21-year old Bobby Ray has reached the top of the pop charts for the first time this week with “Nothin’ On You” featuring Bruno Mars. Under his stage name B.o.B., the Atlanta hip hop artist moves from 2-1 with his first hit song which is from his brand new album which will be released this week from T.I.’s label Grand Hustle. B.o.B. also has some other chart success this week with the highest debut. More on that later.
Another hip hop chart newcomer, Taio Cruz is also doing well this week. The English singer-songwriter already reached #1 in March with his first hit, “Break Your Heart” featuring Ludacris. This week the song holds at #4 with a bullet in its attempt to return to the pole position.
While the top portion of the Top 10 includes many songs that are beginning to go into reverse, the bottom three slots consist of hits that are red hot. Usher leads that charge at #8 with “OMG” featuring will.i.am. The 31-year old superstar moves from 10-8 with his 13th Top 10 hit. Of those 13 hits, eight have gone all the way to #1 including “Yeah!” which spent 12 weeks at #1 in 2004 and “Burn” which spent eight weeks on top that same year. His last chart topper was in 2008 with “Love In This Club”.
23-year old Kesha Rose Sebert who goes simply by Ke$ha scores her third Top 10 hit this week by rocketing from 19-9 with “Your Love Is My Drug”. Ke$ha has had two mega-chart toppers over the past couple years. She was featured on FloRida’s “Right Round” in 2009 and then topped the pop chart for first two months of 2010 with “TiK ToK” which slips from 15-18 this week.
Making the biggest move in the Top 40 this week is 2009 American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert. He leaps from 23-10 and scores his first ever Top 10 hit with “Whataya Want From Me”. The song’s big move was spurred by his recent appearance on the latest season of American Idol.
A year-high six songs debut in the Top 40 this week. Four of those are brand new to the entire Hot 100 this week including B.o.B. who has a huge week highlighted by his first trip to #1. B.o.B. jumps in at #12 this week with “Airplanes” featuring Paramore lead singer Hayley Williams. More on the Top 40 debuts in a moment.
Canadian rapper Drake scores his fourth Top 20 hit this week by moving from 22-20 with “Over”. His other three Top 20 efforts all came at the end of 2009 with “Best I Ever Had”, “I Can Transform Ya” and “Forever”.
Back to this week’s new hits. There are five more. It’s been nearly a year and a half since Christina Aguilera was in the Top 40. This week the 29-year old superstar debuts at #23 with “Not Myself Tonight”. It becomes her 15th Top 40 hit and first since she hit #7 with “Keeps Gettin’ Better” in 2008. Four of those hits have gone all the way to #1 although the last time she was at the top was back in 2001 with “Lady Marmalade”.
Make it seven Top 40 hits now for New York pop queen Lady GaGa. She bows at #28 with “Alejandro”. It’s the follow up to “Telephone” which holds at #7 this week. The 24-year old diva is also still at #24 this week with “Bad Romance”.
This week marked the beginning of the second season of the TV smash “Glee”. The premiere episode entitled “Hell-O” featured covers of many popular songs featuring the word “Hell” or “Hello” in the title. Two of them debut in the Top 40 this week. “Gives You Hell” originally by All-American Rejects comes in at #32 and a remake of Lionel Richie’s 1984 classic “Hello” is in at #35.
And finally, dance group LaRoux scores its first hit at #36 this week with a Top 10 Dance hit, “Bulletproof”.
My iTunes pick of the week:
“The Living Years”, Straight No Chaser
“If It’s Love”, Train
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