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  • Chart Chat 9/14/08: NKOTB, Gavin Rossdale, Flo-Rida & More!!

    I’m running out of witty things to say at the start of these things. Someone has to help me out here. Hey, are there any cool songs about Sunday that you can think of? Ah, yes. One of my favorite Maroon 5 songs. Granted, some of you reading this are probably thinking “I thought you said cool songs, but I like ’em, so nyah!!

    Anyhow, today’s Billboard charts are brought to you by the letter “B”, the number “8” and appear courtesy of the good men and women at Billboard magazine.

      Billboard Top 20 Albums

    1) “The Recession”- Young Jeezy
    2) “The Block”- New Kids on the Block
    3) “L.A.X.”- The Game
    4) “Rock & Roll Jesus”- Kid Rock
    5) “All Hope is Gone”- Slipknot
    6) “A Little Bit Longer”- Jonas Brothers
    7) “Mamma Mia Soundtrack”- Various Artists
    8) “Lost in the Sound of Separation”- Underoath
    9) “Hello Love”- Chris Tomlin
    10) “Tha Carter III”- Li’l Wayne
    11) “Love on the Inside”- Sugarland
    12) “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends”- Coldplay
    13) “Good Girl Gone Bad”- Rihanna
    14) “Breakout”- Miley Cyrus
    15) “Now That’s What I Call Country!”- Various Artists
    16) “We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things”- Jason Mraz
    17) “The Illusion of Progress”- Staind
    18) “Camp Rock Soundtrack”- Various Artists
    19) “Just a Rolling Stone”- Donnie Klang
    20) “Spirit”- Leona Lewis

      Billboard Top 20 Singles

    1) “Whatever U Like”- T.I.
    2) “So What”- Pink
    3) “Disturbia”- Rihanna
    4) “With You”- Chris Brown
    5) “Paper Planes”- M.I.A.
    6) “I’m Yours”- Jason Mraz
    7) “Viva La Vida”- Coldplay
    8) “Closer”- Ne-Yo
    9) “In the Ayer”- Flo-Rida feat. will.i.am
    10) “Dangerous”- Kardinal Offishall feat. Akon
    11) “Just Stand Up!”- Various Artists
    12) “Can’t Believe It”- T-Pain feat. Li’l Wayne
    13) “Hot N Cold”- Katy Perry
    14) “When I Grow Up”- The Pussycat Dolls
    15) “Got Money”- Li’l Wayne feat. T-Pain
    16) “I Kissed a Girl”- Katy Perry
    17) “One Step at a Time”- Jordin Sparks
    18) “Put On”- Young Jeezy feat. Kanye West
    19) “Take a Bow”- Rihanna
    20) “Leavin’”- Jesse McCartney

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  • Infatueighties: #87: “Love is a Battlefield”

    The 12" single of Pat Benatar's 1983 classic "Love is a Battlefield".
    The 12

    “We are young…heartache to heartache we stand…no promises, no demands…”

    Ahhhh, the drama of young love, right?

    Pat Benatar’s rocking softened up a little bit on this 1983 hit. “Battlefield” was certainly her most synth-heavy and dancefloor friendly song up to that point. Her emotive crooning certainly struck a chord, “Battlefield” was also the highest-charting song of her career, landing at #5 that autumn.

    …and then there was the video. Directed by Bob Giraldi and choreographed by Michael Peters (the same team behind Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”), the clip features Benatar as a teenage runaway (she was 30 at the time) who becomes a prostitute/chick who dances with dudes in a bar (yeah, I don’t necessarily get that either). The video’s super-campy coda features Benatar confronting her pimp/boss after he accosts one of the other hoes/dancers. Does Benatar hit him? A swift kick in the balls? Does she open her mouth to shout? Nope. She dances. Actually, the other girls dance, mostly, and Pat gets through a couple of rudimentary moves before she finally tosses a drink in pimp/boss’s face. This, my friends, is why videos were so great in the Eighties.

    The sellout tag was thrown around a bit after “Battlefield”, but I’ll take this one over “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” or “Hell is for Children” any day.

  • MHW News Roundup: Estelle Has an iTunes Oops, Noel Gallagher Gets What For & More!!

    Hey folks, here are some of the headlines floating through the music world this week, and no, I’m not talking about Kanye West’s arrest.

    “American Boy”…now you see it…now you don’t…now you see it again!!

    Following the lead of Kid Rock, whose “Rock & Roll Jesus”album has sold 2 million copies + without any digital media services, Atlantic Records pulled British singer’s “American Boy”off of iTunes about two weeks ago,although the song had climbed into the Top Ten on the Billboard charts. This was done with the intention of spurring album sales-remember back in the days when labels would take singles out of print or not release them at all to get you to buy the album? Same premise. However, fans didn’t exactly take the bait. Estelle’s “Shine” (which is a legitimately good album) actually FELL in sales last week. Lo and behold, “American Boy” is now available digitally again. Don’t you just love the record industry?

    Here’s the video for Estelle’s smokin’ new single “Pretty Please (Love Me)”

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