new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/74366/week-ending-may-15-2011-songs-idol-boosts-tyler/;_ylt=Au9eKtj6zDrN4f_TtlBoORgPwiUvWeek Ending May 15, 2011. Songs: Idol Boosts TylerPosted Wed May 18, 2011 by Paul Grein in Chart Watch
Nearly 38 years after Aerosmith first cracked the Hot 100 with "Dream On," lead singer Steven Tyler finally hits the chart in his own right with "(It) Feels So Good," which opens at #35. This marks Tyler's first Hot 100 appearance since Aerosmith's "Jaded" reached #7 in early 2001. Tyler is the second judge on American Idol to score a comeback hit this season. He follows Jennifer Lopez, whose "On The Floor" (featuring Pitbull) peaked at #3 last week. It's J.Lo's biggest hit since 2003.
Of course, just being a judge on Idol doesn't guarantee a comeback. Paula Abdul & Randy Jackson teamed three years ago for "Dance Like There's No Tomorrow," which stalled at #62.
Aerosmith landed its first top 10 hit in 1976 with a re-issued "Dream On." The band made the top five for the first time in 1988 with "Angel." The band landed its only #1 in 1998 with "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing." That was the band's only top 10 hit that Tyler didn't write or co-write. Diane Warren wrote the song, which was featured in the movie Armageddon. (That song constituted Tyler's most overtly commercial move until he took the American Idol gig.)
For the record, Tyler "bubbled under" the Hot 100 in 2006 when Santana's "Just Feel Better" (on which he was featured) peaked at #107.
Adele's "Rolling In The Deep" holds at #1 for the second week. The song sold 353K copies this week, the biggest one-week total for any song since Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" sold 509K copies in its second week in February. By contrast, "Rolling In The Deep" is in its 19th week. It's only the fifth song in digital history to sell 350K or more copies this deep into its chart run. It's the first to do so since Cee Lo Green's "F**k You (Forget You)" sold 412K copies in its 26th week in February. Cee Lo's surge came just after the Grammys. Adele's surge follows a performance of the song on Glee. TV sells.
Lady Gaga's "The Edge Of Glory" debuts at #3, giving Gaga three songs in the top 30 on the eve of the release of her second full-length album, Born This Way. Her former #1 smash "Born This Way" dips from #18 to #19. "Judas," the follow-up, drops from #19 to #27. This bodes well for Born This Way, which is vying to become the first album to sell 500,000 copies in one week since Taylor Swift's Speak Now in October. (That album of course sold more than 1 million copies in its first week, but even 500K would be the best showing since then. Born This Way will probably fall somewhere in between those sales points. But where? Place your bets.)
Bruno Mars' "The Lazy Song" drops from #5 to #7 on the Hot 100. The title is apt: It's an amiable song, but not as undeniable as his earlier hits. Mars basically coasted to a top five hit. The song also moves up to #1 in the U.K. It's Mars' third consecutive #1 hit in the U.K., following "Just The Way You Are" and "Grenade."
Many pop stations bleep the word "sex" in the line "Meet a really nice girl/Have some really nice sex." Mars stepped away from the mic rather than sing the word when he performed the song on American Idol a few weeks ago. This, 24 years after George Michael had a #2 hit titled "I Want Your Sex," in which he sang the word more than a dozen times. It could have something to do with Mars' strong appeal to a young demo and to the mass-audience nature of Idol. But it also demonstrates that pop mores aren't static.
Chris Brown's "Look At Me Now" (featuring Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes) moves up from #10 to #9. It has been #1 on Hot R&B Songs for the past eight weeks. It may hold on for a ninth week (I'll find out on Thursday morning, when I'll update this item). If it does stay on top for a ninth week, it will be Brown's second hit to top Hot R&B Songs for nine weeks. "Deuces" (featuring Tyga and Kevin McCall) had nine weeks on top from September to November.
