The Hot 100 this week has a unique bit of symmetry in the second 50 songs. It also has a relatively static Top 5. Which, quite honestly, is to be expected. Especially when it takes three to four weeks to even think about cracking the Top 10.
The most interesting part about the Hot 100 is that country artist Taylor Swift has three songs in the Top 50. All of them are bunched between 25 and 50. They are: #26 “Teardrops On My Guitar,” #28 “Our Song,” and #44 “Picture to Burn.” If you know anything about those songs, you might notice something extraordinary.
Swift has captured an entire relationship, in the perfect order, in the Top 50! “Teardrops On My Guitar,” is a song about longing for that perfect boy. She longs to be with some guy named Drew. Now, I wonder if Drew is the same boy she’s all of sudden writing a song for in “Our Song,” or the boy whose picture she’s burning after what seems like a rough breakup in “Picture to Burn.” It just goes to show you how fast relationships can change. But it really is impressive that she capture all three facets in three relatively popular tracks.
Everything else in the Top 50 is not nearly as inspiring. “Lollipop,” by Lil Wayne and featuring Static Major has unfortunately, jumped into the Top 5. Actually, this week it is #4 and the greatest sales gainer. The greatest airplay gainer is a little bit of shocker, until you remember that Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown were on American Idol last Thursday. The requests apparently started popping up again for their song “No Air,” which actually fell from five to seven while gaining in radio airplay.
Radiohead’s “Nude” is the highest debut this week. It’s the only debut in the top 50 songs. Other notable things on the top chart? Sara Bareilles’ “Love Song” has gone double-platinum. And Natasha Bedingfield has another song climbing the charts, “Pocketful of Sunshine.” More about that tune tomorrow.
The Miley Cyrus watch is now up to #12. Now that “See You Again” is starting to climb the charts, what will be the next super-Cyrus single? More speculation later in the week.
