rolling US charts 2008/talk about "pop" here

i'm basically sick of hearing everyone of these songs except maybe "kiss kiss", "tattoo" and "low" which i like the more i hear it.

what are these:

9. Sara Bareilles, "Love Song" (LW No. 16, 8 weeks)
6. Finger Eleven, "Paralyzer" (LW No. 7, 29 weeks)

Also, WOW @ "Crank Dat"'s legs. 24 weeks!

t-pain's 3 newest BIG songs (talking about "low" "kiss kiss" and "cyclone") have thrown me for a loop bcuz i really liked all of his big 2007 singles/features (and album) basically immediately and waited for that to wear off (in some cases it did) whereas w/ these three songs i basically hated all 3 of them at the jump and have grown to like/love them (except maybe "cyclone") over the months.

good shit (aka shit i wouldn't mind being beat over the head w/ by radio over the next few months) bubbling/rising in the lower top 40:

new kanye single "flashing lights"
new rihanna single "don't stop the music"
new snoop "sensual seduction"
and paramore still rising (still!) again (!) with the y awesome "misery business"

i here new kanye, new rihanna and new snoop all the time now here and i'm pretty happy about it

"Love Song" = VH1-ready girly piano pop, possibly my favorite song along those lines since, I dunno, the first Vanessa Carlton single, getting a boost from appearing in a Rhapsody commercial (although hipster rap novelty act Cool Kids don't seem to be getting much of a chart boost from the same ad).

"Paralyzer" = vaguely funky single from a Canadian band that isn't Nickelback, ubiquitous on rock stations since last March or April and has since become the rare non-ballad rock crossover to pop radio.

(not marking my territory here first so that Frank will avoid the thread, btw, he can killfile me if he really wants to after all)

i'm glad the infant '08 charts thread isn't just here for you to piss on, al.

http://www.naymz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/Calvin%20peeing-785794.GIF

I don't like "Love Song" as much as I liked "Breathe" by Anna Nalick or a number of Tashbed songs, but I do like the song.

I'm kinda surprised "Apologize" hasn't pushed up to #1 at any point. There are several songs from #11 to #20 that I don't know at all. Which of those are any good? I've gotten behind.

this being a slow time for new pop music, maybe we should talk about what we're looking forward to in the upcoming year?

JANET.

this looks reputable:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_in_music

new gnarls single should be great or a disaster

Also I'm interested to hear how Rihanna follow's up "Umbrella", her next album is due in December.

wheres that new big boi single he promised to drop on new years eve

January 29
Her Name is Nicole by Nicole Scherzinger [17]

LMAO. Like I said in the R&B thread, this entire project is just a ginormous, hilarious failure.. I doubt it will be released in January (I really don't see her FOURTH SINGLE "Puakenikeni" catching on...).

the one w/ t.i. was pretty good i thought

though the verse wayne did at the vmas was >>>>>> t.i.s

on the sveltometer

36 pant size out of a max of 48

does a jordan sargent listen to az

not really. i thought that song w/ styles you dudes were raving about was pretty good tho.

The list on wikipedia of forthcoming/tenative albums for 2008 has left me cold.

The pop fire inside my chest has gone out!

ok well not completely:

Discipline by Janet Jackson
Tha Carter III by Lil' Wayne
Detox by Dr. Dre (really?)
Untitled by Beyonce

a lot more, most not very "pop" on stereogum:

http://stereogum.com/archives/stereogums-2008-album-forecast_007552.html

From last year's thread:

"Pop" sounds way more bland and chickenshit and compromised than "teenpop" to me; it's too all-encompassing (plus just wait until it gets overrun by Big Star and Blue Ash and Badfinger fans.) (Not that they should be shut out or anything. Sometimes I'm even one of those myself.)

And my problem with "U.S. charts" is, uh, what about teenpop that doesn't make the U.S. charts (like, say Skye Sweetnam and Hope Partlow and the Veronicas and Pretty Donkey and fill-in-the-Europop-star-I-never-heard-of in the past few years)? Where does that go?

I suggest: Rolling Bubblegum Thread '08. (But it's too late now, maybe.)

-- xhuxk, Monday, December 31, 2007 10:21 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

lol so girl talk is releasing a new album in 8 days apparently?

i'd like to think that this would be the rolling bubblegum 08 thread. i would like ppl to throw things at the wall to see what sticks, but i would hope that this thread last year wouldn't have elicited discussions on that new panda bear mp3.

sheryl crow should be for another thread as much as vampire weekend

But why? See, a rolling thread where people start out talking about what to leave off totally defeats the purpose. (That happened with the Rolling Punk-As-Long-As-You-Define-Punk-They-Way-We-Do thread last year, which seemed dead before it even got started.) Vampire Weekend and Sheryl Crow have fit in fine on the teenpop thread before, I thought (and the Vampire Weekend album isn't horrible, btw.)

But if you don't have any parameters what is the point of a Rolling Thread?

it's true that there's a lot of major label pop that never actually charts on the Hot 100 or really any other Billboard chart. I don't think anyone will call foul if that stuff gets brought up in a "rolling US charts" thread, though.

idk then, ppl can talk about whatever they want. i'm sure this thread's identity will be self-evident by feb or so. i'd prefer more talk about music than chart position, i just put chart position in the thread title bcuz we talked about pop on the 07 charts thread.

i brought up panda bear and vampire weekend bcuz they could be rightfully classified as pop, but for this thread i was thinking more towards, major-label pop/rock/rap that charts in the hot 100 or may chart in the top 100. a too broad rolling thread would just be the same as ILM w/ posts acting as new threads.

xp Rolling Threads figure out their "point" by the discussion building momentum, not by shutting themselves off to discussion from the gitgo; the best ones (Rolling Teenpop '06, Rolling Country '07) have never bothered to set parameters, and it made the discussion on them more interesting; people can figure out parameters (and ignore them at will, when it makes sense to do so) as they go.

^i guess this makes sense

Existence before essence, baby.

I don't think saying "we're going to limit this to music that could potentially appear on the billboard top 100" classifies as "shutting the thread off to discussion". It is a fairly vaired and wide-range category, there are threads about Vampire Weekend all over...

that sean kingston song is good.

xp Why do people think Vampire Weekend couldn't potentially appear on the Billboard Hot 100? (All they'd need these days is an iTunes ad. And I assume you mean the single; I'll be surprised if the album doesn't enter in the top half of the Billboard 200. Release date is Jan 29, right? So it's up against Simple Plan and Willie Nelson, I guess, and what else? Cheb I Sabbah?? I'm probably missing some important releases there, but it could easily top the Heatseekers chart, if nothing else.)

i agree w/chuck. prob is some people have this platonic idea of genres and categories.

and theres been enough threads on that.

thread closed on account of too much hand wringing

we'll try again in 2009!

I think ILM would be well served to have a rolling pop thread without the words "US" or "charts" in it...the US charts seems to suffer from a sad lack of proper pop these days anyhow.

Can I say how much I hate the phrase "proper pop"? Not saying you are, but a lot of people tend to use it as a convenient stand-in for "white". And I don't think anyone was trying to restrict this to "proper pop", anyway.

nothing scares me off a thread more than meta "but WHY NOT this?" blather. Bring up random shit, but please stop bringing up BRINGING UP random shit.

"Paralyzer" gives me hope that Electric Six could still someday have a crossover hit. That's basically what I like about it.

which rapper has the best questionably masculine handle on the charts right now: Flo Rida, Baby Bash or Plies? If only Soulja Boy spelled it Boi.

I think that everyone has their own meaning for "proper pop"...mine is any pop but teenpop, but YMMV, etc.

Vibe: "Plies is an interesting name for a rapper, how did you get that nickname?"

Plies: "Plies is a tool, You can use it to put the squeeze on things, like I'm doing to these niggas in the rap game. I got the squeeze on them real tight, they feeling the pressure, or you can use it to pull things out. I pull out all the bullshit and keep the real you feel me? It also a word you can use in terms of things goin' on in yo life, ya dig. You may hear something I say and say that it plies to me. Plies straight to me."

Vibe: "I've heard of a tool called a Pliers and the term applies."

Plies: "You know what I'm trying to say my nigga, just buy my album, I'm from the South my nigga, we don't learn no grammar. My Album out August 7, 2007, cop three copies each, it's Christmas in July fo' real, ya dig?

Well, at least that leaves the path clear for the inevitable resurgence of interest in Chaka Demus & Pliers following their appearance onstage at the AMAs with Alicia Keys, eh?

Would this be the point to mention that I did a rundown of the US Top 50 from a few weeks ago on my blog? Why not. In summary - kinda impressed by Sugarland and Taylor Swift, kinda going the hell off DJ Khaled.

uuummmmm

WE THE BEST

This is like the fourth straight #1 that I haven't heard prior to it becoming #1. Out of the loop, I guess.

It's partly iTunes and everything making hits rise much faster than they used to, and "Low" in particular kinda came outta nowhere. The last few before that (Alicia, Chris Brown, Soulja Boy) all had a good month or so of mainstream saturation before hitting #1, though.

WHO IS ASIA CRUISE?

( http://www.myspace.com/asiahitz .. those ads have been popping up everywhere for the last few months)

Thought that "Spring Street" on the recent Vanessa Carlton album was the best thing she ever did. Trying to do the mother-daughter continuity thing (a now-I-understand-you-mom song); her lyrics find a way to the obvious, but she's got this beautiful not-quite-a-kid anymore hum in her voice.

Yeah, it baffles me that you put "U.S. charts" in what you intended to be a general pop thread. What's the chance of Stephanie McIntosh or Ewa Farna or Kim-Lian ever charting in the U.S., or Dahv or Katy Rose ever charting anywhere, or Marit Larsen or Ashlee Simpson ever charting again? But then, since I chose not to start a thread, I shouldn't get into this. But also, nothing stopped you from waiting for the discussion to go further rather than unilaterally starting a thread.

But anyway, whether this thread gets interesting depends on whether people inspire themselves to actually say something about the music. But if someone starts a rolling everywhere everything bubblegum and popped thread, I'd take a look.

again, i made this the US charts thread because a. we had good discussion about pop on the us charts thread last year and b. it makes it obvious to people where they can talk about shit like "low" and "paralyzer" and "tattoo" etc. etc.

that said, i could care less what people talk about on here. pop music released in the us? cool? marit larsen? cooler. ppl letting thread titles derail whatever pop they want to talk about are on here are either taking this too seriously or idiotically stubborn.

if you want to talk about dahv or katy rose or whatever, and other ppl also want to talk about them, i see no reason why it can't be discussed here. if people bitch, it's gonna be reactionary anti-teen pop ppl, not anyoen trying to protect the integrity of the "charts" thread.

I think I just realized that the end of the Stylus Singles Jukebox is partially to blame for me not having heard these songs.

xp I consider this thread the 2008 version of the Rolling U.S. Charts thread. The only thing that's changed is that Jordan is letting us know we can talk about pop more broadly in it, too. Which we were kind of doing already last year, anyway.

i'm not exactly sure why ppl feel like their discussions are going to be curtailed here. if anything, combining teenpop crew w/ ppl who listen to broader pop but not teenpop will be a good thing.

Rolling Debutante Bubblegum Teenpop Thread 2008

aaaaaaaanway, i think it's because i'm living in a pretty hispanic-dominated market right now, but i keep hearing this great "calabria 2007" track on the radio (as much as say, "kiss kiss" even) a really great cheap sounding dancehall/reggae thing even though i think it comes from sweden. the beat is just this simple plastic horn loop but it's fire. i think lil jon samples it on new pitbull single.

also really liking the new trey songz. it might have j holiday potential.

new mary j. also growing on me. it sounded really thin to me the first few times i've heard it, but the verses are really great. still wish the hook had a little more too it but whatever. i like really overblown mary like "be without you" better than this but i don't mind hearing this in the car at all.

watched jordin sparks do "tattoo" for one of the networks' new years eve thing, and she was really fucking bland. i didn't watch her season of AI, but i can see why she's has yet to reach superstardom. she seemed really bored and it was just blah. still like the song though.

i can't believe anyone seriously listens to that crap. you've got to have, like, no mind

lol

yeah I liked Jordin on AI, but that was probably due to really thin competition that season. still, i don't get the sense that "Tattoo" or "This Is My Now" or anything else she's recorded really gives her a chance to perform the way she did on the show anyway.

"Just Fine" is my favorite Mary J. single in ages. don't know what I think about "Work That," though. (xpost)

I don't like any of the previous "Calabria" versions I've heard, but this one's alright. I haven't bothered to hear any of the new Pitbull, which is kind of weird of me because I've loved all his stuff in the past.

It's Danish, btw.

ah ok. i can't stress enough how much it's being played on the radio here in miami. also the new trina single which is pretty bug. the chorus sounds like kind of icy techno and verses talk about intimate details of dating wfb. it's really weird. trina sings the hook though and it's not half bad. not that a good look for her though.

haha, I always read "wfb" as "wtf"

3rd soulja boy single that's genuinely funny

I'm still confused about Trina dating William F. Buckley.

"aaaaaaaanway, i think it's because i'm living in a pretty hispanic-dominated market right now, but i keep hearing this great "calabria 2007" track on the radio (as much as say, "kiss kiss" even) a really great cheap sounding dancehall/reggae thing even though i think it comes from sweden. the beat is just this simple plastic horn loop but it's fire. i think lil jon samples it on new pitbull single."

