In this week's upper tier of the Billboard Hot 100, there are three songs produced by Stargate ("Firework," "S&M," "Black And Yellow"), three with the word "fuck" in the title ("Fuck You," "Fuckin' Perfect," "Tonight (I'm Fuckin' You)," two co-written by Bruno Mars ("Fuck You," "Grenade"), two containing the word "lesbian" in the lyrics ("Born This Way," "Black And Yellow"), one with "transgendered" in the lyrics ("Born This Way") and one with the word "faggots"("I Need A Doctor").
That's a shame about Dr. Dre's "I Need A Doctor," because I truly love Skylar Grey's haunting chorus on the single. And I've really come around to Eminem, who, after a seemingly hostile-toward-the-gays start, has said he has no problem with gay marriage and is besties with Elton John (did you catch Sir Elt's Rolling Stone cover story a few weeks back? Traaaaaashy—though read the whole thing if you get a chance. Good stuff.)
But it's Dre himself who drops the F-bomb in "I Need A Doctor" when he raps, "When the chips were down you just laughed at us, now you about to feel the fuckin' wrath of Aftermath, faggots." Okay, so the good (?) doctor is using the term in a general sense, targeting all the fair-weather MCs who turned their backs on him when he took a chance mentoring young white rapper Em. But still—faggots. It's 2011. Really?
Wonder what gay rights activist Lady Gaga, who has her own brand of headphones under Dre's "Beats By Dr. Dre" line, thinks? Maybe we're just not supposed to talk about it...
Elsewhere, Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me" drops out of the Top 10 and lands at #11 in its sixth week on the chart, while Adele's "Rolling In The Deep" finally cracks the Top 40 by jumping 15 positions to #26. Previously the British singer reached #21 with her 2008 single "Chasing Pavements."
Meanwhile, Adele's 21 was released in the States this week, and is on track to debut at #1 on the next Top 200 album chart. Bet you won't catch her using "faggots" in a song.
The U.S. Top 10:
1. "Born This Way" - Lady Gaga*2 weeks* 2. "Fuck You" - Cee Lo Green 3. "Grenade" - Bruno Mars 4. "I Need A Doctor" - Dr. Dre feat. Eminem & Skylar Grey 5. "Firework" - Katy Perry 6. "Fuckin' Perfect" - Pink 7. "S&M" - Rihanna 8. "Never Say Never" - Justin Bieber feat. Jaden Smith 9. "Tonight (I'm Fuckin' You)"- Enrique Iglesias ft. Ludacris & DJ Frank E 10. "Black And Yellow" - Wiz Khalifa
If you slept under a rock all day, you missed The Grammys. I'm mentally fried from live-blogging the event over at Idolator, but here are some performances, plus some main winners...
Rihanna, Eminem, Skylar Grey & Dr. Dre, "Love The Way You Lie/I Need A Doctor"
Album Of The Year:The Suburbs - Arcade Fire Song Of The Year: "Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum Record Of The Year: "Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum Best New Artist: Esperanza Spalding Pop Vocal Album: The Fame Monster - Lady Gaga Female Pop Vocal Performance: "Bad Romance" - Lady Gaga Male Pop Vocal Performance: "Just The Way You Are" - Bruno Mars Pop Vocal Performance, Duo Or Group: "Hey Soul Sister (Live) - Train Pop Collaboration: "Imagine" - Herbie Hancock, Pink, India.Arie, Seal Short Form Music Video: "Bad Romance" - Lady Gaga Dance Recording: "Only Girl (In The World)" - Rihanna Dance/Electronic Album:La Roux - La Roux Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: "Revolver" - Madonna Country Album: Need You Now - Lady Antebellum Country Song: "Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum Rap Album: Recovery - Eminem Rap Song: "Empire State Of Mind" - Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys Rock Album: The Resistance - Muse Rock Song: "Angry World" - Neil Young Alternative Music Album: Brothers - The Black Keys R&B Album: Wake Up! - John Legend and The Roots R&B Song: "Shine"- John Legend and The Roots R&B Male Vocal Performance: "There Goes My Baby" - Usher R&B Female Vocal Performance: "Bittersweet" - Fantasia R&B Vocal Performance, Duo Or Group: "Solider Of Love" - Sade Urban/Alternative Performance: "Fuck You" - Cee Lo Green
Well, the Pittsburgh Steelers lost the Super Bowl, but at least fans of the team waved their Terrible Towels high with one hand as they downloaded Wiz Khalifa's hometown football anthem "Black And Yellow" from iTunes with the other. The Stargate-produced hip hop jam finally climbs to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in its 18th week on the chart.
