GDB's Rolling 2005 US Charts Thread

From Billboard.com comes this: "At No. 54, the Used and My Chemical Romance share hot shot debut honors with a cover of Queen and David Bowie's "Under Pressure," which also appears at No. 14 on the Hot Digital Songs list." Has anyone heard this cover? I have to assume the vocals pale miserably in comparison.

I don't think Amerie's done yet -- she moves up to #1 on the R&B chart this week -- so I'd count on a small rebound next week when "Disco Inferno," "Boulevard," and "Obsession" commence their descents. If she doesn't peak higher than "Meester Lonely" I'll be sore disappointed.

As for the BSB's new one, "Incomplete": It sounds very much like a later-day Bon Jovi power ballad. I have no idea who's singing where but it sounds like three of them still have good voices and two are being Pro Tool punched in. I'm surprised there hasn't been a thread devoted to the song or to the larger point of the boys attempting a comeback. I suppose a sweeping ballad's the only way they could really stage it, but I wonder why they didn't just go balls-out and tack it onto a movie soundtrack like The School Of Diane Warren teaches.

1. Speed of Sound - Coldplay
2. Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani
3. Blue Orchid - The White Stripes
4. Holiday (Faded Ending) - Green Day
5. Don’t Phunk With My Heart - Black Eyed Peas
6. Under Pressure - The Used/My Chemical Romance
7. Battle of the Heroes - John Williams (Star Wars Episode III score?!)
8. Mr. Brightside - The Killers
9. Lonely No More - Rob Thomas
10. Switch - Will Smith

It is possible Gwen will one day justify her existence to me without Jacques Lu Cont remixes.

By George, I think you've got it.

It pretty much has. We reviewed it on SGS back in November, I think. It refuses to get more or less popular.

From Billboard.com comes this: "At No. 54, the Used and My Chemical Romance share hot shot debut honors with a cover of Queen and David Bowie's "Under Pressure," which also appears at No. 14 on the Hot Digital Songs list." Has anyone heard this cover? I have to assume the vocals pale miserably in comparison.

I don't think Amerie's done yet -- she moves up to #1 on the R&B chart this week -- so I'd count on a small rebound next week when "Disco Inferno," "Boulevard," and "Obsession" commence their descents. If she doesn't peak higher than "Meester Lonely" I'll be sore disappointed.

I saw them do it live on MTV2's $2 Bill show. Sounded pretty good--they've got fantastic voices for a song like that. Didn't know it was being pushed as a single, though--hm. That's def. higher than any other MCR or Used single has charted. Is it going to fall off completely by next week? Hope not.

Could be--you're right, the #1 R&B thing is a good sign. Why "Disco Inferno" is still around at all is beyond me. And props to Gwen for curtailing Akon's ridiculous ascent to the top.

"Also debuting this week on the Hot 100 are Squeak E. Clean's "Hello Tomorrow" featuring the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O. at No. 85,"

does anyone know what this is?

Seriously, there's that much of a Justin stigma? That's fucked up. Rap radio/TV chooses such bizarre things to make a stand over sometimes.

And I can't BELIEVE "I Want it That Way" didn't go to #1. In my mind, that song might've very well been the biggest hit of the last half of the 90s. EVERYONE knew that fucking song.

Also def. puts things in perspective re: Britney. For some reason, however, Christina Aguilera seems to be as successful on the charts as on TRL--she's got four #1 singles.

"Will Boulevard of Broken Dreams make it to #4?" was a less catchy thread title.

(xpost I don't understand that dichotomy at all)

The videos are generally a lot better. ;-)

"The Reason" only needs one word to explain why it didn't go to #1.

"Incomplete" sounds like Evanescence! I shit you not!

haha, now i'm really looking forward to this.

"We are the World (video)" >>>>>> "Candy Shop (Video)"

Oh right, "Music of My Heart".

Has JT even hit the top five solo? Think "Like I Love You" might've. Def. no #1s or 2s though.

When I was 13, I wrote a fan letter to Joel Whitburn, author of The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits and Billboard Top 1000 Singles, and I asked him why he insisted, in the latter book, of ranking songs that had peaked at #1 for just one week highter than a song that had peaked at #2 for nine weeks (cf. "Waiting for a Girl Like You," Foreigner). The #2 song obviously had more staying power, I argued. Whitburn replied and said that he stood by his methodology because in many cases (he didn't give examples) a #1 song might have TWICE the airplay or sales as the #2 song. Which I'm sure has happened, but I'm not sure I buy it as a rationale.

its been getting radio spins out the ass, esp. here in chicago (I posted about it back in May when I first heard it). I love it. its like the hip-hop eagles or steve miller band or something.

Innit "These Words"?

woah that sounds awesome. Gotta d/l that.

Innit "These Words"?

yeah, mixed up with the JBs song. Whoops.

They started showing the Lifehouse video a whole lot on MTVHits too, but I don't understand why it took them so long--it's not like the song's a grower or by some new band just gathering hype or anything. Maybe it was on a TV show.

Man, after that first album, who'd have thought Gorillaz would have a hit bigger than "Clint Eastwood"? Certainly not me.

Week #9 for Mariah, now officially tied for longest stay at #1 of the year so far. Rihanna still at #2, Pussycat Dolls up one to #3, Missy up two to #4. Ludacris breaks the top ten with "Pimpin' All Over the World," now his biggest Red Light District hit at #9. "Scars" is up three to #15 (now officially the '05 recipient of the annual "If You Could Only See" award), "Feel Good Inc." continues to bullet into the top 20 at #16, "Cater 2 U" is in at #19.

