Chart Performance: Owl City

Owl City sheds off his one hit wonder tag, as this Adam Young penned song, Good Time, his collaboration with Carly Rae Jepsen, moves back to the US top 10 at #10.  It has already peaked at #8. Owl City has a former #1 song with Fireflies a few years ago.

In the UK, the same song is at #8 this week.  The song has peaked at #3.  It's also his second UK top 10 hit.  Fireflies, which went to #1, was his first UK hit. 

He also gets his third top 10 album in the US this week, as The Midsummer Station, debuts at #7.

2009 - Ocean Eyes (#8)
2011 - All Things Bright and Beautiful (#6)
2012 - The Midsummer Station (#7)

Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen Top My Personal Countdown This Week

 

Carly Rae Jepsen gets her second #1 song for the year, and together with the band Vertical Horizon, they are as of this week, the only two acts to have two #1 songs this year.

Owl City gets his fifth #1 song following How I Became the Sea which went to the top around this time last year.

Together, the two do the song 'Good Time' which zooms to the top this week, after two weeks of abnormal concert activity.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending August 24, 2012 -

#1 Carly Rae Jepsen/Owl City - Good Time (NEW)

#2 Cheryl Cole - Call My Name (RE)

#3 Nelly Furtado - Parking Lot (#5)

#4 Madonna - Turn Up the Radio (RE)

#5 Tears For Fears - Call Me Mellow (#6)

#6 Melissa Etheridge - Indiana (NEW)

#7 Rico Blanco - Amats (NEW)

#8 The Wanted - Chasing the Sun (NEW)

#9 Bamboo - Ikot Ng Mundo (NEW)

#10 Nero - Promises (NEW)

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Carly Rae Jepsen and Owl City: Not One Hit Wonders Anymore

Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen can finally sigh with relief from not being tagged as one hit wonders anymore.  Together, they have banded together to sing this song Good Time, which debuts at #18 this week at the Billboard charts.  It's a good pop song which is pretty much right along their alley.  If it goes up next week or disappears slowly from the charts would depend on how the song builds itself on radio - but gauging from the first week sales - looks like it has a future.