Top Of The Charts 04/16

1) Fun - We Are Young

2) Gotye - Somebody That I used To Know

3) The Wanted - Glad You Came

4) One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful

5) Justin Bieber - Boyfriend

6) Nicki Minaj - Starships

7) Flo Rida - Wild Ones

8) Kelly Clarkson - Stronger

9) Katy Perry - Part Of Me

10) Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe

No change in the actual contents of the top 10 this week. Sad to say that this is sorta what I expected. Pop music has moved really slowly for a long time now and, at least by my reasoning, part of why the music industry has been really struggling. Sure, the whole piracy thing got out of hand for a while there, but thanks to digital sales, we seem to be on the other side of that. Nowadays though, there just doesn't seem to be enough music out there. Record companies throw huge amounts of money at the stars that are currently out there and hope for the best and it seems to be working for now though. As more and more people get frustrated with top 40 radio though, one has to ask how long this can go on.

Speaking of the weird musical landscape these days, a lot of hubbub was made when "Part Of Me" by Katy Perry debuted at #1. it's only the 20th time in history that's ever happened. When I first heard that I was really impressed. "Sure" I though to myself "It might be a lot easier these days to stick around for a long time at #1, but to start there? That's impressive!" That is until I did a little research. I found out that the first song to do it was "You Are Not Alone" by Michael Jackson. In 1995. The list had been around for 40 years without it happening and now it's happened 20 times since then. Now the list is riddled with American Idol winners (Taylor Hicks? Really?) a few Britney Spears songs, Gaga, Perry, Ke$ha, etc. Going back you find your usual suspects from the late '90s (Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, that Aerosmith song from Armageddon) Kinda takes the fun out of it when something that sounds historic has happened a bunch in the memorable past.

Side note: All the record holders for "Biggest position gained in one week" have happened in the past 5 years.

I haven't heard most of the new Nicki Minaj album (Mostly because I thought it was just a deluxe edition of her first album for a while), but it seems crazy how poppy "Starships" is. It's surprising how well she can move from hip hop to pop and back again. That said, any of the hip hop songs I've heard off this album are awful.

Oh, and I heard that Carly Rae Jepsen song on the radio. It's fine, I guess. Hopefully I get to talk about at least one new song next week…