Report Card - 5/11/08

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Chr/Pop

LEONA LEWIS Bleeding Love: A- (BUT...its merciless airplay totals ring in my head with every spin I'm around for. And with all the "n/a"s you're about to see, one would think I haven't really heard much of this, but I have. At least it's a good song.)
JORDIN SPARKS No Air f/Chris Brown: C- (Would be more mediocre if it was a little more pleasant to listen to.)
USHER Love In This Club f/Young Jeezy: n/a
RAY J/YUNG BERG Sexy Can I: F (I saw this guy on Chelsea Handler's talk show, interview followed by performance...he was absolutely no match for her. Sadly, I don't think he gave the slightest s*** about how much of a complete d-bag she was making him out to be. Even more sadly is that the song blew so much ass before I ever saw that interview.)
MILEY CYRUS See You Again: D+ (Would be an okay song if not for the nails-on-the-chalkboard-of-my-life vocals.)
MADONNA 4 Minutes: nfe
SARA BAREILLES Love Song: C-
ONEREPUBLIC Stop & Stare: B+
RIHANNA Take A Bow: n/a
DANITY KANE Damaged: n/a (although as bad as "Show Stopper" was helps me realize a little bit how people so easily fell in love with Girls Aloud, probably the most overrated act on Pulse.)
LIL WAYNE Lollipop f/Static Major: n/a
FLO RIDA Low f/T-Pain: B+
CHRIS BROWN With You: nfe
BUCKCHERRY Sorry: B
MARIAH CAREY Touch My Body: D
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Pocketful Of Sunshine: n/a (she was given "playlistism" privileges on Mtv Hits and what does she do? Every other video was one of her own. Lame.)
COLBIE CAILLAT Realize: C
JESSE MCCARTNEY Leavin': n/a
FLYLEAF All Around Me: A- (what's this even doing on any chart though. Even the AC chart would be envious of its longevity.)
TAYLOR SWIFT Our Song: C- (her other song ftw.)
LIFEHOUSE Whatever It Takes: n/a
RIHANNA Don't Stop The Music: C (Another song that would be better if it lost its obnoxiousness. A lot of pop singers would sound obnoxious if you whittled away nine singles off his or her album, though.)
BRITNEY SPEARS Break The Ice: A-
METRO STATION Shake It: n/a
COLBY O'DONIS What You Got f/Akon: n/a
3 DOORS DOWN It's Not My Time: B
DAUGHTRY Feels Like Tonight: B
MARIAH CAREY Bye Bye: n/a
GAVIN DEGRAW In Love With A Girl: n/a
FERRAS Hollywood's Not America: n/a
CHERISH Killa f/Yung Joc: C (Halfway decent song but she sounds like somebody whose day job isn't singing.)
SEAN KINGSTON There's Nothin (f/The DEY..): n/a (who's the featured artist? I thought it was Paula DeAnda...)
JOHN MAYER Say: B- (this kid is such a tool now.)
CHRIS BROWN Forever: n/a
WEBBIE Independent f/Lil Boozie: B
SIMPLE PLAN Your Love Is A Lie: C
FLO RIDA Elevator f/Timbaland: n/a
2 PISTOLS She Got It f/T-Pain/Tay Dizm: n/a
LUPE FIASCO Superstar f/Matthew Santos: A+
JONAS BROTHERS When You Look Me In The Eyes: n/a
C-SIDE Boyfriend/Girlfriend f/Keshia Cole: n/a
DAVID GUETTA & CHRIS WILLIS Love Is Gone: n/a
THE SPILL CANVAS All Over You: nfe
PANIC AT THE DISCO Nine In The Afternoon: C+ (maybe it's a big disappointment, or maybe I just didn't care anymore.)
SHWAYZE Buzzin: n/a
SECONDHAND SERENADE Fall For You: n/a
DUFFY Mercy: n/a
FOREVER THE SICKEST KIDS Whoa Oh: n/a
FALL OUT BOY Beat It: n/a (what is this song?)
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK Summertime: n/a (didn't they die?)

Alternative

WEEZER Pork And Beans: A-
FLOBOTS Handlebars: A
SEETHER Rise Above This: A- (easily their best song since "Driven Under", at least.)
PUDDLE OF MUDD Psycho: n/a
ATREYU Falling Down: A-
RACONTEURS Salute Your Solution: A
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE I Will Possess Your Heart: A-
LINKIN PARK Given Up: A- (Its edge isn't as authentic as that of "One Step Closer", their best single, but it still works well enough. Look at me passin' 'em A's out like candy.)
NINE INCH NAILS Discipline: B
COLDPLAY Violet Hill: A+
FOO FIGHTERS Let It Die: B
FOO FIGHTERS The Pretender: A
BRAVERY Believe: A-
DISTURBED Inside The Fire: B+
OFFSPRING Hammerhead: n/a
LINKIN PARK Shadow Of The Day: B+
THEORY OF A DEADMAN So Happy: D+
APOCALYPTICA I'm Not Jesus: B+
SEETHER Fake It: C+
10 YEARS Beautiful: C
MGMT Time To Pretend: A+
SAVING ABEL Addicted: D
PENNYWISE The Western World: B+
LUDO Love Me Dead: A- (it's the type of "will get old fast" that's a perfect candidate to spend eight months on the pop chart, and it's the catchiest song on this chart.)
THREE DAYS GRACE Riot: n/a
SAFETYSUIT Someone Like You: n/a
KOOKS Always Where I Need To Be: n/a
ASHES DIVIDE The Stone: A+
VAMPIRE WEEKEND A-Punk: B+
CAROLINA LIAR I'm Not Over: n/a
AVENGED SEVENFOLD Afterlife: A
ALKALINE TRIO Help Me: B+
FINGER ELEVEN I'll Keep Your Memory Vague: C+ (just neither exciting nor catchy...everything "Paralyzer" was not.)
RED Already Over: n/a
SIXX A.M. Life Is Beautiful: B+ (even though the rhythms are eerily reminiscent of "Hysteria" by Muse, still a totally better than expected track here.)
SHINEDOWN Devour: n/a (where'd this come from. I wish this would have been on board with all those other boring bands' releases two months ago and out of the way in time for all of the more exciting new releases.)
GAVIN ROSSDALE Love Remains The Same: B
FLOGGING MOLLY Requiem For A Dying Song: A
AGAINST ME! Stop!: A (these last two songs were totally hosed.)
BLACK KEYS Strange Times: B+ (I still can't believe this even made the chart.)
PARAMORE That's What You Get: n/a (how is this struggling so badly though?)
WHIGS Right Hand On My Heart: n/a
THE TING TINGS Great DJ: D (predictable song, even more predictable video, and vocals more obnoxious than Miley Cyrous, Jordin Sparks, and nine Rihanna songs combined.)
FILTER Soldiers Of Misfortutune: nfe (sounded alright though.)
R.E.M. Supernatural Superserious: B+
KID ROCK All Summer Long: n/a
JIMMY EAT WORLD Let It Happen: B (they might as well abandon their record company like all the other cool bands are doing if this is all the help they're gonna get.)

Ac

COLBIE CAILLAT Bubbly: C
MICHAEL BUBLE Lost: n/a
TIMBALAND/ONEREPUBLIC Apologize: A (and it's also on the chart at #24.)
TAYLOR SWIFT Teardrops On My Guitar: B
FERGIE Big Girls Don't Cry: B-
JORDIN SPARKS Tattoo: n/a
ALICIA KEYS No One: A
MICHAEL MCDONALD (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher: n/a
EAGLES Busy Being Fabulous: n/a
PLUMB In My Arms: n/a
LANDON PIGG Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop: n/a
CNOTE Forgive Me: n/a
KIMBERLEY LOCKE Fall: n/a
JOSH GROBAN Awake (Live): n/a
NELLY FURTADO In God's Hands f/Keith Urban: nfe
MAROON 5 Won't Go Home Without You: B-

Hot AC

MATCHBOX TWENTY These Hard Times: n/a
FINGER ELEVEN Paralyzer: B+ (Here we go...)
JACK JOHNSON If I Had Eyes: B
THE LAST GOODNIGHT Stay Beautiful: n/a
YAEL NAIM New Soul: B
MARIE DIGBY Say It Again: n/a (who???)
JASON MRAZ I'm Yours: n/a
VANESSA CARLTON Hands On Me: n/a (didn't she die?)
ALANIS MORISSETTE Underneath: B
SHERYL CROW Love Is Free: n/a
AUGUSTANA Sweet and Low: B
ANNA NALICK Shine: n/a
KATE VOEGELE Only Fooling Myself: n/a
SARA BAREILLES Bottle It Up: n/a
NEWTON FAULKNER Dream Catch Me: nfe
COUNTING CROWS You Can't Count On Me: n/a
COLLECTIVE SOUL All That I Know: n/a
MATT NATHANSON Come On Get Higher: nfe
BRYAN ADAMS I Thought I'd Seen Enough: n/a

Active Rock

MOTLEY CRUE Saints of LA: n/a
SEVENDUST Prodigal Son: n/a (It's mind-boggling that there's a three page discussion on Pulse about Sevendust, though.)
DROWNING POOL Enemy: n/a
TANTRIC Down And Out: n/a
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Never Enough: n/a
REV THEORY Hell Yeah: n/a
ANOTHER BLACK DAY Wicked Souls: n/a
12 STONES Anthem For The Underdog: n/a
P.O.D. Addicted: B
CHEVELLE The Fad: n/a
ALTER BRIDGE Before Tomorrow Comes: n/a
HURT Loded: n/a
SIXX A.M. Pray For Me: n/a
THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH Falls Apart: C-
BLACK TIDE Shockwave: n/a
POP EVIL Hero: n/a
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Waking The Demon: nfe
KORN Kiss: n/a
SKILLET The Last Night: n/a
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Scream Aim Fire: B+
ANEW REVOLUTION Done: n/a
CANDLEBOX Stand: n/a
ENDEVERAFTER Baby Baby Baby: n/a
SOILWORK Exile: n/a

Triple A

STEVE WINWOOD Dirty City: n/a
MUDCRUTCH Scare Easy: n/a
SPOON Don't You Evah: B
JAKOB DYLAN Something Good This Way Comes: B-
INGRID MICHAELSON The Way I Am: C+
B-52'S Funplex: nfe
BLACK CROWES Goodbye Daughters Of The Revolution: B
NEEDTOBREATHE More Time: n/a
TRISTAN PRETTYMAN Madly: nfe
VAN MORRISON That's Entrainment: n/a
FEIST I Feel It All: B (but my neighbor was out cutting the grass and he was wearing a Feist sweatshirt. That's just taking the yuppie thing way too far.)
MY MORNING JACKET I'm Amazed: nfe
AMOS LEE Listen: n/a

[a Nick O!]

