Frank Kogan

Demi debuts atop the album chart, while Keri and Taylor climb the singles indefatigably but BEP won't give way.

( Jay Sean )

( Mario )

( Rascal Flatts )

( The Ting Tings )

( Beyoncé )

Black Eyed Peas stay on top but Drake emerges as a challenger. And I'm four days late as I rehabilitate my shoulder and deal with the weirdness of embittered strangers.

( Hannah Montana )

( Mariah Carey )

( Boys Like Girls )

( Jason Aldean )

"Boom Boom Pow" finally takes a step back, while "You Belong With Me" is a step away from the top ten. Listeners continue to ignore newbies.

( Jay-Z )

( Rob Thomas )

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.

( Black Eyed Peas )

( Kenny Chesney )

( Kings Of Leon )

( Lady Antebellum )

( Dierks Bentley )

Relapse jumps to number one in the albums, "Boom Boom Pow" plops onto its sofa and settles in for its eighth week atop the singles, and Linkin Park performs a song that wasn't heard on Fox TV during the last couple of months.

( Glee Cast )

( Linkin Park )

( Kris Allen )

( Kris Allen )

( Adam Lambert )

( Keith Urban )

( David Cook )

( Kris Allen )

The number one alb is by who the fuck (Chrisette Michele), while the number one single is what the fuck ("Boom Boom Pow," I love it); Taylor's "You Belong With Me" makes its second run at the charts; Eminem's new alb is streamed on his MySpace (seventeen songs in, seems like a recovery/therapy album that takes its razor blade to the concept of recovery, makes it a slasher film; this is a potentially fruitful concept, and a song or two have reached me already ("Bagpipes From Baghdad," "Same Song & Dance," the tears of a sex killer), but his voice is inexplicably muffled).

The question I've been asking myself for several weeks without making any effort to find out an answer: how do you pronounce "3OH!3"? Then I actually looked hard at the name and went, "Oh, I get it, it's an area code." Pause. "Hey, it's my area code." Facepalm. Boulder not Denver, it turns out, and I like the revolting and catchy "Don't Trust Me" more than anything by local nice guys The Fray.

( Daughtry )

( Eminem )

( Sean Kingston )

( Kristinia Debarge )

( Zac Brown Band )

The top of the chart hasn't lost its boom boom pow, even if some of the rest has trouble getting off its bum.

( Dave Matthews Band )

( Jeremih )

The excellently strange and riveting "Boom Boom Pow" holds on at number one, while some minor movement in the 30s barely ruffles the otherwise smooth surface of the top 40. Two of the newbies are from Hannah Montana: The Movie.

( Miley Cyrus )

( Plain White T's )

( Soulja Boy Tell 'Em )

( Taylor Swift )

A pleasant surprise, as a Black Eyed Peas track that I thought had long stalled has instead entered the charts on delayed release (I've not been taught the logic of such marketing strategies, but the track was only made available for download - as opposed to being made available for radio play, theft, etc. - a few days ago). A couple of other tracks induce serious ambivalence.

( 3OH!3 )

( Pitbull )

( Black Eyed Peas )

"Blame" rises, "Climb" falls, and some radio stations are willing to !$@# "Amy," presumably in modified form.

( Rascal Flatts )

( Carrie Underwood )

( Britney Spears )

( Shinedown )