Just a quick note to apologize for having been a bit absent this past week. There's a personal issue I've deal with, and so blogging hasn't been at the top of the priority list. That said, I still have no idea what happened to Thursday's U.S. chart post. It was there, there were even comments on it and then it was gone. Oh well. Things will return to normal here on Tuesday.
But really quickly, not the most exciting Top 10 ever, is it? Congrats to Lady Gaga, at least, for landing "The Edge Of Glory" at #6 in the UK, since "Judas" kind of tanked at #9 and dropped quickly. It will be interesting to see if this week's promo single "Hair" does as well...or sounds as good.
And while I'm a little disappointed Take That's "Love Love" only managed a #15 debut, it's still miles ahead of their previous singles "Happy Now" and "Kidz," which charted at #52 and #28, respectively.
Over on the album chart it's a 15th non-consecutive week for Adele's 21 at the top.
Okay, back as normal tomorrow. Promise!
The UK Top 10:
1."The Lazy Song" - Bruno Mars*1 week* 2. "Party Rock Anthem" - LMFAO 3. "Where Dem Girls At" - David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj & Flo Rida 4. "Give Me Everything" - Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo, AfroJack & Nayer 5. "Beautiful People" - Chris Brown feat. Benny Benassi 6. "The Edge Of Glory" - Lady Gaga *new* 7. "On The Floor" - Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull 8. "Sweat" - Snoop Dogg 9. "I Need A Dollar" - Aloe Blacc 10. "Nobody's Perfect" - Jessie J
Well, this is interesting. I had an entire chart post up the other day and now it's completely disappeared. Hmmm. Well, I said something or other about Adele's "Rolling In The Deep" deserving to go to #1 because it just sounds like a #1 record.
And then I noted that Kelly Rowland's "Motivation" climbs up to #31, i.e. two notches higher on the chart than Beyonce's "Run The World (Girls)" made it to. Once again, Kelendria proves who the REAL talent in Destiny's Child was.
So there.
The U.S. Top 10:
1. "Rolling In The Deep"- Adele*1 week* 2. "E.T." - Katy Perry feat. Kanye West 3. "On The Floor"- Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull 4. "Just Can't Get Enough"- The Black Eyed Peas 5. "The Lazy Song"- Bruno Mars 6. "Till The World Ends"- Britney Spears 7. "Just A Kiss"- Lady Antebellum *new* 8. "Give Me Everything"-Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo, AfroJack & Nayer 9. "S&M" - Rihanna 10. "Look At Me Now"- Chris Brown feat. Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes
Aging/reunited boy band Blue see their Eurovision 2011 pop jam "I Can" soar to the amazing heights of #16 on the UK chart this week. Of course, that's not exactly a stellar debut position to aspire to reach, but when you compare it with the crash-and-burn flop-a-thon that was last year's UK Eurovision entry, Josh Dubovie's "That Sounds Good To Me" — which made it to #179 on the chart — well, #16 probably sounds good to Blue.
Other than that, it's pretty stagnant as far as singles go. It should really come as no surprise that Adele is #1 on the album chart with 21 for a 14th week.
The UK Top 10:
1."Party Rock Anthem" - LMFAO*4 weeks* 2. "The Lazy Song" - Bruno Mars 3. "Where Dem Girls At" - David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj & Flo Rida 4. "Beautiful People" - Chris Brown feat. Benny Benassi 5. "On The Floor" - Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull 6. "Sweat" - Snoop Dogg 7. "E.T." - Katy Perry feat. Kanye West 8. "Unorthadox" - Wretch 32 feat. Example 9. "Nobody's Perfect" - Jessie J 10. "I Need A Dollar" - Aloe Blacc
Following the pattern of her previous single "Firework,"Katy Perry's "E.T." returns to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a fourth non-consecutive week after a brief chart-topping interruption last week by Rihanna and Britney Spears' remix of "S&M."
Adele's "Rolling In The Deep" was performed by American Idol contestant Haley Reinhart last week to rather positive effect; the hopeful crooner managed to survive another week on the show, and Adele's single climbs to a new high of #2, matching its UK peak position. Likewise, Adele's 21 ballad "Turning Tables" debuts at #63 after a performance of it by Gwyneth Paltrow on Glee.
