1. Rolling in the Deep - Adele
Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" stays at #1 for a 7th week, officially making it the longest-running #1 hit of 2011 and the second-longest running #1 hit so far this decade behind Kesha's 10-week run for "Tik Tok." This is surely Adele's last week at #1, as three #1 hopefuls are breathing hotly (very hotly) down her back. Of course, she's had an amazing run with this song which, in addition to topping the Hot 100, has been #1 on Digital Songs, Radio Songs, Pop Songs, Adult Pop Songs, Adult Contemporary, Triple A and, as the year's biggest multi-format smash, has also shown up on the charts for alternative songs, rock songs, dance club/play songs--even hip-hop/R&B songs and Latin songs. Wow!
2. Give Me Everything - Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer
3. Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock
These have been the strongest contenders to unseat Adele, and one of them may get their shot next week, although the song at #4 this week may steal their thunder. Pitbull, in particular, looks to be slipping, with his sales down 5 percent this week. LMFAO earns Airplay Gainer this week.
4. Last Friday Night (TGIF) - Katy Perry
Katy Perry rockets up 27 notches to #4 with "Last Friday Night (TGIF)," the fifth single from her album Teenage Dream, which follows in the wake of the albums previous four #1 hits to becomes its fifth straight top 5 single. With the song's video out this week, it's showing amazing momentum, and there is little doubt in my mind it will be at #1 hit, if not next week, then the week after. It's currently the fastest-growing track at top 40 radio, where it has quickly climbed up to #12.
Teenage Dream is the first album since Fergie's The Dutchess (2006) to score five top 5 hits. Fergie did it with "London Bridge" (#1), "Fergalicious" (#2), "Glamorous" (#1), "Big Girls Don't Cry" (#1), and "Clumsy" (#5). If "Last Friday Night" hits #1, it will become only the second album ever to score five #1 hits. Only Michael Jackson's Bad has ever achieved that feat.
6. The Edge of Glory - Lady Gaga
Not much to report on the song this week, which holds at #6 with a bullet (although with its video out, expect some growth next week). Just wanted to note the passing of the song's saxophone soloist, Clarence Clemons, a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band who died Saturday at age 69.
16. Lighters - Bad Meets Evil featuring Bruno Mars
I saw this on the UK chart this week and just shrugged it off as some sort of dance act with a Bruno Mars vocal. Well that was pretty dumb, since 1) it's a decent song and 2) it's by Eminem, not some anonymous dance act. Oops! Bad Meets Evil is a collaboration between Eminem and Detroit rapper Royce da 5'9". "Lighters" is the highest entry in the Hot 100 this week, in at #16. This is Bruno Mars' 6th top 40 hit.
Do you think that we'll consider Katy Perry to be as much of a legend as Michael Jackson in 10 years? I highly doubt it, but she's definitely gathering the credits to prove that she could one day be in his league!
ReplyDeleteI highly doubt she'll achieve that kind of legendary status. Who could? But I think we'll look back on Teenage Dream is a potent hitmaker of the early 10s. It's likely to be her biggest thing.
ReplyDeletesurely Adele is over at the top now. I sort of want Katy to get her 5th number one!! I wasn't that taken with the album at first but now it seems like a mini greatest hits of goodness.
ReplyDeleteOh! And that Pitbull song is everywhere still in the UK. I particularly like how he rhymes kodak with... kodak :P
I wasn't a big fan of the album either; however, when I wrote my review I said I suspected it would generate a lot of hits and they would be more enjoyable as singles. I'd say I nailed that. "Give Me Everything" I've warmed to, but only slightly. It's overplayed.
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