After a billion desperate attempts to hit #1 on the Hot 100 and make chart history, Katy Perry has finally gone and done it. Last Friday Night (TGIF) finally dethrones LMFAO's overrated Party Rock Anthem, shoving it to #2 while Maroon 5's Christina Aguilera-assisted Moves Like Jagger vaults to #3 getting the Airplay Gainer Title. Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley's duet on Remind Me rise a spot to #17 while Rihanna leaps up 25 stops to #25 with latest single Cheers (Drink To That). Jason DeRulo's new single It Girl makes its way to #39 this week. Adele's Someone Like You continues its upward crawl, sitting just outside the Top 50 at #51 this week. Avril Lavigne's Smile has started to fall, after peaking at a measly #68 last week, the pop/rock number has taken a tumble to #73 this week. After plummeting down the chart since its top 10 debut last month, Demi Lovato's Skyscraper finally makes a move up to #82 while Taylor Swift's new single Sparks Fly re-enters at #84. Lady Gaga's You And I re-enters at #96 as well.
The world's two biggest egos Jay Z and Kanye West have teamed up and their album Watch The Throne bows at #1 over on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart. On the opposite spectrum of the chart, David Cook's close to falling out of the chart as This Loud Morning holds unsteadily at #188.
The annoying Party Rock Anthem has found its way to the top of the Hot 100, trailed behind by Pitbull's Give Me Everything. Katy Perry seems unable to move past #4 with her latest single Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.). But it appears OneRepublic is on track to score their first mega hit since Apologize went to #2 a couple years back, with latest single Good Life vaulting into the Top 10, collecting the Digital Gainer Title standing at #8 this week. Jason DeRulo and Britney Spears are also both heading upwards this week, with Don't Wanna Go Home moving up to #16 and I Wanna Go rising to #17. Beyonce could very well get her first proper hit this era with Best Thing I Never Had rising to #23. Putting two mega country stars together often means big sales, and Brad Paisley's collaboration with Carrie Underwood on Remind Me seems to be doing a neat job for itself, hitting a new peak of #27 with virtually no promotion. And this streak of moving upwards is even affecting Disney darling Selena Gomez and her hypnotically robotic new single Love You Like A Love Song leaping from #66 to #35 this week. Rihanna's summer ballad California King Bed is also inching its way to the top, moving to #47 this week. You thought you'd never see this day coming, but Nicole Scherzinger's Right There seems to be rubbing American audiences the right way, peaking at #52 this week while fellow reality TV singing competition judge Jennifer Lopez, amidst her divorce with husband Marc Anthony, moves up the chart with I'm Into You at an all time high of #72. Avril Lavigne's new single Smile has finally arrived on the Hot 100, debuting at #94.
Over on the Albums Chart, Beyonce and Adele are non-movers with 4 and 21 holding the top two positions on the chart in that order while Selena Gomez & Her Virtual Band's new disc When The Sun Goes Down rises a spot to #3 after debuting at #4 last week. David Cook, however, has taken a little tumble as This Loud Morning falls from #7 to #26 this week. For reasons no one knows, the soundtrack to Christina Aguilera's debut film Burlesque scoops the Greatest Gainer Award as the album shoots up to #68 up from #147. British pop artist Ellie Goulding has found her way back to the chart as Lights re-enters at #127.
The Top 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 remain untouched for yet another week with Adele's Rolling in the Deep remaining at #1 while Pitbull's Give Me Everything follows closely at #2. Jennifer Lopez' Pitbull-assisted track On The Floor falls to #7 this week. Jason DeRulo and OneRepublic take a slight dip to #18 and #20 with their latest tunes Don't Wanna Go Home and Good Life respectively. Katy Perry, however, is rocketing up the chart with her new single Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) shooting to a new peak at #31. Brad Paisley's Remind Me, a duet with Carrie Underwood, debuts at #59 thanks to digital downloads, while Rihanna enters the Top 60 as California King Bed creeps up five spots to #60 and Man Down making a new peak at #63. Beyonce's new single Best Thing I Never Had momentarily moves up, hitting an all new high of #75. Moving up at the minute too is Nicole Scherzinger and Right There moving up to #80. Jennifer Lopez isn't about to be outdone, as I'm Into You also heads further up the chart at #88 this week from #96 last week. Selena Gomez & The Scene's iTunes promotional single Bang Bang Bang impacts the chart at #94.
