The #1 Hot 100 Song and other #1’s on Billboard for the week of October 11, 2008
You all still like “Whatever You Like,” because T.I.’s boring tune spends a fifth non-consecutive week at #1 and is the Airplay Gainer again for the third week in a row. Kanye West’s “Love Lockdown” is still at #3, but it has lost its bullet, and the hopes of a country song topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart were dashed when Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” fell from #5 to #9 and lost its bullet. At this point, I might as well predict that T.I.’s song will be #1 next week as well, because there really aren’t any strong contenders. Katy Perry’s second top 10 hit “Hot N Cold” rises from #9 to #6 with a bullet, and M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” is still lingering around the top 10, this week rising from #6 to #5 (though the song has already peaked at #4 so far.) If “Whatever You Like” spends two more weeks at #1, it will eclipse Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” to be the second longest running song of 2008 (the longest running song is “Low” by Flo Rida featuring T-Pain at 10 weeks.)
Metallica scores a third week at #1 on the Top 200 Albums chart with Death Magnetic. That makes them the second act in 2008 to stay at #1 for 3 weeks (Jack Johnson’s Sleep Through the Static did the same in February.) My prediction that the only contender would be The Pussycat Dolls’ Doll Domination was wrong, because the album debuted on the chart at #4. I keep forgetting about the power of The Disney Channel, because “Camp Rock“ star Demi Lovato’s debut album, Don’t Forget, enters the chart at #2. Being that he has the #1 song in the nation, it’s not a hard prediction that T.I.’s Paper Trail will be the #1 album next week. For now, he will have to be content with the fact that he also spends a second week atop the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Darius Rucker also spends a second week atop the Hot Country Songs chart with “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It.” The Offspring are topping their respective chart as well for a second week with “You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid” topping the Modern Rock chart, while Metallica’s “The Day That Never Comes” goes back to #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart, knocking Theory of a Deadman’s “Bad Girlfriend” down to #2. All chart information was found on Billboard.com.
Is T.I. really “Whatever You Like?” Wouldn’t you rather see Perry go to #1 with her second single? M.I.A. has been a tease for weeks…let’s end the suspense and finally make her #1! Chime in with your comments!