I love the new version of "Calabria" with those hypnotic female dancehall vocals. In Australia this is basically received as house music (which, technically, the track actually is) - there was a rather tiresome bootleg with the vocal from Crystal Waters' house track "Destination Unknown" that remains inescapable on commercial radio.

It reminds me a bit of the dancehall/house fusion that Bob Sinclar's been trying to getoff the ground recently. But I like the idea of it being picked up and misappropriated in the US.

Yeah, but it has the reggaeton "dembow" rhythm, so I imagine it's being recieved as reggaeton here. This coincides with the trend in reggaeton toward faster bpms and a more four-to-the-floor feel.

jordan you should hear some of the other mary j songs on that album that are even better than Just Fine.

the thin thing --> not too much synth on a lot of tracks, but the beats/bass is not thin at ALL. really packs a huge punch.

For comparison:

Nejo & Dalmata, "Algo Musical" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjiPsRQ9-lk
Wisin y Yandel, "Sexy Movimiento" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9oFveyv94E
Tego Calderon, "Quitarte To" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8I4A7VSyhY

xp

"Yeah, but it has the reggaeton "dembow" rhythm, so I imagine it's being recieved as reggaeton here. This coincides with the trend in reggaeton toward faster bpms and a more four-to-the-floor feel."

yeah sorry I meant to make it clear that I can totally see how this would happen - it's partly because of the lack of a proper reggaeton scene that this probably won't happen in australia.

but i keep hearing this great "calabria 2007" track on the radio

My girlfriend heard that on the radio the other day and then made me listen to it on iTunes. It's pretty cool!

So, it's the second Billboard Hot 100 of 2007. What's happening:

"Low" spends a second week at #1, the rest of the top 4 is unchanged. "Soulja Boy" does rebound to #5, a rebound I'm assuming is gonna be short lived. "Apologize" apparently can't get over the hump and must be happy with a #2 peak. Other than Soulja's leap, not too much going on in the top 10, though Sara Bareilles is not just a one week wonder here. Does she have the staying power of Colbie Caillat or of Feist?

Sean Kingston's "Take You There", Good Charlotte's "I Don't Wanna Be In Love" and Taylor Swift's "Our Song" and "Teardrops on My Guitar" are steady climbers, the latter two being the biggest country crossover hits since "Before He Cheats". "Big Girls Don't Cry" is airplay gainer wtf. "Piece of Me" already falling. "Into the Night" and "Don't Stop the Music" are slowly crawling up. And "See You Again" jumps into the top 50, yay.

"Low" is growing on me more and more. Not the best f/ T-Pain hit but possibly the best rapping on any f/ T-Pain hit.

I'm feeling less and less charitable towards the Bedingfield/Kingston song since it's now official that "Babies" won't be on her U.S. album and whatever chance of it ever being a single here is nil.

From Fred Bronson, the #1's of 2007:

7 weeks: "Umbrella," Rihanna featuring Jay-Z
7 weeks: "Crank That (Soulja Boy)," Soulja Boy Tell'em
5 weeks: "No One," Alicia Keys
4 weeks: "Beautiful Girls," Sean Kingston
3 weeks: "Makes Me Wonder," Maroon 5
3 weeks: "Kiss Kiss," Chris Brown featuring T-Pain
2 weeks: "This Is Why I'm Hot," Mims
2 weeks: "Glamorous," Fergie featuring Ludacris
2 weeks: "Don't Matter," Akon
2 weeks: "Give It to Me," Timbaland featuring Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake
2 weeks: "Hey There Delilah," Plain White T's
1 week: "Say It Right," Nelly Furtado
1 week: "What Goes AroundýýComes Around," Justin Timberlake
1 week: "Girlfriend," Avril Lavigne
1 week: "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')," T-Pain featuring Yung Joc
1 week: "Big Girls Don't Cry," Fergie
1 week: "Stronger," Kanye West

some things:

-heard 'paralyzer' for the first time today. thought the music was pretty good but the vocals are way too aggro for me with like this big burly dude growling "I WANT TO MAKE YOU MOVE". no thx

- i dunno if they play birdman/wayne's 'poppin bottles' anywhere else (i've heard it like 12 times in the 3-week-long span that i've been home and not coincidentally all 12 times have been on the station where dj khaled works and 10 of the times have been on his show [this is the station that named "i'm so hood" the #1 'hottest' track of 07 mind you]) and they totally bleep out when wayne says "po it on the models/shut up bitch swallow/if you can't swallow/shut up bitch, googles" so it's like 2 seconds of silence and it's really disorienting every time and i can't ever remember a song that had that long of a censor

Down here in central NC they play "Poppin' Bottles" plenty frequently, and this makes me very happy.

Yeah "Pop Bottles" has been on the radio here constantly for weeks, if not months. And they don't even censor that swallow/gargle (lol googles) line except for the b-word. It's great to hear Jadakiss on the radio again, even if only as a 2-bar sample, especially since they leave the bottle popping sound effect from his track in there.

I think the longest stretch of dead air from censored lines on a recent hit was "Make It Rain," couple lines in a row that's nothing to references to bricks and weed and lean that made for a real garbled radio edit.

lol googles

interesting i thought no one outside of dj khaled had the patience for birdman anymore

well i mean obviously the song functions as part of the wfb hit parade more than a birdman song (there are SEVEN songs w/ wayne on his new album), but i actually do like his verses on "pop bottles" too.

i actually really like wayne's verse the more i hear it. kinda falls in between his serious rapping voice and his dumb-ass hyena howl.

birdman starting out the second verse by basically talking is hilarious.

birdman starting out the second every verse by basically talking is hilarious.

Chart news Miley Cyrus's "I'll See You Sometime If My Record Company Ever Notices That My Single Is A Hit And Decides To Play It On Their Own Radio Station" looks like it's stalling in the upper 40s. Snoop Dogg's "I Have Decided To Become A Novelty Act" jumps from 39 to 21; everything else is in stasis. (Remember two years ago when the Hot 100 was jumping every which way?) Enur f. Natasja "Calabria 2007" at 60 but not yet taking off the way it seemed it might. (Billboard is now calling it "Calabria 2008.") Would like to know more about Natasja, who was killed in a car crash last June. Was she Denmark's first dancehall star?

Hey, career artists are allowed to have a novelty hit now and then.

Also, a pretty funny review of the Birdman alb from Kelefa several weeks ago:

Birdman, a microphone, and no help in sight

Enur f. Natasja "Calabria 2007" at 60 but not yet taking off the way it seemed it might. (Billboard is now calling it "Calabria 2008.")

still loving the shit out of this

really liking new missy!!!

aka FUCK THE HATERS

like this pwns 90% of the new top 20 by like a mile and a half

Enur f. Natasja "Calabria 2007" at 60 but not yet taking off the way it seemed it might. (Billboard is now calling it "Calabria 2008.")

video to this = i would have sex with all this white girls

gr80808080

DAAMN "Ching-A-Ling" is pretty redonkulous.

Natasja Saad

UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

http://brownsista.com/wp-content/janet/janet-discipline.jpg

^^purported discipline cover

I like the concept but she looks dead in the face. She needs to learn how to *smile with her eyez*

ftr i don't really care about this record i just think that cover is fire

Enur f. Natasja "Calabria 2007" at 60 but not yet taking off the way it seemed it might. (Billboard is now calling it "Calabria 2008.")

The Anthem - Pitbull feat. Lil Jon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5nFbWLfRMc

xd

I'm posting this link here, even though this is a Japanese song, because I think it would interest some people who post on this thread (and will be lost on the "world music" thread), and it sounds close to stuff going on in US pop rock now (and it is a hit). Maybe there is a better thread? I would have stuck it on the rolling teenpop thread, because it's close enough, but the new title of the new version of it makes me think, nah.

Tokyo Jihen - Senko Shojo

(I have to say, a lot of their songs aren't this poppy. In fact, this one has taken me longer to get into probably because of how pop it is, but I like it, especially in combination with the video.)

new flo rida produced by timbo here:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9qWS9V0BLRA&feature=related

idk what i think of it yet but i reserve the right to like it in 2 months

the way they double-track flo rida 8 times over is so annoying

stuck on my umbrella ella ella vator! wicka wicka (bored!)

6/10

i dont know if its charted anywhere, but i'm loving yin yang's new joint, "DROP"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SfyuBO_YmM

Do i hear a faint JT in the background?

(in "Elevator")

I tried to get this girl to sing on a record i'm working on. Never happened, but i still digg her voice

woah grady8080 808080808080808 this song is gooooooooood

i would not be mad at ying yang having another massive single

the beasties sample really makes it

also haven't gotten sick of "please don't stop the music"

grady do you like "the way i are"

a lot.

yeah the ying yang song reminds me of that kinda, the keyboards esp.

also kinda like that dj felli fell single

So um they finally revealed who Asia Cruise is. Asia Cruise: The New Paula DeAnda/Cassie?

what is this slow piano ballad that never goes anywhere that's been getting all the play lately?

there are a lot of those

oh shit its a timbaland song?? 'apologize' wtf

it's not really a timbaland song he just put some asstastic drums on it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHfyDxy8i5o&feature=related

I'll be the person to actually stand up and say they like friggin' "Apologize".

The video is pure lulz. I don't think that's what they were going for, though.

have we talked about wynter gordon - surveillance here.

it is grebt.

i think i mentioned it in the r&b thread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbgqU4In8gs

My, my it is very nice. Thanks for the heads up. As for chart discussion, Yael Naim's "New Soul" just debuted at number 9 on the Hot 100 based strictly on digital sales from its inclusion in a MacBook Air commercial. It was only played on three Hot 100 stations according to Billboard. Pretty amazing for a pretty run-of-the-mill song. And I know, I know a one week digital sales spike can happen at any time, but this is one of the most indisputable cases of radio play not being at all necessary anymore.

Buckcherry back in the Top 10 with a horrid, horrid song. I enjoy a good comeback but not this one.

Yael Naim is up 9 to 7 this week - surprised me, if no one else.

Impressive that Rihanna's gone to No. 3 with the fourth single off that album. I thought the success of "Don't Stop the Music" might help Michael Jackson's revisited "Wanna Be Startin' Something," but no such.

Flo Max is still at No. 1 and may never ever leave. Unless Mariah, who's in at 78 with "Touch My Body," bullets to the top with a full week of airplay. (Is it a digital single yet?)

On the bright side, Lupe Fiasco's "Superstar" has become a bona fide hit, this week up from 25 to 21.

that's not a bright side.

I like "Superstar," but "Kick, Push" deserved it more.

^cosign

every top 10 this year has been so dire

i mean it's a pretty bad sign i think when i'm excited that the 3rd sean kingston single is hanging around in the top 10

HOW IS APOLOGIZE STILL IN THE TOP 5 HOW HOW HOW HOW HOWH OWH OWHOW HOWHOWHO WH WOHWOHW OWHOW

glad to see sensual seduction up there though

kind of crazy that "Independent" is already peaking 20-something spots higher than "Wipe Me Down" ever got.

half the songs in the top 40 are so old i don't even think i've heard them this year.

Keyshia Cole's "I Remember"got to #1 on the R&b charts this week. Well deserved, finally dethroned fucking Alicia Keys. EUGH.

"Falsetto" moving up from 51 to 39 is pretty big... "Feedback" is a officially a flop now I guess (56 to 61...).

yeah this is a pretty unremarkable top 40 but it's only February... plus there are some interesting moves being made. "Sensual Secuction," "No Air," "Falsetto," "Touch My Body," "Suffocate" , etc.

and yeah it is kind of shocking that "Independent" is becoming so big... great song tho,

I dance on "Feedback"'s grave, preferably to the beat of a better song.

woah Miley Cyrus actually crossing over to legitimate pop radio.

I think Janet's new single "Luv" will do fairly well

ok cool about "falsetto" and "independent"

I'm the only one around here who likes "Apologize", am't I?

I don't hate it

"independent" is rad

this should be charting higher, imo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu9KBjAflK8

otm

i think flo rida is my least favorite popular rapper of the past 3-4 years. maybe chingy. i'll stop listening to music if i ever like a flo rida song bcuz of flo rida. his new single w/ timbaland is passable but his verses are the worst thing in the milky way right now

this is it: http://videos.onsmash.com/v/5QwLJwTL35aDzyW6

i mean has there been a more generic looking rapper in the history of the game? he's like what an snl parody of 50 cent would've looked like in 2004 right down to the motherfucking wife beater

i thought dude was gonna be nice bcuz ppl were talking about that he had song w/ rick ross like it was some real underground/overlooked smash like how people talk about like dg yola or fam lay but he is the worst of all bad pop-rap shit. dude is really the fucking colbie callait of rap.

that he had song w/ rick ross that song he had w/ rick ross

u mad

"Ghetto Techno" = +++

u mad

otm

i like the chingy/ amerie joint

yeah like i don't think i've ever minded a chingy single really (actively like "right thurr" and kinda feelin his new one w/ luda) but he's almost inexcusably vapid imo

"One Call Away" 4eva.

joint with Amerie is good but almost too slick for Chingy, like if Zac Efron did a romantic comedy without corny song interludes.

damn Jordan, I wouldn't say Flo Rida is above criticism, but it's weird when someone who gives a pass to Plies turns around and goes THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN HERE about two inches over.

