LMFAO Gets To The Top

Lots of action as we start the new year with last week's first chart-topper for Rihanna, We Found Love featuring Calvin Harris, moving down a spot to #2 while LMFAO seize the chance and jump five and all the way to the top with Sexy And I Know It to claim the first #1 of 2012. The song, which jumps with Greatest Gainer honors, is also the first chart-topper for the electro-pop duo who in spite of charting six other songs in the past have only had major success with this title and Party Rock Anthem, the latter seeing a post-holiday resurgence this week as it reaches a new peak (#3) after 24 weeks on the chart.

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A couple of acts new to the chart get their first Top Ten hits starting with Gotye's Somebody That I Used To Know featuring Kimbra jumping to #6 in its fifth week on the chart while Afrojack and Steve Aoki's collaborative track, No Beef featuring Miss Palmer, jumps seventeen spots to #8 this week. Foster The People's Pumped Up Kicks and Coldplay's Paradise round up the Top Ten. The week's Highest Debut and Power Play track belongs to Drake and The Weeknd's Crew Love landing at #40. More new titles on the chart include Katy Perry's The One That Got Away (#52), Sean Paul & Alexis Jordan's Got 2 Luv U (#64), Rihanna's You Da One (#65), Pitbull & Chris Brown's International Love (#66), Jessie J's Domino (#69), David Guetta, Nicki Minaj & Flo Rida's Where Them Girls At (#70) and Amy Winehouse's Our Day Will Come (#71).

US Charts: Billboard's Best Of 2011

Billboard has finally unveiled their year-end charts for 2011, and it comes to no surprise that women dominate the major categories, after all it's obvious that this was the year of Adele, Katy Perry and Rihanna, among other female artists who ruled the US charts this year. The overall big winner though, is British artist Adele.

From Billboard.com

For the first time, a woman earns three of Billboard's biggest year-end charts honors: No. 1 on Top Artists, the No. 1 Billboard 200 Album and the No. 1 Hot 100 song. The woman, of course, is Adele. The album: "21." The song: "Rolling in the Deep" (both on XL/Columbia).

Since Billboard added the top overall artist category to its year-end recaps in 1981, no woman has ever pulled off the triple crown win until this year.

Billboard's year-end music recaps are based on chart performance during the chart year that began with last year's charts dated Dec. 4 and ended with the Nov. 26, 2011 charts.

The Top Artists recap ranks the best-performing acts of the year derived from activity on the Billboard 200 albums tally and the Billboard Hot 100 singles list, as well as streaming, social, touring boxscore and ringtone data.

2011 Top Billboard Categories
Top Artist: Adele
Top New Artist: Wiz Khalifa
Hot 100 Song: Rolling In The Deep by Adele
Hot 100 Artist: Katy Perry
Billboard 200 Album: 21 by Adele
Billboard 200 Artist: Adele
Radio Song: Give Me Everything by Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer
Radio Songs Artist: Katy Perry
Digital Song: Rolling In The Deep by Adele
Digital Songs Artists: Katy Perry
Digital Album: 21 by Adele
Digital Albums Artist: Adele

For more Billboard Year-End Charts visit Billboard.com

UK Charts: Take That's Album Returns to #1

From NME.com:

Take That have returned to the top of the albums chart tonight (June 19), ending Arctic Monkeys' one-week reign at the summit.

'Progress', which was the biggest selling album of 2010, spent six consecutive weeks at Number One after being released in November 2010 and has now taken Robbie Williams and co back to the summit.

Alex Turner and co's fourth LP 'Suck It And See' went down to Number 4, while Paul Simon scored a new entry at Number 6 with 'So Beautiful Or So What'.

Eminem side-project Bad Meets Evil's new album 'Hell The Sequel' debuted at Number 7, while Sophie Ellis Bexter's new LP 'Make A Scene' was straight in at Number 33.

