Katy Perry Roars Up to the Top 5

Mel's Weekly Top 20
Week of August 25, 2013.

This Week	Tiitle	Artist	Last Week
1	Get Lucky (8th Week @ #1!)	Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams	1
2	Best Song Ever	One Direction	2
3	Burn	Ellie Goulding	6
4	Roar	Katy Perry	17
5	Brave	Sara Bareilles	9
6	Liquid Lunch	Caro Emerald	10
7	Treasure	Bruno Mars	3
8	Love Me Again	John Newman	4
9	Waves	Blondfire	5
10	Blurred Lines [feat. T.I., Pharrell]	Robin Thicke	8
11	Everything Has Changed	Taylor Swift Feat. Ed Sheeran	12
12	Home Again	Elton John	16
13	Love Somebody	Maroon 5	11
14	Hero	Family of the Year	14
15	Safe and Sound	Capital Cities	15
16	There Will Come A Time	Noah & The Whale	18
17	Wake Me Up	Avicii	20
18	Pompeii	Bastille	7
19	Wasting All These Tears	Cassadee Pope	13
20	Applause	Lady Gaga	new

CHART NOTES

Daft Punk holds at the #1 spot for the 8th non-consecutive week with "Get Lucky" featuring both Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers who used to be with the group Chic back in the late 1970s. This is the song's 2nd week at #1 for this run. It was at #1 for 6 weeks prioer to falling to #2 and #3 for a couple of months before returning to #1 last week. I found Daft Punk's CD Random Access Memories at a used CD store for $5 this past week. It's a good CD and may have one or two more hits pulled from it.

"Roar" by Katy Perry makes a huge jump this week from its debut of #17 to #4. Wow! The song is almost definitely headed for #1.

Several other songs have made some signifcant moves up the chart, while several others have fallen quite hard.

Risers: "Burn" by Ellie Goulding up from #6 to #3; "Brave" by Sara Bareilles from #9 to #5; "Liquid Lunch" from Caro Emerald, up from #10 to #6; and "Home Again" by Elton John up from #16 to #12.

Droppers: They include "Treasure" from Bruno Mars down from #3 to #7; "Waves" by Blondfire down from #5 to #9 - both of these are former #1 records. Also taking a significant drop is "Pompeii" by Bastille - plunging from #7 to #18. "Wasting All These Tears" by Cassandra Pope tumbles from #13 to #19.

Maroon 5 seems to have hit its peak with their latest single. "Love Somebody" got as high as #11 last week, but drops now to #13 this week.

All of the dropping records will be making room for new entries as we transit out of summer and into the fall of 2013. Our first new "fall" record is by Lady Gaga who debuts this week at #20 with "Applause".

Songs That Went to #1 in 2013

Get Lucky - Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams (2)
Treasure - Bruno Mars (3)
Waves - Blondfire (2)
Blurred Lines [feat. T.I., Pharrell] - Robin Thicke (3)
Get Lucky - Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams (6)
Tangled Up - Caro Emerald (3)
When I Was Your Man - Bruno Mars (2)
Change - Churchill (7)
Daylight - Maroon 5 (2)
Carry On - Fun (3)
Anything Could Happen - Ellie Goulding (2)

(x) = Total weeks @ #1

VIDEO SHOWCASE

Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams - Get Lucky



Caro Emerald - Liquid Lunch

Get Lucky Back on Top of the Charts

Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams - Get Lucky



Mel's Weekly Top 20
Week of August 21, 2013.

This Week	Tiitle	Artist	Last Week
1	Get Lucky (7th Week @ #1)	Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams	2
2	Best Song Ever	One Direction	6
3	Treasure	Bruno Mars	1
4	Love Me Again	John Newman	5
5	Waves	Blondfire	3
6	Burn	Ellie Goulding	10
7	Pompeii	Bastille	4
8	Blurred Lines [feat. T.I., Pharrell]	Robin Thicke	9
9	Brave	Sara Bareilles	11
10	Liquid Lunch	Caro Emerald	13
11	Love Somebody	Maroon 5	14
12	Everything Has Changed	Taylor Swift Feat. Ed Sheeran	15
13	Wasting All These Tears	Cassadee Pope	7
14	Hero	Family of the Year	8
15	Safe and Sound	Capital Cities	18
16	Home Again	Elton John	19
17	Roar	Katy Perry	--
18	There Will Come A Time	Noah & The Whale	20
19	Easy	Sheryl Crow	12
20	Wake Me Up	Avicii	--

CHART NOTES

Holy crapollie! Daft Punk is back at #1 with the same song they went to #1 with more than 2 months ago. Yes, I'm talking about "Get Lucky" which held the top spot for 6 consecutive weeks early this summer before slipping back to #2 and #3 where it shallowed out for the last 6 weeks before moving to #2 last week. Now the song that featurs Pharrell Williams is back at #1 for a 7th non-consecutive week. This is my summer song of the year.