Plies aounds enough like T.I. that I'm cool with him.

yeah it's not like i won't ride for mediocre rappers (or at least songs by mediocre rappers) but flo rida popularity baffles me. i mean obv i know it's bcuz he has a decent song w/ t-pain on the hook (hello plies) but still i'm surprisde more people aren't calling flo rida out for being a chucklehead. i guess ppl don't care?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjnFdeuW7sY

Have we talked about "Rock With U"? Oh shit oh shit oh holy shit this is awesome.

Janet, u r forgiven.

Q - who was the last French artist to have any kind of hit in the US before Yael Naim? I'm struggling to think of anyone...

j0rdan's pretty otm, plies is way more defensible

Q - who was the last French artist to have any kind of hit in the US before Yael Naim? I'm struggling to think of anyone...

Best I can come up with: Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg's "Je T'Aime ... Mon Non Plus" reached #58 in 1970. Claudine Longet had five songs in the Hot 100 between 1966-68, though none reached higher than #30. Edith Piaf's "Milord" hit #88 in 1961.

I'd have thought that there'd have been a new-wave band from France, but I guess they were all British and German. And Technotronic was Belgian.

Don't forget Daft Punk. Both "Around the World" and "One More Time" reached #61 on the Hot 100. Although, I'm not sure those really qualify as hits. I'm actually surprised they got that high.

Wait, really? I didn't even look them up because I assumed they wouldn't have placed at all. Wow.

dude "Around The World" was pretty big

That was during my dark period, admittedly.

Yeah, it really was, but to me it seemed like it was something I would've expect to be number one on the Club chart but maybe not on the Billboard 100.

Okay, whenever I heard the "it's too late to apologize" line I immediately want to sing "and I can't beeeeee without you babe".

haha woah that is a little uncanny.

hahaha wooooahaha

Don't forget Daft Punk. Both "Around the World" and "One More Time" reached #61 on the Hot 100. Although, I'm not sure those really qualify as hits. I'm actually surprised they got that high.

-- matt2, Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:00 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

...and "Music Sounds Better With You" reached #62. Daft Punk be placin' in the low 60s.

warning track power

Crazy. I seriously thought for a long time that "Music Sounds Better With You" was like blog-house or something; I didn't hear it until 2004 (probably via an ILX poll) and had no idea it was from the '90s, much less a semi-popular song.

Wow, I really can't believe that about "Music Sound Better With You." I don't ever recall seeing that anywhere on MTV or even late night radio mix shows (the only place you really heard dance music in NC). I mean I saw the video to "Around the World" many times and would hear it around occasionally, but never "Music Sound Better With You." This reminds me that I had "Around the World" on a Virgin label sampler record store cassette freebie thing. On of my roomie's hated it, but two of us loved it so it saw many rewinds. As a college student, I collected those free in store cassette/cd things like crazy. Okay, I'll stop now.

Yeah I never heard it until well after the fact, either.

you guys are weird as fuck!!!

the song got played the hell out from the time it dropped for like the next three years

Rev isnt weird he's just young
but the rest of you ...!

xp Well, let's be honest, Rodney was like 5 years old at the time, and I was only listening to records on Matador and Thrill Jockey.

this felt kind of ubiquitous at parties i was going to tho

I was about 12 at the time, and that didn't stop me from hearing "Around the World" when it came out.

Deej, I have always had a feeling that your parties have been v. different from mine. Most of the parties I went to in college involved putting on Moby's Play at midnight and Pinkerton at 2 AM.

oof Moby!! i mean they played the strokes at every indie kid party i went to my fresh. year but msbwy still seemed pretty ubiquitous

i couldn't imagine hearing one more time or around the world on the radio but i assumed they were both pretty ubiquitous

i heard "one more time" quite frequently..."around the world" not so much

werent you like 7 years old when 'around the world' came out

Recently I heard "One More Time" followed by "I Believe I Can Fly" on the radio. That was pretty wtf.

yes, but i grew up watching MTV.

Your missing piece of the puzzle, Modjo's 'Lady', got to number 81.

Recently I heard "One More Time" followed by "I Believe I Can Fly" on the radio. That was pretty wtf.

-- The Reverend, Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:06 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

KBRO

KBRO in Bremerton and KNTB in Lakewood, both Washington, are a pair of simulcasting Spanish-language religious radio stations serving the Puget Sound region. KBRO broadcasts at 1490 kHz with an ERP of 1 kW-U, while KNTB broadcasts at 1480 kHz with an ERP of 1 kW-D/0.111 kW-N. Both stations are owned by Seattle Streaming Radio, LLC.

wow @ that, not to mention it being in washington

I had no idea, either.

BROmerton

lol Grammy effect

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn

Janet's Discipline is kicking my ass! There are really only 2 duds as I see it--"Never Letchu Go" and "Greatest X". Otherwise I've been listening to this straight through over and over. Even the skits are hilarious, especially "Good Morning Janet" where she sounds like she's emerging from some sort of embryonic cocoon before some counseling from Keoko. The Missy track is maybe a bit lacking (with Missy insisting that "This is crazy!"), but I think it's growing on me.

Overall I had very low expectations for this so I'm pleasantly surprised. I hope it's received well. I feel like if this had come out before her last two relative duds, it would be welcomed with open arms.

WHAT DO WE THINK ABOUT THE BUCKCHERRY SINGLE?

i really like it

alex how do you feel about it?

sub-"Delilah"

yeah, "Sorry" does nothing for me. "Everything" was about as wussy a song as I'm interested in hearing from Buckcherry, and I didn't even like that one that much. can't believe they're working the 5th single from a 2-year-old album.

^^plain white t's strategy

not really -- PWT have one hit song, which they kept re-releasing over and over (on an album, then an EP, then on another album) until it finally became a smash, where Buckcherry released a bunch of singles off one album and two were very gradual sleeper hits, and they finally took that momentum and knocked it out of the park with a big instant ballad hit.

so we should see some big movers next week with 'no air' (hear this all the time now, jumped 11 spots), 'love in club' and 'elevator' (which jumped 70+ spots this week) all in the itunes top 5

Leona Lewis, Simon Cowell's pet project over in the UK, is making dents on the charts here already with Bleeding Love. She's going to get the Idol bump (maybe performing on elimination night after the Beatles ep?) so look out for her.

btw i meant big movers into the top 10, hopefully we can finally say good riddance to apologize and no one

How the hell has "Low" sold 3 million copies?

"Touch My Body" jumps from 57 to 34 in it's SECOND WEEK. CRAZINESS.

it's going to go straight to #1 when it's released on iTunes.

!!!!!!!11!!!!1

BILLBOARD HOT 100 - TOP 50
1 1 FLO RIDA LOW/JEALOUS
2 2 CHRIS BROWN WITH YOU
3 3 RIHANNA DON'T STOP THE MUSIC (JODY DEN
5 4 SARA BAREILLES LOVE SONG
4 5 KEYS*ALICIA NO ONE
6 6 TIMBALAND/ONEREPUBLIC APOLOGIZE - SINGLE
7 7 SNOOP DOGG SENSUAL SEDUCTION
8 8 SEAN KINGSTON TAKE YOU THERE
10 9 WEBBIE, LIL' PHAT & INDEPENDENT
9 10 BUCKCHERRY SORRY
11 11 MILEY CYRUS SEE YOU AGAIN
14 12 FIASCO*LUPE SUPERSTAR
23 13 JORDIN SPARKS DUET NO AIR
15 14 ALICIA KEYS LIKE YOU'LL NEVER SEE ME AGAIN
16 15 LINKIN PARK SHADOW OF THE DAY
13 16 TAYLOR SWIFT TEARDROPS ON MY GUITAR
12 17 FERGIE CLUMSY [FEAT. SOULJA BOY TELL
29 18 RAY J FEAT. YUNG BERG SEXY CAN I
18 19 J. HOLIDAY SUFFOCATE
17 20 JORDIN SPARKS TATTOO
19 21 CAILLAT*COLBIE BUBBLY - SINGLE
21 22 FINGER ELEVEN PARALYZER
22 23 JEAN*WYCLEF SWEETEST GIRL (DOLLAR BILL)
24 24 KEYSHIA COLE I REMEMBER
31 25 JONAS BROTHERS WHEN YOU LOOK ME IN THE EYES
20 26 ONEREPUBLIC STOP AND STARE
27 27 BLIGE*MARY J. JUST FINE
100 28 FLO RIDA FEATURING ELEVATOR
25 29 BROWN*CHRIS KISS KISS
35 30 CARRIE UNDERWOOD ALL-AMERICAN GIRL
26 31 PLIES HYPNOTIZED
28 32 BEDINGFIELD*NATASHA LOVE LIKE THIS
34 33 TREY SONGZ CAN'T HELP BUT WAIT
57 34 MARIAH CAREY TOUCH MY BODY
30 35 TAYLOR SWIFT OUR SONG
39 36 THE-DREAM FALSETTO
40 37 MARIO CRYING OUT FOR ME
33 38 KANYE WEST FEATURIN FLASHING LIGHTS
32 39 BRITNEY SPEARS PIECE OF ME
36 40 SANTANA FEATURING C INTO THE NIGHT
38 41 FERGIE BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY
50 42 SHAWTY LO DEY KNOW
41 43 BILLY RAY CYRUS READY, SET, DON'T GO - SINGLE
52 44 FAT JOE I WON'T TELL
44 45 RODNEY ATKINS CLEANING THIS GUN (COME ON IN
49 46 ENUR FEATURING NATA CALABRIA 2008
51 47 DAUGHTRY FEELS LIKE TONIGHT
37 48 RIHANNA FEATURING N HATE THAT I LOVE YOU
42 49 YAEL NAIM NEW SOUL
43 50 GARY ALLAN WATCHING AIRPLANES - SINGLE

INTERESTING MOVES & DEBUTS
83 51 USHER FEATURING YOU LOVE IN THIS CLUB
60 53 JACKSON*JANET FEEDBACK (REMIXES)
54 GEORGE STRAIT I SAW GOD TODAY
85 62 LEWIS*LEONA BLEEDING LOVE - SINGLE
71 63 MISSY ELLIOTT CHING-A-LING
88 66 CHERISH FEATURING Y KILLA
82 79 COLBIE CAILLAT REALIZE
-- 80 ABDUL*PAULA DANCE LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW
-- 92 LIL MAMA FEATURING SHAWTY GET LOOSE
-- 93 JAMES OTTO JUST GOT STARTED LOVIN' YOU
-- 94 3 DOORS DOWN IT'S NOT MY TIME
-- 95 MISSY ELLIOTT SHAKE YOUR POM POM
-- 96 BUCKY COVINGTON IT'S GOOD TO BE US
-- 97 PHIL VASSAR LOVE IS A BEAUTIFUL THING
-- 99 FLEX TE QUIERO

BUBBLING UNDER
8 2 BRITNEY SPEARS BREAK THE ICE
10 5 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS DONDE ESTAN CORAZON
13 6 BADU*ERYKAH HONEY
16 8 BOW WOW & OMARION HEY BABY (JUMP OFF)
-- 12 GLEN HANSARD & MARK FALLING SLOWLY
20 13 THE BRAVERY BELIEVE
-- 17 MATCHBOX TWENTY THESE HARD TIMES

R&B 100
1 1 KEYSHIA COLE I REMEMBER
2 2 ALICIA KEYS LIKE YOU'LL NEVER SEE ME AGAIN
3 3 J. HOLIDAY SUFFOCATE
4 4 BLIGE*MARY J. JUST FINE
7 5 CHRIS BROWN WITH YOU
23 15 USHER FEATURING YOU LOVE IN THIS CLUB
20 18 MARIAH CAREY TOUCH MY BODY
45 46 JANET LUV
93 61 ASHANTI THE WAY THAT I LOVE YOU
76 63 FLO RIDA FEATURING ELEVATOR
75 65 TIMBALAND/ONEREPUBLIC APOLOGIZE - SINGLE
81 66 MARY J. BLIGE HURT AGAIN
84 67 ALICIA KEYS TEENAGE LOVE AFFAIR
83 76 RIHANNA DON'T STOP THE MUSIC
73 79 JACKSON*JANET FEEDBACK

also surprising is how well Ray J's single is doing...

paula abdul gets her first top 100 hit in 13 years

Really happy to see "Teenage Love Affair" charting, one of only a couple really fun, enjoyable songs on the Alicia Keys album and up until this point I'd only seen indications that one of the really bad boring songs would be the next single.

"Wreckless Love" is slated to be the next song - it's probably my favorite song on the album so I'm happy with that choice.

Yeah that's the other song I really like that I was referring to, I'd really be fine with either of those being a hit.

-- 99 FLEX TE QUIERO
-- 99 FLEX TE QUIERO
-- 99 FLEX TE QUIERO
-- 99 FLEX TE QUIERO
-- 99 FLEX TE QUIERO
-- 99 FLEX TE QUIERO
-- 99 FLEX TE QUIERO
-- 99 FLEX TE QUIERO

RIP

The artist that goes by the name of Flex has appeared from seemingly nowhere to becoming a fixture in the top 10 of the Billboard charts.

A native of Panama, Flex's success here is a continuation of his initial success in Mexico. There, under a different artistic name (which was changed for his U.S. release as it is a derogatory term for African Americans), Flex had been charting high thanks to his single "Te Quiero." Now, Flex is repeating the feat here in the United States, with "Te Quiero," the single, and the The Romantic Style/Te Quiero, the album.

flex te what, flex te who

I remember bumping into Flex on the Mexican charts under His Other Name occasionally, and always wondering if he was entirely sure what he was playing at...