Debuting at #5 is Dr. Dre—who apparently has been more content to live high on his mountain of cash and develop a line of headphones over the past decade than make music under his own name—with "I Need A Doctor." Grammy-nominated British producer Alex Da Kid (check out my interview with him) worked on Dre's track, so its no surprise that Alex's protege Skylar Grey appears on it (not to mention Dre's own protege Eminem).
This brings us to Rihanna's "S&M," which jumps from #66 to #31 after last week's premiere of the song's ho-hum video. Replacing RiRi at #66 is Ke$ha with "Blow," her second single off Cannibal. And two positions above her is Adele's "Rolling In The Deep."
A bit further down, Jessie J's "Price Tag"—this week's UK chart-topper—debuts at #88. Kind of a blase week. But at least, as mentioned yesterday, Pink's Greatest Hits...So Far!!! has finally jumped into the Top 10 on the album chart after three months.
The U.S. Top 10:
1. "Black And Yellow" - Wiz Khalifa*1 week* 2. "Grenade" - Bruno Mars 3. "Firework" - Katy Perry 4. "Fuckin' Perfect" - Pink 5. "I Need A Doctor"- Dr. Dre feat. Eminem & Skylar Grey *new* 6. "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)"- Enrique Iglesias ft. Ludacris & DJ Frank E 7. "Rocketeer" - Far East Movement feat. Ryan Tedder 8. "What's My Name" - Rihanna feat. Drake 9. "Hey Baby (Drop It To The Floor)" - Pitbull feat. T-Pain 10. "Hold It Against Me" - Britney Spears
It's the post-holiday rut when new releases are scarce and D'luv turns to drinking instead of blogging, so below is this week's boring ol' Top 10, but instead—like we did here with the UK on Sunday—we'll focus on Billboard's roundup of the 10 best-selling singles and albums of 2010.
When all the final numbers were tallied up, Katy Perry emerged with the most paid downloads (4.4 million, to be exact) last year, for "California Gurls." Billboard also notes that the five best-selling songs of '10 all cleared the 4 million downloads mark.
Eminem wound up with the most albums sold with Recovery (3.42 million)—an improvement, sales-wise, over the best-seller of 2009 (Taylor Swift's Fearless, 3.22 million). And I love how Sade beat Ke$ha andDrake. That said, it was a grim year overall for sales. If you want to get really depressed, check this article out.
Anyway, I've got three of last year's best-selling albums (Lady Gaga, Sade, Ke$ha) and I believe five of the singles. How many do you own?
