US Charts: Maroon 5 & Mumford & Sons at #1

These are the top ten singles and albums in the US for the week of October 13, 2012:

Top 10 Singles

1. One More Night - Maroon 5
2. Gangnam Style - PSY
3. Some Nights - fun.
4. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - Taylor Swift
5. Blow Me (One Last Kiss) - P!nk
6. As Long As You Love Me - Justin Bieber Featuring Big Sean
7. Begin Again - Taylor Swift
8. Whistle - Flo Rida
9. Too Close - Alex Clare
10. Good Time - Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen

Top 10 Albums

1. Babel - Mumford & Sons
2. ¡Uno! - Green Day
3. Push And Shove - No Doubt
4. The Truth About Love - P!nk
5. Food & Liquor II: The Great ... - Lupe Fiasco
6. Album Title Goes Here - deadmau5
7. Kanye West Presents GOOD Music: Cruel Summer - Various Artists
8. Away From The World - Dave Matthews Band
9. Tornado - Little Big Town
10. Battle Born - The Killers

From Billboard.com

Lupe Fiasco & Guy Sebastian › Battle Scars

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DJ Earworm › World Go Boom (United State Of Pop 2011 Mash-Up)

I had completely forgotten about this, which is not a good look since these are about the only mash-ups I listen to, ever. Once again DJ Earworm brings us the top Billboard hits of the year all rolled into one big production, both sonically and visually. World Go Boom is the title for this year's mash-up.

Lupe Fiasco & Trey Songz › Out Of My Head

The newest single from Lupe Fiasco's Lasers is probably one of the most mainstream songs included on his album. The song features R&B singer Trey Songz on the hook. This is the third single from the rapper's most recent album release following The Show Goes On and Words I Never Said, the latter featuring singer Skylar Grey.



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Foo Fighters Will Rock MTV Movie Awards

From Spin.com:

Foo Fighters will rock the 2011 MTV Movie Awards with a performance of their next single "Walk," from the band's excellent new album Wasting Light. The show will be broadcast live from the Gibson Ampitheater in Universal City, CA, and air on MTV Sunday, June 5, at 9 PM/ET. Lupe Fiasco and Trey Songz will also perform at the 20th annual show.

MTV has roped in plenty of A-List firepower to give out awards: Nicki Minaj, Aziz Ansari, Steve Carrell, Shia LaBeouf, Danny McBride, and Leighton Meester are among the 17 celebrity presenters, while SNL vet Jason Sudeikis will MC the fete.

Incubus Ascends

No surprise here, but let's point out the fact that just three weeks is what it took for Incubus' comeback single to top the songs chart! Adolescents is not only this band's 17th chart entry but it becomes their 4th chart-topper, following Dig, Oil And Water and Quicksand, all taken from their 2007 release Light Grenades. Black Heart Inertia was their last chart appearance, which debuted in May of 2009 and peaked at #11.

Foo Fighters is now down one spot but still strong with a bullet for Bridge Burning and Lykke Li's Silent My Song rounds the Top 3.

This week's Greatest Gainer belongs to The Script, a band that scored several hits from their self-titled album the last couple of years but has struggled a little with Science & Faith, their sophomore record. That's all about to change now that Dead Man Walking becomes their 5th Top 10 hit entering at #8 in it's second week; and there's more because Long Gone And Moved On is the Biggest Jump with a leap to #54 from last week's #92.

The Power Play track and Highest Debut of the week goes to the Beastie Boys and their single Make Some Noise, entering at #76 as their first track ever to chart. More new entries from Lupe Fiasco's unreleased version of Airplanes, originally made famous by B.o.B and also featuring Paramore's Hayley Williams, coming at #90; Gossip's Beth Ditto solo adventure pays off and now sees her chart debut with I Wrote The Book at #91; Placebo makes a surprise debut with a live version of Bright Lights at #98; Brandon Boyd's Revenge Of The Spectral Tiger comes in at #99 and The Black Eyed Peas earn their 23rd chart entry with The Best One Yet (The Boy) at #100.

Lupe Fiasco & Skylar Grey › Words I Never Said

 

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Lykke Li Still on Top, Foo Fighters Return

That's now two weeks at the top spot of the Songs Chart for Lykke Li with Love Out Of Lust and five consecutive for a female artist - the most so far in 2011 and the longest stay since last year's Teenage Dream by Katy Perry which spent seven weeks at #1.