Lady Gaga's Born This Way album has been replaced by monster album Adele's 21. As Britney Spears' Femme Fatale Tour kicks off to stellar reviews, the album the tour supports moves up to #23 up from #37 last week.
Carrie Underwood - Undo It live at Sunrise Australia
Country powerhouse Carrie Underwood finally started taking promotion for her music international with her debut performance of Undo It on the Australian version of hit show Dancing With The Stars. While she looked good, she was awkward and slightly uncomfortable for the most part.
Thankfully, with that nerve-wracking performance over, Underwood hit Australian breakfast show Sunrise to perform Undo It again, this time a lot more relaxed and altogether markedly better. So if you ever had doubts about nerves preventing Underwood from really shining live overseas, scrap that Dancing With The Stars performance, pretend it never happened, and just watch this one.
Underwood's also rising up the Australian iTunes Chart so it's nice to see her finally doing international promotion and succeeding outside of the States.
Carrie Underwood - Undo It live on Dancing With The Stars
Carrie Underwood, the gorgeous blonde country bombshell and American Idol Season 4 winner who sold 12.5 million albums in the United States alone, seven time Grammy winner, six American Music Awards, and a stellar 15 Billboard Music Awards to her name, yet is a virtual unknown outside of the United States.
Well then. Her label has finally realised that countries do exist outside of America and Underwood went Down Under to perform Undo It and released her album Play On there as promotion for her debut film role in Soul Surfer.
You can check out her first performance on Australian television Dancing With The Stars below. Nothing spectacular, and I wish she did one of her soaring ballads instead. But hey, gotta come on the scene with an uptempo right? Let's just hope her label finally starts turning Carrie into an international superstar instead of being confined to the States.
Katy Perry and Kanye West have lodged themselves another week on top of the Hot 100 at #1, getting the Airplay Gainer title while Rihanna's snapping at Perry's tail with S&M remaining at #2. Britney Spears has vaulted back into the Top 10 with Till The World Ends making a new peak at #8 after the spectacular video premiere last week. Jennifer Lopez falls one spot down as On The Floor slips to #9 while Adele stays strong at #10 with Rolling In The Deep. Bruno Mars launches himself into the Top 20 with The Lazy Song making a new peak at #20. Climbing two spots up to #31 from #33 last week is Selena Gomez & The Scene's Who Says. Sneaking into the Top 40 is Jessie J with Price Tag making an all-new peak of #40 this week. Rocketing up the charts is Taylor Swift and her new single Mean as it makes a new peak of #48 this week since it got released as an official single off the album. Jennifer Hudson continues a downward slip to #82 with Where You At. Definitely another one of the sleeper hits, OneRepublic re-enters the chart at #97 with Good Life.
Adele returns to the top of the Billboard 200 Albums Chart with 21, shoving down Brit Brit's latest Femme Fatale to #2 in the process. Jennifer Hudson's sophomore effort I Remember Me falls to #11, down 4 spots from last week. Carrie Underwood must be doing something right, after her third disc Play On re-entered the chart at #164 last week, it's now leaped to a phenomenol #73.
The Academy of Country Music Awards took place last night and featured a host of guest performers, including the almighty Carrie Underwood and rocker Steven Tyler. The pair did two songs together, with Carrie kicking things off with her hit single Undo It, then inviting Steven on stage to finish the song off before singing the Aerosmith classic Walk This Way. Both were on fire and Carrie even pulled off an Avril Lavigne look with pink streaks in her blonde hair. Mmmm. Girl looked hot, that's for sure.
What's a Country Music Award show without Taylor Swift? These days, the Swifty has been perrforming across arenas all over the world on her Speak Now Tour, but took some time to perform her new single Mean. Vocally, her voice has gotten a little stronger, but that fake country accent in the verses and the bitch, please look? No. Vocals? Yes.
Speaking of vocals, for someone who's always been getting a lot of flack for her live vocals, Rihanna slayed on this duet with Jennifer Nettles of Country band Sugarland. The pair performed California King Bed, Rihanna's brand new single. Dang. But that hair..? Hmmmm.
