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  • Chart Chat 9/7/08: Katy Perry, Jason Mraz, Ne-Yo & More!!

    Gettin’ tired of seeing the same names over and over? So am I. However, I still gotta give ya the charts every week, so here goes. As usual, these charts appear courtesy of the fine folks at Billboard Communications.

      Top 20 Albums

    1) “All Hope is Gone” Slipknot
    2) “L.A.X” The Game
    3) “Rock & Roll Jesus” Kid Rock
    4) “A Little Bit Longer” Jonas Brothers
    5) “Mamma Mia Soundtrack” Various Artists
    6) “Tha Carter III” Li’l Wayne
    7) “Now That’s What I Call Country!” Various Artists
    8) “Love on the Inside” Sugarland
    9) “Sol-Angel & the Hadley Street Dreams” Solange
    10) “Viva La Vida or Death & All His Friends” Coldplay
    11) “Breakout” Miley Cyrus
    12) “Good Girl Gone Bad” Rihanna
    13) “The Illusion of Progress” Staind
    14) “Raw Footage” Ice Cube
    15) “Palabras de Silencio” Luis Fonsi
    16) “Camp Rock Soundtrack” Various Artists
    17) “One World-Soundtrack” Cheetah Girls
    18) “Ultra Beatdown” Dragonforce
    19) “Spirit” Leona Lewis
    20) “One of the Boys” Katy Perry

      Top 20 Singles

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

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  • New Video – “Single” by the New Kids On The Block and Ne-Yo

    When I first heard this song earlier in the summer, I wasn’t convinced that “Single” was going to be a good “single” for the boys from Boston. It sounded very much like Ne-Yo featuring the New Kids, instead of the other way around. But soon enough, I was able to download it, and I loved it. Ne-Yo knows how to create hits and he uses all of his tricks with this one. And Jordan and Joey Mac don’t sound out of place with him.

    The video is finally here and now my kids can figure out who is singing what part.

    The new album, “The Block”, was released today. Money Mike and I will have an in depth post about it in the next couple days.

  • Here’s Something That’s Really Off The Wall: Michael Jackson Turns 50 Today

    The cover of Michael Jackson's iconic 1982 album "Thriller"
    The cover of Michael Jackson's iconic 1982 album "Thriller"

    I’ve spent many hours over the last several years typing article after article about not only Michael Jackson‘s influence on me, but his influence on pop culture as a whole.

    Despite the fact that he’s viewed (rightfully) as a egomaniacal, plastic surgery-addled, creepy train wreck these days, there’s no disputing that Michael was one of the largest (and the longest-running) pop phenomena in history (or HIStory). Sure, he himself was a product of a group of influences (Jackie Wilson and James Brown chief among them), but Jacko blazed (or at least helped to blaze) more trails than just about any contemporary artist. He certainly rewrote the rule book for black artists, breaking MTV’s embargo on R&B music (contrary to popular belief, MTV did play the occasional black rocker prior to “Billie Jean”) and rewriting just about every sales and chart record in existence. It should go without saying that a quick scan through today’s pop music scene reveals tons of artists, from Kanye West and Akon to Fall Out Boy and Rihanna to Usher, Justin Timberlake, Chris Brown and Ne-Yo: all directly crib from the rule book that Michael wrote. There weren’t Elvis sightings all over the Billboard chart in 1980, 25 years after his debut. However if you look at a Billboard chart from earlier this year, 25 years after “Thriller” took over the world, you’ll see that not only was a re-jiggered version of the album itself nestled securely at the top of the charts (not to mention an album by his sister that danced up and down the charts simultaneously), but songs like West’s “Good Life” and Rihanna’s “Don’t Stop the Music” directly referenced songs from the album. Regardless of what you may think of the man himself, to have that much direct influence so long after entering the music scene is a feat in and of itself. Public image be damned, this man deserves his rightful place next to The Beatles, Dylan, Stevie and James Brown…and that’s seriously not hyperbole at all. While I’ll wave my flag all day for MJ as a musical icon, I’m not one of those creepy uber-fans who lashes out at the media for being “ignorant” (sorry-just had a flashback to “South Park”‘s brilliant skewering of him) or even thought for a second about camping out at the trial site. Hell, I don’t even think the man has a skin disease.

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