The Billboard Hot 100:
Song Position Last Week
Thrift Shop 1 1 *Airplay Gainer* *Pacesetter*
Locked Out of Heaven 2 2
Ho Hey 3 3
I Knew You Were Trouble 4 5
Scream & Shout 5 6
Don’t You Worry Child 6 7
Beauty and a Beat 7 9
Diamonds 8 8
Home 9 10
Fuckin Problems 10 15
Alright! "Thrift Shop" logs a second week at number one! "Ho Hey" may never get past number 3 because "Locked Out of Heaven" is going to take some time to decline off the chart. The same situation with "Diamonds", it reached number one a long time ago but is still wildly popular and thus has not left the top ten in a long while. Finally "I Knew You Were Trouble" is going back up, "Scream & Shout" and "Don't You Worry Child" are dance-pop hits so of course they're going to continue to climb up the charts. Ughh, "Beauty and a Beat" rebounds, most likely because Nicki Minaj is featured. "Home" rebounds as well, wasn't expecting that (obviously). And "Fuckin Problems" is new to the top ten, it's from a rapper so I know it's not actually good, it's just popular. Outside of the top ten: Pink rises 13-11 with "Try" (its highest peak yet, can it finally break the top ten??!!), Calvin Harris and Florence rise 17-14 with "Sweet Nothing", Maroon 5 is on their way to another top ten hit as "Daylight" shoots 21-17 (I hate this song, btw), and "One More Night" is right behind it falling from 11-18. Fun's "Some Nights" falls 18-20 in its 49th chart week, Ke$ha makes a small leap from 30-28 with "C'Mon", its ascent will now slow down as songs in the top thirty present fierce competition, The Band Perry falls 28-29 with "Better Dig Two" (I just bought this song and I LOVE it), "Call Me Maybe" falls 41-43 in its 49th chart week, and "Somebody That I Used to Know" rises 45-44 in its 56th chart week. As I predicted, "Lights" is no longer on the chart, but Ellie Goulding's "Anything Could Happen" rises 64-60 this week (it has so far peaked at number 47); hopefully it will start to go up the charts again.
The Billboard 200:
Album Position Last Week
Set You Free 1 -
The Lumineers 2 7
Pitch Perfect 3 3
Grammy 2013 Nominees 4 -
Kidz Bop 23 5 2
Babel 6 9
Long.Live.A$AP 7 1
Unorthodox Jukebox 8 5
Red 9 4
Les Miserables 10 6
As Billboard had predicted, Gary Allan scores his first number one wit "Set You Free". It only sold 106,000 copies, but as previously stated: January is a slow sales month. This is also why The Lumineers shoot 7-2 this week: there is simply no competition. I'm so glad "Pitch Perfect" is still up there, that soundtrack is awesome! The Grammy Nominees scores another top ten, which is to be expected as it contains all of the great songs released in 2012. The rest of the top ten is very predictable, of course "Kids Bop" falls (it's not good anyway), of course Mumford and Sons rebound, and it's not surprising that A$AP falls 1-7, because rappers' albums only sell in their first week, and then everybody forgets all about it. Well, last week was probably the most uneventful week yet, as there are no significant jumps or falls. Adele's "21" falls 12-22 in its 101st week (if you can call that exciting news), Rage Against the Machine has the biggest lunge as their eponymous album soars
192-102, and Pink's 2008 album "Funhouse" shoots 186-139. Also, it is very odd that Michael Jackson's 1983 smash "Thriller" rises 88-52 (why the sudden re-interest?). Taking the biggest plunge is Katie Armiger as her album "Fall into Me" collapses 32-194 (and that is actually a huge drop).
Next week, reports say that Justin Bieber is bound to take number one with his acoustic version of "Believe"...yeah, America really needs to get their shit together.
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