Two other artists from across the pond make slight advances this week on the Hot 100: Tinie Tempah is up one position to #13 with "Written In The Stars" while Jessie J's "Price Tag" also climbs one to #23.
This brings us to Beyonce's depressing (by her standards) debut at #33 with "Run The World (Girls)." The single went on sale at iTunes late last week and sold 77,000 downloads by Sunday evening. By comparison, Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" sold 448,000 downloads between its Friday release day and the following Sunday in February, and it debuted at #1.
Granted, Lady Gaga is the hot new pop broad on the block. But by that token, Britney Spears moved 411,000 copies of "Hold It Against Me" in its first week of release in January. That single also debuted at #1.
Two weeks ago Gaga's second Born This Way single "Judas" entered the chart at #10 after initially selling 162,000 in only two-and-a-half days.
I guess what I'm saying is this: Beyonce, girl, time to get a new weave.
On a related note, Kelly Rowland's Jim Jonsin-produced "Motivation" moves up one to #54, proving that the Real Talent From Destiny's Child is back to reclaim her wig.
The U.S. Top 10:
1. "E.T." - Katy Perry feat. Kanye West*4 weeks* 2. "Rolling In The Deep"- Adele 3. "Just Can't Get Enough"- The Black Eyed Peas 4. "S&M" - Rihanna feat. Britney Spears 5. "Down On Me"- Jeremih feat. 50 Cent 6. "The Lazy Song"- Bruno Mars 7. "On The Floor"- Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull 8. "Look At Me Now"- Chris Brown feat. Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes 9. "Blow"-Ke$ha 10. "Fuck You" - Cee Lo Green
Beyonce's return with new material is off to a disastrous, Christina Aguilera/"Not Myself Tonight"-esque start. Indeed, House Of Dereon's Main Wig's single "Run The World (Girls)" has decidedly landed with a loud thud akin to a drunk hooker falling into a decrepit chicken coop and sending feathers in the air.
The wreck of a song flopped out of the iTunes Top 10 here in the U.S. a mere two days after its release, and now the single has limped into the UK chart at #18. Time will tell whether or not "Run The World" has any legs—but my guess is that some trash ballad or more mainstream pop jam will be rushed out ASAP (a la the tactic used when it became apparent from the get-go that Xtina's Bionic was going to tank harder than the Titanic last year), and Camp Beyonce will try to pretend that this flimsy dud never happened.
Elsewhere, 23 years after first peaking at #5 across the pond, Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" appears on the chart at #4 following Michael Collings' audition on Britain's Got Talent.
Is this gonna be some thing where the show's producers try to market this guy as another Susan Boyle? Because he doesn't have even a quarter of SuBo's sex appeal.
Over on the UK album chart, Adele's 21 returns to the top, after its initial 11-week run at #1 was interrupted last week by Foo Fighters.
The UK Top 10:
1."Party Rock Anthem" - LMFAO*2 weeks* 2. "Unorthadox" - Wretch 32 feat. Example *new* 3. "On The Floor" - Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull 4. "Fast Car" - Tracy Chapman *new* 5. "Beautiful People" - Chris Brown feat. Benny Benassi 6. "Sweat" - Snoop Dogg 7. "E.T." - Katy Perry feat. Kanye West 8. "Just Can't Get Enough" - The Black Eyed Peas 9. "Judas'" - Lady Gaga 10. "Buzzin'" - Mann feat. 50 Cent
Following the rush release of Lady Gaga's "Judas" to iTunes on Friday, the song has crashed the UK chart at #14 today. Curiously, while the Catholic church-condemned dance jam has been dominating the U.S. iTunes store, it's only at #4 in the UK, the country the previously found Gaga topping the main singles chart four times. Even "Born This Way," which pretty much hit #1 around the globe, only managed to peak at #3 there. Are the Brits losing interest in the Lady already?
The top download on UK iTunes—and the new #1 single on the UK chart—is "Party Rock Anthem," from Gaga's low-brow Cherrytree/Interscope labelmates LMFAO.
Of course, "Party Rock Anthem" is kind of a jam. If anything, its interesting to just sit back for a minute and process just how swiftly popular music has shifted from R&B to dance-pop in sound over the past three years. (Granted, "Party Rock Anthem" has yet to even dent the Billboard Hot 100.)