We're still going into 2011 boringly, with Katy Perry taking the top spot again on the Billboard Hot 100, pushing Bruno Mars' Grenade to #2 while Ke$ha rounds out the Top 3 with We R Who We R. Rihanna and P!nk also stay intact with What's My Name? and Raise Your Glass maintaining their positions at #4 and #5 respectively. After a one spot slip last week, Taylor Swift moves up two spots to #25 this week. In an incredibly weird week, Swift has collected the Airplay Gainer title for Mine, the lead single from her Speak Now album that was released ages ago. Christina Perri's also on her way up with Jar of Hearts at #41 this week. Carrie Underwood's also not doing too shabbily, with Mama's Song sneaking back into the Top 60, moving three spots up to #60 this week. Selena Gomez & The Scene, however, are headed the other way as A Year Without Rain falls two spots to #77. The Glee effect still isn't wearing off for Bruno Mars yet, as Marry You moves up to a new peak of #85. It's kinda obvious this might be the third single..
Over on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, Taylor Swift reigns at #1 while Eminem and Rihanna leap back into the Top 3 with Eminem's Recovery and Rihanna's Loud at #2 and #3 respectively. Bruno Mars has also skyrocketed back into the Top 10, flying from #20 last week to #7. Ke$ha's also seeing good signs with Cannibal jumping exactly 20 spots to #19 this week. Poor Susan Boyle though, after battling with Taylor Swift the past couple weeks, The Gift has fallen hard, dropping to a disappointing #31 after coming in second last week. Crystal Bowersox is also falling, with Farmer's Daughter placing #62 this week. Still, she's still doing better than eventual American Idol winner Lee DeWyze whose post-Idol debut Live It Up is at #170 this week.
Katy Perry spends her second consecutive week at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week with Firework, pushing pop rival Rihanna away who's track What's My Name has rebounded to #2. Rocketing up to #3 is Bruno Mars with Grenade. You can pretty much expect Grenade to hit #1 in a couple weeks, if not next week. Slipping two spots is P!nk with Raise Your Glass which falls to #4 this week. Don't worry, she's another track coming out called F**kin' Perfect. Ke$ha bounces back up to #5 with We R Who We R after the music video of said track premiered. Refusing to budge is Rihanna and Bruno Mars' Only Girl (In The World) and Just The Way You Are at #6 and #7 respectively. Taylor Swift remains unstoppable, with Back To December heading up the charts, hitting #34 this week. Christina Perri's doing something right as Jar or Hearts is slowly getting closer to its original peak of #34, hitting #49 this week. After a couple weeks of heading the wrong direction, Carrie Underwood's Mama's Song has finally moved upwards to a new peak of #56. Then there's the unstoppable Glee Cast, with a slew of debuts after that Christmas episode. Baby It's Cold Outside and Welcome Christmas debut at #57 and #59 while Forget You spends a fourth week on the chart at #92. Gwyneth Paltrow must be doing something right. After falling all the way to the bottom of the Hot 100 last week, Shakira's Loca has bounced up 10 spots to #90.
Over on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, Susan Boyle reigns Queen as The Gift lodges yet another week at the top spot. Taylor Swift's Speak Now trails behind Susan Boyle at #2 while Glee's Christmas Album takes the title of Greatest Gainer and hits a new peak of #3. Well at least this week's fall wasn't too drastic, Lee DeWyze' post-Idol debut album Live It Up falls ten spots to #133.
Katy Perry's giving Rihanna a run for her money as the Singles Artist, with Perry sending her third single Firework straight to #1 on the Hot 100 after California Gurls and Teenage Dream hit the summit earlier this year. P!nk's Raise Your Glass has fallen to #2 in the meantime. And speaking of Rihanna, What's My Name? has just rebounded up to #3 on the Hot 100 while Only Girl (In The World) falls to #6. The Black Eyed Peas' single The Time (Dirty Bit) has entered the Top 4 this week. Bruno Mars rockets up to #5 with Grenade this week. Don't count out another Hot 100 #1 for this talented young man here. Ke$ha's We R Who We R falls to #8 this week. The Glee Cast's Dog Days Are Over, Hey, Soul Sister, (I've Had) The Time Of Our Lives, Valarie and Don't Cry For Me Argentina debut at #22, #29, #38, #54 and #97 while Marry You which debuted last week, falls to #57 and their cover of Cee-Lo Green's Forget You rounds out the Top 60 while Singing In The Rain/Umbrella spends its third week on the chart at #99. Taylor Swift slowly inches up the Hot 100 with Back To December moving up to #43 this week while fellow Country/pop superstar Carrie Underwood remains at #58 with Mama's Song. Christina Perri's Jar of Hearts remains entrenched at #65. Shakira's Loca rounds out the Hot 100.
