Personal Charts: 6/27/11 - 7/3/11

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lw tw wk pp ARTIST - TITLE
04 01 05 01 The Joy Formidable - Whirring
01 02 09 01 Avenged Sevenfold - So Far Away
03 03 09 03 A Silent Film - Driven By Their Beating Hearts
02 04 16 02 Adele - Rolling In The Deep
05 05 16 04 Wiz Khalifa - Roll Up
06 06 12 06 The Naked & Famous - Punching In A Dream
08 07 09 07 Two Door Cinema Club - What You Know
07 08 22 01 The Naked & Famous - Young Blood
09 09 22 04 Girl Talk - Steady Shock
10 10 11 10 Lupe Fiasco - The Show Goes On
11 11 07 11 Chris Brown f/Benny Benassi - Beautiful People
12 12 17 12 The Script - For the First Time
13 13 07 13 Owl City - Deer In The Headlights
15 14 09 14 Atomic Tom - Take Me Out
17 15 08 15 Flo Rida f/Akon - Who Dat Girl
19 16 07 16 Katy Perry - Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)
21 17 06 17 Martin Solveig f/Dragonette - Hello
22 18 06 18 Bad Meets Evil - Fast Lane
23 19 05 19 LMFAO f/Lauren Bennett & GoonRock - Party Rock Anthem
14 20 21 01 Pendulum - Witchcraft
16 21 20 05 Usher - More
18 22 32 01 Girl Talk - Triple Double
24 23 08 23 Foo Fighters - Rope
25 24 10 24 Panic! At The Disco - The Ballad Of Mona Lisa
20 25 18 04 Kanye West - All of the Lights
29 26 07 26 Hollywood Undead - Coming Back Down
34 27 04 27 The Cars - Sad Song
26 28 11 23 Britney Spears - Till The World Ends
33 29 05 29 TV On The Radio - Will Do
31 30 05 30 Sick Puppies - Riptide
30 31 08 30 Tinie Tempah f/Eric Turner - Written In The Stars
36 32 04 32 Lady Gaga - The Edge of Glory
35 33 05 33 Skillet - Awake & Alive
42 34 02 34 The Naked & Famous - All Of This
27 35 14 10 Katy Perry f/Kanye West - E.T.
28 36 15 12 Girl Talk - On and On
37 37 04 37 My Chemical Romance - Bulletproof Heart
38 38 04 38 The Strokes - Under Cover Of Darkness
45 39 02 39 Train - Save Me, San Francisco
41 40 05 40 Cake - Long Time
DE 41 01 41 Two Door Cinema Club - Come Back Home
46 42 02 42 Cee-Lo Green - Bright Lights, Bigger City
44 43 03 43 Nicki Minaj - Did It On'em
43 44 07 43 Death Cab For Cutie - You Are A Tourist
32 45 22 03 A Silent Film - You Will Leave a Mark
50 46 02 46 OneRepublic - Good Life
47 47 03 47 Foo Fighters - Arlandria
40 48 09 36 Neon Trees - Your Surrender
39 49 24 03 Two Door Cinema Club - Cigarettes In The Theatre
DE 50 01 50 Radiohead - Lotus Flower

#1:
I can't be bothered to look it up, but I'm fairly sure the 5-week rise to #1 for "Whirring" ties the quickest jump to the top since 2009, when it was done by the Silversun Pickups' "Panic Switch" (otherwise known as the #1 song of 2009, and my favorite song since the seminal moment in January 2008 when Mute Math's "Control" got a video treatment and simultaneously locked up the #1 song of that year).

I wouldn't blame you for being confused, considering it languished below the top 50 for several weeks in April and May. The answer is fairly simple: in April and May, I was listening to the version on their 2008 EP A Balloon Called Moaning, and on May 31st, I listened to this version for the first time (from their debut LP The Big Roar). I don't think I'm going out on a limb by saying there's a slight difference between the two. Both the radio edit and the video are based on the newer version, obviously. I finally heard the song on radio last weekend and was a bit disappointed they cut off basically the entire solo, but it's understandable, I suppose.

Anyway, where were we?