It's also worth mentioning that 'Bleeding Love' has basically been crushing charts all over the world, not just the UK. Australia, Germany, Sweden... all over the shop. It's coming to get you, basically.

BILLBOARD HOT 100 - TOP 50
51 1 USHER FEATURING YOU LOVE IN THIS CLUB
1 2 FLO RIDA LOW/JEALOUS
2 3 CHRIS BROWN WITH YOU
3 4 RIHANNA DON'T STOP THE MUSIC (JODY DEN
4 5 SARA BAREILLES LOVE SONG (still bulleted)
13 6 JORDIN SPARKS DUET NO AIR
6 7 TIMBALAND/ONEREPUBLIC APOLOGIZE - SINGLE
5 8 KEYS*ALICIA NO ONE
9 9 WEBBIE, LIL' PHAT & INDEPENDENT
7 10 SNOOP DOGG SENSUAL SEDUCTION
12 11 FIASCO*LUPE SUPERSTAR
10 12 BUCKCHERRY SORRY
18 13 RAY J FEAT. YUNG BERG SEXY CAN I
11 14 MILEY CYRUS SEE YOU AGAIN
8 15 SEAN KINGSTON TAKE YOU THERE
28 16 FLO RIDA FEATURING ELEVATOR
15 17 LINKIN PARK SHADOW OF THE DAY
14 18 ALICIA KEYS LIKE YOU'LL NEVER SEE ME AGAIN
53 19 JACKSON*JANET FEEDBACK (REMIXES)
19 20 J. HOLIDAY SUFFOCATE
17 21 FERGIE CLUMSY [FEAT. SOULJA BOY TELL
16 22 TAYLOR SWIFT TEARDROPS ON MY GUITAR
20 23 JORDIN SPARKS TATTOO
34 24 MARIAH CAREY TOUCH MY BODY
21 25 CAILLAT*COLBIE BUBBLY - SINGLE
22 26 FINGER ELEVEN PARALYZER
26 27 ONEREPUBLIC STOP AND STARE
24 28 KEYSHIA COLE I REMEMBER
30 29 CARRIE UNDERWOOD ALL-AMERICAN GIRL
23 30 JEAN*WYCLEF SWEETEST GIRL (DOLLAR BILL)
25 31 JONAS BROTHERS WHEN YOU LOOK ME IN THE EYES
42 32 SHAWTY LO DEY KNOW
27 33 BLIGE*MARY J. JUST FINE
37 34 MARIO CRYING OUT FOR ME
36 35 THE-DREAM FALSETTO
29 36 BROWN*CHRIS KISS KISS
38 37 KANYE WEST FEATURIN FLASHING LIGHTS
44 38 FAT JOE I WON'T TELL
35 39 TAYLOR SWIFT OUR SONG
45 40 RODNEY ATKINS CLEANING THIS GUN (COME ON IN
62 41 LEWIS*LEONA BLEEDING LOVE - SINGLE
32 42 BEDINGFIELD*NATASHA LOVE LIKE THIS
47 43 DAUGHTRY FEELS LIKE TONIGHT
33 44 TREY SONGZ CAN'T HELP BUT WAIT
41 45 FERGIE BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY
31 46 PLIES HYPNOTIZED
46 47 ENUR FEATURING NATA CALABRIA 2008
54 48 GEORGE STRAIT I SAW GOD TODAY
39 49 BRITNEY SPEARS PIECE OF ME
68 50 LIFEHOUSE WHATEVER IT TAKES

INTERESTING MOVES & DEBUTS
58 56 CASCADA WHAT HURTS THE MOST
63 60 MISSY ELLIOTT CHING-A-LING
-- 61 GLEN HANSARD & MARK FALLING SLOWLY
79 71 COLBIE CAILLAT REALIZE
80 72 ABDUL*PAULA DANCE LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW
-- 86 COLBY O'DONIS FEATU WHAT YOU GOT
-- 88 BADU*ERYKAH HONEY
-- 89 DOLLA WHO THE f**k IS THAT
-- 94 NATASHA BEDINGFIELD POCKETFUL OF SUNSHINE
-- 95 LADY ANTEBELLUM LOVE DON'T LIVE HERE
-- 98 RAHEEM DEVAUGHN WOMAN
-- 100 BRITNEY SPEARS BREAK THE ICE

BUBBLING UNDER
-- 2 JANET LUV
17 12 MATCHBOX TWENTY THESE HARD TIMES
-- 13 KATE VOEGELE WISH YOU WERE
-- 14 ASHANTI THE WAY THAT I LOVE YOU
-- 16 NE-YO GO ON GIRL
-- 19 DANITY KANE DAMAGED
-- 21 JANET ROCK WITH U

R&B 100
1 1 KEYSHIA COLE I REMEMBER
2 2 ALICIA KEYS LIKE YOU'LL NEVER SEE ME AGAIN
3 3 J. HOLIDAY SUFFOCATE
7 4 THE-DREAM FALSETTO
4 5 BLIGE*MARY J. JUST FINE
15 11 USHER FEATURING YOU LOVE IN THIS CLUB
18 15 MARIAH CAREY TOUCH MY BODY
46 34 JANET LUV
61 49 ASHANTI THE WAY THAT I LOVE YOU
67 60 ALICIA KEYS TEENAGE LOVE AFFAIR
79 71 JACKSON*JANET FEEDBACK

WOW @ "Feedback"'s rebound. and New #1 finally!!!

CLIMB MARIAH CLIMB

i heard 'low' and 'irreplaceable' on the radio at the same time the other day. thought it was some weird/cool synergy

nice to see Ms. Badu place

wtf is a "Lady Antebellum"

so it tuns out i really like the second alicia keys single, despite those shitty twinkling bells

2nd alicia keys single has always good, 1st single surprised me by becoming good after a long period of sucking

help me, I like "With You"

lurving chris brown is nothing to be ashamed of

I know, it's just that his previous two singles were ridiculously awful and he's awful on that Lil Mama song and beyond awful on that Rihanna remix that I heard eight-thousand-seven-hundred-and-twenty-three times and just expected his to keep being awful awful awful.

yeah 'with you' grows on me every time i hear it which is thankfully not too often

chris brown mostly annoys me but the song "take you down" on his now album is a JAM. and of course he's on "no air" which redeems all of his other musical sins

Um, is no one else mindblown that Usher just popped up at number one after seemingly stumbling along with leaks that didn't get much of a reaction? What do folks think about "Love In the Club"? I know The Reverend doesn't think much of it from the R&B thread, but I'm kinda feeling it. Although the Jeezy verse could please disappear and I'd be quite happy. But still 51 --> 1 is a little surprising to me. I thought Usher may have lost his fire after the Luda thing just fizzled, but this is pretty impressive.

"Love Is in the Club" jumped to number one because it was first available on iTunes this week. He is still Usher after all. The real test will be to see how much staying power it has. Personally, I think it's pretty mediocre.

Yeah, Greg OTM. These big jumps don't really mean anything anymore.

I know I'm really late to the party, but "Low" is pretty good!!

lol. r u srs?

I don't really listen to the radio anymore; I have an iPod and I subscribe to a bunch of mp3 blogs, so I'm pretty self-sustaining. I need to get back into the game though. Are there any pop radio stations based out of Seattle besides KISS?

And does anyone else hear Timbo/Timba/Nelly's "Give It To Me" in "Low"? Those beep beep beeps in the bg sound a lot like it.

"Low" reminds me more of Unk's "Walk It Out" than anything else.

musically: There's kube 93, but that's rap/r&b, rather than top 40. They certainly play the hell out of "Low".

why is hallelujah by jeff buckley the number one song on itunes

a kid sang it on American Idol

ok figured i had missed a new apple commercial

lol ^^^ ilm in a doucheshell

?

douche?

jokes (about the snobbery everyone on ilm is guilty of), bruv

musically: There's kube 93, but that's rap/r&b, rather than top 40. They certainly play the hell out of "Low".

Ah, KUBE. If I really were into hip-hop, I think I'd listen to X104 instead...it's a HS-run station out of Mercer Island with basically the same playlist but minus the on-air "personalities" and commercials. X104 used to be more like KISS, with Top 40 pop and R&B, so it's unfortunate that it changed. The station I would LOVE to listen to is C89.5, which is dance radio, but I cannot get it on decent reception and could only listen to it when I worked in Seattle city limits. Same with 90.9 (top 40, operated out of a college in Tacoma). Obviously I could listen to anything on my computer, but I've always had a wish to find a local radio station I really enjoyed that didn't sound like crap when I use my stereo.

I love love love "With You," it's the first midtempo Chris Brown song I've heard that was halfway decent. And yeah I just heard it a couple of days ago.

Huh. I get C89.5 just fine out here in Everett, but I've never managed to receive X104 at all. I only even know about it because I ran across the station's website, and I'm convinced it's as mythical as the minotaur. What is nice though, is that I can get the Beat 94.5, which is Vancouver's top 40 station, although truth be told, I've barely listened to them since they switched from the hiphop format they had roughly 2002-2005.

I shouldn't say C89 comes in "just fine", per se. It's a bit fuzzy where I'm at, but go about a mile in any direction, and it's crystal clear.

Tangent for chart junkies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_that_air_Casey_Kasem's_American_Top_40:_The_70's

Is Flo Rida a big star? I see him at the top of all these charts, but is it just a momentary thing/a fluke or is he a "Next Big Thing" to watch?

I guess Flo Rida is from my state, Flo-rida.

Flo Rida is not a big star at all, no, just one of the (many) rappers who got T-Pain on a hook during his hot streak, and somehow managed to ride it to a bigger hit than Plies or whoever did. He was barely even known in Southern hip hop before "Low," but that song's success I guess makes him an instant next big thing, Timbaland follow-up at all. I like him but I definitely don't see him as a potential A-list star.

I love love love "With You," it's the first midtempo Chris Brown song I've heard that was halfway decent. And yeah I just heard it a couple of days ago.

-- musically, Sunday, 9 March 2008 02:27 (19 hours ago) Link

u mad, his other midtempo songs ("Yo," "Kiss Kiss") are just about the only ones I can tolerate, "With You" is just lukewarm Stargate leftovers.

I know I'm way out of music's pop culture loop, but it seems to me -- and again, I'm just going by glancing at the pop charts once in a while -- that there are fewer and fewer A-list big stars with long careers. Seems like now there's more one-hit or a few-hit wonders then ever before.

But again, I realize that I might be laboring under a complete misperception. Am I?

I think that's part total truth, part misperception (because of course you only remember the A-list stars from the past, if you look at charts from way back then of course you'll see a ton of forgettable people with just that one big song), and part because hits are now very much driven by producers, songwriters and featured artists, which is why you get a big song "by" Flo Rida seemingly out of nowhere that's really just part of T-Pain's hit parade.

I am totally down with lukewarm Stargate leftovers.

'yo'>>>>>>>>>>>>>'with you'

'kiss kiss' is still the shit

blog house 'remix' the only bearable part of my unfortunate blog house club excursion two weeks ago

"Kiss Kiss" isn't midtempo, is it? Basically I meant that "With You" was the only ballad-y CB song I've liked.

I shouldn't say C89 comes in "just fine", per se. It's a bit fuzzy where I'm at, but go about a mile in any direction, and it's crystal clear.

Yeah, I can hear it in the car, but not at home.

well, I'll give you that "With You" is better than his other ballads, but I think "Kiss Kiss" is still midtempo (at least compared to stuff like "Run It" and "Wall To Wall" that beats you over the head with THIS IS A CLUB HIT signifiers).

Is it time for me to point out again that "Right Time" is by far the single best Chris Brown song and is both a ballad and midtempo? Also, "With You" is just fine, but c'mon who doesn't start singing "to the left, to the left" after the first 10 seconds. Stargate really, really have proven to be extraordinarily not diverse in their sound palette.

If by "Right Time" you mean "Say Goodbye," that shit is as much a smudged xerox of Usher's "Burn" as "Burn" was a smudged xerox of his own "U Got It Bad." Even the bridge is just "ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, can you feel me burnin'?" changed to "oh oh oh oh oh oh, do you hear me cryin'?" Those who don't know their R&B ballads are doomed to repeat them.

Yeah, sorry wrong name. Not sure how that happened. I guess I am doomed to repeat my R&B ballads then (whatever that actually means). And I prefer "Burn", "U Got It Bad", and "Say Goodbye" to "With You".

Oh I agree, "With You" is balls. I'm just saying it's no more copied from a formula that "Say Goodbye."

colby o donnis (?) and akon- what you got

this is pretty good imo. added to the list of things i wouldn't mind hearing all summer.

i know i'm like a billion blogyears late, but "love in da club" is like angelic choirs on cotton candy clouds type shit

^ this means it is awesome

it's also an apt description for those of us who think the song is some weakass tinkerbell shit, too.

We should have a "rolling charts thread for people who just heard that song that's been #1 for 3 months".

it's also an apt description for those of us who think the song is some weakass tinkerbell shit, too.

-- Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:54 PM

yeah i figured it was properly ambiguous

somehow i got sick of "sensual seduction" before i got sick of "Low"

"Sensual Seduction" I pretty much ignored for a long time, now I'm like alright, this is a catchy song.

heard sensual seduction twice tonight and loved it as much as i ever did

the edited version>>>>>>>>>sexual eruption

true, actually

I'm not sure I've even hear the "sexual eruption" version. and I've heard "Sensual Seduction" in clubs with the swears in the verses left in.

