Week of Sept. 6, 2009

It's nine years to the week since Whitney Houston has had chart action like this. The week of Sept. 10, 2000, was the last week of her run with two separate hits from her greatest hits collection. "Same Script, Different Cast," a former Top 10 hit with Deborah Cox, dropped 6-13, while her duet with George Michael, "If I Told You That," dropped 20-24. This week is even better, as Houston's two chart hits are on the rise. "Million Dollar Bill," co-written by Alicia Keys, enters at No. 38, while the title track of Whitney's new CD, "I Look to You," moves up 2-1. It's Whitney's first time at the top since "Heartbreak Hotel" with Faith Evans and Kelly Price spent a week there in April 1999.

Elsewhere in the Top 10, we have back to back country crossovers by Tim McGraw and George Strait in positions 8 and 9. The last time two country songs crossed to pop's Top 10 was July 13, 2008, when Darius Rucker was No. 3 with "Don't Think I Don't Think About It" and James Otto was No. 9 with "Just Got Started Lovin' You." That was the final week of a six-week concurrent run for those songs.