#2-10:

• I expected "So Far Away" to lose its bullet this week. Even though it didn't, it still wasn't enough to stay ahead.
• As often happens with a breakout artist, their initial blast onto the scene is actually bettered by the followup due in large part to the foundation laid by the previous single. A Silent Film, welcome to the club.
• Adele basically lucked into the #2 spot for two weeks, and is no longer a contender.
• Going back to A Silent Film, we see that right now, their first two singles' peaks are exactly the same as Two Door Cinema Club's first two singles (a #4 followed by a #3). And TDCC have their 3rd straight top-10 hit in "What You Know" (which emerged as my third "single" after it became their first actual single to hit the Alternative chart). However, it's slowing down a bit after I settled on "Come Back Home" as my fourth "single"; it's starting to break through about a month after its initial spins.
• And then there's The Naked & Famous. They have a good shot at landing 3 songs in the top 20 simultaneously -- but just as TDCC, their current hit is suffering from a new song's play (in this case, "All of This"). One or both of them might back their way into the top 5, anyway.
• Despite the auspicious debut eras of ASF, TDCC, and TNAF, none of them really have a prayer of earning "Artist of 2011" honors. That one's pretty much in the bag for Girl Talk. As its presumably last song in the top 10 for a while, "Steady Shock" has positioned itself as the Scottie Pippen to "Triple Double"'s Michael Jordan with 15 weeks in the top 10 in its own right.
  
• Wiz and Lupe round out the top 10 with some hip-hop flavor.

#11-20:

After all of that, we have NINE straight bullets (ten if you count #10)? I'm not really sure where any of them are going. They're not really backed up; the songs that didn't rise any positions legitimately didn't gain much, while the others rose slightly to moderately "spin"-wise.

#21-30:

• Boy, what happened with the Foo Fighters? Three straight albums of #1 lead-single smashes, each finishing higher than the previous on my decade-end chart... and then a lead single that might not even crack my top 20? It goes to show that times can and do change. (Hell, Anberlin and Mute Math combined for just four top-10 hits off their most recent albums. Anberlin had more top-five hits in a single week off the album before that. And yes, that would be 5.)
• The Cars are shaping themselves up as a dark horse. Come to think of it, so are TV On The Radio. Two artists I would have never guessed would hit my chart a year ago.

#31-50:

• It gets a bit stacked up from #37 and lower. DCFC would probably be top 40 in a normal week -- but speaking of underachievers, how about Death Cab, too? "I Will Possess Your Heart" and "Meet Me On The Equinox" were my two favorite singles of their career. I've tried to get behind this, but it's been a tough go of it.
• Similarly, "Long Time" matches the #40 peak of "Sick of You", but it should have surpassed that by now.
  
• What's this with Train getting another hit? Apparently, they put two good songs on the same album for the first time since 2001. (I say this somewhat facetiously, of course, considering "Hey Soul Sister" hit my top 40; for these purposes, I'm referring to "SMSF" and "If It's Love".)
• I'm glad that Cee-Lo has a good second single. Too often, the follow-ups to ubiquitous smashes like "Fuck You" are throwaway mediocrity. This one has a good vibe, and it's performing better than I expected at Pop to boot.
• "Good Life" was a bit of an accidental top 50 hit last week, sneaking in under the radar at the last minute. But it looks like it's here to stay a little while longer after rising 4 spots this week.
• Rounding out the craziness is this fact: Radiohead has their first top 50 weekly chart hit ever. (Never mind that "Idioteque" is one of my top 100 songs of the 2000s decade.)

Bubbling Under (I told you, it's backed up):

• Korn f/Skrillex "Get Up" (I forgot about this one entirely when posting this. It has a pretty good argument to be on the chart proper, but I guess it can wait a week.)
  
• Foo Fighters "Walk"
  
• The Band Perry "If I Die Young"
  
• Sublime With Rome "Panic"
  
• Girl Talk "Down For The Count"
  
• Pitbull f/Ne-Yo, Nayer & Afrojack "Give Me Everything"
  
• Cage the Elephant "Around My Head"
  
• Paramore "Monster"
  
• Black Eyed Peas "Just Can't Get Enough"
  
• 311 "Sunset In July"
  
• Coldplay "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall"
  
• 10 Years "Fix Me"
  
• Nicki Minaj "Girls Fall Like Dominoes"
  
• My Chemical Romance "Planetary (Go!)"

