Someone make it stop. I have never been a fan of songs staying at #1 for more than 4 or 5 weeks. Having said that, Black Eyes Peas certainly have quite a chart feat to celebrate - with the release of yesterday's Hot 100 Chart the BEP's have now spent 26 consecutive weeks at #1 - half a frakin' year! No other artist has accomplished this in the history of this chart. Of course we are talking about their two singles going to #1 back-to-back - Boom Boom Pow held the #1 spot for 12 weeks and then they replaced themselves with I Gotta Feeling which is now in its 14th week atop the chart. They have just released their 3rd single from this CD, Meet Me Halfway - can they keep this going?
Who on earth saw this coming? Fresh off of her disturning-ish performance on the VMA's Lady GaGa soars from #18 to #7 with her single Paparazzi on Billboard Magazines Hot 100.
Paparazzi follows three previous singles into the top 10: a pair on #1 singles, Just Dance and Poker Face, and a #5 single LoveGame.
Lady GaGa joins Christina Aguilera, Beyonce and Fergie as the only women this decade to send four singles into the top 10 from a debut album -though B and F were already established music stars with Destiny's Child and Black Eyed Peas.
#1 hits that is - on Billboard's Dance/Club Play Songs Chart as her latest dance hit Celebration reaches the summit.
Combining all of Billboard's charts only 2 other artists have equal or more than 40 #1 songs on a particular chart... Conway Twitty and George Straight have topped the Country Songs Chart 40 and 45 times respectively. Striaght is still quite an active chart-topper on the country chart so in the coming years he may keep the lead but in the long haul she should eventually pass him.
Madonna's first #1 on this chart was actually this week in 1983 with the double-sided Holiday/Lucky Star. In the years to follow some of the #1 hits have included: Like a Virgin, Material Girl, Angel/Into the Groove, Like a Prayer, Vogue, Justify My Love, Ray of Light, Music, Beautiful Stranger, Hung Up, 4 Minutes and her most recent, Give It 2 Me.
The 'fans' version of the Celebration video featuring a very cute Lourdes:
Love this group... Today on Billboard's Dance Club chart La Roux moved to #1 with their 2nd single, Bulletproof. This is their new video for the 3rd single, I'm Not Your Toy.
Yesterday Taylor Swift earned her 4th #1 country song as her single You Belong With Me moved to the top of the country chart. The song also moved into the runner-up position on the Hot 100 just below the Black Eyed Peas and there tight grip on #1 with I Gotta a Feeling.
You Belong With Me is Taylor's 8th 'official' single release - her first was 2006's Tim McGraw which peaked at #6. This single also becomes her 2nd to make the top 10 of the Hot 100 following Love Story last year. Her three previous country chart toppers were: Our Song, Should've Said No, and Love Story.
In two short years Taylor has become a super star in country music.
Yesterday Billy Currington collected his third #1 single as his latest People Are Crazy moved into the top spot on Billboard Magazine's Top Counrty Songs Chart. This is Currington's 2nd single of off his latest CD, Little Bit of Everything - the first single Don't settled for a #2 peak.
Currington has been charting since 2003 when his debut single Walk a Little Straighter reached the top 10. He has also reached #1 with his singles, Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right (which won CMT's Video of the Year in '06) and Good Directions. His future looks pretty bright.
Who saw this one coming a year ago? This week Lady GaGa scores her 3rd straight top 10 single on Billboard's Hot 100 as LoveGame zooms up 12 spots to #10. Look for this to move up even higher next week as she has been in the top 3 on iTunes for most of this week. Her previous two singles were the chart-toppers Just Dance and Poker Face. That's quite a ride, disco stick or not.
Lady GaGa becomes the sixth female artist in this decade to send her first three singles from her debut CD to the top 10 - she joins Christina Aguilera, Beyonce, Ciara, Avril Lavigne and Fergie, tho Beyonce and Fergie were already established recording stars. Should she reach the summit it will be the first time since Mariah Carey in the early 90's for a female artist to go #1 with her first 3 singles, Mariah actually enjoyed 5 straight #1's.
