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  • Chart Chat: Radiohead, Van Morrison and More!

    Hey kids, courtesy of the good folks at Billboard magazine, here’s this week’s Top 20 singles and albums!!
    Top 20 Albums:
    1) Troubadour-George Strait
    2) Accelerate-R.E.M.
    3) Now That’s What I Call Music 27-Various Artists
    4) Day26-Day26
    5) Alvin & The Chipmunks-Soundtrack
    6) Still Da Baddest-Trina
    7) Welcome To The Dollhouse-Danity Kane
    8) Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings-Counting Crows
    9) Trilla-Rick Ross
    10) Keep it Simple-Van Morrison
    11) Shine a Light (soundtrack)-The Rolling Stones
    12) Pretty. Odd.-Panic at the Disco
    13) Sleep Through the Static-Jack Johnson
    14) Attack & Release-The Black Keys
    15) Mail on Sunday-Flo Rida
    16) Taylor Swift-Taylor Swift
    17) Little Voice-Sara Bareilles
    18) Consolers of the Lonely-The Raconteurs
    19) Vol. 7: Hope & Sorrow-Sevendust
    20) Good Time-Alan Jackson
    Top 20 Singles:
    1) Touch My Body-Mariah Carey
    2) Bleeding Love-Leona Lewis
    3) 4 Minutes-Madonna feat. Justin Timberlake
    4) Lollipop-Lil’ Wayne feat. Static Major
    5) Love in this Club-Usher feat. Young Jeezy
    6) Sexy Can I-Ray J feat. Yung Berg
    7) No Air-Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown
    8) With You-Chris Brown
    9) Love Song-Sara Bareilles
    10) Low-Flo Rida feat. T-Pain
    11) Don’t Stop The Music-Rihanna
    12) See You Again-Miley Cyrus
    13) Stop & Stare-OneRepublic
    14) Apologize-Timbaland feat. OneRepublic
    15) You’re Gonna Miss This-Trace Adkins
    16) Superstar-Lupe Fiasco feat. Matthew Santos
    17) Independent-Webbie, Lil’ Boosie & Lil’ Phat
    18) No One-Alicia Keys
    19) Beat It-Fall Out Boy feat. John Mayer
    20) Sorry-Buckcherry
    It’s a good time to be a Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Famer on the album charts this week: R.E.M. debut at #2 and score their highest charting week and biggest sales week since 1996’s “New Adventures in Hi-Fi”. Meanwhile, Irish troubadour Van Morrison scores the highest chart position of his 40-year career with “Keep it Simple”.
    On the singles chart, it’s worth mentioning that “Nude”, at #37, is Radiohead’s first Top 40 single since “Creep”, their debut single back in 1993!!
    The TV was on while I was doing chores yesterday, and I swear that between VH1-Soul, MTV Hits, MTV Jams and VH-1 proper, I saw the videos for “No Air” and “Love in This Club” a grand total of 1,000 times.
    Here’s the American Idol performance of “No Air”. Back when Chris first came out, I was unsure if he had staying power, but this kid is the real deal. I’m not sure why they felt the need to lip-sync only the pre-chorus though.
    …and the video for “Love in this Club”, which looks remarkably similar to the video for “Yeah!”. I love this song (even though I can definitely do without Young Jeezy). However, given the box office receipts for “In The Mix” and “Light it Up”, should someone send Ush the message that he should maybe stop acting?
    Elsewhere, “Beat It” enters the Top 20 via Fall Out Boy, marking the third cover/major sample of a “Thriller” song to hit the Top 20 this year, following Rihanna’s “Don’t Stop The Music” and Kanye West’s “Good Life”. For those playing at home, if the year was to end today, “Thriller” would be 2008’s 6th best selling album.
    Hmmm…maybe Panic at the Disco (who plummet 2-12) should have changed their album title to Pretty. Over.
    Next week, there’s a good chance Brit Leona Lewis will debut at #1 on the album charts as well as re-planting herself at #1 on the singles chart, making her the first British female ever to score a #1 album! Stay tuned…

  • Vital Idol: Michael Johns Has No Air

    Ryno opens the show talking about last nights Idol Gives Back show. I believe they are still taking donations at 1-877-IDOL-AID. At least that’s what Zack and Cody just said.

    The contestants sing Shout To The Lord and then Ryno shows more celebrity stuff that they didn’t show last night. When you get Ricki Lake, the Kardashians, Kobe Bryant, Dr. Phil, Rob Schneider and others lip syncing I’m A Believer, that’s quality entertainment. But Ricki Lake?

    – Brooke White is curly tonight, extremely pasty, but definitely safe.

    – Pompous David Cook is also safe. Was it me, or were they trying to turn him into a sexy symbol last night? With that hair?

