US Charts: Bruno Mars & Taylor Swift at #1

These are the top ten singles and albums in the US for the week of January 5, 2013:

Top 10 Singles

1. Locked Out Of Heaven - Bruno Mars
2. Diamonds - Rihanna
3. Ho Hey - The Lumineers
4. I Knew You Were Trouble. - Taylor Swift
5. Beauty And A Beat - Justin Bieber Featuring Nicki Minaj
6. Die Young - Ke$ha
7. One More Night - Maroon 5
8. I Cry - Flo Rida
9. Home - Phillip Phillips
10. Thrift Shop - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Wanz

Top 10 Albums

1. Red - Taylor Swift
2. Trouble Man: Heavy Is The He... - T.I.
3. Unorthodox Jukebox - Bruno Mars
4. Take Me Home - One Direction
5. Christmas - Michael Buble
6. Merry Christmas, Baby - Rod Stewart
7. The World From The Side Of The Moon - Phillip Phillips
8. Babel - Mumford & Sons
9. 12-12-12 The Concert For San... - Various Artists
10. NOW 44 - Various Artists

From Billboard.com

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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.

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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 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.

'All Of The Lights' Still On Top

It's four weeks at the top now for All Of The Lights by Kanye West and still going strong now that the song has regained its bullet. It has also matched 2008's Love Lockdown for most of weeks at the top by the rapper. But right on its heels comes another Marina & The Diamonds' song to reach No. 2 and that would be Obsessions, which is Greatest Gainer for second week in a row. It's the singer's fourth shot at the top spot after I Am Not A Robot, Oh No! and Shampain also reached No. 2. Drake recently broke the spell, can she do it next?

An honorable mention goes to Linkin Park because after 13 weeks on The Chart they have finally reached the Top 10 with Waiting For The End. It has happened a few times before and it's happened again this week. Two different songs make a 56 spot leap to become Biggest Jumps on The Chart. They are Ian Carey's Last Night featuring Bobby Anthony and Snoop Dogg and Brandon Flowers' Welcome To Fabulous Las Vegas, at No. 21 and No. 22 respectively.

The Highest Debut goes again to Marina & The Diamonds as The Outsider enters at No. 74 with another one of her songs, Mowgli's Road, debuting at No. 89, both songs becoming her 11th and 12th chart entries. Only her song Guilty from the album The Family Jewels has not entered The Chart so far. There's also new entries by pop star Britney Spears with Hold It Against Me as Power Play of the week and only her third chart appearance since 3 debuted in 2009, and T.I.'s Amazing featuring Pharrell Williams entering at No. 94.

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.

Drake Holds On For A Third Week

The first chart of 2011 brings no change, for the No. 1 spot at least, as Drake manages to stay on top for a third consecutive week with Unforgettable. But things seem to be changing next week as Kanye West fast approaches to No. 2 as Greatest Gainer with All Of The Lights.

Daft Punk gets a boost as Derezzed gets the biggest jump to land at No. 28 this week. Ellie Goulding's also starts the year with a bang as her first song to enter the chart, Animal, is both the Highest Debut and Power Play of the week. T.I. gets in on the action with three debuting tracks and Ke$ha scores another one with Blow entering at No. 96.

T.I. & The-Dream › No Mercy

Check out the music video for T.I.'s title track off his just-released album No Mercy, featuring The-Dream:

T.I. & Chris Brown › Get Back Up

Dust yourself off and try again. Rapper T.I. and R&B singer Chris Brown get together to show the world they can admit their past mistakes in the song Get Back Up, to be included in the rapper's upcoming album No Mercy (formerly known as King Uncaged), out December 7th.



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From Billboard.com:

With a 2-1 lift on the Pop Songs radio airplay chart for Eminem's "Love the Way You Lie," the song's featured artist Rihanna ties the mark for most No. 1s in the Nielsen BDS-based survey's 18-year history.

Rihanna joins Mariah Carey, who tallied six chart leaders between 1993 and 2005, Beyoncé (2003-10) and Lady Gaga (2009-10). The latter two acts equaled Carey's sum when their "Telephone" reached No. 1 in March.

(Carey's first eight singles in 1990-92, six of which topped the Billboard Hot 100, predate the Pop Songs chart's launch).

Avril Lavigne, Pink, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake share the second-highest Pop Songs No. 1 total, each having visited the summit five times.

Here is a recap of Rihanna's six Pop Songs No. 1s. Notably, from her arrival on the chart dated June 25,2005, through Feb. 28, 2009, she placed at least one title on the list in 190 of 193 weeks. After a six-month hiatus, Rihanna has appeared on the chart in each of the last 50 weeks consecutively, dating to the bow of "Run This Town," with Jay-Z and Kanye West, last September.

Title, Chart Date Reached No. 1

"SOS," May 13, 2006 (one week)

"Take a Bow," July 5, 2008 (three weeks)

"Disturbia," Oct. 4, 2008 (three weeks)

"Live Your Life," Dec. 27, 2008 (two weeks) (T.I. featuring Rihanna)

"Rude Boy," May 8, 2010 (two weeks)

"Love the Way You Lie," Aug. 21, 2010 (one week to date) (Eminem featuring Rihanna)

"Love the Way You Lie," which has spent the last three weeks atop the Hot 100, is Eminem's third Pop Songs No. 1. He previously reigned with "Without Me" (the chart week of July 6, 2002) and "Lose Yourself" (seven weeks, beginning Nov. 23, 2002).

Rihanna's achievements on the Pop Songs chart mirror her success on the Hot 100. Since her first week in charge of the Hot 100 dated May 13, 2006, with "SOS," Rihanna has logged seven No. 1s on the list, the most among all artists. Justin Timberlake is second in that span with four Hot 100 No. 1s.

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Mariah Carey [ft. T.I.]: "I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time" video review

In which Mariah Carey rides a dolphin and looks good doing it. The song's laidback beat, syncopated piano, occasional ascending strings, and pleasant T.I. verse make "I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time" a pretty perfect roller rink jam, and that's not even mentioning the fact that Carey hilariously makes a catchy chorus out of a reference to the "me so horny" line from Full Metal Jacket. At the very least, it's a nice breather in between repeat listens of "Love in This Club".

Source: PitchforkMedia.com

Mariah Carey: "I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time (feat. T.I.)" video