Carrie Underwood Debuts @ #19

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Mel’s Weekly Top 20
Week of December 20, 2009

This is the last Mel's Weekly Top 20 chart that will apply to my year end chart listing. Starting next week, the Weekly Top 20 chart will be used to tabulate the Top 100 songs of 2010.

This Week - Song Title - Artist - Last Week

1. Bad Romance (4th week @ #1) - Lady GaGa - 1
2. Meet Me Halfway - Black Eyed Peas - 3
3. Fireflies - Owl City - 2
4. Need You Now - Lady Antebellum - 8
5. Russian Roulette - Rihanna - 6
6. I Heard of a Girl - Miss Li - 7
7. The Golden Age - The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - 5
8. Don't Upset The Rhythm (Go Baby Go) - Noisettes - 4
9. Chasing Pirates - Norah Jones - 11
10. Again - Flyleaf - 12
11. Welcome To The Future - Brad Paisley - 13
12. Bulletproof - La Roux - 10
13. It's Your Life - Francesca Battistelli - 14
14. The Sweetest Thing - Camera Obscura - 15
15. All The Right Moves - OneRepublic - 9
16. Last Dance - The Raveonettes - 18
17. East Jesus Nowhere - Green Day - 19
18. Come On (Edit) - Green River Ordinance - 20
19. Cowboy Casanova - Carrie Underwood - new
20. If You Only Knew - Shinedown - new

CHART NOTES:

Happy Holidays!

Lady GaGa holds strong at #1 for a 4th consecutive week with her smash hit, "Bad Romance". The song is off her album The Fame Monster, a current hot seller.

Country group Lady Antebellum gains momentum this week with "Need You Now". The huge crossover hit moves up 4 points from #8 to #4 this week. Also breaking into the top 5 is Rihanna and her single "Russian Roulette" moving up 1 from #6 to #5.

Flyleaf and Norah Jones break into the top 10 with their hits "Again" @ #10 and "Chasing Pirates" @ #11.

Carrie Underwood's latest single "Cowboy Cassanova" is a late arrival to my personal chart. It is a great rockin' uptempo contemporary country song.

Carrie Underwood was the big winner of the 2005 season of American Idol. Today she has 3 top hit albums, several number 1 hit records including "Jesus Take the Wheel", "All American Girl" and "Before He Cheats".

Shinedown's rocker "If You Only Knew" debuts at #20. Their former #1 track "Second Chance" fell off the Weekly Top 20 this week after a long chart run.

TOP 10 OLDIES
As submitted to Plannine's Classic Top 30 site

1. I Only Want to Be With You - The Tourists
2. The Lonely Bull - Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
3. If Not For You - Olivia Newton-John
4. Lazy Day - Spanky & Our Gang
5. I Am The Walrus - The Beatles
6. God Love & Rock n Roll - Teagarden & Van Winkle
7. Hi Hi Hi - Paul McCartney & Wings
8. Beautiful Morning - East
9. Corina Corina - Ray Petersen
10. Take a Little Rhythm - Ali Thompson