TMJ Charts: Santigold Steady at #1

Like there's anything else to say. This past week was the release of one of the most anticipated albums on my list and that means, of course, that Disparate Youth had nothing else to do than stay at the top of the Songs chart. This marks the song's ninth consecutive week at #1, and obviously, Santigold's best charting song to-date. She's about to embark on a serious rampage here on the charts because she also scores four out of the seven new chart entries this week, starting with Look At These Hoes at #76, followed by Pirate In The Water at #93, The Keepers at #94 and God From The Machine at #96.

Disparate Youth (Live at Late Night with Jimmy Fallon)


But the Highest Debut of the week belongs, yet again, to Alex Clare. I told you last week how I've been playing his album almost non-stop. After a few listens, that little gem titled Up All Night stands out, and is this week's Power Play making its debut at #30. But there's also Too Close entering at #97, a song that's making me give dubstep a more serious chance. The seventh song to debut this week is WZRD's High Off Life which enters at #92.

Gotye scores the week's biggest jump with I Feel Better moving up 52 spots to #38 while achieving a new peak after 15 weeks on the chart. The Greatest Gainer is Calvin Harris whose Feel So Close gets closer to the top as it jumps three to #5 this week.

The Recurrent Songs chart sees a new queen as the late Amy Winehouse dethrones Marina & The Diamonds with He Can Only Hold Her from her album Back To Black.

Speaking of albums, that chart gets some much needed action with Santigold's Master Of My Make-Believe debuting at #2, an almost clean and never-before-seen debut at #1 if it weren't for Friendly Fires' Pala which holds steady and scores an incredible 17th week at the top.

Did You Love Pala? Enjoy These Remixes!

The guys from Friendly Fires have put together a collection of remixes as a special bonus edition of their most recent album Pala. The compilation brings us a new version of Hurting by Carl Craig plus other remixes from Tensnake, Tiga, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Benoit & Sergio and Tim Green. You can stream all of edits of Hurting, Hawaiian Air, Blue Cassette and Live Those Days Tonight on the widget below.



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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.

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).

Friendly Fires Closer To The Record

Not only Friendly Fires is the first non-solo act to spend ten or more weeks at the top of the Songs chart, but it's also about to tie the record for most weeks at Number 1 now that Hawaiian Air extends its lead for a 14th consecutive run. But for now, it settles as the second longest stay at the top after Mariah Carey's We Belong Together set the record with 15 weeks in 2005. Not bad considering this band it's (still) not as big as it should really be, or at least that's the impression I get.

The rest of the charts stay the same as far as leads go with Friendly Fires' Pala notching a 12th non-consecutive weekat the top of the Albums chart, Madonna's Get Together gets a 2nd run on the Recurrent Songs chart and Adele's Someone Like You stays strong as lead and Greatest Gainer of the Top Shared Songs chart.

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It's safe to say that one of the the biggest surprises this year has been Friendly Fires' consistency and longevity at the top of the charts, both on Songs and Albums. With 12 weeks at #1, Hawaiian Air is now the third tune to stay the longest at the pole position of the Songs chart, only three weeks away from the record held by Mariah Carey's We Belong Together back in 2005. Meanwhile, Pala proves to be a strong contender in the albums of the year category now that it spends its tenth week at #1, thanks of course to Hawaiian Air's chart history and others like Live Those Days Tonight and Show Me Lights.

So for now, Paradise by Coldplay has to settle once again with the #2 position, while White Lies surprises as Greatest Gainer with The Power & The Glory which jumps to #9 in its fourth week. With 20 weeks on the chart, Stereo Hearts by Gym Class Heroes featuring Adam Levine rebounds as Biggest Jump to the #24 position and Incubus returns with Friends And Lovers as both Power Play and Highest Debut this week at #43.

No Match For Friendly Fires

Another week comes, a few things don't change. That is Friendly Fires still ruling the Top Songs and Top Albums charts. Moving closer to the record, Hawaiian Air stands now at 11 consecutive weeks at the #1 position while, once again, besting the point rank of its chart run. Three closest competitors have come and gone and a fourth one comes with Coldplay's Paradise moving up five to #2. There's still no giving up with Florence + The Machine's Shake It Out, Foster The People's Pumped Up Kicks and Young The Giant's My Body rounding up the top five.

On the other charts, Pala enjoys a 9th week on the top of the Albums Chart while Domestic Scene by The Radio Dept. also spends its 11th week on the top of the Recurrent Songs Chart. A new #1 song mixes it up on the Shared Top 50 Songs chart as Britney Spears jumps 16 spots to lead with her latest single Criminal.

Once Again, It's Friendy Fires

A new chart week means another week at #1 for Friendly Fires as they rule both Top Songs and Top Albums once more with Hawaiian Air and Pala, respectively. Hawaiian Air extends it's stay at the top, having ruled the songs countdown now for 8 consecutive weeks, the longest stay at the top of that chart since Mariah Carey's Obsessed spent 9 weeks there in 2009. Pala, on the other hand, matches one of this year's biggest albums, Adele's 21, with 6 weeks at the top.




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In fact, it's a static Top 3 on the Songs chart with Friendly Fires at #1 followed by Shake It Out by Florence + The Machine and My Body by Young The Giant still trying to get to the top. Check out debuts by The Kooks and Noah And The Whale. A static week as well on the top of the other charts with Popping Bottles by T.I. and Drake staying at #1 of the Recurrent Songs chart and Adele's Someone Like You scores a 4th week at the summit of the Shared Top 50.

Lucky 7 For Friendly Fires

They did it! The fellas from Friendly Fires score their seventh consecutive week at #1 on the Top Songs Chart with that Hawaiian Air number, a song that upon it's debut, 14 weeks ago, didn't seem to have the staying power it's achieved until now. So this means they've taken one step ahead and grabbed the longest-running #1 song of 2011 on the chart so far. And the song keeps growing every week, so there's still time for them to extend their stay at the top, although that's still not guaranteed with Florence + The Machine getting closer and closer to a chart-topper first with the haunting Shake It Out, repeating at #2 in its third week. It won't be till next week's charts that we found out who wins the battle.

Hawaiian Air (Live at 'Later With Jools Holland)


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6 Weeks At #1 For Friendly Fires

Joining this year's elite of longest-running #1 titles on the Top Songs Chart is that catchy song from Friendly Fires called Hawaiian Air. The song now stands at 6 consecutive weeks at #1, which is how many weeks both Adele and Outasight spent at the top just recently with their songs Rolling In The Deep and Everything, respectively. So, for now, these three songs are tied for most weeks at #1 in 2011, but will Friendly Fires go for lucky number 7? We'll have to wait till next week to find out! Also, check out this week's charts (Oct08,'11) after the jump:

In the meantime, check out these electric performance of Hawaiian Air that Friendly Fires did during the release of their latest album Pala, earlier this year.

Friendly Fires - Hawaiian Air (Live at The Lightbox)