Drake Rules My Personal Countdown For the Second Time

Drake gets his second #1 song in my personal countdown this week, as Karaoke ascends to the top. It's one of the gems from Thank Me Later that I have discovered by accident.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending September 26, 2014 -

#10 Lana del Rey - West Coast (NEW)

Lana del Rey returns with her third top 10 hit in my personal countdown.  This week, West Coast, debuts at #10.



#9 Celine Dion - Always Be My Girl (NEW)

Celine Dion returns this week with her 47th top 10 hit in my personal countdown.  Always Be My Girl debuts this week at #9.






#8 George Strait - I Got A Car (#10) 

 George Strait's very first top 10 hit in my personal countdown, I Got A Car, moves up this week to #8.





#7 Amos Lee - El Camino (#9) 

Amos Lee's El Camino moves up to #7 this week. It's his very first top 10 hit in my personal countdown.

 

#6 Shakira - Empire (#8)

Shakira's eleventh top 10 hit in my personal countdown, Empire, moves up this week to #6.





#5 Busta Rhymes feat. Eminem - Calm Down (NEW)

Busta Rhymes and Eminem return to my personal countdown this week as Calm Down debuts this week at #5.  This is Busta Rhymes' fifth visit to my personal countdown and Eminem's fifteenth.





#4 RY X - Berlin (#5) 

 Indie artist RY X's first top 10 hit in my personal countdown, Berlin, moves up this week to 
#4.






#3 Showtek - We Like to Party (#4)

Showtek's third top 10 hit in my personal countdown, We Like to Party, moves up this week to #3.





#2 Jennifer Lopez - First Love (#3)

Jennifer Lopez's sixteenth top 10 hit in my personal countdown, First Love, moves up to #2 this week.





#1 Drake - Karaoke (#2)

Drake gets his second #1 hit in my personal countdown this week, as Karaoke, moves up to the top spot.  It's also his fourth top 10 hit in my personal countdown.  It came from his Thank Me Later album.

Lana del Rey

 Lana del Rey has two top ten hits in my personal countdown. 

2012 - Ride (#7) 

2013 - Young and Beautiful (#2) 

2014 - West Coast (#10)

My Weekly Top 40 July 19, 2013: #28 Lana del Rey - Young and Beautiful

Lana del Rey's second top ten hit in my personal countdown, Young and Beautiful, has already peaked at #2.  This week, it slips to #28.

Sara Bareilles Tops My Personal Countdown For the First Time with Brave

Brave is Sara Bareilles' second top ten hit in my personal countdown and the first to go all the way to the top.  Love Song went all the way to #3.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending July 12, 2013 -

#1 Sara Bareilles - Brave (#2)

#2 Lana del Rey - Young and Beautiful (#3)

#3 Ciara - Body Party (#4)

#4 One Direction - Over Again (#6)

#5 Bishop Paul S. Morton - Best Days Yet (#7)

#6 Xavier Naidoo - Bei Meiner Seele (#8)

#7 Maitre Gims - J'Me Tire (#9)

#8 Carly Rae Jepsen -Tiny Little Bows (#16)

#9 Bruno Mars - Treasure (#11)

#10 Felix Poon - 掌舵 (#12)

Ronan Keating Gets His Fifth #1 Hit In My Personal Countdown This Week

Ronan Keating is no stranger to the top spot in my personal countdown.  In 2000, all four songs of his first solo album, Ronan, went all the way to #1, Life Is A Rollercoaster, Heal Me, Keep On Walking and When the World Was Mine .  Thirteen years later, my third pick from his latest album Fires, Love You and Leave You, moves to the top spot this week, making it his fifth #1 song as a solo singer.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending July 5, 2013 -

#1 Ronan Keating - Love You and Leave You (#3)

#2 Sara Bareilles - Brave (#5)

#3 Lana Del Rey - Young and Beautiful (#6)

#4 Ciara - Body Party (#9)

#5 Lee Brice - I Drive Your Truck (#10)

#6 One Direction - Over Again (#11)

#7 Bishop Paul S. Morton - Best Days Yet (#13)

#8 Xavier Naidoo - Bei Meiner Seele (#14)

#9 Maitre Gims - J'Me Tire (#15)

#10 Akdong Musician - I Love You (#12)