This would make Brown the first male artist in more than 50 years to have two songs that topped Hot R&B Songs for nine or more weeks each. The last male artist to do this (and I don't think anyone would guess this) was Brook Benton, who topped the chart for 10 weeks in early 1960 with "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)" (a duet with Dinah Washington) and then for nine weeks later that same year with his solo smash "Kiddio."
Here's the low-down on this week's top 10 songs.
1. Adele, "Rolling In The Deep." The song holds at #1 for the second week in its 19th week on the chart. This is its seventh week in the top 10. Digital sales rank: #1 (353K).
2. Katy Perry featuring Kanye West, "E.T." The song holds at #2 for the second week in its 14th week on the chart. This is its 12th week in the top 10. Digital sales rank: #3 (200K).
3. Lady Gaga, "The Edge Of Glory." This new entry is Gaga's 10th top 10 hit. It's her eighth song to crack the top five. Her only top 10 hits to fall short are "Paparazzi," which peaked at #6, and "Judas," which stalled at #10. Digital sales rank: #2 (266K).
4. Pitbull featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer, "Give Me Everything." The song jumps from #8 to #4 in its seventh week on the chart. It's the fifth top five hit for Pitbull; the fourth for Ne-Yo. This is the song's second week in the top 10. Digital sales rank: #4 (186K).
5. The Black Eyed Peas, "Just Can't Get Enough." The song dips from #4 to #5 in its 13th week on the chart. This is its ninth week in the top 10. Digital sales rank: #7 (138K).
6. Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull, "On The Floor." The song drops from #3 to #6 in its 12th week on the chart. This is its 11th week in the top 10. Digital sales rank: #6 (149K).
7. Bruno Mars, "The Lazy Song." The song drops from #5 to #7 in its 12th week on the chart. This is its fourth week in the top 10. Digital sales rank: #5 (157K).
8. Britney Spears, "Till The World Ends." The song drops from #6 to #8 in its 11th week on the chart. This is its sixth week in the top 10. Digital sales rank: #11 (104K).
9. Chris Brown featuring Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes, "Look At Me Now." The moves up from #10 to #9 in its 15th week on the chart. This is its ninth week in the top 10. The song in its eighth week at #1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. Digital sales rank: #10 (109K).
10. Jeremih featuring 50 Cent, "Down On Me." The song rebounds from #12 to #10 in its 27th week on the chart. This is its eighth week in the top 10.
Lady Antebellum's "Just A Kiss" drops from #7 to #14 in its second week. Digital sales rank: #8 (128K). The song made news last week by becoming the highest-debuting song by a country duo or group in the history of the Hot 100. The old record was held by Sugarland's "Stuck Like Glue," which opened at #20 in August...Rihanna's "S&M" also drops out of the top 10 this week. It falls from #9 to #11 in its 18th week on the chart.
Lupe Fiasco's "The Show Goes On" jumps from #16 to #12 in its 20th week. This is its highest ranking to date. Fiasco's "Superstar" (featuring Matthew Santos) hit #10 in March 2008.
"Dirty Dancer" by Enrique Iglesias with Usher featuring Lil Wayne debuts at #18. (Artist billing is getting a little more complicated, wouldn't you say?) Digital sales rank: #9 (126K). This is vying to become Iglesias' sixth top 10 hit; Usher's 17th and Lil Wayne's 14th.
Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" vaults from #48 to #22 in its third week. This is vying to become Minaj's first top 10 solo hit, following featured credits on top 10 hits by Trey Songz and Britney Spears.
"Motivation" by Kelly Rowland featuring Lil Wayne jumps from #31 to #26 in its fifth week. It's Rowland's biggest solo hit to date as a lead artist. She was featured on Nelly's "Dilemma" (10 weeks at #1 in 2002) and Trina's "Here We Go" (#17 in 2005). Not to suggest that the former Destiny's Child colleagues are in perpetual competition with each other, but Rowland has bested Beyonce in this go-round. Beyonce's "Run The World (Girls)" drops from #65 to #76 in its fourth week, three weeks after debuting and peaking at #33.
