Well, for the first time in eight weeks, the song at the top of the chart does not belong to Whitney Houston or Uncle Kracker. The Fray's "Never Say Never" completes its speedy run to No. 1 by moving up three in its fifth week. It's the band's second time at the top, after "How to Save a Life" spent one week at the top in late 2006.
Lots of action in this week's Top 10, with Mika, Cascada and one of the oldest artists on the charts, Barbra Streisand, all moving in with their latest hits. (Streisand is 67; Smokey Robinson, who has the No. 19 song this week, is 69.) Streisand surprised chart watchers at Billboard by keeping Mariah Carey and Paramore out of No. 1 on the album charts this week with her latest, "Love Is the Answer." I'm not at all surprised -- she has a lot of dedicated fans (myself included) who will go out and get her albums in the first week of release. What will be more interesting to see is whether this album has any staying power on the charts. It's a lot more of a standard and less contemporary album than any of her non-Broadway releases in the past two decades, so we'll see.
While Jordin Sparks slides out of the Top 10 with "Battlefield," she enters the Top 40 with its follow-up, "S.O.S. (Let the Music Play)." The parenthetical title tips off listeners that this isn't a remake of Rihanna's hit of a few years back (nor of Abba's 1975 hit) but a new song that borrows heavily from Shannon's Top 40 classic from 1984.
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