Chr/Pop

LEONA LEWIS Bleeding Love: B
JORDIN SPARKS No Air f/Chris Brown: B
USHER Love In This Club f/Young Jeezy: B ("I gotta keep it hood" goes the ad-lib at the beginning? Usher, you've been so mainstream and suburban friendly for so long, don't even f***ing try to pretend you're catering to "the hood." The hood isn't making you multiplatinum time in and time out.)
RAY J/YUNG BERG Sexy Can I: F (The title of this nasty-ass song isn't even an English question or sentence or whatever the hell they want it to mean. It makes no sense at all.)
MILEY CYRUS See You Again: B (The music excuses her (understandably) girly voice. I can't believe this does not have a music video yet.)
MADONNA 4 Minutes: B+ (Not quite an A-range song, which is frankly disappointing considering all three parties involved.)
SARA BAREILLES Love Song: B-
ONEREPUBLIC Stop & Stare: A-
RIHANNA Take A Bow: C- (Boring, boring song. There's no excuse for it to be flying up the chart.)
DANITY KANE Damaged: C (The life of this song should be swapped with that of Cherish's "Killa," although even "Killa" doesn't deserve a Top 10 showing. Video sucks too.)
LIL WAYNE Lollipop f/Static Major: B (Could grow with time)
FLO RIDA Low f/T-Pain: B+
CHRIS BROWN With You: B+ Figures that now that the song has peaked and is swiftly falling, I'm finally getting into it. His album might be worth downloading and checking out.)
BUCKCHERRY Sorry: B
MARIAH CAREY Touch My Body: C (Should've chosen a more conventional theme for the video.)
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Pocketful Of Sunshine: B-
(The video for this is hella lame.)
COLBIE CAILLAT Realize: B
JESSE MCCARTNEY Leavin': C+ (Y'know...you're not Justin Timberlake all of a sudden. Frankly, in the lame video, you look like Frankie Muniz.)
FLYLEAF All Around Me: B+ (Lacey's outfit looks so awful in the video, though. Oh yeah, and the Spin Doctors and the Smashing Pumpkins are at the door. They want their paint back.)
TAYLOR SWIFT Our Song: B (She's a cool girl. Her album might be worth downloading and checking out.)
LIFEHOUSE Whatever It Takes: B+ (Hearing this song repeatedly on AT40 has really caused it to grow on me. This is easily one of their 5 best singles. Maybe even 2 or 3.)
RIHANNA Don't Stop The Music: B- (This wore out its welcome on me very quickly.)
BRITNEY SPEARS Break The Ice: A- (If her personal life hadn't turned into such a mess last year, she might be flying high off Blackout's singles. Thankfully, she seems to be laying low of late.)
METRO STATION Shake It: D- (This song might not be so bad if not for f*** this band. 18 year-old popcore dorks with tattoo sleeves (stepsons of Billy Ray Cyrus or not) help ruin tattoos for the rest of us who get them for all the right reasons and won't regret them in 3 years. The co-singer with the snakebite piercings looks like a tool, too.)
COLBY O'DONIS What You Got f/Akon: nfe (But surprisingly not bad.)
3 DOORS DOWN It's Not My Time: B+ (One of their better singles. Clearly the public doesn't agree with me, as 3DD first singles, go.)
DAUGHTRY Feels Like Tonight: B (He's a cool enough dude.)
MARIAH CAREY Bye Bye: nfe
GAVIN DEGRAW In Love With A Girl: nfe (The video is so f***ing lame, though. Why does the dude have his hoodie up the whole time when we know it's either going to be Gavin (it is) or another girl (unlikely)?)
FERRAS Hollywood's Not America: C+
CHERISH Killa f/Yung Joc: B- (Actually, Steve, it's a quartet of sisters.)
SEAN KINGSTON There's Nothin (f/The DEY & Juelz Santana): n/a (who's the featured artist? I thought it was Paula DeAnda...This is a remix. The album version features her.)
JOHN MAYER Say: nfe (This song, like most of his, is boring as all get-out...And I can't believe he's dating Jennifer Aniston now.)
CHRIS BROWN Forever: n/a
WEBBIE Independent f/Lil Boosie & Lil' Phat: C (This song, like "Don't Stop the Music," wore off quickly. And the video's plot is idiotic in its naivete.)
SIMPLE PLAN Your Love Is A Lie: B (Album isn't nearly as strong as the previous one.)
FLO RIDA Elevator f/Timbaland: nfe
2 PISTOLS She Got It f/T-Pain/Tay Dizm: nfe (But it was trite and therefore sucked.)
LUPE FIASCO Superstar f/Matthew Santos: A- (Irritating that the bottom fell out from under this one so quickly.)
JONAS BROTHERS When You Look Me In The Eyes: C (The lead kid's voice is so whiny and grating, though.)
C-SIDE Boyfriend/Girlfriend f/Keshia Cole: nfe
DAVID GUETTA & CHRIS WILLIS Love Is Gone: n/a
THE SPILL CANVAS All Over You: nfe
PANIC AT THE DISCO Nine In The Afternoon: B
SHWAYZE Buzzin: n/a (Who?)
SECONDHAND SERENADE Fall For You: n/a (But from what I've read in AP, I expect this to blow.)
DUFFY Mercy: nfe
FOREVER THE SICKEST KIDS Whoa Oh: n/a
FALL OUT BOY Beat It: B+ (what is this song? A gnarly cover of the Michael Jackson classic featuring John Mayer on lead guitar.)
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK Summertime: n/a (This is like that day on TRL where the kids set up an advance email campaign to vote on an old New Kids video. Only this is a much bigger scale and therefore, is 4 times as annoying an idea. Didn't they learn anything from the tepidly received Backstreet Boys reunion? And they're from 10 years before them, even.)

It's very late, so I'll do the rest later.

[a Nick O!]

For "Whatever It Takes," I forgot to mention how it was weak for Jason Wade to be in the video by himself. But more importantly, I want to know whose idea it was for him to wear that inside-out Eraserhead (David Lynch movie) t-shirt? And why is it inside out? Was the shirt (and its inside-outness) a stylist's decision or his?

Alternative

WEEZER Pork And Beans: B (so far)
FLOBOTS Handlebars: B
SEETHER Rise Above This: B-
PUDDLE OF MUDD Psycho: F[/color]
ATREYU Falling Down: A-
RACONTEURS Salute Your Solution: B (so far)
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE I Will Possess Your Heart: B (so far)
LINKIN PARK Given Up: B
NINE INCH NAILS Discipline: B
COLDPLAY Violet Hill: B+ (so far)
FOO FIGHTERS Let It Die: B (so far)
FOO FIGHTERS The Pretender: A-
BRAVERY Believe: B
DISTURBED Inside The Fire: B-
OFFSPRING Hammerhead: B (so far)
LINKIN PARK Shadow Of The Day: A
THEORY OF A DEADMAN So Happy: D
APOCALYPTICA I'm Not Jesus: C+
SEETHER Fake It: B
10 YEARS Beautiful: C+
MGMT Time To Pretend: B+
SAVING ABEL Addicted: F
PENNYWISE The Western World: B
LUDO Love Me Dead: B (All their prior local singles were so quirky that they're hideous.)
THREE DAYS GRACE Riot: C+
SAFETYSUIT Someone Like You: B-
KOOKS Always Where I Need To Be: nfe (But not above the C range at this point.)
ASHES DIVIDE The Stone: B+
VAMPIRE WEEKEND A-Punk: B-
CAROLINA LIAR I'm Not Over: nfe
AVENGED SEVENFOLD Afterlife: A+
ALKALINE TRIO Help Me: nfe (But it's not dark or punk enough. If you're not gonna do one, you've gotta keep the other.)
FINGER ELEVEN I'll Keep Your Memory Vague: B-
RED Already Over: B- (But something about this song just rings so calculated, like they spent a lot of time studying dramatic effects in Linkin Park and Evanescence songs.)
SIXX A.M. Life Is Beautiful: B-
SHINEDOWN Devour: nfe
GAVIN ROSSDALE Love Remains The Same: nfe
FLOGGING MOLLY Requiem For A Dying Song: B
AGAINST ME! Stop!: B+
BLACK KEYS Strange Times: nfe (But it doesn't excite me at all.)
PARAMORE That's What You Get: B (so far)
WHIGS Right Hand On My Heart: nfe (But it didn't excite me at all.)
THE TING TINGS Great DJ: n/a
FILTER Soldiers Of Misfortutune: n/a
R.E.M. Supernatural Superserious: B
KID ROCK All Summer Long: nfe
JIMMY EAT WORLD Let It Happen: B+

Ac

COLBIE CAILLAT Bubbly: C+
MICHAEL BUBLE Lost: n/a
TIMBALAND/ONEREPUBLIC Apologize: A+
TAYLOR SWIFT Teardrops On My Guitar: B+
FERGIE Big Girls Don't Cry: B+
JORDIN SPARKS Tattoo: C+
ALICIA KEYS No One: B-
MICHAEL MCDONALD (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher: n/a
EAGLES Busy Being Fabulous: n/a
PLUMB In My Arms: n/a
LANDON PIGG Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop: n/a
CNOTE Forgive Me: n/a
KIMBERLEY LOCKE Fall: n/a
JOSH GROBAN Awake (Live): n/a
NELLY FURTADO In God's Hands f/Keith Urban: n/a (this version)
MAROON 5 Won't Go Home Without You: B-