Over on the UK album chart, Adele's 11-week reign at the top with 21 is finally ended by Foo Fighters' Wasting Light.
The UK Top 10:
1."Party Rock Anthem" - LMFAO*1 week* 2. "On The Floor" - Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull 3. "E.T." - Katy Perry feat. Kanye West 4. "Sweat" - Snoop Dogg 5. "Just Can't Get Enough" - The Black Eyed Peas 6. "Someone Like You" - Adele 7. "S&M" - Rihanna 8. "Beautiful People" - Chris Brown feat. Benny Benassi 9. "Buzzin'" - Mann feat. 50 Cent 10. "Don't Hold Your Breath" - Nicole Scherzinger
After previously reaching #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 then falling down the chart a bit, The Chanting Wig's second Femme Fatale single "Till The World Ends" gets a major boost following its music video premiere, and hops from #13 to #8.
To date, The Chanting Wig has never had a single peak at #8 on the Hot 100, so we'll just have to wait and see if "Till The World Ends" becomes the first. For this week at least, her appearance on a new remix of Rihanna's current #2 single "S&M" seems to be stealing all the thunder.
The Chanting Wig should just be thankful that "Till The World Ends" is actually climbing the chart, as opposed to "Hold It Against Me," which debuted at #1 then steadily plummeted after a lone week on top.
Over on the Top 200, Rolling Stone cover girlAdele returns to #1 with 21 for a fourth non-consecutive week as it becomes the first album to sell one million copies this year. This pushes The Chanting Wig's Femme Fatale down to #2.
Other than that, it's a fairly lackluster week. So my wig is off to chant in the shower.
The U.S. Top 10:
1. "E.T." - Katy Perry feat. Kanye West*3 weeks* 2. "S&M" - Rihanna 3. "Just Can't Get Enough"- The Black Eyed Peas 4. "Fuck You" - Cee Lo Green 5. "Born This Way" - Lady Gaga 6. "Down On Me"- Jeremih feat. 50 Cent 7. "Look At Me Now"- Chris Brown feat. Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes 8. "Till The World Ends"- Britney Spears 9. "On The Floor"- Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull 10. "Rolling In The Deep"- Adele
Not to be outdone by Lady Gaga's hot quote about her vagina clenching and spitting out Hollywood or whatever the hell she said in Harper's Bazaar, Adele graces the cover of the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone and gives the music mag some sassy anecdotes of her own.
"My life is full of drama and I won't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like. I don't like going to the gym. I like eating fine foods and drinking nice wine. Even if I had a really good figure, I don't think I'd get my tits and ass out for no one."
Me, I get them out for anyone with at least three limbs and a fiver.
Katy Perry's "E.T." now has a second week on top of the Billboard Hot 100, thus giving her four consecutive singles that have spent at least two or more weeks at #1. (Songs that have spent a lone week on top of the chart over the past year include Wiz Khalifa's "Black And Yellow," Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me,"Rihanna's "Only Girl (In The World),"Pink's "Raise Your Glass,"Ke$ha's "We R Who We R" and Eminem's "Not Afraid.")
Further down, Adele's "Rolling In The Deep" climbs to #10 and marks not only her first U.S. Top 10 hit single, but the first song by a UK artist to crack the Top 10 in 2011.
That brings us to the other big news of the week, which is Britney's Femme Fatale debuting at #1 on the Top 200 album chart. It's her sixth album to reach the top, but at 276,000 copies moved, it's also her lowest first-week showing since her debut ...Baby One More Time sold 121,000 out of the gate in 1999.
Still, at 29, The Weave Warrior is the youngest artist to have six #1 albums spanning across three decades. Back on the Hot 100, "Till The World Ends" climbs from #22 to #13 in its fifth week on the chart while "I Wanna Go" debuts at #73. This seems like a special enough occasion for her to pull out the pink wig from her shaved head period, no? God, I really miss that thing...
