The Weekly TMJ Charts - March 29, 2014

Another week, another number one. It's the second consecutive week at the top for Flume & Chet Faker with Left Alone, probably one of the most underrated songs on Flume's self-titled debut album. I'm telling you, this pair sounds so good together it's impossible to skip once it starts playing. And they're so good, in fact, that soon after they released the Jocklaw EP, with all of its three songs currently charting on the chart. As for Left Alone, the song was bound to become one of the big songs this year. It debuted at No. 17 on early November of last year, jumped to the top 10 the week after, and has never left the upper range of the chart since then, becoming a chart-topper 20 weeks after its debut. The song is the first No. 1 for both Aussie artists on this chart.

Flume & Chet Faker - Left Alone

No major debuts this week surprisingly, but lots of movement and new peaks for some of the recent chart additions. Can't forget to mention a soon-to-be reign for Tove Lo who currently owns two spots inside the Top 10. Habits seems to be so close to reaching the top but this week tumbles down again to No. 3 in its 12th week, Out Of Mind jumps 18 as Greatest Gainer track of the week all the way to No. 7, Not On Drugs reaches a new peak at No. 16, Love Ballad leaps back to the Top 20 at No. 17, and Stay High (Habits Remix) skyrockets from 59 to 31 in its 2nd week.

Hozier's Take Me To Church bounces back to No. 2, Cherub reaches a No. 4 peak with Doses & Mimosas in its 6th week on the chart, Major Lazer & Pharrell Williams jump 5 to No. 5 with Aerosol Can, Wild Cub enters the Top 10 at No. 8 with Thunder Clatter and The War On Drugs come back for a second shot at the top with Red Eyes at No. 10.

The War On Drugs - Red Eyes

Good moves for Artifice by SOHN at No. 12, Hero by Frank Ocean, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon & Diplo enters the Top 20 at No. 19 in its second week on the chart, Come With Me Now by KONGOS reach a new peak at No. 27, as does Magic by Coldplay at No. 36 this week.

The Biggest Jump and Power Play track of the week belongs to Bastille with the Laura Palmer RAC Remix. The song comes back with a bang leaping from 94 to a new peak at No. 46.

For more, check out TMJ's Weekly Top Chart

The Weekly TMJ Charts - March 1, 2014

It looks like Vance Joy will not be leaving the top of the charts any time soon as he collects a 4th week at #1 with Riptide. But nothing's written in stone as there's close competition with Left Alone by Flume and Chet Faker returning to its #2 peak after charting for 18 weeks and Cardiac Arrest by Bad Suns being the Greatest Gainer track of week with a jump from #19 to #7. Foster The People also enters the race to the top with Coming Of Age moving up 4 to #8.

The week's highlight in the Songs Chart is also the Highest New entry. Young The Giant makes a strong debut at #14 with Anagram, personally, the best song off their recent release Mind Over Matter. A second album track from the band, Firelight, also enters the chart at #84. Other debuts include Bridges by Broods at #82, Home By Now by Bombay Bicycle Club at #98, Blue Moon by Beck at #99, and Can You Do This by Aloe Blacc at #100.

Young The Giant - Anagram
The Highest Jump of the week belongs to London Grammar whose track Strong moves up 27 spots to #47, while the Power Play track of the week goes to Instant Crush by Daft Punk featuring Julian Casablancas, re-entering to a new peak at #58.

For more, check out TMJ's Weekly Top Chart

The Weekly TMJ Charts - February 22, 2014

Another week rolls by and it sees Vance Joy keep the top spot of the Songs chart for a third consecutive round with Riptide. Honestly, this is the kind of song that gets a 'meh!' on a first listen but then gets stuck in your head after the third or fourth. It's also really surprising because it's a style of music that I don't normally listen to, but for some reason it's there, and all that I can do is just hit the replay button time and time again. Just a feel good song I guess..