Hot AC

MATCHBOX TWENTY These Hard Times: B (Good ol' reliable Matchbox Twenty...)
FINGER ELEVEN Paralyzer: B
JACK JOHNSON If I Had Eyes: B-
THE LAST GOODNIGHT Stay Beautiful: n/a
YAEL NAIM New Soul: n/a (I don't watch much TV.)
MARIE DIGBY Say It Again: n/a
JASON MRAZ I'm Yours: n/a
VANESSA CARLTON Hands On Me: nfe (Despite irreparable damage to her ironically caused by "gpduke," I listened to this for tournament purposes and it was a little bit better than I was expecting.)
ALANIS MORISSETTE Underneath: nfe
SHERYL CROW Love Is Free: n/a
AUGUSTANA Sweet and Low: n/a
ANNA NALICK Shine: n/a
KATE VOEGELE Only Fooling Myself: nfe
SARA BAREILLES Bottle It Up: n/a
NEWTON FAULKNER Dream Catch Me: nfe
COUNTING CROWS You Can't Count On Me: n/a
COLLECTIVE SOUL All That I Know: n/a
MATT NATHANSON Come On Get Higher: n/a
BRYAN ADAMS I Thought I'd Seen Enough: n/a

Active Rock

MOTLEY CRUE Saints of LA: n/a
SEVENDUST Prodigal Son: nfe ("It's mind-boggling that there's a three page discussion on Pulse about Sevendust, though." I agree. And the song isn't even anything special, either. If you've heard one Sevendust song, you've pretty much heard them all by this point. And I used to be into their career.)
DROWNING POOL Enemy: n/a
TANTRIC Down And Out: n/a
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Never Enough: n/a
REV THEORY Hell Yeah: F[/color]
ANOTHER BLACK DAY Wicked Souls: n/a
12 STONES Anthem For The Underdog: nfe
P.O.D. Addicted: nfe
CHEVELLE The Fad: B-
ALTER BRIDGE Before Tomorrow Comes: n/a
HURT Loded: n/a
SIXX A.M. Pray For Me: n/a
THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH Falls Apart: D+
BLACK TIDE Shockwave: C
POP EVIL Hero: n/a
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Waking The Demon: n/a
KORN Kiss: B
SKILLET The Last Night: n/a
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Scream Aim Fire: B
ANEW REVOLUTION Done: n/a
CANDLEBOX Stand: n/a
ENDEVERAFTER Baby Baby Baby: n/a
SOILWORK Exile: n/a

Triple A

STEVE WINWOOD Dirty City: n/a
MUDCRUTCH Scare Easy: n/a
SPOON Don't You Evah: nfe
JAKOB DYLAN Something Good This Way Comes: n/a
INGRID MICHAELSON The Way I Am: nfe
B-52'S Funplex: nfe
BLACK CROWES Goodbye Daughters Of The Revolution: n/a
NEEDTOBREATHE More Time: n/a
TRISTAN PRETTYMAN Madly: n/a
VAN MORRISON That's Entrainment: n/a
FEIST I Feel It All: n/a
MY MORNING JACKET I'm Amazed: n/a
AMOS LEE Listen: n/a

And I'll do the Rhythmic & Urban that I've actually heard later.

[friday]

LEONA LEWIS Bleeding Love: A+
JORDIN SPARKS No Air f/Chris Brown: C-
USHER Love In This Club f/Young Jeezy: B
RAY J/YUNG BERG Sexy Can I: F
MILEY CYRUS See You Again: F (My stepbrother made a humorous comparison between her voice and an animal, but I forget which animal now. I personally think her voice it better suited for country music based on her duet with her father, which sounded tolerable when I heard it at FYE a couple times.)
MADONNA 4 Minutes: B (But I don't know, it's just kinda there. There's something missing.)
SARA BAREILLES Love Song: A+
ONEREPUBLIC Stop & Stare: A
RIHANNA Take A Bow: n/a
DANITY KANE Damaged: n/a
LIL WAYNE Lollipop f/Static Major: C- (That beat is twelve kinds of awesome, but if it wasn't, from what I can tell, it'd just be another generic lowbrow hip-hop song)
FLO RIDA Low f/T-Pain: D-
CHRIS BROWN With You: D-
BUCKCHERRY Sorry: D+
MARIAH CAREY Touch My Body: C
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Pocketful Of Sunshine: B+
COLBIE CAILLAT Realize: C+
JESSE MCCARTNEY Leavin': n/a
FLYLEAF All Around Me: A- (I remember seeing the video for the first time on Fuse when I was on vacation last Fourth of July. I can't believe how long it's stuck enough overall.)
TAYLOR SWIFT Our Song: D+ (Since when did she become Shania Twain?)
LIFEHOUSE Whatever It Takes: A-
RIHANNA Don't Stop The Music: B+
BRITNEY SPEARS Break The Ice: n/a (But did she really do an anime-style music video? If so, major props for attempting to do something somewhat original.)
METRO STATION Shake It: B-
COLBY O'DONIS What You Got f/Akon: n/a
3 DOORS DOWN It's Not My Time: B+ (Amazing how, like Nickelback, these guys seem to churn out the same song every time, yet manage to not make it sound stale.)
DAUGHTRY Feels Like Tonight: D-
MARIAH CAREY Bye Bye: n/a
GAVIN DEGRAW In Love With A Girl: D+ (How lame was it that the masked man in the video was none other than Mr. DeGraw. I mean, who else should we expect?)
FERRAS Hollywood's Not America: D+
CHERISH Killa f/Yung Joc: n/a
SEAN KINGSTON There's Nothin (f/The DEY..): n/a
JOHN MAYER Say: C+ (this kid is such a tool now. Kid? He's a man! He's 40! Erm, well actually 30.)
CHRIS BROWN Forever: n/a
WEBBIE Independent f/Lil Boozie: n/a
SIMPLE PLAN Your Love Is A Lie: B-
FLO RIDA Elevator f/Timbaland: n/a
2 PISTOLS She Got It f/T-Pain/Tay Dizm: n/a
LUPE FIASCO Superstar f/Matthew Santos: A
JONAS BROTHERS When You Look Me In The Eyes: F
C-SIDE Boyfriend/Girlfriend f/Keshia Cole: n/a
DAVID GUETTA & CHRIS WILLIS Love Is Gone: n/a
THE SPILL CANVAS All Over You: B
PANIC AT THE DISCO Nine In The Afternoon: A
SHWAYZE Buzzin: n/a (But am I the only one who's reminded of "Shwing!" from "Wayne's World"?)
SECONDHAND SERENADE Fall For You: n/a
DUFFY Mercy: F (At least Miley Cyrus doesn't sound like her.)
FOREVER THE SICKEST KIDS Whoa Oh: n/a
FALL OUT BOY Beat It: B+ (As much as I like it, it just sounds so odd. The original was so iconoclastic and groundbreaking that no cover come close to topping it. And I remember seeing somewhere that they also covered "Love Will Tear Us Apart"; I can't begin to imagine what that sounds like.)
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK Summertime: n/a LOL. Well, I guess the Backstreet Boys and Nsync are assured that 10 years from now they'll still be welcome on this format.)

Alternative

WEEZER Pork And Beans: A-
FLOBOTS Handlebars: A
SEETHER Rise Above This: B (Not nearly enough of a sample size of plays for me to form a full opinion, though.)
PUDDLE OF MUDD Psycho: F
ATREYU Falling Down: A-
RACONTEURS Salute Your Solution: B+
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE I Will Possess Your Heart: A (But I wish they had released this three or four months ago because it would've been an awesome winter song.)
LINKIN PARK Given Up: A-
NINE INCH NAILS Discipline: A
COLDPLAY Violet Hill: A+
FOO FIGHTERS Let It Die: A-
FOO FIGHTERS The Pretender: A+
BRAVERY Believe: A-
DISTURBED Inside The Fire: n/a
OFFSPRING Hammerhead: n/a
LINKIN PARK Shadow Of The Day: A+
THEORY OF A DEADMAN So Happy: n/a
APOCALYPTICA I'm Not Jesus: n/a
SEETHER Fake It: D+
10 YEARS Beautiful: B-
MGMT Time To Pretend: A+
SAVING ABEL Addicted: D
PENNYWISE The Western World: B-
LUDO Love Me Dead: C+
THREE DAYS GRACE Riot: n/a
SAFETYSUIT Someone Like You: n/a
KOOKS Always Where I Need To Be: B-
ASHES DIVIDE The Stone: A+
VAMPIRE WEEKEND A-Punk: B+
CAROLINA LIAR I'm Not Over: n/a
AVENGED SEVENFOLD Afterlife: n/a
ALKALINE TRIO Help Me: B
FINGER ELEVEN I'll Keep Your Memory Vague: n/a
RED Already Over: B
SIXX A.M. Life Is Beautiful: B+
SHINEDOWN Devour: n/a
GAVIN ROSSDALE Love Remains The Same: B
FLOGGING MOLLY Requiem For A Dying Song: B
AGAINST ME! Stop!: C+ (Nice Franz Ferdinand impression, guys.)
BLACK KEYS Strange Times: n/a
PARAMORE That's What You Get: A- (how is this struggling so badly though?)
WHIGS Right Hand On My Heart: n/a
THE TING TINGS Great DJ: B-
FILTER Soldiers Of Misfortutune: n/a
R.E.M. Supernatural Superserious: B+
KID ROCK All Summer Long: n/a
JIMMY EAT WORLD Let It Happen: B

Ac

COLBIE CAILLAT Bubbly: D-
MICHAEL BUBLE Lost: n/a
TIMBALAND/ONEREPUBLIC Apologize: A
TAYLOR SWIFT Teardrops On My Guitar: C
FERGIE Big Girls Don't Cry: B-
JORDIN SPARKS Tattoo: D
ALICIA KEYS No One: A
MICHAEL MCDONALD (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher: n/a
EAGLES Busy Being Fabulous: n/a
PLUMB In My Arms: n/a
LANDON PIGG Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop: n/a
CNOTE Forgive Me: n/a
KIMBERLEY LOCKE Fall: n/a
JOSH GROBAN Awake (Live): n/a
NELLY FURTADO In God's Hands f/Keith Urban: n/a
MAROON 5 Won't Go Home Without You: A- (But what was the reason that this couldn't do nearly as well as "Wake Up Call" on pop?)

