Year-End Top Songs 100 - 76

Starting today, and for the next four days, I'll be presenting you The TMJ Charts Top 100 Songs for 2010! With the last chart issue of the year posted this past Saturday, I was finally ready to build these year-end charts. There'll be 25 songs posted each day until next Thursday when I'll be posting the Top 25.

There was a lot to choose from, with 511 different titles charting all throughout 2010, but these are the Top 100 based on the accumulated points for this year only (songs charting since 2009 are eligible). The stats are based on chart performance for 2010 as well, and titles with asterisks mean they're currently charting on the weekly Top 100.

Cheryl Cole › The Flood

Check out the video for Cheryl Cole's second single off her new album Messy Little Raindrops.



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Boy Bands Take Over The UK Charts

That's a very 1999 title but I'm not joking. This week sees two different generation of boy bands top both the singles and albums charts in the UK. On one hand there's the reunited group Take That with the fastest selling-album in the region and on the other the more recently formed group JLS for the singles chart.

From NME.com:

Take That have topped the UK album charts today (November 21) with the highest first-week sales for 13 years.

The reunited man-band’s album 'Progress' has sold almost 520,000 copies in the past week biggest opening numbers since Oasis with 'Be Here Now' in 2005.

They comfortably beat Rihanna's album 'Loud' which enters the charts at number two, while their single 'The Flood' remains at number two.

In a big week for boybands, JLS are a new entry at number one with their Children In Need single 'Love You More.

The top ten UK albums are:

1. Take That – 'Progress'
2. Rihanna – 'Loud'
3. Susan Boyle – 'The Gift'
4. Andre Rieu and Johann Strauss Orchestra – 'Moonlight Serenade'
5. Pink – 'Greatest Hits So Far'
6. Bon Jovi – 'Greatest Hits'
7. Bruce Springsteen – 'The Promise'
8. Cheryl Cole – 'Messy Little Raindrops'
9. Michael Buble – 'Crazy Love'
10. Katy Perry – 'Teenage Dream'

The top ten UK singles are:

1. JLS – 'Love You More'
2. Take That – 'The Flood'
3. Ellie Goulding – 'Your Song'
4. Rihanna – 'Only Girl (In The World)'
5. Katy Perry – 'Firework'
6. Far East Movement – 'Like A G6
'7. Black Eyed Peas – 'The Time (Dirty Bit)'
8. Alexis Jordan – 'Happiness'
9. McFly – 'Shine A Light'
10. Westlife - 'Safe'

Rihanna & Susan Boyle Rule UK Charts

Rihanna keeps the momentum going in the singles chart with her hit Only Girl (In The World) while Susan Boyle dominates the albums chart with her holiday collection The Gift.

From NME.com:

Rihanna has managed to keep Take That off the top of the UK singles chart tonight (November 14).

The singer stays at the summit for the second week with her new single 'Only Girl (In The World)' keeping 'The Flood', the Manchester band's first single for over 15 years with their original line-up, in second place.

Elsewhere, the Royal British Legion's poppy appeal single '2 Minute Silence', which features no audio whatsoever and a video with Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Mark Ronson, is in at Number 20.

My Chemical Romance's comeback single 'Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)' is also a new entry at 31.

Meanwhile Susan Boyle has knocked Cheryl Cole off the top of the UK albums chart.

The 49-year-old Scottish singer, who shot to prominence in last year's Britain's Got Talent, has scored her second Number One LP with her Christmas covers record 'The Gift', which features Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day' and traditional Christmas carols.

Elsewhere, Cee-Lo Green is straight in at Number 10 with his album 'Lady Killer' and Ray Davies is just two places below with his collaboration LP 'See My Friends', according to the Official Charts Company.

Jay-Z also goes in at 20 with 'The Hits Collection: Vol 1'.

The UK top 10 singles are:

1. Rihanna - 'Only Girl (In The World)'
2. Take That - 'The Flood'
3. Katy Perry - 'Firework'
4. McFly - 'Shine A Light' (Feat Taio Cruz)
5. Alexis Jordan - 'Happiness'
6. Mike Posner - 'Cooler Than Me'
7. Cheryl Cole - 'Promise This'
8. Bruno Mars - 'Just The Way You Are (Amazing)'
9. Adele - 'Make You Feel My Love'
10. Cee Lo Green - 'Forget You'

The UK top 10 albums are:

1. Susan Boyle - 'The Gift'
2. Bon Jovi - 'Greatest Hits'
3. Cheryl Cole - 'Messy Little Raindrops'
4. James Blunt - 'Some Kind Of Trouble'
5. Michael Buble - 'Crazy Love'
6. Kings Of Leon - 'Come Around Sundown'
7. Rumer - 'Seasons Of My Soul'
8. Rod Stewart - 'Fly Me To The Moon'
9. Katy Perry - 'Teenage Dream'
10. Cee Lo Green - 'The Lady Killer'

Cheyl Cole Goes to No. 1 in the UK

It's still a battle of the Pop female hotties over in the UK as Cheryl Cole tops the Albums Chart and Rihanna does the same in the Singles Chart.