As this week's Highest Debut we see Foo Fighters with Bridge Burning at #39, the beast opening track to their upcoming new album Wasting Light (coming out next week). This song marks a welcome return for the band to the chart since Word Forward went on to spend three weeks on top at exactly this time last year. More new entries include the Britney Spears / will.i.am collaboration Big Fat Bass at #66, a first for The Vaccines with Post Break-Up Sex at #70, also a first for Jim Jones and Clinton Sparks with Perfect Day debuting at #92, Call Me Back by The Strokes at #98 and two more entries for Lupe Fiasco with State Run Radio and Break The Chain at #69 and #95 respectively.

This week's Greatest Gainer track belongs to Brandon Flowers' Jilted Love & Broken Heart which reaches a new peak at #3 and also becomes his third Top 10 hit on the chart. Only The Young also reached #3 and more recently Welcome To Fabulous Las Vegas went to #5. The Biggest Jump goes to Criminal by Britney Spears, which leaps 55 spots to #41 this week.

Top 5 Remains Unchanged

It hasn't happened in quite a long time, probably since 2008 or 2009, but this week's Top 5 remains the same as last week's. Not only that, but Lykke Li claims the top two stops once again with I Follow Rivers (The Magician Remix) ruling for a third consecutive week. Love Out Of Lust remains at #2 as Greatest Gainer for second week in a row as well. And the Lykke Li domination continues this week as she also gets the Biggest Jump with Sadness Is A Blessing going #79 - #35 in it's second week on the chart.

The Highest Debut comes courtesy of The Strokes. Their return single Under Cover Of Darkness finally breaks the chart and bows at #46. More debuts include Benny Benassi's new single Cinema, featuring Gary Go. The Congorock Remix of that song debuts at #66. Lupe Fiasco sees two more songs chart as Coming Up and Beautiful Lasers enter at #68 and #78 respectively. Another remix song, The Magician Remix to Beni's It's A Bubble comes in at #95 while Duran Duran's Before The Rain does it one spot higher at #96.

Lykke Li Owns Top 2

It comes to no surprise that Lykke Li is getting ready to make a big presence in the chart now that she tops the Number 1 and Number 2 positions this week. First, with no signs of slowing down, she scores a second week at the top with I Follow Rivers (The Magician Remix), but she's her own competition now that the album track Love Out Of Lust jumps, yet again as Greatest Gainer, to the #2 position in only its third week. And more Lykke Li floods the chart now that Silent My Song and Sadness Is A Blessing debut at #53 and #79 respectively. This of course has propelled Wounded Rhymes to the top of the Albums chart.

And Britney Spears also sets a high note now that her second single Till The World Ends becomes her highest ranking song so far on the chart. The title makes an incredible jump to #11 in its second week. Only her song 3 had charted higher, peaking at #18 back in 2009. But the Highest Jump belongs to The Decemberists and their song This Is Why We Fight, which storms sixty spots to #14 this week.

The Highest Debut belongs to Ke$ha this week and her track The Harold Song which makes a big impression to land at #33. This is her sixth song to chart so far. One spot higher at #34 is Power Play of the week and new entry by Brandon Flowers with his third official single Jilted Lovers & Broken Hearts, which adds more momentum to his Flamingo album.

More debuts include I Need A Doctor by Dr. Dre featuring Eminem and Skylar Grey at #70, Lupe Fiasco's All Black Everything at #80 and Snoop Dogg's return to the chart with Wet at #94.

White Lies Takes The Top Spot

A new song reigns this week's chart and it's the band White Lies making a quick landing to the #1 spot with Bigger Than Us. It comes to no surprise because they did have a big debut at #17 just four weeks ago, though it's good to note that this is the first song by the band to chart, so it's quite the good accomplishment. This is also the first song by a band to go all the way since Kings Of Leon made it to the top with Radioactive in late October of last year.

But White Lies gets more than the #1 spot as several songs from their Ritual album also debut this week including Turn The Bells, Peace & Quiet, Strangers, Bad Love and Holy Ghost occupying the #95 through #99 spots.

Another artist to pay attention to is, of course, Lykke Li. If you've been following the blog you would know by now that I'm currently kind of obsessed with her. This week not only her I Follow Rivers (The Magician Remix) is a close call by jumping to the #2 spot, repeating as Greatest Gainer, but the release of her Wounded Rhymes album makes several of her songs Hot Shot Debuts including the Highest Debut, Love Out Of Lust (#30), Youth Knows No Pain (#90), Jerome (#92), Unrequited Love (#93) and the original I Follow Rivers (#94).

