1. Fireflies - Owl City
Well, isn't this a surprise? When I checked the Hot 100 this morning I though if Jay Sean wasn't #1 again, perhaps it would be Jason DeRulo or maybe Miley Cyrus. But rather unexpectedly, Owl City leaps 6 spots to score their first #1 hit. I say "their" but really Owl City is just a "him"--Adam Young of Minnesota. "Fireflies" is the 10th #1 hit of 2009.
10. Sweet Dreams - Beyonce
"Sweet Dreams" becomes Beyonce's 13th top 10 hit this week and the fourth from her album I Am...Sasha Fierce. That matches the four top 10 hits she had with her first album, Dangerously in Love.
22. Tik Tok - Ke$ha
Ke$ha, the featured vocalist on Flo Rida's #1 hit from earlier this year, "Right Round," steps out with her first solo top 40 hit, "Tik Tok," which makes an impressive 33-spot jump into the top 40 at #22 this week.
31. Papers - Usher
Usher returns with "Papers," the first single from his upcoming album, Raymond vs. Raymond. For an artist as big as Usher, debuting at only #31 is kind of underwhelming. Frankly, as is the song, which is about divorce--not the most winning of pop music subjects.
34. Sweet Caroline - Glee Cast Featuring Mark Selling
A few of us recently had a little Puck lovefest in the comment section of my November new releases post. Now he has a top 40 hit! Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" was performed by Mark Selling, a.k.a. Puck, on Glee last week. As far as I know, this is the first Glee recording in the top 40 that's credited not just to the cast in general. This is the fifth Glee top 40 hit.
4 comments:
YAY! for Owl City!
Random moment, you know on iTunes when a single gets released like 2 months prior to an album release--and you buy the single and put it on your iPod--what do you do with that single, when the album is released and you buy that too?
Yay for Owl City~
After having BEP on top like forever~ Finally! =)
Puck Love~ Yay~
Can't wait for Gaga's Bad Romance to storm the chart =)
Bring on Puck! And it seems perhaps even more lovely to have Owl City at number one after the monotony of the past 28 weeks or so (Jay Sean not withstanding!) :) Quite adorable...
J. Mensah - There's a lot I really love about iTunes. But this is one of its annoyances. iTunes doesn't "convert" the single to an album track, even if you get the single by pre-ordering the album. You have to go to the "info" tab under the song's "get info" and change the album and track number in order for your ipod to recognize the song as part of the album. If you buy the single as a standalone--not as an album pre-order, then I just usually end up with 2 copies of the same thing.
rcLoy - I expect "Bad Romance" to make a healthy debut, but I don't think it will be top 10. Next week the big deal will be all the new Taylor Swift tracks though.
Paul - I'm really into the Owl City song. J.Mensah deserves credit for discovering them during the summer before they were big.
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