Billboard Hot 100
Issuedate: April 8th, 2008

01. Mariah Carey - Touch My Body
02. Usher and Young Jeezy - Love In This Club
03. Madonna and Justin Timberlake - 4 Minutes
04. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
05. Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown - No Air
06. Ray J and Yung Berg - Sexy Can I
07. Lil Wayne and Static Major - Lollipop
08. Chris Brown - With You
09. Sara Bareilles - Love Song
10. Flo Rida and T-Pain - Low
11. Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music
12. Trace Adkins - You're Gonna Miss This
13. OneRepublic - Stop And Stare
14. Miley Cyrus - See You Again
15. Timbaland and OneRepublic - Apologize

There is more exictement on the Hot 100 this week! 

As predicted last week, Mariah Carey clinches her 18th Number 1 hit this week as digital downloads of "Touch My Body" become available.  This actually surpasses the previous record of most number of Number 1 hits by a solo artist previously held by Elvis Presley.  The most Number 1s overall is 20 by the Beatles.  Quite breakable at the rate MC is going now.  Its incredible sale of 286,000 downloads is also a new record.

Mariah's 18 Number 1 hits on the Hot 100:

Touch My Body
Don't Forget About Us
We Belong Together
Thank God I Found You
Heartbreaker
My All
Honey
Always Be My Baby
One Sweet Day
Fantasy
Hero
Dreamlover
I'll Be There
Emotions
I Don't Wanna Cry
Someday
Love Takes Time
Vision of Love

At Number 3, Madonna is catapulted all the way from #68 also because to digital downloads.   Sadly for the King Elvis, Madonna also wrests from him the title of the most number of Top 10 hits in Hot 100 history!  "4 Minutes" is now Madonna's  37th Top 10 hit, eclipsing Elvis' 36.

Madonna's 37 Top 10 Hits on the Hot 100:

4 Minutes
Hung Up (7)
Die Another Day (8)
Don’t Tell Me (4)
Music (1)
Ray of Light (5)
Frozen (2)
Don’t Cry for Me Argentina (8)
You’ll See (6)
Take A Bow (1)
Secret (3)
I’ll Remember (2)
Deeper and Deeper (7)
Erotica (3)
This Used To Be My Playground (1)
Rescue Me (9)
Justify My Love (1)
Hanky Panky (10)
Vogue (1)
Keep It Together (8)
Cherish (2)
Express Yourself (2)
Like A Prayer (1)
Causing a Commotion (2)
Who’s That Girl (1)
La Isla Bonita (4)
Open Your Heart (1)
True Blue (3)
Papa Don’t Preach (1)
Live To Tell (1)
Dress You Up (5)
Angel (5)
Crazy For You (1)
Material Girl (2)
Like A Virgin (1)
Lucky Star (4)
Borderline (10)

The Hot Shot Debut this week is the remake of Michael Jackson's "Beat It" by Fall Out Boy, featuring John Mayer on guitar.  This track is also quite popular on local radio.  It debuts very strongly at #22.

Billboard Hot 100
Issuedate: April 1st, 2008

01. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
02. Usher and Young Jeezy - Love In This Club
03. Ray J and Yung Berg - Sexy Can I
04. Chris Brown - With You
05. Sara Bareilles - Love Song
06. Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown - No Air
07. Flo Rida and T-Pain - Low
08. Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music
09. Lil Wayne and Static Major - Lollipop
10. Lil Mama and Chris Brown - Shawty Get Loose
11. Timbaland and OneRepublic - Apologize
12. OneRepublic - Stop And Stare
13. Lupe Fiasco - Superstar
14. Miley Cyrus - See You Again
15. Mariah Carey - Touch My Body

Wow!  After some pretty boring and static charts, this week's chart is jumping! 

I thought I would just introduce Leona Lewis last week when she entered the Top 10 at #8.  But then here she is now, jumping all the way to Number 1!  She has reached the summit in only her sixth week on the chart with "Burning Love".

There had only been two other British women who had reached Number 1 with their debut hits.  First was Petula Clark with "Downtown" back in 1965.  Second was Sheena Easton with "Morning Train (9 to 5)" in 1981.

The new #9 song "Lollipop" by Lil Wayne and Static Major vaults in from #85!  While the new #10 "Shawty Get Loose" by Lil Mama and Chris Brown is up from #19.  You will notice that this last song is now Chris Brown's third hit in the Top 10!  He still has "With You" and "No Air" (with Jordin Sparks) in there as well.

"Apologize" by Timbaland featuring One Republic is now down at Number 11.  This song actually stayed in the Top 10 for an incredible 25 weeks!  The new single for One Republic "Stop and Stare" is poised to reached the Top 10 soon as it rises from #16 to #12.  Also, Ryan Tedder of One Republic is one of the writers of "Burning Love", the new Number 1 song!

Mariah Carey's "Touch My Body" is one point down this week, but still with a bullet.  With the release of a digital download this week, look for a big jump next week.  It is expected to catapult her straight to the top!

The top debut this week is "Roll" by Flo Rida and Sean Kingston at #60.  Flo Rida's album "Mail on Sunday" debuts on the Billboard 200 at #4 this week.

However, the more exciting debut is at #68.  The song is "4 MInutes" by Madonna and Justin Timberlake.  This charting is just based on airplay alone.  We expect this to vault into the top of the charts once the digital downlaods are available.  I just posted about this song last Sunday, now here is the link:  http://3xhcch.multiply.com/music/item/79

Strange for me to see Ne-Yo just debuting at #96 with "Go On Girl".  Of course this song has been very big here locally last month, and was one of the most anticipated songs at his concert.  There is even a new single "Closer" now on the radio as Ne-Yo is about to release his third studio album.

This is the Billboard magazine review of this exciting new single from the Material Girl:

It doesn't take anywhere close to "4 Minutes" to realize that Madonna is poised to score her first top 10 hit since 2005's "Hung Up." The launch single from upcoming "Hard Candy"—her 11th and final studio album for Warner Bros.—co-stars Justin Timberlake, with production props from Timbaland. There's an awful lot going on in the busy dance track: sing-song verses, insistent foghorns, cowbells, chants of "tick-tock" and "Madonna, Madonna," and a rap from Timbaland—but the trade-off chorus between Madge and Justin of "We've only got four minutes to save the world" is hooky enough unto itself to sell the song. "4" qualifies as an event record between superpowers who not only share equal billing, but sound gangbusters together. Expect instantaneous penetration for this spring break '08 anthem. —Chuck Taylor

What do you guys think about it?