For the first time in 2010, a song has debuted at #1. 37-year old Kansas City rapper Eminem makes his entrance on top this week with “Not Afraid”. It’s the first song to debut at #1 since Britney Spears did it last year with “3”. The song becomes Eminem’s second career chart topper. He reached #1 for twelve weeks back in 2002 with “Lose Yourself”. It is his 16th Top 40 hit and first since 2006 when he hit #12 with “You Don’t Know”.
The incredible debut of “Not Afraid” pushes Usher down a notch to #2 after making a 6-1 leap last week with “OMG” featuring will.i.am. Usher will look to return to #1 next week. All of his first eight #1 hits spent at least two weeks at the top. Four of them have spent at least six weeks at #1: “U Got It Bad” (6 weeks) in 2001, “Yeah!” (12 weeks) in 2004, “Burn” (8 weeks) in 2004 and “My Boo” (6 weeks) in 2004.
This week’s top four songs and five of the top six all are #1 hits. That includes Taio Cruz’s debut single “Break Your Heart” featuring Ludacris which holds at #4 with a bullet this week. The song reached #1 back in March and has been hanging out in the Top 5 nearly every week since.
Hip hop newcomer B.o.B. has two songs in the Top 5 this week. He slips from 2-3 with “Nothin’ On You” featuring Bruno Mars. The song spent the first two weeks of May at #1. He also climbs two spots from 7-5 this week with his follow up “Airplanes” featuring Eminem and Haley Williams of Paramore. The 21-year old Atlanta native debuted at #1 on the album chart last week with “B.o.B. Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray”.
Another young star looking for her second #1 hit is 23-year old Ke$ha. She topped the chart for nine weeks at the beginning of 2010 with “TiK ToK”. This week she holds at #8 for a third week with her third Top 10 smash, “Your Love Is My Drug”.
Ke$ha’s second Top 10 hit was “Blah Blah Blah” which featured Colorado alternative band 3Oh!3. This week, Ke$ha returns the favor by contributing to 3Oh!3’s latest hit, “My First Kiss” which is the week’s second debut on the Top 40 coming in way up at #9. 3Oh!3 reached #1 last year with “Don’t Trust Me”.
There are five songs in the 11-20 range of the survey with bullets. One is yet another debut in the Top 40. It is the latest Glee Cast song to hit the chart. This time it is a cover of “Total Eclipse Of The Heart”. This is the third time this song has been on the Top 40. The original by Bonnie Tyler hit #1 in 1983. A dance remake by Nicki French reached #2 in 1995. This week the Glee Cast debuts at #16 with the song.
Another one of the fast movers in this section of the survey is Lady GaGa’s “Alejandro” which jumps from 16-11. She is hoping to make it her seventh Top 10 hit to start her career. The other three bulleted songs all drop this week, partly due to the high debuts in the Top 40 this week. Jay-Z + Mr. Hudson hit the Top 10 last week with “Young Forever”. This week they slip from 10-12. Drake slides from 14-17 with “Over”. And Sean Kingston & Justin Bieber are down from 15-18 with “Eenie Meenie”.
Two songs make a move of 5 more spots in the bottom half of the Top 40 this week. Former Gym Class Heroes’ frontman Travie McCoy is up from 28-22 with “Billionaire” featuring Bruno Mars. And British electropop duo LaRoux consisting of singer Eleanor Jackson and keyboardist Ben Langmaid move up six spots for the second week in a row with “Bulletproof”. It’s up from 29-23 this week.
Three additional songs debut in the Top 40 this week to make a total of six. British rapper Drake scores his sixth Top 40 hit in the past year to start his career at #34 with “Find Your Love”. 32-year old rapper Young Jeezy returns to the Top 40 this week at #35 with “Lose My Mind” featuring Plies. And the Black Eyed Peas have their 11th Top 40 hit this week with “Rock That Body” bowing at #36.
My iTunes pick of the week:
“Speak To Me”, Remedy Drive
“Total Eclipse Of The Heart”, Glee Cast
“Keep Faith”, Dresden & Johnston
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