Top singles through the third quarter 2010

[koganbot]

The year divides into "Blah Blah Blah" and everything else; over the summer I was listening to too much top 40 or was busy discovering old stuff, so not enough here is new. Haven't read much in this neck of the woods about DJ Sbu "Vuvuzela Bafana," Lil Wayne "Drop The World," Colette Carr "Back It Up," Lee Hyori "Swing," Belinda ft. Pitbull "Egoísta," Zinja Hlungwani "N'wagezani My Love," Alejandra Guzmán "¿Por Qué No Estás Aquí?," Sarah Darling "Whenever It Rains," or Stealing Angels "He Better Be Dead," if any of you want to take a shot. Here's "Egoísta":

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Top singles through the third quarter 2010:

1. Ke$ha ft. 3OH!3 "Blah Blah Blah"
2. Selena Gomez & the Scene "Naturally"
3. Princesa "Más Fuego"
4. DJ Sbu "Vuvuzela Bafana"
5. Lil Wayne "Drop The World"
6. I Blåme Coco ft. Robyn "Caesar"
7. Little Big Town "Little White Church"
8. After School "Bang!"
9. Intocable "Estamos en Algo"
10. Didi Benami "Play With Fire"
11. Dizzee Rascal & Florence + The Machine "You Got The Dirtee Love"
12. Wiley & Chew Fu "Take That"
13. M.I.A. "Born Free"
14. E.via "Shake!"
15. Sunny Sweeney "From A Table Away"
16. Hurts "Wonderful Life"
17. Didi Benami "Rhiannon"
18. 2NE1 "Try To Follow Me"
19. Rihanna "Te Amo"
20. Colette Carr "Back It Up"
21. Lee Hyori "Swing"
22. Martina McBride "Wrong Baby Wrong Baby Wrong"
23. Katie Melua "The Flood"
24. Dizzee Rascal "Dirtee Disco"
25. Sophie Ellis-Bextor "Bittersweet"
26. Tinie Tempah "Pass Out"
27. Wiley ft. Emili Sandé "Never Be Your Woman"
28. Sade "Soldier Of Love"
29. Professor Green ft. Lily Allen "Just Be Good To Green"
30. Far East Movement ft. The Cataracs and Dev "Like A G6"
31. Aggro Santos ft. Kimberly Wyatt "Candy"
32. Gil Scott-Heron "Me And The Devil"
33. Plan B "She Said"
34. SNSD "Oh!"
35. Trace Adkins "Ala-Freakin-Bama"
36. DJ Zinc ft. Ms. Dynamite "Wile Out"
37. Kelly Rowland ft. David Guetta "Commander"
38. Belinda ft. Pitbull "Egoísta"
39. The-Dream ft. T.I. "Make Up Bag"
40. Zinja Hlungwani "N'wagezani My Love"
41. Lena "Satellite"
42. Cali Swag District "Teach Me How To Dougie"
43. JLS "The Club Is Alive"
44. Sarah Darling "Whenever It Rains"
50. Shontelle "Impossible"
51. The Ting Tings "Hands"
52. J. Cole "Who Dat"
53. Willow Smith "Whip My Hair"
54. Stealing Angels "He Better Be Dead"
55. Marion Raven "Flesh and Bone"
56. YG "Toot It And Boot It"
57. Yo Gotti ft. Lil Wayne "Women Lie, Men Lie"
58. Trey Songz ft. Fabolous "Say Aah"
59. Miranda Lambert "Only Prettier"
60. Brad Paisley "Water"

And here's Sarah Darling:

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Top country singles through the third quarter 2010:

1. Little Big Town "Little White Church"
2. Sunny Sweeney "From A Table Away"
3. Martina McBride "Wrong Baby Wrong Baby Wrong"
4. Trace Adkins "Ala-Freakin-Bama"
5. Laura Bell Bundy "Giddy On Up"
6. Sarah Darling "Whenever It Rains"
7. Stealing Angels "He Better Be Dead"
8. Miranda Lambert "Only Prettier"
9. Brad Paisley "Water"
10. Miranda Lambert "The House That Built Me"
11. Kenny Chesney "Ain't Back Yet"
12. Jerrod Niemann "Lover, Lover"
13. Martin Ramey "Twisted"
14. Jake Owen "Tell Me"
15. Jaron And The Long Road To Love "Pray For You"
16. Randy Montana "Ain't Much Left Of Lovin' You"
17. Eric Church "Smoke A Little Smoke"
18. Luke Bryan "Someone Else Calling You Baby"
19. Gretchen Wilson "I Got Your Country Right Here"
20. Los Lobos "Burn It Down"
21. Blaine Larsen "Leavin'"
22. Dierks Bentley "Draw Me A Map"