The U.S. Top 10 this week:
1. "Firework" - Katy Perry*4 weeks* 2. "Grenade" - Bruno Mars 3. "We R Who We R" - Ke$ha 4. "What's My Name" - Rihanna feat. Drake 5. "Raise Your Glass" - Pink 6. "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)"- Enrique Iglesias ft. Ludacris & DJ Frank E 7. "The Time (The Dirty Bit)" - The Black Eyed Peas 8. "Black And Gold" - Wiz Khalifa 9. "Just The Way You Are" - Bruno Mars 10. "Just A Dream" - Nelly
The 10 Best-Selling Singles Of 2010
1. "California Gurls" - Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg 2. "Hey, Soul Sister" - Train 3. "Love The Way You Lie" - Eminem feat. Rihanna 4. "Dynamite" - Taio Cruz 5. "Airplanes" - B.o.B feat. Hayley Williams 6. "OMG"- Usher feat. will.i.am 7. "Not Afraid" - Eminem 8. "Just The Way You Are" - Bruno Mars 9. "Break Your Heart" - Taio Cruz feat. Ludacris 10. "Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum
The 10 Best-Selling Albums Of 2010
1. Recovery - Eminem 2. Speak Now - Taylor Swift 3. Need You Now - Lady Antebellum 4. My World 2.0 - Justin Bieber 5. The Gift - Susan Boyle 6. The Fame- Lady Gaga 7. Soldier Of Love - Sade 8. Thank Me Later - Drake 9. Raymond v. Raymond - Usher 10. Animal - Ke$ha
There are no major new singles in the UK chart this week—though I've listed the week's Top 10, as usual, below—so instead we'll turn toward the final tally of the 40 best-selling singles and albums across the pond, as published today by the Official Charts Company.
What's interesting to note is that the singles that charted at #1 through #7 this week wound up on the list of the 40 top sellers of 2010. Eminem and Rihanna's "Love The Way You Lie", the #1 single of the year, sold a total of 856,000 copies, while X Factor winnerMatt Cardle's "When We Collide" (#2) sold 815,000 in just three weeks.
Meanwhile, Take That's Progress, the top album of the year, moved 1.84 copies, easily outselling Michael Buble's Crazy Love (#2, 1.23 million) and Lady Gaga's The Fame (#3, 1.05 million).
So, I own 12 of the 40 best-selling albums. How many do you have?
The U.K. Top 10 this week:
1. "When We Collide" - Matt Cardle *3 weeks* 2. "What's My Name" - Rihanna feat. Drake 3. "The Time (Dirty Bit)" - The Black Eyed Peas 4. "Your Song" - Ellie Goulding 5. "Firework" - Katy Perry 6. "Only Girl (In The World)" - Rihanna 7. "The Flood" - Take That 8. "Like A G6" - Far East Movement 9. "Whip My Hair" - Willow 10. "Thinking Of Me" - Olly Murs
The 40 Best-Selling Singles Of 2010 In The UK:
1. "Love The Way You Lie" - Eminem feat. Rihanna 2. "When We Collide" - Matt Cardle 3. "Just The Way You Are (Amazing)" - Bruno Mars 4. "Only Girl (In The World)" - Rihanna 5. "OMG" - Usher feat. will.i.am 6. "Fireflies" - Owl City 7. "Airplanes" - B.o.B feat. Hayley Williams 8. "California Gurls" - Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg 9. "We No Speak Americano" - Yolanda Be Cool vs. Dcup 10. "Pass Out" - Tinie Tempah 11. "Everybody Hurts" - Helping Haiti 12. "Forget You" - Cee Lo Green 13. "Empire State Of Mind (Part