This week: "Love In This Club" holds strong at #1, but Chris Brown is still beating at the door. "Touch My Body" is up to #16 on airplay only, pretty impressive and likely to be another chart topper for Ms. Carey once released on iTunes. "Love Song" is still pushing up there, and has had much more staying power than I would have predicted. It's been overplayed but I still like it a lot! Lupe Fiasco's "Superstar" pushes into the top 10. Miley Cyrus is still sitting just outside. "All American Girl" making a slow climb towards being another huge Carrie Underwood crossover success. Soulja Boy's next single enters the top 50, let's see if he can avoid being remembered as a one hit wonder.

Airplay gainer = "No Air", Sales Gainer = "Bleeding Love", which jumps up to #21 and is now officially a cross-Atlantic hit! And "Hallelujah" hits #1 on the digital sales chart, thanks to Jason Castro. I wonder how high it would be on the hot 100 if eligible. We'll never know!

Also "Bleeding Love" is now up to #3 on the iTunes top 100!

WHAT DO WE THINK ABOUT THE BUCKCHERRY SINGLE?

I give them some strange sort of baffled propers for riding a Bush crib (BUSH FFS!) to their greatest-ever chart success, but it's really all been downhill since "Porno Star"...

has anyone heard the Cassie produced by Danja? I heard it's gonna blow up

The Buckcherry and the "Bleeding Love" make my eyes bleed tears of pain. I absolutely despise both of those.

So did radio reject Yael Naim, or simply not give her a chance?

48 57 Soulja Boy Tell'em Featuring Arab YAHHH!

^^this looks hilarious on the chart

48 57 Soulja Boy Tell'em Featuring Arab YAHHH!

^^this looks YAHHHHHHHH TRICK YAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

-- J0rdan S., Friday, March 14, 2008 2:53 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

'kiss kiss' Low is still the shit

blog house 'remix' the only bearable part of my unfortunate blog house club excursion two weeks ago last nite

-- deej, Sunday, March 9, 2008 4:31 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Link

shit teyana taylor "google me" is really good

i was all set to hate on it because i saw her episode of my super sweet 16 and she was a total brat and completely unlikable-- maybe playing up to the shows rep, and google me obv does nothing to mask her conceitedness-- but the chorus is really lush even though the rapping is just C+ at best

Ne-Yo - Closer

in the vein of "the way i are" and "please dont stop the music" or riding their coattails?

i think there was some talk about that in the r&b thread grady

i saw her episode of my super sweet 16

wait she was on the show??

google me is hotness

yeah like, pharrell was in it and they said she was signed to star trek. she was wearing bathing apes and ice creams etc. and i never thought i'd hear a word from her again but whaddya know

i give her the benefit of the doubt kinda because i'm sure mtv edits the shit out those to make every subject seem like a total bitchy brat

yeah i mean that's the draw of the show

MADE is filming at my school, and they've asked several of my friends to talk shit about their subject.

what's the person wanna be made into?

they've gone through at least three people, i think. first one wanted to be a prom queen, they showed up and asked her to be a cheerleader, she was pissed but went on until they decided to stop...another guy wanted to be a ladies man and is still filming, i think??? there's a third girl, and i don't remember what she wants to be

oh lol i didn't know the process was like that

i was always like "who the fuck would apply to be on made"

admittedly i don't watcha s much mtv as i used to but how did a group i've never heard of in my life just sell 190 thousand copies of an album

did they even have a single on the charts? a mention in the r&b thread even?

you've never heard of Dannity Kane?

nah dude Day26

ohhhh, yeah neither did I until someone on here told me to dolwnload their remix with Fat Joe and Rick Ross and I've listened to it a bunch of times actually

or "had I" SORRY EVERYBODY

just further proof that Diddy is a genius

I really just barely started to hear the Day26 single during the week of the album release, it hasn't gotten very far up the charts yet (not in the Hot 100, down at #39 on R&B chart). I guess it just goes to show that TV trumps music in terms of audience size every time, even w/ some random basic cable show that nobody I know watches.

by that logic tila tequilla would be able to move like 2.6 million copies in her first week if she dropped an album

not that i disagree with you at all

day 26 is fairly popular w/ 106&Park viewers because QWANELL AND WILLIE ARE SO HAWT OMG. so I'm not surprised that they went to #1. Their album has some bangers on it.. "Together" = !!!.

yeah i know, a dozen used bin fillers from American Idol can disprove what i said, but it's not a hard and fast rule (ok i said "every time" but disregard that). just i'm never surprised when reality shows and random background music on Grey's Anatomy have a huge impact on music sales.

tw/lw/wks on/song title/artist
1 15 7 Touch My Body, Mariah Carey
2 2 7 Love In This Club, Usher Featuring Young Jeezy
3 68 5 4 Minutes, Madonna Featuring Justin Timberlake
4 1 7 Bleeding Love, Leona Lewis
5 6 13 No Air, Jordin Sparks Duet With Chris Brown
6 3 9 Sexy Can I, Ray J & Yung Berg
7 9 3 Lollipop, Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major
8 4 18 With You, Chris Brown
9 5 22 Love Song, Sara Bareilles
10 7 23 Low, Flo Rida Featuring T-Pain

11 8 19 Don't Stop The Music, Rihanna
12 40 9 You're Gonna Miss This, Trace Adkins
13 12 16 Stop And Stare, OneRepublic
14 14 17 See You Again, Miley Cyrus
15 11 35 Apologize, Timbaland Featuring OneRepublic
16 13 16 Superstar, Lupe Fiasco Featuring Matthew Santos
17 16 19 Independent, Webbie, Lil' Phat & Lil' Boosie
18 17 30 No One, Alicia Keys
19 20 9 New Soul, Yael Naim
20 18 17 Sorry, Buckcherry

21 27 3 Damaged, Danity Kane
22 - 1 Beat It, Fall Out Boy ft John Mayer
23 19 7 Elevator, Flo Rida Featuring Timbaland
24 21 22 Take You There, Sean Kingston
25 10 6 Shawty Get Loose, Lil Mama Featuring Chris Brown & T-Pain
26 22 43 Teardrops On My Guitar, Taylor Swift
27 29 10 When You Look Me In The Eyes, Jonas Brothers
28 37 7 The Boss, Rick Ross Featuring T-Pain
29 26 40 Bubbly, Colbie Caillat
30 24 21 Like You'll Never See Me Again, Alicia Keys

31 25 27 Tattoo, Jordin Sparks
32 32 10 Feels Like Tonight, Daughtry
33 39 27 Our Song, Taylor Swift
34 28 21 Shadow Of The Day, Linkin Park
35 43 7 She Got It, 2 Pistols Featuring T-Pain & Tay Dizm
36 23 18 Sensual Seduction, Snoop Dogg
37 31 43 Paralyzer, Finger Eleven
38 57 7 Pocketful Of Sunshine, Natasha Bedingfield
39 30 13 All-American Girl, Carrie Underwood
40 33 21 Suffocate, J. Holiday

41 44 8 Killa, Cherish Featuring Yung Joc
42 35 16 I Remember, Keyshia Cole
43 42 11 Whatever It Takes, Lifehouse
44 36 12 Falsetto, The-Dream
45 51 7 Picture To Burn, Taylor Swift
46 41 18 Crying Out For Me, Mario
47 34 25 Clumsy, Fergie
48 49 8 Realize, Colbie Caillat
49 52 5 What You Got, Colby O'Donis Featuring Akon
50 55 6 Just Got Started Lovin' You, James Otto

51 38 12 Dey Know, Shawty Lo
52 63 9 Nine In The Afternoon, Panic At The Disco
53 50 6 I Saw God Today, George Strait
54 - 1 Party People, Nelly Featuring Fergie
55 - 1 Bust It Baby (Part 2), Plies Featuring Ne-Yo
56 45 12 I Won't Tell, Fat Joe Featuring J. Holiday
57 48 13 Small Town Southern Man, Alan Jackson
58 54 11 What Kinda Gone, Chris Cagle
59 58 12 Say, John Mayer
60 66 16 Won't Go Home Without You, Maroon 5

61 47 13 The Anthem, Pitbull Featuring Lil Jon
62 62 19 Flashing Lights, Kanye West Featuring Dwele
63 59 5 Break The Ice, Britney Spears
64 53 19 Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy), Rodney Atkins
65 64 11 Laughed Until We Cried, Jason Aldean
66 56 9 YAHHH!, Soulja Boy Tell'em Featuring Arab
67 76 3 I'm Still A Guy, Brad Paisley
68 67 8 Umma Do Me, Rocko
69 61 2 Roll, Flo Rida Featuring Sean Kingston
70 73 4 The Way That I Love You, Ashanti

71 60 14 Feedback, Janet
72 70 20 Calabria 2008, Enur Featuring Natasja
73 - 1 Inside The Fire, Disturbed
74 75 9 Psycho, Puddle Of Mudd
75 65 12 What Hurts The Most, Cascada
76 78 4 All Around Me, Flyleaf
77 72 20 Letter To Me, Brad Paisley
78 69 13 Shiftwork, Kenny Chesney Duet With George Strait
79 - 1 Got Me Going, DAY26
80 80 6 Love Is A Beautiful Thing, Phil Vassar

81 84 2 Hollywood's Not America, Ferras
82 71 20 Stealing Cinderella, Chuck Wicks
83 89 3 Every Day, Rascal Flatts
84 83 14 Never, Jaheim
85 82 4 In Love With A Girl, Gavin DeGraw
86 74 17 Hero/Heroine, Boys Like Girls
87 87 6 It's Good To Be Us, Bucky Covington
88 79 16 crushcrushcrush, Paramore
89 - 1 I Will Possess Your Heart, Death Cab For Cutie
90 94 6 It's Not My Time, 3 Doors Down

91 93 3 Stronger Woman, Jewel
92 77 9 Ching-A-Ling, Missy Elliott
93 97 11 Long Road To Ruin, Foo Fighters
94 85 5 Love Don't Live Here, Lady Antebellum
95 90 18 International Harvester, Craig Morgan
96 95 3 Diamond Girl, Ryan Leslie
97 86 11 God Must Be Busy, Brooks & Dunn
98 96 2 Go On Girl, Ne-Yo
99 81 6 Dance Like There's No Tomorrow, Paula Abdul & Randy Jackson
100 99 3 Te Quiero, Flex

why is flo-rida still in the top ten.

man bleeding love is awesome. i didn't realize it until i found out that one republic dude wrote it, but it kinda gets exactly where 'apologize' wanted to but didn't-- adult 40/hot 100 crossover but not in a mariah/mary j way in terms of produciton, def fancies itself as a forward thinking pop song with the drums, and whether it actually is or not i'm not sure but it sure stands out like i think 'apologize' wanted to

I surrendered to "No Air" just recently, but "Bleeding Love" hasn't gotten to me yet.

"bleeding love" is great (if a bit maudlin), but those drums are terrible... they're incredibly cheap sounding.

yeah brainwasher otm about the drums

ive totally surrendered to no air-- personally the song wouldn't work w/o brown's thin, fragile (i guess some people would call it awful) voice

like if they got a dude singer who could hit high notes and run like sparks it would be way too much

The wonky drums are my favorite thing about "Bleeding Love," it's the tune that doesn't quite stick with me.

I've poured the haterade on CB plenty of times but I have no problem with him on "No Air," I don't think his voice is necessarily weak on it, just relatively restrained.

Whoa, I didn't realize that "Bleeding Love" had made it to #1: Leona Lewis is, amazingly, the first British woman to hit #1 on the US chart since Kim Wilde in 1987.

only in midst of a serious economic downturn could something like "bleeding love" hit #1

list of countries that have experienced a crippling recession in direct correlation with "Bleeding Love" hitting #1 on their pop charts:

Australian ARIA Singles Chart[41] 1
Austrian Ö3 Top 40 Singles Chart[41] 1
Belgian Ultratop 50 (Flanders)[96] 1
Bulgarian National Top 40[41] 1
Canadian Hot 100[98] 1
Dutch Single Top 100[100] 1
Estonian Airplay Chart[82] 1
Euro 200[101] 1
European Hot 100 Singles[102] 1
French Singles Chart[103] 1
German Top100 Singles[41] 1
Spain Airplay Chart[106] 1
Lithuanian Airplay Top 60[108] 1
Norwegian VG-lista[41] 1
Philippines Hot 100[109] 1
Polish National Top 50[49] 1
Slovak Airplay Chart[81] 1
Swiss Singles Top 100[41] 1
Taiwan Top 10[113] 1
Thailand Get Chart Top 20[114] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[71] 1
U.S. Billboard Pop 100[71] 1
United World Chart[41] 1

Huh? Billboard tells me Mariah is still #1 with Leona #2.

Leona was #1 for one week before Mariah took it for the last two weeks.

Oops! I was getting all amazed that it had leaped over Mariah. Although it's still pretty impressive to jump back over Madonna (sure it's 2008 Madonna, but still).

Yeah, I just haven't been paying attention for the last few weeks.

wtf radiohead @ 37

Wow. Only their third charting single in the U.S. and first in 12 years ("Creep" hit #34, "High and Dry" #78).