And what's with all the Aussies taking over the whole chart?! This week's Greatest Gainer is This Song Is Not About A Girl by Flume and Chet Faker, both of whom also take over the top spot of the Albums charts with the amazing collaborative Lockjaw EP. The song gains 75 chart points and makes a jump to #2. They also bounce back one spot to #3 with Left Alone after 17 weeks.

Good moves this week for chart newbies DARKSIDE with Paper Trails and Phantogram with Fall In Love who make their way to the top 10 at #6 and #8, respectively, after only 5 weeks. Foster The People's new single Coming Of Age starts warming up on the ears and jumps 20 to #12 - their third highest chart peak so far after Pumped Up Kicks (#2) and Call It What You Want (#11) from 2011. Bad Suns, which has become a guilty pleasure with their Cardiac Arrest, makes a big jump to #19 this week. But the biggest Jump belongs to Wild Cub with Thunder Clatter moving up 29 spots to #47.

Foster The People - Coming Of Age

Mr. Probz, another artist making its way into the chart for the first time, gets the Highest New Entry with the Robin Schulz Remix to Waves debuting at #34. Chart royalty Mariah Carey makes has a couple of debuts with her new single You're Mine (Eternal) (#96) and it's remix with Trey Songz (#49) - marking her 97th and 98th main chart entries so far! More new songs include Beck's Waking Light (#69), Cherub's Doses & Mimosas (#78), Magic Man's Paris (#80), MØ's Don't Wanna Dance (#81), The National's I Need My Girl (#91), U2's Invisible (#92), N.A.S.A. & Aynzli Jones' Hide (Tropkillaz Remix) (#93), Sam Smith's acoustic version of Disclosure's Latch (#94), and Diplo's Revolution (RUN DMT Remix) (#95).

For more, check out TMJ's Weekly Top Chart

TMJ Charts: Walk The Moon at #1

Good going for WALK THE MOON this week as the band scores its 4th consecutive week at #1 with Tightrope on the Songs chart and a 2nd week at #1 on the Albums chart with their self-titled release. It is though the first week the song has decreased in points so we'll see now how much longer they can hold on to the top spot. For now, they move ahead as the longest running #1 song of the year.


Swedish House Mafia makes small steps towards the top with Don't You Worry Child featuring John Martin as it remains steady at #2. They also hold the #1 song on the Recurrent Songs chart once again this week with Miami 2 Ibiza. Another contender for top song is the group OneRepublic which scores the Greatest Gainer song of the week with the new single If I Lose Myself as it makes a leap to #4. Paul Banks gets a new peak with Young Again going to #9, while Ra Ra Riot makes a long awaited return to the Top 10 as Beta Love moves seven to #10. Deftones move ahead four spots to #14 with Tempest, YesYou go Top 20 as Frivolous Life jumps to #17, Madness by Muse leaps five to #21, and Alt-J goes to #29 with Breezeblocks. The Biggest Jump of the week belongs to Chet Faker's formidable cover of Blackstreet's No Diggity as it moves 44 spots to #42.

There are six debuts this week starting with Paramore's return to the chart via their new single Now at #67, followed by another chart return by Fall Out Boy with My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) entering at #79. James Blake makes a chart debut with Retrograde at #80, Kimbra scores the #92 spot with the Mark Foster and A-Track assisted Warrior, Passenger's Let Her Go enters at #94, and A$AP Rocky gets his first chart entry with Fuckin' Problems at #96.

TMJ Charts: Walk The Moon to the Top

It's turning out to be a varied start of the year as a fourth title is crowned at #1. It's also the return of the bands now that chart newbies WALK THE MOON climb that last step to the top with Tightrope, getting their first chart-topper after 10 weeks on the countdown, with the last six being inside the top 4. And things look good for this band as it scores a notable second chart entry this week with anywayican being the Highest Debut at #76.


