And yet another music year begins... My first Top 20 for the first week of my
2010 music year includes a brand new #1 and debuts from Depeche Mode ("Perfect")
and Snow Patrol (a mellow cover of INXS's "New Sensation").  The prime mover is
"All over the world" by Pet Shop Boys.

If a song climbs on this chart and I'm still charting the song the first week of
2010, then that song will not be on my "Top 100 of 2009" year-end recap.  For
this reason, next to most of the songs you will see either (2009) or (2010).

(2009) means that the song has aleady peaked and will be on my "Top 100 of 2009"
chart.  (2010) means that the song will probably still be charting in January,
so it won't be eligible for my "Top 100 of 2009".

And there are three songs that don't have anything because it's too hard to call
right now.  Although these three songs climb, there is a chance they could peak
and be gone by January...

MY TOP 20 for the week ending December 5, 2009:

#20.  "Funhouse" -- P!nk (down 4) (former #1 for 2 weeks) (2009)

#19.  "New Sensation" -- Snow Patrol (DEBUT) (2010)

#18.  "Perfect" -- Depeche Mode (DEBUT) (2010)

#17.  "What You Get" -- Junior Caldera feat. Billy Bryan (up 3) (2010)

#16.  "Bulletproof" -- La Roux (down 5) (2009)

#15.  "All over the world" -- Pet Shop Boys (up 4) (2010)

#14.  "Celebration" -- Madonna (down 4) (former #1 for 6 weeks) (2009)

#13.  "Who Says" -- John Mayer (up 2) (2010)

#12.  "Bad Romance" -- Lady Gaga (up 2) (2010)

#11.  "Wonderful" -- Gary Go (up 2)

#10.  "Wonder" -- Jack Savoretti (up 2) (2010)

# 9.  "Heartbeat Radio" -- Sondre Lerche (down 3) (2009)

# 8.  "Fireflies" -- Owl City (up 1)

# 7.  "Welcome All Again" -- Collective Soul (down 3) (2009)

# 6.  "Scarred" -- Kevin Rudolf (up 2) (2010)

# 5.  "Make Me" -- Janet Jackson (up 2) (2010)

# 4.  "True Love 1980" -- Ash (up 1)

# 3.  "One Day" -- Jack Savoretti (down 1) (2009)
(former #1 for 2 weeks)

# 2.  "Beautiful people" -- Pet Shop Boys (down 1) (2009)
(former #1 for 2 weeks)

and my new #1 song is...

# 1.  "I Don't Believe You" -- P!nk (up 2) (2010)


Songs that fell off:

"Day Tripping" -- Sharleen Spiteri
Peaked at #2 (for 2 weeks) / 17 weeks on chart

"We Are Golden" -- MIKA
Peaked at #6 / 11 weeks on chart

Just want to wish you folks in America a very Happy Thanksgiving.
Hope you have a nice time.

From Billboard Magazine today:

  Mayer will likely relinquish the Billboard 200 throne next week as Susan
Boyle's "I Dreamed a Dream" album is set to debut in the top slot. Industry
sources say that the set could sell as much as 600,000 copies by week's end on
Sunday night (Nov. 29). It even has a chance of netting the best sales week of
the year for an album, which is currently held by the debut of Eminem's
"Relapse" with 608,000.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ieduvARfs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k01DpIZ4DaE

http://perezhilton.com/2009-11-25-lambert-speaks-again
(sorry for the Perez link, but I couldn't find this part anywhere else yet)

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5772614n

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5772878n



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Whitney drops to #4 this week, allowing the PSB to pull in to the #1
spot with "Pandemonium", their 12th #1 here I think. I am not sure yet
if they will still be there next week with Aurora's "Love Resurrection"
still sounding real good to me. I also recently discovered I may have a
"default #1" on my hands in a week or so if I can't make songs move
up quicker. Sophie, John Mayer and Pixie Lott are the best contenders
below the Top 10 so gotta get them moving quickly. Lady Gaga has
the best move this week, jumping up 7 spaces to #19. Four songs
debut, including Bloc Party and Weezer.  Peace & Happy Thanksgiving!


TW LW WK Nov. 28, 2009 
01 03 07 Pandemonium - Pet Shop Boys
02 05 08 Evacuate The Dancefloor - Cascada
03 06 07 Love Resurrection (Sunfreakz Radio Edit) - Aurora ft. Amanda Wilson
04 01 09 Million Dollar Bill (Freemason's Club Mix) - Whitney Houston
05 07 08 Staring Down - Collective Soul
06 10 07 Cowboy Casanova - Carrie Underwood
07 02 09 I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) - Pitbull
08 11 06 Straight Through My Heart - Backstreet Boys
09 13 06 Smile - Uncle Kracker
10 04 08 I Want To Know What Love Is - Mariah Carey
11 16 05 Just Can't Fight This Feeling - Jr. Caldera ft. Sophie Ellis-Bextor
12 15 05 Insecurities (Junior Vasquez Radio Edit) - Maxi J
13 17 04 The One - Mary J. Blige
14 18 04 Make Me (R. Rosario Martini Mix) - Janet Jackson
15 20 03 Boys And Girls - Pixie Lott
16 22 03 Who Says - John Mayer
17 08 09 Now I'm That Bitch - Livvi Franc
18 21 04 Sunny Side Up - Martina McBride
19 26 02 Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
20 24 03 Hit The Floor - Big Ali ft. Dollar Man
21 09 11 Bulletproof - La Roux
22 27 02 Live Like We're Dying - Kris Allen
23 28 02 In Sympathy - Depeche Mode
24 12 07 I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight - U2
25 14 06 We All Wanna Be Prince - Felix Da Housecat
26 NE 01 One More Chance - Bloc Party
27 NE 01 Carry Me In Your Dreams - Kejsi Tola
28 NE 01 I Want You To - Weezer
29 NE 01 Please Don't Stop The Rain - James Morrison
30 19 09 Fallin' Down - Colbie Caillat

Based on physical sales and the pre-order record Susan Boyle set at
Amazon, I believe Susan Boyle will beat everyone and be #1 next week.
I've read as such already in a number of articles saying Susan may
sell up to 500,000 copies which would give her the biggest first week
of the year for any artist.



On Nov 25, 2009, at 4:30 AM, "Bruce Evans" <MoovieStarz@...>
wrote:

> Lady Gaga's "Fame Monster" and the "Fame Monster Deluxe Edition" are
> sitting atop the best selling albums taking up the #1 and #2
> positions. She is followed closely by Susan Boyle's "I Dreamed A
> Dream", Rihanna's "Rated R" and Adam Lambert's "For Your
> Entertainment". If she maintains these positions look for her to do
> with this album what she couldn't do with "The Fame". Go #1 on the
> Billboard 200 next week.
>
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>
>


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Lady Gaga's "Fame Monster" and the "Fame Monster Deluxe Edition" are sitting
atop the best selling albums taking up the #1 and #2 positions. She is followed
closely by Susan Boyle's "I Dreamed A Dream", Rihanna's "Rated R" and Adam
Lambert's "For Your Entertainment". If she maintains these positions look for
her to do with this album what she couldn't do with "The Fame". Go #1 on the
Billboard 200 next week.

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I have not been a big fan of Adam. Although I do believe he is talented, his
singing
actually gets on my nerves most of the time. I don't get into the whole
"screaming/
shrieking" thing which is usually how he performs. I did not enjoy his
performance
on the AMA's and it had nothing to do with his oral sex simulation. There is
nothing
wrong with pushing the envelope; I am all for that as a matter of fact, but I
just believe
he is getting carried away with his popularity and is too 'over the top' for my
tastes.
I've gone back & forth on "For Your Entertainment" in the last few weeks but now
I
know I won't be charting this one. I am still interested in hearing his cd.
Peace!!  David



 



________________________________
From: Jeff Lutz <NYCforce@...>
To: gaytop40charts@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 1:40:26 PM
Subject: [GayTop40Charts] Furious at ABC

 
First they censor Adam Lambert's performance for the West Coast Feed on the AMAs
and now they have abruptly canceled the Good Morning American appearance on
Wednesday morning. Now is performing on CBS' The Early Show instead. Very much a
double standard!! I'm sure that Adam is loving this attention.

I love his new CD and especially the song he worked on with Lady Gaga called
"Fever". Go out buy this CD. Support this very important artist.


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Did anyone else notice that Whitney Houston sang live the Freemasons edit
version of "Million Dollar Bill" on the Dancing with the Stars Finale tonight? 
It's such a much better version of the song.  It certainly would be nice if
radio would start playing that version!!!