Comments

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Any thoughts on 2010 albums? I've been mostly off the grid this year and have heard almost nothing, but I've got an iTunes gift card and I'm ready to start exploring 2010 music.

[koganbot]

I've let albums slide, so I need to do lots of exploring myself. I don't know what you think of Ke$ha; her vision or shtick is up my alley, and is pretending to come form an alley, but I think her lyrics could use stronger, more original images, and her voice is opening-act raw; yet somehow she seems like the only pop star who knows what she's doing this year, the only one to sound like she's riding the current dance-pop mess rather than just trying to grab hold somewhere, balancing ugliness and prettiness and storm and calm, etc. "Blah Blah Blah" is my favorite and after that the best stuff hasn't been singles: "Backstabber," a hint of Latin freestyle, the words being a bitch-fest about a gossip but the music bounces the words around in the rhythm so much that Ke$ha hardly sounds unhappy; "Boots And Boys," which compares boys to boots, loves them both, tries them on, they got her looking rad, while a quagmire bass tries to pull her under but she floats blissfully above it; and "Party At A Rich Dude's House," sounding like Dr. Luke finally getting the loud-blaring-chorus-thing right, the melody lifting the song without blasting our ears off, except Luke actually had nothing to do with the song (is Ke$ha, Shellback, and Benny Blanco; but Luke restrains his own the blare effectively on "TiK ToK" and "Take It Off"). In any event, for all the puke-slinging etc. the album is surprisingly pretty.

Other things on my albums list:

Marina And The Diamonds The Family Jewels, lyrics coming across ridiculously as if she's just discovered rebellion and originality, and she sounds like a heavy posh girl in the throws of letting loose, and I'm charmed.

Princesa Más Fuego, which apparently Princesa herself posts on Mediafire for legal free download; a reggaeton ball of fire from Argentina, got the ugly reggaeton yammering bit down but also what sounds like grief and dreaminess, even with a rough not particularly flexible voice; you may have heard the title track if you were following Argentina in the Pop World Cup.

E.via Must Have (EP), which even for an EP is scattershot in tone and quality, and through my cultural misunderstandings of Korea I'm basically inventing her in my mind, so this account may have nothing to do with reality but... I imagine her as what I wish Gaga were, someone critiquing the sex sell while selling herself sexily in both a cute and threatening way, and crucially she really can rap with force, while doing all the tuneful Asian chirpy things well.

Various Artists Shangaan Electro, South African speed dance with bubbling "marimba" keyboards; I like the fast burbles and the slow rich voices.

And that's all I've got for you, though I now possess the new Jamey Johnson without having had a chance to listen. Listened once to Chely Wright's Lifted Off The Ground and it feels like a potential grower, she now being more singer-songwriter than country, writing and singing with gentleness. Hurts Happiness only has one wonderful "Wonderful Life," but in general the dourness doesn't weigh down the prettiness as much as I'd feared, in fact the two facets sometimes work well together, and the album could be a grower. Also intend to give Traband's Domasa and Kelis's Flesh Tone further listens, 'cause they have good stuff on them though so far they haven't hit me as much as they hit Chuck and Dave, respectively.

Disappointments: Little Big Town, Shontelle, A-Trak, Nina Sky, Lillix, though I've not listened all through the last two and only listened to the first two once.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I've much enjoyed the Ke$ha songs on the radio, have not sought out otherwise, but will do so now. Thanks for the recommendations.

