Mel's Weekly Top 20 - May 27, 2012

Mel's Weekly Top 20
Week of May 27, 2012.

This Week	Title	Artist	Last Week
1	Payphone	Maroon 5	2
2	Watching You Watch Him	Eric Hutchinson	4
3	Call Me Maybe	Carly Rae Jepsen	3
4	Somebody That I Used To Know	Gotye	1
5	Rumour Has It	Adele	6
6	Starships	Nicki Minaj	7
7	Glad You Came	The Wanted	5
8	Only the Horses	Scissor Sisters	10
9	Drive By	Train	8
10	What Makes You Beautiful	One Direction	17
11	Love Will Set You Free	Engelbert Humperdinck	12
12	I Make My Own Sunshine	Alyssa Bonagura	14
13	Free	Haley Reinhart	13
14	Happy Pills	Norah Jones	9
15	Part of Me	Katy Perry	11
16	Brokenhearted	Karmin	20
17	Good Feeling	Flo Rida	--
18	Good Girl	Carrie Underwood	--
19	Tonight Is The Night	Outasight	19
20	Love Bites (So Do I)	Halestorm	15

CHART NOTES 

 Maroon 5 hits #1 this week. Yes, the group is on top with their latest "Payphone". Good song, good video, but when was the last time you actually used a payphone? Have you ever used a payphone? Are there payphones in your community?

Gotye drops from #1 to #4 this week with "Somebody That I Used To Know". This is after a 5 week stay at number one, 4 weeks consecutively, and then falling out to #2 two weeks ago and climbing back to the top last week. Now at #4. This song is probably on its slow way out. Features Kimbra. Interesting video.

One of my favorite songs on the top 20 is "Watching You Watch Him" by Eric Hutchinson. The single climbs up 2 from #4 to #2. Could number 1 be next?

Nicki Minaj's "Starships" moves up to #6 after several weeks at #7. She follows Adele on a one point jump. Adele's single "Rumour Has It" moves up to #5 after spending a few weeks at #6. Both good songs.

Fastest mover is by the group One Direction. Their debut single "What Makes You Beautiful" which came in at #17 last week makes a 7 point leap into the top 10 at #10 this week. One Direction is the latest in a long string of "boy band" types of groups. I think.

Good debuts: Two "good" songs make their chart debuts this week. The first one is "Good Girl" by Carrie Underwood at #18 and "Good Feeling" by rapper Flo Rida.

Songs That Went to #1 in 2012


Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye featuring Kimbra
Glad You Came - The Wanted
Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye featuring Kimbra
Drive By - Train
The One That Got Away - Katy Perry
Red Solo Cup - Toby Keith
Someone Like You - Adele
It Will Rain - Bruno Mars
Run For Your Life - Matt Cardle

Mel's Weekly top 20 - May 20, 2012.

Looks like this video was made in Hawaii. Cool

Mel's Weekly Top 20

Week of May 20, 2012.

This Week	Title	Artist	Last Week
1	Somebody That I Used To Know	Gotye featuring Kimbra	2
2	Payphone	Maroon 5	5
3	Call Me Maybe	Carly Rae Jepsen	3
4	Watching You Watch Him	Eric Hutchinson	9
5	Glad You Came	The Wanted	1
6	Rumour Has It	Adele	6
7	Starships	Nicki Minaj	7
8	Drive By	Train	4
9	Happy Pills	Norah Jones	10
10	Only the Horses	Scissor Sisters	12
11	Part of Me	Katy Perry	8
12	Love Will Set You Free	Engelbert Humperdinck	16
13	Free	Haley Reinhart	17
14	I Make My Own Sunshine	Alyssa Bonagura	19
15	Love Bites (So Do I)	Halestorm	15
16	Dancin' Away With My Heart	Lady Antebellum	11
17	What Makes You Beautiful	One Direction	--
18	One Life	James Morrison	13
19	Tonight Is The Night	Outasight	14
20	Brokenhearted	Karmin	--

CHART NOTES

Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know" nudges itself back to #1 after falling to #2 last week. This is the song's 5th week at #1 but not consecutively. Dropping out and back up to the top is a chart rarity here.

