US Charts: Bruno Mars & Taylor Swift at #1

These are the top ten singles and albums in the US for the week of December 22, 2012:

Top 10 Singles

1. Locked Out Of Heaven - Bruno Mars
2. Diamonds - Rihanna
3. Die Young - Ke$ha
4. Ho Hey - The Lumineers
5. One More Night - Maroon 5
6. I Cry - Flo Rida
7. Home - Phillip Phillips
8. Some Nights - fun.
9. Beauty And A Beat - Justin Bieber Featuring Nicki Minaj
10. Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself) - Ne-Yo

Top 10 Albums

1. Red - Taylor Swift
2. O.N.I.F.C. - Wiz Khalifa
3. Merry Christmas, Baby - Rod Stewart
4. Take Me Home - One Direction
5. Christmas - Michael Buble
6. Warrior - Ke$ha
7. Girl On Fire - Alicia Keys
8. Cheers, It's Christmas - Blake Shelton
9. The World From The Side Of The Moon - Phillip Phillips
10. Here's To The Good Times - Florida Georgia Line

From Billboard.com

Aussie Charts: Carly Rae Jepsen & One Direction at #1

These are the top ten singles and albums in Australia as of April 30, 2012:

Top 10 Singles

1 CALL ME MAYBE - Carly Rae Jepsen
2 SHUT UP & KISS ME - Reece Mastin
3 SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD - Delta Goodrem
4 LEGO HOUSE - Ed Sheeran
5 NEVER LET ME GO - Florence + The Machine
6 STARSHIPS - Nicki Minaj
7 PAYPHONE - Maroon 5 Feat. Wiz Khalifa
8 WHISTLE - Flo Rida
9 EARTHQUAKE - Labrinth Feat. Tinie Tempah
10 WE ARE YOUNG - fun. Feat. Janelle Monae

Top 10 Albums

1 UP ALL NIGHT - One Direction
2 BLUNDERBUSS - Jack White
3 21 - Adele
4 + - Ed Sheeran
5 NIGHTFLIGHT - Kate Miller-Heidke
6 EL CAMINO - The Black Keys
7 ULTIMATE HITS: ROCK AND ROLL NEVER FORGETS - Bob Seger
8 NO PLANS - Cold Chisel
9 DRINKING FROM THE SUN - Hilltop Hoods
10 BANGARANG EP - Skrillex

From ARIA Charts

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US Charts: fun. & Bruce Springsteen at #1

These are the top ten singles and albums in the US as of March 24th, 2012:

Top 10 Singles

1. We Are Young - fun. Featuring Janelle Monae
2. Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) - Kelly Clarkson
3. Set Fire To The Rain - Adele
4. Glad You Came - The Wanted
5. Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye Featuring Kimbra
6. Turn Me On - David Guetta Featuring Nicki Minaj
7. Take Care - Drake Featuring Rihanna
8. Young, Wild & Free - Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa Featuring Bruno Mars
9. Starships - Nicki Minaj
10. Part Of Me - Katy Perry

Top 10 Albums

1. Wrecking Ball - Bruce Springsteen
2. 21 - Adele
3. NOW 41 - Various Artists
4. Own The Night - Lady Antebellum
5. Mylo Xyloto - Coldplay
6. Whitney: The Greatest Hits - Whitney Houston
7. Take Care - Drake
8. Tha Carter IV - Lil Wayne
9. Spring Break 4... Suntan Cit... - Luke Bryan
10. Break It Yourself - Andrew Bird

From Billboard.com

US Charts: fun. & Adele at #1

These are the top ten singles and albums in the US as of March 17th, 2012:

Top 10 Singles

1. We Are Young - fun. Featuring Janelle Monae
2. Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) - Kelly Clarkson
3. Set Fire To The Rain - Adele
4. Glad You Came - The Wanted
5. Part Of Me - Katy Perry
6. Starships - Nicki Minaj
7. Young, Wild & Free - Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa Featuring Bruno Mars
8. Turn Me On - David Guetta Featuring Nicki Minaj
9. Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye Featuring Kimbra
10. We Found Love - Rihanna Featuring Calvin Harris