Susan Boyle returns to #1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart with The Gift, trailed behind by Taylor Swift's Speak Now. Glee's Christmas album shoots up to #4 with the Christmas season just round the corner. The Black Eyed Peas debut at a disappointing #6. Rihanna's Loud rounds out the Top 10 while Mariah Carey rockets up to #12 with the Greatest Gainer Title with Merry Christmas II You. It's bad news all-round for Lee DeWyze as Live It Up falls to #123 in just its third week out.
Carrie Underwood - Cowboy Casanova/Temporary Home/Undo It live on CMT Artists of the Year
Country/pop superstar Carrie Underwood was recently honoured with the title of CMT's Artists of the Year. Underwood went on to perform a medley of her three Country #1s she's collected over the past year. It was nice to see Taylor Swift rocking out to Undo It. Girl needs to write for Carrie ASAP. Check out Carrie getting teary-eyed below while accepting her award.
Rihanna recently hit #1 on the Hot 100 with second single What's My Name? featuring Drake, but now, the lead single from upcoming set Loud has hit the top of the Hot 100 as she collects her ninth #1, becoming the first artist in history to ever have the second single from the album hit #1 before the first single. Meanwhile, the aforementioned Drake-assisted track What's My Name? has slipped to #8 despite getting the Airplay Gainer title for a second week in a row. Could P!nk be on her way to collect another hit #1 with Raise Your Glass? Seems like it. The track surges to #2 this week and might rise again next week after the high profile appearance at the AMAs. Ke$ha's We R Who We R rises to #4 this week after slipping to #6 last week. Katy Perry's Firework is also creeping up the charts, hitting a new peak of #6 for the popstar's latest single. The Glee cast have crashed the Hot 100 yet again this week, as Forget You and Singing In The Rain/Umbrella debut at #11 and #18 respectively. Last week's big Glee track Teenage Dream falls to #36, but still charting strongly compared to other Glee tracks. The Black Eyed Peas fall to #13 with their latest single The Time (Dirty Bit). Awww, looks like not everyone's liking the new track eh, Peas? Bruno Mars' Grenade rockets up to #17 this week as smash hit #1 single Just The Way You Are continues to slip (slowly) down the Top 10 of the Hot 100. OneRepublic's Secrets is still lingering around the Top 30, moving up to #24 this week, a couple spots from its peak of #21. Rihanna's next single S&M debuts at #53 this week. Carrie Underwood moves up one spot with Mama's Song making a new peak at #58. Christina Perri is back on the charts and moving up with Jar of Hearts hitting #62 this week. Taylor Swift's next single Back to December is moving up as well, climbing to #67 this week. Shakira's Loca remains entrenched at #83. Ne-Yo's One In A Million is also moving up, hitting a new peak of #92 this week. Jason DeRulo though, has fallen quite sharply to #96 after peaking at #76 last week. Ke$ha's promo track lifted from Cannibal called Blow debuts at #97 this week.
Susan Boyle continues her reign on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart with The Gift hitting #1 for a second week in a row. Another freakishly talented singer Jackie Evancho with her debut EP O Holy Night debuts at #2 while pop megastar Rihanna has to settle for third place for Loud, but also boasts her best first week sales yet. Glee's Christmas album debuts at #8 while Taylor Swift's Speak Now falls to #9. P!nk's Greatest Hits... So Far! debuts at #14 this week. Lee DeWyze' post-Idol debut Live It Up has become the lowest-selling Idol debut album since Kris Allen debuted at #11 with his self-titled post-Idol debut album, entering the chart at #19, selling roughly 39, 000 copies. Oh dear. Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas II You falls to #22 this week while her first Christmas album Merry Christmas surges up to #124.