The fall is not too steep for last week's #1. Scream & Shout by will.i.am and Britney Spears is down only to #2 this week. Chances of returning to the top are likely, I might add. The Lumineers score a new #3 peak with Ho Hey after 15 weeks on the chart and Swedish House Mafia fight a second round in the race for the top as Don't You Worry Child bounces back to #4. Mumford & Sons get their first Top 10 with I Will Wait jumping to #5, but Macklemore & Ryan Lewis get their second now that Thrift Shop finally breaks in and leaps to #8.

Phillip Phillips gets the Greatest Gainer title with Home making a big jump to #13, with the Biggest Jump belonging to Public Enemy's Harder Than You Think which is up 36 spots to #64. A few chart entries include the return of The Airborne Toxic Event (last charted in 2009) with Timeless at #77. Fabolous and Chris Brown debut at #78 with Ready, while Bat For Lashes scores her first entry with Lilies at #79. Last but not least is Asaf Avidan & The Mojos who come in with One Day / Reckoning Song (Wankelmut Rmx) at #82.

A notable mention goes out to Hawaiian Air by Friendly Fires which officially leaves the Songs chart as of this week. The song debuted at the #61 position on July 16, 2011 and became one of the biggest songs ever with 15 consecutive weeks (from September 9 to December 23) at #1, making it the second title with the most weeks at the top (tied with Mariah Carey's We Belong Together), and surpassed only by last year's Disparate Youth by Santigold which ranks first with 19 weeks at #1. In total, Hawaiian Air spent 81 uninterrupted weeks on the countdown. The feat makes it the third longest running title on the Songs chart after Florence + The Machine' Cosmic Love (86 weeks) and The Script's Before The Worst (97 weeks). It also ranked as the #2 song on the year-end charts of 2011. That being said, the oldest song currently charting is now Friendly Fires' Blue Cassette which is up to its 67th week on the chart so far.

The Recurrent Songs chart has Swedish House Mafia returning to the top with Miami 2 Ibiza, while Lana Del Rey's Born To Die spends its first anniversary on the Albums chart once again at #1.

TMJ Charts: Time to Scream... and Shout

It's good, once in a while, to take some time and indulge in some guilty pleasures. I admit this is not the best song out there at the moment, but I just can't seem to escape it. At the same time, both will.i.am and Britney Spears score their first chart-topper ever with this collaboration titled Scream And Shout. The song made steady gains since its debut four weeks ago and reaches the summit as the Greatest Gainer track of the week. It's the best chart position for will.i.am as a main artist after This Is Love, which has, so far, peaked at #36. As a featured artist he's reached #1 twice with Usher's OMG and Flo Rida's In The Ayer. For Britney, it's her best chart position after Till The World Ends, which managed to reach the #7 position. The pair's other collaboration, Big Fat Bass, reached #15 and charted for 29 weeks.


But will it just be a short-lived moment, like last week's #1 Steve McQueen by M83? Closing in on the action is Walk The Moon which is now up to #2 with Tightrope. The band has slowly and steady been climbing up the chart for the past 9 weeks. The Lumineers score a new chart high as well with Ho Hey jumping to #4, No Doubt's Looking Hot looks also good at #8 and The Wallflowers get their first Top 10 hit with Reboot The Mission.

Ra Ra Riot makes a big comeback to the charts with Beta Love scoring the Highest Debut at #76. The band had not seen any action since 2008/2009 when Too Too Too Fast became one of the top songs ever on the chart with a 66-week run and a #4 peak. Another return includes the band Muse which has not seen any song chart since 2010's Undisclosed Desires. The band gets a new debut with Madness at #93. The Cataracs score their first chart entry with Alcohol Remix at #97, and so does Tame Impala with the double take Feels Like We Only Go Backwards at #98 and Be Above It at #99. Public Enemy also sees its first chart entry now that Harder Than You Think debuts at #100.

The track with the Biggest Jump this week is Temper Trap's Never Again which leaps 43 spots to #50.

TMJ Charts: A Late Welcome to 2013

Time to get back to business! First of all, I hope everyone got to have a good time during the holidays. It's kind of late to still be talking about that, I know, but since I disappeared for most of December I figured I'd start with that. Second, I'm trying to get the stats for my 'Best of 2012' countdowns, so that should be out shortly. It's also late for that, but whatever. It's coming.