Top 10 Albums

1. 21 - Adele
2. Whitney: The Greatest Hits - Whitney Houston
3. WZRD - WZRD
4. NOW 41 - Various Artists
5. The Bodyguard - Whitney Houston
6. Careless World: Rise Of The Last King - Tyga
7. 19 - Adele
8. Take Care - Drake
9. Talk That Talk - Rihanna
10. Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston

From Billboard.com

US Charts: Kelly Hits #1

The top songs and album in the United States for the week of February 18, 2012:

Top Songs:

1. Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) *Airplay Gainer*
2. Adele - Set Fire To The Rain
3. Flo Rida - Good Feeling
4. Rihanna featuring Clavin Harris - We Found Love
5. David Guetta featuring Nicki Minaj - Turn Me On
6. Jessie J - Domino
7. Tyga - Rack City
8. Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa featuring Bruno Mars - Young, Wild & Free
9. LMFAO - Sexy And I Know It
10. Bruno Mars - It Will Rain

Top Albums:

1. Adele - 21
2. Lana Del Rey - Born To Die *Debut*
3. Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas *Debut*
4. Various Artists - 2012 Grammy Nominees
5. Kidz Bop Kidz - Kidz Bop 21
6. Drake - Take Care
7. Tim McGraw - Emotional Traffic
8. Fred Hammond - God, Love & Romance *Debut*
9. LMFAO - Sorry For Party Rocking
10. Rihanna - Talk That Talk

For more US Charts visit Billboard.com

UK Charts: Olly Murs & Amy Winehouse Hit #1

From TheOfficialCharts.com:

Olly Murs exchanges last week’s Official Albums Chart crown for this week’s Official Singles Chart title as single ‘Dance With Me Tonight’, released three weeks ago, climbs to the top spot having held at Number 2 for the previous two weeks. Olly was previously held off the Number 1 spot by Rihanna’s ‘We Found Love’ ft Calvin Harris (this week’s Number 4) and the 2011 X Factor Finalists ‘Wishing On A Star’ (this week’s Number 2).

Olly Murs can now claim six Official Charts Top 10 hits to his name including his previous Official Singles Chart Number 1s ‘Please Don’t Go’ (2010) and ‘Heart Skips A Beat’ ft Rizzle Kicks (2011) and last week’s Official Albums Chart Number 1, the aforementioned ‘In Case You Didn’t Know’.

Amy Winehouse flies to the top of this week’s Official Albums Chart and lands the biggest weekly sales tally of her career with ‘Lioness: Hidden Treasures’ selling over 194,000 copies.

This also gives the singer one of the biggest first week album sales of the year behind only Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’ (215,000), Coldplay’s ‘Mylo Xyloto’ (208,343) and Adele’s ‘21’ (208,090).

The 12 song collection, put together after the singer’s tragic death in July this year, features previously unreleased tracks, alternative versions of existing classics and new compositions. The album was compiled by her long-time musical partners, producers Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson, in close association with Amy’s family, management and record label, Island Records. It includes Amy’s final studio recording, Body & Soul, a duet with Tony Bennett which was made in March 2011 at Abbey Road. A donation of £1 from the sale of each album in the UK will be donated to the Amy Winehouse Foundation, which was launched on what would have been Amy’s 28th birthday, September 14th 2011.

UK's TOP 10 SINGLES
1 DANCE WITH ME TONIGHT - OLLY MURS
2 WISHING ON A STAR - X FACTOR FINALISTS 2011
3 DEDICATION TO MY EX (MISS THAT) - LLOYD FT ANDRE 3000 / LIL WAYNE
4 WE FOUND LOVE - RIHANNA FT CALVIN HARRIS
5 GOOD FEELING - FLO RIDA
6 5 O'CLOCK - T-PAIN / WIZ KHALIFA / LILY ALLEN
7 PARADISE - COLDPLAY
8 LEVELS - AVICII
9 WHO YOU ARE - JESSIE J
10 LEGO HOUSE - ED SHEERAN

UK's TOP 10 ALBUMS
1 LIONESS - HIDDEN TREASURES - AMY WINEHOUSE
2 CHRISTMAS - MICHAEL BUBLE
3 HEAVEN - REBECCA FERGUSON
4 IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW - OLLY MURS
5 TALK THAT TALK - RIHANNA
6 21 - ADELE
7 + - ED SHEERAN
8 MYLO XYLOTO - COLDPLAY
9 UP ALL NIGHT - ONE DIRECTION
10 DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS - BRUNO MARS

US Charts: Billboard's Best Of 2011

Billboard has finally unveiled their year-end charts for 2011, and it comes to no surprise that women dominate the major categories, after all it's obvious that this was the year of Adele, Katy Perry and Rihanna, among other female artists who ruled the US charts this year. The overall big winner though, is British artist Adele.