The U.S. Top 10:
1. "E.T." - Katy Perry feat. Kanye West*2 weeks* 2. "S&M" - Rihanna 3. "Just Can't Get Enough"- The Black Eyed Peas 4. "Fuck You" - Cee Lo Green 5. "Born This Way" - Lady Gaga 6. "Look At Me Now"- Chris Brown feat. Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes 7. "Down On Me"- Jeremih feat. 50 Cent 8. "On The Floor"- Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull 9. "Fuckin' Perfect" - Pink 10. "Rolling In The Deep"- Adele
Let's forget the fact the Jennifer Lopez's "On The Floor" has debuted at #1 in the UK, thus giving the American Idol judge her first chart-topper across the pond in six years—because Britney Spears' Femme Fatale has completely flopped in its first week on the chart in Old Blighty.
Wigney's seventh studio album bombed its way in #8 in the UK. Even Christina Aguilera's massive flopzilla of an album Bionic debuted at #1 there last year. And it's really not that surprising, given that Femme Fatale's lead singles "Hold It Against Me" and "Till The World Ends" charted at a disappointing #6 and #21, respectively.
Meanwhile, Adele has racked up a 10th week at the top of the chart in her home country with 21, giving her the longest stretch at #1 in the UK since Dire Straits achieved the same feat in 1986 with Brothers In Arms.
Oh, well. At least Britney can be happy that her album is #1 in Australia—a first for her.
The UK Top 10:
1."On The Floor" - Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull *new* *1 week* 2. "Someone Like You" - Adele 3. "Party Rock Anthem" - LMFAO 4. "Just Can't Get Enough" - The Black Eyed Peas 5. "Don't Hold Your Breath" - Nicole Scherzinger 6. "Black And Yellow" - Wiz Khalifa 7. "Price Tag" - Jessie J feat. B.o.B 8. "Broken Record" - Katy B *new* 9. "S&M (Come On)" - Rihanna 10. "I Need A Doctor" - Dr. Dre feat. Eminem & Skylar Grey
Status quo on the UK chart this week, save for the crap Comic Relief version of "I Know Him So Well" (in at #11) by Peter Kay and Susan Boyle. Sorry, though — the only version worth listening to is still the one by soul icons Steps.
Adele's 21 is the #1 UK album for the ninth week in a row, as her ballad "Someone Like You" returns to the top of the single chart for a fifth non-consecutive run.
The UK Top 10:
1."Someone Like You" - Adele*5 weeks* 2. "Don't Hold Your Breath" - Nicole Scherzinger 3. "Just Can't Get Enough" - The Black Eyed Peas 4. "Gold Forever" - The Wanted 5. "Price Tag" - Jessie J feat. B.o.B 6. "S&M (Come On)" - Rihanna 7. "Black And Yellow" - Wiz Khalifa 8. "I Need A Doctor" - Dr. Dre feat. Eminem & Skylar Grey 9. "Rolling In The Deep" - Adele 10. "Born This Way" - Lady Gaga
I had to die laughing when I looked up Nicole Scherzinger's single "Don't Hold Your Breath" recently on Wikipedia and saw that I was quoted in the "Critical Response" section:
Robbie Daw from Idolator praised the song, based just on its demo. He said "Well, okay—we will allow that this song already sounds better than every Pussycat Dolls single combined."
Hot. And true! What I didn't know at the time is that "Don't Hold Your Breath" is co-produced by Rami Yacoub ("...Baby One More Time," "Oops!...I Did It Again," etc. etc.). No wonder it's such a top-notch jam. At any rate, the song has debuted at #1 on the UK singles chart today, thereby ending Adele's four-week reign with "Someone Like You." I really feel that "Don't Hold Your Breath" is like "Hold It Against Me" and "Born This Way," i.e. one of the first pop songs released in 2011 to make a pleasant impact.
That brings us to the latest pack of British strippers posing as pop stars, Parade. The quintet enter the chart this week at #10 with their debut single "Louder," which isn't entirely awful—it's just nowhere near as good as "Make Up Your Mind" (particularly the Pete Hammond Mix) by member Sian Charlesworth's former ho brigade City Girls.
Compare, pop chyldren:
Over on the UK album chart Adele is #1 again with 21 for an eighth week.
