US Singles Chart: 1. Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg – California Gurls (last week – 2) Katy Perry and Snoop Dogg put together a track that responds to Jay-Z’s Empire State Of Mind, adding an electropop tinge to rap and fusing the US’ two most fashionable and of the minute genres. A guaranteed hit, then, [...]
Also taggedUS Singles Chart: 1. Usher featuring Will.I.Am – OMG (last week – 1) A second consecutive week at number one for Usher and Will.I.Am’s dance-floor filling, autotuned beast of a track OMG. We can probably expect to be hearing this through our stereos until at least the height of summer, and it does have a [...]
Also taggedUS Singles Chart: 1. Usher featuring Will.I.Am – OMG (last week – 6) Usher might have used those three cringeworthy initials we’ve all got used to hearing thrown around as an expression of shock as a song title, but R&B is notoriously trendy, and in grabbing Will.I.Am and releasing a track from a genuinely striking [...]
Also taggedUS Singles Chart: 1. B.o.B featuring Bruno Mars – Nothin’ On You (last week – 1) A second week at number one for break through act B.o.B whose single has now gone platinum, a mammoth achievement for a hip hop vocalist who was a virtual unknown before this song, and has made his way to [...]
Also taggedUS Singles Chart: 1. B.o.B featuring Bruno Mars – Nothin’ On You (last week – 2) After three consecutive weeks at number two, one of this year’s biggest breakthrough artists to date Stateside finally notches up his first number one single, and a stormer it is, too. B.o.B’s enticing brand of R&B was made for [...]
Also taggedUS Singles Chart: 1. Rihanna – Rude Boy (last week – 1) Rihanna hangs in there for one more week, a week in which sales seem to have carefully mirrored the last couple. We had to call and double check the charts, in fact, as the singles section is completely unchanged at the top end. [...]
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