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  • Chart Chat 7/24/08: Jesse McCartney, The Jonas Brothers, Alanis and More!!!

    And…we’re off! Here are this week’s Top 20 Singles and Albums as provided by the lovely folks at Billboard Communications.

      Top 20 Albums

    1) “Untitled”-Nas
    2) “Tha Carter III”-Li’l Wayne
    3) “Mamma Mia Soundtrack”-Various Artists
    4) “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends”-Coldplay
    5) “Camp Rock Soundtrack”-Various Artists
    6) “Rock & Roll Jesus”-Kid Rock
    7) “Life, Death, Love & Freedom”-John Mellencamp
    8) “The Greatest Story Ever Told”-David Banner
    9) “Beautiful Eyes EP”-Taylor Swift
    10) “Good Girl Gone Bad”-Rihanna
    11) “Now That’s What I Call Music Vol. 28”-Various Artists
    12) “Taylor Swift”-Taylor Swift
    13) “All Sides”-O.A.R.
    14) “Around the Bend”-Randy Travis
    15) “One of the Boys”-Katy Perry
    16) “Modern Guilt”-Beck
    17) “Indestructible”-Disturbed
    18) “Revelation”-Journey
    19) “Here I Stand”-Usher
    20) “The Dark Knight”-Soundtrack

    The cover of pop singer Jesse McCartney\'s latest CD, \"Departure\".
      Top 20 Singles

    1) “I Kissed a Girl”-Katy Perry
    2) “Take a Bow”-Rihanna
    3) “Forever”-Chris Brown
    4) “Lollipop”-Li’l Wayne feat. Static Major
    5) “Viva La Vida”-Coldplay
    6) “Bleeding Love”-Leona Lewis
    7) “Pocketful of Sunshine”-Natasha Bedingfield
    8) “A Milli”-Li’l Wayne
    9) “Dangerous”-Kardinal Offishal feat. Akon
    10) “Leavin’”-Jesse McCartney
    11) “Burnin’ Up”-The Jonas Brothers
    12) “When I Grow Up”-Pussycat Dolls
    13) “7 Things”-Miley Cyrus
    14) “Bust it Baby Pt. 2”-Plies feat. Ne-Yo
    15) “Disturbia”-Rihanna
    16) “Pushin’ Me Away”-The Jonas Brothers
    17) “Shake It”-Metro Station
    18) “Get Like Me”-David Banner feat. Chris Brown
    19) “Closer”-Ne-Yo
    20) “Lolli Lolli (Pop That Body)”-Three 6 Mafia feat. Project Pat, Young D & Superpower

    *Well, I’ll be damned. Not only did “Mamma Mia” do mighty fine business at the box office, but the soundtrack nearly doubled in sales this week (and promises to do the same next week). Considering this, as well as the fact that “Hairspray” was the soundtrack hit of last summer, is it safe to say that gay men comprise a quite large segment of the music buying audience?

    *The Jonas Brothers (who are in the Top 20 twice this week) are on the cover of the latest issue of Rolling Stone. Don’t you think Jann Wenner would have caught more than a little shit if he’d put Hanson on the cover of RS 10 years ago or put the New Kids on the cover 20 years ago?

    *I knew I could work an NKOTB reference into this column somewhere.

    *Wasn’t Jesse McCartney trying to be Ryan Cabrera five years ago? Why is he trying to be Ne-Yo these days?

    *Never thought a Canadian rapper would make his way into the Top 10 in America? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Kardinal Offishall. I’ll spare you the video. You can thank me later.

    *It should be fairly obvious, and I think I’ve mentioned it before, but isn’t it so easy to look at the top selling albums, then look at the most popular singles and realize who’s buying what these days?

    *For a band that gets collectively rimmed by the rock press as much as The Hold Steady does, you’ve gotta imagine that the #30 start for their new album “Stay Positive” has gotta be something of a disappointment. When Randy Travis sells more records than you in his first week twenty years after his peak, you’ve got to be just a little embarrassed, no?

    *This week’s “Catch a Falling Star” award is shared by Alanis Morissette and Weezer. Alanis’s record sales have been dropping ever since everyone and their momma bought “Jagged Little Pill” in ’95-’96. “Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie” sold 3 or 4 million off of fumes, the next album debuted at #1 and promptly sank like a stone, and outside of a brief resurgence due to the re-recorded version of “Pill”, Alanis has slowly sunk into marginalia. Her latest album, “Flavors of Entanglement”, shows some sign of life this week, bouncing up 18 spots to #40 this week, but for an album to be out of the Top 40 within a month and a half when one of your older albums spent twice that amount of time at #1 has got to sting a little bit. As for Rivers Cuomo and his boys, it seems like word of mouth is what sunk Weezer’s “Red Album”. With the general consensus being that this is by far the worst album of the band’s career, the album stands at #42 after 7 weeks. Ah, well. Rivers always has that degree to fall back on.