Meanwhile The Wanted's "Glad You Came" is definitely on a fall... after peaking at #1 last week, we find the single track at #5 with other songs moving into the top 5 or going higher. Most notable are "Payphone" by Maroon 5 at the #2 spot up from #5, and "Watchin You Watch Him" by Eric Hutchinson at #4 up from #9 of last week. Any of those 2 songs could be at the top soon.

Debuts include "What Makes You Beautiful" by One Direction at #17 and Karmin's "Brokenhearted" at #20.

Songs That Went to #1 in 2012

Glad You Came - The Wanted
Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye featuring Kimbra
Drive By - Train
The One That Got Away - Katy Perry
Red Solo Cup - Toby Keith
Someone Like You - Adele
It Will Rain - Bruno Mars
Run For Your Life - Matt Cardle

VIDEO EXTRA

Wonderful classic vocals from longtime crooner, Englebert Humperdinck. Nice song too!

Mel's Weekly Top 20 - May 13, 2012.

Mel's Weekly Top 20
Week of May 13, 2012.

This Week	Title	Artist	Last Week
1	Glad You Came	The Wanted	2
2	Somebody That I Used To Know	Gotye	1
3	Call Me Maybe	Carly Rae Jepsen	5
4	Drive By	Train	4
5	Payphone	Maroon 5	9
6	Rumour Has It	Adele	7
7	Starships	Nicki Minaj	8
8	Part of Me	Katy Perry	3
9	Watching You Watch Him	Eric Hutchinson	16
10	Happy Pills	Norah Jones	11
11	Dancin' Away With My Heart	Lady Antebellum	12
12	Only the Horses	Scissor Sisters	15
13	One Life	James Morrison	14
14	Tonight Is The Night	Outasight	6
15	Love Bites (So Do I)	Halestorm	17
16	Love Will Set You Free	Engelbert Humperdinck	19
17	Free	Haley Reinhart	20
18	Easy Come Easy Go (Radio Edit)	Great Lake Swimmers	10
19	I Make My Own Sunshine	Alyssa Bonagura	--
20	We Are Young (ft. Janelle Monae)	Fun	13

CHART NOTES


 We have a new track at the #1 spot. The Wanted inch their way pass Gotye to take the top spot on the Weekly Top 20 with their hit "Glad You Came". The Wanted is another in a long string of "boy bands" that are frequent visitors to the top 40 charts and radio the world over. The track is decent for a boy band. How long it will stay at #1 remains to be seen.

Maroon 5 breaks into the top 5 with their latest hit "Payphone". The track jumps up from #9 last week to #5 this week. It'll probably go higher.

Biggest mover of the week is Eric Hutchinson's "Watching You Watch Him" which makes a big jump from #16 of last week to #9 this week. Yep the song is in the top 10 in only it's third week on the chart. Keep watching this one.

The only debut song on the top 40 belongs to newcomer Alyssa Bonagura. It's got a great ukelele intro. The title of the song is "I Make My Own Sunshine" which makes it just in time for the summer season at #19.

Songs That Went to #1 in 2012


Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye featuring Kimbra
Drive By - Train
The One That Got Away - Katy Perry
Red Solo Cup - Toby Keith
Someone Like You - Adele
It Will Rain - Bruno Mars
Run For Your Life - Matt Cardle

Video Showcase Extras

At the top of this entry we find Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" as performed on the David Letterman show.

Mel's Weekly Top 20 - May 6, 2012.

Mel's Weekly Top 20
Week of May 6, 2012.