It starts about the 4 minute mark in this YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD_STBIbNwE


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Gorminako’s Top 80 (Nov 15-21)
LW TW PP WC
01 01 01 20 Silversun Pickups "Panic Switch"
03 02 02 21 Ne-Yo "Single"
02 03 01 24 Saliva "So Long"
04 04 04 18 Seether "Eyes Of The Devil"
07 05 05 14 Ne-Yo "Fade Into The Background"
06 06 06 22 Fleetfoxes "Mykonos"
05 07 01 24 Seether "Walk Away From The Sun"
09 08 08 18 Akon "Against The Grain"
08 09 07 23 Staind "This Is It"
11 10 10 14 Muse "Uprising"
10 11 01 25 Linkin Park "New Divide"
13 12 12 13 Rev Theory "Far From Over"
12 13 12 15 David Guetta "When Love Takes Over"
15 14 14 13 5 For Fighting "Chances"
16 15 15 23 Madonna "Beat Goes On"
19 16 16 21 Lady Gaga "Paparazzi"
14 17 10 24 Akon "Freedom"
25 18 18 08 Jason Derulo "Whatcha Say"
24 19 19 11 Madonna "Celebration "
23 20 20 19 Jordin Sparks "Battlefield"
17 21 04 24 Ne-Yo "Nobody"
18 22 09 27 Depeche Mode "Wrong"
20 23 16 24 Carolina Liar "Better Alone"
30 24 24 09 Ne-Yo "Be On You"
29 25 06 27 Green Day "21 Guns"
22 26 21 34 Journey "Where Did I Lose Your Love?"
29 27 27 11 Shakira "Loba"
33 28 28 12 Jay Sean "Down"
28 29 28 17 Madonna "Dance 2night"
32 30 30 11 Backstreet Boys "Straight Through My Heart"
27 31 24 20 Dido "For 1 Day"
39 32 32 08 Beyonce "Sweet Dreams"
42 33 33 07 Alice In Chains "Check My Brain"
45 34 34 05 Theory Of A Deadman "By The Way"
26 35 20 21 Backstreet Boys "Everything But Mine"
31 36 12 30 Carolina Liar "Show Me What I’m Looking For"
36 37 33 26 Lady Gaga "LoveGame"
41 38 38 08 Akon "We Don’t Care"
35 39 20 25 Dave Matthews Band "Funny The Way It Is"
38 40 38 10 Lacuna Coil "Spellbound"
40 41 40 15 Pink "Please Don’t Leave Me"
44 42 42 10 Lady Gaga "The Fame"
34 43 07 30 Saliva "How Could You"
54 44 44 03 Death Cab For Cutie "Meet Me On The Equinox"
49 45 45 10 Staind "The Way I Am"
53 46 46 05 Kelly Clarkson "Already Gone"
37 47 06 30 U2 "Magnificent"
48 48 47 16 Manchester Orchestra "I’ve Got Friends"
52 49 49 14 Metric "Help I’m Alive"
51 50 50 21 Hurt "Sweet Delilah"
57 51 51 04 3 Days Grace "Break"
60 52 52 03 Owl City "Fireflies"
62 53 53 03 OneRepublic "All The Right Moves"
65 54 54 02 Rihanna "Russian Roulette"
43 55 32 15 Veer Union "Season"
50 56 46 12 Killers "Dustland Fairytale"
61 57 57 04 Shinedown "If You Only Knew"
47 58 38 19 Franz Ferdinand "No You Girls"
72 59 59 02 Robbie Williams "Bodies"
46 60 01 45 Ne-Yo "Part Of The List"
64 61 61 05 Breaking Benjamin "I Will Not Bow"
70 62 62 03 Pink "Funhouse"
78 63 63 02 David Guetta "Sexy Bitch"
69 64 64 04 Killers "World We Live In"
55 65 40 19 Killers "Spaceman"
68 66 66 08 Jeremih "Birthday Sex"
77 67 67 02 Flyleaf "Again"
79 68 68 02 Jordin Sparks "SOS"
56 69 34 15 Paramore "Ignorance"
59 70 02 33 Seether "Fuck Me Like You Hate Me"
71 71 71 06 Hurt "The Pill"
00 72 72 01 Rafael Saadiq "Never Give You Up"
58 73 04 31 Ne-Yo "So You Can Cry"
00 74 74 01 Pet Shop Boys "Did You See Me Coming?"
63 75 45 19 David Cook "Come Back To Me"
67 76 47 26 Beyonce "Halo"
00 77 77 01 Journey "What I Needed"
00 78 78 01 Sean Kingston "Face Drop"
00 79 79 01 Leona Lewis "Happy"
66 80 20 29 Akon "Troublemaker"
73 00 30 28 Backstreet Boys "Panic"
74 00 34 24 Kanye West "Paranoid"
75 00 33 36 Killers "Human"
76 00 69 16 Kanye West "Welcome To Heartbreak"
80 00 50 33 Madonna "Voices"

 
 




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"Empire" takes control Of The Hot 100 in the US.....
"You Are Not Alone" Charity single by the X Factor Finalists takes the UK #1
...
"Bad Romance" goes To #1 in Macedonia & Sweden bringing it's total to 5
countries.....
David Guetta Featuring Estelle Vault Into the #1 spot in Curacao with "One
Love".....
"Fireflies" soars to #1 in Denmark.....
Donkeyboy finally gets knocked from the top spot in Norway by Rihanna's
Russian Roulette".....

Http://numberonesaroundtheworld.blogspot.com/


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http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/t....icle6925325.ece

Siobhan Fahey returns from the dark side of pop

From Bananarama and Shakespears Sister to break-ups and breakdowns, Siobhan
Fahey is back from the dark side of pop
Fleur Britten

Siobhan Fahey is hunting for wood. She leaps up from the sofa in her friend's
photographic studio, growing increasingly frantic about finding anything
that remotely passes as wooden. "Touch wood," she exhales eventually, "I
really do think I've been set free."

The newly blonde Fahey, founder member of Bananarama and Shakespears Sister,
has finally moved on from the "intolerable anguish" of depression that has
plagued her since she was 12. Also gone is the requisite goth-black hair and
the sun-hating (on hot days, she says, she used lie in cold baths all
afternoon - now she finds the cold restricts her joy). "I am devoting myself
to making myself happy," she says in a smoke-worn voice, now quite mellow
again. The catalyst was, she says, her parents dying in 2006. "I still don't
quite understand it, so it scares me," she shrugs, "but it's been some sort
of lightening up. Maybe it's a release from my old identity."

Whatever it is, this "deep shift" seems to radiate through her every cell.
She looks shockingly gorgeous, and few of her 51 years. Her petite frame is
poured into skinny jeans and a smattering of Westwood separates, topped with
a blonde Ziggy Stardust mullet. Her strong, feline bone structure fills out
an incredibly well-preserved complexion. Nor does her music sound like that
of a 51-year-old. "Sometimes, I do think I should have made an album full of
ballads for the over-forties," she smiles wryly. That would be the sensible,
commercial option. "But that's not who I am." Last week, she bounced back
after a five-year recording hiatus with Songs from the Red Room, the fourth
Shakespears Sister album and Fahey's second without Marcella Detroit since
their bitter split in 1993. No drippy ballads, just a burst of catchy yet
cosmic, intelligent pop: "I just refuse to stop being myself," she says
gently.

So she hangs out with her kids, Sam, 21, and Django, 18 (from her marriage
to the music maestro Dave Stewart), and their friends. They go to festivals
together (she's attended Coachella in LA for the past four years), and even,
she announces matter-of-factly, takes magic mushrooms with them. She spends
three months of the year in LA, visiting Sam, a (perhaps inevitably)
"insanely talented" musician. So does she get Botoxed when she's there? She
frowns (because she can): "I still feel like I'm 21. And it goes hand in
hand - you look the way you think." It runs in the family, she claims,
adding that her mother left "a good-looking corpse" after dying of a brain
tumour, aged 72. Three months previously, her mother had been in Ibiza,
"behaving like a teenager, drinking and dancing all night" (despite the new,
sunnier outlook, Fahey's gothic humour twinkles on). "She looked about 55,
maximum," she says. "All the nurses would gather round her bed and say,
'Jay-sus! [she adopts her parents' Tipperary accent] Look at the age on
that!'"