This week on Billboard Magazine's Country Songs Chart hunky Brad Paisley scores his 10th consecutive #1 single and 14th over-all with Then. Since Thenis the lead single from his forthcoming 8th CD American Saturday Night look for his streak to continue for a least a couple more singles.
The reigning Top Male Vocalist at both the AMC's and CMA's first #1 song came in 1999 with the touching ballad He Didn't Have To Be and the first #1 single of the 10 in-a-row was his lovely duet with Dolly Parton When I Get To Where I'm Going To.
This week Black Eyed Peas score their very first #1 hit on Billboard's Hot 100 chart as their single Boom Boom Pow soars up from #39 - mostly on the strength of sales. The closest the Peas had gotten to the top spot previously was with a pair of #3 hits, Don't Funk With My Heart and My Humps. Of course Fergie has had three #1 songs from her solo effort, The Dutchess making Black Eyed Peas only the third band in chart history to score a #1 after a member from the group, following Phil Collins/Genesis and Rob Thomas/Matchbox 20. There isn't a video for Boom Boom Pow but you can watch this making of...
On the Billboard Hot 100 released today Lady GaGa finds herself at #1 with Poker Face. This is Lady's second trip to the top spot following her smash hit, Just Dance. Lady GaGa stopped by American Idol last night to wow the kids with a live (unlike some others) performance of Poker Face. Yes to Hollywood!
On the Billboard Hot 100 chart released today Flo Rida's Right Round is still ruling the roost... It has been #1 for seven weeks and has been at the top of iTunes chart since its release. Today also marked a 'hot shot debut' for Flo as his next single, Suga, began it's chart life at #25. His CD entitled R.O.O.T.S. will be out on Tuesday and it doesn't take a genius to figure out that this latest effort will surely debut at #1. Right Round samples heavily from the 80's Dead or Alive dance classic, You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) - which, like an old fart, I still 100% prefer.
Yesterday Bruce Springsteen's CD Working on a Dream debuted at #1 on Billboard's album chart after moving 244,000 copies.
This becomes Bruce's 9th #1 - tying him in 3rd place with the Rolling Stones with the most #1 albums. Ahead of them are the Beatles with 19 - Elvis and Jay Z are tied with 10 each.
Bruce has had an interesting start to 2009... He won a Golden Globe for Best Song for The Wrestler. Just to turn around and get grossly overlooked an Academy Award nomination for the same song. Then last weekend he turned back the clock and performed a stellar set during the Super Bowl Half-Time Show - he looked like a man half his age!
On the Hot 100 singles chart Bruce has had a solid dozen top ten singles. Though he has never enjoyed a #1 single he got very close in 1984 when Dancing in the Dark peaked at #2. Other top ten's include, Hungry Heart, Cover Me, Born in the USA, Glory Days and my personal favorite, I'm on Fire.
Bruce has won a staggering 18 Grammy's, 8 of them for Male Rock Vocalist alone - and he's in the running for two more this weekend. He has also known Oscar glory in the past - winning Best Song in 1994 for Streets of Philadelphia (which also won the Song of the Year Grammy) from the Tom Hanks film Philadelphia.
Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
Melissa Etheridge warmly covers Streets of Philadelphia on the next page...
Kelly Clarkson's latest single, My Life Would Suck Without You, has been sitting on the top of iTunes single chart for quite a few days now so it's no surprise that it leaps to #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 tomorrow. And it's not just any leap to #1 but the biggest leap in chart history - up from #97 last week. Clarkson now holds that record for a second time - her first #1 single, A Moment Like This, soared #52-1 in 2002.
My Life Would Suck Without You is the first single from Kelly Clarkson's upcoming CD, All I Ever Wanted - which follows her very disappointing effortMy December. It also marks the second time Kelly Clarkson has visited the top of the Hot 100 though she got very close with a #2 single, Since You've Been Gone. Suck is the 8th top ten single for the first American Idol winner.
Today on Billboard's Hot Country Songs Chart Brad Paisley and Keith Urban moved into the #1 position with Start a Band. The song is the first single from Brad's mostly instrumental album Play, his 4th #1 country album.
Brad is on quite a roll - Start a Band is his 9 straight #1 song and 13th overall. Some of those #1's include, He Didn't Have To Be, We Danced, Mud On The Tires, Ticks, and Waiting On A Woman.
