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TMJ Charts: No Doubt Returns to #1

A great week for No Doubt who score their second #1 song from their new album Push And Shove. The title song inches up one spot to take the crown while Lana Del Rey's Radio falls to #3 after just one week on top. No Doubt is now the second act to score more than one #1 song on the chart during 2012 after Gotye. Their song Settle Down, went on to spend 5 weeks at the top and currently stands at #19.

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And speaking of Gotye, he's actually about to score a third chart-topper this year now that Save Me moves up to #2 in its 15th week on the chart. It's currently a strong contender and the only song gaining points inside the Top 10 besides Clique by Kanye West, Jay-Z and Big Sean which is up to #7 and Young The Giant's surprising move to #9 with God Made Man. Good moves as well for The Gaslight Anthem who see "45" leap to #15, Sloom by Of Monsters And Men which is up to #16, Bruno Mars' Locked Out Of Heaven is up to #24, Imagine Dragons jump big to #25 with It's Time and Metric's Youth Without Youth which jumps 55 to #32. But the Biggest move, as well as Greatest Gainer of the week, belongs to Nelly Furtado whose Spirit Indestructible is up 59 spots to #33.

The week's Highest Debut is also this week's Power Play track, and it goes to Rihanna, scoring her 16th chart entry as lead artist with Diamonds. The song debuts at #65. Kid Cudi also returns to the chart with Just What I Am featuring King Chip at #82, and so does Ke$ha who scores her 7th chart entry with Die Young debuting at #99.

The Recurrent Songs chart has a new song at the top and it's Swedish House Mafia's Miami 2 Ibiza making a big jump to #1 from last week's #40 position. And the Albums chart celebrates its 300th issue with a first for Lana Del Rey who finally reaches the top with Born To Die after 38 weeks on the chart, most of them inside the Top 5.

TMJ Charts: Lana Del Rey Gets Her #1

A very busy week on the charts as we have many debuts, chart returns and a new #1 on the Songs tally with Lana Del Rey finally reaching the top for the very first time since her chart debut with the song Radio. Having debuted at the #100 position in late April of this year and bouncing out after only one week, the song finally picked up a really good pace when it re-entered at #62 in mid-August. By early this month it was already inside the Top 10 and has now won the battle against Gotye's Eyes Wide Open, which is down to #3 this week.


And watch out for this week's #2 where we have No Doubt picking up as Greatest Gainer with Push And Shove jumping from 17 with only 3 weeks on the chart, and now most likely to follow the steps of their previous chart-topper Settle Down. There's also The Killers, who jump 4 to #4 with Flesh And Bone, a new Top 10 hit for Gotye as Save Me rockets from #27 to #6, P!nk reaches a new peak of 7 in the second round of Blow Me (One Last Kiss) for the top, and the return of Santigold with The Keepers at #10.

The week's biggest jump belongs to Kanye West, Jay-Z and Big Sean as Clique leaps 42 spots all the way to #14. And making up for last week's drought, there are plenty of new songs this time around starting with the Highest Debut at #72 where Bruno Mars returns to the chart with his new single Locked Out Of Heaven. His most recent chart entry was It Will Rain which peaked at #26 earlier this year. There's also Imagine Dragons making a double chart debut with It's Time at #74 and Radioactive at #100. Chris Brown crowns a new chart entry with Turn Up The Music at #81. Metric returns to the chart since 2009's Gimme Sympathy, this time with Youth Without Youth entering at #87, and so does Nelly Furtado whose last chart entry came in 2009 with Manos Al Aire, but now returns with Spirit Indestructible as Power Play of the week at #92. Lana Del Rey scores a new chart entry at #94 with Ride, and Christina Aguilera's Your Body at #98 is her first solo track in two years.

Somewhere Only We Know by Keane and Making Mirrors by Gotye repeat at #1 on the Recurrent Songs chart and Albums chart this week, respectively.

TMJ Charts: Gotye Stays at #1

This week brings us Gotye spending a second week at #1 with the song Eyes Wide Open, from his album Making Mirrors. With his previous hit Somebody That I Used To Know, he's the only artist this year to have scored two #1 songs on the Songs Chart, and he comes at second place as the artist with the most weeks at the top this year with 8, so far. Only Santigold has spent more at the top with record-breaking 19 weeks.