Country superstar Carrie Underwood's CBS Thanksgiving Special recently aired on the network and televised performances of hit singles Mama's Song, Undo It, and her televised debut of her contribution to the upcoming Narnia soundtrack with There's a Place For Us. You can check out the grand ballad above and Mama's Song and Undo It respectively below.
Far East Movement's Fly Like a G6 reigns on top of the Hot 100 while Rihanna's Only Girl (In The World) has rocketed up to #2 while her previous #1 last week What's My Name? featuring Drake falls to #7 despite getting the title of Airplay Gainer. P!nk's Raise Your Glass has barged into the Top 4, hitting #4 this week. Ke$ha's latest single We R Who We R falls to #6 this week. Glee's Teenage Dream shifts a colossal 200, 000+ units in the first week of its release, debuting at #8 on the Hot 100, while Start Me Up/Livin' On A Prayer, Stop! In The Name of Love/Free Your Mind, One Love (People Get Ready) debut at #31, #38 and #41 respectively. Katy Perry's also on the move up with Firework hitting a new peak of #9 this week. The Black Eyed Peas' dreary autotuned fest of a new single The Time (Dirty Bit) debuts at #12 this week. Jason Aldean's duet with Kelly Clarkson on Don't You Wanna Stay flies up to #56 up from #93 last week. Carrie Underwood's Mama's Song has cracked the Top 60 with the country songbird's latest single hitting a new peak of #59 this week. After being announced as her next single, Taylor Swift's Back to December has returned to the Hot 100, re-entering at #74. Christina Perri's debut single Jar of Hearts moves up a spot to #75 while Jason DeRulo's latest single What If turns out to be a slow-burner, debuting at #76 despite being released quite sometime ago. Ke$ha's promo single Cannibal debuts at #77 this week.
Susan Boyle's The Gift continues her #1 album streak this week, holding Taylor Swift off the pole position as Speak Now falls to #2. Michael Buble's Hollywood: The Deluxe (EP) moves 3 spots up to #40 up from #43. Christina Perri's Ocean Way Sessions (EP) debuts at #144 this week.
In its third week, Rihanna's What's My Name? has shot straight to the top of the Hot 100 and gets the Airplay Gainer title. Not bad, methinks. Her previous single Only Girl (In The World) stays strong at #4, pushing last week's #1 Ke$ha with We R Who We R, down to #5. P!nk's Raise Your Glass moves up to #7 this week after its video premiered last week. Katy Perry collects her third Top 10 from sophomore pop album Teenage Dream with Firework, nudging its way into the Top 10, getting the Digital Gainer title. Taylor Swift's Mine barges into the Top 20 again, moving up from #21 to #16 this week. Jumping 9 spots is OneRepublic's Secrets, which sits a spot away from its peak of #21 and #22 this week. Sara Bareilles' King of Anything continues to impact strongly, moving up a spot to #35 this week. Ke$ha's promo track Sleazy debuts at #51 on the Hot 100. Carrie Underwood's latest single Mama's Song leaps to a new peak of #66. Christina Perri's Jar of Hearts continues to make an impact on the charts, as it moves up to #76 after its reappearance at #96 last week on the Hot 100.
Taylor Swift's Speak Now continues to reign on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, leaving country superstar Jason Aldean to settle for #2 with his latest release My Kinda Party. Mariah Carey debuts at #4 with Merry Christmas II You, shifting 55, 000 copies in its first week of release. Katy Perry's sophomore pop album Teenage Dream moves up 5 spots to #13 this week. Shakira's latest album Sale El Sol falls to #40 in its third week. Carrie Underwood's Play On has moved up to #46 from #52. Rihanna's album Rated R released last year has re-entered the charts at #186, mostly due to the success of Only Girl (In The World) and What's My Name?. Imagine the horror when they realise this is bitter Rihanna at work and not the happy, colourful Rihanna she is now.. LOL.
Your hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley opened the night with Songs Like This, a standout track from Underwood's latest album Play On, with a little help from fellow Country superstar Keith Urban. They all did a fantastic job and got the night of to a very energetic start, methinks.
Brad & Carrie then opened with a monologue and everyone from Taylor Swift to Tiger Woods to BP (and the oil spill in the gulf) was mentioned. There were a few genius one liners in there and these two definitely have a lot of chemstry going on. HILARIOUS STUFF.