Now onto our current charts! Little has changed at the top of the charts since the last commentary. No way, right? Macklemore & Ryan Lewis still dominate the Songs chart with Can't Hold Us featuring Ray Dalton. That's week number five at the top for them. But aha! It should be six if you were keeping track. Actually no, because Rudimental, John Newman and Alex Clare managed to sneak in to #1 for the last chart week of December with Not Giving In. They're now down to #6 for the current chart.

Lana Del Rey battles herself and now reaches a new peak of 4 with her track Blue Jeans, which is now the oldest song in the Top 10 with 42 weeks on the chart, while Ride sits at #5. And some fresh new music is coming along the way. Walk The Moon's Tightrope starts the new year with a #3 peak so far, Angel's Wonderful is stuck at #7 and Bruno Mars skyrockets to #9 with Gorilla. Speaking of fresh new music, new entries this week include Lana Del Rey's Blue Velvet at #81, the Lazy Rich Remix of Avicii's Silhouettes at #83, Kid Cudi's King Wizard at #93, and a triple-combo from Bruno Mars with Moonshine at #98, Money Make Her Smile at #99 and If I Knew at #100.

Also, will.i.am is finally on his way to scoring his first big hit on the chart, as a solo artist that is, with the catchy Britney Spears duet, Scream And Shout, being this week's everything at #19. The song is Power Play track of the week, the Greatest Gainer, and the Biggest Jump with a 26-spot leap in only its second week.

On the Recurrent Songs chart we have the should-have-been-#1-on-the-main-chart Chimes by Friendly Fires at the top for the second week in a row, while Lana Del Rey dominates on the Albums chart with Born To Die, currently in its 7th non-consecutive week at #1.

TMJ Charts: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Move to #1

This was really a no-brainer. Chart newcomers Macklemore & Ryan Lewis may have gotten a good start with the growing worldwide hit Thrift Shop four weeks ago, but when their track Can't Hold Us featuring Ray Dalton started off at lucky #7 a week later, the road to the top was paved and they're now crowned kings of the Songs chart for the first time, and with good chances of staying there for what's left of 2012. As for Thrift Shop, the song was just shy of breaking the Top 10, and jumps to #11 this time around.

Can't Hold Us (Live on KEXP)

A lot has been going on in the Top 10 as of late, and this week is no exception. M83 score the greatest gainer song with Steve McQueen moving up a notch to #2. A great follow-up to their former #1 song Midnight City, which by the way spends its 50th week on the chart at #4. Icona Pop is also closer to the top as Manners gains a new peak at #3, Lana Del Rey's Ride moves up two spots to #7 and Imagine Dragons finally jumps the border with It's Time moving up to #9.

This week brings another big debut as well. Rudimental score their second chart entry at #16 with Not Giving In featuring John Newman and Alex Clare. Their song Feel The Love, which also features John Newman on vocals, is up to #50 this week. There are four other debuts, all in the 90-100 range. First up is Aussie duo YesYou featuring Marcus Azon with their first chart entry, Frivolous Life, at #93. Chart veterans The Killers score their 60th entry on the Songs chart with Miss Atomic Bomb debuting at #97, also the third song from the Battle Born era to make the countdown. Lana Del Rey also scores another chart entry, this time with Gods & Monsters making its way to #99. She now has 7 active songs on the chart. And at the very end of the list sits Garbage with Control making its debut at #100.

WZRD scores the biggest jump and power play of the week with Teleport To Me, Jamie making a huge rebound to #45. Other big movers include AWOLNATION's Sail (#28), Willy Moon's Yeah Yeah (#32), Mumford & Sons' Babel (#39), The Script's Six Degrees Of Separation (#40), Lana Del Rey's American (#46), WALK THE MOON's Tightrope (#51), P!nk's Try (#55), The All-American Rejects' Heartbeat Slowing Down (#57), and Opus Orange's When I Look In Your Eyes featuring Chelsea Williams (#77).