Eyes Wide Open (Live at David Letterman)

More on the Songs charts with Lana Del Rey scoring her fourth Top 10 hit so far with Radio jumping eight to #6. Her previous hits include Summertime Sadness (#5), Blue Jeans (#4), and Video Games (#2). Meanwhile, Santigold returns to the Top 5 with Disparate Youth and Gotye's second song in the Top 10, Giving Me A Chance, remains steady at #8. The week's Hot Shot and Highest Debut belongs to No Doubt whose Push And Shove featuring Busy Signal and Major Lazer starts at #30. There's only a couple more debuts this week with Kanye West, Big Sean and Jay-Z's Clique entering at #75, and Power Play track of the week, Don't You Worry Child by Swedish House Mafia featuring John Martin, entering at #97. The Highest Jump is Gotye's Save Me which leaps 44 spots this week to #45.

The Recurrent Songs chart has Friendly Fires spending a second week at the top with Jump In The Pool, while Making Mirrors by Gotye spends its 11th week at the top of the Albums chart.

UK Charts: Maroon 5 & Chris Brown at #1

These are the top ten singles and albums in the UK for the week of July 14th, 2012:

Top 10 Singles

1. PAYPHONE - MAROON 5 FT WIZ KHALIFA
2. DON'T WAKE ME UP - CHRIS BROWN
3. THIS IS LOVE - WILL I AM FT EVA SIMONS
4. WHISTLE - FLO RIDA
5. BLACK HEART - STOOSHE
6. FEEL THE LOVE - RUDIMENTAL FT JOHN NEWMAN
7. WE ARE YOUNG - FUN FT JANELLE MONAE
8. PRINCESS OF CHINA - COLDPLAY & RIHANNA
9. WIDE AWAKE - KATY PERRY
10. CALL MY NAME - CHERYL

Top 10 Albums

1. FORTUNE - CHRIS BROWN
2. OVEREXPOSED - MAROON 5
3. LIVING THINGS - LINKIN PARK
4. + - ED SHEERAN
5. OUR VERSION OF EVENTS - EMELI SANDE
6. GRACELAND - PAUL SIMON
7. MYLO XYLOTO - COLDPLAY
8. TALK THAT TALK - RIHANNA
9. 21 - ADELE
10. WATCH THE THRONE - JAY-Z & KANYE WEST

From www.theofficialcharts.com

UK Charts: will.i.am & Linkin Park at #1

These are the top ten singles and albums in the UK for the week of July 7th, 2012:

Top 10 Singles

1. THIS IS LOVE - WILL I AM FT EVA SIMONS
2. PAYPHONE - MAROON 5 FT WIZ KHALIFA
3. DON'T WAKE ME UP - CHRIS BROWN
4. WHISTLE - FLO RIDA
5. CALL MY NAME - CHERYL
6. FEEL THE LOVE - RUDIMENTAL FT JOHN NEWMAN
7. PRINCESS OF CHINA - COLDPLAY & RIHANNA
8. BLACK HEART - STOOSHE
9. WE ARE YOUNG - FUN FT JANELLE MONAE
10. WIDE AWAKE - KATY PERRY

Top 10 Albums

1. LIVING THINGS - LINKIN PARK
2. OVEREXPOSED - MAROON 5
3. + - ED SHEERAN
4. BELIEVE - JUSTIN BIEBER
5. OUR VERSION OF EVENTS - EMELI SANDE
6. A MILLION LIGHTS - CHERYL
7. WATCH THE THRONE - JAY-Z & KANYE WEST
8. WILD ONES - FLO RIDA
9. TALK THAT TALK - RIHANNA
10. FALL TO GRACE - PALOMA FAITH

From www.theofficialcharts.com

TMJ Charts: Santigold Is Not Giving Up Yet

There's no stopping Santigold on the charts as she extends her record-breaking #1 run to 17 consecutive weeks with Disparate Youth. At this point I'm just trying to figure out what other song will be able to stay on top for so long, so what we're talking about here is basically hall-of-fame status. I should move along and try to compile a list of historic events that have left a mark in the charts. In the meantime, it's a good thing we still have new live performances to post from Santigold.

Disparate Youth (Live at Radio 1's Hackney Weekend)


Going back to this week's charts, there's a serious threat of a new #1, probably very soon. WZRD stays at #2 with a bullet with Love Hard, while, out of nowhere, electronic band M83 shoots for the stars as Midnight City raises from the ashes and scores Greatest Gainer honors with a move to #4, this is after lingering up and down the charts for 25 weeks. Friendly Fires is not giving up yet and stays at #3 once again with Chimes, and Lana Del Rey returns for a second round at the Top 10 with Blue Jeans moving to #9.