The UK Top 10:
1."Don't Hold Your Breath" - Nicole Scherzinger *new* *1 week* 2. "Someone Like You" - Adele 3. "Gold Forever" - The Wanted *new* 4. "Price Tag" - Jessie J feat. B.o.B 5. "S&M (Come On)" - Rihanna 6. "Black And Yellow" - Wiz Khalifa 7. "Born This Way" - Lady Gaga 8. "Rolling In The Deep" - Adele 9. "I Need A Doctor" - Dr. Dre feat. Eminem & Skylar Grey 10. "Louder" - Parade *new*
Adele maintains her stranglehold on the UK charts, as 21 is #1 on the album round-up for a seventh week and "Someone Like You" racks up its fourth week as the top single. Elsewhere, Her Wigship Britney Spears has a #21 debut with her Femme Fatale jam "Till The World Ends," which is one position lower than it debuted here in the States.
And McFly can't seem to catch a break with their Above The Noise album—the latest single off it, "That's The Truth," has a dismal showing at #35. Gosh, remember the days when these guys would chart at #1 with whatever trash single they threw out there? Oh, well—lemons to lemonade: maybe one day the laddies will be able to look back and say, "Hey, remember when we used to get all the way to #35 with whatever trash single we threw out there?"
WINNING!
The UK Top 10:
1."Someone Like You" - Adele *4 weeks* 2. "Price Tag" - Jessie J feat. B.o.B 3. "S&M (Come On)" - Rihanna 4. "Born This Way" - Lady Gaga 5. "Black And Yellow" - Wiz Khalifa *new* 6. "Yeah 3X" - Chris Brown 7. "Good Girl" - Alexis Jordan 8. "Champion" - Chipmunk feat. Chris Brown 9. "Rolling In The Deep" - Adele 10. "Grenade" - Bruno Mars
This week The Voice (aka Ke$ha) climbs to #7 with "Blow," a song that, as pointed out before, took six people to write and four to produce. Yes, it's that intricate. This now gives K-dolla her sixth Top 10 hit in a row (not counting that "My First Kiss" trash she did with 3OH!3).
But lest you think that's Ke$ha's only triumph on the chart this week, think again! Yes, the Classy Empress Of Pop also had the honor of co-writing Britney Spears' second Femme Fatale single "Till The World Ends," which debuts at #20 on the strength of 117,000 paid downloads over three days (and becomes her 15th Top 20 hit). Meanwhile, Weaveney's "Hold It Against Me" is still hanging in their at #16 in its eighth week. Those two songs were my jams when I was back in Pennsylvania last week.
Elsewhere, Adele's "Rolling In The Deep" falls from its peak position (so far) of #13 to #18, while her sophomore LP 21 is #1 for a second week on the Top 200 album chart.
And waaaaay down at #99 comes the debut of Willow Smith's "21st Century Girl." Cute video, but I'm having a hard time believing radio is going to warm to this song.
The U.S. Top 10:
1. "Born This Way" - Lady Gaga*4 weeks* 2. "Fuck You" - Cee Lo Green 3. "S&M" - Rihanna 4. "Fuckin' Perfect" - Pink 5. "On The Floor"- Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull 6. "Grenade" - Bruno Mars 7. "Blow"- Ke$ha 8. "E.T." - Katy Perry feat. Kanye West 9. "Tonight (I'm Fuckin' You)"- Enrique Iglesias ft. Ludacris & DJ Frank E 10. ""Firework" - Katy Perry
With two albums in the Top 5 of both the UK album and single charts—not to mention the #1 album on both sides of the pond—it's definitely shaping up to be Adele's year. 21 has been the top LP in her home country for six weeks running now (having sold about 1.02 million copies so far there). In fact, It Girl Jessie J has to settle for debuting in the #2 position with Who You Are this week.
All else is quiet, save for the #9 entry of Alexis Jordan's self-titled LP. Here's her somewhat OK Stargate/Sandy Vee-co-produced jam "Good Girl."
The UK Top 10:
1."Someone Like You" - Adele *3 weeks* 2. "Price Tag" - Jessie J feat. B.o.B 3. "S&M (Come On)" - Rihanna 4. "Born This Way" - Lady Gaga 5. "Rolling In The Deep" - Adele 6. "Champion" - Chipmunk feat. Chris Brown 7. "Good Girl" - Alexis Jordan 8. "Yeah 3X" - Chris Brown 9. "Grenade" - Bruno Mars 10. "Do It Like A Dude" - Jessie J
Adele's sex tape—sorry, album—21 was finally released in the U.S. this past week, and is on track to debut at #1 of the Billboard Top 200. But in the UK, her sex tape has been inserted in the VCR for the past five weeks. She also thrust her ballad "Someone Like You" at the top of the UK singles chart, where it stays for a second week.