Six more Glee Cast recordings enter the Hot 100. The Glee rendition of Adele's "Rolling In The Deep" bows at #29, followed by the cast's versions of Rebecca Black's "Friday" at #34, Christina Perri's "Jar Of Hearts" at #49, Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely" at #65, Black Kids' "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You" at #72 and Abba's "Dancing Queen" at #74. The Glee version of "Friday" has already charted higher than Black's original, which peaked at #58. That little ditty has had a remarkable life.
"Isn't She Lovely" is one of the most memorable songs from Stevie Wonder's classic 1976 album Songs In The Key Of Life, but Wonder's version was never released as a single. A remake by Dolly Parton bubbled under the Hot 100 (at #105) in 1977, but the Glee version is the first to crack the Hot 100.
"9 Piece" by Rick Ross featuring T.I. debuts at #61. This is vying to become Ross' third top 40 hit as a lead artist. "The Boss" (featuring T-Pain) reached #17 in 2008. "Aston Martin Music" (featuring Drake and Chrisette Michele) hit #30 in 2010.
"Jack Sparrow" by The Lonely Island featuring Michael Bolton bows at #69. This is the Lonely Island's fifth Hot 100 hit, following "Jizz In My Pants" (#72), "I'm On A Boat" (featuring T-Pain, #56), "I Just Had Sex" (featuring Akon, #30) and "The Creep" (featuring Nicki Minaj, #82). The timing couldn't be better for "Jack Sparrow." The fourth Pirates of the Caribbean feature, with Johnny Depp in the lead role of Jack Sparrow, opens on May 20.
"Knee Deep" by Zac Brown Band featuring Jimmy Buffett debuts at #73. Buffett is primarily known as a pop artist, but he has long been embraced by country artists. Alan Jackson teamed with Buffett for the 2003 hit "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere." Buffett enlisted Jackson, Clint Black, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith and George Strait on his 2004 remake of Hank Williams' "Hey, Good Lookin'." Martina McBride was featured on Buffett's 2004 tune "Trip Around The Sun."
Jordin Sparks' "I Am Woman" enters the Hot 100 at #82, in the week following her performance of the song on American Idol. This is not the same song as Helen Reddy's feminist anthem which topped the Hot 100 in December 1972 (which was, egads, 17 years before Sparks was born.) Sparks has had three top 10 hits: "Tattoo," "No Air" (a duet with Chris Brown) and "Battlefield."
P!nk's "F**kin' Perfect" tops the 2 million mark in digital sales this week. The song was the follow-up to the #1 smash "Raise Your Glass," which has sold 3,160,000 copies. This is the second time that P!nk has had back-to-back 2 million sellers. In 2008, she scored in succession with "So What" (4,155,000) and "Sober" (2,037,000).
Song Scorecard: "Written In The Stars" by Tinie Tempah featuring Eric Turner tops the 1 million mark in digital sales this week. The song hit #1 in the U.K. in September and reached #12 in the U.S. two weeks ago...Kanye West's "All Of The Lights" also tops the 1 million mark in digital sales. The song hit #18 on the Hot 100 two weeks ago.
Who is the most successful country artist of all time? The answer can be easily gleaned from Joel Whitburn's Top 10 Country Hits 1944-2010, which follows the same format at the recently-published Top 10 Pop Hits 1940-2010. The new book lists, by artist, every song to reach the top 10 on Billboard's Top Country Songs chart since 1940.
Eddy Arnold leads all artists with 92 top 10 hits. He scored his first ("Each Minute Seems A Million Years") in 1945 and his last ("That's What I Get For Loving You") in 1980. George Strait is second with 82. If Strait keeps piling up top 10 hits at the rate he's been going, he'll surpass Arnold by the end of 2015.
Reba McEntire is the top female artist, with 59 top 10 hits. Alabama is the top group with 51. Brooks & Dunn are the top duo with 41.