Pulling up at #2 we find One Direction's "Best Song Ever" jumping into that spot from last week's #6. Is #1 destined for One Direction? We'll see.

Two songs make their chart debut this week. They are "Roar" the latest from Katy Perry and "Wake Me Up" at #17, a dance track from Avicii at #20. How far up will these two songs go?

Mel's Weekly Top 20 - August 11, 2013

One Direction - Best Song Ever



Mel's Weekly Top 20
Week of August 11, 2013.

This Week	Tiitle	Artist	Last Week
1	Treasure (3rd Week @ #1!)	Bruno Mars	1
2	Get Lucky (Radio Edit)	Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams	3
3	Waves	Blondfire	2
4	Pompeii	Bastille	4
5	Love Me Again	John Newman	7
6	Best Song Ever	One Direction	11
7	Wasting All These Tears	Cassadee Pope	5
8	Hero	Family of the Year	6
9	Blurred Lines [feat. T.I., Pharrell]	Robin Thicke	9
10	Burn	Ellie Goulding	16
11	Brave	Sara Bareilles	13
12	Easy	Sheryl Crow	12
13	Liquid Lunch	Caro Emerald	15
14	Love Somebody	Maroon 5	14
15	Everything Has Changed	Taylor Swift Feat. Ed Sheeran	19
16	See You Again	Carrie Underwood	8
17	Big Blue Wave	Hey Ocean!	10
18	Safe and Sound	Capital Cities	--
19	Home Again	Elton John	--
20	There Will Come A Time	Noah & The Whale	--

CHART NOTES

The posting is a few days late but still good to this Sunday, August 18. From the Weekly Top 20 web page:

Three new songs debut in the top 20 this week. Charting at #20 is Noah & The Whale with their latest "There Will Come a Time". Elton John is back with "Home Again" at #19 and newcomers Capital Cities debut at #18 with their single "Safe And Sound".

One of the fastest moving songs in this week's chart belongs to One Direction, whose latest single "Best Song Ever" jumps from #11 last week to #6 this week. This track will definitely be in the top 5 next week.

Not to be outdone in the big jump category, we also find Ellie Goulding picking up 6 moving from #16 to #10 this week with "Burn", her second single to hit the top 10 on this chart. She had a number song on this chart back in January with the single "Anything Could Happen."

Holding at #1 for a 3rd consecutive week is Bruno Mars and his latest single "Treasure". Moving up from #3 to #2 is Daft Punk and their hit "Get Lucky" which several weeks ago was at #1. Could this song be headed for the top again?

Mel's Weekly Top 20 - Treasure Still on Top

Mel's Weekly Top 20
Week of August 4, 2013.

This Week	Tiitle	Artist	Last Week
1	Treasure (2nd Week @ #1!)	Bruno Mars	1
2	Waves	Blondfire	2
3	Get Lucky (Radio Edit)	Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams	3
4	Pompeii	Bastille	5
5	Wasting All These Tears	Cassadee Pope	4
6	Hero	Family of the Year	7
7	Love Me Again	John Newman	9
8	See You Again	Carrie Underwood	8
9	Blurred Lines [feat. T.I., Pharrell]	Robin Thicke	6
10	Big Blue Wave	Hey Ocean!	12
11	Best Song Ever	One Direction	18
12	Easy	Sheryl Crow	14
13	Brave	Sara Bareilles	16
14	Love Somebody	Maroon 5	15
15	Liquid Lunch	Caro Emerald	19
16	Burn	Ellie Goulding	20
17	The War Within	Churchill	10
18	There's No Going Back	Sick Puppies	11
19	Everything Has Changed	Taylor Swift Feat. Ed Sheeran	new
20	Sad Angel	Fleetwood Mac	13

CHART NOTES

Bruno Mars holds at #1 for a 2nd week in a row with "Treasure". Blondfire holds at #2 for a 2nd week after falling from #1 two weeks ago with "Waves". Daft Punk is still holding strong at #3 for a 5th week in a row with their former #1 song "Get Lucky". "Pompeii" by Bastille moves up a point from #5 to #4.
The track with the biggest gain this week is "Best Song Ever" by One Direction, moving from last week's #18 debut to #11 this week.

The only new song to debut on the chart this week is "Everything Has Changed" by Taylor Swift featuring Ed Sheeran at #19. This is the latest track off Swift's hit album Red.