Hot AC

MATCHBOX TWENTY These Hard Times: B+
FINGER ELEVEN Paralyzer: A
JACK JOHNSON If I Had Eyes: B+
THE LAST GOODNIGHT Stay Beautiful: C+
YAEL NAIM New Soul: D
MARIE DIGBY Say It Again: B-
JASON MRAZ I'm Yours: C-
VANESSA CARLTON Hands On Me: B+
ALANIS MORISSETTE Underneath: B
SHERYL CROW Love Is Free: D+
AUGUSTANA Sweet and Low: B+
ANNA NALICK Shine: n/a
KATE VOEGELE Only Fooling Myself: B+
SARA BAREILLES Bottle It Up: B+
NEWTON FAULKNER Dream Catch Me: C
COUNTING CROWS You Can't Count On Me: B-
COLLECTIVE SOUL All That I Know: B-
MATT NATHANSON Come On Get Higher: n/a
BRYAN ADAMS I Thought I'd Seen Enough: C

The rest don't have enough songs that I've heard for me to feel like going on.

[a Nick O!]

May 13, 2008 23:42:42 GMT -4 friday said:

BRITNEY SPEARS Break The Ice: n/a (But did she really do an anime-style music video? If so, major props for attempting to do something somewhat original.)

Well, I'm not sure it was so much her choice as it was that she was way too f***ed up and in disarray at the time to even think about shooting a music video. But yes, it's anime.

May 13, 2008 23:42:42 GMT -4 friday said:

PARAMORE That's What You Get: A- (how is this struggling so badly though?)

More than why their third single is bombing on Alternative, I'd like to know why "Misery Business" was never a Top 5 hit on the Pop chart and why "Crushcrushcrush" never made it at all. I mean, if those records didn't scream "pop crossover smash," I don't know what does.

[halo19]

Chr/Pop

LEONA LEWIS Bleeding Love: B+
JORDIN SPARKS No Air f/Chris Brown: D+
USHER Love In This Club f/Young Jeezy: B+
RAY J/YUNG BERG Sexy Can I: F
MILEY CYRUS See You Again: B+
MADONNA 4 Minutes: B-
SARA BAREILLES Love Song: nfe
ONEREPUBLIC Stop & Stare: B+
RIHANNA Take A Bow: nfe
DANITY KANE Damaged: nfe
LIL WAYNE Lollipop f/Static Major: A-
FLO RIDA Low f/T-Pain: B (Go away, though.)
CHRIS BROWN With You: C-
BUCKCHERRY Sorry: B-
MARIAH CAREY Touch My Body: D
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Pocketful Of Sunshine: C
COLBIE CAILLAT Realize: B+
JESSE MCCARTNEY Leavin': n/a
FLYLEAF All Around Me: B-
TAYLOR SWIFT Our Song: n/a
LIFEHOUSE Whatever It Takes: n/a
RIHANNA Don't Stop The Music: B (I don't know why.)
BRITNEY SPEARS Break The Ice: A-
METRO STATION Shake It: nfe
COLBY O'DONIS What You Got f/Akon: n/a by title, but if I heard I'd never have to hear Akon or T-Pain or Chris Brown, I'd hope to have that kind of relief.
3 DOORS DOWN It's Not My Time: B-
DAUGHTRY Feels Like Tonight: n/a
MARIAH CAREY Bye Bye: C-
GAVIN DEGRAW In Love With A Girl: n/a
FERRAS Hollywood's Not America: B-
CHERISH Killa f/Yung Joc: C+
SEAN KINGSTON There's Nothin (f/The DEY..): n/a
JOHN MAYER Say: B
CHRIS BROWN Forever: n/a
WEBBIE Independent f/Lil Boozie: B
SIMPLE PLAN Your Love Is A Lie: n/a
FLO RIDA Elevator f/Timbaland: nfe
2 PISTOLS She Got It f/T-Pain/Tay Dizm: C
LUPE FIASCO Superstar f/Matthew Santos: A
JONAS BROTHERS When You Look Me In The Eyes: F[/color]
C-SIDE Boyfriend/Girlfriend f/Keshia Cole: nfe
DAVID GUETTA & CHRIS WILLIS Love Is Gone: n/a
THE SPILL CANVAS All Over You: nfe
PANIC AT THE DISCO Nine In The Afternoon: B+
SHWAYZE Buzzin: n/a
SECONDHAND SERENADE Fall For You: D-
DUFFY Mercy: B+
FOREVER THE SICKEST KIDS Whoa Oh: D+
FALL OUT BOY Beat It: B+
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK Summertime: n/a (LOL.)

Alternative

WEEZER Pork And Beans: A-
FLOBOTS Handlebars: B+
SEETHER Rise Above This: B
PUDDLE OF MUDD Psycho: D+
ATREYU Falling Down: B
RACONTEURS Salute Your Solution: A-
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE I Will Possess Your Heart: B
LINKIN PARK Given Up: B-
NINE INCH NAILS Discipline: B+
COLDPLAY Violet Hill: A+
FOO FIGHTERS Let It Die: A-
FOO FIGHTERS The Pretender: A (But that's ridiculous it isn't already recurrent.)
BRAVERY Believe: A-
DISTURBED Inside The Fire: B
OFFSPRING Hammerhead: n/a
LINKIN PARK Shadow Of The Day: A
THEORY OF A DEADMAN So Happy: n/a
APOCALYPTICA I'm Not Jesus: n/a
SEETHER Fake It: D-
10 YEARS Beautiful: n/a
MGMT Time To Pretend: A
SAVING ABEL Addicted: n/a
PENNYWISE The Western World: B
LUDO Love Me Dead: B
THREE DAYS GRACE Riot: nfe
SAFETYSUIT Someone Like You: n/a
KOOKS Always Where I Need To Be: C (I'm just not fond of these guys.)
ASHES DIVIDE The Stone: A-
VAMPIRE WEEKEND A-Punk: B+
CAROLINA LIAR I'm Not Over: n/a
AVENGED SEVENFOLD Afterlife: A-
ALKALINE TRIO Help Me: B
FINGER ELEVEN I'll Keep Your Memory Vague: n/a
RED Already Over: n/a
SIXX A.M. Life Is Beautiful: B+ (Yeah, I'll admit I very much enjoyed it..)
SHINEDOWN Devour: n/a
GAVIN ROSSDALE Love Remains The Same: n/a
FLOGGING MOLLY Requiem For A Dying Song: A- (They're still just on SideOneDummy, right?)
AGAINST ME! Stop!: A
BLACK KEYS Strange Times: A (I still can't believe this even made the chart.)
PARAMORE That's What You Get: n/a
WHIGS Right Hand On My Heart: B
THE TING TINGS Great DJ: n/a
FILTER Soldiers Of Misfortutune: n/a
R.E.M. Supernatural Superserious: B+
KID ROCK All Summer Long: n/a
JIMMY EAT WORLD Let It Happen: B+

Ac

COLBIE CAILLAT Bubbly: B-
MICHAEL BUBLE Lost: n/a
TIMBALAND/ONEREPUBLIC Apologize: A
TAYLOR SWIFT Teardrops On My Guitar: B-
FERGIE Big Girls Don't Cry: C-
JORDIN SPARKS Tattoo: n/a
ALICIA KEYS No One: B
MICHAEL MCDONALD (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher: n/a
EAGLES Busy Being Fabulous: n/a
PLUMB In My Arms: n/a
LANDON PIGG Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop: nfe (It's been too long since I last heard this.)
CNOTE Forgive Me: n/a
KIMBERLEY LOCKE Fall: n/a
JOSH GROBAN Awake (Live): n/a
NELLY FURTADO In God's Hands f/Keith Urban: n/a
MAROON 5 Won't Go Home Without You: B-

Hot AC

MATCHBOX TWENTY These Hard Times: B
FINGER ELEVEN Paralyzer: B+
JACK JOHNSON If I Had Eyes: B
THE LAST GOODNIGHT Stay Beautiful: n/a
YAEL NAIM New Soul: n/a
MARIE DIGBY Say It Again: n/a
JASON MRAZ I'm Yours: n/a
VANESSA CARLTON Hands On Me: n/a
ALANIS MORISSETTE Underneath: B
SHERYL CROW Love Is Free: B
AUGUSTANA Sweet and Low: B+
ANNA NALICK Shine: n/a
KATE VOEGELE Only Fooling Myself: nfe
SARA BAREILLES Bottle It Up: n/a
NEWTON FAULKNER Dream Catch Me: n/a
COUNTING CROWS You Can't Count On Me: nfe
COLLECTIVE SOUL All That I Know: n/a (Didn't they die? Or more importantly, have they had a reason to exist in the last several years?)
MATT NATHANSON Come On Get Higher: n/a
BRYAN ADAMS I Thought I'd Seen Enough: n/a

Active Rock

MOTLEY CRUE Saints of LA: n/a
SEVENDUST Prodigal Son: n/a
DROWNING POOL Enemy: nfe
TANTRIC Down And Out: n/a
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Never Enough: n/a
REV THEORY Hell Yeah: n/a
ANOTHER BLACK DAY Wicked Souls: n/a
12 STONES Anthem For The Underdog: n/a
P.O.D. Addicted: nfe
CHEVELLE The Fad: n/a
ALTER BRIDGE Before Tomorrow Comes: n/a
HURT Loded: n/a
SIXX A.M. Pray For Me: n/a
THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH Falls Apart: n/a
BLACK TIDE Shockwave: nfe
POP EVIL Hero: n/a
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Waking The Demon: C
KORN Kiss: n/a (Hot Prince remake!)
SKILLET The Last Night: B-
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Scream Aim Fire: B-
ANEW REVOLUTION Done: n/a
CANDLEBOX Stand: n/a (I didn't know they had anything for the last 10 years, but do what you want.)
ENDEVERAFTER Baby Baby Baby: n/a
SOILWORK Exile: n/a (But cool seeing these guys on the chart at all.)

