Charts

Seventeen years ago music was pretty lame. When songs like “Macarena” rule the airwaves its brutal to say the least. The top 10 songs were so bad that theyre nearly unidentifiable.

Teenage girls across America dumped their boyfriends for the honor of singing “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” and feeling solidarity with Taylor Swift. Justin Bieber returned with less hysteria but still hitting the charts. Let’s hear it for the girls, as Adele and Rihanna and Kelly Clarkson had #1 singles.

The Hot 100 seems mostly centered on electro pop and its variants but he album charts have no center at all. Two guys hitting 70, English folk, Christian rock, two up and coming rappers, a country fella, an R&B guy and the Queen of Pop. Wild, eh?

next week Christmas and Mistletoe will be in moth balls so what will happen next? I predict, Adele will be back at # 1, essentially because there is nothing else around

Despite LMFAO finally getting the # 1 position, and despite Big Sean getting a remix with Nicki, and despite Adele getting another hit off her album, this is awful bland compared to the UK singles charts at this time of year.

No Beiber? No Gaga?They have Adele but I think if you don’t include Adele in your top something or other of 2011 you get shot or something or maybe she will stalk you from a tree outside yourhouse.

This hasn’t moved much in ages. All winter long: Rohanna, LMFAO, Adele, Maroon 5. The only adds have been T-Pain and the Throne. It is the opposite of the album charts this year, where there is almost constant movement at the top

Christmas means giving in country land and that’s why Lady Antebellum and the American Idol kid are back up there. Two of the top three will be gone soon. And congrats to Black Keys, who aare now a legitimate big time rock band.

Though the album was a bit disappoint, T-Pain’s take on Lily Allen is a masterstroke, the sort of stroke you might expect from the man who sang a duet with Taylor Swift at the CMAs.

not being on Spotify hasn’t helped the Black Keys, it certainly hasn’t hurt them much. Album at # 2, adding a second night to MSG, and, er a shave??

Buble and Bieber have been battling it out all season long, with Buble always on top and Bieber always hanging in. Indeed, Buble is the better of the two albums though neither are all that.

The story here is how did The Throne guys get on the charts. They were selling this like a crack whore selling her booty at the MSG concert -playing it three times in the show

Well now, except for Rihanna, Drake and maybe Mary J., this pretty much sucks.I gues Buble’s is about the best Seasonal albym but some of these acts are so bad… Nickelback are the second worst band on earth. the worst are at #10.

Calvin Harris is a talented fellow, I’ve just gor around to hearing his album and his 2011 “Feel So Close” and the Rijamma hit is no fluke. Believe it or not, this is a case of a sharp as fuck production improving a great song

Absolutely Drakes newbie deserves the top spot, though it sags in the middle the first six songs are astounding. It is just a shame there wasn’t only 10 tracks to the album. Nobody has recovered from the CD days

Rihanna is a strange woman, so young and bruised, so sure and defensive, there is something messy about her and there is something messy about this song. I’m a little surprised it is as popular as it is, it is a downbeat Drake like ballad that changes direction and becomes a dance anthem

Rihanna’s masterpiece is still up there, DJ Skeez Skeez opened his set at Katy Perry’s concert with it proving, a) Katy ain’t worried on the competition and b) the song is huge.

That’s a strange list, 2011 is so different to 2010. It feels like disco pop is waning and instead every momentary flavor hits the charts and disappears.

Anyway, like Eminem, Mac has hit the charts at # 1, unlike Eminem is has sold a hardly earth shatterring 144,000 units. Still I was assuming it would be put out to pasture and I stand corrected.

Christmas albums are seasonal stopgaps, a coupla perrenials, a coupla newbies nobody will remember a year from now and maybe a top 20 album, unless you’re The Bieb.

where the popstars are at…

strange little list

The top 3 are among my faves of the year

sprinkling holy water on Satan

they hold steady

it takes a lot less sales to make a splash