He is finally getting his due with the country music awards shows - he has won the last two years as Male Vocalist at both the ACM's and CMA's. Though he only has one Grammy I have a feeling he will be adding to that tally next month.
Brad is married to Kimberly Williams and has a son and another child is on the way.
If he isn't already, he is fast becoming a country music legend and is easily Hall of Fame bound.
It took 22 weeks but Lady GaGa's very catchy single Just Dance (featuring Colby O'Donis) has finally reached the #1 spot on Billboard's Hot 100 Single Chart. It's the slowest song to reach the top in some 8 years. Who can remember the last dance song to reach #1?
For the second week in a row Just Dance is the biggest selling single and has been locked in the #1 spot on iTunes for a little over a week.
Just Dance also happens to be that rare single that is #1 in both the US and the UK simultaneously. Just Dance also went to #2 on the dance chart about six months ago and topped the charts in Canada and Australia and top 3 in Ireland, New Zealand and Sweden.
As if that weren't enough, Lady Gaga's second single Poker Face is #81 on the Hot 100 this week and it's #1 this week in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Something very strange has happened to the Top 10 of Billboard's Hot 100 Chart - there are four (yes four) artists with two songs each in the top 10. Beyonce reclaims #1 with Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) and she is at #9 with If I Were A Boy. T.I. is at #2 featuring Rihanna with last weeks top song, Live Your Life and he is at #5 with Whatever You Like. Britney Spears locks down the #'s 4 and 6 positions with Circus and Womanizer respectively. And Kayne West is at #7 with Heartless and at #10 with Love Lockdown. It's truly remarkable that 4 artists claim 8 of the top 10 spots. The other 2? Lady GaGa featuring Coby O'Donis is #3 with Just Dance and Katy Perry is #8 with Hot N Cold.
Taylor Swift is back at #1 on the 200 Album Chart with Fearless. Montgomery Gentry lock up a second week atop the Country Songs Chart with Let It Roll. On the Modern Rock Tracks Kings of Leon make it two weeks at #1 with Sex on Fire. Beyonce is still riding high on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Tracks Chart with Single Ladies, while Michelle Williams makes it to the top of the Dance Club Play Chart with The Greatest.
Wanna feel butt-ass old? 15 years ago this week the #1 song in the land... Hero by Mariah Carey:
With just over half a million copies sold Britney Spears latest cd Circus debuts at the top of the Billboard 200 Album Chart. Of her six studio efforts five have been to #1. And as if that weren't enough, the title-track and second single from this set storms onto the singles chart at #3 - making this the highest debuting single of her career. With Womanizer in the #10 position this week also marks the first time Britney has had two singles in the top 10 in the same week.
Speaking of the Hot 100 Singles Chart, Live Your Live by T.I. featuring Rihanna has moved back into the #1 spot for a third time. This is only the third time in the history of the Hot 100 that a single has moved into the top spot for a third time - following 1979's Le Freak by Chic and Whatever You Want by T.I. himself just a few weeks ago - which happens to be sitting at #5 this week.
Last weeks #1, Beyonce's Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) slips to #2 while it continues its run at #1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. Lady Gaga moves #5 to 4 with the catchy Just Dance - I still think this one might chart just a little higher, it has #2 written all over it.
New at the top of the Hot Dance Clup Play chart is Beyonce's sister Solange with Sandcastle Disco. Sitting atop the Hot Country Songs chart is Roll With Me, the fifth #1 for Montgomery Gentry. On the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart Kings of Leon score their first #1 with Sex on Fire.
Hey, wanna feel old? 15 years-ago the #1 single on the Hot 100 was Janet Jackson's Again. That just ain't right!
It's a big week for Sasha Fierce er, Beyonce. Her CD I Am... Sasha Fierce sold nearly half million copies thus ensuring a debut at #1 on The Billboard Hot 200 Album Chart. She also finds her singles Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) and If I Were a Boy sitting pretty at #'s 2 and 3 respectively on the Hot 100 Single chart. And Single Ladies also enjoys a second week at #1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. With a week like this, I would defeinately say she is pretty Fierce.