Preliminary thoughts on "Egoista"

[jonathanbogart.livejournal.com]

I like it after one listen (I may have heard it before on the radio but if so it was only once and partially). In the video, she's definitely doing a Gloria Trevi thing (which Ke$ha is also doing, though probably less aware that she's doing it) -- I wrote about Trevi here for comparison, though the music's nothing alike except that both Trevi and Belinda are claiming American pop as their own instead of sticking to Latin norms.

It's the rare Pitbull collab where he doesn't totally blow his co-star out of the water, possibly because nothing short of dynamite can lodge that AutoTuned chirp of a chorus out of the ear.

Re: Preliminary thoughts on "Egoista"

[koganbot]

Mexican videos definitely outdo those from the U.S. in intensity and extravagance. Here's Belinda's "Angel."



Someone once gave me a Gloria Trevi calendar (might have been Xhuxk, or maybe my friend Patty). I love her look, but have had trouble with her vocals, incredibly raw and scratchy. I'm probably not tough enough for Mexican women.

(I'm several months behind on Bilbo's Laptop. I hoped to catch while you were on vacation, but I got distracted.)

[askbask.livejournal.com]

What do you think of this? BEG member's solo debut.

[koganbot]

Holy wow! Amazing video! Didn't really take in the music, I was so engrossed in the story. Is there a tradition of briefcase videos in Korea pop, as there is in Eurodisco? 'Cause this sets you up to expect a suitcase chase, instead, the 'case is abandoned for far more important matters.

I assume that the ending is a flashback (as opposed to the beginning being a fantasy); is any of the Korean dialogue crucial? I rather assume that this is self-explanatory without it.

First impression of the music is that it's kinda soft-shoe tango'n'R&B, in any event a mixture that doesn't quite map onto the American grid.

I posted this over on poptimists to see if anyone there had ideas to add.

[koganbot]

here is mine

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

Albums So Far This Year:

1) Ke$ha Animal
2) Janaelle Monae Arcnanroid
3) Rural Route 3 Martin Clarke
4) Robyn Body Talk Pts 1 and 2
5) Brandon Flowers Flamingo
6) Mark Ronson and the Business International Record Collection
7) Arcade Fire--The Suburbs
8) LCD Soundsystem--This is Happening
9) John Adams--The Sound Track to This is Love
10) The King meets the President in AFrica,

Singles So Far
1) Fuck You--Cee Loo
2) Gold Panda--Quitters Raga
3) Mavis STapeles--In Christ There is No East or West
4) Grinderman--Heathen Child
5) DJ Earworm OMG Whatever
6) Deadly Gentleman Come into My Kitchen
7) Courtney Love Pacific Coast Highway
8) Tame Impala--Half Full Glass of Wine
9) LCD Soundsystem Drunk Girls
10) Glee OST Bohemian Rhapsody
11) Janelle Monae Tight Rope
12) Wave The Flag Kanan
13) PArty At A Rich Dude's House Ke$sha
14) Rhianna Rudeboy
15) Carrie Underwood Undo it
16) Laura MArling The DArkness Descends
17) Fucked Up Year of the Ox
18) Gil SCott Heron Me and the Devil
19) Dum Dum Girls Jail La La
20) Kronos Quartet with Tanya Tagaq Nunavat
21) Gaga and Beyonce Telephone
22) Ting Tings Hands
23) Josh Turner Why Dont We Just Dance
24) Mariah Carey - Up Out My Face ft. Nicki Minaj
25) Nicki Minaj - Massive Attack ft. Sean Garrett


Country Albums so Far
1) Josh Turner Haywire
2) Hold STeady
3) Carrie Underwood
4) Jamey Johnson – The Guitar Song
5) Justin Townes Earle Harlem River Blues
6) Merle Haggard - I Am What I Am (Vanguard)
7) Various ARtists--Take me to the Water

Country Singles So Far
1) Aint No Son--Court Yard Hounds
2) Haywire Josh Turner
3) The Peter O'Tooles--County Down
4) Jeff Lang--House Carpenter
5) Trace Adkins--Ala-Freakin-Bam
6) Miranda Lambert--The House That Built Me
7) The Band Perry If I Die Young
8) Laura Marling The Darkness DEscends
9) Justin Townes Ealre MTA Song
10) Little Big Town "Little White Church"
11) Sunny Sweeney "From A Table Away"