Her father's death three months later precipitated Fahey's "gap year", spent
mostly in the LA sunshine, turning around her dark days. Fahey's father, "a
caner", died with dementia, having become completely dependent on his wife
after 50 years of marriage. "He was the classic romantic Irishman," she
recalls. "He loved language, but he was wild and reckless." Did Fahey
inherit that? Her hard-partying days are well documented. "Yeah, yeah," she
smiles. "But his example taught me caution."

One senses that life's hard knocks have taught Fahey caution; there's now a
measuredness, a calm sense of reason, to the old punk soul. And those
knocks? There was the stint in a clinic for depression after ending up in a
wheelchair with an agonising ruptured disc. "You know the body is very much
linked to your mental state, and in 1993 the strain of my life took its
toll," she says. There was the gradual breakdown of her marriage. "We were
completely and utterly different people," she explains. "We really didn't
know each other well enough when I got pregnant and I'm sure we'd never have
got married otherwise." Plus there was Stewart's reported hypochondria, "his
constant attention-seeking behaviour that I found irritating".

This was fatefully timed with the grim Shakespears Sister split: "Once I'd
made Marcy an equal partner there was a terrible ego struggle, as she wanted
to be the front person in the band that I'd started. I really hate
confront-ation and she was very confrontational." Was there a terrible
showdown? "Several!" she snorts. "She was constantly at it. I was like, oh
Christ! I was just counting down the gigs where I didn't have to see her."
By 1993, Fahey was a solo artist (a place she "didn't embrace", she says
with understatement) and, by 1996, a single mother. She lights up a Silk Cut
inside the studio in gracious rebellion: "The whole thing unravelled and
turned into a nightmare. They were a difficult few years." She pauses,
adding: "I think that depression is closely linked to worrying about whether
you're a bad person or not."

Fahey's self-esteem was crushed in early childhood, she believes, as an
Irish girl living in Britain. Her father moved the whole family over,
including her two younger sisters, when he joined the British Army. "I grew
up on an army estate and it was like, 'You're a paddy, you're thick.' I
absorbed some pretty negative messages about myself." But then Fahey feels
that she never belonged in Ireland either: "My Irish cousins don't recognise
me as Irish. I'm this weird hybrid." So what does she feel in her core?
Fahey erupts into laughter. "Keren and Sara [her Bananarama bandmates] used
to laugh at me, saying I wasn't cool because I'd be like, 'Hi, how are you?'
with everyone instead of, 'Uh, whatever'. In my heart and soul I feel Irish.
I find the English very cold." So did her self-esteem improve with this big
shift? There's an improvement, she says, "but when it's woven into your
fabric, you have consciously to check your thoughts all the time". Hence
performing as Shakespears Sister when she alone is Shakespears Sister - it's
a platform to hide behind. "Besides," she chuckles, "Siobhan Fahey is a
bitch to Google."

Meanwhile, the Anglo-Irish hybrid­isation continues. Fahey still lives in
London, staying with one of her sisters or her artist/DJ/drummer boy­friend
of eight years (she rents out her own place, saying she can't live on her
back catalogue alone). She and her boyfriend mostly live apart because that's
what seems to work. (It's another case of Fahey defying categorisation:
"When you've been married and had kids, it's like, why do you need
a ­prescribed, conventional life?") Meanwhile, she still likes to visit
Ireland - Tipperary, Dublin, where her cousins live, and Clare, where her
uncle lives. "And since my parents passed, I have been visiting the places I
never got to go to before." Such as Dingle, her mental fantasy of Ireland.
And in LA, she started to learn Irish, her father's first language. "Part of
me believed that if I learnt Gaelic, it would unlock the cultural psyche,"
she says, because, culturally, she feels British. But, she confesses, she's
some way from finding the key in her studies: "It even takes a while before
you can pronounce what's written on the page".

It seems that Fahey the lone outsider is keen to hold on to both these
national identities. To her, even fame has its benefits, making her no more
the stranger: "It's comforting to be known, like someone who has lived in
the same village all their life. As a child I moved every couple of years,
so I always felt invisible." The one thing there's no room for, however, is
depression: "I want to close that chapter," she sighs. "I don't want that
tag anymore. It's like the wind is behind me somehow now." Touch wood.

Shakespears Sister
Songs From The Red Room
Format: CD Album
Catalogue Number: PALARE001CD
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Palare
Release Date: 16 November 2009

1. Pulsatron (Whitey mix)
2. Bad Blood
3. Was It Worth It? (With Terry Hall)
4. It's A Trip
5. Hot Room
6. A Man In Uniform
7. You're Alone
8. Bitter Pill
9. Cold
10. You're Not Yourself
11. A Loaded Gun
12. Bad Blood(Jagz Kooner Mix Edit)
13. Pulsatron (Gully Mix)
14. Cold (Death In Vegas Mix)

SOUND SAMPLES:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002TTZ....6272806&sr=8-11

"Empire" takes control Of The Hot 100 in the US.....
"You Are Not Alone" Charity single by the X Factor Finalists takes the UK #1
....
"Bad Romance" goes To #1 in Macedonia & Sweden bringing it's total to 5
countries.....
David Guetta Featuring Estelle Vault Into the #1 spot in Curacao with "One
Love".....
"Fireflies" soars to #1 in Denmark.....
Donkeyboy finally gets knocked from the top spot in Norway by Rihanna's
Russian Roulette".....

  Http://numberonesaroundtheworld.blogspot.com/

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First they censor Adam Lambert's performance for the West Coast Feed on the AMAs
and now they have abruptly canceled the Good Morning American appearance on
Wednesday morning.  Now is performing on CBS' The Early Show instead.  Very much
a double standard!!  I'm sure that Adam is loving this attention.

I love his new CD and especially the song he worked on with Lady Gaga called
"Fever".  Go out buy this CD.  Support this very important artist.

Little Boots storms straight to the top position with the latest single taken
from her
Album Hands, Earthquake.   Lady GaGa climbs 7 places to the runner-up position,
Surprisingly No.2 is her highest peak so far this year.
Other notable climbers include Black Eyed Peas climbing 13 places from 20 to 7,
Florence & The Machine climbing 27 places from 35 to 8 making it this week's
highest climber.
Leona Lewis climbs 12 places from 24 to 12 and Death Cab For Cutie with their
biggest hit yet storm up 20 places from 40 to 20.
Other new entries come from Ellie Goulding at 10 with Under The Sheets, Alesha
Dixon's new track
To Love Again enters at 14, while Marina & The Diamonds get a debut hit with
Mowgli's Road at 15.

Mark's Top 40 weekending 21st November 2009

1 (New) Earthquake - Little Boots
2 (9) Bad Romance - Lady GaGa
3 (4) I Don't Believe You - P!nk
4 (2) Real Late Starter - Nerina Pallot
5 (3) I Want To Know What Love Is - Mariah Carey
6 (1) Once More - Spandau Ballet
7 (20) Meet Me Halfway - Black Eyed Peas
8 (35) You Got The Love - Florence And The Machine
9 (11) The Spell - Alphabeat
10 (New) Under The Sheets - Ellie Goulding
11 (12) You Know Me - Robbie Williams
12 (24) Happy - Leona Lewis
13 (8) Cowboy Casanova - Carrie Underwood
14 (New) To Love Again - Alesha Dixon
15 (New) Mowgli's Road - Marina And The Diamonds
16 (5) 3 - Britney Spears
17 (7) We Weren't Born To Follow - Bon Jovi
18 (13) Cry Me Out - Pixie Lott
19 (10) Haven't Met You Yet - Michael Buble
20 (40) Meet Me On The Equinox - Death Cab For Cutie
21 (15) You Should Have Known - Laura White
22 (14) Unconditional - Peter Andre
23 (17) The Girl From Tiger Bay - Shirley Bassey
24 (6) What About Now - Westlife
25 (29) Undisclosed Desires - Muse
26 (30) Critical - Soft Toy Emergency
27 (New) It's The Same Old Song - Rod Stewart
28 (21) Fallin' For You - Colbie Caillat
29 (32) Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
30 (23) New York - Paloma Faith
31 (25) Arlington Way - Cerys Matthews
32 (18) The Never-Ending Why - Placebo
33 (New) I Need You Now - Agnes
34 (New) Life On A Wire - Jenny Saint
35 (22) Fight For This Love - Cheryl Cole
36 (16) About A Girl - Sugababes
37 (33) Hopes And Fears - Will Young
38 (New) Get Into You - James Morrison
39 (27) Thriller - Imogen Heap
40 (28) This Is It - Michael Jackson


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UK Top 100 Singles weekcommencing 22nd November 2009