Underwood and Paisley then sang a little song for newly engaged Country stars Blake Shelton & Mranda Lambert. And of course, Brad reminds all of us that it's her four month wedding anniversary.
Of course, with all her success, a performance at the CMA Awards was in order. Country/pop megastar Taylor Swift performed Back to December with a string section behind her while she played the piano. It was hauntingly good and if you were wondering why Swift mouthed a big "WHAT?" at the end of the performance, it was because she was shocked that she received a standing ovation, at least that's what reports are saying..
Jason Aldean teamed up with pop/rock superstar Kelly Clarkson on his latest single Don't You Wanna Stay and delivered their first BIG performance of the duet. Together, the pair weren't as strong as they were individually, but Kelly was phenomenal, and she sounded as on point as ever.
Despite being totally snubbed for any awards, Underwood took to the stage to perform Mama's Song, her latest single. The props and everything looked wonderful.
Far East Movement's Like A G6 stays at #1 this week on the Hot 100. It's an easy #1 for the group since there isn't much music out right now. Still, Just The Way You Are, Bruno Mars former #1 remains at #2 for a second consecutive week. Rihanna's Only Girl (In The World) is back at its peak of #3, moving up a spot from last week. P!nk's latest single Raise Your Glass continues to move up strongly, crashing the Top 10 at #10, getting the Airplay Gainer title. Taylor Swift's latest promo single Mean falls just short of the Top 10, debuting at #11, making it her first promo single lifted from Speak Now to not debut in the Top 10. Meanwhile, the official lead single Mine has risen a spot to #13; previous promo single Back To December drops to #30; while first promo single and title track Speak Now falls to #86. Shakira's latest single Loca makes a gigantic leap to #32 up from #84. Daughtry's latest single September has been slowly dropping down the Hot 100 lately, but the song has rebounded back up to hit a new peak of #36 this week. Sara Bareilles' King of Anything has been bouncing up and down the chart, and this week, Bareilles has managed to move up to #37 up from #42. Katy Perry's latest single Firework has found its way on the Hot 100, making a splash at #57 this week, and it's set to move up next week thanks to release of the music video. Available on the Hannah Montana Forever soundtrack, Gonna Get This featuring Iyaz has made a debut at #66. Carrie Underwood's latest single Mama Song makes a move up to a new peak of #68. Rihanna, if you don't collect a #1 with Only Girl (In The World), resassured, because What's My Name looks set to be another hit as the track featuring Drake debuts at #83.
Country group Sugarland top the Billboard 200 Albumms Chart this week, with 3 more debuts in a string below - Kings of Leon's Come Around Sundown, Elton John/Leon Russel The Union, Rod Stewart's Fly Me To The Moon The Great American Songbook. Glee's The Rocky Horror Glee Show makes a debut at #6 while Shakira's latest album Sale El Sol makes a debut at #7. The soundtrack for Hannah Montana Forever makes a debut at #11 this week. Selena Gomez & The Scene's sophomore pop album A Year Without Rain falls four spots to #18 this week. Katy Perry's sophomore pop effort falls to #22 this week. David Archuleta continues to fall hard as The Other Side of Down falls sharply to #125.
Far East Movement has dethroned Bruno Mars' Just The Way You Are on the Hot 100 with their debut single Like A G6 hitting #1 this week while Just The Way You Are slips to #2. Rihanna makes a rebound up to #4 this week with Only Girl (In The World) while Taylor Swift collects yet another Hot 100 Top 10 debut with her second promo single Back To December. P!nk looks like she's seeing yet another hit with Raise Your Glass skyrocketing to #11, leaping an impressive 40 spots on the Hot 100 after it's debut at #51 last week. Another week, another round of Glee debuts on the Hot 100. This week, Lucky, River Deep, Mountain High, Happy Days Are Here Again, Don't Go Breaking My Heart, Sing!, Le Jazz Hot enter at #27, #41, #48, #50, #87, #94 respectively. Carrie Underwood's latest single Mama's Song moves up to #70 this week. Shakira's latest single Loca hits a new peak of #84 this week. Selena Gomez & the Scene's A Year Without Rain moves up 9 more spots to #91.