Also debuting in lofty positions on the Hot 200 Album chart, Nickleback's Dark Horse is new at #2, David Cook's self-title set arrives at #3 and Il Divo's The Promise comes in at #5. Last weeks #1 CD, Taylor Swift's Fearless slips to #4 but remains #1 on the Top Country Albums Chart.
Live You Life by T.I. featuring Rihanna begins a 5th non-consecutive week at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Single Chart. As I mentioned above Beyonce holds down the #'s 2 snd 3 positions with Single Ladies and If I Were a Boy. At #4 is the other T.I. song, the former #1 Whatever You Like, #5 belongs to Katy Perry's Hot N Cold, and #6 is Kanye West's Love Lockdown. At #7 is Lady Gaga featuring Colby O'Donis' Just Dance - in the last few weeks this single has been flying up the charts, I expect this one to go A LOT higher.
Elsewhere in a busy week for the Top 50 singles making big moves include... John Legend featuring Andre 3000 with Green Light at #24 (up from #31). The Fray with You Found Me which debuts at #28. T-Pain featuring Ludacris with Chopped N Screwed at #30 (up from #39). Jim Jones & Ron Browz featuring Juelz Santana with Pop Champagne at #33 (up from #50). Rihanna with Rehab at #34 (up from #61). Ludacris Co-Starring T-Pain with One More Drink at #38 (up from #54). And Nickleback with I'd Come for You which debuts at #44.
Live Your Life by T.I. featuring Rihanna moves back into the #1 postion on Billboard's Hot 100 again pushing T.I.'s Whatever You Want down to #2. Is there an end in sight to this T.I. domination? Beyonce couldn't break through last week - T.I. kept her If I Were A Boy at bay debuting last week at #3 and this week it slips to #5. Pink moves back up to #3 with So What which is easily becoming her biggest hit. Otherwise the top 10 looks stagnant yet again with the only exception being Akon's Right Now (Na Na Na) storming up 5 places to the #9 spot.
A look at the rest of the top 50 also shows very little chart movement except for a trio of songs. Lady GaGa featuring Colby O'Donis makes a huge move, up 22 spots to #27 with her suddenly successful Just Dance - this song hit #2 on the Dance Club Play ages ago. John Legend featuring Andre 3000's Green Light jumps 17 spots to #31. And Beyonce moves up 12 places to #44 with Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It), or should I credit that to Sasha Fierce? I'm so confused!
Over on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart AC/DC earns a second week at #1 with Black Ice. Pink, with the success of her single So What, debuts at #2 with her 5th studio release, Funhouse. I am partially responsible - I downloaded it the other day and there are some great tracks on this thing! There were also 5 other debut CD's in the top 10: John Legend's Evolver at #4, Toby Keith's That Don't Make Me A Bad Guy at #5, Rascal Flatt's Greatest Hists Vol. 1 at #6; Celine Dion's My Love: Essential Collection at #8; and Snow Patrol's A Hundred Different Suns at #9.
Carrie Underwood makes it a second week atop the Hot Country Songs with Just A Dream. The Offspring's You're Gonna Go Far, Kid goes for 7 weeks at #1 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks. On the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Ne-Yo's Miss Independent holds at #1 for a second week. And over on the Hot Dance Club Play Chart Mary Mary is #1 with Get Up - something tells me that this is not a wake up song.
T.I. continues to dominate The Billboard Hot 100 as his Whatever You Like enjoys a 7th non-consecutive week at #1 and his single featuring Rihanna, Live Your Life remains at #2. I was hoping that the string of 3 straight gigantic leaps to #1 would keep going this week but Beyonce had to settle with a jump from #68 to 3 with If I Were A Boy. The rest of the top 10 looks pretty much the same as last week except for a new entry at #10 with the Jason Mraz single, I'm Yours.
Elsewhere on the top 50 there was significant movement from Akon with Right Now (Na Na Na) moving from #19 to 14, Jennifer Hudson's Spotlight moving from #24 to 28 and John Legend featuring Andre 3000's Green Light moving from #52 to 47. And then there is Lady Gaga... it seems like her song, Just Dance has been around forever and it finally moves into the top half of the chart - #59 to #49. I downloaded her CD and I've been googoo over Gaga all week.