    – Big Dave Archuleta is also safe and gives Brooke White a stiff high five.

    – Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown must really have no air because I think they’re lip syncing at least part of their hit single No Air.

    – Jason Castro’s Dread Locks and Kristy Lee Cook are safe leaving Michael Johns, Syesha Mercado, and Carly Smithson in the bottom three.

    – If I were to guess who would’ve been kicked out of the those three, I’d have guessed either girl. But that’s not the case. Big Rube Studdard celebrates Michael Johns home.

    – The crowd is shocked, but I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. He wasn’t going to win the competition anyway. Seacrest out!

  • Chart Check: 3/30/08: Leona Lewis,Danity Kane & More

    Courtesy of the good folks at Billboard, here are this week’s Albums & Singles charts:
    Top 20 Albums:
    1) Welcome To The Dollhouse-Danity Kane
    2) Now That’s What I Call Music 27-Various Artists
    3) Trilla-Rick Ross
    4) Mail On Sunday-FloRida
    5) Sleep Through The Static-Jack Johnson
    6) Hannah Montana 2 Soundtrack/Meet Miley Cyrus-Miley Cyrus
    7) Ego Trippin’-Snoop Dogg
    8) Taylor Swift-Taylor Swift
    9) Little Voice-Sara Bareilles
    10) Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert-Miley Cyrus
    11) Alvin & The Chipmunks-Soundtrack
    12) Jonas Brothers-Jonas Brothers
    13) As I Am-Alicia Keys
    14) Good Time-Alan Jackson
    15) Carnival Ride-Carrie Underwood
    16) Kidz Bop 13-Various Artists
    17) Discipline-Janet Jackson
    18) The Odd Couple-Gnarls Barkley
    19) Coco-Colbie Caillait
    20) Radio Disney Jams 10-Various Artists
    Top 20 Singles:
    1) Bleeding Love-Leona Lewis
    2) Love in this Club-Usher feat. Young Jeezy
    3) Sexy Can I-Ray J. & Yung Berg
    4) With You-Chris Brown
    5) Love Song-Sara Bareilles
    6) No Air-Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown
    7) Low-FloRida feat. T-Pain
    8) Don’t Stop The Music-Rihanna
    9) Lollipop-Li’l Wayne
    10) Shortie Get Loose-Lil’ Mama feat. Chris Brown & T-Pain
    11) Apologize-Timbaland feat. OneRepublic
    12) Stop & Stare-OneRepublic
    13) Superstar-Lupe Fiasco feat. Matthew Santos
    14) See You Again-Miley Cyrus
    15) Touch My Body-Mariah Carey
    16) Independent- Webbie feat. Li’l Phat & Li’l Boosie
    17) No One-Alicia Keys
    18) Sorry-Buckcherry
    19) Elevator-FloRida feat. Timbaland
    20) New Soul-Yael Naim
    *Off the chart, the big news is the loud thudding sound made by “American Idol” judge Randy Jackson’s compilation album “Music Club Vol. 1”, which debuted at #50 last week and drops to #137 this week. This development raises two questions: 1) in light of “Idol” finalists with far more impressive sales pedigrees getting relieved of their contracts, is The Dawg going to receive the same unceremonious boot? and 2) Why do I feel like the *other* Randy Jackson (brother of Michael and Janet) could put out an album right now and have a similar or better response at the cash registers?
    *Brit newcomer Leona Lewis enjoys an impressive move to #1 on the charts this week, but her happiness will be short lived, as Mariah Carey (at #15) will see a sales lift next week due to “Touch My Body”‘s iTunes availability. If Mariah makes it to the top, it will be her 18th chart topper, jumping her ahead of Elvis Presley into 2nd place as the artist with the most #1 singles in history (The Beatles are #1, with 20)
    *Gnarls Barkley enjoy an impressive #18 debut with only about a half-week of sales, as their sophomore effort, “The Odd Couple” didn’t arrive in record stores until Thursday or Friday, two to three days after the tracking week began.
    *Chris Brown manages the impressive feet of scoring three songs in the Top 10 this week, a feat that was most recently accomplished by T-Pain last year. Mr. Pain is no slouch himself, with two songs in the Top 10, including one shared with Mr. Brown
    *Lil’ Mama, believe it or not, is only the fourth female rapper to score two Top Ten hits on the pop chart. The others? Li’l Kim, Da Brat and Missy Elliott.
    *Nice week to be Diddy, eh? Not only was the L.A. Times story that implicated him in Tupac’s 1994 shooting revealed to be a fraud, but his proteges Danity Kane enter the charts at #1 for the second time, making them the only female act to debut at #1 with two consecutive albums. Next week, Puff’s boy-band counterpart, Day26, will ALSO enter the charts at the top with their debut. Expect to see lots of Puffy smiling with those little-ass teeth!!