1 (New) You Are Not Alone - The X-Factor Finalists 2009
2 (1) Meet Me Halfway - Black Eyed Peas
3 (New) Whatcha Say - Jason DeRulo
4 (2) Happy - Leona Lewis
5 (4) Fight For This Love - Cheryl Cole
6 (3) Everybody In Love - JLS
7 (6) Tik Tok - Kesha
8 (11) Bad Romance - Lady GaGa
9 (5) I Need You - N-Dubz
10 (7) 3 - Britney Spears
11 (10) Bad Boys - Alexandra Burke
12 (9) Down - Jay Sean
13 (8) About A Girl - Sugababes
14 (14) I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
15 (New) To Love Again - Alesha Dixon
16 (27) You Got The Love - Florence & The Machine
17 (12) Empire State Of Mind - Jay-Z ft Alicia Keys
18 (New) The Official CIN Medley - Peter Kay's Animated All Stars
19 (16) What About Now - Westlife
20 (25) Cry Me Out - Pixie Lott
21 (13) End Credits - Chase & Status
22 (17) You Know Me - Robbie Williams
23 (New) Baby Be Me - 50 Cent
24 (15) Haven't Met You Yet - Michael Buble
25 (21) Pencil Full Of Lead - Paolo Nutini
26 (135) Did It Again - Shakira
27 (26) I Can Transform Ya - Chris Brown
28 (19) Million Dollar Bill - Whitney Houston
29 (20) Just Say Yes - Snow Patrol
30 (18) Party In The USA - Miley Cyrus
31 (38) Dirtee Cash - Dizzee Rascal
32 (23) Oopsy Daisy - Chipmunk
33 (30) Break Your Heart - Taio Cruz
34 (35) She Wolf - Shakira
35 (24) Flashback - Calvin Harris
36 (31) Sexy Chick - David Guetta ft Akon
37 (22) Bodies - Robbie Williams
38 (New) Sweet Child O' Mine - Taken By Trees
39 (28) Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
40 (New) I Need You Now - Agnes
41 (33) Beat Again - JLS
42 (42) Dominos - The Big Pink
43 (37) 3 Words - Cheryl Cole
44 (130) Look For Me - Chipmunk
45 (43) Sex On Fire - Kings Of Leon
46 (34) Hotel Room Service - Pitbull
47 (29) You're Not Alone - Tinchy Stryder
48 (32) Broken-Hearted Girl - Beyonce
49 (39) Forever Is Over - The Saturdays
50 (44) Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap
51 (79) Undisclosed Desires - Muse
52 (49) Boys & Girls - Pixie Lott
53 (New) Under The Sheets - Ellie Goulding
54 (New) Innocent - Stereophonics
55 (New) Stop Crying Your Heart Out - Leona Lewis
56 (63) Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
57 (48) Sweet Dreams - Beyonce
58 (40) The Captain - Biffy Clyro
59 (196) Last Request - Paolo Nutini
60 (41) I Got Soul - Young Soul Rebels
61 (51) Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas
62 (New) Playing With Fire - N-Dubz ft Mr Hudson
63 (Re) Who Wants To Live Forever - Queen
64 (198) Who'd Have Known - Lily Allen
65 (Re) Set The Fire To The Third Bar - Snow Patrol ft Martha Wainwright
66 (70) Number 1 - Tinchy Stryder ft N-Dubz
67 (103) Rule The World - Take That
68 (55) Bad Things - Jace Everett
69 (46) Anyway - Duck Sauce
70 (66) Poker Face - Lady GaGa
71 (59) Use Somebody - Kings Of Leon
72 (64) I'm Yours - Jason Mraz
73 (56) Underdog - Kasabian
74 (57) Run This Town - Jay-Z ft Rihanna & Kanye West
75 (75) One Love - David Guetta ft Estelle
76 (47) Good Girls Go Bad - Cobra Starship
77 (113) All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey
78 (108) No Other One - Taio Cruz
79 (67) Run - Leona Lewis
80 (50) Unconditional - Peter Andre
81 (68) Paparazzi - Lady GaGa
82 (Re) Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
83 (45) We Weren't Born To Follow - Bon Jovi
84 (New) Earthquake - Little Boots
85 (160) Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl
86 (86) Uprising - Muse
87 (New) Chasing Pirates - Norah Jones
88 (137) Love Story - Taylor Swift
89 (New) Young Forever - Jay-Z ft Mr Hudson
90 (126) Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N Roses
91 (54) S.O.S. (Let The Music Play) - Jordin Sparks
92 (69) Holiday - Dizzee Rascal
93 (Re) Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
94 (New) Cornerstone - Arctic Monkeys
95 (112) Greatest Day - Take That
96 (61) New York - Paloma Faith
97 (58) Face Drop - Sean Kingston
98 (71) LoveGame - Lady GaGa
99 (80) Remedy - Little Boots
100 (77) Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) - Beyonce




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UK Top 100 Albums weekcommencing 22nd November 2009

1 (New) Echo - Leona Lewis
2 (1) JLS - JLS
3 (New) Absolute Greatest - Queen
4 (2) Reality Killed The Video Star - Robbie Williams
5 (5) The End - Black Eyed Peas
6 (New) Against All Odds - N-Dubz
7 (3) Up To Now - Snow Patrol
8 (6) Crazy Love - Michael Buble
9 (New) The Hits - Will Young
10 (4) Coming Home - Soldiers
11 (New) Keep Calm & Carry On - Stereophonics
12 (7) 3 Words - Cheryl Cole
13 (New) Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
14 (10) Soulbook - Rod Stewart
15 (12) Overcome - Alexandra Burke
16 (New) Winter Songs - Ronan Keating
17 (9) Greatest Hits - Foo Fighters
18 (14) I Am Sasha Fierce - Beyonce
19 (11) This Is It - Michael Jackson
20 (21) Sunny Side Up - Paolo Nutini
21 (New) 40/40 - The Carpenters
22 (New) Before I Self Destruct - 50 Cent
23 (18) The Ultimate Collection - Katherine Jenkins
24 (New) The Fall - Norah Jones
25 (13) The Circle - Bon Jovi
26 (15) The Very Best Of - Fleetwood Mac
27 (19) Revelation - Peter Andre
28 (22) Believe - Katherine Jenkins
29 (8) Only Revolutions - Biffy Clyro
30 (16) The Pursuit - Jamie Cullum
31 (25) Lungs - Florence & The Machine
32 (27) Only By The Night - Kings Of Leon
33 (23) We'll Meet Again: The Very Best Of - Vera Lynn
34 (New) Sing The Million Sellers - Foster & Allen
35 (New) Battle Studies - John Mayer
36 (24) I Look To You - Whitney Houston
37 (20) The Performance - Shirley Bassey
38 (17) The Time Of Our Lives - Miley Cyrus
39 (51) It's Not Me, It's You - Lily Allen
40 (28) The Resistance - Muse
41 (26) Peace In The Valley - Daniel O'Donnell
42 (43) Turn It Up - Pixie Lott
43 (68) The Boy Who Knew Too Much - Mika
44 (50) She Wolf - Shakira
45 (81) Songs For You, Truths For Me - James Morrison
46 (32) West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum - Kasabian
47 (30) Spirit - Leona Lewis
48 (34) The Ultimate Collection - Whitney Houston
49 (31) Celebration - Madonna
50 (35) Reunited - Cliff Richard & The Shadows
51 (38) I Am Chipmunk - Chipmunk
52 (33) The Blueprint 3 - Jay-Z
53 (37) Tongue N Cheek - Dizzee Rascal
54 (New) Love - Boyz II Men
55 (36) The Fame - Lady GaGa
56 (67) The Circus - Take That
57 (40) Some Guys Have All The Luck - Rod Stewart
58 (29) If On A Winter's Night - Sting
59 (39) The Best Of - Alison Moyet
60 (45) Catch 22 - Tinchy Stryder
61 (44) Funhouse - P!nk
62 (53) Sigh No More - Mumford & Sons
63 (46) Man From Another Time - Seasick Steve
64 (59) La Roux - La Roux
65 (47) Greatest Hits - Robbie Williams
66 (62) The Essential - Michael Jackson
67 (63) Bad - Michael Jackson
68 (60) Brand New Eyes - Paramore
69 (72) Your Songs - Harry Connick, Jr
70 (42) The Ultimate - Bee Gees
71 (71) Thriller - Michael Jackson
72 (55) Ready For The Weekend - Calvin Harris
73 (80) Decade In The Sun: The Best Of - Stereophonics
74 (75) Humbug - Arctic Monkeys
75 (52) Cross Road: The Best Of - Bon Jovi
76 (88) The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
77 (58) Love Is The Answer - Barbra Streisand
78 (65) Total Madness - Madness
79 (84) Never Forget: The Ultimate Collection - Take That
80 (66) Day & Age - The Killers
81 (69) 21st Century Breakdown - Green Day
82 (54) Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful? - Paloma Faith
83 (74) Back Again: No Matter What - Boyzone
84 (49) Invaders Must Die - The Prodigy
85 (64) Call Me Irresponsible - Michael Buble
86 (41) Donny & Marie - Donny & Marie Osmond
87 (70) Still So Far To Go: The Best Of - Chris Rea
88 (57) The Very Best Of - Andy Williams
89 (48) Frankie Say Greatest - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
90 (100) Fearless - Taylor Swift
91 (87) These Streets - Paolo Nutini
92 (86) Uncle B - N-Dubz
93 (89) The Sound Of: The Greatest Hits - Girls Aloud
94 (76) One Love - David Guetta
95 (73) Once More - Spandau Ballet
96 (61) Live At Reading - Nirvana
97 (New) Midwinter Graces - Tori Amos
98 (79) Rebuilt By Humans - Newton Faulkner
99 (114) Beautiful World - Take That
100 (94) The Script - The Script




