Miley Cyrus has been on stage for as long as she can remember and has been entertaining tweens for the past five years, but this week she scores her first ever #1 hit with “Party In The U.S.A.”. Miley nearly topped the chart in 2007 with “See You Again”. This summer she reached #4 with “The Climb”. But this week she scores her first chart topper with “Party In The U.S.A.” After three weeks at #5 and then three weeks at #2 she climbs to #1 this week.
When 23-year old New York club star Lady GaGa came onto the national music scene during the summer of 2008, not too many people took notice outside of the clubs. Her first single, “Just Dance” bobbed in and out of the Rock-It! Top 100 for the better part of three months. It was exactly a year ago this week though that “Just Dance” jumped from 88-57. A week later it moved another 29 spots to enter the Top 40 at #29. Two months later (in January) it was the #1 song in the country. GaGa was back at #1 in April with “Poker Face” and again in July with “LoveGame”. This week she is at #3 with what could become her fourth consecutive chart topper, “Paparazzi”. And even more GaGa news coming later.
Another youngster is holding at #4 this week. Florida native Jason DeRulo’s debut single, “Whatcha Say” is also closing in on #1. The 20-year old samples the title line of the song from Imogen Heap’s underground hit “Hide N Seek”.
Make it eight Top 5 solo hits now for Beyonce. She is up from 6-5 this week with “Sweet Dreams”. It is the follow up to her #2 hit “Halo”. The song also crashes the Dance Top 5 this week at #3.
Boys Like Girls first hit the Top 10 in 2007 with “The Great Escape”. Now they are trying to top the #6 peak of that song with “LoveDrunk” which is up from 8-7 this week after four consecutive weeks at #8.
Britney Spears notches her 14th Top 10 single this week by leaping from 13-9 with “3”. She will try to make it her third #1 hit from her album “Circus”. It would give her three #1 hits in 2009 tying Lady GaGa for most this year...that is if GaGa doesn’t reach #1 with “Paparazzi” first!
Closing in on the Top 10 are the Black Eyed Peas with “Meet Me Halfway” which is up from 12-11 and Owl City who is up from 13-12 with “Fireflies”. Iyaz, Colbie Caillat and Cascada, three completely different artists, all make one-notch moves as well in the bottom half of the Top 20. The big splash in this area of the survey though is made by Frenchman David Guetta who leaps from 27-20 with “Sexy Chick” featuring Akon. The song is also #1 on the Dance chart this week.
The two biggest movers in the Top 40 this week are “If You Only Knew” by Shinedown which moves from 35-27 and “TiK ToK” by Ke$ha which is up from 38-30. Shinedown is following up their Top 5 hit “Second Chance” while Ke$ha is enjoying her first Top 40 solo hit. Also making moves of five or more spots include Jesse McCartney’s “Body Language” featuring T-Pain (30-25), Leona Lewis’s “Happy” (34-28) and Priscilla Renea’s “Doghouse” (36-30).
Two songs debut in the Top 40 this week. Rihanna is back with “Russian Roulette” at #35. This is her 16th Top 40 hit. And Lady GaGa bows at #37 with her fifth Top 40 single, “Bad Romance”. Jay-Z + Alicia Keys also re-enter the survey at #39 with “Empire State Of Mind”.
Katy Perry has the oldest song in the Top 40 this week with “Waking Up In Vegas”. It has been on the countdown for 27 weeks.
My iTunes new picks of the week:
“Hungry”, Kutless
“It Is Well”, Kutless
“Every Morning”, Basshunter
“Forget And Not Slow Down”, Relient k
“According To You”, Oritanthi
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