OK, this kind of explains it:
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/did-radioheads.html

i'd feel lame linking to Idolator here but Molanphy's column goes into a lot of detail about it:

http://idolator.com/378455/countin-down-the-drum-stems-remixable-single-gives-radiohead-a-hit

So I guess this is mad old but I just heard Estelle's "American Boy" for the first time today and holy shit I think I have found my Summer Jam for 08 already.

i still can't hear that song without thinking about the Green Acres theme.

this new chris brown single is pretty great

"forever"-- another one for r&b gone house

yeah first thing i thought on hearing American Boy was "damn this is straight disco shit"

or just about anyway

it's too light of a song for me. i'm cool with breezy summer jam stuff of course but american girl doesn't really stick at all for me

i think she's got an annoying voice kinda too

The will.i.am song "American Boy" jacks (which is pretty much a straight franco-house rip) is much better than "American Boy".

will.i.am - Impatient

Is it a jack if will.i.am produced both?

Yeah. I don't care who produced the Estelle song, it took my jam and made it suck.

usually it's the way around with will i am right

har har

ture

I realize I need an economy-size late pass on this one, but "Bleeding Love" is pretty damn great. Scuzzy organs! Cavern drums! Yay!

"American Boy" is fantastic. If there was a Rolling 2008 Singles Thread I'd totally put that song on there.

"Bleeding Love," on the other hand, is FUCKING ADULT CONTEMPORARY GARBAGE.

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omg my lit prof. started singing "Low" in class today

I had managed not to hear Sara Bareilles's "Love Song" until recently, but I really like it: I'm kind of a sucker for that kind of straight pounding piano, though.

So "Bleeding Love" is at number one for the third time. The last time I see that a song managed to reclaim the top spot twice is "Le Freak".

"Paper Planes" is at #14 on the bubbling under chart (why can't one of MIA's good songs..., etc.)

"bleeding love" is alright, i keep thinking change an element push it one direction or another it'd be great. that organ is fantastic though. still it's not sophie b. hawkins! i was just adjusting to finding out will.i.am produced 'american boy', nevermind that it's a rework of an older will.i.am track. ye gods. 'impatient' sounded alright (it sounds to me like what it became - a demo), i like 'american boy' alot better for the vocals/chorus and for trimming some of the ideas down. that's sorta crazy about 'bleeding love' dipping in and out of the top spot, itunes obv. how much play is it getting on american idol? is it like 'bad day'?

Leona performed on last week's results show, but that's been it for her and her song.

she was also on oprah. and tyra. and they play the video all of the time. and the song is always on the radio.

she seems nice and she's cute but she's a little boring, no? and I can't really see her having another hit from spirit.. from what I've heard the album is really dull but maybe I should give it a proper listen

Hmmm new Chris Brown "Forever" is pretty good.

total "the way i are" jack but i'm not mad @ it. as long as it gets "with you" off the radio

i love jesse mccartney's "leavin", glad it debuted so high (#4). I'm tired of chris brown

#14*

otherwise the chart is pretty unintersting this week, I fucking hate that new plies song with ne-yo.

i was O_O for like 5 mins after i found out mccartney co-wrote "bleeding love"

haha yeah otm about plies song

just heard "american boy" and i am feeeling it

I need "Sexy Can I" to go away fast. It is easily my least favorite top 10 song in a long, long time.

jesse mccartney song is pretty good, definitely flimsier than normal tricky stuff but i wouldn't mind having to hear this for the next few months

also o_O at them making him sing the words "walk it out"

my really old stat teacher tried to make a soulja boy joke. it was cute.

ungh make it stoooooop

http://i29.tinypic.com/2itrac3.png

eugh

anyway cool to see wayne back at #1

secretly hoping for "bust it baby" to sneak in to the top 10 for the lolz

new flo rida song with will.i.am is pretty good

"closer" is finally slowly rising-- i hear it all the time on radio down here so hopefully it'll get up there

i do NOT like the new pretty ricky single

http://www.zshare.net/audio/12398222c92b9c5c/

David Cook also has the top ringtone and 5 of the top 6 music videos on iTunes...unprecendented iTunes domination? And has a song ever reached #1 on downloads alone in the US?

I don't think so - I think the only song so far to hit #1 purely on sales was Taylor Hicks' "Do I Make You Buy Michael McDonald Records?"

I've actually heard this one on the radio already...I don't think it's a stretch to say that DC one of the most commercially viable winners right off the bat. Especially when his competition is this guy:

http://www.americanidol.com/contestants/season5/i/f/taylor_hicks.jpg

wayne''s got 4 in the itunes top 20 right now, w/ "got money" obv being the one to really watch

cool to see jeezy in the itunes top 20-- i have no idea if this is getting any radio play tho

also happy to see love in this club pt. 2, the-dream, ne-yo and kardinal official all rising

the-dream's kinda carved himself a nice niche on hip-hop/r&b radio since 'falsetto'

"american boy" is about to crack the itunes top 10 and "closer" is in the top 25 now

awful pussycat dolls song in the top 10 >:[ also wtf is metro station

the-dream's kinda carved himself a nice niche on hip-hop/r&b radio since 'falsetto'

-- J0rdan S., Thursday, June 5, 2008 10:35 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

i don't really understand what this means since that was his 2nd hit (as a performer, and his dozenth as a writer)

good to see "Closer" catching on, though, that one's grown on me big time.

xp

"shawty is 10" was a big pop song but it didn't really feel like an r&b song really-- basically what i mean is that i think "shawty is a 10" climbed to the top of rap/r&b cuz it was moving up the pop charts, whereas i think "falsetto" and "i luv your girl" are climbing up the pop charts on the strength of the rap/r&b push, which i think means he could kinda become the male version of keyshia cole, i.e. having every single be in the top 10 of rap/r&b for months w/o ever cracking the top 20 on the hot 100 (something like "let it go" excepted)