II)" - Alicia Keys 14. "Rude Boy" - Rihanna 15. "Telephone" - Lady Gaga feat. Beyonce 16. "She Said" - Plan B 17. "Dynamite" - Taio Cruz 18. "Replay" - Iyaz 19. "Firework" - Katy Perry 20. "Club Can't Handle Me" - Flo Rida feat. David Guetta 21. "Your Song" - Ellie Goulding 22. "Ridin' Solo" - Jason Derulo 23. "Billionaire" - Travie Mccoy feat. Bruno Mars 24. "Don't Stop Believin'" - Glee Cast 25. "Don't Stop Believin'" - Journey 26. "The Time (Dirty Bit)" - The Black Eyed Peas 27. "What's My Name" - Rihanna feat. Drake 28. "Pack Up" - Eliza Doolittle 29. "Starstrukk" - 3OH!3 feat. Katy Perry 30. "Bad Romance" - Lady Gaga 31. "Written In The Stars" - Tinie Tempah feat. Eric Turner 32. "Teenage Dream" - Katy Perry 33. "Cooler Than Me" - Mike Posner 34. "Not Afraid" - Eminem 35. "The Flood" - Take That 36. "All Time Low" - The Wanted 37. "If We Ever Meet Again" - Timbaland feat. Katy Perry 38. "Riverside (Let's Go)" - Sidney Samson feat. Wizard Sleeve 39. "Promise This" - Cheryl Cole 40. "In My Head" - Jason Derulo
The 40 Best-Selling Albums Of 2010 In The UK:
1. Progress - Take That 2. Crazy Love - Michael Buble 3. The Fame - Lady Gaga 4. Loud - Rihanna 5. The Defamation Of Strickland Banks - Plan B 6. Sunny Side Up - Paolo Nutini 7. The Element Of Freedom - Alicia Keys 8. Lungs - Florence & The Machine 9. Recovery - Eminem 10. Sigh No More - Mumford & Sons 11. Come Around Sundown - Kings Of Leon 12. My World - Justin Bieber 13. The Gift - Susan Boyle 14. In And Out Of Consciousness: Greatest Hits - Robbie Williams 15. Teenage Dream - Katy Perry 16. Greatest Hits - Bon Jovi 17. Turn It Up - Pixie Lott 18. Outta This World - JLS 19. Science & Faith - The Script 20. Olly Murs - Olly Murs 21. Messy Little Raindrops - Cheryl Cole 22. Glee, The Music: Season One, Vol. 1 - Glee Cast 23. The E.N.D. - The Black Eyed Peas 24. Lights - Ellie Goulding 25. Brother - Boyzone 26. Only Revolutions - Biffy Clyro 27. Forever Vienna - Andre Rieu 28. Rated R - Rihanna 29. Disc-Overy - Tinie Tempah 30. Moonlight Serenade - Andre Rieu & Johann Strauss Orchestra 31. Only By The Night - Kings Of Leon 32. Greatest Hits...So Far!!! - Pink 33 JLS - JLS 34. Gravity - Westlife 35. 3 Words - Cheryl Cole 36. Seasons Of My Soul - Rumer 37. xx - The xx 38. Time Flies... 1994-2009 - Oasis 39. Iron Man 2 soundtrack - AC/DC 40. Plastic Beach – Gorillaz
In addition to Billboard posting its year-end charts, iTunes has published the digital music store's roundup of best-selling singles and albums for 2010. And it looks like Train's "Hey, Soul Sister"—which was tops halfway through the year—hung in their till the very end. Why don't they just replace the National Anthem with it at this point?
Of the iTunes best-sellers, I've noticed I actually paid (the shame) for six of the Top 10 singles, and one of the albums. But I'm not saying which. Well, alright—I'll say that, surprisingly, I did purchase The E.N.D. when it first was released, and then again for my mom (strangely a Peas fan) earlier this year.
How many did you purchase?