Let's just hope Adele's sex tape is nominated for 69 Oscars next year, because that's the only way the Academy will redeem itself from the utter shit telecast happening right now.
PS Been traveling this weekend. Back to normal trash tomorrow.
The UK Top 10:
1."Someone Like You" - Adele *2 weeks* 2. "Price Tag" - Jessie J feat. B.o.B 3. "S&M (Come On)" - Rihanna 4. "Rolling In The Deep" - Adele 5. "Champion" - Chipmunk feat. Chris Brown 6. "Good Girl" - Alexis Jordan*new* 7. "Grenade" - Bruno Mars 8. "Born This Way" - Lady Gaga 9. "Yeah 3X" - Chris Brown 10. "(Fuckin') Perfect" - Pink
In this week's upper tier of the Billboard Hot 100, there are three songs produced by Stargate ("Firework," "S&M," "Black And Yellow"), three with the word "fuck" in the title ("Fuck You," "Fuckin' Perfect," "Tonight (I'm Fuckin' You)," two co-written by Bruno Mars ("Fuck You," "Grenade"), two containing the word "lesbian" in the lyrics ("Born This Way," "Black And Yellow"), one with "transgendered" in the lyrics ("Born This Way") and one with the word "faggots"("I Need A Doctor").
That's a shame about Dr. Dre's "I Need A Doctor," because I truly love Skylar Grey's haunting chorus on the single. And I've really come around to Eminem, who, after a seemingly hostile-toward-the-gays start, has said he has no problem with gay marriage and is besties with Elton John (did you catch Sir Elt's Rolling Stone cover story a few weeks back? Traaaaaashy—though read the whole thing if you get a chance. Good stuff.)
But it's Dre himself who drops the F-bomb in "I Need A Doctor" when he raps, "When the chips were down you just laughed at us, now you about to feel the fuckin' wrath of Aftermath, faggots." Okay, so the good (?) doctor is using the term in a general sense, targeting all the fair-weather MCs who turned their backs on him when he took a chance mentoring young white rapper Em. But still—faggots. It's 2011. Really?
Wonder what gay rights activist Lady Gaga, who has her own brand of headphones under Dre's "Beats By Dr. Dre" line, thinks? Maybe we're just not supposed to talk about it...
Elsewhere, Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me" drops out of the Top 10 and lands at #11 in its sixth week on the chart, while Adele's "Rolling In The Deep" finally cracks the Top 40 by jumping 15 positions to #26. Previously the British singer reached #21 with her 2008 single "Chasing Pavements."
Meanwhile, Adele's 21 was released in the States this week, and is on track to debut at #1 on the next Top 200 album chart. Bet you won't catch her using "faggots" in a song.
The U.S. Top 10:
1. "Born This Way" - Lady Gaga*2 weeks* 2. "Fuck You" - Cee Lo Green 3. "Grenade" - Bruno Mars 4. "I Need A Doctor" - Dr. Dre feat. Eminem & Skylar Grey 5. "Firework" - Katy Perry 6. "Fuckin' Perfect" - Pink 7. "S&M" - Rihanna 8. "Never Say Never" - Justin Bieber feat. Jaden Smith 9. "Tonight (I'm Fuckin' You)"- Enrique Iglesias ft. Ludacris & DJ Frank E 10. "Black And Yellow" - Wiz Khalifa
Adele's 21 has been on top of the UK album chart for the past four weeks, and while her single "Rolling In The Deep" peaked at #2 (so far), the soulful singer's "Someone Like You" has now leapt to the top of the Brit chart thanks to her performance of it at the BRITs on Tuesday.
Here in the States, 21 will finally be released this coming Tuesday. And thanks to the inclusion of "Rolling In The Deep" in the trailer for trash flick I Am Number Four—which opened this weekend—the song has now cracked the Top 10 on U.S. iTunes.
Like Adele, Take That see a bit of a boost, though not as big, following their military-themed BRITs performance of "Kidz." The single slides in at #31 a week ahead of its official release.
