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  • Chart Chat 6/1/08: 3 Doors Down, Donna Summer, Coldplay & More!!


    Ah, the month of June. In just a couple of short weeks, it will officially be summer. Let’s see what’s heating up the music charts this week! (as usual, all chart info reprinted courtesy of the good folks at Billboard):

    Top 20 Albums:

    1) “3 Doors Down” 3 Doors Down
    2) “II Trill” Bun B
    3) “Julianne Hough” Julianne Hough
    4) “Nothing But the Best” Frank Sinatra
    5) “Narrow Stairs” Death Cab for Cutie
    6) “Spirit” Leona Lewis
    7) “E=MC2” Mariah Carey
    8) “Rockferry” Duffy
    9) “Hard Candy” Madonna
    10) “Home Before Dark” Neil Diamond
    11) “We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things” Jason Mraz
    12) “Taylor Swift” Taylor Swift
    13) “35 Biggest Hits” Toby Keith
    14) “Departure” Jesse McCartney
    15) “Fight With Tools” Flobots
    16) “Carnival Ride” Carrie Underwood
    17) “Crayons” Donna Summer
    18) “Now That’s What I Call Music 27” Various Artists
    19) “Jordin Sparks” Jordin Sparks
    20) “Daughtry” Daughtry

    Top 20 Singles

    1) “Lollipop” Lil’ Wayne feat. Static Major
    2) “Bleeding Love” Leona Lewis
    3) “The Time of My Life” David Cook
    4) “Take a Bow” Rihanna
    5) “No Air” Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown
    6) “Love in This Club” Usher feat. Young Jeezy
    7) “Sexy Can I” Ray J. feat. Yung Berg
    8) “4 Minutes” Madonna feat. Justin Timberlake
    9) “Pocketful of Sunshine” Natasha Bedingfield
    10) “Viva La Vida” Coldplay
    11) “Damaged” Danity Kane
    12) “Leavin’” Jesse McCartney
    13) “Touch My Body” Mariah Carey
    14) “Bust it Baby Pt. 2” Plies feat. Ne-Yo
    15) “Dream Big” David Cook
    16) “What You Got” Colby O’Donis feat. Akon
    17) “It’s Not My Time” 3 Doors Down
    18) “Apologize” Timbaland feat. OneRepublic
    19) “Last Name” Carrie Underwood
    20) “Love Song” Sara Bareilles

    *This week’s charts are all about two things: “American Idol” and advertising. To wit:

    *Contestants from 4 different seasons of “American Idol” can be found in this week’s Top 20 charts. Aside from David Cook’s two top 20 singles chart debuts (which we discussed a couple days back), 2007’s winner, Jordin Sparks, can be found in the Top 20 of the singles and albums charts, as can 2005’s winner, Carrie Underwood. Meanwhile, 2006 finalist Chris Daughtry is still hanging around, moving up 10 spots to re-enter the Top 20 with his 18-month old debut album.

    *”American Idol” is also to blame for the resurgence of “Apologize”. The Timbaland/OneRepublic song, which has now appeared on the pop, Adult Top 40, Adult Contemporary and R&B charts, re-enters the Top 20 after OneRepublic performed it with “AI” runner-up David Archuleta on the season finale. The resurgence should be short-lived, as I can’t imagine there being too many people out there who aren’t completely sick of this song.

    *”Idol” also juices a major comeback, as Queen of Disco Donna Summer appears in the Top 20 of the pop albums chart for the first time since “She Works Hard for the Money” in 1983!! “Crayons” is actually Summer’s first album of original material since 1991. Toot-toot…hey…beep beep!! Here’s some old school Donna for ya!!

    *Meanwhile, continuing Ameria’s insatiable appetite for extremely generic rock bands, 3 Doors Down enjoys their second straight debut atop the album charts with their self-titled fourth effort. This band’s success may come as something of a surprise because they’ve traveled so far under the radar. However, not only has the band enjoyed a fairly uninterrupted stream of hit singles since their 2000 debut, but they are the third biggest-selling group of the decade so far, behind Nickelback and…crap, I forget who the second band is, but they’ve sold more records!!

    *Apple’s current advertising campaign is juicing Coldplay’s current success. “Viva La Vida”, the song used in the latest ads for Apple/iPod/iTunes, scales back up the charts this week, becoming Coldplay’s second top 10 hit. Lead singer Chris Martin also scores his first charted single as a solo artist, as Kanye West’s “Homecoming” (which features Martin as a guest artist) enters the singles chart at #96.

