Dengue Fever Tops the Chart with "Cement Slippers"

Listen to "Cement Slipppers" by clicking on the player below:

Mel's Weekly Top 20

Week of March 27, 2011.

This Week	Tiitle	Artist	Last Week
1	Cement Slippers	Dengue Fever	2
2	Price Tag	Jessie J	1
3	Rolling In The Deep	Adele	3
4	Born This Way	Lady GaGa	4
5	Pumped Up Kicks	Foster the People	7
6	Let's Go (feat. TobyMac)	Group 1 Crew	6
7	This Is The Stuff	Francesca Battistelli	8
8	On The Floor	Jennifer Lopez Feat. Pitbull	9
9	Just Can't Get Enough	Black Eyed Peas	11
10	Down By the Water	The Decemberists	5
11	Rogue Machine (Say That You Need Me)	The Daylights	12
12	L.O.V.	Fitz & The Tantrums	13
13	UBerlin	R.E.M.	14
14	From a Table Away	Sunny Sweeney	16
15	Hands	The Ting Tings	10
16	Who's That Chick	Rihanna	17
17	L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.	Noah & the Whale	19
18	S&M	Rihanna	20
19	I Do	Colbie Caillat	--
20	Machu Picchu	The Strokes	--

CHART NOTES

Dengue Fever moves into the #1 spot with their lead off single from their forthcoming album Cannibal Courtship called "Cement Slippers". The song has been a free download off the Dengue Fever website for weeks now and precludes the April 19 release of the new album. Listening to the sample tracks off the new album has me excited about getting it on the first day out. I've become a fan of Dengue Fever since I was made aware of them late last summer. Saw them in concert on October 30, 2010. Love their music. "Cement Slippers" could be their big breakout single. Reminds me somewhat of the old "Rock Lobster" song from the B-52s.

Elsewhere on the chart: Not much upward movement in most of the songs this week. Foster the People break into the top 5 this week with their hit "Pumped Up Kicks". The song moves up 2 from #7 to #5. Most of the other songs on the top 20 make small incremental moves up by 1 or 2 notches.

Songs taking signifcant falls this week include The Decemberists' "Down By the Water" dropping from #5 to #10. This was a former #1 record. Also dropping big is "Hands" by The Ting Tings. They drop 5 from #10 to #15. The Ting Tings have been on this chart with "Hands" since the fall of 2010. Looks like this could be their last week on.

The two debut songs for the week are "I Do" by Colbie Caillat at #19 and "Machu Picchu" by The Strokes at #20.

VIDEO SHOWCASE

This week the spotlight is on Dengue Fever. Enjoy!

DENGUE FEVER - Cannibal Courtship Teaser



DENGUE FEVER - Mastadong Explanation



DENGUE FEVER - Only a Friend



DENGUE FEVER - Seeing Hands (as performed on "Later")



DENGUE FEVER LINKS

Dengue Fever Official Website

Cannibal Courtship Preview

I Caught Dengue Fever (Oct. 30, 2010)

On the Charts This Week

Mel's Weekly Top 20

Week of March 20,2011.

This Week	Tiitle	Artist	Last Week
1	Price Tag (2nd week @ #1!)	Jessie J	1
2	Cement Slippers	Dengue Fever	4
3	Rolling In The Deep	Adele	2
4	Born This Way	Lady GaGa	5
5	Down By the Water	The Decemberists	3
6	Let's Go (feat. TobyMac)	Group 1 Crew	8
7	Pumped Up Kicks	Foster the People	9
8	This Is The Stuff	Francesca Battistelli	10
9	On The Floor	Jennifer Lopez Feat. Pitbull	11
10	Hands	The Ting Tings	6
11	Just Can't Get Enough	Black Eyed Peas	14
12	Rogue Machine (Say That You Need Me)	The Daylights	13
13	L.O.V.	Fitz & The Tantrums	15
14	UBerlin	R.E.M.	18
15	Little Lion Man	Mumford & Sons	7
16	From a Table Away	Sunny Sweeney	19
17	Who's That Chick	Rihanna	20
18	Stereo Love	Edward Maya ft. Vika Jigulina	12
19	L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.	Noah & the Whale	--
20	S&M	Rihanna	--

CHART NOTES

Jessie J holds on to the #1 spot for the second week in a row with her big hit, "Price Tag". Dengue Fever climbs 2 points moving from #4 to #2 with their single "Cement Slippers". Lady GaGa moves up 1 point from #5 to #4 with "Born This Way".

New to the top 10 is "On the Floor" by Jennifer Lopez, up 2 points from #11 to #9. This is the first time a record by Ms. Lopez has even hit the Weekly Top 20.

Debuting this week is Noah and the Whale with their latest single "L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N." coming in at #19. They hit the chart big in 2008 with "5 Years Time" taking that single to #1 for a few weeks.

Rihanna also debuts this week with a second single, "S&M" at #20. Last week she debut with "Who's That Chick" at #20 which this week moves up to 17. Kind of unusual to have an artist with 2 relatively new songs chart at the same time on the WT20.

