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TMJ Charts: Gotye Still #1, Santigold's Big Debut

Two main things are happening this week on the charts. First of all, Gotye manages to stay at the top of the Songs countdown for a seventh consecutive week with the Kimbra-assisted Somebody That I Used To Know, extending it's lead as the biggest song of the year so far. But things get complicated now that we have a huge debut from Santigold, whose Disparate Youth shots all the way up to the #2 spot. So with more evident competition now, Gotye's chances to stay at the top have gone from big to slim.

Santigold's debut is huge in many ways because it's the fifth song ever to debut at the runner-up position after The-Dream and Mariah Carey's My Love (2009), Sean Garrett and Ludacris' Grippin' (2008), Hellogoodbye's Here (In Your Arms) (2007) and Natasha Bedingfield's These Words (2004). It's also Santigold's best charting song after I'm A Lady peaked at #5 in 2008, and with that, it's most likely going to become her first #1 song on the charts in the upcoming weeks.

Further down the chart there's no giving up on Adele as she hangs at #3 with Someone Like You while Flo Rida and Sia return to the Top Ten with Wild Ones jumping to #8. Wilco is about to go big on the charts now that Born Alone is both the biggest jump and power play with a huge leap to #39 this week. They've already outdone themselves after their first chart entry, Walken (2007), peaked at #59. New entries this week include Nicki Minaj with Starships at #88 followed by Katy Perry's Part Of Me at #89.

Adele keeps reigning more charts as her hit Rolling In The Deep stays at #1 of the Recurrent Charts for an eighth week while her album 21 climbs back up again to the #1 position for a total of 10 weeks at the top.

6th Week for Gotye & Kimbra

Not a lot of change in the Songs chart as we find Gotye and Kimbra spending their sixth consecutive week at the top with Somebody That I Used To Know, and though it's too early to tell, you should know that it's already become the biggest song of the year so far.

Somebody That I Used To Know (Live at KCRW)

Elsewhere in the top ten, only two songs reach a new peak and those would be Bon Iver's Towers, which makes a surprising move to #2 and Friendly Fires' Pala which moves up a notch to #9. The longest running title here is also the week's Greatest Gainer with Adele's Someone Like You returning to #3 in its 30th week on the chart. An impressive chart run, that doesn't necessarily mean a shot at #1 is out of the question. If we go back to 2009 Kings Of Leon's Closer managed to become the longest run to the top in the history if the Songs chart by reaching the summit in its 37th week on the chart.

The week's biggest chart jump goes to Lana Del Rey whose Blue Jeans leaps 34 spots to #27 with three weeks on the chart. She also gets the Power Play track of the week and her fifth chart entry with Off To The Races making an entrance at #59. But the Highest Debut goes to The Fray, a band that returns to the chart after a two year absence. Heartbeat, from their newly released album Scars & Stories, enters at #38. Their last chart entry came in 2010 with Syndicate peaking at #67.

Kanye West, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails, Wilco Top Lollapalooza 2008 Lineup

Bill for August fest also includes the Raconteurs, Gnarls Barkley, Black Keys, Grizzly Bear and Kid Sister.

The organizers of Lollapalooza have stacked the deck this year with a slate of headliners that is one of the strongest since the former touring fest put down roots in Chicago in 2005. In addition to hometown legends Wilco and Kanye West, the main stages will be headlined by Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine and the Raconteurs, according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times.

A full list of the more than 120 acts will be announced on Monday, but the Times reported that among the other bands on the bill for the August 1-3 event are: Gnarls Barkley, Bloc Party, Cat Power, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Kid Sister, Girl Talk, Mates of State, G. Love and Special Sauce, the Black Keys, Broken Social Scene, Kid Sister, the Cool Kids, Blues Traveler, Jamie Lidell, Battles, Office, Grizzly Bear and Go! Team.

While Wilco, West, the Raconteurs and Barkley have previously played the reincarnated version of Lollapalooza, and Nine Inch Nails and Rage famously performed at the original granddaddy of American alternative fests (in its first and second years, respectively), Radiohead will be performing at Lolla for the first time.

Three-day passes are currently available for $190 at the Lollapalooza Web site, before the price goes up to $205.

Among the highlights of last year's festival were a throbbing set from Daft Punk — the first techno/dance act to headline one of the main stages at the revived festival — and a fiery performance from Pearl Jam, whose political remarks were possibly censored on the webcast of the show by AT&T's Blue Room.

Source: MTV.com