by top 10 of rap/r&b i guess i really mean top 5-7

love/hate's pushing up on 500 thou sold as well

here's last week's top 200 albums sold. always fun to peruse

DISTURBED INDESTRUCTIBLE 252,777 999 718 253,524
2 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC VOL. 28-NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL 184,955 999 80 185,035
3 USHER HERE I STAND 144,551 -67 442,930 588,525
4 WEEZER WEEZER (RED ALBUM) 126,074 999 522 126,599
5 JOURNEY REVELATION 104,983 0 104,983
6 ASHANTI DECLARATION 86,278 999 208 86,488
7 SEX AND THE CITY SOUNDTRACK 59,787 -9 65,925 125,801
8 JEWEL PERFECTLY CLEAR 47,662 999 22 47,686
9 3 DOORS DOWN 3 DOORS DOWN 45,079 -29 63,184 263,070
10 BROWN*CHRIS EXCLUSIVE 36,227 261 10,025 1,581,718
11 LEWIS*LEONA SPIRIT 33,221 -14 38,713 739,839
12 DUFFY ROCKFERRY 30,947 -14 35,900 182,149
13 CAREY*MARIAH E=MC2 30,176 -15 35,581 997,744
14 MADONNA HARD CANDY 26,925 -15 31,791 525,100
15 SWIFT*TAYLOR TAYLOR SWIFT 26,762 -8 29,241 3,021,703
16 SINATRA*FRANK NOTHING BUT THE BEST 26,616 -28 36,852 216,949
17 DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE NARROW STAIRS 24,884 -26 33,432 254,729
18 KEITH*TOBY TOBY KEITH 35 BIGGEST HITS 24,102 -9 26,405 226,917
19 BUN-B II TRILL 23,981 -40 40,222 162,547
20 NOW CLASSIC ROCK NOW CLASSIC ROCK 22,923 0 22,923
21 KID ROCK ROCK N ROLL JESUS 22,531 22 18,494 964,741
22 MRAZ*JASON WE SING WE DANCE WE STEAL THIN 21,954 -18 26,696 156,670
23 OPETH WATERSHED 19,655 999 167 19,828
24 DISNEYMANIA DISNEYMANIA 6 19,516 16 16,872 52,024
25 DIAMOND*NEIL HOME BEFORE DARK 18,765 -25 25,170 279,171
26 RADIOHEAD BEST OF (SINGLE DISC) 18,361 0 18,361
27 FLOBOTS FIGHT WITH TOOLS 17,184 -11 19,271 91,708
28 GREEN*AL LAY IT DOWN 17,118 -49 33,753 51,071
29 UNDERWOOD*CARRIE CARNIVAL RIDE 16,765 -11 18,826 2,156,325
30 HOUGH*JULIANNE JULIANNE HOUGH 16,758 -30 23,995 108,087
31 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC VOL. 27-NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL 16,647 -17 20,094 725,759
32 ROSSDALE*GAVIN WANDERLUST 15,364 999 14 15,378
33 JOHNSON*JACK SLEEP THROUGH THE STATIC 15,025 -12 17,132 1,199,104
34 VARIOUS ARTISTS 2008 WARPED TOUR COMPILATION 14,520 999 18 14,539
35 JUNO SOUNDTRACK 14,513 -12 16,536 793,089
36 ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS SOUNDTRACK 13,958 -9 15,408 756,577
37 CAILLAT*COLBIE COCO 13,794 -8 15,051 1,617,737
38 ROSS*RICK TRILLA 13,496 -11 15,140 563,682
39 MICHAELS*BRET ROCK MY WORLD 13,382 999 26 13,410
40 OTTO*JAMES SUNSET MAN 12,458 -3 12,838 207,309
41 CHESNEY*KENNY JUST WHO I AM: POETS & PIRATES 12,422 -1 12,553 1,288,010
42 JONAS BROTHERS JONAS BROTHERS 12,293 -5 12,981 1,315,696
43 MONTANA*HANNAH/CYRUS*MILEY BEST OF BOTH WORLDS CONCERT 12,290 2 12,099 308,782
44 BEDINGFIELD*NATASHA POCKETFUL OF SUNSHINE 12,228 -5 12,807 275,017
45 JACKSON*ALAN GOOD TIME 12,117 5 11,513 392,940
46 SUGARLAND ENJOY THE RIDE 12,100 -3 12,476 2,275,136
47 BROOKS*GARTH ULTIMATE HITS 12,054 6 11,327 1,790,617
48 STRAIT*GEORGE TROUBADOUR 11,619 -4 12,053 399,190
49 SPARKS*JORDIN JORDIN SPARKS 11,430 -23 14,912 804,428
50 MCENTIRE*REBA REBA DUETS 11,323 155 4,438 1,389,629
51 FERNANDEZ*VICENTE PARA SIEMPRE VICENTE FERNANDEZ 11,207 -5 11,777 250,912
52 SAPP*MARVIN THIRSTY 10,946 16 9,437 319,990
53 DAUGHTRY DAUGHTRY 10,845 -16 12,840 4,103,335
54 PAISLEY*BRAD 5TH GEAR 10,675 -3 11,057 1,048,744
55 KEYS*ALICIA AS I AM 10,425 -10 11,615 3,500,823
56 WISIN Y YANDEL WISIN VS YANDEL 'LOS EXTRATERR 10,415 -20 12,997 273,346
57 ONEREPUBLIC DREAMING OUT LOUD 10,255 -25 13,748 663,923
58 LAMBERT*MIRANDA CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND 9,954 5 9,487 447,020
59 LADY ANTEBELLUM LADY ANTEBELLUM 9,883 -1 10,009 138,924
60 JENNINGS*LYFE LYFE CHANGE 9,772 -31 14,101 170,817
61 LINKIN PARK MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT 9,640 -0 9,648 2,432,450
62 HATHAWAY*LALAH SELF PORTRAIT 9,453 999 101 9,556
63 ADKINS*TRACE AMERICAN MAN GREATEST HITS... 9,444 4 9,113 402,249
64 COLE*KEYSHIA JUST LIKE YOU 9,339 -8 10,144 1,424,656
65 BENTLEY*DIERKS GREATEST HITS/EVERY MILE A... 9,318 -14 10,859 98,324
66 DEGRAW*GAVIN GAVIN DEGRAW 9,228 -10 10,203 120,611
67 FLYLEAF FLYLEAF 9,223 6 8,740 1,050,798
68 EAGLES LONG ROAD OUT OF EDEN 9,125 16 7,851 2,993,257
69 THE-DREAM LOVEHATE 8,985 -11 10,142 412,993
70 RADIOHEAD IN RAINBOWS 8,905 1 8,833 543,453
71 WINEHOUSE*AMY BACK TO BLACK 8,848 -12 10,060 1,979,590
72 FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS 8,825 5 8,432 130,014
73 FERGIE DUTCHESS 8,822 -40 14,782 3,636,004
74 SEETHER FINDING BEAUTY IN NEGATIVE SPA 8,701 5 8,263 450,964
75 METRO STATION METRO STATION 8,686 20 7,224 87,615
76 NICKELBACK ALL THE RIGHT REASONS 8,619 -1 8,677 6,801,307
77 TING TINGS WE STARTED NOTHING 8,551 279 2,258 15,242
78 RASCAL FLATTS STILL FEELS GOOD 8,468 -5 8,929 1,962,015
79 BAREILLES*SARA LITTLE VOICE 8,251 -8 8,969 759,802
80 MANN*AIMEE SMILERS 8,160 999 39 8,199
81 RADIOHEAD BEST OF RADIOHEAD (DOUBLE DISC 8,155 0 8,155
82 IN THE HEIGHTS ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST 8,053 999 29 8,082
83 FLEET FOXES FLEET FOXES 7,993 999 33 8,027
84 UNDERWOOD*CARRIE SOME HEARTS 7,774 -11 8,737 6,449,099
85 BUBLE*MICHAEL CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE 7,756 -6 8,226 1,596,705
86 MAROON 5 IT WON'T BE SOON BEFORE LONG 7,708 -8 8,349 1,852,331
87 HANNAH MONTANA 2: MEET MILEY C SOUNDTRACK 7,654 -12 8,738 3,064,438
88 SWEAT*KEITH JUST ME 7,637 -25 10,208 68,524
89 MCCARTNEY*JESSE DEPARTURE 7,623 -39 12,449 50,353
90 PLANT/KRAUSS RAISING SAND 7,502 6 7,079 989,873
91 MATTSON*ANGIE GIVEN TO SUDDEN PANIC AND NOIS 7,412 999 85 8,056
92 LED ZEPPELIN MOTHERSHIP 7,396 31 5,662 902,099
93 PARAMORE RIOT! 7,378 -12 8,375 913,643
94 RACONTEURS CONSOLERS OF THE LONELY 7,334 10 6,680 174,397
95 R.E.M. ACCELERATE 7,315 -17 8,852 275,477
96 THREE DAYS GRACE ONE-X 7,284 -1 7,372 1,240,290
97 ALESANA WHERE MYTH FADES TO LEGEND 7,229 999 46 7,284
98 10 YEARS DIVISION 7,174 -14 8,298 54,949
99 CAMP*JEREMY BEYOND MEASURE 7,084 833 759 132,667
100 MCGRAW*TIM GREATEST HITS 1 & 2 6,946 -30 9,963 95,522
101 RIHANNA GOOD GIRL GONE BAD 6,933 -14 8,031 1,238,009
102 CHRONICLES OF NARNIA:PRINCE CA SOUNDTRACK 6,763 -34 10,280 46,655
103 PORTISHEAD THIRD 6,737 -20 8,461 116,527
104 SUMMER*DONNA CRAYONS 6,728 -42 11,624 41,049
105 BUCKCHERRY 15 6,708 -3 6,885 1,222,685
106 BLIGE*MARY J. GROWING PAINS 6,692 -17 8,041 1,498,232
107 MAYER*JOHN CONTINUUM 6,679 -6 7,112 2,157,633
108 SHELTON*BLAKE PURE BS 6,564 1 6,500 314,615
109 FLO RIDA MAIL ON SUNDAY 6,512 -9 7,189 255,655
110 PANIC AT THE DISCO PRETTY ODD 6,488 -13 7,435 288,727
111 VARIOUS SECOND WAVE 6,454 -8 6,990 35,170
112 MANA ARDE EL CIELO 5,894 -17 7,114 63,649
113 TRIBBETT*TYE STAND OUT 5,849 -22 7,499 54,064
114 SIMON*CARLY THIS KIND OF LOVE 5,832 -14 6,808 80,764
115 ROOTS RISING DOWN 5,813 -23 7,517 110,741
116 CHAPMAN*STEVEN CURTIS THIS MOMENT 5,768 -6 6,128 65,611
116 GROBAN*JOSH AWAKE LIVE 5,768 -24 7,637 106,326
118 DANITY KANE WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE 5,715 -18 6,950 495,200
119 WINEHOUSE*AMY FRANK 5,668 157 2,206 177,973
120 VAMPIRE WEEKEND VAMPIRE WEEKEND 5,659 -11 6,326 234,090
121 DEF LEPPARD SONGS FROM THE SPARKLE LOUNGE 5,571 -15 6,544 106,327
122 TISDALE*WAYMAN REBOUND 5,495 999 54 5,555
123 ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (DLX) SOUNDTRACK 5,392 -10 5,980 519,724
124 GNARLS BARKLEY ODD COUPLE 5,207 -23 6,781 176,550
125 DEVAUGHN*RAHEEM LOVE BEHIND THE MELODY 5,191 -8 5,665 227,031
126 SAVING ABEL SAVING ABEL 5,145 -1 5,176 49,746
127 IGLESIAS*ENRIQUE 95/08 EXITOS 5,110 -3 5,292 115,010
128 MIGUEL*LUIS COMPLICES 4,973 -26 6,757 67,639
129 FLEX TE QUIERO 4,919 -16 5,883 144,398
130 SNOOP DOGG EGO TRIPPIN' 4,908 -28 6,793 336,273
131 COUNTING CROWS SATURDAY NIGHTS & SUNDAY MORNI 4,878 -19 6,037 249,254
132 LADYTRON VELOCIFERO 4,808 284 1,252 7,734
133 SOUTH PACIFIC NEW BROADWAY CAST RECORDING 4,767 -51 9,722 14,529
134 HIATT*JOHN SAME OLD MAN 4,751 -37 7,545 12,817
135 P.S. I LOVE YOU SOUNDTRACK 4,741 -15 5,592 109,933
135 LAUPER*CYNDI BRING YA TO THE BRINK 4,741 -61 12,049 16,881
137 CASTING CROWNS ALTAR & THE DOOR 4,728 0 4,717 315,024
138 WEST*KANYE GRADUATION 4,722 -4 4,940 2,118,551
139 TOKIO HOTEL SCREAM 4,707 -13 5,433 38,934
140 MCGRAW*TIM LET IT GO 4,685 9 4,283 1,402,537
141 ATKINS*RODNEY IF YOU'RE GOING THROUGH HELL 4,664 -10 5,193 1,322,150
142 PUDDLE OF MUDD FAMOUS 4,622 -11 5,221 260,263
143 ESTELLE SHINE 4,610 -15 5,398 45,805
144 AVENGED SEVENFOLD AVENGED SEVENFOLD 4,605 0 4,597 382,839
145 FIASCO*LUPE LUPE FIASCO'S THE COOL 4,601 -12 5,213 503,308
146 ATMOSPHERE WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS YOU 4,570 -17 5,498 91,227
147 MUDCRUTCH MUDCRUTCH 4,563 -18 5,583 79,325
148 THEORY OF A DEADMAN SCARS & SOUVENIRS 4,552 12 4,058 74,497
149 ONCE SOUNDTRACK 4,545 -6 4,854 578,915
150 RADIO DISNEY VOL. 10-KIDS JAMS 4,526 -6 4,834 220,943
151 CELTIC THUNDER CELTIC THUNDER THE SHOW 4,397 107 2,122 63,203
152 MGMT ORACULAR SPECTACULAR 4,352 -2 4,447 91,747
153 WINWOOD*STEVE NINE LIVES 4,347 -18 5,309 68,239
154 TRINA STILL DA BADDEST 4,341 -11 4,886 125,140
155 FOXBORO HOT TUBS STOP DROP & ROLL! 4,192 -37 6,610 30,030
156 URBAN*KEITH GREATEST HITS 4,180 -1 4,210 555,384
157 VARIOUS NOW 26 4,174 -17 5,032 1,664,315
158 SOLIS*MARCO ANTONIO LA MEJOR COLECCION 4,153 7 3,888 278,440
159 TURNER*JOSH EVERYTHING IS FINE 4,130 -7 4,418 485,052
160 TOBYMAC ALIVE & TRANSPORTED 4,023 -31 5,856 5,775
161 AUGUST RUSH SOUNDTRACK 4,012 -12 4,585 231,326
162 FOO FIGHTERS ECHOES SILENCE PATIENCE & GRAC 4,008 -18 4,881 746,729
163 AIKEN*CLAY ON MY WAY HERE 3,994 -37 6,367 137,230
164 BLACK KEYS ATTACK & RELEASE 3,958 -1 3,990 92,458
165 FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH WAY OF THE FIST 3,924 3 3,811 137,320
166 IRON MAIDEN SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME: BEST O 3,911 -6 4,176 24,501
167 SANTOGOLD SANTOGOLD 3,906 -17 4,679 34,876
167 LIL WAYNE THA CARTER III 3,906 999 72 4,050
169 SOULJA BOY TELL'EM SOULJABOYTELLEM.COM 3,902 -8 4,247 912,685
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171 BARENAKED LADIES SNACKTIME 3,835 -8 4,172 31,261
172 LIFEHOUSE WHO WE ARE 3,760 -7 4,041 426,928
173 VEDDER*EDDIE MUSIC FOR THE MOTION PICTURE I 3,755 -12 4,272 358,163
174 FINGER ELEVEN THEM VS. YOU VS. ME 3,715 3 3,599 557,898
175 INDIANA JONES & THE KINGDOM OF SOUNDTRACK 3,701 -46 6,798 24,363
176 SPEARS*BRITNEY BLACKOUT 3,646 -10 4,052 864,369
176 JAHEIM MAKINGS OF A MAN 3,646 -14 4,242 495,573
178 BADU*ERYKAH NEW AMERYKAH PART ONE (4TH WOR 3,614 -13 4,142 307,541
179 CROW*SHERYL DETOURS 3,597 15 3,133 329,387
180 SHAWTY LO UNITS IN THE CITY 3,578 -7 3,840 120,502
181 SIXX:A.M. HEROIN DIARIES SOUNDTRACK 3,571 3 3,469 224,537
182 BOCELLI*ANDREA VIVERE LIVE IN TUSCANY 3,570 10 3,235 169,230
183 VARIOUS WOW GOSPEL 2008 3,559 -3 3,672 130,330
184 ALLAN*GARY LIVING HARD 3,554 6 3,341 356,796
185 NAKED BROTHERS BAND I DON'T WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL 3,469 4 3,326 58,795
186 PLIES REAL TESTAMENT 3,426 5 3,272 507,955
187 VARIOUS ARTISTS 80'S: NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL M 3,403 -1 3,453 141,068
188 SIMPSON*ASHLEE BITTERSWEET WORLD 3,354 -30 4,772 95,612
189 WOW HITS WOW HITS 2008 3,332 4 3,216 180,156
190 ADAMS*BRYAN 11 3,288 -11 3,712 22,115
191 WOW HITS WOW HITS 1 3,277 -10 3,623 22,304
192 AUGUSTANA CAN'T LOVE CAN'T HURT 3,266 -36 5,073 50,433
193 CHERISH TRUTH 3,212 -28 4,466 27,008
194 MORRISON*VAN STILL ON TOP-GREATEST HITS 3,200 7 2,981 201,914
195 ATREYU LEAD SAILS PAPER ANCHOR 3,188 -7 3,422 246,847
196 VOEGELE*KATE DON'T LOOK AWAY 3,101 -26 4,167 172,987
196 P.O.D. WHEN ANGELS AND SERPENTS DANCE 3,101 -16 3,673 72,794
198 GROBAN*JOSH AWAKE 3,091 -13 3,542 1,996,698
199 KOOKS KONK 3,080 -8 3,352 42,588
200 FERGIE DUTCHESS EP 3,076 -73 11,390 14,466

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120 VAMPIRE WEEKEND VAMPIRE WEEKEND 5,659 -11 6,326 234,090
109 FLO RIDA MAIL ON SUNDAY 6,512 -9 7,189 255,655

The new Pussycat Dolls single is ace. And I think it samples the Yardbirds?!

xp

"shawty is 10" was a big pop song but it didn't really feel like an r&b song really-- basically what i mean is that i think "shawty is a 10" climbed to the top of rap/r&b cuz it was moving up the pop charts, whereas i think "falsetto" and "i luv your girl" are climbing up the pop charts on the strength of the rap/r&b push, which i think means he could kinda become the male version of keyshia cole, i.e. having every single be in the top 10 of rap/r&b for months w/o ever cracking the top 20 on the hot 100 (something like "let it go" excepted)

-- J0rdan S., Monday, June 16, 2008 1:32 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

huh?

2007 "Shawty Is a 10" (feat. Fabolous)
U.S. Hot 100 17
U.S. R&B 6
U.S. Pop 100 45

didn't really feel like an r&b song really

?????

when I first heard it I dismissed as an "I'm a Flirt" knockoff

both of those are pop songs

alex, what i was saying up thread is just a personal opinion. looking at the chart numbers won't really prove or disprove what im saying really

narcissism of small differences much?

You got r'n'b in my pop, no you got pop in my r'n'b

The bad news is that Coldplay is #1. The good news is that Coldplay are keeping Katy Perry out of #1.

u_u

Katy Perry = the 1,000th #1 hit of the rock era, per Billboard.

Yuck.

I vented about this at babyivebeenthinking.blogspot.com the other day.

i would really like someone to explain to me the motivation behind the pussycat dolls' "when i grow up"

Nice blog, JM.

can someone explain to me the diff b/w the pop 100 and the hot 100

Hot 100 is the big singles chart that takes everything (airplay, iTunes sales, etc) in all genres into account, Pop 100 is (I think) airplay only for top 40 type pop stations.

that would make sense but this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_100 makes it more confusing?

so the pop 100 only takes into account radio play on top 40 stations?

maybe not just top 40, but it's defintely slanted twd pop formats (i.e. no urban/rock/country/etc niches)

i would really like someone to explain to me the motivation behind the pussycat dolls' "when i grow up"

-- Surmounter, Tuesday, July 8, 2008 5:56 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

me too

i would like for someone to explain to me the motivation behind the pussycat dolls

the lex will be right with you

maybe not just top 40, but it's defintely slanted twd pop formats (i.e. no urban/rock/country/etc niches)

I think the idea is that it uses only Mainstream Top 40 and doesn't include any "urban" or "rhythmic" Top 40 stations, in an effort to present a chart that wasn't glutted (as the Hot 100 frequently is) with rap and R&B songs.

i have grown to appreciate the jonas brothers' partially-successful transformation into a better-looking maroon5. shoot me now pls

"i have grown to appreciate the jonas brothers' partially-successful transformation into a better-looking maroon5. shoot me now pls

-- Keaney Tong, Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link"

it's ok, I'm sure you can still sit at the cool table during lunch break.

btw, lol at ILXor having to watch Katy Perry sell a zillion singles.

yes, it's twisting a knife in the message board's collective heart to watch a SONG that people don't LIKE top the charts, can you imagine.

your schadenfreude over this shocking turn of events is surely warranted, you vengeful renegade.