The Recurrent Songs chart has The Naked And Famous' Young Blood locked at #1 for the 4th week in a row. On the Albums chart Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. by M83 scores its 7th non-consecutive week at the top.

TMJ Charts: Calvin Harris & Florence Welch at #1

Things keep looking good for Calvin Harris who sees his Florence Welch collaboration, Sweet Nothing, steady at #1 for a third consecutive week. The song is included in his newest album release 18 Months. It has become the sixth #1 song this year to spend 3 weeks or more at the top.

Sweet Nothing video

But with a few weeks left for 2012, another song is seriously making its way to the top and will, most likely, be the last chart-topper of the year. I'm talking about Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' Can't Hold Us featuring Ray Dalton, which after a strong debut at #7 last week, jumps all the way to #2 as Greatest Gainer. Steve McQueen by M83 scores a new peak at #3; and so does Placebo, whose B3 goes up two notches to #4. Lana Del Rey scores her fifth top ten hit with Ride jumping six spots to #9.

The Biggest Jump goes to Mumford & Sons' Babel which is up 35 spots to #55. Honorable mentions as well for Sky Ferreira who is up to #39 with Everything Is Embarrassing, Linkin Park's Lost In The Echo which is up 28 spots to #54, The Script & will.i.am are up 24 to #69, and Lana Del Rey's American is up to #46.

We have six new entries this week, the first three being chart newbies. First off is AWOLNATION's Sail which scores the highest debut at #56, followed by Walk The Moon's Tightrope at #77, and Tuka's Die A Happy Man featuring Jane Tyrrell at #82. The other three debuts are all by returning female artists. First is Ellie Goulding who we last saw in mid 2011 with Lights. She's back now with Figure 8 at #86. Christina Aguilera sees a second song from her Lotus album debut as Empty Words enters at #87. And last but not least, Kelly Clarkson returns to the chart with Catch My Breath at #97.

The Recurrent Songs chart has Young Blood by The Naked And Famous at #1 for a third consecutive week, while M83 reconquers the top spot of the Album charts with Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. for a total of 6 weeks at #1.

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.

Push And Shove music video

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 Still On Top

It's week number 3 for Gotye's Eyes Wide Open atop the Songs chart. And same luck for its parent album, Making Mirrors, which notches its 12th week at the top of the Albums chart. Following closely is Lana Del Rey with Radio which is up 4 this week to #2, her highest position on the chart so far along with Video Games. With Eyes Wide Open already losing steam, it seems Lana Del Rey could get her first #1 song by next week.

Or will Childish Gambino let that happen? This week his song Heartbeat jumps all the way to the Top 5 in its 4th week on the chart. Another contender could be The Killers now that Flesh And Bone jumps to #8, marking the band's 16th top ten hit so far on the Songs chart. No Doubt pushes to #17 with Push And Shove, and Gotye paves his way for another chart success as Save Me leaps 45-27.

It doesn't happen too often, but it happened this week as there are no debuts to talk about. There are only 4 re-entries at the very bottom of the chart starting with Flo Rida's I Cry, Young The Giant's Strings, The Lumineers' Ho Hey, and Nas' No Introduction.

The Recurrent Songs chart has Keane with the classic Somewhere Only We Know going all the way to #1 this week.

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.

TMJ Charts: Gotye Takes the Gold

The long-lasting #1 songs spell is broken this week as Gotye takes the lead with his song Eyes Wide Open, leaving Maroon 5's One More Night down at #2 after just one week on top. This is Gotye's second chart-topping song on the charts after Somebody That I Used To Know owned the #1 spot for 6 straight weeks earlier in the year, a song that is still going strong, currently at #4 after 43 weeks on the chart. This also helps Gotye at the Albums chart where he spends a 10th week at the top with Making Mirrors.