Also making a big debut is the Chris Brown and Benny Benassi collaboration, Beautiful People, which lands at #34 as Power Play of the week; We Are Tokyo also make their chart debut with The Best In Me (Ninetynine's Nightmare Remix) entering at #55; Neon Trees makes it times three with 1983 leading at #59, Our War at #69 and Love And Affection at #82; also new to the chart is The Radio Dept. who debut at #91 with Never Follow Suit and finally Katy Perry scores a second E.T. remix on the chart as the Tiësto take on her new single enters at #100. The E.T. (Benny Benassi Remix) is so far having the better luck jumping to #26 in it's second week.

The Biggest Jump belongs to the second single by rapper Lupe Fiasco featuring Skylar Grey, Words I Never Said going up 34 spots to land at #12 this week. Expect it to get a boost by next week which coincides with the long-awaited release of his third studio album, Lasers.

3 Weeks Of Obsessions

Not a lot of change for the whole Top 5 as Marina & The Diamonds scores a third week at the top with Obsessions and only Kanye West's All Of The Lights and T.I.'s Poppin Bottles swap the #2 and #3 spots. White Lies score big with Bigger Than Us as the song jumps to #7 in only its second week and Lykke Li is about to become Top 10 royalty with I Follow Rivers (The Magician Remix) going to #11 as Greatest Gainer of the week.

The Highest Debut belongs to Nicki Minaj and Eminem with Roman's Revenge entering at #65. Another Minaj collaboration, Moment 4 Life, this time with Drake, enters at #97. More new songs include The Black Eyed Peas' Just Can't Get Enough at #71 as Power Play of the week and Lupe Fiasco & Skylar Grey debut at #79 with Words I Never Said.

This week's Biggest Jump belongs to Jessie J and B.o.B's Price Tag, which rockets 59 spots to #30 in it's second week.

'Words I Never Said' by Lupe Fiasco & Skylar Grey

Take a listen to Lupe Fiasco's second single from his Lasers album (take a peek at the cover art to the right.) Words I Never Said is the title and features a name we've seen a lot lately, Skylar Grey. Although it didn't strike me as an instant hit like The Show Goes On did, I do like the edgy sounds but not so much its political content.




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Lupe Fiasco's 'Words I Never Said' Teaser

Watch this intriguing teaser video, courtesy of rapper Lupe Fiasco, about his upcoming second single, Words I Never Said. The new tune is part of his highly anticipated Lasers album and is expected to come out on Februray 1st.



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Year-End Top Songs 25 - 1

It all comes down to this! Last but definitely not least the 25 songs for this year's Top 100 Songs Countdown. There's quite a good variety of songs here, most of which are still on The Chart. Where did this year's biggest #1 end up? Or the current longest charting song? Are there any more songs from this year's dominating bands? All that, plus The TMJ Charts' Top Song of 2010 after the jump!

Also: Songs 100 through 76, Songs 75 through 51 and Songs 50 through 26

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:

Lupe Fiasco › The Show Goes On

I've been waiting a long time now for this video to come out. The Show Goes On by Lupe Fiasco is the first single from his upcoming album Lasers, out March 8th, 2011. The song was made available in the internet by the end of October and made a huge impact on The Chart by getting to No. 1 in only its second week. It went on to spend three consecutive weeks at the top and is currently back to No. 2 in its 7th week. Watch the video below:




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Kid Cudi Jumps To #1, My Chemical Romance Returns

This is an unexpected turn, and not because Kid Cudi is stranger to begin at the top of The Chart as he has previously scored two number ones with Heart Of A Lion (3 weeks) and Hyyer (1 week), but because of how fast he got there and how he left the competition behind. Previous chart-topper The Show Goes On by Lupe Fiasco steps to No. 2. The song had been making strong rounds for the past month but falls short to this week's surprising No. 1, Ashin' Kusher, the third from Kid Cudi and the first from his new album Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Mr. Rager.

'The Show Goes On' For A 3rd Week

Lupe Fiasco is way ahead of the competition and goes on for a third consecutive week at the top of The Chart this week with The Show Goes On. And its looking promising for the song to stay on the top for a while because runner-up N*E*R*D is about one-hundred points behind with I've Seen The Light / Inside Of Clouds. Brandon Flowers keeps climbing, this time to No. 3 with Only The Young and Kid Cudi finally goes Top 10 - twice - as REVOFEV and Ashin' Kusher sit at No. 4 and No. 7 respectively. It's also been a bit of a struggle for P!nk to rise in the chart after a big debut 8 weeks ago, but she finally cracks the Top 10 as Raise Your Glass jumps five places to No. 6.

Amazing 'The Show Goes On' Violin Cover

In honor of this week's No. 1 song, check out this great instrumental cover by this guy named Peter Lee Johnson of Lupe Fiasco's The Show Goes On, blended in with Pachelbel's Canon.



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