In the singles chart, Example clocked up a second week at Number One with 'Changed The Way You Kissed Me', which held off competition from Calvin Harris' collaboration with Kelis 'Bounce', which went in at Number 2.

Ed Sheeran's 'The A Team', which had also challenged for the top spot this week, went in at Number 3.

Tinchy Stryder and N-Dubz man Dappy Scored a new entry at Number 5 with 'Spaceship, while Bad Meets Evil's 'Lighters' - which features Bruno Mars - went in at Number 37.

The Top 10 UK albums are:

1. Take That - 'Progress'
2. Adele - '21'
3. Lady Gaga - 'Born This Way'
4. Arctic Monkeys - 'Suck It And See'
5. Adele - '19'
6. Paul Simon - 'So Beautiful Or So What'
7. Bad Meets Evil - 'Hell The Sequel'
8. Caro Emerald - 'Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor'
9. Seasick Steve - 'You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks'
10. Electric Light Orchestra - 'All Over The World, The Very Best Of'

The Top 10 UK singles are:

1. Example - 'Changed The Way You Kissed Me'
2. Calvin Harris feat Kelis - 'Bounce'
3. Ed Sheeran - 'The A Team'
4. Pitbull feat Nayer, Afrojack and Ne-Yo - 'Give Me Everything'
5. Tinchy Stryder and Dappy - 'Spaceship'
6. Nicole Scherzinger - 'Right There'
7. Alexanda Stan - 'Mr Saxobeat'
8. Aloe Blacc - 'I Need A Dollar'
9. LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock - 'Party Rock Anthem'
10. Jennifer Lopez feat. Lil Wayne - 'I'm Into You'

Adele holds off Kate Bush's new album to stay at Number One

From NME.com:

Kate Bush has entered the albums chart at Number Two as Adele's '21' spent its 16th week at the top spot tonight (May 22).

'Director's Cut', a collection of re-recorded tracks from two of Bush's previous albums, looked on course to hit the summit earlier this week.

However, it eventually fell short of toppling the Tottenham soul singer, whose 2008 debut '19' stayed at Number Three.

There were other new entries for Friendly Fires - in at Number 6 with 'Pala' - and Moby, whose new record 'Destroyed' debuted at Number 35.

In the singles chart, Cuban-American rapper Pitbull scored his first official Number One with 'Give Me Everything', a collaboration with Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer which climbed from last week's Number 2.

Swedish House Mafia debuted at Number 10 with their new single 'Save The World', while Jedward were new at Number 40 with their Eurovision Song Contest entry 'Lipstick'.

Lady Gaga scored a new entry at Number 13 with 'Hair' and made chart history in the process, becoming the first female artist since Ruby Murray in 1955 to clock up four Top 20 singles in one week.

'The Edge Of Glory' (Number 6), 'Judas' (Number 8) and 'Born This Way' (Number 16) were the other three entries in the chart.

The Top 10 UK albums are:

1. Adele - '21'
2. Kate Bush - 'Director's Cut'
3. Adele - '19'
4. Hugh Laurie - 'Let Them Talk'
5. Bruno Mars - 'Doo Wops & Hooligans'
6. Friendly Fires - 'Pala'
7. Chase & Status - 'No More Idols'
8. Jessie J - 'Who You Are'
9. Foo Fighters - 'Wasting Light'
10. Caro Emerald - 'Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room'

The Top 10 UK singles are:

1. Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer - 'Give Me Everything'
2. Bruno Mars - 'The Lazy Song'
3. LMFAO feat. GoonRock and Lauren Bennett - 'Party Rock Anthem'
4. Aloe Blacc - 'I Need A Dollar'
5. Chris Brown feat. Benny Benassi - 'Beautiful People'
6. Lady Gaga - 'The Edge Of Glory'
7. David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj and Flo Rida - 'Where Them Girls At?'
8. Lady Gaga - 'Judas'
9. Snoop Dogg - 'Sweat (David Guetta Remix)'
10. Swedish House Mafia - 'Save The World'