It’s not often that electronic bands fly to the top of the pop chart. In fact it has been four years since D.H.T. held down the #1 song with “Listen To Your Heart”. Well this week the genre that has a consistent underground following finds itself on top again. This time it’s Colorado band 3Oh!3 with a song that topped the dance sales chart late last year with “Don’t Trust Me”. This week the song moves from 2-1 on the pop chart.
Lady GaGa has also had success on the dance chart although unlike 3Oh!3 she has found herself crossing over from pop to dance. She has the second longest running Top 10 dance single of the decade with “Just Dance” and she has the longest running #1 dance song of all time with “Poker Face which topped the chart for 15 weeks this year. Now she is at #3 on the dance chart with “LoveGame”. She does herself one better on the pop chart this week as she climbs from 3-2. She is looking for her third straight #1 song to start her career.
28-year old Miami rapper Pitbull holds at #4 for a second week after three weeks at #5 with his first hit song, “I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)”. And Katy Perry makes her third career Top 5 appearance by holding at #5 with “Waking Up In Vegas”. The California star hit #2 with “I Kissed A Girl” and #1 with “Hot N Cold” last year.
Pink had her string of three consecutive #1 hits snapped when she stalled out at #4 with “Sober” back in March. But she’s trying to start a new streak as she improves from 7-6 with “Please Don’t Leave Me”. It is her 13th career Top 10 hit.
Jamaican rapper and hip hop star Sean Kingston moves from 10-7 this week with “Fire Burning”. This is his third Top 10 hit. In 2007 he soared to #2 with “Beautiful Girls”. And then last year he reached #4 with “Take You There”.
Three songs rocket into the Top 10 this week. The Black Eyed Peas aren’t waiting long in trying to land a second straight #1 hit. A week after their seven week run at #1 ends with “Boom Boom Pow”, they are moving from 12-8 with “I Gotta Feeling”, the second hit from their #1 album “The E.N.D.”
Keri Hilson sang on one of the top songs of the decade, ‘The Way I Are” by Timbaland. Now she has her first Top 10 hit that will be credited to her as a lead artist. She makes a major move from 15-9 with “Knock You Down” featuring Kanye West & Ne-Yo.
And 19-year old superstar Taylor Swift is moving fast. She debuted in the Top 40 just two weeks ago at #22 and now has made two consecutive 6-notch moves to land herself at #10. “You Belong With Me” becomes her third Top 10 hit after “Teardrops On My Guitar” and her #1 hit from earlier this year, “Love Story”.
There are also two new songs in the Top 20 this week. Daughtry scores its fifth Top 20 hit this week by moving from 21-19 with “No Surprise”.The North Carolina rock quintet has had two Top 20 hits each of the past two years including the #1 smash “It’s Not Over” in 2007.
And moving from 23-20 is 21-year old pop/country newcomer Jessie James with her first hit “Wanted”.
The biggest move in the Top 40 this week is by Nashville rock band Kings Of Leon. They rocket from 39-25 with “Use Somebody”. It is the biggest move in the Top 40 since Kelly Clarkson’s “My Life Would Suck Without You” jumped from 24-9 back in February.
Three songs debut in the Top 40 this week. California electro-hop duo LMFAO have the highest entry at #37 with “I’m In Miami Trick”. The Pussycat Dolls score their ninth Top 40 hit this week at #38 with “Hush Hush” featuring their own member Nicole Scherzinger. And the debut at #39 is a remake of a song that was credited to a band featuring its own member--”Careless Whisper” by Wham! featuring George Michael, a #1 hit in 1985. This week the South Africa band Seether are at #39 with their version of “Careless Whisper”. It’s the follow up to their first hit, “Rise Above This” which reached #38 last summer.
Other chart information of note this week:
The following acts have two songs in the Top 40 this week: Lady GaGa, Black Eyed Peas, Taylor Swift, Kelly Clarkson and the Fray.
“Just Dance” by Lady GaGa slips out of the Top 40 after a 35-week stay.
Jason Mraz has the oldest song in the Top 40 again this week with “I’m Yours” now in week 45. It debuted September 7, 2008.
My iTunes new picks of the week:
“Gasoline”, Rob Thomas
“Love Drunk”, Boys Like Girls
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