Hello everyone,
If you're a big music fan like I am, then you know the Billboard Hot 100 is the country's biggest music chart. While a new chart comes out every Wednesday, I only decided today (Friday) to start doing this feature, so don't harass me for being a few days late. So, let's start (regrettably) from the top, where we have a new #1: Whistle by Flo Rida. BARF!!! I really liked Flo Rida's old stuff when he was still rap/hip-hop, but now I just think he's a talentless singer who makes hits by stealing other people's song or getting artists with actual talent to sing the chorus of the song. There, I said it. Anyway, I do not like Whistle at all, although whether that's because of the song or Flo Rida, who's to say. I know the song is #2 on the iTunes chart, but I barely hear it on my local radio station, so I don't quite get why it's so popular. Regardless, I really hope this is it's only week at the top because there are much more deserving artists, like...Ellie Goulding, whose sudden hit Lights is stuck at #2 again this week! In it's 34th week on the chart, Ellie is once again blocked getting to the top position. The song is still very hot on radio (it plays about every hour on my station), but it's falling on iTunes, but there's still hope for a bounce to #1, a spot Carly Rae Jepsen is surely missing. Yes, after nine weeks on top of the world, Call Me Maybe has fallen from #1 to #3 this week. It was inevitable, as sales were going down and radio airplay wasn't increasing for the first time in a long time. But Jepsen shouldn't be upset. She's got Good Time with Owl City still gaining traction, and her album Kiss comes out one month from tomorrow.
Katy Perry's Wide Awake is even with last week, and I think it's safe to say that the song probably won't be reaching it's former height of #2 and going up and beyond to #1. Her record label tried it's sneaky old tactic of lowering the price of the song to 69 cents, but it didn't work this time. The song is now lingering in the teens of the iTunes top 100, and radio airplay is stalling a little bit. Still, Katy's had an amazing run with Teenage Dream and it's rerelease, The Complete Confection, so she shouldn't be upset. The same can be said for Maroon 5, whose lead single for their new album Overexposed, is still kicking in the top 5 even though it never hit #1. Yes, it's hard to believe Payphone never spent even a week as the top song in the country, but it always charted between second or third for fifteen weeks. Last week it fell to #5, where it remains this week. But Maroon 5's got One More Night headed on the way up (more on that later), so I wouldn't be worried. Also even with last week is Gotye's unescapable Somebody That I Used to Know. Now that iTunes sales have been slowing down, the song is mostly riding the success of radio, which refuses to let this song go. Up one spot from last week is David Guetta's latest hit, Titanium. I've known this song for over a year now, and the success is much deserved, it's probably my favorite Guetta song and Sia sounds awesome on it. Hopefully, the song can reach new highs, but it's iTunes sales are falling, but radio is still increasing, so keep an eye out!
Making it's Top 10 debut is Some Nights, the second single from the breakout band of the year (so far, at least), fun. Some Nights is a personal favorite of mine, so I'm glad to see it finally made the top of the crop. With iTunes sales still increasing and radio just beginning to really latch on, this song should be making it's way to the top very fast, but will it be able to match the success of the band's debut single We Are Young? Speaking of debut singles, Phillip Phillips sure is happy to see his making it's mark on the Top 10. After important placement during the Olympics coverage of Team USA gymnastics, Phillips' single Home is making a home in the Top 10, charting at #9 for the second week in a row. It's hard to tell what will happen now. Sales were just starting to fall as of Wednesday, and there hasn't been a whole lot of radio impact just yet, so this could be a case of overnight exposure that goes away just as fast as it came on. Finally, to round out the top, Rihanna's Where Have You Been falls three spots from #7 to #10. Out of every song in the Top 10, Rihanna's got the lowest iTunes placement, and radio airplay has stalled, so I wouldn't expect to see this song in the Top 10 again next week.
Beyond the Top 10, there is a lot more action going on! Pink's Blow Me (One Last Kiss) dipped out of the Top 10 after a drop in sales this week, coming in at #11. A huge sales push vaulted Justin Bieber and his new single As Long As You Love Me (featuring Big Sean) to #12, and this is probably the first single of his I wouldn't mind seeing go higher and higher, I really like the song. Owl City and Carly Rae are back up one spot this week to #13 with Good Time, and with lots of promotion coming up in the end of August, the song could finally make it's way to the Top 10. Regardless, I think we've proved that both artists are not one-hit-wonders. Want U Back by Cher Lloyd actually fell on spot this week to #14, and I have a hard time figuring that one out. She's still in the iTunes top 10, above a lot of the songs on the Billboard Top 10, and her airplay is still going hard, at least in my area. Maybe it's just a fluke way and she'll be back on her game next week. Maroon 5 jumps fifteen spots to #15 with their next single One More Night, which gained in both airplay and sales this week. It has a shot at making the Top 10 next week, but it'd be a long one.
Demi Lovato's Give Your Heart a Break jumps two spots to #16, a new peak! Hopefully, she can go a little higher, although her sales are slowing down. Also hitting a new peak is Neon Trees' Everybody Talks, which jumps two spots from #19 to #17, helped by a gain in sales. Taking a six spot tumble from #12 to #18 is Usher's Scream, which is definitely on it's way down. Calvin Harris and Ne-Yo's Let's Go falls two spots from #17 to #19, and the song isn't really that big around here, so I can understand the fall. Finally, Mercy featuring Kanye West, Big Sean (making his second appearance in the Top 20), Pusha T (who?), and 2 Chainz falls #16 to #20. Alex Clare's Too Close and Little Big Town's Pontoon hit new highs at #21 and #22, respectively, while Mumford and Sons' new single I Will Wait debuts at #23. Impressive! Nicki Minaj's new single Pound the Alarm made a huge jump from #50 to #29, after it's music video debuted last week, improving sales and airplay. It should climb even higher next week. Also benefitting from the release of a video is Carrie Underwood and her new single Blown Away, which jumps #47 to #38. It's also climbing in sales, and hopefully pop radio will start adding the song, because it's pretty freaking awesome fits the fall tone that is coming soon. Kelly Clarkson's Dark Side is slowly rising, gaining two spots this week from #44 to #42. Here's hoping the song gets a big push soon or else the success might start to fade. Chris Brown's Don't Wake Me Up made a #68 to #53 jump this week, likely boosted by a bump in sales. Finally, after two days of release, Taylor Swift's We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together makes it's debut at #72. Remember, that's only after two days of sales and airplay. Next week will be the real indicator of it's success, and I predict at the very least, a Top 5 debut. That's it for this week though! Check back next Wednesday/Thursday for more!
Evan
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