Week of Dec. 13

Lots of work this week on the year-end Top 100 and the decade-end Top 1000. They'll be popping up here within the next few weeks. The year-end Top 100 will be posted here next week. This week's chart (Dec. 13) was the last one for the 2009 chart year, and it made a difference. A song leapt into the year-end Top 10 as a result of this week's survey. Next week, you'll know which one that was.

Meanwhile, this week's chart news belongs to Susan Boyle and Reba McEntire. Boyle looks like she's going to take a third week at the top of Billboard's album charts with her debut release, and she's gunning for the top of my charts with "Wild Horses." This week, she's up another 10, moving 17-7.

McEntire has the week's highest debut with "Consider Me Gone" at No. 36. It's her first chart hit since her duet with Justin Timberlake, "The Only Promise That Remains," a year and a half back, and her first solo hit since 1996.

Also back in the Top 40 is Paul McCartney with "(I Want to) Come Home" at No. 38. It's from the much-panned new Robert DeNiro movie "Everybody's Fine." It's the first McCartney hit to make the 40 since "Ever Present Past" a couple of years back.