The Decemberists Hit #1

Mel's Weekly Top 20

Week of February 13, 2011.

This Week	Tiitle	Artist	Last Week
1	Down By the Water	The Decemberists	3
2	Hands	The Ting Tings	2
3	Stereo Love	Edward Maya ft. Vika Jigulina	5
4	Back To December	Taylor Swift	1
5	Grenade	Bruno Mars	4
6	Rolling In The Deep	Adele	9
7	I Just Wanna Run	The Downtown Fiction	7
8	We No Speak Americano (Original)	Yolanda Be Cool & Dcup	6
9	Little Lion Man	Mumford & Sons	11
10	We R Who We R	Ke$ha	13
11	Raise Your Glass	P!nk	14
12	Price Tag	Jessie J	19
13	A Year Without Rain	Selena Gomez & The Scene	10
14	The Time (Dirty Bit)	Black Eyed Peas	8
15	Rogue Machine (Say That You Need Me)	The Daylights	16
16	Your Song	Ellie Goulding	17
17	All You Need Is Now	Duran Duran	12
18	Pumped Up Kicks	Foster the People	20
19	Born This Way	Lady GaGa	--
20	Valentine	Bobby Bare Jr	--

CHART NOTES:

"Down By The Water" from the rock group The Decemberists climb to #1 this week, up 2 from #3 last week. This song has been on the chart since January 2 after being a free giveaway on iTunes during the last weeks of December. The track is from The Decemberists' newest album The King is Dead and features R.E.M.'s Peter Buck on guitar and Gillian Welch on vocal harmonies. The song represents a break from the band's British influenced style. It picks up more of a country-rock flair to the track. I hear the entire album is in this vein and await the arrival of my CD of it from Amazon.com.

The Decemberists have hit this chart before with the following singles" "O Valencia" which hit #7 in 2007 , "Valerie Plame" hit #14 in 2008 and "The Rake Song" #12 in 2009. My favorite album by the band is The Crane Wife which came out in 2006.

RECENT #1 SONGS:

Back to December - Taylor Swift
Grenade - Bruno Mars
We No Speak Americano - Yolanda Be Cool & Dcup
A Year Without Rain - Selena Gomez & the Scene

FEATURED VIDEO

THE DECEMBERISTS "Down by The Water" Live on KCRW

CLASSIC VIDEO

J. GEILS BAND "Love Stinks" (1980)