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Chart Highlights offers a sneak peek at a select group of Billboard charts
every Monday. Find out the top songs, Greatest Gainers and debuts on the
surveys listed below.

All our charts are refreshed on billboard.com every Thursday.


Pop Songs
*** No. 1 *** "Whatcha Say" Jason DeRulo
Greatest Gainer No. 12 "TiK ToK" Ke$ha
Debut No. 35 "According To You" Orianthi
Debut No. 40 "All The Right Moves" OneRepublic


Adult Contemporary
*** No. 1 *** "You Belong With Me" Taylor Swift
Debut No. 26/Greatest Gainer "Cherry Cherry Christmas" Neil Diamond
Debut No. 30 "Baby You Got That Something" Sam Mizell


Adult Pop Songs
*** No. 1 *** "Already Gone" Kelly Clarkson
Greatest Gainer No. 6 "Fireflies" Owl City
Debut No. 31 "Cowboy Casanova" Carrie Underwood
Debut No. 40 "Kiss A Girl" Keith Urban


Dance/Club Play Songs
*** No. 1 *** "S.O.S. (Let The Music Play)" Jordin Sparks
Greatest Gainer No. 2 "Perfect" Depeche Mode
Hot Shot Debut No. 25 "Bad Romance" Lady Gaga
Debut No. 47 "On The Floor (Oh Baby Please)" Kaylah Marin
Debut No. 48 "Rain" Anjulie
Debut No. 50 "Striped Socks" Taylor Bright


Rap Songs
*** No. 1 *** "Empire State Of Mind" Jay-Z + Alicia Keys
Greatest Gainer No. 16 "Bedrock" Young Money


Rock Songs
*** No. 1 *** "I Will Not Bow" Breaking Benjamin
Greatest Gainer No. 8 "Kings And Queens" 30 Seconds To Mars
Hot Shot Debut No. 49 "Forever" Red


Alternative Songs
*** No. 1 *** "Uprising" Muse
Debut No. 38 "Odd One" Sick Puppies
Debut No. 40 "The End Is Where We Begin" Our Lady Peace
Greatest Gainer "Cousins" Vampire Weekend


Country Songs
*** No. 1 *** "Need You Now" Lady Antebellum
Greatest Gainer No. 24 "American Saturday Night" Brad Paisley
Hot Shot Debut No. 58 "Pray For You" Jaron & The Long Road To Love

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I have no problem with the fact That Jay-Z's "Empire Stae Of Mind" Hit #1
based on the fact that airplay for the song rose a bit as did the sales. Nor
do I question this past week "Tik Tok" placing higher than Bad Romance as
Lady Gaga took a drop in initial first week sales on the single, but now as
She has rebounded to #1 on the sales chart I am sure you will see a major
Jump on this week's chart from #11 to either #1 or #2. I am hoping for #1 of
course, but based on Jay-Z' increased sales he could still beat her out. It
will probably come down to airplay. I actually don't think "Empire' is as
popular as "Bad Romance" especially after the AMA awards Sunday night. GaGa
got a better response than Jay-Z. He looked at her and clapped like as if to
say "What the Hell was that".

My problem with the Billboard chart foes back to 1991 when they started
using soundscan and Broadcast data systems. Now these accurately portray the
data they are collecting. But the problem the data isn't always correct. I
argue that playlists should still be used as part of the chart creation
process. BDS just tracks what the radio stations are playing, not what
listeners are actually requesting. Furthermore with so many radio stations
in the US being owned by fewer and fewer people it makes it harder to break
new songs as in the past when so many artists could work their way out of a
region to do well in the rest of the country. Music directors are having too
much control over too many stations, thus limiting the range of music one
gets to hear. As a result of this some people knowing how BDS works can
easily direct the success of many a song.

Soundscan also has it's problems now that we are in the digital age. There
should be an official single release from the studios for songs and any
other songs from an album can still be downloaded but only if someone buys
the entire album. As you say we can't deny Taylor Swift's popularity, but
how many songs never make the Hot 100 because of allowing all these track to
chart. And that brings me to another point. I recently wrote Billboard (They
will probably ignore me) and told them I thought the Hot 100 should revert
to reflecting what is being played on Top 40 radio. I suggest making the Hot
100, the Top 100 which would be a more accurate description. The Pop 100,
which is now called Pop Songs, is a more accurate reflection of what is
popular at Top 40 radio. My problem with the Hot 100 is all the Country and
Hip Hop acts that probably wouldn't make the chart if not all the data were
being thrown in together. It seems lazy to me because they would then have
to determine where sales came from. But in this case I think you could
easily say that the song would need to have some Pop airplay to qualify.

I always like looking at the year end charts because they usually confirm I
was correct about where a song should have peaked. "Should've Been Would've
Been #1 songs" are a little hobby of mine and I am always putting a new list
together. It usually confirms my belief that a song that should've hit #1,
actually was popular enough to be considered a #1. Over the years the charts
have gotten more an more and more incorrect even with all the technology
that should produce a more accurate chart. I think that many people have
found ways to manipulate the data to their own ends. I have heard that
Billboard is supposedly using the iLike program found on Facebook to put
part of the chart together. Now there is a program that could really be
manipulated by someone to change the direction of a song. Billboard really
need to revaluate it's process for compiling chart data. Although a few
people like Taylor Swift & Carrie Underwood should be having Top 40 hits,
others like Reba McEntire should not. The whole Hot 100 needs a serious
overhaul as it is becoming increasingly more inaccurate. Not to put down
Taylor Swift, but she is not that popular with typical top 40 listeners as
the chart would seem to imply.

All charts have their problems whether in the US, UK or anywhere else. But
when you see two songs spend a combined 6 month run at #1, when other songs
should have gone to #1 during that time, then you know something is wrong.
When a song shoots to #1 then a week later begins a precipitous fall down
the charts, you can guess that song shouldn't have hit #1 in the first place
  The problem with the digital age is that it has allowed many a song to
chart much higher than what they should have, allow them to make much larger
jumps and debuts. The true determination of whether the high chart position
is correct is if the song has legs. But with many a song this is not the
case.

With that said I am hoping that Thursday's Hot 100 has Bad Romance" sitting
at #1. If not it should be two. If it isn't either than I question their
tracking methods anymore simply based on how quickly the song is being added
to Pop airplay and the Fact that she has been #1 for almost two weeks now.
We will see
Bruce


-------Original Message-------

From: bostonq
Date: 11/22/09 13:51:00
To: gaytop40charts@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [GayTop40Charts] Re: UK Top 100 Singles weekcommencing 15th
November 2009

Bruce wrote:

<<  Here is an example of when I have issues with how a chart company put a
chart together. Whether it be the Billboard Hot 100 or the UK Chart. Happy
was the #1 best selling single on iTunes UK the whole week. So how then do
The Black Eyed Peas end up with the UK #1. I don't buy where the songs
charted this week in the UK. I don't know what anyone else thinks, but I
think this another example where the people who put the chats together
missed the mark or doctored the charts to suit someone else's taste. I know
I don't live there, but something stinks on the UK chart. Just My Humble
Opinion.  >>


There are also messages posted at Billboard.com where someone is questioning
how Jay-Z and Alicia Keys can be #1 on the Hot 100... and there is also
another post from someone else questioning how Kei$ha can be higher than
Lady GaGa on the "Hot 100" when Lady GaGa is higher on both the sales and
airplay charts.  Obviously, people who follow the charts closely know when
something doesn't seem quite right...