Eyes Wide Open (Official Music Video)

But that's not all because Gotye scores another Top 10 hit as well with Giving Me A Chance, which storms up to #8 as the Greatest Gainer song of the week. The Highest Debut goes to The Killers with Flesh And Bone starting up at #39, from their new album Battle Born. The Biggest Jump of the week is Let's Go by Calvin Harris featuring Ne-Yo with a move to #51.

The Recurrent Songs chart welcomes a new song on top as Friendly Fires' Jump In The Pool jumps 3 to #1.

TMJ Charts: Maroon 5 Jumps to #1

Welcome back commentaries! Summer may be over but the music keeps rolling. And what better way to making a big comeback than introducing a new #1 on the Songs chart and a first for this band. After many entries and a couple of hit songs, Maroon 5 finally score their very first chart-topper with One More Night, off their recent album release Overexposed. In fact, they had only gone as high as #10 in the past with 2005's Sunday Morning from the album Songs About Jane, and more recently with last year's inescapable Moves Like Jagger featuring Christina Aguilera.



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And that's how No Doubt's run at the top with Settle Down ends after five consecutive weeks, moving down to #2 this week. We have to watch out for Gotye's Eyes Wide Open which has made serious moves towards the top, settling at #4 as Greatest Gainer after 29 weeks on the chart. The week's Biggest Jump belongs to Rihanna as Where Have You Been moves up 47 spots to a new peak at #26. Big moves as well for Lana Del Rey's Radio (#28), Alabama Shakes' Hold On (#48), Mariah Carey's Triumphant (Vintage Throwback Remix) (#49), and Florence + The Machine's Heartlines (#50). The week's Highest and only Debut comes courtesy of Childish Gambino with his first chart entry Heartbeat coming in at #54.

The Recurrent Songs chart sees Domestic Scene by The Radio Dept. returning to the top. The Albums chart also welcomes back Gotye's Making Mirrors to #1 for a total of 9 weeks at its peak.

TMJ Charts: M83 Hangs for a 3rd Week

Things don't change at the top of the Songs chart with M83 scoring their third consecutive week as Greatest Gainer and at #1 with their song Midnight City. The song is now way ahead of its closest competitor, which is Gotye by the way, who once again manages to climb back to #2 with Somebody That I Used To Know.

Midnight City (Live at Coachella 2012)


The top 10 sees the return of Flo Rida's Wild Ones featuring Sia, which in its 27th week on the chart jumps 12-7. Coldplay and Rihanna reach a new peak at #4 with Princess Of China, and so does Linkin Park as Burn It Down reaches a new high at #5. The big news though is the multiple new entries we have this week. The Highest Debut belongs to Marina & The Diamonds with How To Be A Heartbreaker which opens at #23 while fun. score their second chart entry after We Are Young as Some Nights debuts at #34. And it's a return to the charts for Nas who enters at #35 with Daughters, while The Killers come back as well with their latest single Runaways which opensat #46. More new entries by The Weeknd with Initiation at #60 and Motion City Soundtrack with True Romance at #61.

The Recurrent charts sees Incubus regain the top spot with 2007's Dig while M83 keep the #1 spot on the Albums chart with Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. for a second week.

TMJ Charts: M83 Here To Stay

Another great week for M83 as it stays at the top spot of the Songs chart for a second week with Midnight City, and once again, as Greatest Gainer. The songs has now exceeded all expectations and has also helped the band get their first #1 on the Albums chart as Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. moves 2-1.

Midnight City (Live on Carson Daly)


Santigold's big hit Disparate Youth stays at #2 while WZRD's Love Hard stays at #3. Lana Del Rey gets her first Top 5 hit with Blue Jeans getting a new peak at #5 in its 23rd week on the chart, while Linkin Park moves up to #7 with Burn It Down. Coldplay and Maroon 5 return to the Top 10 as Princess Of China jumps 8 to #9 and Payphone moves one to #10. Their most recent Top 10 hits were Paradise (#2) and Moves Like Jagger (#6), respectively.