The UK Top 10:
1."Someone Like You" - Adele *1 week* 2. "Price Tag" - Jessie J feat. B.o.B 3. "Born This Way" - Lady Gaga 4. "Rolling In The Deep" - Adele 5. "Champion" - Chipmunk feat. Chris Brown 6. "S&M (Come On)" - Rihanna 7. "Grenade" - Bruno Mars 8. "Eyes Wide Shut" - JLS feat. Tinie Tempah 9. "Yeah 3X" - Chris Brown 10. "Higher" - Taio Cruz feat. Kylie Minogue
Well, the Pittsburgh Steelers lost the Super Bowl, but at least fans of the team waved their Terrible Towels high with one hand as they downloaded Wiz Khalifa's hometown football anthem "Black And Yellow" from iTunes with the other. The Stargate-produced hip hop jam finally climbs to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in its 18th week on the chart.
Debuting at #5 is Dr. Dre—who apparently has been more content to live high on his mountain of cash and develop a line of headphones over the past decade than make music under his own name—with "I Need A Doctor." Grammy-nominated British producer Alex Da Kid (check out my interview with him) worked on Dre's track, so its no surprise that Alex's protege Skylar Grey appears on it (not to mention Dre's own protege Eminem).
This brings us to Rihanna's "S&M," which jumps from #66 to #31 after last week's premiere of the song's ho-hum video. Replacing RiRi at #66 is Ke$ha with "Blow," her second single off Cannibal. And two positions above her is Adele's "Rolling In The Deep."
A bit further down, Jessie J's "Price Tag"—this week's UK chart-topper—debuts at #88. Kind of a blase week. But at least, as mentioned yesterday, Pink's Greatest Hits...So Far!!! has finally jumped into the Top 10 on the album chart after three months.
The U.S. Top 10:
1. "Black And Yellow" - Wiz Khalifa*1 week* 2. "Grenade" - Bruno Mars 3. "Firework" - Katy Perry 4. "Fuckin' Perfect" - Pink 5. "I Need A Doctor"- Dr. Dre feat. Eminem & Skylar Grey *new* 6. "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)"- Enrique Iglesias ft. Ludacris & DJ Frank E 7. "Rocketeer" - Far East Movement feat. Ryan Tedder 8. "What's My Name" - Rihanna feat. Drake 9. "Hey Baby (Drop It To The Floor)" - Pitbull feat. T-Pain 10. "Hold It Against Me" - Britney Spears
Well, Pink might be preggers, but that isn't keeping pop's toughest broad from fighting her way up the charts. "Fuckin' Perfect" becomes her 11th Top 10 hit in the U.S. this week (not counting the atrocity that was "We Are The World 25") as it jumps nine positions to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. It's also her fifth Max Martin-produced single in a row to crack the Top 10.
Over on the Top 200 album chart, Pink's Greatest Hits...So Far!!! climbs to a new peak position of #11.
"Fuckin' Perfect" has the good fortune to be accompanied by a powerful—if not a bit graphic—music video. Meanwhile, Rihanna attempted a shocking video with "S&M," and it did apparently get banned in 11 countries. But overall the clip just comes across like something we've seen time and time again—and it's been done way better by others. "S&M" moves up from #90 to #66.
Elsewhere, Adele's "Rolling In The Deep" slides up 15 positions to #69. That's always been a good number in my book, and I'm sure in Adele's, too. Unless, of course, it ends up being Rihanna's three-foot-high red afro between her thighs, holding a riding crop. In which case I'd tell her to go chase pavements.
The U.S. Top 10:
1. "Grenade" - Bruno Mars*4 weeks* 2. "Fuckin' Perfect" - Pink 3. "Firework" - Katy Perry 4. "Black And Yellow" - Wiz Khalifa 5. "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)"- Enrique Iglesias ft. Ludacris & DJ Frank E 6. "What's My Name" - Rihanna feat. Drake 7. "Hey Baby (Drop It To The Floor)" - Pitbull feat. T-Pain 8. "Hold It Against Me" - Britney Spears 9. "Rocketeer" - Far East Movement feat. Ryan Tedder 10. "We R Who We R" - Ke$ha