The bad news is that Coldplay is #1. The good news is that Coldplay are keeping Katy Perry out of #1.

-- The Reverend

ive done a total flip-flop on these two songs since this was posted - really digging that coldplay tune now & fortunately its the one im hearing more too

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww deez i expect better from you

is there a more self-loathing experience than matt armstrong posting to ilx threads

surm i actually thought you were on my side on that one?? i thought you repped for viva la vida

fwiw after deeznuts made the katy perry thread he tried to sit with me and alex in baltimore at lunch and we beat the shit out of him so maybe matt's got a point

I've said elsewhere (don't remember if it was on ILX or not) that I find "I Kissed a Girl" highly questionable and/or troublesome in a lot of ways, but I also think it's a pretty fantastic pop song.

surm i actually thought you were on my side on that one?? i thought you repped for viva la vida

-- deeznuts, Wednesday, July 16, 2008 7:47 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

NO! i'm putting I Kissed A Girl on NOW.

and I'll LIKE iiiit!

j0rdan its really pathetic that you have to post about that shit on the internet to feel like a man

listen to it a couple more times, jaymc, & you will change your mind

xp

listening to I Kissed A Girl makes me feel like a man.

I'm kind of opposite of jaymc here, the concept of the song is kinda stupid but I don't feel actively offended or annoyed by it, I just think her voice, the tune and the overall execution of the idea add up to a pretty mediocre song.

"is there a more self-loathing experience than matt armstrong posting to ilx threads"

what a bizarre non-zing. what does that even mean?

"I'm kind of opposite of jaymc here, the concept of the song is kinda stupid but I don't feel actively offended or annoyed by it, I just think her voice, the tune and the overall execution of the idea add up to a pretty mediocre song."

try playing it louder.

it didn't work any better than putting your posts in a bigger font.

ive done a total flip-flop on these two songs since this was posted - really digging that coldplay tune now & fortunately its the one im hearing more too

-- deeznuts, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 19:36 (Yesterday) Link

the Coldplay joint has grown on me too

"A Milli" is in the top ten.

I thought it was at #11? Oh well, new chart in the morning, so maybe it will be in the top 10 in a matter of hours.

i thought it was at 11 too. new 1 in the morning?? :D

#8 now

1 1 KATY PERRY I KISSED A GIRL
2 2 RIHANNA TAKE A BOW
3 3 LIL WAYNE LOLLIPOP
6 4 CHRIS BROWN FOREVER
4 5 LEWIS*LEONA BLEEDING LOVE - SINGLE
7 6 NATASHA BEDINGFIELD POCKETFUL OF SUNSHINE
5 7 COLDPLAY VIVA LA VIDA
11 8 LIL WAYNE A MILLI
10 9 MILEY CYRUS 7 THINGS

that natasha bedingfield track can kiss

my

ass

it almost makes me angry. that sticks and stones line is done.

yeah, the only good part of this song is that fifteen-second segment where the dull-ass beat drops out, leaving us with a stumbling organ and a less annoying Natasha singing something along the lines of 'there's this place where i go that nobody knows' etc. Then the bass kicks in, she breaks into that butterflieeeeeeeeessssssssssss note and I swoon before she returns to the piece of shit that is "Pocketful of Sunshine." ;_;

I have similar relationships with Fergie songs.

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correct me if im wrong but isn't "a milli" kinda like my humps 2.0 in terms of it's ascent. not a planned single, buyers forced the it on radio, forced the videos and the promos etc even tho the label had other songs planned as singles. i guess "my humps" had a faster ascent but i think the correlation is there

it's also my humps 2.0 in terms of its appeal! MY HUMPS MY HUMPS MY HUMPS vs A MILLI A MILLI A MILLI

also 'when i grow up' is terrific but somewhat overshadowed in the whore-pop stakes by danity kane and tila tequila

when i grow up may or may not be terrific, but i don't understand the fucking video, as in WHY IS THAT OKAY YOU KNOW TO SHOW OUR KIDS

i know, i know, the kids shouldn't be watching that crap. always blamin the momma!

and tape store otm re: natasha

Guys, Hayden Panetierre!

eww it's so terrible i can't even look at her weasel face

when even Surmounter can't some starlet's bullshit that's a serious "kill yourself" moment

missing a verb in there. defend, i guess?

well, rly, i just think hayden panetroll is so fuckin ugly. i mean honestly she looks like something that would eat straw.

lol

that is w/out question the meanest thing i have ever seen surmounter say here, by like a counry fucking mile

id hit but surm still otm

Metro Station! How nice of them to pre-mix their rock song for play at dodgy suburban nightclubs. What i always wanted Robert Smith guesting on bad dance pop singles to sound like.

That Hayden Panettiere clip would make more sense if it was, like, vaguely latinate euro-trance-pop and Hayden's name was actually Hayla. But the song is quite good. Not as good as "Stars Are Blind", or not yet at least: the charms of kinda pointless sleazy summer reggae pop have to creep up on one, usually. Also I'll take her video boyfriend if she has no further use for him.

Billboard Hot 100 - Top 50
1 1 Katy Perry I Kissed A Girl
2 2 Rihanna Take A Bow
3 3 Chris Brown Forever
15 4 Rihanna Disturbia
5 5 Coldplay Viva La Vida
8 6 Lil Wayne A Milli
4 7 Lil Wayne Lollipop
9 8 Kardinal Offishall Dangerous
6 9 Lewis*leona Bleeding Love - Single
10 10 Jesse Mccartney Leavin'
11 11 Jonas Brothers Burnin' Up
12 12 The Pussycat Dolls When I Grow Up
7 13 Natasha Bedingfield Pocketful Of Sunshine
19 14 Ne-yo Closer
17 15 Metro Station Shake It
26 16 Estelle American Boy
14 17 Plies Bust It Baby Pt. 2
13 18 Miley Cyrus 7 Things
18 19 Banner*david Vget Like Me
20 20 Three 6 Mafia Featu Lolli Lolli (pop That Body)
21 21 The-dream I Luv Your Girl
23 22 Sugarland All I Want To Do
22 23 3 Doors Down It's Not My Time
28 24 Young Jeezy Put On
24 25 Colby O'donis Featu What You Got
-- 26 Shwayze Corona And Lime
29 27 Jason Mraz I'm Yours
25 28 Jordin Sparks Duet No Air
31 29 Lil Wayne Got Money
36 30 Flo Rida Featuring In The Ayer
27 31 Danity Kane Damaged Remix
32 32 Keyshia Cole Heaven Sent
34 33 Taylor Swift Should've Said No
39 34 Jordin Sparks One Step At A Time
35 35 Secondhand Serenade Fall For You
55 36 M.i.a. Paper Planes (homeland Securit
41 37 Flobots Handlebars
52 38 Kid Rock All Summer Long
30 39 Usher Love In This Club
38 40 Gavin Degraw In Love With A Girl
40 41 Alan Jackson Good Time
37 42 Colbie Caillat Realize
33 43 Ray J Feat. Yung Berg Sexy Can I
42 44 V.i.c. Get Silly
45 45 Sara Bareilles Love Song
93 46 Shwayze Featuring C Buzzin'
48 47 David Cook The Time Of My Life
51 48 Keith Urban You Look Good In My Shirt
44 49 Flo Rida Low/jealous
43 50 New Kids On The Blo Summertime

Interesting Moves & Debuts
60 53 Duffy Mercy
-- 56 Miley Cyrus Breakout
75 61 Leona Lewis Better In Time
79 67 Mariah Carey I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time
-- 87 Nelly Featuring Ash Body On Me
16 89 Jonas Brothers Pushin' Me Away
-- 95 Plies Featuring Jam Please Excuse My Hands
-- 96 Jennifer Hudson Spotlight
-- 97 Ll Cool J Featuring Baby
-- 99 Meryl Streep Mamma Mia

Bubbling Under
6 3 September Cry For You
1 5 Lady Gaga,colby O'donis Just Dance (remixes) - Ep
-- 6 Miley Cyrus Fly On The Wall
16 10 Sara Bareilles Bottle It Up
-- 11 Keri Hilson Energy
-- 13 Miley Cyrus Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
-- 18 Carrie Underwood Just A Dream
-- 22 Amanda Seyfried, As Honey, Honey
-- 24 Miley Cyrus Goodbye

R&b 100
1 1 Keyshia Cole Heaven Sent
2 2 Lil Wayne A Milli
5 3 Rihanna Take A Bow
4 4 The-dream I Luv Your Girl
6 5 Chris Brown Take You Down
11 9 Jazmine Sullivan Need U Bad
12 11 Thicke*robin Magic
17 15 Marvin Sapp Never Would Have Made It
20 16 Jennifer Hudson Spotlight
18 22 Usher Moving Mountains
21 24 Ne-yo Closer
51 29 Dwele I'm Cheatin'
37 39 Mariah Carey I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time
64 49 Al Green Featuring Stay With Me (by The Sea)
59 52 Keri Hilson Energy
-- 56 Ne-yo Miss Independent
72 81 Chris Brown Forever
82 84 Solange I Decided
-- 89 Alicia Keys Superwoman
94 96 Missy Elliott Best, Best

I really hate duffy

and woah @ loli loli pop that body actually being a hit... when did that happen?

and rihanna two songs in the top 5 woah

jazmine sullivan top 10 r&b SMASH

99 Meryl Streep Mamma Mia

loolol

m.i.a in the top 40, weird

because of the pinapple express commercial

haha seriously

get that apatow money, girl

Shwayze is the worst thing to happen to rap since Flobots.

sargnt88: unnggh shwayze #5 on itunes
sargnt88: what is wrong with people
my friend: never heard it
my friend: jonas brothers of rap?
sargnt88: nah
sargnt88: skater dude for ppl who watch laguna beach religiously
sargnt88: first single has a chorus from paris hilton's ex bf or something
sargnt88: it's like flobots

seriously that shit makes me want to actively hurt people

DMB-rap = least fav trend of 08

BILLBOARD HOT 100 - TOP 50
1 1 KATY PERRY I KISSED A GIRL
3 2 CHRIS BROWN FOREVER
4 3 RIHANNA DISTURBIA
2 4 RIHANNA TAKE A BOW
5 5 COLDPLAY VIVA LA VIDA
6 6 LIL WAYNE LOLLIPOP
8 7 KARDINAL OFFISHALL DANGEROUS
-- 8 JONAS BROTHERS TONIGHT
12 9 THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS WHEN I GROW UP
14 10 NE-YO CLOSER
11 11 JONAS BROTHERS BURNIN' UP
16 12 ESTELLE AMERICAN BOY
10 13 JESSE MCCARTNEY LEAVIN'
9 14 LEWIS*LEONA BLEEDING LOVE - SINGLE
7 15 LIL WAYNE LOLLIPOP REMIX
36 16 M.I.A. PAPER PLANES (HOMELAND SECURIT
13 17 BEDINGFIELD*NATASHA POCKETFUL OF SUNSHINE(REMIXES)
20 18 THREE 6 MAFIA FEATU LOLLI LOLLI (POP THAT BODY)
19 19 BANNER*DAVID VGET LIKE ME
15 20 METRO STATION SHAKE IT
17 21 PLIES BUST IT BABY PT. 2
24 22 YOUNG JEEZY PUT ON
26 23 SHWAYZE CORONA AND LIME
18 24 MILEY CYRUS 7 THINGS
21 25 THE-DREAM I LUV YOUR GIRL
29 26 LIL WAYNE GOT MONEY
22 27 SUGARLAND ALL I WANT TO DO
23 28 3 DOORS DOWN IT'S NOT MY TIME
-- 29 T-PAIN FEATURING LI CAN'T BELIEVE IT
30 30 FLO RIDA FEATURING IN THE AYER
34 31 JORDIN SPARKS ONE STEP AT A TIME
27 32 JASON MRAZ I'M YOURS
35 33 SECONDHAND SERENADE FALL FOR YOU
38 34 KID ROCK ALL SUMMER LONG
25 35 COLBY O'DONIS FEATU WHAT YOU GOT
32 36 KEYSHIA COLE HEAVEN SENT
28 37 JORDIN SPARKS DUET NO AIR
33 38 TAYLOR SWIFT SHOULD'VE SAID NO
47 39 DAVID COOK THE TIME OF MY LIFE
31 40 DANITY KANE DAMAGED REMIX
37 41 FLOBOTS HANDLEBARS
55 42 RICK ROSS FEATURING HERE I AM
40 43 GAVIN DEGRAW IN LOVE WITH A GIRL
48 44 KEITH URBAN YOU LOOK GOOD IN MY SHIRT
45 45 SARA BAREILLES LOVE SONG
41 46 ALAN JACKSON GOOD TIME
42 47 COLBIE CAILLAT REALIZE
39 48 USHER LOVE IN THIS CLUB
59 49 YUNG BERG FEATURING THE BUSINESS
61 50 LEONA LEWIS BETTER IN TIME