Mel's Weekly Top 20 & More

Mel's Weekly Top 20
Week of January 24, 2010.

TW Title - Artist - LW

1. Need You Now (4th week @ #1!) - Lady Antebellum - 1
2. Cowboy Casanova - Carrie Underwood - 2
3. Two Is Better Than One -
Boys Like Girls featuring Taylor Swift - 7
4. Bad Romance - Lady GaGa - 3
5. Chasing Pirates - Norah Jones - 5
6. I Heard of a Girl - Miss Li - 4
7. Meet Me Halfway - Black Eyed Peas - 6
8. It's Your Life - Francesca Battistelli - 9
9. The Sweetest Thing - Camera Obscura - 8
10. If You Only Knew - Shinedown - 13
11. Breakeven - The Script - 14
12. Hard (featuring Young Jeezy) - Rihanna - 19
13. White Liar - Miranda Lambert - 15
14. We The People - Ray Stevens - 16
15. Last Dance - The Raveonettes - 10
16. Russian Roulette - Rihanna - 11
17. Fireflies - Owl City - 12
18. Hey, Soul Sister - Train - new
19. Telephone - Lady GaGa Feat. Beyoncé - new
20. You and Me - Dave Matthews Band - new

CHART NOTES:

Lady Antebellum leads the charts again as "Need You Now" holds the #1 spot for a 4th consecutive week. Carrie Underwood's "Cowboy Casanova" still holds strong at #2 for another week while Boys Like Girls with Taylor Swift moves up four from #7 to #3 with "Two is Better Than One." Further down the chart we see more movement with Shinedown, The Script and Rihanna making gains. Three debut songs include "Hey, Soul Sister" from Train at #18, "Telephone" by Lady GaGa and Beyonce at #19, and the Dave Matthews Band at #20 with "You and Me."

WITHER THE SIXTYONE.COM

I am saddened to learn that with TheSixtyOne.com's new makeover that all of their embed files of independent, user chosen music published on external websites such as this blog, have all disappeared as of last week. The new makeover that the publishers gave to the place made it look like one giant iPod Touch with a user interface that is difficult to navigate, breaks many of the social aspects of the sites, and even links/comments to and from artist and fan pages. All of our favorites have apparently disappeared from site too which impacted the embed files placed on this blog.

As a result I probably will not be using TheSixtyOne.com very often even though I will keep my current membership and password there. The new site design is a low blow to finding, appreciating and most importantly saving, creating and publishing new and independent artist music and playlists that over the past 2 years contributed to the songs I listened to on my iPod and posted to my charts.

I'll continue to listen to, download and buy indie music that I like but probably not preview them through this TheSixtyOne.com until the U.I. is made more user friendly.

MEL'S TOP 10 OLDIES
As posted to Plannine's Classic Top 20 Page
January 22, 2010

1. Hi Hi Hi - Paul McCartney & Wings
2. Wrack My Brain - Ringo Starr
3. Give Up Your Guns - The Buoys
4. If Not For You - Olivia Newton John
5. Take A Litle Rhythm - Ali Thompson
6. I Only Want To Be With You - The Tourists
7. 1984 - Spirit
8. Take This Job & Shove It - Johnny Paycheck
9. Ahab The Arab - Ray Stevens
10. Rock the Casbah - The Clash