I remember when Billboard changed their rule and started allowing songs that
didn't have a single to chart on the "Hot 100".  I was glad that they
finally changed the rule, but the change in the rule allowed airplay-only
songs to chart on the "Hot 100" only if they were also charting on the "Hot
100 Airplay" chart.  In other words, singles not available to buy in stores
were not eligible for the "Hot 100" unless the song was receiving some
pretty decent radio airplay points.

I think that Billboard might need to re-visit this policy again in the age
of the digital download.  Do I think that digital download sales should
count for songs that are actually being promoted as the artist's current or
next single, or songs that are getting radio airplay?  Absolutely.  But why
should digital downloads count for those songs that aren't a single, and
probably never will be?  Why should a song benefit from large digital
download sales when the song has absolutely no radio airplay and the record
label has no current plans to promote it?  In that case, I think the song
should only be eligible to chart on the "Hot Digital Songs" chart, but it
should not be eligible for the "Hot 100".

Case in point:  Taylor Swift.  Now, I'm not saying that Taylor is not
talented, and there's no denying how popular she is at the moment.  But 13
songs in the Top 40 of the "Hot 100" just because her record label chose to
release the new tracks from the re-issue of her album as individual
downloads?  I can see counting the download points for whatever songs are
being promoted as singles, but I don't think that the other songs should be
charting on the "Hot 100" at all.  I would be perfectly fine with her
breaking chart records on the "Hot Digital Songs" chart, but she shouldn't
be doing it on the "Hot 100".

Again, this is jut my "humble opinion" too, and I mean no disrespect to any
Taylor Swift fans.  But it just saddens me that Michael Jackson's, Janet
Jackson's, and Bruce Springsteen's long-standing, very impressive
achievement of having seven Top 40 singles from their albums now just seems
insignificant when Taylor has now had 13.... And long-time chart geeks like
myself could probably very easily name all seven Top 40 singles from the
THRILLER, BORN IN THE USA, RHYTHM NATION, and BAD albums, and those albums
were all released in the '80s!  Twenty years from now, I highly doubt that I
will be able to name the 13 from FEARLESS...



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My favorite AMA performances from Sunday night:

The Adam Lambert and Jennifer Lopez performances were edited by the time the
West Coast feed happened, which pisses me off (in the case of Adam).  Jennifer
fell and they edited that out as well.  But they cut out the oral sex simulation
from Adam's performance and of course he is all the topic of all talk shows on
Monday morning which is exactly what he wanted.  You have to applaud someone
pushing the envelope !!

Lady Gaga: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=YbZHHkRmajQ

Jay Z & Alicia Keys: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=ECC8QdBsRUo

Janet Jackson: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=KD_H7ztHF_Y

Whitney Houston: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=fUPQTmi65zM

Adam Lambert: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=1h5byMa8cqI

Jennifer Lopez: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=yZEavVN58KY =


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The Top Ten X-Factor finalists did a Charity Single for the Great Ormond Street
Hospital for Children and it is the new #1 song in the UK this week. It's a
remake of Michael Jackson's "You Are Not Alone".

Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86cPad8EidI


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1.   Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
2.   All the Right Moves - One Republic
3.   3 - Britney Spears
4.   Regret and Not Slow Down - Releint K
5.   Never Say Never - The Fray
6.   Already Gone - Kelly Clarkson
7.   Watcha Say - Jason Derulo
8.   Fireflies - Owl City
9.   Sweet Dreams - Beyonce
10. Horchata - Vampire Weekend
11. Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
12. Hello Seattle - Owl City
13. Party in the USA - Miley Cyrus
14. Papparazi - Lady Gaga
15. Drumming Song - Florence and the Machine
16. Halo - Beyonce
17. You Belong With Me - Taylor Swift
18. Beautiful People - Pet Shop Boys
19. Down - Jay Sean
20. Who Says - John Mayer
21. One Time - Justin Bieber
22. Whataya Want From Me - Adam Lambert
23. A Whole Lot Better - Brendan Benson
24. Live Like We're Dying - Kris Allen
25. Obsessed - Mariah Carey
26. Hey Soul Sister - Train
27. You Belong With Me - Taylor Swift
28. Happy - Leona Lewis
29. Love Drunk - Boys Like Girls
30. I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas

In the UK (I used to live there), physical singles still make up a huge amount
of the total sales for singles.  You can hardly find a physical single in the US
anymore, but if you go to an HMV in the UK the entire front of the store are
physical CD singles.  So you can't judge chart placement just on iTunes there
YET.  I suspect that may change over time but not as quickly as it has in the
US.

And in responding to Dan's comments on the Hot 100 rules, I agree that it seems
unfair about singles marketed versus just digital releases, but I actually think
the chart is a better reflection of real sales and airplay.  Before it was
almost totally doctored by false airplay reports etc.  Then when SoundScan came
into play and sales scanning tracking systems it became a lot more realistic. 
The bigger problem is not how they measure it but the fact that probably more
than 50% of singles are downloaded illegally and that is obviously never tracked
at all.  That is one reason why you are seeing record companies releasing tracks
one at a time or CD's faster and faster because of the significant amount of
tracks downloaded not even counted at all via illegal downloads.

But the new chart rules and especially the new Billboard 200 album chart rules
that will begin for next week's Billboard album chart are more accurate in
measuring real popularity and sales than ever before.  The only debate now is
the % airplay versus sales should play in the Hot 100.=

Bruce wrote:

<<  Here is an example of when I have issues with how a chart company put a
chart together. Whether it be the Billboard Hot 100 or the UK Chart. Happy was
the #1 best selling single on iTunes UK the whole week. So how then do The Black
Eyed Peas end up with the UK #1. I don't buy where the songs charted this week
in the UK. I don't know what anyone else thinks, but I think this another
example where the people who put the chats together missed the mark or doctored
the charts to suit someone else's taste. I know I don't live there, but
something stinks on the UK chart. Just My Humble Opinion.  >>


There are also messages posted at Billboard.com where someone is questioning how
Jay-Z and Alicia Keys can be #1 on the Hot 100... and there is also another post
from someone else questioning how Kei$ha can be higher than Lady GaGa on the
"Hot 100" when Lady GaGa is higher on both the sales and airplay charts. 
Obviously, people who follow the charts closely know when something doesn't seem
quite right...

I remember when Billboard changed their rule and started allowing songs that
didn't have a single to chart on the "Hot 100".  I was glad that they finally
changed the rule, but the change in the rule allowed airplay-only songs to chart
on the "Hot 100" only if they were also charting on the "Hot 100 Airplay" chart.
In other words, singles not available to buy in stores were not eligible for the
"Hot 100" unless the song was receiving some pretty decent radio airplay points.

I think that Billboard might need to re-visit this policy again in the age of
the digital download.  Do I think that digital download sales should count for
songs that are actually being promoted as the artist's current or next single,
or songs that are getting radio airplay?  Absolutely.  But why should digital
downloads count for those songs that aren't a single, and probably never will
be?  Why should a song benefit from large digital download sales when the song
has absolutely no radio airplay and the record label has no current plans to
promote it?  In that case, I think the song should only be eligible to chart on
the "Hot Digital Songs" chart, but it should not be eligible for the "Hot 100".

Case in point:  Taylor Swift.  Now, I'm not saying that Taylor is not talented,
and there's no denying how popular she is at the moment.  But 13 songs in the
Top 40 of the "Hot 100" just because her record label chose to release the new
tracks from the re-issue of her album as individual downloads?  I can see
counting the download points for whatever songs are being promoted as singles,
but I don't think that the other songs should be charting on the "Hot 100" at
all.  I would be perfectly fine with her breaking chart records on the "Hot
Digital Songs" chart, but she shouldn't be doing it on the "Hot 100".

Again, this is jut my "humble opinion" too, and I mean no disrespect to any
Taylor Swift fans.  But it just saddens me that Michael Jackson's, Janet
Jackson's, and Bruce Springsteen's long-standing, very impressive achievement of
having seven Top 40 singles from their albums now just seems insignificant when
Taylor has now had 13.... And long-time chart geeks like myself could probably
very easily name all seven Top 40 singles from the THRILLER, BORN IN THE USA,
RHYTHM NATION, and BAD albums, and those albums were all released in the '80s! 
Twenty years from now, I highly doubt that I will be able to name the 13 from
FEARLESS...

John:  Thanks for sharing your latest chart, but I think there was a typo: 
"Beautiful people" by Pet Shop Boys is at #18 and at #28...