  • Vital Idol: Big Dave Archuleta And David Cook Toe The Line

    I loved the boxing analogies last night, as cheesy as they were, but there was some major influencing going on last night. Even though Simon Cowell said before that he thought David Cook was going to win, it seemed to this viewer that he was doing anything and everything to let the America know who he wanted to win. I’m usually fine with the influential judges. That’s the reason they are there. They don’t have a vote, so they try to influence the voters. But this year it was something else. Simon publicly humiliated Carly Smithson, which seemed to help viewers turn on her. And the triumvirate of Simon, Paula Abdul, and Randy Jackson were very negative on Syesha Mercado last week, even though she was like a breath of fresh air to a really boring show. Does David Cook even stand a chance tonight?

    Let’s get this show going.

    – For some reason, both David’s are wearing full white.

    – A Holly Robinson Peete sighting! She was the reason to watch Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper back in the day. Also, a Lori Loughlin sighting (the former Mrs. Uncle Jesse). She’s starring in the new Beverly Hills, 90210, simply called 90210. Those two join Rene Russo in the Ha Ha, We Never Age Hall Of Fame.

    – For some reason Mikayla Gordon and Matt Rogers are on my television. You mean LaToya London was booked?

    – The top 12 is back and my youngest shouted out, “Chikezie!” He missed him some Chikezie. Some guy just threw a $20 bill at David Hernandez.

    – Syesha Mercado is on the stage with Seal, who is wearing white pants with a white t-shirt. What’s up with the white theme tonight? Syesha is hot by the way, in case you didn’t know.

    – Jason Castro is back on my TV. The TV almost tried to change its own channel. He was there to perform Hallelujah, which was his only good performance of the season.

    – The six girls are performing Donna Summer’s songs and Amanda Overmyer should’ve just turned her mic off. Not that she has a terrible voice, but this isn’t her genre. Donna herself comes out and she and Syesha perform Last Dance. Why wasn’t Syesha in the finals instead of our two friends, milque and toast?

    – Carly Smithson and Michael Johns are on stage duetting. Why wasn’t this a Syesha and Carly final instead of our two friends milque and toast?

    – Jimmy Kimmel is back and immediately went with a Sanjaya joke, which was funny, but not as funny as seeing Sanjaya in the crowd so happy that his name was called.

    – Paula Abdul’s boobs are out of control tonight. Arsenio is sitting at home thinking, “I hit that 20 years ago.” Things that make you go hmmmmmm.

    – The top six are on stage performing and then Bryan Adams’s dad comes out for some reason with a guitar. Wait, that was Bryan Adams.

    – If anyone is wondering about the 8 years old and under demographic, both my kids predicted who would win tonight. Well, my older one did at least.

    – Brooke White is wearing her hair straight by the way. She’s also shoesless.

    – I must be old. Ryno introduced a band and all the young girls screamed, not allowing him to tell us who they were. They came on the stage and before I could say, “Why does Hanson have black hair?” I noticed one guy had a tambourine. I still don’t know who they are.

    – Ryno just called them the Jonas Brothers. I actually liked “Hanson With Black Hair”.

    – When Ryno said that OneRepublic was on stage, my first thought was, “Ohhh that’s what they look like.” My second thought was, “Where’s Timbo?” My third thought wasn’t, “I think David Archuleta should get on stage with them and sing.”

    – Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey Jr. (I wonder if anyone calls him RJ?) are in a lame skit with Gladys Knight (they’re supposed to be the Pips) that would’ve been good if it were 20 seconds. Instead, it was 20 minutes. At least it felt that way.

    – Carrie Underwood is singing Last Name. The virginal Tony Romo is sitting on his couch thinking, “If only I would’ve hit that 20 months ago.”

    – Uh oh, the top 12 is singing George Michael. You know what that means. Yep, Bryan Adam’s dad is coming out again. Just kidding.

    – I was hoping that Hugh Grant was going to come out and together, he and George would sing Pop! Goes My Heart, but it didn’t happen.

    – Simon is apologizing to David Cook for being so hard on him last night after watching the show back on television and then tells him that he doesn’t care who wins, and they’re both terrific. Way to save face Cowell, after all the votes are already in. David Cook deserved the apology, but at the end of last night’s show, not tonight’s.

