Rihanna Returns To #1

It was a very close race for the #1 spot this week, perhaps the closest so far in the history of these charts, but after a one-week absence from the top due to LMFAO's Sexy And I Know It taking the title last week, Rihanna bounces back with We Found Love featuring Calvin Harris for a second non-consecutive week at #1. Close behind though are two of LMFAO's hits, the aforementioned Sexy And I Know It, which falls back a spot to #2 and Party Rock Anthem featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock which stays at its #3 peak.



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Elsewhere in the Top Ten we find Adele who's yet to break the #4 debut and peak of her song Someone Like You, up from last week's #5 position, Gotye and Kimbra are slowly but steady aiming at the pole position with Somebody That I Used To Know at #5 in its sixth week on the chart, Maroon 5's Moves Like Jagger refuses to go as it jumps five spots to a new #6 peak after 29 weeks on the chart, Flo Rida gets Greatest Gainer honors with the Etta James assisted Good Feeling breaking into the Top Ten at #7, David Guetta and Usher's Without You also gets a spot at #8, Foster The People remains steady at #9 with Pumped Up Kicks, and the only dropper of the group, Fedde le Grand's So Much Love is down six spots to #10.

The Hot Shot Debut of the week belongs to fun. with We Are Young featuring Janelle Monáe entering at #52. A promising figure for this year's charts is Lana Del Rey who sees her song Born To Die debut as Power Play of the week at #71. Video Games on the other hand sits solidly at #29 in its fourth week. And plenty of other new entries this week coming from Selena Gomez & The Scene, Rihanna, One Direction, Lady GaGa, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Young Man and Bon Iver.

Mas Friendly Fires... (+ Big Announcement!)

We may be ready to say goodbye to this year, but that doesn't mean there's a lot of change on the charts, or at least the top of the charts, that is. In the second to last chart issue of 2011, Friendly Fires still dominates both the Top Songs and Top Albums charts with Blue Cassette and Pala, respectively. Blue Cassette stays on top for a second week in a row, extending the group's consecutive stay at the top to 17 weeks while Pala, on the other hand, enjoys its fifteenth week at the top of the Albums chart.


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Some unexpected jumps include Fedde le Grand storming up to #3 as Greatest Gainer with So Much Love, while Benny Benassi and Gary Go return to #2 with Close To Me. Rihanna and Calvin Harris enter the Top Ten at #5 with We Found Love, Adele returns at #6 with Someone Like You and LMFAO recovers and closes at #10 with Party Rock Anthem. Lots of new entries this week including new songs by Pitbull, Taio Cruz, Avicii, Nickelback, Flo Rida, Lana Del Rey, Bruno Mars and... Justin Bieber!?

And with those names comes the big announcement! Starting this week, and with the help of the new digital charts I'm compiling, the worldwide top selling singles are incorporated to the formula for building my personal Songs chart. That basically means more mainstream songs in there than the ones I'd never - or would eventually - listen to. Creepy, I know, but the reason for this decision, after going back and forth for a while, is that with less available time in my hands I find myself listening to less music than what I'd actually like to. With that said, the chart gets a little more action while not completely affecting its outcome, after all, my tastes will still play a big part of each week's chart. Hopefully we won't get too much of Glee Cast, or the likes, in there lol. The merging of current and recurrent songs is also a big possibility in the near future, but I haven't made a decision about that... yet.

Fedde le Grand › So Much Love

'Paradise (Fedde le Grand Remix)' by Coldplay