just Like This " - The Chainsmokers & Coldplay (6) 9. "How It Is (Wap Bap)" - Bibi H. (DEBUT) 10. " It Ain't Me " - Kygo & Selena Gomez (9) The sole entry in the top ten comes from a YouTube "artist" that has gone major viral, but in the wrong way, racki...

" Thieves In The Temple " - Prince from the album Graffiti Bridge (Original Soundtrack) (1990) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #6 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 9 Today's song of the day comes from Prince, who had ended the 1980's with a soundtrack to the Batman franchise movie that landed him a #1 hit with " Batdance ", as well as two top-40 follow-ups in " Partyman " and " The Arms Of Orion ". After touring, he finished a project he had started the previous year, the movie Graffiti Bridge . Written as a sequel to his massive breakthrough film and album Purple Rain , what resulted is a mess of a piece, with crazy supernatural elements and weird drawn out club storylines (mostly with the Time's Morris Day). The accompanying soundtrack, unlike its predecessor, had songs from other musicians in the mix, with the Time, Mavis Staples, George Clinton, and newcomer Tevin Campbell getting room on the album. The first single released from ...

Here's the top ten hits in France this week, according to their official singles chart , as "Despacito" from Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee are on top for a third week... 1. " Despacito " - Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee (1) 2. " Shape Of You " - Ed Sheeran (2) 3. " Chocolat " - Lartiste featuring Awa Imani (3) 4. " I Feel It Coming " - The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk (5) 5. " Lost On You " - LP (RE-ENTRY) 6. " Human " - Rag N' Bone Man (RE-ENTRY) 7. " It Ain't Me " - Kygo & Selena Gomez (8) 8. " Skin " - Rag N' Bone Man (9) 9. "Reine" - Dadju (DEBUT) 10. " You Don't Know Me " - Jax Jones featuring RAYE (10) French singer Dadju, the brother of music star Maitre Gims, rockets into the charts at #10 with "Reine" ("Queen")... (Click below to see the rest of the post)

" Close To You " - Maxi Priest from the album Bonafide (1990) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 17 Today's song of the day comes from British reggae-soul singer Maxi Priest , who after a half-decade of success in his homeland, scored a top-40 pop hit in the States with his cover of Cat Stevens' " Wild World " in the winter of 1989. A year later, Priest released his fourth studio album, Bonafide . The first single from the record was a breezy concoction, "Close To You". Written by the artist (as Max Elliot) along with Gary Benson and Winston Sela, the track sported a beat not far off from Soul II Soul's "Keep On Movin'", and found a welcome home with mature mainstream pop stations... "Close To You" became Maxi Priest biggest American success, going all the way to the top of the pop chart in October of 1990. The single also spent a week at #2 on Billboard 's R&B chart, while ...

" All I Do Is Think Of You " - Troop from the album Attitude (1989) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #47 This week's "robbed hit" comes from the R&B vocal group Troop , who grew up together in Pasadena, first got noticed by lipsynching on the short-lived show "Puttin' On The Hits". They released their self-titled debut album in 1988, with the first single, " Mamacita ", climbing all the way to #2 on Billboard 's R&B chart. A second top ten R&B hit followed with " My Heart ", but neither of them made any appearance on the pop chart, as the new jack swing genre was just starting to get mainstream attention. A year later, the band put out their sophomore effort, Attitude , with the lead single, " I'm Not Soupped " (a nod to Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative"), getting to #19 on the soul list. But by now, new jack swing had risen to eclipse Latin freestyle as the dance music king of the moment...

"We're All In The Same Gang" - The West Coast Rap All-Stars from the album We're All In The Same Gang (1990) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #35 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 3 Today's song of the day was a charity event record that brought together some of the biggest names in hip-hop in the beginning of the decade. Put together and produced by N.W.A.'s Dr. Dre, "We're All In The Same Gang" was released as a counterpart to KRS-One's Stop The Violence collective, which featured rappers from the eastern seaboard of the U.S. and went to #30 on the R&B chart with the record " Self-Destruction " in 1988. Dre's new West Coast crew, dubbed the West Coast Rap All-Stars, had top-40 hitmakers like MC Hammer, Digital Underground, JJ Fad, Michel'le, Young MC, and Tone Loc, along with then-underground artists like Ice-T, Above The Law, and N.W.A.'s Dre, Eazy-E, and MC Ren, among others. Making an entire album, a "Band Ai...

" The Girl I Used To Know " - Brother Beyond from the album Trust (1990) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #27 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 4 Today's song of the day comes from British "boy-band" Brother Beyond, who originally came together in the mid-1980's. They had their first chart appearance in their home country in 1987 with " How Many Times " (#62), when the band was led by brothers Eg and David Ben White, along with synth player Carl Fysh. They had a couple more minor hits, but after their label, EMI, bought the services of HI-NRG pop producing team Stock, Aitken, and Waterman (Rick Astley, Kylie Minogue), Eg left the group, as they reformed the unit behind a new lead singer, Nathan Moore. The first single from this creation was " The Harder I Try ", which climbed to #2 on the UK chart in 1988, and topped the list in Ireland. A follow-up, " He Ain't No Competition ", made it to #6 in the UK. Another track from the ...