And there's more from Maroon 5 as they also get the Power Play and Highest Debut of the week with One More Night at #34. Other debuts include a chart-first for Garbage whose Blood For Poppies debuts at #35, a chart-return for P!nk with her latest pop anthem Blow Me (One Last Kiss) coming in at #47 and another chart entry for Lana Del Rey with Summertime Sadness debuting at #48. More new entries from Simple Plan, Muse, Linkin Park, Katy Perry and Chris Brown at the lower end of the chart.

The Recurrent Songs chart sees a new #1 song as Chris Brown and Benny Benassi take over with the chart favorite Beautiful People.

TMJ Charts: M83 Dethrones Santigold

A record-breaking streak of 17 weeks at #1 for Santigold's Disparate Youth has finally come to and end as we now turn our heads to M83 whose Midnight City reigns as the new #1 on the Songs chart. And it comes as big feat, not only because it's the electronic band's first chart-topper but it's a song that has been all over the chart since its debut. It first appeared in early November of last year where it bowed at #74 only to climb to #66 four weeks later before experiencing a brief absence starting early December. By February of this year the song re-enters at #97 and goes up to #42 by late March, before hovering around the lower parts of the chart once again. But it wasn't until early May that the song picks up a steady pace and finally breaks the Top 40. And steady ever since, it's now reached the top as Greatest Gainer in its 27th week on the chart. I can only remember one song that's taken longer to reach the summit and it's Kings Of Leon's Closer which back in 2009 conquered the top in its 37th week.

Midnight City (Official Video)

In other chart news, it's a good week for Flo Rida who sees Wild Ones featuring Sia pick up once again and is the week's Power Play at #18. There's also two debuts from his new album: I Cry is the week's Highest Debut at #29 followed by Run featuring RedFoo at #42. Howler's Black Lagoon is the week's other debut entering at #87. The week's Biggest Jump is Benny Benassi's Close To Me featuring Gary Go, a song that refuses to leave the chart and goes up 45 places to #55.

And a couple of names are also news. First off, Alanis Morissette gets her best chart peak so far as her newest single, Guardian, stands at #7 this week. Her best effort had been Incomplete which went as high as #9 in 2008. Another return to the top belongs to Linkin Park with Burn It Down standing at #10. This is their best chart position since Waiting For The End reached #6 in October of 2010.

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.

TMJ Charts: Santigold Breaks #1 Record!

I saw it coming and it's happened. A 7-year-old record has finally been broken and we all have Santigold to turn our heads to. 16 weeks at the top gives Disparate Youth the honor of being the longest stay at the top for any song since I started this little chart back in late 2004. The record was previously held by Mariah Carey whose We Belong Together spent a total of 15 weeks at the top back in 2005. A few years later - six, to be exact - that record was almost broken when Friendly Fires tied at 15 weeks at the top with Hawaiian Air. That was in late 2011, but now the record goes back to one and one woman only. Cheers to that!

Disparate Youth - Live at BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge


Now the thing is how long can she hold on to the top spot. Let's not forget that Disparate Youth had an incredible debut at #2, only to claim the #1 spot the week after. And the thing is that it's still ahead from its closest competitor by quite a decent amount of points. WZRD is getting ready though to claim their first chart-topper with either Love Hard (the week's Greatest Gainer) or Teleport 2 Me, Jamie which finds a new peak at #4. Alex Clare is also headlining the Top 10 with two tracks as Up All Night returns to #7 and Too Close goes single-digit for the first time at #9. And we say good-bye to Adele's Someone Like You as it leaves the Top 10 for the first time since December 23, 2011. The Biggest Jump and Power Play of the week goes to a well-deserved return to the charts to one favorite, Alanis Morissette, as Guardian jumps to #28. Her last chart appearance came in early 2009 when Not As We peaked at #63.

The Recurrent Chart sees Kings Of Leon returning to the #1 spot with Notion for a sixth week, while WZRD returns to the top of the albums chart with their self-titled record for a second week.