The Pop Chart 100

THE POP CHART 100

The 100 best songs of 2009, tabulated according to weekly Pop Chart rankings.  Listen here to hear the show.

51. Keri Hilston feat. Timbaland, Return The Favor
#4 in May, 10 weeks on chart, from the album In A Perfect World

52. Nina Sky, On Some Bullshit
#2 in May, 9 weeks on chart, from the allegedly forthcoming album Starting Today

53. Miley Cyrus, Fly On The Wall
#1 in February, 8 weeks on chart, from the album Breakout

54. Lykke Li, Tonight
#4 in March, 10 weeks on chart, from the album Youth Novels

55. Freemasons feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer)
#3 in July, 9 weeks on chart, from the Freemasons album Shakedown 2

56. Marilyn Manson, Arma-Goddamn-Motherfuckin-Geddon
#2 in July, 9 weeks on chart, from the album The High End Of Low

57. Britney Spears, If You Seek Amy
#4 in April, 9 weeks on chart, from the album Circus

58. V Factory, Love Struck
#4 in May, 10 weeks on chart, from the forthcoming debut album

59. Telepathe, So Fine
#5 in March, 10 weeks on chart, from the album Dance Mother

60. Lady GaGa, LoveGame
#6 in April, 9 weeks on chart, from the album The Fame

The Pop Chart 100

THE POP CHART 100

The 100 best songs of 2009, tabulated according to weekly Pop Chart rankings.  Listen here to hear the show.

61. Miley Cyrus, Party In The USA
#6 in September, 10 weeks on chart, off the EP The Time Of Our Lives

62. Mariah Carey, Obsessed
#4 in August, 10 weeks on chart, from the labum Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel

63. The Big Pink, Dominos
#5 in September, 10 weeks on chart, from the album A Brief History of Love

64. Noisettes, Don’t Upset The Rhythm
#3 in April, 9 weeks on chart, from the album Wild Young Hearts

65. Simian Mobile Disco, Audacity of Huge
#7 in August, 9 weeks on chart, from the album Temporary Pleasure

66. La Roux, I’m Not Your Toy
#9 in October, 10 weeks on chart, from the labum La Roux

67. Pet Shop Boys, Love Etc
#5 in March, 9 weeks on chart, from the album Yes

68. Little Boots, New In Town
#3 in June, 10 weeks on chart, from the album Hands

69. The Vistoso Bosses, Delirious
#5 in May, 9 weeks on chart, from their forthcoming debut album

70. Bat For Lashes, Pearl’s Dream
#10 in July, 10 weeks on chart, from the album Two Suns

71. Dorrough Music, Ice Cream Paint Job
#7 in June, 9 weeks on chart

72. Jean-Philippe Verdin, Little Sister
#8 in September, 9 weeks on chart

73. The Kills, Black Balloon
#11 in March, 9 weeks on chart, from the album Midnight Boom

74. Chipmunk, Diamond Rings
#5 in August, 8 weeks on chart, from the album I Am Chipmunk

75. Beyonce, Sweet Dreams
#3 in August, 8 weeks on chart, from the album I Am…Sasha Fierce

76. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Heads Will Roll
#5 in June, 8 weeks on chart, from the album It’s Blitz!

77. Kelly Clarkson, Already Gone
#6 in August, 8 weeks on chart, from the album All I Ever Wanted

78. Britney Spears, 3
#7 in November, 9 weeks on chart*, from the album The Singles Collection

79. Taylor Swift, Love Story
#2 in February, 6 weeks on chart, from the album Fearless

80. Amerie, Why R U
#7 in August, 9 weeks on chart, from the album In Love & War

THE POP CHART 100

THE POP CHART 100

The 100 best songs of 2009, tabulated according to weekly Pop Chart rankings.  Listen here to hear the show.

 

81. Empire of the Sun, Walking On A Dream
#3 in February, 7 weeks on chart, from the album Walking On A Dream

82. Jordin Sparks, SOS (Let The Music Play)
#8 in November, 9 weeks on chart*, from the album Battlefield

83. Bleech, The Worthing Song
#3 in September, 8 weeks on chart, from the forthcoming debut album

84. Lily Allen, Not Fair
#7 in April, 7 weeks on chart, from the album It’s Not Me, It’s You

85. Pixie Lott, Mama Do (Uh Oh Uh Oh)
#9 in July, 9 weeks on chart, from the album Turn It Up

86. Girls Aloud, The Loving Kind
#7 in February, 8 weeks on chart, from the album Out of Control

87. Daisy Dares You, Daisy Dares You
#7 in September, 8 weeks on chart, from her forthcoming debut album

88. Neko Case, People Gotta Lotta Nerve
#6 in May, 8 weeks on chart, from the album Middle Cyclone

89. Justin Bieber, One Time
#10 in September, 9 weeks on chart, from the album My World Pat 1

90. Shakira, Did It Again
#1 in November, 6 weeks on chart*, from the album She Wolf

91. Lily Allen, Who’d Have Known
#4 in November, 6 weeks on chart*, from the album It’s Not Me, It’s You

92. Natalie Imbruglia, Want
#5 in October, 9 weeks on chart, from the album Come To Life

93. Lily Allen, 22
#10 in August, 10 weeks on chart, from the album It’s Not Me, It’s You

94. Little Dragon, Fortune
#11 in March, 9 weeks on chart, from the album Little Dragon

95. Ellie Goulding, Under The Sheets
#1 in November, 5 weeks on chart*, from the forthcoming debut album

96. J*Davey, End Of Your World (Mama’s Back)
#9 in October, 8 weeks on chart, from the forthcoming debut album

97. Morrissey, I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris
#7 in February, 7 weeks on chart, from the album Years of Refusal

98. The Raveonettes, Last Dance
#7 in November, 9 weeks on chart, from the album In And Out Of Control

99. J*Davey, Slooow
#9 in May, 7 weeks on chart, from the EP Land Of The Lost

100. PJ Harvey & John Parish, Black Hearted Love
#11 in May, 8 weeks on chart, from the album A Woman A Man Walked By

The Pop Chart Year-End Countdown Kicks Off Tomorrow

Less than 24 hours until The Pop Chart 100 kicks off.  I’ve tabulated the results* from every Pop Chart this year and starting tomorrow I’ll be counting down the Top 100 songs of the year.  It will be fun, and also very fast-paced.