Lil Wayne's I Am Not A Human Being hits the top of the Billboard 200 Albums Chart this week, reigning at #1. Selena Gomez & the Scene's A Year Without Rain drops to #14 while Katy Perry's sophomore pop album Teenage Dream drops to #16. Sara Bareilles sophomore album Kaleidoscope Heart remains entrenched at #49 on the chart. After dropping off the chart, Miley Cyrus' third pop album Can't Be Tamed re-enters at #195 this week.
Bruno Mars' single Just The Way You Are is still dominating the Hot 100 at #1 this week. Katy Perry's Teenage Dream drops one spot to #4 while Rihanna's Only Girl (In The World) moves up to #6. Taylor Swift's promo single Speak Now from her upcoming album of the same name makes a high debut at #8. OneRepublic's latest single Secrets flies up to a new peak of #21 this week. The songs covered on Glee last week I Want To Hold Your Hand, One of Us, Only The Good Die Young, Losing Me Religion, Papa Can You Hear Me?, Bridge Over Troubled Water and I Look To You debuts at #36, #37, #50, #60, #65, #73 and #74 respectively. Daughtry's September has stopped its upward climb, dropping two places to #39 this week while Sara Bareilles rounds out the Top 40 at #40. P!nk's Raise Your Glass, the upcoming lead single from her Greatest Hits... So Far! debuts at #51. Carrie Underwood's brand new single Mama's Song continues its upward climb, moving up to #75. Shakira's Loca makes a surprise entrance at #98 this week. Selena Gomez & The Scene's A Year Without Rain rounds out the Hot 100 standing feebly at #100 this week.
Toby Keith's Bullet's In The Gun debuts atop the Billboard 200 albums chart while Katy Perry's sophomore pop album Teenage Dream flies up to #8, getting the title of Greatest Gainer from #18 last week, most possibly thanks to that SNL episode. Selena Gomez & The Scene's A Year Without Rain stays strong at #10 this week. David Archuleta's sophomore pop album The Other Side Of Down debut at #13 after moving over 20, 000 units in its first week of release. Sara Bareilles' sophomore album Kaleidoscope Heart falls for 4 slots down to #49. With the success of OneRepublic's latest single Secrets, the parent album has shot up to #133 from #177 the previous week. Disney Channel's soundtrack for Sonny With A Chance makes a debut at #163. Emily Osment's debut full-length studio album Fight Or Flight enters the chart at #170.
Bruno Mars once again continues to lead the Hot 100 this week with Just The Way You Are standing at #1. Katy Perry's Teenage Dream rounds out the Top 3 at #3 this week. Rihanna's lead single Only Girl (In The World) from her upcoming album LOUD stays at #8 after it dropped to #8 last week from #3. Taylor Swift and Ke$ha sit at #12 and #13 this week with Mine and Take It Off respectively. Glee debut high at #16 with their cover of Britney Spears' classic Toxic, #26 with Paramore's The Only Exception (the Paramore original has leaped to #25), I'm A Slave 4 U, Stronger, Baby One More Time, and Me Against The Music at #52, #53, #54, #56 respectively. Sara Bareilles and Daughtry make movements up the chart this week, with King of Anything moving up to #35 and September making a new peak at #37. Selena Gomez' A Year Without Rain falls to #82 this week while Carrie Underwood's latest single Mama's Song re-enters the Hot 100 at #87, this time impacting as an official single.
On the Billboard 200 albums chart, Kenny Chesney debuts at #1. Selena Gomez' sophomore album A Year Without Rain falls 6 spots down to #10. Katy Perry's Teenage Dream stands at #18 this week. Fantasia's Back To Me falls to #29 this week. Making another sharp drop again this week, Sara Bareilles' Kaleidoscope Heart falls to #42 from #19 last week.
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Artist Of The Month. (November 2011)
The Power Rangers of British pop, The Saturdays, are returning this year with a more mature sound and image, with the girlband taking a stab at the pop/dance wave with their fourth album On Your Radar's first single Notorious being a total flip in direction in their sound, and was noticeably more clubby compared to their previous singles and albums. They then took things a level further with the complete rave-tastic All Fired Up, which is without a doubt their best single release, not surprising since the track was produced by production powerhouse Xenomania, the machine behind pretty much all of Girls Aloud's discography. The pop five-piece are charging forward with the Christmassy ballad My Heart Takes Over before their album On Your Radar drops November 21st!
