Kings Of Leon Take Over with 'Radioactive'

It was a great run at the top for Katy Perry - and not a bad run at all considering it's her first chart-topper - but things change this week as Teenage Dream falls to No. 3 and Tennessee rockers Kings Of Leon find their way to the summit with Radioactive. This is already the band's third No. 1 on my chart with Closer (2 weeks at #1, 73 weeks on the chart) and Notion (2 weeks at #1, 31 weeks on the chart) being the first two. Both songs are included in their previous album, Only By The Night.

Katy Perry Ties for Most Weeks at #1 in 2010

It's week number six at the top for Katy Perry and her Teenage Dream. That puts her in quite a relevant category as she has now tied Two Door Cinema Club's Undercover Martyn for most weeks at #1 for the year 2010. We'll have to wait till next week to see if she can surpass this feat and become the year's biggest hit. You may also want to know that this is Katy Perry's biggest hit ever in my chart as her previous releases went barely noticed.

There's lots of competition though now that Kings Of Leon have finally taken off, landing at #4 this week with Radioactive, which coincidentally is also this week's greatest gainer. B.o.B also enters the top 10 with his Rivers Cuomo collaboration, Magic (#8) after only two weeks on the chart. That's his third top 10 hit after Nothin' On You and former #1, Airplanes. Also new to the top 10 is Flo Rida who, with the help of David Guetta, lands at #9 with Club Can't Handle Me.

Weezer to Release a Real Compilation Album

More artists should take note. If you really want to release a compilation album, one full of unreleased material is the way to go. I don't even care if some of the songs included are twenty years old but a disc with rarities or 'B-Sides' is a real collectors' dream and a "new" album to the rest of the mortals. Weezer is about to do just that with Death To False Metal, a ten-track set of unreleased material spanning from over the band's past two decades in music.

Frontman Rivers Cuomo (yes, the same guy featured in B.o.B's hit song Magic), says the collection features "great songs, great recordings, but for some reason they didn’t make the final cut for a record". And have you checked the cover art? Pitchfork seems to hate it, but I think it's a total winner! I really do.

B.o.B & Rivers Cuomo › Magic

I've been hearing this song A LOT on the radio and didn't know it was B.o.B's until a few days ago. In fact, it sounded more like Andre 3000 to me. It's a good follow-up to his other two singles Nothin' On You and Airplanes, the latter still being a huge favorite. Now that I think about it, I haven't bought his album even though I've liked all the songs he's released. It seems like a nice addition.



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