[Mega248]

On time for the third week in a row! ('on time' being defined as posted by the end of the weekend for which the chart is dated, and since this is a 3-day weekend, I'm still considering this on time. )

Eth's top 50
July 2, 2011

01 01 01 A SILENT FILM "Driven By Their Beating Hearts"(#1, 9 weeks)[16]
04 03 02 THE NATIONAL "Conversation 16"(#2)[12]
05 04 03 LADY GAGA "The Edge of Glory"(#3)[8]
02 02 04 TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB "What You Know"(#2)[23]
03 05 05 THE NAKED & FAMOUS "Young Blood"(#2)[22]
08 08 06 LUPE FIASCO "The Show Goes On"(#6)[19]
06 06 07 FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS "Moneygrabber"(#2)[22]
11 09 08 RA RA RIOT "Too Dramatic"(#8)[14]
10 11 09 FOSTER THE PEOPLE "Pumped Up Kicks"(#9)[24]
07 07 10 KANYE WEST "All of the Lights"(#5)[21]
12 10 11 MATTHEW MORRISON "Summer Rain"(#10)[14]
14 12 12 BEASTIE BOYS "Make Some Noise"(#12)[12]
15 14 13 MUMFORD & SONS "Roll Away Your Stone"(#13)[12]
18 15 14 CUT COPY "Need You Now"(#14)[10]
09 13 15 CUT COPY "Take Me Over"(#1, 8 weeks)[25]
26 21 16 PENDULUM "Witchcraft"(#16)[9]
19 18 17 DANGER MOUSE & DANIELE LUPI f/ JACK WHITE "Two Against One"(#17)[12]
21 20 18 TV ON THE RADIO "Will Do"(#18)[15]
16 17 19 A SILENT FILM "You Will Leave a Mark"(#1, 2 weeks)[32]
24 22 20 LYKKE LI "Get Some"(#20)[11]
13 16 21 CAKE "Long Time"(#12)[15]
23 23 22 WEIRD AL YANKOVIC "Perform This Way"(#22)[10]
38 31 23 RADIOHEAD "Lotus Flower"(#23)[4]
17 19 24 ADELE "Rolling in the Deep"(#14)[17]
--- 39 25 CEE LO GREEN f/ WIZ KHALIFA "Bright Lights Bigger City"(#25)[2]
32 28 26 OWL CITY "Deer in the Headlights"(#26)[9]
36 32 27 JOY FORMIDABLE "Whirring"(#27)[5]
27 25 28 BRITNEY SPEARS "Till the World Ends"(#25)[10]
40 33 29 INCUBUS "Promises Promises"(#29)[4]
29 26 30 NEON TREES "Your Surrender"(#26)[8]
22 24 31 MARTIN SOLVEIG & DRAGONETTE "Hello"(#22)[12]
47 37 32 PETER BJORN & JOHN "Second Chance"(#32)[3]
30 29 33 ONEREPUBLIC "Good Life"(#29)[7]
--- 41 34 KAISER CHIEFS "Little Shocks"(#34)[2]
34 34 35 KT TUNSTALL "Fade Like a Shadow"(#34)[8]
--- --- 36 FOSTER THE PEOPLE "Helena Beat"(#36)[1]
20 27 37 AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT "Changing"(#8)[22]
--- 47 38 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE "You've Got the Love"(#38)[2]
25 30 39 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE "Sing"(#12)[20]
45 45 40 CAGE THE ELEPHANT "Around My Head"(#40)[4]
43 43 41 LIFEHOUSE "Falling In"(#41)[4]
28 35 42 DECEMBERISTS "This is Why We Fight"(#4)[21]
50 46 43 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE "Bulletproof Heart"(#43)[3]
35 36 44 REDLIGHT KING "Old Man"(#33)[14]
--- 50 45 ADELE "Rumor Has It"(#45)[2]
--- --- 46 30 SECONDS TO MARS "Night of the Hunter"(#46)[1]
41 42 47 COLBIE CAILLAT "I Do"(#40)[7]
49 49 48 CARS "Sad Song"(#48)[3]
--- --- 49 COLDPLAY "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall"(#49)[1]
--- --- 50 311 "Sunset in July"(#50)[1]