Triple A

STEVE WINWOOD Dirty City: n/a
MUDCRUTCH Scare Easy: n/a
SPOON Don't You Evah: B+
JAKOB DYLAN Something Good This Way Comes: n/a
INGRID MICHAELSON The Way I Am: C+
B-52'S Funplex: B+
BLACK CROWES Goodbye Daughters Of The Revolution: B
NEEDTOBREATHE More Time: n/a
TRISTAN PRETTYMAN Madly: B-
VAN MORRISON That's Entrainment: nfe
FEIST I Feel It All: B
MY MORNING JACKET I'm Amazed: n/a
AMOS LEE Listen: n/a

[blahblahblah]

Chr/Pop

LEONA LEWIS Bleeding Love: A+ [green](www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6jpLYNp_Mk)[/green]
JORDIN SPARKS No Air f/Chris Brown: C+ [green](I don't see the big deal with this song. It's not bad, but it's also not great either. Also, the two look really awkward in the video together.)[/green]
USHER Love In This Club f/Young Jeezy: B+
RAY J/YUNG BERG Sexy Can I: C+
MILEY CYRUS See You Again: C- (Would be an okay song if not for the nails-on-the-chalkboard-of-my-life vocals. I agree.)
MADONNA 4 Minutes: B+
SARA BAREILLES Love Song: C
ONEREPUBLIC Stop & Stare: [blue]A-[/blue]
RIHANNA Take A Bow: C+ (Boring, boring song. There's no excuse for it to be flying up the chart. Yeah and they're re-issuing her album for this? Well, this and the Maroon 5 song, but still...)
DANITY KANE Damaged: C- [green](Such terrible lyrics, "Show Stopper" was much better.)[/green]
LIL WAYNE Lollipop f/Static Major: [blue]A[/blue]
FLO RIDA Low f/T-Pain: B+
CHRIS BROWN With You: B
BUCKCHERRY Sorry: C+
MARIAH CAREY Touch My Body: B (Should've chosen a more conventional theme for the video. At least it's better than her video for "Bye Bye", which has her prancing around with her now-husband Nick Cannon, which has nothing to do with the song whatsoever.)
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Pocketful Of Sunshine: B+ [green](This song is so repetitive though, I swear I'll be sick of it very soon.)[/green]
COLBIE CAILLAT Realize: [blue]A-[/blue] [green](I'm really digging the male backup vocal harmonizing with hers for some reason.)[/green]
JESSE MCCARTNEY Leavin': B
FLYLEAF All Around Me: B
TAYLOR SWIFT Our Song: C+
LIFEHOUSE Whatever It Takes: B-
RIHANNA Don't Stop The Music: [blue]A[/blue]
BRITNEY SPEARS Break The Ice: A [green](I'm actually quite underwhelmed by the video, I think even a video montage of her doing coke or in rehab would be much more entertaining/fitting.)[/green]
METRO STATION Shake It: nfe
COLBY O'DONIS What You Got f/Akon: B+ [green](What's with R&B/hip-hop artists trying to make their songs dancey? Except the results sound like cheesy dance songs from the early 90s.)[/green]
3 DOORS DOWN It's Not My Time: C+
DAUGHTRY Feels Like Tonight: C+
MARIAH CAREY Bye Bye: [blue]A-[/blue]
GAVIN DEGRAW In Love With A Girl: D+
FERRAS Hollywood's Not America: C-
CHERISH Killa f/Yung Joc: B+
SEAN KINGSTON There's Nothin (f/The DEY & Juelz Santana): B-
JOHN MAYER Say: B+
CHRIS BROWN Forever: n/a
WEBBIE Independent f/Lil Boozie: C-
SIMPLE PLAN Your Love Is A Lie: C
FLO RIDA Elevator f/Timbaland: B+ [green](How come this is not doing nearly as well as "Low"?)[/green]
2 PISTOLS She Got It f/T-Pain/Tay Dizm: D+
LUPE FIASCO Superstar f/Matthew Santos: A+
JONAS BROTHERS When You Look Me In The Eyes: [red]F[/red] [green](Ugh, the voice just totally ruins it for me. There aren't a lot of songs that make me turn off the radio, but this song is one of them.)[/green]
C-SIDE Boyfriend/Girlfriend f/Keshia Cole: B+
DAVID GUETTA & CHRIS WILLIS Love Is Gone: B+
THE SPILL CANVAS All Over You: n/a
PANIC AT THE DISCO Nine In The Afternoon: [blue]A-[/blue]
SHWAYZE Buzzin: n/a
SECONDHAND SERENADE Fall For You: n/a
DUFFY Mercy: n/a
FOREVER THE SICKEST KIDS Whoa Oh: nfe
FALL OUT BOY Beat It: B+ (what is this song? It's actually the lead single from their live album, although this is the studio version. What is up with John Mayer not being in the video or credited in it at all?[/b][/color]
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK Summertime: n/a lol.

Alternative

WEEZER Pork And Beans: B+
FLOBOTS Handlebars: A-
...
COLDPLAY Violet Hill: B
FOO FIGHTERS Let It Die: n/a
FOO FIGHTERS The Pretender: B+
BRAVERY Believe: nfe
DISTURBED Inside The Fire: n/a
OFFSPRING Hammerhead: n/a
LINKIN PARK Shadow Of The Day: [blue]A-[/blue]
...
VAMPIRE WEEKEND A-Punk: C+
CAROLINA LIAR I'm Not Over: n/a
AVENGED SEVENFOLD Afterlife: B
...
AGAINST ME! Stop!: B+


Ac

COLBIE CAILLAT Bubbly: C
MICHAEL BUBLE Lost: n/a
TIMBALAND/ONEREPUBLIC Apologize: A+ (Interesting how Mediabase separated the two versions, while Billboard/R and R combined them. Am I the only person on earth who's nowhere near being burned out on this song at all?)
TAYLOR SWIFT Teardrops On My Guitar: B+
FERGIE Big Girls Don't Cry: B
JORDIN SPARKS C+
ALICIA KEYS No One: A+
MICHAEL MCDONALD (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher: n/a
EAGLES Busy Being Fabulous: n/a
PLUMB In My Arms: n/a
LANDON PIGG Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop: n/a
CNOTE Forgive Me: n/a
KIMBERLEY LOCKE Fall: n/a
JOSH GROBAN Awake (Live): n/a
NELLY FURTADO In God's Hands f/Keith Urban: B+ [green](Never heard the f/Keith Urban version, but I can't imagine it being too different from the original.)[/green]
MAROON 5 Won't Go Home Without You: B-

Hot AC

MATCHBOX TWENTY These Hard Times: n/a
FINGER ELEVEN Paralyzer: B+
JACK JOHNSON If I Had Eyes: B
THE LAST GOODNIGHT Stay Beautiful: n/a
YAEL NAIM New Soul: n/a
MARIE DIGBY Say It Again: n/a
JASON MRAZ I'm Yours: n/a
VANESSA CARLTON Hands On Me: n/a
ALANIS MORISSETTE Underneath: n/a
SHERYL CROW Love Is Free: C+ [green](This is such a hippy song.)[/green]
AUGUSTANA Sweet and Low: B
ANNA NALICK Shine: n/a
KATE VOEGELE Only Fooling Myself: n/a
SARA BAREILLES Bottle It Up: n/a
NEWTON FAULKNER Dream Catch Me: nfe
COUNTING CROWS You Can't Count On Me: n/a
COLLECTIVE SOUL All That I Know: n/a
MATT NATHANSON Come On Get Higher: nfe
BRYAN ADAMS I Thought I'd Seen Enough: n/a

Chr/Rhythmic
RICK ROSS Boss f/T-Pain: D+
PLIES Bust It Baby (Part 2) f/Ne-Yo: B+
DJ FELLI FEL The Finer Things f/Ne-Yo/Fabolous/Kanye West/Jermaine Dupri: B+
NE-YO Closer: [blue]A-[/blue] [green](Stargate needs to produce more songs like this and less of "Irreplaceable Part X" or "Sexy Love Part VI". I'm surprised that Urban is playing this though.)[/green]
USHER Love In This Club (Pt. II) f/Beyonce/Lil Wayne: B [green](So far...)[/green]
DAVID BANNER Get Like Me f/Chris Brown/Mike Jones: n/a
ASHANTI The Way That I Love You: [blue]A-[/blue]
THE-DREAM I Luv Your Girl: nfe
NELLY Party People f/Fergie: C- [green](It would be better if they didn't loop two verses and lowering the pitch of the second time. How lazy is that?!)[/green]
KARDINAL OFFISHALL Dangerous (f/Akon): n/a [green](Wow, Akon can get anyone a hit)[/green]
MARIO Crying Out For Me: B+ [green](This should've done better.)[/green]
ESTELLE American Boy f/ Kanye West: [blue]A+[/blue]
WIZ KHALIFA Say Yeah: C [green](lol at a rap song sampling Alice Deejay's "Better Off Alone". It's like they ran out of songs to sample or something!)[/green]
THREE 6 MAFIA Lolli Lolli (Pop That Body): nfe
BABY BASH Don't Stop (f/Keith Sweat): nfe
SHAWTY LO Dey Know: [red]F[/red] [green](Ugh, and we thought we heard the last of D4L...)[/green]
V.I.C. Get Silly: n/a
SNOOP DOGG Life Of Da Party f/Too $hort/Mistah F.A.B.: nfe
CHRIS BROWN Take You Down: B+
PITBULL Go Girl (f/Young Boss & Trina): B+ [green](It's weird how all Pitbull songs have become just regional hits and linger around #40-50 for months. I've been hearing this song since I first arrived in San Diego, which was back in August.)[/green]
THE-DREAM Falsetto: D+
CHRIS BROWN Forever: B
LLOYD Girls Around The...f/Lil Wayne: n/a
WEBBIE I Miss You f/Letoya Luckett: nfe
GAME Game's Pain f/Keyshia Cole: n/a
PLEASURE P Did You Wrong: n/a
BUN B That's Gangsta f/Sean Kingston: n/a
KARINA PASIAN 16 @ War: nfe
TREY SONGZ Last Time: n/a
ALICIA KEYS Teenage Love Affair: [blue]A+[/blue]

Urban
KEYSHIA COLE Heaven Sent: [blue]A[/blue]
RAHEEM DEVAUGHN Customer: n/a
SEAN GARRETT Grippin' (f/Ludacris): n/a
ROCKO Umma Do Me: D
SHAWTY LO Foolish: n/a [green](Great, he has another song)[/green]
LYFE JENNINGS Never Never Land: n/a
MARIO Music For Love: n/a
MIKE JONES F/HURRICANE CHRIS Drop And Gimme 50: nfe [green](But I don't recall it being anywhere close to decent)[/green]
TRINA I Got A Thang For... f/Keyshia Cole: n/a
R. KELLY Hairbraider: n/a
MARY J. BLIGE Stay Down: n/a
ACE Cash Flow f/T Pain & Rick Ross: n/a
HOT STYLZ Lookin' Boy: n/a
DAY26 Got Me Going: C+
LIL WAYNE A Milli: n/a
CHERISH Amnesia: n/a
T.I. No Matter What: n/a
JAHEIM I've Changed: n/a
FAT JOE Ain't Sayin' Nothin' f/Plies: n/a
G UNIT I Like The Way She Do It: n/a

Urban AC
KEYSHIA COLE I Remember: [blue]A-[/blue]
JAHEIM Never: n/a
ALICIA KEYS Like You'll Never See Me Again: [blue]A[/blue]
ERYKAH BADU Honey" B+
MARVIN SAPP Never Would Have Made It: n/a
MARY J. BLIGE Just Fine: [blue]A-[/blue]
J. HOLIDAY Suffocate: [blue]A-[/blue]
JILL SCOTT My Love: n/a

[a Nick O!]