MORE MUSIC VIDEOS

This song should be a bigger hit. Currently at #12 on the WT20.


This song grows on me. Debuts at #19 this week.


This cover version has gotten more hits than the official version from Lady GaGa.

Jessie J Tops The Charts With "Price Tag"

Mel's Weekly Top 20

Week of March 13, 2011.

This Week	Tiitle	Artist	Last Week
1	Price Tag	Jessie J	2
2	Rolling In The Deep	Adele	3
3	Down By the Water	The Decemberists	1
4	Cement Slippers	Dengue Fever	7
5	Born This Way	Lady GaGa	8
6	Hands	The Ting Tings	4
7	Little Lion Man	Mumford & Sons	5
8	Let's Go (feat. TobyMac)	Group 1 Crew	10
9	Pumped Up Kicks	Foster the People	11
10	This Is The Stuff	Francesca Battistelli	12
11	On The Floor	Jennifer Lopez Feat. Pitbull	18
12	Stereo Love	Edward Maya ft. Vika Jigulina	6
13	Rogue Machine (Say That You Need Me)	The Daylights	13
14	Just Can't Get Enough	Black Eyed Peas	19
15	L.O.V.	Fitz & The Tantrums	17
16	Your Song	Ellie Goulding	16
17	We R Who We R	Ke$ha	9
18	UBerlin	R.E.M.	20
19	From a Table Away	Sunny Sweeney	--
20	Who's That Chick	Rihanna	--

CHART NOTES

Jessie J, who hails from England tops this week's chart with her debut hit single, "Price Tag". The song has been steadily climbing he chart and this week, nudges in from #2 to #1. It's a great pop song with a tasteful rap thrown in by rapper B.o.B. who I have been told is known for his radio friendly hits. You can listen to this song and check the video out below.

Dengue Fever and Lady Ga Ga make new entries into the top 5 with their respective singles, "Cement Slippers" and "Born This Way", checking in at #4 and #5, up 3 points each. I really love "Cement Slippers". I'm not too cool about "Born This Way". Lady Ga Ga has made better records.

New songs making it to the top 20 this week include "From a Table Away" by new country artist Sunny Sweeney. That record checks in at #19. At number 20 is Rihanna with a dance track called "Who's That Chick".

Fastest rising song this week is Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull's single "On the Floor" moving up from #18 to #11. Certainly this song will be in the top 10 by next week. It already topped the digital singles chart at both iTunes and Amazon.com.

ADDITIONAL VIDEO CLIPS

Mel's Weekly Top 20 - March 6, 2011

Video: "Your Song" cover by Ellie Goulding, currently #16 on the WT20.

Mel's Weekly Top 20

Week of March 6, 2011.

This Week	Tiitle	Artist	Last Week
1	Down By the Water (4th Week @ #1!)	The Decemberists	1
2	Price Tag	Jessie J	3
3	Rolling In The Deep	Adele	2
4	Hands	The Ting Tings	5
5	Little Lion Man	Mumford & Sons	6
6	Stereo Love	Edward Maya ft. Vika Jigulina	4
7	Cement Slippers	Dengue Fever	11
8	Born This Way	Lady GaGa	10
9	We R Who We R	Ke$ha	7
10	Let's Go (feat. TobyMac)	Group 1 Crew	12
11	Pumped Up Kicks	Foster the People	13
12	This Is The Stuff	Francesca Battistelli	19
13	Rogue Machine (Say That You Need Me)	The Daylights	14
14	Raise Your Glass	P!nk	8
15	I Just Wanna Run	The Downtown Fiction	9
16	Your Song	Ellie Goulding	15
17	L.O.V.	Fitz & The Tantrums	20
18	On The Floor	Jennifer Lopez Feat. Pitbull	--
19	Just Can't Get Enough	Black Eyed Peas	--
20	UBerlin	R.E.M.	--

CHART NOTES

The Decemberists hold at #1 for a 4th week with their hit single, "Down By The Water". The track is taken from their latest album, The King Is Dead.

Jessie J moves up another notch from #3 to #2 with "Price Tag". The Ting Tings move back up one from #5 to #4 this week with "Hands". They peaked with this song at #2 a few weeks ago. Showing up for the first time in the Top 5, Mumford & Sons also move up one with "Little Lion Man", at #5.

Breaking into the top 10 this week are Dengue Fever at #7 with "Cement Slippers", and Group 1 Crew with "Let's Go" at #10. Just outside of the top 10 Foster the People move up 2 with "Pumped Up Kicks" at #11 while Francesca Battistelli checks in at #12 with "This is the Stuff", up from last week's debut position of #19.

The 3 new tracks showing up for the first time on the Weekly Top 20 are "On the Floor" by Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull at #18, "Just Can't Get Enough" by Black Eyed Peas at #19 and "UBerlin" by R.E.M. at #20.

BONUS VIDEO



From 1993 it's 10,000 Maniacs with Natalie Merchant singing the Bruce Springsteen cover of "Because the Night", a song that became popular in 1978 by Patti Smith.