koganbot | Another Year In America June 11 and 18, 2009

As Another Year In America returns from vacation with a two-fer, the Black Eyed Peas fend off the Black Eyed Peas to stay atop the chart, "You Belong With Me" continues its Indian summer, and country stalwarts Chesney and Bentley welcome the real summer with a couple of bright tracks from the night.

The Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling": After scoring one improbable piece of brilliance after another from a seemingly endless variety of left fields, the Peas hit a slow, stodgy DOR dribbler to short, with just enough melody and just enough Fergie to beat out the throw to first. BORDERLINE TICK.

Kenny Chesney "Out Last Night": A party song about partying, Kenny never loses his sense of relaxation, while kicking this friendly two-step through the ceiling and up the charts. TICK.

Kings Of Leon "Use Somebody": Hasn't this been around for eight months or something? Is a good tune with a sense of swell that's buoying rather than blatant, but it's burdened with a forced guttural rock voice that I can't stand. BORDERLINE NONTICK.

Lady Antebellum "I Run To You": And a track that's been on the country chart for ages finally moves Top 40. Placid and pretty MOR mush. In the vid, a harried woman gives up her seat at the bus stop to a woman with two kids, feels reinvigorated by this sacrifice. BORDERLINE TICK.

Dierks Bentley "Sideways": Cheerful guy on the make makes cheery song 'bout bein' on the make. Country cats make hick-hop boyband moves in the vid. TICK.