Carrie Underwood Gets Third #1 Hit in My Personal Countdown

Carrie Underwood gets her third #1 hit in my personal countdown this week, as Unapologize, zooms from #12 to #1.  Her previous two #1 hits were Jesus Take the Wheel and So Small.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending June 28, 2013 -

#1 Carrie Underwood - Unapologize (#12)

#2 Daft Punk - Get Lucky (#11)

#3 Ronan Keating - Love You and Leave You (#3)

#4 Robin Thicke ft Pharrell - Blurred Lines (#32)

#5 Sara Bareilles - Brave (#5)

#6 Lana Del Rey - Young and Beautiful (#7)

#7 Jennifer Lopez ft Pitbull - Live It Up (#1)

#8 Mika ft Pharrell - Celebrate (#2)

#9 Ciara - Body Party (#10)

#10 Lee Brice - I Drive Your Truck (#8)

A Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull Collaboration Finally Hits Number One in My Personal Countdown

Live it Up is already Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull's third collaboration.  On the Floor and Dance Again both reached the top 10 in my personal countdown but it's Live It Up that goes all the way to #1.  It's Jennifer's eighth #1 and Pitbull's fifth in my personal countdown.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending June 21, 2013 -

#1 Jennifer Lopez ft. Pitbull - Live It Up (#6)

#2 Mika ft. Pharrell - Celebrate (#2)

#3 Ronan Keating - Love You and Leave You (#8)

#4 Carrie Underwood - Unapologize (#12)

#5 Sara Bareilles - Brave (#7)

#6 Phillip Phillips - Gone Gone Gone (#13)

#7 Lana Del Rey - Young and Beautiful (#14)

#8 Lee Brice - I Drive Your Truck (#11)

#9 One Direction - Over Again (#15)

#10 Ciara - Body Party (#26)

Mary J. Blige Tops My Personal Countdown for the Eighth Time

Well, sometimes I discover songs which are already past their release dates.  This happens again this week, as the theme song from the movie The Help, Mary J. Blige's The Living Proof, ascends to the top of my personal countdown.  This happened because I chose Need Someone as my top pick for her album My Life II, which incidentally, also went to #1 in last year.

Here are my favorite songs for the week ending January 11, 2013 -

#1 Mary J. Blige - The Living Proof (#4)

#2 Matt Redman - 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) (#3)

#3 Emeli Sande - Clown (#6)

#4 John Mayer - The Age of Worry (#5)

#5 Tamar Braxton - Love and War (#7)

#6 Chris Brown - Don't Judge Me (#1)

#7 Lana del Rey - Ride (#8)

#8 Robbie Williams - S**t on the Radio (#9)

#9  Lena - Stardust (#10)

#10 Alexis Jordan - Laying Around (NEW)

Chris Brown's Don't Judge Me Becomes My First #1 Song of 2013

Even though both Chris Brown and Rihanna underwent a lot of media controversy over their volatile and often violent relationship, one thing is clear, both of them never stopped working - and because of that, they've had #1 songs in my personal countdown even if they were always on the media spotlight!

This week, Chris Brown gets his ninth #1 song in my personal countdown, as Please Don't Judge Me, moves from #2 to #1.  

Here are my ten favorite songs for the first week of 2013, week ending, January 4, 2013 -

#1 Chris Brown - Please Don't Judge Me

#2 Sakanaction - Boku to Hana

#3 Matt Redman - 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)

#4 Mary J. Blige - The Living Proof

#5 John Mayer - The Age of Worry

#6 Emeli Sande - Clown

#7 Tamar Braxton - Love and War

#8 Lana del Rey - Ride

#9 Robbie Williams - S**t on the Radio

#10 Lena - Stardust

Chart Performance: Lana Del Rey

This has got to be one of the more interesting songs that I've heard in a long time - kinda reminds me of Chris Isaak's music about 20 or so years ago. Well, Lana del Rey has a very unique smoky voice and she's not bad looking too! She does here a great live version of her hit Video Games. I wonder how her whole album sounds, don't know if she has one though...

She has three top 10 albums in the US.  One of them went all the way to #1.

2012 - Born to Die (#2)
2012 - Paradise (#10)
2014 - Ultraviolence (#1)