Strong re-entries for Jay-Z and Kanye West who score Power Play of the week with Niggas In Paris, and Birdy's Without A Word goes all the way to #33. The Biggest Jump of the week is another song that's not ready to lose steam yet: Gym Class Heroes and Neon Hitch scale back to the top half of the chart at #48 with Ass Back Home.

On the Recurrent Charts we see Kings Of Leon once again at the top with Notion for a total of 7 weeks at #1, while Santigold recovers her spot at the throne with Master Of My Make-Believe for a total of five non-consecutive weeks at #1.

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The Year of Pala

With last week's 15th consecutive run at the No. 1 position with Hawaiian Air, Friendly Fires tied the record for most weeks at the top of the Songs chart with one same title. Sadly, they're not able to break that record because it all ends this week as Hawaiian Air finally gives up the throne and falls to No. 4. But it's all not lost, because Friendly Fires replace themselves at the top with Blue Cassette, off their album Pala, after debuting at No. 100 eight weeks ago. So after all, Friendly Fires is the act with the most consecutive weeks - sixteen - at the top of the Songs chart, with one or more songs.

Blue Cassette (Live at the Lightbox Session)


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More crazy stats? And I say crazy because they all involve the number 7 somehow...

With such a long run at the top for Hawaiian Air, many titles had to settle with a not less respectable No. 2 position. A total of seven songs are included in this list starting most recently with Snow Patrol's This Isn't Everything You Are, which stays as runner-up for a second week. But there's also Benny Benassi's Close To Me featuring Gary Go (#3), Blink-182's Fighting The Gravity (#6), Young The Giant's My Body (#7), Coldplay's Paradise (#10), Foster The People's Pumped Up Kicks (#12) and Florence + The Machine's Shake It Out (#18).

Also, Blue Cassette becomes the seventh song that made its debut at the No. 100 position and eventually went on to the top of the Songs chart. This list includes Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (Wind Blow - 2007), Fergie (Clumsy - 2007), Mariah Carey (O.O.C. - 2008), Kanye West (Love Lockdown - 2009), Jay-Z (Real As It Gets - 2010) and Outasight (Everything - 2011).

But that's not all. Friendly Fires is also the seventh act to replace itself at the top of the Songs chart after Interpol (Wrecking Ball, Rest My Chemistry - 2007), Mariah Carey (twice)(Migrate, Side Effects, I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time, O.O.C. - 2008; Betcha Gon' Know (The Prologue), H.A.T.E.U. - 2009), The-Dream (My Love, Right Side Of My Brain - 2009), Akon (Sexy Bitch, Available (Benny Benassi Remix) - 2009), Jay-Z (Empire State Of Mind, Real As It Gets - 2010) and Lykke Li (I Follow Rivers (The Magician Remix), Love Out Of Lust - 2011).

Hawaiian Air: It's Not Over Yet

Only three other songs have managed to stay on top of the Songs Chart for ten straight weeks or more since I started building the countdown, but now Friendly Fires gets the honor to be the first band to achieve the milestone. It was hard to tell in the beginning if Hawaiian Air had the strength to go as far as spending this many weeks on the chart but it's now proven to be one of the strongest titles in years. And it just goes on, now that this week the song gets the highest point-rank of its chart run. Maybe going for the 15-week record? It doesn't seem impossible at this point, but let's just hope we don't run out of high quality Youtube clips!

Hawaiian Air (Live at the Glastonbury Festival)

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Kanye West, Rick Ross, Jay-Z & Nicki Minaj › Monster

Despite all the controversy surrounding Kanye West's video for Monster, off his critically acclaimed album release My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, the visual finally sees the light of day. Posted on the rapper's website for everyone to see, there's a disclaimer just before the first gory scenes of dead women hanging dead from the ceiling, and that's just the beginning.

"The following content is in no way to be interpreted as misogynistic or negative towards any groups of people. It is an art piece and it shall be taken as such."

