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.