Best-Selling iTunes Singles of 2010: 1. Train, “Hey, Soul Sister” 2. Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg, “California Gurls” 3. Eminem feat. Rihanna, “Love the Way You Lie” 4. B.o.B feat. Hayley Williams, “Airplanes 5. Taio Cruz, “Dynamite” 6. Usher feat. will.i.am, “OMG" 7. Taio Cruz feat. Ludacris, “Break Your Heart" 8. Ke$ha, “TiK ToK” 9. Lady Antebellum, “Need You Now” 10. Eminem, “Not Afraid”
Best-Selling iTunes Albums of 2010: 1. Eminem, Recovery 2. Ke$ha, Animal 3. Lady Gaga, The Fame 4. Lady Antebellum, Need You Now 5. Taylor Swift, Speak Now 6. Drake, Thank Me Later 7. Mumford & Sons, Sigh No More 8. The Black Eyed Peas, The E.N.D. 9. Jack Johnson, To the Sea 10. Sade, Soldier of Love
Billboard's 2010 Year-End Hot 100 Songs: 1. Ke$ha, “Tik Tok” 2. Lady Antebellum, “Need You Now" 3. Train, “Hey, Soul Sister” 4. Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg, “California Gurls” 5. Usher feat. will.i.am, “OMG” 6. B.o.B feat. Hayley Williams, “Airplanes” 7. Eminem feat. Rihanna, “Love the Way You Lie” 8. Lady Gaga, “Bad Romance” 9. Taio Cruz, “Dynamite” 10. Taio Cruz feat. Ludacris, “Break Your Heart”
Billboard's 2010 Year-End Top 200 Albums: 1. Susan Boyle, I Dreamed A Dream 2. Eminem, Recovery 3. Lady Antebellum, Need You Now 4. Lady Gaga, The Fame 5. Justin Bieber, My World 2.0 6. Andrea Bocelli, My Christmas 7. Taylor Swift, Fearless 8. Justin Bieber, My World 9. Taylor Swift, Speak Now 10. The Black Eyed Peas, The E.N.D.
Folks, first up let's all bow our heads for a moment of silence, as "Bed Intruder Song" dropped out of the Billboard Hot 100 after a lone week on the chart. It was fun while it lasted, Antoine Dodson—hope you went out, rolled deep and had lots of classy sex.
On a far less glamorous note, Eminem and Rihanna's "Love The Way You Lie" has now been #1 for six weeks, giving Ri Ri a total of 11 weeks at the top of the Hot 100 this year if you include "Rude Boy." Meanwhile, it was announced this week that she has yet another single ("Only Girl"—out next month) and another album (her fifth) due for release by year's end.
B.o.B's third single "Magic" cracks the Top 10 this week and features Rivers Cuomo. It's the Weezer frontman's second Top 10 hit after his band's "Beverly Hills" climbed to #10 back in 2005.
Coming in just behind them at #12 is Nelly with "Just A Dream." Alas, pop chyldryn, this is sadly not a Cathy Dennis cover with a slightly shortened title.
"Just A Dream" is now the rapper's first Top 20 hit since that horrific trash "Grillz" somehow hit #1 five years ago. (Clink your glass with Rivers, Nelly.)
On a final note, Adam Lambert's "If I Had You" moves up to #32, thereby finally entering the Top 40.
The U.S. Top 10:
1. "Love The Way You Lie" - Eminem feat. Rihanna*6 weeks* 2. "Dynamite" - Taio Cruz 3. "Teenage Dream" - Katy Perry 4. "I Like It" - Enrique Iglesias feat. Pitbull 5. "DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love" - Usher feat. Pitbull 6. "Right Above It" - Lil Wayne feat. Drake *new* 7. "Cooler Than Me" - Mike Posner 8. "California Gurls" - Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg 9. "Just The Way You Are" - Bruno Mars 10. "Magic" - B.o.B feat. Rivers Cuomo
The Wanted's stay at #1 in the UK with debut single "All Time Low" was short lived, as Ne-Yo's fancy loafers came along and booted them down to #5 this week. I'm still not decided on "Beautiful Monster," either; much like Ne-Yo's 2008 hit "Closer," I kind of appreciate it—but it's just not grabbing me like his older jams "Because Of You" and "Sexy Love" did right away. Both he and Stargate can do better, I'm afraid.
At any rate, we really do seem to be in the doldrums of the pre-fall releases now. Katy Perry is putting a damn single out a week and Eminem and Rihanna's "Love The Way You Lie" is so overplayed that I'm thinking of putting a cork screw through my eardrum next time I hear it on the radio. (So, basically, I'll just have to go flip it on and start stabbing.)
Here's hoping The Saturdays' semi-decent "Missing You," which is now out, shakes things up a bit next week. After all, it's been so long since we've had a nice pack of strippers sliding down the pole that is the UK chart in an upside-down split on a Sunday.