    – Um, I take that back. Simon’s assholery didn’t factor in it at all.

    – And the winner is ….

    David Cook

    That’s all for now. I’ll be back in 10 months. I’m out like gout.

  • Chart Chat 5/4/08: Madonna, Jesse McCartney, Static Major And More!!


    Hey folks:

    Courtesy of the good folks at Billboard magazine, I bring you (drumroll…) this week’s Top 20 singles and albums!!

    We’ll start with the albums chart:

    1) “E=MC2” Mariah Carey
    2) “Spirit” Leona Lewis
    3) “Flight of the Concords” Flight of the Concords
    4) “Bittersweet World” Ashlee Simpson
    5) “When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold” Atmosphere
    6) “Now That’s What I Call Music 27” Various Artists
    7) “Juno” Soundtrack
    8) “Troubadour” George Strait
    9) “Taylor Swift” Taylor Swift
    10) “Prayer of a Common Man” Phil Vassar
    11) “Best of Both Worlds Concert” Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus
    12) “Alvin & The Chipmunks” Soundtrack
    13) “Sunset Man” James Otto
    14) “Sleep Through The Static” Jack Johnson
    15) “Trilla” Rick Ross
    16) “Lady Antebellum” Lady Antebellum
    17) “Accelerate” R.E.M.
    18) “The Black Swan” Story of the Year
    19) “Call Me Irresponsible” Michael Buble
    20) “Jordin Sparks” Jordin Sparks

    Top 20 Singles:

    1) “Bleeding Love” Leona Lewis
    2) “Lollipop” Lil’ Wayne feat. Static Major
    3) “No Air” Jordin Sparks/Chris Brown
    4) “4 Minutes” Madonna feat. Justin Timberlake
    5) “Love in This Club” Usher feat. Young Jeezy
    6) “Sexy Can I” Ray J. feat. Yung Berg
    7) “Touch My Body” Mariah Carey
    8) “Love Song” Sara Bareilles
    9) “Forever” Chris Brown
    10) “With You” Chris Brown
    11) “Low” Flo-Rida feat. T-Pain
    12) “See You Again” Miley Cyrus
    13) “Say” John Mayer
    14) “Leavin’” Jesse McCartney
    15) “Damaged” Danity Kane
    16) “Don’t Stop The Music” Rihanna
    17) “Stop & Stare” OneRepublic
    18) “The Boss” Rick Ross feat. T-Pain
    19) “Pocketful of Sunshine” Natasha Bedingfield
    20) “What You Got” Colby O’ Donis feat. Akon

    *Nope, I don’t know who Colby O’ Donis is either. But…his song features Akon, so I also really don’t care who he is. But here’s his video in case you’re interested.

    *Chris Brown has three songs in this week’s Top 10. Is it safe to say Chris Breezy is going to be the 2008 version of T-Pain?

    *One thing I neglected to mention last week (and thanks to Joel Whitburn’s Chart Beat Chat column for making me aware of this), is that Static Major, who guests on Lil’ Wayne’s “Lollipop” (down 1 spot to #2 this week), is the seventh artist to hit #1 on the singles chart posthumously, following Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, John Lennon, Jim Croce, The Notorious B.I.G. and Soulja Slim. Static, who was better known as a songwriter (Aaliyah’s “Are You That Somebody?” and “Try Again”) was also 1/3 of the singing group Playa, who had a hit with “Cheers 2 U” a decade or so ago.

    *Jesse McCartney becomes the latest former boy-bander to achieve chart salvation. Not only is he new in the Top 20 with “Leavin”‘” (which auomatically becomes his highest charting single), but he also has a co-write on the #1 single, Leona Lewis’s “Bleeding Love”. Not bad for the kid who was the lead singer of D-list boy band Dream Street.

    *Latest annoying song to finally get the chart boot: “Apologize” by Timbaland & OneRepublic.

    *How weird was it to see Madonna on “106 & Park” this week? Particularly in light of her work with Justin Timberlake, who has unofficially been banned from the network in light of his participation in “Nipplegate”?

    *Finally, a big shout to the duo of Atmosphere, who score one of the surprise debuts of the year (with one of the best album titles of the year, too!!). Definitely a good look for indie/backpacker rap!!