This Week	Title	Artist	Last Week
1	Somebody That I Used To Know (4th Week @ #1!)	Gotye featuring Kimbra	1
2	Glad You Came	The Wanted	3
3	Part of Me	Katy Perry	2
4	Drive By	Train	4
5	Call Me Maybe	Carly Rae Jepsen	5
6	Tonight Is The Night	Outasight	6
7	Rumour Has It	Adele	7
8	Starships	Nicki Minaj	9
9	Payphone	Maroon 5	11
10	Easy Come Easy Go (Radio Edit)	Great Lake Swimmers	10
11	Happy Pills	Norah Jones	12
12	Dancin' Away With My Heart	Lady Antebellum	14
13	We Are Young (ft. Janelle Monae)	Fun	8
14	One Life	James Morrison	15
15	Only the Horses	Scissor Sisters	18
16	Watching You Watch Him	Eric Hutchinson	20
17	Love Bites (So Do I)	Halestorm	17
18	Amazing	Matt Cardle	13
19	Love Will Set You Free	Engelbert Humperdinck	--
20	Free	Haley Reinhart	--

CHART NOTES

Gotye is at #1 for a 4th consecutive week with his hit "Somebody That I Used to Know" with Kimbra.

Inching up to #2 we find The Wanted and "Glad You Came". Could they go to #1 with this. Come back next week.

The Wanted's move came at the expense of Katy Perry, whose latest single "Part of Me" has apparently peaked at #2 last week, falling back to #3 this week, just ahead of Train and their former #1 hit "Drive By" which holds at #4 for a second week.

The rest of the chart see some incremental movements of 1 or 2 points up or down, with several songs in a holding position. Breaking into the top 10 is Maroon 5 and their latest single "Payphone". That song moves up 2 from #11 to #9 this week.

Two songs make their chart debut. First we see Englebert Humperdinck (yes the old crooner is 76 years young) charting with a single called "Love Will Set You Free" at #19. The track is getting some airplay in Humperdinck's native U.K. since it is this year's Eurovision 2012 contest entry for the British Isles.

At #20 we find newcomer Haley Reinhart and her debut single "Free".

All in all we have a somewhat diverse chart consisting of songs that may not be on the mainstream and several that are current radio stalwarts. Enjoy.

VIDEO SHOWCASE EXTRAS

Meiko had a #1 hit on the Weekly Top 20 in 2008 called "Boys With Girlfriends".

Mel's Weekly Top 20 - April 29, 2012.

Mel's Weekly Top 20
Week of April 29, 2012.

This Week	Title	Artist	Last Week
1	Somebody That I Used To Know (3rd Week @ #1!)	Gotye featuring Kimbra	1
2	Part of Me	Katy Perry	4
3	Glad You Came	The Wanted	5
4	Drive By	Train	2
5	Call Me Maybe	Carly Rae Jepsen	7
6	Tonight Is The Night	Outasight	6
7	Rumour Has It	Adele	9
8	We Are Young (ft. Janelle Monae)	Fun	3
9	Starships	Nicki Minaj	13
10	Easy Come Easy Go (Radio Edit)	Great Lake Swimmers	10
11	Payphone	Maroon 5	19
12	Happy Pills	Norah Jones	12
13	Amazing	Matt Cardle	8
14	Dancin' Away With My Heart	Lady Antebellum	15
15	One Life	James Morrison	16
16	Heart Attack	The Asteroids Galaxy Tour	11
17	Love Bites (So Do I)	Halestorm	17
18	Only the Horses	Scissor Sisters	20
19	Give Me All Your Luvin'	Madonna	14
20	Watching You Watch Him	Eric Hutchinson	--

CHART NOTES:


Gotye is at #1 for a third week with "Somebody That I Used to Know". The track also features Kimbra and is taken from his album Making Mirrors.

Nicki Minaj breaks into the top 10 with her single "Starships". The track is the first of any of her songs to chart here. It moves from #13 last week to #9 this week.

Fastest mover up the chart is "Payphone" by Maroon 5. The song leaps from #19 last week to #11 this week. Guaranteed to be in the top 10 next week.

The only song to debut this week is "Watching You Watching Him" by Eric Hutchinson at #20. This may turn out to be one of my favorite tracks of 2012. It's a catchy pop song with a nice video and good vibe. Easy on the ears... definite AC radio track, if it ever gets wide airplay. Was a freebie from iTunes last week.