--- In gaytop40charts@yahoogroups.com, john17cd@... wrote:
>
> My first chart in 2 months.
>
> 1.   Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
> 2.   All the  Right Moves - One Republic
> 3.   3 - Britney  Spears
> 4.   Regret and Not Slow Down - Releint K
> 5.    Never Say Never - The Fray
> 6.   Already Gone - Kelly  Clarkson
> 7.   Watcha Say - Jason Derulo
> 8.   Fireflies  - Owl City
> 9.   Sweet Dreams - Beyonce
> 10. Horchata - Vampire  Weekend
> 11. Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
> 12. Hello Seattle - Owl City
> 13.  Party in the USA - Miley Cyrus
> 14. Papparazi - Lady Gaga
> 15. Drumming Song  - Florence and the Machine
> 16. Halo - Beyonce
> 17. You Belong With Me -  Taylor Swift
> 18. Beautiful People - Pet Shop Boys
> 19. Down - Jay  Sean
> 20. Who Says - John Mayer
> 21. One Time - Justin Bieber
> 22. Whataya  Want From Me - Adam Lambert
> 23. A Whole Lot Better - Brendan Benson
> 24.  Live Like We're Dying - Kris Allen
> 25. Obsessed - Mariah Carey
> 26. Hey  Soul Sister - Train
> 27. You Belong With Me - Taylor Swift
> 28. Beautiful  People - Pet Shop Boys
> 29. Love Drunk - Boys Like Girls
> 30. I Gotta  Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
>
>
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http://mooviestarztop50.blogspot.com/

Well Madonna's Celebration spends a 4th week at #1 on my chart this week as
On And On", "Sweet Dreams" & "Happy" all move closer to the Top spot.

Several songs make strong upward moves in the Top 20 as just outside the top
20 the Pet Shop Boys "Beautiful People" makes a bigger than expected jump.
Polarkreis 18 is spending it's last week on my chart with not just one song
but two as "Allein Allein" & "Happy Go Lucky" say goodbye next week. Look
for 11 songs to debut within the next two weeks. Those songs can be found in
my chartbound section found below my chart.

Biggest Mover this week is:
"Fireflies" - Owl City - Up 10 (50-40)

Prime Movers Are:
"Back It Up" - Caro Emerald - 10 - 8 - 6
"She Moved In" - Miss Platnum - 16 - 14 - 11
"Give" - Shaun Baker Featuring Maloy - 18 - 15 - 12
"United" - Mark 'Oh - 19 - 16 - 14
"Three Days In A Row" - Anouk - 23 - 19 - 16
"One Day Like This" - Elbow - 27 - 22 - 19
"Bodies" - Robbie Williams - 28 - 23 - 20

Biggest Drop is:
"Let It Go" - Capetown -Down 19 (17- 36)

There are 3 Debuts :
"Dance Floor Dance Whore" - Evan Cowden - 46 (Highest Debut)
"Love Is My Drug" - John ME - 47
"Time For Miracles" - Adam Lambert - 50

Longest Charting Song:
"Allein Allein" - Polarkreis 18 - 25 weeks

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Hey,

Hope everyone has had a great week.

Here is my latest top 50. The full chart can be found here
http://delenn35.wordpress.com/

I have no change at the top again this week though I think that could change
next week. I have 4 new entries into the top 50 with Lady Gaga accounting for
half of them.

This week I have included and mp3 of the song at number 42 by Australian dance
act, Parralox. Their single "Hotter" is great electro dance with lots of 80s
elements and fun lyrics. The link is at the end of the chart.

--1---1---Love Chemical/Pole Folder feat. Shelley Harland
--2---4---Strobelight/Luigi Masi
--3---3---Lost In The Sound/JES
--4---5---Rise To The Occasion/BWO
--5---7---You And I/Medina
--6---6---Serenity/Roger-M feat. Eva
--7--12---Want/Natalie Imbruglia
--8---9---It's Your Love/Melinda Dolittle
--9---2---Neon Lights (See My Baby)/Therese
-10--13---Wrapped Up In Plastic/Isabel Guzman
-11--17---Carry Me In Your Dreams/Kejsi Tola
-12--14---Oceanblue/Jason Van Wyk & Vast Vision feat. Johanna
-13--16---How Do You Know/Agnes
-14--19---Heavy Cross/Gossip
-15--22---Piercing Quiet/Tritonal feat. Soto
-16--15---Fine Print/Nadia Ali
-17---8---Show Me The Way/White Shoes feat. Sharon May Linn
-18--23---In And Out Of Love/Armin Van Buuren feat. Sharon Den Adel
-19--25---It Only Hurts/Julie Thompson
-20--26---Show Me What I'm Looking For/Carolina Liar
-21--29---You Can Be The One/Late Night Alumni
-22--10---Another Day/Sophia May
-23--27---All You Ever Want/Deadmau5 feat. Billy Newton-Davis
-24--31---Spotlight/Jennifer Hudson
-25--11---Lie To Ourselves/Christopher Lawrence & Dave Audé feat. Jen Lasher
-26--20---Burning/Alcazar
-27--30---Sweet Dreams/Beyoncé
-28--37---H.A.T.E.U./Mariah Carey
-29--34---Catch A Fall/4 Strings feat. Andrea Britton
-30--28---Take Me With You/Serge Devant feat. Emma Hewitt
-31--21---5 Reasons/Sylvia Tosun & Loverush UK!
-32--18---Sunset Boulevard/Alex M.O.R.P.H. feat. Ana Criado
-33--38---My Man/Jade Ewen
-34--42---Defying Gravity/Idina Menzel
-35--41---The Deep Devine/Ronski Speed feat. Ana
-36--43---Celebration/Madonna
-37--35---24-7/Angel City feat. Lara McAllen
-38--24---Flatline/Cosmic Gate feat. Kyler England
-39--40---Gotta Let You Go/Captcha
-40--50---Million Dollar Bill/Whitney Houston
-41--47---Just Like You Said/John Shelvin feat. Molly
-42--NE---Hotter/Parralox
-43--NE---Bad Romance/Lady Gaga
-44--49---For Good/Delta Goodrem & LeAnn Rimes
-45--32---A Little Bit Special/Sunquest feat. Josie
-46--NE---Paparazzi/Lady Gaga
-47--45---Over/Zarif
-48--44---Trip/Stacey Q
-49--NE---Not Too Late/Dennis Sheperd & Cold Blue feat. Chloe Langley
-50--33---Forgiveness/Wamdue Project feat. Jonathan Mendelsohn

