Top Of The Charts 06/11

1) Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
2) Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
3) Maroon 5 - Payphone
4) Katy Perry - Wide Awake
5) Pitbull - Back In Time
6) Rihanna - Where Have You Been?
7) Luke Bryan - Drunk On You
8) One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful
9) Justin Bieber - Boyfriend
10) Flo Rida - Wild Ones

Just as I had gotten used to talking about the iTunes top 10 being more dynamic and faster changing than the Billboard charts, they go ahead and deliver something that's shockingly similar to the Billboard Charts. Sure, Gotye remains number 1 on there and the songs aren't entirely similar, but I wouldn't say they're different in any way that's actually good. Consumer demand is the only thing driving these charts, so maybe my speculation that the radio industry is actually half the problem is unfounded. I would have thought that anyone that wanted to hear that Gotye song would have heard it enough by now. It's in rotation once every two hours or so on top 40 stations, along with "Call Me Maybe"

The newcomer to this list is "Drunk On You" by Luke Bryan. It's hard to get behind pop/mainstream country music when just last week Kelly Hogan released I Like To Keep Myself In Pain. It's an album that carries the pain and heartbreak that the original stars of country set forth. I don't really listen to a lot of this sort of music, as a rule usually. I find it corny and predictable, no excitement to it. "Drunk On You" might be the best mainstream country song out there, but I'll just keep listening to Kelly Hogan.