From Billboard.com

For the first time, a woman earns three of Billboard's biggest year-end charts honors: No. 1 on Top Artists, the No. 1 Billboard 200 Album and the No. 1 Hot 100 song. The woman, of course, is Adele. The album: "21." The song: "Rolling in the Deep" (both on XL/Columbia).

Since Billboard added the top overall artist category to its year-end recaps in 1981, no woman has ever pulled off the triple crown win until this year.

Billboard's year-end music recaps are based on chart performance during the chart year that began with last year's charts dated Dec. 4 and ended with the Nov. 26, 2011 charts.

The Top Artists recap ranks the best-performing acts of the year derived from activity on the Billboard 200 albums tally and the Billboard Hot 100 singles list, as well as streaming, social, touring boxscore and ringtone data.

2011 Top Billboard Categories
Top Artist: Adele
Top New Artist: Wiz Khalifa
Hot 100 Song: Rolling In The Deep by Adele
Hot 100 Artist: Katy Perry
Billboard 200 Album: 21 by Adele
Billboard 200 Artist: Adele
Radio Song: Give Me Everything by Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer
Radio Songs Artist: Katy Perry
Digital Song: Rolling In The Deep by Adele
Digital Songs Artists: Katy Perry
Digital Album: 21 by Adele
Digital Albums Artist: Adele

For more Billboard Year-End Charts visit Billboard.com

Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa & Bruno Mars › Young, Wild & Free

Cee Lo Green & Wiz Khalifa › Bright Lights Bigger City (Remix)

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Tinie Tempah & Wiz Khalifa › Till I'm Gone

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Cee Lo Green › I Want You (Hold On To Love)

Cee Lo Green is back with another video release, and I say back because he recently re-released the Bright Lights Bigger City video to include a Wiz Khalifa cameo. This time he's come up with a funked up version of the album original, I Want You, dubbed as I Want You (Hold On To Love) and is expected to be the official fourth single off his critically acclaimed studio album The Lady Killer.



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'Bright Light Bigger City' by Cee Lo Green Featuring Wiz Khalifa

The third song being released from Cee Lo Green's The Lady Killer album is actually one of my favorites, if not my favorite. This single version is a bit different than the album cut, for which there was already a video and that was released last year around the same time the album came out. Rapper Wiz Khalifa lends a guest verse for an updated mix, which you can listen to below.

My verdict is that originals are always better. And just how better? Bright Lights Bigger City debuted on the Top Songs chart at #60 on November of last year, peaked at #3 eight weeks later and it's still going strong at #37 after 25 weeks. For the original video, click here.



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Wiz Khalifa & Too Short › On My Level

They guy that brought us that infamous Black And Yellow song is back with the second single from his upcoming debut album Rolling Papers. The On My Level video made me dizzy just by watching. And not because it's fast paced or anything. It's quite the hypnotizing music type adorned with drugs, booze and hot women dancing around... you know, everyone's day to day routine. They did place the parental advisory for explicit content, so I don't feel so guilty for watching. Wiz Khalifa's debut album comes out on March 29th.



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Wiz Khalifa, Snoop Dogg, Juicy J & T-Pain › Black And Yellow (G-Mix)

I've been trying to steer away from this one but I think I might just give it a try, because Wiz Khalifa's Black And Yellow (G-Mix) with Snoop Dogg, Juicy J and T-Pain makes it more interesting. Actually, a T-Pain-less version would've been perfect. Not to mention he ruins the video with all that head-gear he's wearing, which might've worked better in the next Pirates Of The Caribbean movie... or Saw franchise.



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