Other big movers include Mike Jones, up to #22 with "Back Then" (oh man), and far more encouragingly, Natasha Bedingfield, up 18 to #30 with "These Words" and Fall Out Boy, with the pop-punk breakout hit of the year, "Sugar, We're Going Down," up 24 to #31. "Cool" (#35) and "Summer Nights" (#36) both break the top 40, and Kanye finally shows up at #43 with "Diamonds from Sierra Leone". That goofball Tony Yayo is another new-on to the list, at #48 with "So Seductive," and Mariah's follow-up to "We Belong Together," "Shake it Off," also appears for the first time at #50.

Also, it appears to be one of the slowest weeks in the history of the album charts, as NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC #21 easily slides into a #1 debut, in front of the new Mary Mary album at #7 and Carly Simon's FOURTH ALBUM OF STANDARDS at #8. The good news about this is that it makes room for Demon Days to saunter back into the top 10, up five to #9.

I really hope Mariah stays on just for one more week, long enough to top "Candy Shop" and "Let Me Love You". Then Rihanna can take.

Green Day are back up to #21, for some reason--anyone know why "Holiday" should be popular again? Natasha is up seven to #23, cool, and Mike Jones' luck (tremendous as it is) appears to have finally run out, sliding two to #24. Gwen is up to #26 with "Cool," Kelly has a "Since U Been Gone" turnaround to #28, and Fall Out Boy's bullet is running out, only up one to #30. Teairra Mari is up seven to #38. Kanye, Rob, and Jessica Simpson all make unexpected, big-time slips.

New-ons to the top 50 are Lyfe Jennings (?) at #45 with "Must Be Nice," that spanish Shakira song at #46, the pretty cool-but-would've-been-cooler-before-"Wait" David Banner song at #47, and the new Bow Wow duet with Ciara (what, the Omarion duet isn't new enough?) at #49. Hopefully the divided airplay will mean LMLY won't get to #1...but doubtful.

hah, yeah, that's the one.

I would say that, by definition, "We Belong Together" couldn't be the JAM of the summer, but I guess some people define it differently than I do.

Question for the chart geeks in light of Shakira's ascent: When's the last time an all-foreign-language track went Top 40 without a version in English being available as well?

And also, taking bets on what will replace Mariah at #1:
* Pon De Replay
* Let Me Hold You
* Lose Control
* Axel F

Meanwhile, I'm thinking "Wake Me Up When September Ends" actually has a pretty significant chance of finsihing what BOBD started and making it all the way to the top. The video is the first EVENT VIDEO in god knows how long on MTV, it's the perfect end-of-summer ballad...it'd be just the thing to topple Mariah, and it catapults from 49-21 this week. Here's hoping.

This is looking more and more likely. "Shake it Off" at #2 this past week.

Other big movers are Fall Out Boy crashing the top ten at #8, Green Day up to #11, the (shudder) Black Eyed Peas, now at both #14 for "Don't Lie" and #16 for "My Humps," Shakira at #24 and MCR toppling into the top 40 with "Helena" (probably on the back of the VMAs).

Kanye's on top of the album charts too, obvivously. 860,000 units scanned.

Your second-to-last post is OTM, though. I don't know that I'd have heard "We Belong Together" if I didn't occasionally listen to commercial radio. Whereas "Hollaback Girl" is something that I've heard lots of people that don't necessarily listen to commercial radio or watch MTV reference jokingly.

Foos debuted in the low 30s and climbed to like #18 before hitting the sales wall. NIN debuted in the high 30s and did little climbing before plummeting all the way back down. The White Stripes debuted I think at #46 and then fell instantly.

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Other notable moves up the chart include "Hung Up," which enters the top 20 at #14 (yay), and 50's "Window Shopper," which enters the top 40 at #30.

Also, fans of "Stay Fly" will be pleased to know it inched up to #13 and probably has a shot at the top 10 within a week or two.

Among the biggest losers this week are Lil' Kim's "Lighters Up," which peaked last week at #31 before taking a nosedive to #46. And "I'm Sprung" seems to have stalled out, slipping to #10 after last week's high of #8.

I'm glad Chris Brown finally made it to #1, the song's not fantastic but it's a very #1-sounding single (much more so than "Gold Digger," which was great but didn't deserve more than half of it's ten-week run).That D4L song depresses me, it's horrible. "Stickwitu" is great, though--sorta the "2 Become 1" to "Don't Cha"'s "Wannabe".

"Stay Fly" is one of the best singles...hell, maybe of the decade. Hope I never get sick of it. "Window Shopper" is actually surprisingly good. Can't fathom for the life of me the top 20 success of "I Think They Like Me," "One Wish" and "Here We Go". Music doesn't get much more mediocre

Disappointed "Dance, Dance" has already started to fall after bulleting to #22, but glad to see Juelz regain some momentum. And the All-American Rejects in the top 40, not bad.

Also: a song from Rent ("Seasons of Love") is at #43!

Huge gains for Nelly's "Grillz" (ft. Paul Wall, natch) (52 --> 19) and Eminem's "When I'm Gone" (69 --> 25).

"Run It" is at #1 for the 3rd week. Not much action within the top 10.

"Laffy Taffy" at #4 is slightly disturbing. There's no chance of it going to #1, is there?

Juelz jumping to #11 makes me happy.

Good God, I hope not.

And I hate pretty much everything from Rent.

We staved off Crazy Frog, we can stave off teh Blunt as well.

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