The #1 Hot 100 Song and other #1’s on Billboard for the week of November 15, 2008
Yay! People want to “Live Your Life” instead of listening to “Whatever You Like.” For the second time this year, T.I.’s “Whatever You Like” has been knocked off the top spot by his other #1 song, “Live Your Life” (with Rihanna.) He is the only artist ever to replace himself twice on the Billboard Hot 100 with the same song. It retains its bullet and remains the Airplay Gainer for a second week in a row. I’ve stated before that I prefer “Life” over “Like,” and I think that it will remain #1 for a third non-consecutive week next week. Its only contenders are…surprisingly…two songs that were on a downward slide last week. Former #1 song “So What” by Pink moves up from #4 to #3 and gains a bullet, while Katy Perry’s “Hot N Cold” moves up from #6 to #4 and also gains a bullet after sliding back one place last week. Beyoncé Knowles’ “If I Were a Boy” apparently didn’t do jack, because it slides back from #3 to #5 and loses its bullet. I’ve been seeing the video on VH1 (a.k.a. the only major music channel that still plays some videos) more often, so it might stick around the top 10 for another couple of weeks.
Despite many major hard-hitting contenders, AC/DC’s Black Ice remains at #1 on the Top 200 Albums chart for a second week. My prediction that Toby Keith’s That Don’t Make Me a Bad Guy would be #1 this week was very wrong. It debuts on this week’s chart at #5. The highest debut was another one of my predictions…Pink’s Funhouse (#2.) As for my other predictions…Rascal Flatts’ Greatest Hits, Volume 1 and Celine Dion’s My Love: Essential Collection…they bowed on the chart at #6 and #8, respectively. Grammy Award winning soul singer/songwriter/pianist John Legend’s Evolver and Northern Irish rock band Snow Patrol’s A Hundred Million Suns also made the top 10 at #4 and #9, respectively. I figured that Legend would make that top 10, but not so high (and not higher than the Keith album.) Next week will have several heavy-hitters as well: Unk’s 2econd Season, Brad Paisley’s Play, Andrea Bocelli’s Incanto, Sarah Brightman’s A Winter Symphony, and the Now That’s What I Call Music! 29 collection. Ne-Yo’s “Miss Independent” stays at #1 for a second week on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, while Carrie Underwood’s “Just a Dream” starts a second week atop Hot Country Songs chart as well. Since I am a huge rock fan, I’m very happy that Metallica’s “The Day That Never Comes” is still #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart for an eighth non-consecutive week, and The Offspring’s “You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid” is #1 on the Modern Rock chart for a seventh week. I love to crank up both songs when I hear them on the radio! All chart information was found on Billboard.com.
Flo Rida featuring T-Pain’s “Low” may be the longest running #1 song of 2008 at 10 weeks, but T.I. is close to beating them at nine weeks between his “Like” and “Life” runs. If my prediction that “Life will remain at #1 next week, he will tie Rida and Pain. It’s sort of too bad…because I really liked “Low” (though I still predict that it will be the Year-End #1 of 2008.) Oh well…at least I can hear the T.I. song that I like now for the next week or so.