    *Finally, “The Dark Knight” soundtrack debuts at #20 this week. It’s not near as successful as the soundtracks to some of the earlier “Batman” movies, but charts extremely well for an album of instrumental score music. And it’s a perfect way to end this week’s Chart Chat with…”Batdance”!! YAY!!!

    Fuck. I forgot. Prince hates the internets these days. Oh well.I tried, y’all. Till next week.

  • New Music In Stores & Online: 6-10-08: Li’l Wayne, My Morning Jacket, Alanis Morissette and More!!


    A little something for everyone coming out today. No matter what you like, chances are you’ll find something interesting. Here are the highlights:

    Li’l Wayne “The Carter III”: THIS is the guy who’s supposed to save hip-hop? Although I don’t find him as annoying as someone who grew up listening to Rakim and Big Daddy Kane should, I also don’t get what the big to-do is about him. Sure, he has an interesting wheeze of a voice, but in terms of technical skill, nothing really sets him apart from everyone else out there. And I still raise an eyebrow whenever a rapper’s skill takes a fairly sudden drastic improvement. Makes me feel like there’s someone else pushing a pen behind the scenes. Anyhow, this guy has been anointed by tons of internet geeks and hipsters as the rapper-du-jour. Me? I’ll stick to Talib Kweli, thankyaverrmuch.

    http://www.myspace.com/lilwayne

    My Morning Jacket “Evil Urges”: Their live shows are the stuff of legend. They tore “Saturday Night Live” up a couple of weeks back. Now MMJ translates that stage presence onto wax (or plastic, or mp3 files) with their new album “Evil Urges”. Lead singer Jim James jumps from rootsy rock to almost-funk with the greatest of ease, and he’s got one of the niftiest white-boy falsettos I’ve heard in quite some time.

    http://www.mymorningjacket.com/

    Alanis Morissette “Flavors of Entanglement”: Yep, Alanis is still around, and she’s still unlucky in love-although she’s graduated from being an angry mess (and I hope she’s graduated from giving head in movie theaters). Nearly a decade and a half removed from the behemoth that was “Jagged Little Pill”, “Flavors” finds her collaborating with Guy Sigsworth (Madonna, Frou Frou) and adopting some more electronic-sounding elements. Plus, the object of her anger has changed from Dave Coulier to Ryan Reynolds, which is infinitely less creepy.

    http://www.alanismorissette.com/

    Adele “19”: Every week, it seems, there’s a new female Brit singer popping up who combines soul and jazz. Joining the likes of Amy Winehouse, Duffy and Estelle is Adele. Featuring similar personnel as the albums of the previously three mentioned albums, “19” (which has been available as an import and digitally for some time) is a solid listen, better than Duffy, possibly the equal of Estelle, but still nowhere near the perfection that was “Back To Black”.

    http://www.adele.tv

    N.E.R.D. “Seeing Sounds”: After being burned by the hot mess that was N.E.R.D’s second album, “Fly Or Die” and being REALLY burned by the even hotter mess that was Pharrell’s solo album, I’m prtty gun-shy about getting this. The Neptunes’ “rock star” side project has already spawned a semi-hit in “Everybody Nose”, but man, this is a wild card. I’m just not sure Pharrell Williams is meant to sing for an hour and be enjoyable.

    http://www.n-e-r-d.com/

    But wait, there’s more!!

    Jakob Dylan of The Wallflowers hits the solo trail for the first time with “Seeing Things”, while Sergio Mendes follows up his Black Eyed Peas-assisted “Timeless” with “Encanto”, which retains Fergie as a guest artist and also features Natalie Cole. Country legend Emmylou Harris is releasing “All I Intended To Be”, her first album in five years, Gym Class Heroes and Li’l Wayne-endorsed rapper Tyga hits stores with “No Introduction”, while Atlanta rapper Plies, currently enjoying a Top 10 hit with Ne-Yo, releases “The Definition of Real” (and as with every current rap album, Akon and T-Pain both make cameos).

    Happy shopping!!

    Ah…full list of releases here: http://www.pauseandplay.com/cdfront.htm