DROPPERS:[/u]

31 38 --- MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA "April Fool"(#30)[11]
33 40 --- BRITNEY SPEARS "Hold it Against Me"(#12)[23]
37 44 --- KEANE "My Shadow"(#1, 5 weeks)[31]
46 48 --- TRAIN "Save Me San Francisco"(#43)[5]


Commentary

• A Silent Film racks up yet another week at the top, and the odds are in favor of it becoming only the third song to reach 10 weeks at #1 in my chart's 8.5-year history.
  
• Next #1 will be between The National and Lady Gaga. The next several bulleted songs are unlikely to make it.
  
• The latest from Mumford & Songs and Cut Copy should find their way into the top 10 eventually, but Pendulum might get there first.
  
• Radiohead and Cee Lo Green make big leaps into the top 30. The latter will likely jump over the former either next week or the week after.
  
• Britney Spears and Neon Trees get shoved back multiple spots despite holding on to bullets. It will be a major uphill battle for them to pass their current peaks; there's just too much competition both in front of them and behind them.
  
• "Helena Beat" seems to officially be the 2nd single, so it finally blasts into the top 50 (where it would've been for at least 3 months if I didn't try to avoid charting album cuts (which I do mainly because it'd be way too hard to make a top 50 every week otherwise)). This happens the same week I've fallen in love with the album, which I'd been listening to bits and pieces of for several weeks before.
  
• Yet another week with 4 debuts. The chart is as competitive as it's been in a long time, as also evidenced by 32 songs being bulleted.
  

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Davey's Weekly Top 50
6/25-7/1, Week 26 of of 2011

TW LW PP Artist / Title
-- 40 12 The Mystery Jets Show Me the Light
-- 39 35 The Animals City Streets
40 -- 40 30 Seconds to Mars Night of the Hunter
39 35 10 Atomic Tom Take Me Out
38 33 17 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Sister Marie Says
37 30 06 The National Terrible Love
36 -- 36 Onerepublic The Good Life
35 -- 05 30 Seconds to Mars Closer to the Edge
34 38 34 Seether Country Song
33 36 33 Linkin Park Iridescent
32 34 32 Foo Fighters Walk
31 31 31 The Vaccines Post Break Up Sex
30 23 07 The Twilight Singers On the Corner
29 37 29 She Wants Revenge Take The World
28 27 27 The Strokes Under Cover of Darkness
27 29 27 Radiohead Lotus Flower
26 25 25 Duran Duran All You Need is Now
25 22 12 Cake Long Time
24 26 24 Katy Perry E.T.
23 20 06 Two Door Cinema Club What You Know
22 28 22 Neon Trees Your Surrender
21 21 21 Tinie Tempah Written in the Stars
20 24 20 Moby The Day
19 18 12 Ra Ra Riot Too Dramatic
18 19 18 Lykke Li Get Some
17 15 02 Fran Healy + Neko Case Sing Me to Sleep
16 11 02 The Arcade Fire We Used to Wait
15 17 15 Michael Franti + Spearhead I'll Be Waiting
14 12 04 Steel Train Bullet
13 16 13 Cut Copy Need You Now
12 14 12 Kings of Leon Pyro
11 13 11 Ryan Star Start a Fire
10 10 10 The National Conversation 16
09 09 09 Robbie Robertson He Don't Live Here No More
08 06 06 A Silent Film Driven by Their Beating Hearts
07 03 03 The Naked + Famous Young Blood
06 02 02 TV on the Radio Will Do
05 08 05 Admiral Radley Sunburn Kids
04 04 04 White Lies Bigger Than Us
03 07 03 The Cars Sad Song
02 05 02 The Far East Movement + Ryan Tedder Rocketeer
01 01 01 Crystal Castles + Robert Smith Not in Love [1 x 26]