Beyonce tops for a third week, but James Blunt becomes a serious challenger for #1 next week. Click below for the full analysis.
Billboard Hot 100:
Beyonce (Featuring Slim Thug) spends a third week at #1 with "Check On It." The track is #1 on the Airplay, Pop 100, and Pop 100 Airplay charts as well. Moving up three places to #2 is James Blunt with "You're Beautiful." Although it lags behind "Check On It" in airplay, "You're Beautiful" is #1 on the Sales Chart, this week's Sales Gainer winner, and surely to sell even more next week for Valentine's Day (even though it's actually a heartbreak song, not a love song, oh well). Interestingly, another track by Blunt, "Goodbye My Lover," debuts this week at #100.
Mary J. Blige slips a notch to #4 with "Be Without You," but nonetheless garners the Airplay Gainer award this week. Three tracks enter the top 10: "I'm In Luv (With a Stripper)" by T-Pain (Featuring Mike Jones) moves up 7 to #5, Chris Brown scores his second top 10 hit at #7 with "Yo (Excuse Me Miss)," which is up from #11, and Eminem scores his 7th top 10 hit with "Shake That (Featuring Nate Dogg)" Eminem's top hits thus far:
1. "The Real Slim Shady," #4 (2000)
2. "Without Me" #2 (2002)
3. "Cleanin' Out My Closet," #4 (2002)
4. "Lose Yourself, #1 (12 wks, 2002/2003)
5. "Just Lose It," #6 (2004)
6. "When I'm Gone," #8 (2006)
7. "Shake That," #9 (so far, 2006)
The biggest move within the top 40 this week comes from Dem Franchize Boys (Featuring Lil Peanut & Charlay) up 10 spots to #23 with "Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It." Three tracks enter the top 40: Busta Rhymes at #31 (up from #42) with "Touch It," Keyshia Cole's "Love" is up 16 spots to #33 and Daddy Yankee moves up from #50 to #38 with "Rompe."
The High School Musical dominance last week did turn out to be a flash in the the pan. "Breaking Free" tumbled from #4 to #19 while "Get'Cha Head in the Game" fell from #22 to #40.
Billboard 200:
Barry Manilow has the most popular album in the U.S. this week, debuting at #1 with Greatest Songs of the Fifties. Americans LOVE Barry Manilow--we cannot get enough. What an incredible talent. Manilow leads a pack of 4 top 10 debuts: at #3, Andrea Bocelli debuts with Amore, which I have a feeling is operatic love songs (although I've never heard it, maybe it's thug rap), Heather Headley debuts at #5 with In My Mind and Train debuts at #10 with For Me, It's You. Right.
James Blunt's album Back to Bedlam benefits from the success of "You're Beautiful," and moves back into the top 10 at #9. Falling out of the top 20 for the first time since it debuted 61 weeks ago is Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway. Her high profile showing at the Grammy Awards this week (including a Pop Album win for Breakaway) should boost it back up next week.
R&R Top 40:
Beyonce spends a second week at #1 with "Check on It." No major movement in the top 10, although Natasha Bedingfield lands a top 10 hit with "Unwritten," up 2 to #9. Her first hit, "These Words," managed to reach only #11. Two track make 10-spot jumps: Mary J. Blige at #23 with "Be Without You" and T-Pain (Featuring Mike Jones) at #28 with "I'm in Luv (With a Stripper)."
Big top 40 debut for Rihanna at #29 with "SOS," her third top 40 hit. Chris Brown debuts at #38 with "Yo (Excuse Me Miss)" and Jamie Foxx debuts at #40 with "Unpredictable."
1 comment:
The thing about James Blunt is he is very, very blunt. The boy has no couth. I mean, seriously, he really tells it like it is.
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