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Lykke Li Scores Second #1

Only a few artists like Interpol, Mariah Carey, The-Dream and Jay-Z have managed to get back to back #1 singles on my chart, but this week we can add another name to that list: Lykke Li. Up until this weekend she had dominated the songs chart with a remix to her song I Follow Rivers. Three weeks at the top went by and now she switches places with herself by getting her song Love Out Of Lust on top. This is now the singer's second #1 so far. But things are looking way better for this Swedish artist because, besides the two songs mentioned before, she's also charting the Greatest Gainer Silent My Song (#8) and the original I Follow Rivers (#10) in this week's Top 10. That's helping her album Wounded Rhymes get another week at the top of the albums chart.

A resurgence for Kings Of Leon's Birthday earns them the week's biggest leap by going from #77 to #44, quite impressive considering the song is on it's 24th chart appearance. The Power Play and Highest Debut belongs to Benny Benassi and Gary Go with their single Cinema. As expected, the song makes a quick debut at #68, just one spot higher than the Congorock Remix which debuted last week.

A couple more entries come from T.I. with Big Picture landing at #90 and Britney Spears' third song from Femme Fatale to debut, Criminal, opens at #96.

3 Weeks for 'All Of The Lights'

The star-studded All Of The Lights stays at the top of The Chart for a third consecutive week. Pretty solid! In fact, I've just read somewhere that this is about to become Kanye West's official next single. Smart move. It is, after all, the most mainstream song on the album (and a #1 on my list, of course!). But some strong competition approaches now that Ellie Goulding managed to sneak in the top 3 with Animal and Marina & The Diamonds gets her fourth top 10, this time with Obsessions. The latter is Greatest Gainer I might add. Will this be the one to break her #2-peak curse?

Marina & The Diamonds also gets the Highest Debut and Power Play of the week with Rootless, her tenth song to enter the chart. The other new entries are all collaborations. Great collaborations. There's Tiësto vs. Diplo featuring Busta Rhymes coming in at No. 75 with C'mon (Catch 'Em By Surprise), Kanye West & Jay-Z's first duo single H·A·M enters at No. 76 and a first for Ian Carey alongside Bobby Anthony & Snoop Dogg as Last Night debuts at No. 77.

Year-End Top Songs 50 - 26

A little delayed today, but the third chapter of this year's Top 100 Songs of 2010 Countdown is ready! Lots of surprises here as we see many recent songs make it in the 50 - 26 range including P!nk's Raise Your Glass, Ke$ha's We R Who We R, Brandon Flowers' Only The Young and Kid Cudi's REVOFEV, to name a few. Another highlight? La Vida Bohème gets 4 spots out of these 25 (that's already 6 songs in the Top 100 and we're not even done!)

In case you've missed it... Here's songs 100 through 76 and 75 through 51.

Year-End Top Songs 75 - 51

And the countdown continues... We're now halfway down on The TMJ Charts Top 100 Songs of 2010 with the 75 to 51 positions. This one includes The Chart's current No. 1 song by Drake and Young Jeezy, Unforgettable, at No. 75 and double spots for Interpol, Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Katy Perry, Timbaland and La Vida Bohème.

Don't know what this is all about? Read yesterday's post. More tomorrow, but for now check these out:

Drake Finally Reaches The Top

After several close calls Drake has finally reached the top of The Chart this week as Unforgettable featuring Young Jeezy makes a twelve-spot jump to No. 1, the second biggest leap to the summit this year behind Katy Perry's Teenage Dream and the fifth biggest overall. Drake had previously only reached No. 2 on four different occasions with Best I Ever Had, Over, Mary J. Blige's The One and Timbaland's Say Something. For Young Jeezy this is his 4th chart-topper as a collaborative artist, having reached the top before with Mariah Carey's Side Effects (3 weeks), Jay-Z's Real As It Gets (2 weeks) and Akon's I'm So Paid (1 week).

The Week's New Releases (Nov22,'10)

Another big week for big releases. Today is the day the world finally gets to listen to Kanye West's highly anticipated new album. There's also new releases by My Chemical Romance, Nicki Minaj, Ke$ha, Jay-Z, Ne-Yo and Röyksopp. These are some of this week's new releases:

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West
Cannibal by Ke$ha
Danger Days: True Lives of the Fabolous Killjoys by My Chemical Romance
Pink Friday by Nicki Minaj
Libra Scale by Ne-Yo
Senior by Röyksopp
H.F.M. 2 (The Hunger For More 2) by Lloyd Banks
Body Talk Pt. 3 by Robyn
The Hits Collection Volume 1 by Jay-Z