May 14, 2008 11:05:52 GMT -4 blahblahblah said:

MARIAH CAREY Touch My Body: B (Should've chosen a more conventional theme for the video. At least it's better than her video for "Bye Bye", which has her prancing around with her now-husband Nick Cannon, which has nothing to do with the song whatsoever.)

When I read (and kept reading more) about their marriage, I thought, "Wow, what a lame joke." And I still refuse to believe it's for real, because that's just sad if it's true. That's even worse than Ashton Kutcher marrying Demi Moore. Ha ha! Mariah's a cougar now!

May 14, 2008 11:05:52 GMT -4 blahblahblah said:

BRITNEY SPEARS Break The Ice: A [green](I'm actually quite underwhelmed by the video.)[/green]

Yeah and it says "To be continued..." at the end. A) It won't be. B) Who the f*** would even be interested in a continuation of the video. The only reason they made it was because she was too f'ed up to shoot a real one. Are they even gonna release another single to make a new video for? 'Cause it'd probably cost more money to continue the story (unless it's already done) than for her to just shoot a new video herself.

May 14, 2008 11:05:52 GMT -4 blahblahblah said:

FLO RIDA Elevator f/Timbaland: B+ [green](How come this is not doing nearly as well as "Low"?)[/green]

Because frankly, it's not that memorable.

May 14, 2008 11:05:52 GMT -4 blahblahblah said:

TIMBALAND/ONEREPUBLIC Apologize: A+ (Am I the only person on earth who's nowhere near being burned out on this song at all?)

Even hearing it just once a week on AT40 now is almost getting to be too much at this point. (And my station skipped the 4 song block it was a part of last weekend. The show removes so many second verses anyway, I don't see what the damn problem was.)

Chr/Rhythmic

When I haven't heard half the chart, copying all the songs became too much of a bitch to bother with. Thanks for coming through.

RICK ROSS Boss f/T-Pain: B+ (T-Pain: "Cuz it's just another day in the life of the goddamn boss." )
PLIES Bust It Baby (Part 2) f/Ne-Yo: n/a
DJ FELLI FEL The Finer Things f/Ne-Yo/Fabolous/Kanye West/Jermaine Dupri: C+
NE-YO Closer: n/a [green](that I recall)[/green]
USHER Love In This Club (Pt. II) f/Beyonce/Lil Wayne: nfe
DAVID BANNER Get Like Me f/Chris Brown/Mike Jones: n/a
ASHANTI The Way That I Love You: n/a
THE-DREAM I Luv Your Girl: n/a
NELLY Party People f/Fergie: C- [green]("It would be better if they didn't loop two verses and lowering the pitch of the second time. How lazy is that?!" It gives it the illusion of being screwed. This song is a hot mess. First of all, the cool synth stuff in the background needs to be louder, the stuttering chorus is obnoxious, and they try to cram so many words into their verses that it sounds like cars crashing. "Wadsyaname" misfired, so Nelly went back to the drawing board and came up with...this? It just as bad, if not worse than the one last time! And now Fergie's gonna go ahead and put it on her Dutchess re-release ( : ? Why didn't anyone bother to tell them that the song sucks? )[/green]
KARDINAL OFFISHALL Dangerous (f/Akon): n/a
MARIO Crying Out For Me: C+ [green]("This should've done better." Wasn't this a big hit? What did you want it to do? Cross over? It's not that good. Lil Wayne's one-syllable back-and-forth conversation part of his verse on the remix is obnoxious as hell.)[/green]
ESTELLE American Boy f/ Kanye West: nfe
WIZ KHALIFA Say Yeah: n/a [green]("lol at a rap song sampling Alice Deejay's "Better Off Alone"." Wow, no way. That's badass.)[/green]
THREE 6 MAFIA Lolli Lolli (Pop That Body): n/a
BABY BASH Don't Stop (f/Keith Sweat): nfe (But good to see Keith Sweat back around. I've always liked his voice.)
SHAWTY LO Dey Know: A- [green]("Ugh, and we thought we heard the last of D4L..." What are you talking about?? This song pistol whips D4L's two main singles unconscious. (Although the "I don't need this beat/I can rock it a cappello [sic]" is cringe-worthy.) I don't get why you don't like "The Boss," either. These are the best two hip hop tracks out right now.)[/green]
V.I.C. Get Silly: nfe
SNOOP DOGG Life Of Da Party f/Too $hort/Mistah F.A.B.: nfe
CHRIS BROWN Take You Down: n/a
PITBULL Go Girl (f/Young Boss & Trina): n/a
THE-DREAM Falsetto: D+
CHRIS BROWN Forever: B
LLOYD Girls Around The...f/Lil Wayne: nfe (The song's kind of generic and anonymous, but Wayne's verse is decent.)
WEBBIE I Miss You f/Letoya Luckett: n/a
GAME Game's Pain f/Keyshia Cole: n/a
PLEASURE P Did You Wrong: n/a
BUN B That's Gangsta f/Sean Kingston: n/a
KARINA PASIAN 16 @ War: nfe
TREY SONGZ Last Time: n/a
ALICIA KEYS Teenage Love Affair: C- (I find this to be really ordinary. And frankly, it's hard to listen to her music the same after reading her asinine conspiracy theories in Blender on gangsta rap and the AK47 pendant she wears now.)

Urban

KEYSHIA COLE Heaven Sent: n/a
RAHEEM DEVAUGHN Customer: n/a
SEAN GARRETT Grippin' (f/Ludacris): n/a
ROCKO Umma Do Me: F (There's not much urban slang that grates on my nerves for whatever reason than that whole "You just do you/I'ma [excuse me 'umma' ] do me" thing.)
SHAWTY LO Foolish: C+ [green]("Great, he has another song." Now I'll give you this one. While it doesn't outright suck, it's nowhere near as choice as "Dey Know.")[/green]
LYFE JENNINGS Never Never Land: n/a
MARIO Music For Love: n/a
MIKE JONES F/HURRICANE CHRIS Drop And Gimme 50: n/a
TRINA I Got A Thang For... f/Keyshia Cole: n/a
R. KELLY Hairbraider: n/a
MARY J. BLIGE Stay Down: n/a
ACE Cash Flow f/T Pain & Rick Ross: n/a
HOT STYLZ Lookin' Boy: n/a
DAY26 Got Me Going: n/a
LIL WAYNE A Milli: n/a
CHERISH Amnesia: n/a
T.I. No Matter What: nfe (But the feel of the music kind of rubs me the wrong way for some reason.)
JAHEIM I've Changed: n/a
FAT JOE Ain't Sayin' Nothin' f/Plies: n/a
G UNIT I Like The Way She Do It: n/a

Urban AC

KEYSHIA COLE I Remember: D (I'm sorry, but this has to be the most boring mainstream R&B song I've heard in a long time.)
JAHEIM Never: n/a
ALICIA KEYS Like You'll Never See Me Again: C
ERYKAH BADU Honey" nfe
MARVIN SAPP Never Would Have Made It: n/a
MARY J. BLIGE Just Fine: nfe
J. HOLIDAY Suffocate: nfe
JILL SCOTT My Love: n/a

[Pipa]

CHR/Pop

LEONA LEWIS Bleeding Love: D (I can't stand these damn yodeling songs.)
JORDIN SPARKS No Air f/Chris Brown: n/a
USHER Love In This Club f/Young Jeezy: n/a
RAY J/YUNG BERG Sexy Can I: n/a
MILEY CYRUS See You Again: A-
MADONNA 4 Minutes: A
SARA BAREILLES Love Song: A
ONEREPUBLIC Stop & Stare: A+
RIHANNA Take A Bow: n/a
DANITY KANE Damaged: n/a
LIL WAYNE Lollipop f/Static Major: n/a
FLO RIDA Low f/T-Pain: D
CHRIS BROWN With You: n/a
BUCKCHERRY Sorry: B+
MARIAH CAREY Touch My Body: n/a
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Pocketful Of Sunshine: n/a
COLBIE CAILLAT Realize: B
JESSE MCCARTNEY Leavin': n/a
FLYLEAF All Around Me: B+
TAYLOR SWIFT Our Song: n/a
LIFEHOUSE Whatever It Takes: nfe
RIHANNA Don't Stop The Music: n/a
BRITNEY SPEARS Break The Ice: n/a
METRO STATION Shake It: A (This and "See You Again" are just too catchy to hate.)
COLBY O'DONIS What You Got f/Akon: n/a
3 DOORS DOWN It's Not My Time: A+
DAUGHTRY Feels Like Tonight: B-
MARIAH CAREY Bye Bye: n/a
GAVIN DEGRAW In Love With A Girl: n/a
FERRAS Hollywood's Not America: n/a
CHERISH Killa f/Yung Joc: n/a
SEAN KINGSTON There's Nothin (f/The DEY..): n/a
CHRIS BROWN Forever: n/a
WEBBIE Independent f/Lil Boozie: n/a
SIMPLE PLAN Your Love Is A Lie: B-
FLO RIDA Elevator f/Timbaland: n/a
2 PISTOLS She Got It f/T-Pain/Tay Dizm: n/a
LUPE FIASCO Superstar f/Matthew Santos: n/a
JONAS BROTHERS When You Look Me In The Eyes: n/a
C-SIDE Boyfriend/Girlfriend f/Keshia Cole: n/a
DAVID GUETTA & CHRIS WILLIS Love Is Gone: n/a
THE SPILL CANVAS All Over You: n/a
PANIC AT THE DISCO Nine In The Afternoon: n/a
SHWAYZE Buzzin: n/a
SECONDHAND SERENADE Fall For You: n/a
DUFFY Mercy: C (There's something about this that just doesn't click with me.)
FOREVER THE SICKEST KIDS Whoa Oh: C+
FALL OUT BOY Beat It: n/a
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK Summertime: n/a

