US Chart Notes

• Alicia Keys scores her third #1 hit this week as "No One" ascends to the top spot, ending the 3-week run at #1 for Chris Brown and T-Pain's "Kiss Kiss." Her album, As I Am, is also #1 this week. This is the third week this year that an artist has topped both charts, following May 5th when Avril Lavigne was #1 with single "Girlfriend" and album The Best Damn Thing, and September 29 when Kanye West was #1 with "Stronger" and Graduation.
• For the second week, T-Pain has four singles in the top 10, albeit all ones where he is a guest on other artists tracks. He's at #2 with Chris Brown on "Kiss Kiss," #4 with Flo Rida on "Low," #7 with Kanye West on "The Good Life" and #9 with Baby Bash on "Cyclone."
• Fergie's "Clumsy" moves up four spots to #8, giving her a fifth consecutive top 10 hit from The Dutchess. The last female artist to score five top 10 hits from her debut album was Paula Abdul, who achieved the feat between 1989 and 1990 with Forever Your Girl, which saw four of those five top 10s go all the way to #1. Similarly, Fergie's singles aren't lower rung top 10s either; she's had three #1s so far and one #2. This puts Fergie ahead of marquee names like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera and Beyonce, whose debuts only netted four top 10s. Very few artists have had five or more top 10 hits from one album over the last 20 years, particularly this decade. The ones I can think of besides Paula: Michael Jackson - Bad (6), George Michael - Faith (6), Whitney Houston - Whitney (5), New Kids on the Block - Hangin' Tough (5), Milli Vanilli - Girl You Know It's True (5), Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation (7) and Janet (6), Usher - Confessions (5).
• Biggest mover in the top 40 this week is Natasha Bedingfield (feat. Sean Kingston), who moves up nine spots to #27 with "Love Like This." This is Bedingfield's third top 40 hit, following "These Words" (#17) and "Unwritten" (#5). That puts her one hit ahead of her big brother Daniel, who's had two top 40 hits, "Gotta Get Thru This" (#10) and "If You're Not the One (#15).
• Finally, Carrie Underwood further extends the amazing longevity of "Before He Cheats" to 64 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. That puts her in third place for the longest-running single ever after Leann Rimes' "How Do I Love" (69 weeks), and Jewel's "You Were Meant for Me"/"Foolish Games" (65 weeks). As Billboard's Fred Bronson points out, the single might not last much longer, since a lot of its airplay is coming from adult contemporary stations, which typically shift formats to Christmas music around now. This week the single falls four spots to #47. If it falls four more next week, it will be removed from the chart.