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 Billboard Hot 100Issuedate: June 10th, 200801. Lil Wayne and Static Major - Lollipop02. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love03. Coldplay - Viva La Vida04. Rihanna - Take A Bow05. Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl06. Usher and Young Jeezy - Love In This Club07. Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown - No Air08. Ray J and Yung Berg - Sexy Can I09. David Cook - The Time Of My Life10. Madonna and Justin Timberlake - 4 Minutes11. Natasha Bedingfield - Pocketful Of Sunshine12. Danity Kane - Damaged13. Lil Wayne and T-Pain - Got Money14. Plies and Ne-Yo - Bust It Baby (part 2)15. Jesse Mccartney - Leavin'
Only 3 out of the 11 songs of David Cook remain in the Hot 100 this week. These are: "Time of My Life" (# 9), "Dream Big" (# 81, biggest dropper of week from # 15) and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" (# 85). The rest drop out, so with all of the David Archuleta songs. I do hope "Time" gains in airplay some more, but realistically it seems it will dall out of the Top 10 next week.
Lil Wayne's "Lollipop" is really doing very strong, both in airplay and download sales, well and above "Bleeding Love." Aside from # 1, Lil Wayne also gets the Hot Shot Debut of the week with "Got Money" at # 13. This one features T-Pain. It seems we will be seeing "Lollipop" stay on top for some time.
The first main contender is "Viva La Vida" from Coldplay, which this week reaches the Top 3. While this makes "Viva" the highest ranked Coldplay single ever, poor airplay stats may not propel it all the way to the top.
 The second main contender is "I Kissed A Girl" from 23 year old American singer Katy Perry. I found this jaunty tune very good pop music. Title reminds me of a Jill Sobule song, but this one is different. This goes up big, from #21 all the way to # 5. Further gains in airplay will push it higher up.
The Greatest Gainer honor goes to "Teenage Love Affair" by Alicia Keys. This track was the one which got my immediate attention when I first heard her excellent "As I Am" album last year. I love the passion in her voice as she sings about "a matter of extreme importance." This song goes up 89 to 66 on its 4th week in this chart.
 Issuedate: May 27th, 200801. Lil Wayne and Static Major - Lollipop02. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love03. Rihanna - Take A Bow04. Usher and Young Jeezy - Love In This Club05. Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown - No Air06. Ray J and Yung Berg - Sexy Can I07. Madonna and Justin Timberlake - 4 Minutes08. Natasha Bedingfield - Pocketful Of Sunshine09. Mariah Carey - Touch My Body10. Danity Kane - Damaged11. Sara Bareilles - Love Song12. Jesse Mccartney - Leavin'13. Plies and Ne-Yo - Bust It Baby (part 2)14. Colby O'Donis and Akon - What You Got15. John Mayer - Say
"Lollipop" by Lil Wayne and Static Major returns to the Number 1 slot giving way to Leona Lewis and Rihanna for the past three weeks. I personally do not like this song, finding it too syncopated. It did not really catch fire on local radio so I barely hear it. But this feat of returning to the top after three weeks out is impressive. "U Got It Bad" by Usher had 4 weeks between its peaks at Number 1 back in 2002.
 Talking about Usher though, while his song "Love In the Club" is still strong at # 4, his new song called "Love in This Club, Part II" featuring Beyonce and Lil Wayne (again). This song is a ballad this time, and quite good actually when I hear it on local radio. With his big move up from #63 up to #18 this week, it is strong contender for the top 10 next week.  The Greatest Gainer in Sales this week is earned by Welsh singer Duffy with "Mercy". This moves up fast from # 66 to #27. From what I hear in her Channel V ad spots, she exudes a Macy Gray vibe in her voice. Hope to hear her better soon.  Yes, believe your eyes, that picture above is really Jonathan, Joey, Danny, Donnie and Jordan -- The New Kids on the Block! They are actually on this week's Hot 100. In fact, these guys (hardly new and hardly kids now, all pushing age 40) are even the Hot Shot Debut with their new song "Summertime" which debuts at # 57 this week. I had not heard from since the early 90s. Who would have thought they could stage a comeback after 15 years or so??? It would be interesting to track the chart fortune of this song.
 Billboard Hot 100Issuedate: April 29th, 200801. Lil Wayne and Static Major - Lollipop02. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love03. Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown - No Air04. Usher and Young Jeezy - Love In This Club05. Mariah Carey - Touch My Body06. Madonna and Justin Timberlake - 4 Minutes07. Ray J and Yung Berg - Sexy Can I08. Sara Bareilles - Love Song09. Chris Brown - With You10. Miley Cyrus - See You Again11. Flo Rida and T-Pain - Low12. John Mayer - Say13. Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music14. Danity Kane - Damaged15. OneRepublic - Stop And Stare
Always exciting to see a new Number One song. This song "Lollipop" by Little Wayne ftrg. Static Major, however, I have not heard yet. So I can't judge yet if it is a worthy one. But being another rap number, the hook has got to be extra-catchy for me to like it, such as "In Da Club" or "Hot In Herre". A point of interest here is the featured artist Static Major, who just passed away just this February from what seems to be complications of a neurosurgical procedure at the age of 33. This makes him the 7th artist to have a post-humous Number 1 song.
Teen superstar Miley Cyrus finally steps into the Top 10 with "See You Again" after lingering just below it in the past few weeks. Her newest album also gained much from its general release and rises to #3 in the album chart.
A song I wrote about in connection with Oscar song nominee hopefuls previously (link), now makes a prominent move up the chart. "Say" by John Mayer (from the movie "Bucket List") makes a big move up to #12 from #35. This was due to a digital download blitz triggered by the song's use in an episode of "Dancing with the Stars".
Mariah Carey is also making major strides in the chart this week. She has three songs in there now. Previous #1"Touch My Body" stays put at #5. At #23 is "Bye Bye" which is this week's Hot Shot Debut, which she performed at the American Idol results show last week. And further down at #92, "Migrate" ftrg. T-Pain debuts as well. This is a very big week for Mariah as her latest album makes a very big splash atop the Billboard 200. "E=MC2" makes the biggest sales week of the year, and is also Mariah's biggest debuting album, with sales of 463,000 units.
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