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.

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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.

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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.

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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: 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.

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The Year of Pala

With last week's 15th consecutive run at the No. 1 position with Hawaiian Air, Friendly Fires tied the record for most weeks at the top of the Songs chart with one same title. Sadly, they're not able to break that record because it all ends this week as Hawaiian Air finally gives up the throne and falls to No. 4. But it's all not lost, because Friendly Fires replace themselves at the top with Blue Cassette, off their album Pala, after debuting at No. 100 eight weeks ago. So after all, Friendly Fires is the act with the most consecutive weeks - sixteen - at the top of the Songs chart, with one or more songs.

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With such a long run at the top for Hawaiian Air, many titles had to settle with a not less respectable No. 2 position. A total of seven songs are included in this list starting most recently with Snow Patrol's This Isn't Everything You Are, which stays as runner-up for a second week. But there's also Benny Benassi's Close To Me featuring Gary Go (#3), Blink-182's Fighting The Gravity (#6), Young The Giant's My Body (#7), Coldplay's Paradise (#10), Foster The People's Pumped Up Kicks (#12) and Florence + The Machine's Shake It Out (#18).

Also, Blue Cassette becomes the seventh song that made its debut at the No. 100 position and eventually went on to the top of the Songs chart. This list includes Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (Wind Blow - 2007), Fergie (Clumsy - 2007), Mariah Carey (O.O.C. - 2008), Kanye West (Love Lockdown - 2009), Jay-Z (Real As It Gets - 2010) and Outasight (Everything - 2011).

But that's not all. Friendly Fires is also the seventh act to replace itself at the top of the Songs chart after Interpol (Wrecking Ball, Rest My Chemistry - 2007), Mariah Carey (twice)(Migrate, Side Effects, I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time, O.O.C. - 2008; Betcha Gon' Know (The Prologue), H.A.T.E.U. - 2009), The-Dream (My Love, Right Side Of My Brain - 2009), Akon (Sexy Bitch, Available (Benny Benassi Remix) - 2009), Jay-Z (Empire State Of Mind, Real As It Gets - 2010) and Lykke Li (I Follow Rivers (The Magician Remix), Love Out Of Lust - 2011).

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.

Friendly Fires Still Rules The Charts

Nine weeks have passed since the band Friendly Fires claimed the #1 spot of the Top Songs chart with Hawaiian Air, and with no signs of slowing down and a respectable lead, they still have the chance to go for ten or even more. And with only nine more weeks left to end the year, it's almost certain that the song will get crowned as the year's longest running number one song. That is, at least a tie if by chance there's a new #1 next week that matches Hawaiian Air's stay at the top.

Hawaiian Air (Live at BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge)

Chart Fact: Hawaiian Air joins a short but elite list of 9'ers, starting with Ne-Yo's So Sick from 2006, Gym Class Heroes' Viva La White Girl from 2007 and Mariah Carey's Obsessed from 2009. Only three more songs have had stays at the top in the double digits. This one could be next.

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.

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