The #1 Hot 100 Song and other #1’s on Billboard for the week of September 13, 2008

 

Okay…I’m calmed down a little from last week’s chart craziness.  The world is making a little more sense now.  T.I.’s “Whatever You Like” spends a second week atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart with a bullet.  I can’t make the gripe this week about the song not being heard on the radio, because it’s this week’s Airplay Gainer.  Threats this week to the peak position?  It looks to me that the only significant threat is Pink’s “So What.”  It jumps from #9 to #3 this week with a bullet after selling 136,000 digital downloads.  It looks like last week’s threat, Kardinal Offishall featuring Akon’s “Dangerous,” wasn’t much of a threat at all, because it slips from #5 to #6 and loses its bullet.  M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” rises from #6 to #5 with a bullet, so that might be a threat in a week or two.  Other than that, Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours” jumps from #24 to #9 with a bullet, and it is the Sales Gainer this week after selling 112,000 units.  I’ve been a growing fan of Mraz’s quirky songs over the years, so I hope it makes it…but I doubt that it will.  I’d like to see a quirky song top the chart, a la The Barenaked Ladies’ “One Week.”  Finally, in the fight between Kid Rock and The Hit Masters’ versions of Rock’s “All Summer Long”…it looks like Rock is pulling ahead, because his version jumps up two places to #23 with a bullet, while The Hit Masters’ knock-off slides from #19 to #33 and loses its bullet.  Nyah-Nyah!! 

The Jonas Brothers’ A Little Bit Longer slides down to weeks at the top of the Top 200 Albums chart to make way for the debut week of masked metal artists Slipknot’s All Hope is Gone, which barely edges out another debut album on the chart, The Game’s LAX.  Slipknot’s album came in with 239,516 copies in the

United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, only 1,134 more than The Game’s album at 238,382.  This is Slipknot’s first #1 album, whereas The Game’s last two albums, 2006’s Doctor’s Advocate and 2005’s The Documentary, both debuted at #1.  Rock albums don’t tend to stay at the top, so I think that The Game will be #1 next week.  Jazmine Sullivan spends a second week atop the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with “Need U Bad.”  Jimmy Wayne jumps from #4 to #1 to top the Hot Country Songs chart with “Do You Believe Me Now.”  This is

Wayne
’s first #1 on that chart.  Speaking of first #1’s, Canadian band Theory of a Deadman scores their first #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart with “Bad Girlfriend.”  Staind jumps from #3 to #1 with their third #1 on the Modern Rock chart with the song “Believe.”  All chart information was found on Billboard.com. 

All may be right in the world this week…but what about next week?  Will we see another surprise debut in the top 10 based on digital downloads?  Which “American Idol” alum or artist singing on the Disney Channel will attack the chart next week?  Let us know your opinion!

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