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.

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.

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.