1. Live Your Life - T.I. Featuring Rihanna
T.I. and Rihanna stay at #1 for a fifth week. T.I's other single, "Whatever You Like," take a bit of a tumble, ending his run of holding the top 2 spots.
2. Single Ladies - Beyonce
3. If I Were a Boy - Beyonce
It looks like another artist could be contender for holding the Hot 100's top 2 spots. With Beyonce's I Am...Sasha Fierce released this week, Beyonce's other single, "Single Ladies," finally became available for sale at iTunes, propelling the popular track up 26 spots to #2. While it's biggest boost this week is from sales (it debuts at #1 on the Digital Sales chart), it's also doing quite well at radio, having already firmly established itself in the R&B market (where it is #1 this week on the airplay and overall charts) and growing strongly at top 40. It's this week's Airplay Gainer.
It will be interesting to see if either of these will unseat T.I. next week. "If I Were a Boy" is the more popular track at top 40 currently, but "Single Ladies" is bigger at R&B radio, and therefore overall. Both are ranked in the top 10 for digital sales (#1 and #2) and Hot 100 airplay (#6 and #9) with "Single Ladies" ahead on both feeder charts. If "Single Ladies" goes no higher, it will be Beyonce's first #2 hit, joining her four #1s, three #3s, and three #4s. A good track record for sure.
7. Just Dance - Lady Gaga featuring Colby O'Donis
American singer Lady Gaga scores her first top 10 hit this week with "Just Dance." The single was a #1 hit in Canada late in the summer, slowly gaining popularity in the US and recently surging forth quite forcefully. The track is up 9 spots to #7 this week. It's also the first top 10 hit for Colby O'Donis, whose single from earlier this year, "What You Got," topped out at #14. Much has been written about Lady Gaga on pop music blogs (including this humorous one from Chart Rigger about Christina Aguilera's confusion about Lady Gaga's gender).
9. Miss Independent - Ne-Yo
"Miss Independent's" lost its bullet, but slips up two back into the top 10 this week.
24. Green Light - John Legend Featuring Andre 3000
John Legend's "Green Light" is up seven spots to #24 this week, tying his 2005 hit "Ordinary People" as his highest-charting single.
28. You Found Me - The Fray
The Fray returns to the Hot 100 this week, debuting at #28 with "You Found Me," the first single from the band's second album due early next year. In 2006 the band scored two top 10 hits with "Over My Head (Cable Car)" and "How to Save a Life."
34. Rehab - Rihanna
Rihanna's "Rehab" breaks into the top 40 this week, becoming the 7th top 40 hit released from her Good Girl Gone Bad album (if you count the two #1 hits from the "Reloaded" version). I'm having trouble verifying this, but I believe it is the first album in 17 years to score at least 7 top 40 hits (if you can think of another since then let me know). That last album was Michael Jackson's Dangerous, which began with a #1 hit ("Black or White"), scored three other top 10 hits ("Remember the Time," "In the Closet," and "Will You Be There") and three other top 40 hits ("Jam," "Heal the World," and "Who Is It"). Other albums to score 7 top 40 hits include Michael Jackson's Thriller and Bad, Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814, and Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA (Thriller and Born in the USA have the further distinction of having all 7 singles reach the top 10, and Rhythm Nation the top 5). To my knowledge, no album has scored 8 top 40 hits.
4 comments:
what's the benifit of Rihanna milking the same album for 1 and a half years?
I need to check, but I think Shania's "Come On Over" may have had 7.
My bad...Shania had six.
J - On the one hand I suppose it's frustrating if you want something new (although Reloaded provided a bit of that). On the other, I think it's an impressive feat to have an album with so many hits.
John - Yeah, I thought of that one, but it did better on the country chart than the Hot 100.
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