Hail Jesus!!!!
The U.K. Top 10:
1. "Beautiful Monster" - Ne-Yo *new* *1 week* 2. "Club Can't Handle Me" - Flo Rida feat. David Guetta 3. "We No Speak Americano" - Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP 4. "Love The Way You Lie" - Eminem feat. Rihanna 5. "All Time Low" - The Wanted 6. "Billionaire" - Travie McCoy feat. Bruno Mars 7. "Airplanes" - B.o.B feat. Hayley Williams 8. "Pack Up" - Eliza Doolittle 9. "One (Your Name)" - Swedish House Mafia feat. Pharrell 10. "California Gurls" - Katy Perry
Let's face it—until Enrique Iglesias gives it up and fulfills that promise to water ski in the buff now that Spain won the World Cup, "I Like It" is never gonna move into the upper reaches of the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. This week the single spends a second week at #8. C'mon, Enrique—drop those pants and make the world scream bailamos already!
Alright, on to the real news. Eminem and Rihanna's "Love The Way You Lie" has finally knocked Katy Perry's "California Gurls" off the top of the chart. Both songs are completely saturating radio right now, so it's kind of like choosing between death by firing squad rather than death by having a grenade shoved in your mouth like a ball gag—something Katy Perry is probably really up on.
Further down the Hot 100, Adam Lambert's "If I Had You" inches up to #69. Hey, at least now it's bested the #72 peak of his version of "No Boundaries," right?
Sigh. And as expected, the party couldn't last forever for Kylie Minogue's Aphrodite here in the U.S. without a hit single or some promo appearances to support it. This week the LP drops from its debut position of #19 to #89 on the Top 200 Albums chart.
But on an upbeat note, Kylie's "All The Lovers" is the week's greatest gainer on the Dance/Club Play Songs chart, where it jumps up to #4.
The U.S. Top 10:
1. "Love The Way You Lie" - Eminem feat. Rihanna*1 week* 2. "California Gurls" - Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg 3. "Airplanes" - B.o.B feat. Hayley Williams 4. "Dynamite" - Taio Cruz 5. "OMG" - Usher feat. will.i.am 6. "Cooler Than Me" - Mike Posner 7. "Billionaire" - Travie McCoy feat. Bruno Mars 8. "I Like It" - Enrique Iglesias feat. Pitbull 9. "Find Your Love" - Drake 10. "Ridin' Solo" - Jason Derulo
Marshall Mathers aka Eminem is certainly rolling a tsunami to cerify he's coming back to dominate again the rap music scene. Aside from his fifth solo album entitled Relapse which will be unleashed on May 19, Eminem's countenance will banner XXL Magazine's May cover! On the headline, it reads "Vengeance is Eminem". This XXL issue will be out on May 5!
Obviously, something is weird in Eminem's face on the cover -- is it bad lighting, bad makeup or his face took a brunt from his addiction? Anyway, Eminem had no qualms discussing that problem in XXL, in which he had to take a five year hiatus to get clean:
At that time, I felt like I wanted to pull back, because my... problem had got so bad. I felt like, Maybe if I take a break, maybe this will help. I started to get into the producer role more… I can still be out there with my music, like with the Re-Up album, but I don’t have to be in the spotlight the whole time.
Just wishing you good luck Eminem! May you succeed in rekindling your rap career and of course getting the ire of those celebs you will be dissing in your songs!
Beleaguered rapper Eminem is now back to invade the hiphop scene again armed with 2 brand new rap albums to be released on May 19. However, Eminem's latest single "We Made You" from his Relapse album has been leaked over Youtube! Will Eminem still make it big after a five year hiatus?
Here's the Eminem "We Made You" Leak found in Youtube:
I still couldn't find the Eminem "We Made You" lyrics though. If you have it, we'll have it publish here for everyone. Thanks! Here's also an article by The Independent which tells us problems Eminem will face during his planned comeback