On the Top 200 Album Chart AC/DC debuts at #1 with Black Ice. It is their first #1 album since 1981's For Those About to Rock We Salute You. My god, I was in high school, how old are these farts and they are still rocking? Speaking of high school, AC/DC beat out the soundtrack to High School Musical 3 which had to settle for runner-up.
In just under three and a half years Carrie Underwood has scored her 7th #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart with Just A Dream. Something tells me that this will be short-lived as fellow country darling, Taylor Swift is sitting pretty at #3 with Love Story. And then there is a star-powered duet charging up the chart as Brad Paisley and Keith Urban enter the Top 10 ay #10 with Start A Band.
Ne-Yo finally scores his first #1 with Miss Independent on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. The Offspring continue their run at #1 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks with You're Gonna Go Far, Kid. And over on the Hot Dance Club Play chart another new #1 as Danny Tenaglia moves to the top spot with The Space Dance.
Kenny Chesney debuts at #1 on two album charts today - The Hot 200 for the 5th time and Top Country Album for the 8th time with his latest release Lucky Old Sun. Chesney had spent the last 2 weeks at #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart with Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven but this week he is replaced by Toby Keith as his 17th #1 single She Never Cried In Front Of Me moves to the top. I have a feeling with Carrie Underwood's Just A Dream and Taylor Swift's Love Story sitting pretty at #'s 3 and 4, Toby won't be enjoying that top spot for very long.
Over on the Hot 100 T.I. becomes only the third act in chart history to move a song into the #1 position three times with, Whatever You Like. T.I. also becomes the first artist to go to #1 with a song that follows a follow-up song that went to #1. Confused? It means, T.I.'s first single Whatever You Like went to #1 then he released a second single (which featured Rihanna) Live Your Life which went to #1, then today he followed the second #1 with the first one again. Yea, my head is spinning too.
Elsewhere the Hot 100 was not very active this week. Last week's #1, Britney Spears Womanizer tumbles to #4 while Taylor Swift debuts at #9 with Fearless. Look for a big jump from #68 next week as Beyonce released her single If I Were A Boy on Tuesday and has been #1 on iTunes ever since.
Jennifer Hudson enjoys a second week at #1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs with her HOT single, Spotlight. On the Hot Modern Rock Tracks The Offspring log a 5th week on top with You're Gonna Go Far, Kid. And scoring his 5th #1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart is Georgie Porgie with hit booty-shaker, Can You Feel That Sound. Poppers anyone?
This week the Hot 100 has a new #1 and for the third straight #1 single it breaks the same record: biggest move within the chart to the top of the chart. On Billboard's Hot 100 Chart released today Britney Spears' Womanizer jumps from #96 to #1 smashing last weeks record held by T.I. featuring Rihanna with Live Your Life which slips to #3. Womanizer becomes only her second #1 following her debut single ...Baby One More Time nearly a decade ago.
Other significant moves on the Hot 100 include a move from #14 to #11 for Leona Lewis' Better In Time and #15 to #12 for Kanye West's Love Lockdown which debuted a month ago at #3, fell, and is on the rebound. The highest debuting song this week comes from Akon feating Lil Wayne with I'm So Paid, new at #40.
Jennifer Hudson scores her first #1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs as her Spotlight finally reaches the top. The Offspring's You're Gonna GO Far, Kid continues to have a stranglehold on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart. On the Hot Dance Club Play chart Lindsey Lohan climbs to pole position (ha!) with her track Bossy.
On the Hot Country Tracks chart Kenny Chesney scores a second week at #1 with Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven. Breathing down his back are two artists who are very used to reaching #1 with some frequency. Toby Keith is in runner-up position with She Never Cried In Front Of Me and at #3 is country darling Carrie Underwood with Just A Dream (video below):
Any good chart watcher would have seen this coming a mile away... Britney Spears soars on Billboard's Hot 100 from last week's debut at #96 to #1 with her single, WOMANIZER. Due mainly by a ka-jillion downloads - it has been #1 on iTunes since its release last Tuesday. Hard to believe that this is only Brit's second #1, following "...Baby, One More Time" nearly 10 years ago. Even more shocking, this is only her 6th top ten single. At only 26 years of age it feels like she has been giving us pop crap and pap crazy forever... Here's the video one more time cuz the guy is a babe - a more revealing pic of him on the second page (possibly NSFW).