Alternative

WEEZER Pork And Beans: A+
FLOBOTS Handlebars: A
SEETHER Rise Above This: n/a (This song is #3 on Alternative and Canada-Rock, but I've only heard it 3 times. I don't even remember how it goes.)
PUDDLE OF MUDD Psycho: B-
ATREYU Falling Down: A-
RACONTEURS Salute Your Solution: A
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE I Will Possess Your Heart: B+
LINKIN PARK Given Up: C+ (It's like Iggy Pop meets nu-metal.)
NINE INCH NAILS Discipline: A
COLDPLAY Violet Hill: A+
FOO FIGHTERS Let It Die: B+
FOO FIGHTERS The Pretender: A-
BRAVERY Believe: B
DISTURBED Inside The Fire: B+
OFFSPRING Hammerhead: A
LINKIN PARK Shadow Of The Day: B-
THEORY OF A DEADMAN So Happy: B+
APOCALYPTICA I'm Not Jesus: B
SEETHER Fake It: B+
10 YEARS Beautiful: C+
MGMT Time To Pretend: nfe
SAVING ABEL Addicted: D-
PENNYWISE The Western World: n/a
LUDO Love Me Dead: n/a
THREE DAYS GRACE Riot: A-
SAFETYSUIT Someone Like You: n/a
KOOKS Always Where I Need To Be: B+
ASHES DIVIDE The Stone: A
VAMPIRE WEEKEND A-Punk: B
CAROLINA LIAR I'm Not Over: B
AVENGED SEVENFOLD Afterlife: A+
ALKALINE TRIO Help Me: n/a
FINGER ELEVEN I'll Keep Your Memory Vague: B+ (Horribly overplayed in Canada though.)
RED Already Over: n/a
SIXX A.M. Life Is Beautiful: B+
SHINEDOWN Devour: A+
GAVIN ROSSDALE Love Remains The Same: B+
FLOGGING MOLLY Requiem For A Dying Song: n/a
AGAINST ME! Stop!: B+
BLACK KEYS Strange Times: C+
PARAMORE That's What You Get: B
WHIGS Right Hand On My Heart: n/a
THE TING TINGS Great DJ: n/a
FILTER Soldiers Of Misfortutune: n/a
R.E.M. Supernatural Superserious: B
KID ROCK All Summer Long: B-
JIMMY EAT WORLD Let It Happen: n/a

Ac

COLBIE CAILLAT Bubbly: B+
MICHAEL BUBLE Lost: n/a
TIMBALAND/ONEREPUBLIC Apologize: A
TAYLOR SWIFT Teardrops On My Guitar: n/a
FERGIE Big Girls Don't Cry: B-
JORDIN SPARKS Tattoo: B
ALICIA KEYS No One: C
MICHAEL MCDONALD (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher: n/a
EAGLES Busy Being Fabulous: n/a
PLUMB In My Arms: n/a
LANDON PIGG Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop: n/a
CNOTE Forgive Me: n/a
KIMBERLEY LOCKE Fall: n/a
JOSH GROBAN Awake (Live): n/a
NELLY FURTADO In God's Hands f/Keith Urban: n/a
MAROON 5 Won't Go Home Without You: B-

Hot AC

MATCHBOX TWENTY These Hard Times: n/a
FINGER ELEVEN Paralyzer: A+
JACK JOHNSON If I Had Eyes: B
THE LAST GOODNIGHT Stay Beautiful: B+
YAEL NAIM New Soul: n/a
MARIE DIGBY Say It Again: n/a
JASON MRAZ I'm Yours: n/a
VANESSA CARLTON Hands On Me: n/a
ALANIS MORISSETTE Underneath: n/a
SHERYL CROW Love Is Free: n/a
AUGUSTANA Sweet and Low: n/a
ANNA NALICK Shine: n/a
KATE VOEGELE Only Fooling Myself: n/a
SARA BAREILLES Bottle It Up: n/a
NEWTON FAULKNER Dream Catch Me: n/a
COUNTING CROWS You Can't Count On Me: n/a
COLLECTIVE SOUL All That I Know: B+
MATT NATHANSON Come On Get Higher: n/a
BRYAN ADAMS I Thought I'd Seen Enough: n/a

Active Rock

MOTLEY CRUE Saints of LA: A-
SEVENDUST Prodigal Son: B
DROWNING POOL Enemy: B-
TANTRIC Down And Out: B-
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Never Enough: n/a
REV THEORY Hell Yeah: n/a
ANOTHER BLACK DAY Wicked Souls: n/a
12 STONES Anthem For The Underdog: n/a
P.O.D. Addicted: n/a
CHEVELLE The Fad: B+
ALTER BRIDGE Before Tomorrow Comes: n/a
HURT Loded: n/a
SIXX A.M. Pray For Me: n/a
THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH Falls Apart: B+
BLACK TIDE Shockwave: B+
POP EVIL Hero: n/a
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Waking The Demon: n/a
KORN Kiss: n/a
SKILLET The Last Night: n/a
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Scream Aim Fire: n/a
ANEW REVOLUTION Done: n/a
CANDLEBOX Stand: n/a
ENDEVERAFTER Baby Baby Baby: n/a
SOILWORK Exile: n/a

Triple A

STEVE WINWOOD Dirty City: n/a
MUDCRUTCH Scare Easy: n/a
SPOON Don't You Evah: n/a
JAKOB DYLAN Something Good This Way Comes: n/a
INGRID MICHAELSON The Way I Am: n/a
B-52'S Funplex: n/a
BLACK CROWES Goodbye Daughters Of The Revolution: B+
NEEDTOBREATHE More Time: n/a
TRISTAN PRETTYMAN Madly: n/a
VAN MORRISON That's Entrainment: n/a
FEIST I Feel It All: n/a
MY MORNING JACKET I'm Amazed: n/a
AMOS LEE Listen: n/a


Screw Urban, Urban AC, CHR/Rhythmic, Country, and whatever other format I missed.

[Mega248]

Chr/Pop

LEONA LEWIS Bleeding Love: B (but no reason why this should be shattering airplay records. Oh well, I'm sure within the next 2-3 months the record will be broken yet again. :
USHER Love In This Club f/Young Jeezy: B-
RAY J/YUNG BERG Sexy Can I: F[/color]
MILEY CYRUS See You Again: D+ (what Steve said.)
MADONNA 4 Minutes: B+
SARA BAREILLES Love Song: B- (burned out on me pretty fast.)
ONEREPUBLIC Stop & Stare: A-[/color]
RIHANNA Take A Bow: C- (Boring, boring song. There's no excuse for it to be flying up the chart. No kidding. It's so dull that I can never get through more than a minute or so of it without changing the station.)
DANITY KANE Damaged: C
LIL WAYNE Lollipop f/Static Major: D-
FLO RIDA Low f/T-Pain: D
CHRIS BROWN With You: D+
BUCKCHERRY Sorry: D+ (why is this one of their biggest hits.)
MARIAH CAREY Touch My Body: C+
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Pocketful Of Sunshine: C+
COLBIE CAILLAT Realize: B-
JESSE MCCARTNEY Leavin': C
FLYLEAF All Around Me: B (yeah, this hit my chart 6 months ago and I thought I was late on it.)
TAYLOR SWIFT Our Song: C
LIFEHOUSE Whatever It Takes: B
RIHANNA Don't Stop The Music: C+
BRITNEY SPEARS Break The Ice: A-[/color]
METRO STATION Shake It: n/a
COLBY O'DONIS What You Got f/Akon: n/a (but the featured artist is enough to make me hope the n/a stays that way.)[/color]
3 DOORS DOWN It's Not My Time: B-
DAUGHTRY Feels Like Tonight: C+
MARIAH CAREY Bye Bye: n/a
GAVIN DEGRAW In Love With A Girl: B
FERRAS Hollywood's Not America: B
CHERISH Killa f/Yung Joc: n/a
SEAN KINGSTON There's Nothin (f/The DEY..): n/a (I heard a few seconds of something that sounded like him on the radio the other day though. It sounded better than "Beautiful Girls" but worse than the other two singles.)
JOHN MAYER Say: n/a (but Steve's comment makes me kinda eager to hear it.)
CHRIS BROWN Forever: D+ (sorry, Timbo didn't help you much here.)
WEBBIE Independent f/Lil Boozie: n/a
SIMPLE PLAN Your Love Is A Lie: n/a
FLO RIDA Elevator f/Timbaland: C
2 PISTOLS She Got It f/T-Pain/Tay Dizm: n/a
LUPE FIASCO Superstar f/Matthew Santos: A
JONAS BROTHERS When You Look Me In The Eyes: D ( and wtf at Rooney opening for them. They don't even deserve to open for Rooney, let alone the other way around.)
C-SIDE Boyfriend/Girlfriend f/Keshia Cole: n/a
DAVID GUETTA & CHRIS WILLIS Love Is Gone: A-[/color]
THE SPILL CANVAS All Over You: C+
PANIC AT THE DISCO Nine In The Afternoon: A-[/color] (and I think this is one of their best.)
SHWAYZE Buzzin: n/a
SECONDHAND SERENADE Fall For You: n/a
DUFFY Mercy: A-[/color]
FOREVER THE SICKEST KIDS Whoa Oh: n/a
FALL OUT BOY Beat It: C+ (Decent enough. I just don't see why this needed to be remade as a punk song.)
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK Summertime: C- (apparently they reunited earlier this year. This song isn't the slightest bit exciting or catchy, and the bullet is bound to decrease dramatically once people look at the song itself and past the fact that it's a new NKOTB tune.)

