Mel's Weekly Top 20 - August 21, 2011

Mel's Weekly Top 20

Week of August 21, 2011.

This Week	Title	Artist	Last Week
1	Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) 5th week @ #1!	Katy Perry	1
2	For The First Time	The Script	2
3	Brighter Than The Sun	Colbie Caillat	4
4	Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall	Coldplay	3
5	Moves Like Jagger	Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera	8
6	Love You Like A Love Song	Selena Gomez & The Scene	7
7	Boys & Girls	Martin Solveig & Dragonette	9
8	Uku	Dengue Fever	10
9	Tonight's The Kind Of Night	Noah And The Whale	5
10	The Edge Of Glory	Lady Gaga	6
11	The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie	Red Hot Chili Peppers	12
12	Young Blood	The Naked and Famous	14
13	Rope	Foo Fighters	18
14	Skyscraper	Demi Lovato	15
15	Party Rock Anthem	LMFAO	13
16	Only Love	Anggun	19
17	If I Die Young	The Band Perry	17
18	Deer In the Headlights	Owl City	11
19	Blackout	Breathe Carolina	--
20	Hawaiian Air	Friendly Fires	--

CHART NOTES

For the 5th consecutive week on the chart, Katy Perry holds at #1 with her latest track off the Teenage Dream album called "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)." The song apparently has a lot of staying power. Will it hold on for another week. Return to find out!

Elsewhere on the this week's top 20:

Colbie Caillat moves from #4 to #3 with "Brighter Than the Sun".

Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera breaks into the top 5 by moving up 3 points from #8 to #5 with their latest single, "Moves Like Jagger".

The two year old dance track "Boys and Girls" by Martin Solveig & Dragonette move up 2 points from #9 to #7 this week. It's a very catchy track that I missed the first time round.
Another slightly older track makes a 5 point jump from #18 to #13 this week. That track is "Rope" by the Foo Fighters. It comes off their latest album, Wasting Light. A great hard rock song if I ever heard one.

Debuts this week include "Blackout" by Breathe Carolina at #19 and "Hawaiian Air" by Friendly Fire at #20. Good luck!

Recent Number One Songs:

Tonight's the Kind of Night - Noah & the Whale
The Edge of Glory - Lady Gaga
Sad Song - The Cars
Hello (Radio Edit) - Martin Solveig & Dragonette
Cement Slippers - Dengue Fever
Price Tag - Jessie J
Down By The Water - The Decemberists
Back to December - Taylor Swift

Mel's Weekly Top 20 - August 14, 2011

Mel's Weekly Top 20
Week of August 14, 2011.

This Week	Title	Artist	Last Week
1	Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) 4th Week @ #1!	Katy Perry	1
2	For The First Time	The Script	4
3	Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall	Coldplay	2
4	Brighter Than The Sun	Colbie Caillat	7
5	Tonight's The Kind Of Night	Noah & the Whale	3
6	The Edge Of Glory	Lady GaGa	5
7	Love You Like A Love Song	Selena Gomez & The Scene	8
8	Moves Like Jagger	Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera	10
9	Boys & Girls	Martin Solveig & Dragonette	11
10	Uku	Dengue Fever	12
11	Deer In the Headlights	Owl City	6
12	The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie	Red Hot Chili Peppers	14
13	Party Rock Anthem	LMFAO	18
14	Young Blood	The Naked and Famous	19
15	Skyscraper	Demi Lovato	17
16	Sad Song	The Cars	9
17	If I Die Young	The Band Perry	20
18	Rope	Foo Fighters	--
19	Only Love	Anggun	--
20	Dreaming	Seapony	13

CHART NOTES

Katy Perry holds on to #1 for a 4th consecutive week with "Last Friday Night (TGIF)". The party song has held off all comers, and for me it is probably on the strength of its movie-like short video and that it is probably the best song I heard from her current album Teenage Dream.

Climbing to #2 is The Script with their late hit "For the First Time," up 2 points from #4 of last week. Could it go to #1?

New to the top 10 this week are Martin Solveig & Dragonette with their 2009 Euro-dance hit, "Boys and Girls" coming in at #9 up from #11. Following them is Dengue Fever with their latest Khmer language track, "Uku". It moves up to #10 from #12.

Songs making their debut this week include "Only Love" by Indonesian singer Anggun at #19 and "Rope" by The Foo Fighters at #18. We'll see how high these two different tracks go in the coming weeks.

Mel's Weekly Top 20 - August 7, 2011.

Mel's Weekly Top 20

Week of August 7, 2011.

This Week	Title	Artist	Last Week
1	Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) 3rd week @ #1!	Katy Perry	1
2	Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall	Coldplay	2
3	Tonight's The Kind Of Night	Noah & the Whale	3
4	For The First Time	The Script	5
5	The Edge Of Glory	Lady GaGa	4
6	Deer In the Headlights	Owl City	7
7	Brighter Than The Sun	Colbie Caillat	9
8	Love You Like A Love Song	Selena Gomez & The Scene	8
9	Sad Song	The Cars	6
10	Moves Like Jagger	Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera	12
11	Boys & Girls	Martin Solveig & Dragonette	13
12	Uku	Dengue Fever	14
13	Dreaming	Seapony	15
14	The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie	Red Hot Chili Peppers	16
15	Sorry	The Smithereens	10
16	Cement Slippers	Dengue Fever	11
17	Skyscraper	Demi Lovato	20
18	Party Rock Anthem	LMFAO	--
19	Young Blood	The Naked and Famous	--
20	If I Die Young	The Band Perry	--

CHART NOTES

The top 3 records on Mel's Weekly Top 20 remain the same as they have been for the past 3 weeks. For the third week in a row Katy Perry holds at #1 with "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)"; Coldplay holds at #2 with "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall" at #2, with Noah & the Whale holding at #3 with "Tonight's The Kind Of Night". The latter song is a former #1 record here.

Elsewhere the song making the strongest gain in the top 10 is Colbie Caillat's "Brighter Than The Sun" moving up 2 from #9 last week to #7 this week. Moving into the top 10 with a 2 point climb is "Moves Like Jagger" with Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguileria. That single moves in from #12 to #10.

There are 3 debut tracks on the Weekly Top 20. They include "Party Rock Anthem" by LMFAO coming in at #18. That song has been a listed at #1 on Billboard, Amazon and iTunes. Another song that has been kicking around for a while is "Young Blood" by The Naked & Famous. The group is from New Zealand and this record makes its debut after I caught their performance online at Lollapalooza this weekend. Good band. "Young Blood" was a #1 single in New Zealand. It shows up at #19 for the first time here.

Rounding out the 3 debut songs is a country track by The Band Perry. "If I Die Young" debuts at #20 this week. This song is already a big country and crossover hit.

Droppers include The Cars' "Sad Song" moving down from #6 to #9, The Smithereens' "Sorry" down from #10 to #15 and Dengue Fever down from #11 to #16 with "Cement Slippers" a former #1 song and the oldest track on the top 20. That song has been listed here since late February and held the #1 spot for 5 weeks this past spring.

Recent Number One Songs:

• Tonight's the Kind of Night - Noah & the Whale
• The Edge of Glory - Lady Gaga
• Sad Song - The Cars
• Hello (Radio Edit) - Martin Solveig & Dragonette
• Cement Slippers - Dengue Fever
• Price Tag - Jessie J
• Down By The Water - The Decemberists
• Back to December - Taylor Swift