Hip-hop and R&B artist T.I. is having a great week. His album Paper Trail debuted at #1 on Top 200 Albums having sold over 500,000 copies, and (like I predicted here last week) his single featuring Rihanna, Live Your Life soars from #80 to #1 on The Hot 100 breaking the record T.I. set 2 weeks ago with Whatever You Like as the biggest jump to #1 from within the Hot 100. Whatever You Like holds steady at #1 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. He also has the #1 R&B/Hip-Hop Album, Rap Track and Rap Album. Phew, what a week for T.I. as he dominates quite a few charts.
T.I. isn't the only artist with two songs in the top 5 this week, Rihanna (who scores her 5th #1 with Live Your Life) also has her former #1 song, Disturbia hanging on in the #4 spot. Two songs debut on the Hot 100 within the top 10, Christina Aguilera's Keeps Gettin' Better begins at #6 and Nickleback's Gotta Be Somebody is new at #10. Things will certainly shake up again next week when Britney Spears crashes the top ten with her new single Womanizer - most probably in the top 3, maybe even #1.
Further down the Hot 100: Leona Lewis looks poised to jump into the top 10 for the second time with Better In Time at #14, David Cook debuts at #17 with Light On, The Killers debut at #32 with Human and Pitbull featuring Lil Jon moves up 30 spots to #33 with Krazy.
If it weren't for the incredible week T.I. had we would be talking about Jennifer Hudson. Her album debuted at #2 on both the Hot 200 Album's chart and the R&B/Hip-Hop Album chart. Her single, Spotlight is #2 on the Hot R&b/Hip-Hop Songs chart with a decent shot at #1 in the coming weeks. And it's moving up the Hot 100 as well with a jump from 36 to 29.
On the Hot Country Songs chart Kenny Chesney scores his 15th #1 as Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven moves into pole position. On the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart The Offspring maintain their grip at #1 with You're Gonna Go Far, Kid. While over on the Hot Dance Clup Play chart Bimbo Jones is new at #1 with And I Try.
Not much change at the top of a lot of the Billboard charts that I watch. T.I. begins a 4th week at #1 on the Hot 100 with Whatever You Like and it looks like T.I. himself might be the biggest threat to taking over the top stop as his new single Live Your Life featuring Rihanna is #1 on iTunes. Akon's latest single, Right Now (Na Na Na) is that charts highest debut at #17.
T.I. also remains at #1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs but it looks to be challenged in the next few weeks by T-Paine feat. Lil' Wayne's Can't Believe It or Jennifer Hudson's Spotlight. Hudson's debut CD was released two days ago and is currently #3 on iTunes.
Also, there is no change at the top of the Hot Country Songs Chart as Darius Rucker makes it two weeks with Don't Think I DOn't Think About it. Toby Kieth's She Never Cried in Front of Me (#3), Carrie Underwood's Just a Dream (#6) and Taylor Swift's Love Story (#11) are coming on strong.
On the Hot 200 Album Chart Metallica remains on top for a third week with Death Magnetic. Also there is no change at the top of the Hot Modern Rock Tracks as The Offspring enjoy another week at #1 with You're Gonna Go Far, Kid. Finally, a chart I watch that has a new #1: Natasha Bedingfield assumes the summit of the Hot Dance Club Songs chart with Angel.
Even within the top tens of these charts there was very little movement so I looked at an archived chart, you know - so I won't feel too old and 15 years ago this week the Hot 100 was topped by Mariah Carey and her bouncy ditty Dreamlover:
Over on the big singles chart, The Hot 100 T.I. regains the #1 spot as his song Whatever You Like spends a fourth non-consecutive week ending P!ink's two week reign with So What which slips to #2. As expected, two songs exploded into the Top Ten - Kanye West debuts at #3 with Love Lockdown and Taylor Swift makes a big jump from 16-5 with her latest, Love Story.
T.I.'s Whatever You Like also takes over on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, I was really pulling for Jennifer Hudson to slip in there but instead she makes a backward move (tho still retaining a bullet) with Spotlight.