As always, the Pop Chart appears at bsrlive.com beginning at 10:30 AM EST.

(*For those of you that are wondering, the 292 songs that appeared on the Pop Chart this year were given 40 points for each week at #1, 39 points for each week at #2, and so on all the way down to 1 point for each week at #40.  Bonus points were given for the highest debut of any week (5 points) and the greatest gain of each week (3 points).  In the event of a tied score, the higher ranking went to whichever song peaked at a higher position, and if they both peaked at the same position preference went to whichever song had more bonus points.  If there was a tie there–which there wasn’t, actually–the higher ranking would have gone to whichever song spent more total weeks on the countdown.)

The Pop Chart – November 22, 2009

Rank. Artist, Title (Last Week, Peak Position, Weeks On Chart)

1. Shakira, Did It Again (5, 1, 5)
2. Ellie Goulding, Under The Sheets (3, 2, 4)
3. Richard Hawley, For Your Lover Give Some Time (1, 1, 7)
4. Lily Allen, Who’d Have Known (6, 4, 5)
5. Lady GaGa, Bad Romance (9, 5, 4)
6. Amerie, Heard ‘Em All (2, 1, 9)
7. Jordin Sparks, SOS (Let The Music Play) (8, 7, 8)
8. My Tiger My Timing, I Am The Sound (12, 8, 6)
9. Little Boots, Earthquake (16, 9, 3)
10. Brand New, At The Bottom (15, 10, 4)

Programming Note

No live Pop Chart today…

But I’ll be back next week, with the first half of the Pop Chart 100, my review of the year’s hundred best Pop Songs.

The Pop Chart – November 15, 2009

Rank. Artist, Title (Last Week, Peak Position, Weeks On Chart)

1. Richard Hawley, For Your Lover Give Some Time (4, 1, 6)
2. Amerie, Heard ‘Em All (1, 1, 8)
3. Ellie Goulding, Under The Sheets (9, 3, 3)
4. O.Children, Dead Disco Dancer (3, 3, 7)
5. Shakira, Did It Again (10, 5, 4)
6. Lily Allen, Who’d Have Known (11, 6, 4)
7. Alphabeat, The Spell (2, 1, 8)
8. Jordin Sparks, SOS (Let The Music Play) (8, 8, 7)
9. Lady GaGa, Bad Romance (14, 9, 3)
10. Moby, Mistake (5, 1, 9)

The Bottom 40: #1

1. Fergie, Big Girls Don’t Cry (2007, #1)

The thing about drecky ballads is that a lot of people like them.  No matter how bad they are, they are going to be popular.  As every rock band and pop diva ever can tell you, an increase in schmaltz leads proportionately to an increase in radio play.  And ballads don’t go away, either; no matter how monstrously bad they are, adult contemporary radio picks up on them and then they’re around for years and years, ready to pounce the next time you go to the dentist or run to Walgreen’s.

Fergie’s Big Girls Don’t Cry may never die, unfortunately.  It was the single most-played song of 2007 on American radio.  And according to ARC, the semi-official chart that monitors airplay, it’s the third-biggest single of the decade.  It hit #1 in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Ireland, New Zealand and Norway, and hit the top ten pretty much everywhere else.

The Bottom 40: #2

[Sorry for the gap in posting.]

2. Kanye West, Gold Digger (2005, 10 weeks at #1)

Where to begin, where to begin…

Okay, so. Some background: I hated Kanye West from day one, or at least from day one as a performer. Without knowing his name, I admired the Jackson Five sample in Jay-Z’s Izzo (H.O.V.A.) for its sheer clunkiness, with that little bit of Michael sneaking in every few seconds. And ‘03 Bonnie and Clyde is a good song, too.

But West’s seemingly out-of-the-blue emergence as a performer was really annoying. Through The Wire, a song recorded while West’s mouth was literally wired shut, made for an interesting story, but it’s still a horrible song, and I resent that it launched a deluge of crappy hip-hop songs with sped-up samples of songs that were pretty terrible to begin with.

The Pop Chart – November 8, 2009

Listen to an archive of the show here.

Rank. Artist, Title (Last Week, Peak Position, Weeks On Chart)

1. Amerie, Heard ‘Em All (5, 1, 7)
2. Alphabeat, The Spell (1, 1, 7)
3. O.Children, Dead Disco Dancer (3, 3, 6)
4. Richard Hawley, For Your Lover Give Some Time (8, 4, 5)
5. Moby, Mistake (2, 1, 8)
6. Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions, Blanchard (3, 3, 8)
7. Britney Spears, 3 (10, 7, 6)
8. Jordin Sparks, SOS (Let The Music Play) (14, 8, 6)
9. Ellie Goulding, Under The Sheets (NEW) GREATEST GAIN
10. Shakira, Did It Again (18, 10, 3)