Alternative

WEEZER Pork And Beans: B+
FLOBOTS Handlebars: A-
SEETHER Rise Above This: B-
PUDDLE OF MUDD Psycho: C-
ATREYU Falling Down: B-
RACONTEURS Salute Your Solution: B
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE I Will Possess Your Heart: B (but finally growing.)
LINKIN PARK Given Up: nfe
NINE INCH NAILS Discipline: B
COLDPLAY Violet Hill: B+ (still not loving it quite as much as a lot of people seem to be.)
FOO FIGHTERS Let It Die: B
FOO FIGHTERS The Pretender: B+
BRAVERY Believe: A[/color]
DISTURBED Inside The Fire: C
OFFSPRING Hammerhead: n/a
LINKIN PARK Shadow Of The Day: B-
THEORY OF A DEADMAN So Happy: C
APOCALYPTICA I'm Not Jesus: n/a
SEETHER Fake It: C+
10 YEARS Beautiful: n/a
MGMT Time To Pretend: A+
SAVING ABEL Addicted: D
PENNYWISE The Western World: n/a
LUDO Love Me Dead: B-
THREE DAYS GRACE Riot: D+
SAFETYSUIT Someone Like You: n/a
KOOKS Always Where I Need To Be: B
ASHES DIVIDE The Stone: A+[/color]
VAMPIRE WEEKEND A-Punk: A-[/color]
CAROLINA LIAR I'm Not Over: n/a
AVENGED SEVENFOLD Afterlife: B-
ALKALINE TRIO Help Me: B- (A bit dissapointing. Not a very memorable song after a couple listens.)
FINGER ELEVEN I'll Keep Your Memory Vague: d/r (it's been a couple months since I've heard this, but it's probably around a B-/C+.)
RED Already Over: n/a
SIXX A.M. Life Is Beautiful: B
SHINEDOWN Devour: n/a (but I had no idea they'd made enough of a name for themselves on this format to warrant a +300 bullet right out of the gate.)
GAVIN ROSSDALE Love Remains The Same: B (but poppier than I would've expected. The first time I heard this on the radio I immediately thought it sounded like him but wasn't sure if it was because it sounded a bit too mainstream.)
FLOGGING MOLLY Requiem For A Dying Song: nfe
AGAINST ME! Stop!: B
BLACK KEYS Strange Times: B-
PARAMORE That's What You Get: n/a
WHIGS Right Hand On My Heart: n/a
THE TING TINGS Great DJ: C (I often go for songs like these, but not this time.)
R.E.M. Supernatural Superserious: A-[/color]
KID ROCK All Summer Long: B- (Not bad at all. I may even have to chart this at some point.)
JIMMY EAT WORLD Let It Happen: B+ (No excuse for this not to be in the top 40, esepcially with such a weak spin threshold at the bottom of the chart these days.)
Ac

COLBIE CAILLAT Bubbly: A-[/color]
MICHAEL BUBLE Lost: B-
TIMBALAND/ONEREPUBLIC Apologize: B+
TAYLOR SWIFT Teardrops On My Guitar: B+
FERGIE Big Girls Don't Cry: A-
JORDIN SPARKS Tattoo: C-
ALICIA KEYS No One: C
MICHAEL MCDONALD (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher: n/a (but I might as well give this a C now, because that's about what all his other Motown remakes have gotten.)
EAGLES Busy Being Fabulous: B-
PLUMB In My Arms: n/a
LANDON PIGG Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop: n/a (but that name really needs to go.)
CNOTE Forgive Me: n/a (but LOL @ them coming back 9 years after that minor top 40 hit.)
KIMBERLEY LOCKE Fall: n/a
JOSH GROBAN Awake (Live): n/a
NELLY FURTADO In God's Hands f/Keith Urban: B (okay, I haven't heard the version with Keith Urban either, but I doubt the grade will go up or down that much.)
MAROON 5 Won't Go Home Without You: B

I'll do more later probably.

[blahblahblah]

May 15, 2008 5:16:47 GMT -4 a Nick O! said:

When I read (and kept reading more) about their marriage, I thought, "Wow, what a lame joke." And I still refuse to believe it's for real, because that's just sad if it's true. That's even worse than Ashton Kutcher marrying Demi Moore. Ha ha! Mariah's a cougar now!

When I first heard about it on the radio, I thought he was joking, but yeah... Oh well, Ray J and Whitney Houston still takes the cake for being most gross, although they're not married... yet.

May 15, 2008 5:16:47 GMT -4 a Nick O! said:

MARIO Crying Out For Me: C+ [green]("This should've done better." Wasn't this a big hit? What did you want it to do? Cross over? It's not that good. Lil Wayne's one-syllable back-and-forth conversation part of his verse on the remix is obnoxious as hell.)[/green]

Well I expected at least one of his hits from his current album to crossover, so yes. And yes, the remix with Lil Wayne sucks.

May 15, 2008 5:16:47 GMT -4 a Nick O! said:

SHAWTY LO Dey Know: A- [green]("Ugh, and we thought we heard the last of D4L..." What are you talking about?? This song pistol whips D4L's two main singles unconscious. (Although the "I don't need this beat/I can rock it a cappello [sic]" is cringe-worthy.) I don't get why you don't like "The Boss," either. These are the best two hip hop tracks out right now.)[/green]

I never really liked Rick Ross, I find his voice to be kinda annoying, so that's mostly why I couldn't get into "The Boss", although it's not that bad of a song. Fine, "Dey Know" is much better than the two D4L singles I'll give you that, but I still don't really care for it.

May 18, 2008 2:17:15 GMT -4 Mega248 said:

CHRIS BROWN Forever: D+ (sorry, Timbo didn't help you much here.)

As much as the beat sounds like a rip-off of "SexyBack" and "The Way I Are", this song is actually a Polow Da Don production.

[krazymack]

I love the pop chart right now -- a lot of great songs!

LEONA LEWIS Bleeding Love: A++ (one of the best #1 on the pop chart in a long while, besides Alicia, from someone who can truly sing on a Mariah and Whitney level and has personality – this makes me excited about the direction of pop music once again)
JORDIN SPARKS No Air f/Chris Brown: A-
USHER Love In This Club f/Young Jeezy: A+
RAY J/YUNG BERG Sexy Can I: A- (this guy is a freak!)
MILEY CYRUS See You Again: A+ (I would be very embarrassed to admit that I really like this in public. Shhhh. – it is my most played song on itunes)
MADONNA 4 Minutes: A+
SARA BAREILLES Love Song: A-
ONEREPUBLIC Stop & Stare: B+
RIHANNA Take A Bow: B-
DANITY KANE Damaged: A-
LIL WAYNE Lollipop f/Static Major: A+ (Wayne was probably stoned in the studio when he recorded this…he was sniffing on that… and sipping on some of that…I’ll also guess that some in between candy delights were enjoyed which was the motivation behind the song)
FLO RIDA Low f/T-Pain: A-
CHRIS BROWN With You: B
BUCKCHERRY Sorry: D (very wack, corny and lame – couldn’t be titled any better - One big ball of cheese!)
MARIAH CAREY Touch My Body: A-
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Pocketful Of Sunshine: A-
COLBIE CAILLAT Realize: C+
JESSE MCCARTNEY Leavin': A
FLYLEAF All Around Me: C+
TAYLOR SWIFT Our Song: B- (okay, but it is country heavy, airplay reception at the bigger metro markets was a “no go” for this one.)
LIFEHOUSE Whatever It Takes: B
RIHANNA Don't Stop The Music: B+
BRITNEY SPEARS Break The Ice: A
METRO STATION Shake It: C+
COLBY O'DONIS What You Got f/Akon: A
3 DOORS DOWN It's Not My Time: A-
DAUGHTRY Feels Like Tonight: B-
MARIAH CAREY Bye Bye: A
GAVIN DEGRAW In Love With A Girl: B+
FERRAS Hollywood's Not America C (he is playing like he has a voice when in fact it sounds very soulless – it can be spotted easily)
CHERISH Killa f/Yung Joc: B+
SEAN KINGSTON There's Nothin (f/The DEY..): B (incredible cheesy but Sean Kingston is naturally that)
CHRIS BROWN Forever: B
WEBBIE Independent f/Lil Boozie: A (Excellent use of the repetitive spelling hook and silly folks want to laugh at it. The significance in the lyrics is real! S*** needs to be spelled out for those irresponsible men who don’t appreciate the hard working women they have)
SIMPLE PLAN Your Love Is A Lie: C+
FLO RIDA Elevator f/Timbaland: C (Flo Rida is getting low, low, low, low with this one and needs to ride the s*** downstairs cause this track is a weak followup)
2 PISTOLS She Got It f/T-Pain/Tay Dizm: B-
LUPE FIASCO Superstar f/Matthew Santos: B+ (tired of it though)
JONAS BROTHERS When You Look Me In The Eyes: C- (triple decker with double cheese)
C-SIDE Boyfriend/Girlfriend f/Keshia Cole: B+
DAVID GUETTA & CHRIS WILLIS Love Is Gone: A-
THE SPILL CANVAS All Over You: C-
PANIC AT THE DISCO Nine In The Afternoon: D+
SHWAYZE Buzzin: B-
SECONDHAND SERENADE Fall For You: B-
DUFFY Mercy: C+
FOREVER THE SICKEST KIDS Whoa Oh: C
FALL OUT BOY Beat It: A- (Very nice cover, but the original song is hard to mess up.)
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK Summertime: A (I used to like them as a kid, I still have all of their vinyls…lol, now they are back in the game…I give em’ kudos for reuniting like that – The single is nice and smooth, I like!)

[krazymack]

May 12, 2008 5:42:05 GMT -4 a Nick O! said:

Chr/Pop


MILEY CYRUS See You Again: B (The music excuses her (understandably) girly voice. I can't believe this does not have a music video yet.)

I would consider the following as the official music video for "See You Again" - random footage from her "Hannah Montana: Best Of Both Worlds Tour":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JWh6mAYtsA

[krazymack]

May 18, 2008 2:17:15 GMT -4 Mega248 said:

Chr/Pop

CNOTE Forgive Me: n/a (but LOL @ them coming back 9 years after that minor top 40 hit.)

OMG, I forgot to comment on this. It is funny that CNote never had any "real" celebrity status anyway yet so surprising that most are still together. I actually met them in the summer of 1999 when they appeared at a camp I was working at in Fishkill, New York and they performed their hit, "Wait Til' I Get Home" which peaked in the upper 30's on the pop top 40 chart. They were very nice dudes, nevertheless.