Hotter/Parralox
http://www.mediafire.com/?twzlzmtzg2w

"Louboutins" new single by Jennifer Lopez

http://www.mediafire.com/?mrgdw2nzy4y


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Gorminako’s Top 80 (Nov 8-14)
LW TW PP WC
01 01 01 19 Silversun Pickups "Panic Switch"
02 02 01 23 Saliva "So Long"
03 03 03 20 Ne-Yo "Single"
06 04 04 17 Seether "Eyes Of The Devil"
04 05 01 23 Seether "Walk Away From The Sun"
05 06 04 21 Fleetfoxes "Mykonos"
08 07 07 13 Ne-Yo "Fade Into The Background"
07 08 07 22 Staind "This Is It"
10 09 09 17 Akon "Against The Grain"
09 10 01 24 Linkin Park "New Divide"
13 11 11 13 Muse "Uprising"
12 12 12 14 David Guetta "When Love Takes Over"
15 13 13 12 Rev Theory "Far From Over"
11 14 10 22 Akon "Freedom"
21 15 15 12 5 Finger Death Punch "Hard To See"
17 16 16 22 Madonna "Beat Goes On"
14 17 04 23 Ne-Yo "Nobody"
16 18 09 26 Depeche Mode "Wrong"
22 19 19 20 Lady Gaga "Paparazzi"
19 20 16 23 Carolina Liar "Better Alone"
18 21 06 26 Green Day "21 Guns"
20 22 01 33 Journey "Where Did I Lose Your Love?"
24 23 23 18 Jordin Sparks "Battlefield"
30 24 24 10 Madonna "Celebration"
34 25 25 07 Jason DeRulo "Whatcha Say"
23 26 20 20 Backstreet Boys "Everything But Mine"
25 27 24 19 Dido "For 1 Day"
28 28 28 16 Madonna "Dance 2night"
33 29 29 10 Shakira "Loba"
36 30 30 08 Flo Rida "Be On You"
25 31 12 29 Carolina Liar "Show Me What I’m Looking For"
32 32 32 10 Backstreet Boys "Straight Through My Heart"
38 33 33 11 Jay Sean "Down"
27 34 07 29 Saliva "How Could You"
29 35 20 24 Dave Matthews Band "Funny The Way It Is"
35 36 33 25 Lady Gaga "LoveGame"
31 37 06 29 U2 "Magnificent"
40 38 38 09 Lacuna Coil "Spellbound"
43 39 39 07 Beyonce "Sweet Dreams"
42 40 40 14 Pink "Please Don’t Leave Me"
49 41 41 07 Akon "We Don’t Care"
52 42 42 06 Alice In Chains "Check My Brain"
37 43 32 14 Veer Union "Season"
48 44 44 09 Lady Gaga "The Fame"
55 45 45 04 Theory Of A Deadman "By The Way"
39 46 01 44 Ne-Yo "Part Of The List"
41 47 38 18 Franz Ferdinand "No You Girls"
47 48 47 15 Manchester Orchestra "I’ve Got Friends"
54 49 49 09 Staind "The Way I Am"
46 50 46 11 Killers "Dustland Fairytale"
51 51 51 20 Hurt "Sweet Delilah"
58 52 52 13 Metric "Help I’m Alive"
62 53 53 04 Kelly Clarkson "Already Gone"
66 54 54 02 Death Cab For Cutie "Meet Me On The Equinox"
45 55 40 18 Killers "Spaceman"
44 56 35 14 Paramore "Ignorance"
65 57 57 03 3 Days Grace "Break"
50 58 04 30 Ne-Yo "So You Can Cry"
53 59 02 32 Seether "Fuck Me Like You Hate Me"
71 60 60 02 Owl City "Fireflies"
70 61 61 03 Shinedown "If You Only Knew"
76 62 62 02 OneRepublic "All The Right Moves"
57 63 45 18 David Cook "Come Back To Me"
69 64 64 04 Breaking Benjamin "I Will Not Bow"
00 65 65 01 Rihanna "Russian Roulette"
56 66 20 28 Akon "Troublemaker"
61 67 47 25 Beyonce "Halo"
68 68 68 07 Jeremih "Birthday Sex"
75 69 69 03 Killers "World We Live In"
80 70 70 02 Pink "Funhouse"
74 71 71 05 Hurt "The Pill"
00 72 72 01 Robbie Williams "Bodies"
60 73 30 28 Backstreet Boys "Panic"
64 74 34 24 Kanye West "Paranoid"
67 75 33 36 Killers "Human"
73 76 69 16 Kanye West "Welcome To Heartbreak"
00 77 77 01 Flyleaf "Again"
00 78 78 01 David Guetta "Sexy Bitch"
00 79 79 01 Jordin Sparks "SOS"
59 80 10 33 Madonna "Voices"
63 00 02 34 Ne-Yo "Back To What You Know"
72 00 29 38 MGMT "Kids"
77 00 02 39 Ne-Yo "Lie To Me"
78 00 08 41 Lady Gaga "Poker Face"
79 00 02 60 Daughtry "What About Now"
 
 
 




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Here is an example of when I have issues with how a chart company put a
chart together. Whether it be the Billboard Hot 100 or the UK Chart. Happy
was the #1 best selling single on iTunes UK the whole week. So how then do
The Black Eyed Peas end up with the UK #1. I don't buy where the songs
charted this week in the UK. I don't know what anyone else thinks, but I
think this another example where the people who put the chats together
missed the mark or doctored the charts to suit someone else's taste. I know
I don't live there, but something stinks on the UK chart.
Just My Humble Opinion
Bruce

-------Original Message-------

From: Mark
Date: 11/17/2009 5:44:28 PM
To: GayTop40Charts
Subject: [GayTop40Charts] UK Top 100 Singles weekcommencing 15th November
2009

UK Top 100 Singles weekcommencing 15th November 2009

1 (3) Meet Me Halfway - Black Eyed Peas
2 (New) Happy - Leona Lewis
3 (1) Everybody In Love - JLS
4 (2) Fight For This Love - Cheryl Cole
5 (New) I Need You - N-Dubz
6 (6) Tik Tok - Kesha
7 (New) 3 - Britney Spears
8 (New) About A Girl - Sugababes
9 (4) Down - Jay Sean
10 (5) Bad Boys - Alexandra Burke
11 (10) Bad Romance - Lady GaGa
12 (11) Empire State Of Mind - Jay-Z ft Alicia Keys
13 (9) End Credits - Chase & Status
14 (16) I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
15 (7) Haven't Met You Yet - Michael Buble
16 (8) What About Now - Westlife
17 (New) You Know Me - Robbie Williams
18 (13) Party In The USA - Miley Cyrus
19 (14) Million Dollar Bill - Whitney Houston
20 (15) Just Say Yes - Snow Patrol
21 (17) Pencil Full Of Lead - Paolo Nutini
22 (23) Bodies - Robbie Williams
23 (12) Oopsy Daisy - Chipmunk
24 (18) Flashback - Calvin Harris
25 (45) Cry Me Out - Pixie Lott
26 (29) I Can Transform Ya - Chris Brown
27 (40) You Got The Love - Florence & The Machine
28 (19) Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
29 (20) You're Not Alone - Tinchy Stryder
30 (22) Break Your Heart - Taio Cruz
31 (24) Sexy Chick - David Guetta ft Akon
32 (27) Broken-Hearted Girl - Beyonce
33 (41) Beat Again - JLS
34 (21) Hotel Room Service - Pitbull
35 (28) She Wolf - Shakira
36 (New) I Got Nothing - Chartjackers
37 (30) 3 Words - Cheryl Cole
38 (34) Dirtee Cash - Dizzee Rascal
39 (37) Forever Is Over - The Saturdays
40 (35) The Captain - Biffy Clyro
41 (26) I Got Soul - Young Soul Rebels
42 (42) Dominoes - The Big Pink
43 (39) Sex On Fire - Kings Of Leon
44 (36) Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap
45 (25) We Weren't Born To Follow - Bon Jovi
46 (31) Anyway - Duck Sauce
47 (33) Good Girls Go Bad - Cobra Starship
48 (43) Sweet Dreams - Beyonce
49 (46) Boys & Girls - Pixie Lott
50 (90) Unconditional - Peter Andre
51 (67) Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas
52 (38) Wheels - Foo Fighters
53 (32) You Should Have Known - Laura White
54 (44) S.O.S (Let The Music Play) - Jordin Sparks
55 (51) Bad Things - Jace Everett
56 (54) Underdog - Kasabian
57 (47) Run This Town - Jay-Z ft Rihanna & Kanye West
58 (56) Face Drop - Sean Kingston
59 (59) Use Somebody - Kings Of Leon
60 (55) I'll All Over It - Jamie Cullum
61 (48) New York - Paloma Faith
62 (187) Purple Rain - Prince & The Revolution
63 (102) Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
64 (57) I'm Yours - Jason Mraz
65 (New) Hopes & Fears - Will Young
66 (63) Poker Face - Lady GaGa
67 (98) Run - Leona Lewis
68 (61) Paparazzi - Lady GaGa
69 (53) Holiday - Dizzee Rascal
70 (80) Number 1 - Tinchy Stryder ft N-Dubz
71 (68) LoveGame - Lady GaGa
72 (73) Red - Daniel Merriweather
73 (New) Till I Collapse - Eminem
74 (69) Get Shaky - Ian Carey Project
75 (130) One Love - David Guetta ft Estelle
76 (74) Halo - Beyonce
77 (72) Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) - Beyonce
78 (58) Man In The Mirror - Michael Jackson
79 (153) Undisclosed Desires - Muse
80 (70) Remedy - Little Boots
81 (New) One Shot - JLS
82 (89) Human - The Killers
83 (50) Rock N Roller - Kano
84 (78) Bulletproof - La Roux
85 (66) Watch The Sun Come Up - Example
86 (83) Uprising - Muse
87 (77) Fire Burning - Sean Kingston
88 (New) This Is Me - Demi Lovato & Joe Jonas
89 (79) Left My Heart In Tokyo - Mini Viva
90 (135) Let The Bass Kick In Miami Beach - Chuckie ft LMFAO
91 (85) When Love Takes Over - David Guetta ft Kelly Rowland
92 (145) Run - Snow Patrol
93 (65) What About Now - Daughtry
94 (91) Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons
95 (49) The Spell - Alphabeat
96 (95) In For The Kill - La Roux
97 (86) I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) - Pitbull
98 (52) Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi
99 (76) Supernova - Mr. Hudson ft Kanye West
100 (157) Use Somebody - Ultrabeat





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