Break out the cherry chapstick…the reign of the Perry is over!  Katy Perry’s 7-week stay atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart for her song, “I Kissed a Girl,” has ended, and the new #1 song is…(drumroll)…Rihanna’s “Disturbia.”  After selling 148,000 downloads, the song leapfrogs over Chris Brown’s “Forever” (which remains at #2) to take the top spot.  So…how long will we get disturbed by the Rihanna song now?  “Forever” has a bullet, so it could be a contender.  The other contender is M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes,” which is the week’s Sales Gainer, jumping from #16 to #5 with a bullet.  the song is in the trailer for the movie Pineapple Express, but is not in the movie itself or on the soundtrack (an interesting aside: I went to Best Buy to buy the soundtrack, since my favorite artist, Huey Lewis & The News, performs the movie’s title track…and they had already deleted it out of their system!  I had to order it online.  Maybe if the producers of the soundtrack had known that the movie’s trailer song would be more popular than the music within the movie, then they could have included it as a bonus track or something.) (more…)

Shawn the Chart Guy here…Mamma Mia!, the movie adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, came in second place in the box office with a take of $27,751,240…making it the biggest opening weekend gross for a movie musical ever (beating former champ Hairspray from last year.)  The movie is based on the music of ABBA…so I thought that I would take a look at ABBA’s chart history. (more…)