From NME.com:

Cheryl Cole has gone straight to Number One in the UK albums chart tonight (November 7) with 'Messy Little Raindrops'.

It is the second time the Girls Aloud singer and X Factor judge has hit the top spot with a solo album after her debut LP '3 Words' went to Number One last year.

However, she was denied a UK chart double by Rihanna, whose latest track 'Only Girl (In The World)' replaced Cole's Promise at Number One in the singles chart.

Rihanna has now scored a Number One in each of the last four years after hitting the top spot with 'Umbrella' (2007), 'Take A Bow' (2008) and 'Run This Town' (2009), according to the Official Charts Company.

There were four new entries in the albums chart top 10, including Bon Jovi at Number 2 with 'Greatest Hits' and Rumer's 'Seasons Of My Soul' at Number 3.

In the singles chart, Alexis Jordan went in at Number 3 with 'Happiness, while The Saturdays featuring Flo Rida moved up to Number 10 with 'Higher'.

The UK top 10 singles are:

1. Rihanna - 'Only Girl (In The World)'
2. Cheryl Cole - 'Promise This'
3. Alexis Jordan - 'Happiness'
4. Katy Perry - 'Fireworks'
5. Bruno Mars - 'Just The Way You Are (Amazing)'
6. Cee Lo Green - 'Forget You'
7. Mike Posner - 'Cooler Than Me'
8. Nelly - 'Just A Dream'
9. Duck Sauce - 'Barbra Streisand'
10. The Saturdays feat. Flo Rida - 'Higher'

The UK top 10 albums are:

1. Cheryl Cole - 'Messy Little Raindrops'
2. Bon Jovi - 'Greatest Hits'
3. Rumer - 'Seasons Of My Soul'
4. Kings Of Leon - 'Come Around Sundown'
5. Rod Stewart - 'Fly Me To The Moon'
6. Michael Buble - 'Crazy Love'
7. Jamiroquai - 'Rock Dust Light Star'
8. Neil Diamond - 'Dreams'
9. Robbie Williams - 'In And Out Of Consciousness: Greatest Hits 1990 - 2010'
10. Peter Andre - 'Accelerate'

Cheryl Cole Hits #1 in the UK

It was very close but the beautiful Cheryl Cole beats Rihanna in the race for the #1 song in the region, while Kings Of Leon score a second week at the top of the UK Albums Chart.

From NME.com:

Cheryl Cole has beaten Rihanna to Number One in the UK singles chart tonight (October 31) after the pair both notched-up six-figure first-week sales.

The Girls Aloud singer sold over 157,000 copies of 'Promise This' to hit the top spot, edging out Rihanna's 'Only Girl (In The World)' by around 31,000 copies, according to the Official Charts Company.

The tracks are now the first and second biggest-selling first-week singles of the year, discounting charity releases - Helping Haiti's version of 'Everybody Hurts' notched up 400,000 first-week sales.

Other new entries included Peter Andre at Number 14 with 'Defender' and Devlin featuring Yasmin at Number 15 with 'Runaway'.

In the albums chart, Kings Of Leon stayed at Number One with 'Come Around Sundown', but there were no new entries in the Top 10.

Further down the chart, Elton John and Leon Russell's 'The Union' debuted at Number 12, while Bryan Ferry's new album 'Olympia' went in at Number 19.

The UK top 10 singles are:

1. Cheryl Cole - 'Promise This'
2. Rihanna - 'Only Girl (In The World)'
3. Bruno Mars - 'Just The Way You Are (Amazing)'
4. Cee Lo Green - 'Forget You'
5. Mike Posner - 'Cooler Than Me'
6. Katy Perry - 'Firework'
7. Duck Sauce - 'Barbra Streisand'
8. Nelly - 'Just A Dream'
9. The Wanted - 'Heart Vacany'
10. Tinie Tempah - 'Written In The Stars' (feat. Eric Turner)

The UK top 10 albums are:

1. Kings Of Leon - 'Come Around Sundown'
2. Michael Buble - 'Crazy Love'
3. Joe McElderry - 'Wide Awake'
4. The Wanted - 'The Wanted'
5. Robbie Williams - 'In And Out Of Consciousness: Greatest Hits 1990-2010'
6. Taylor Swift - 'Speak Now'
7. Tinie Tempah - 'Disc-overy'
8. Barbra Streisand - 'The Ultimate Collection'
9. Katy Perry - 'Teenage Dream'
10. The Soldiers - 'Letters Home'