Thursday, September 9, 2010

Week of September 12

Let's take a look at this week's new No. 1 song, biggest movers and debut songs.

The new chart-topper is "Misery" by Maroon 5. It's the band's third official No. 1 hit, following "Makes Me Wonder" in 2007 and "If I Never See Your Face Again" (featuring Rihanna) in 2008. The band had several hits from its debut album that came out during my chart's dormant period -- songs such as "Harder to Breathe," "This Love" and "She Will Be Loved." "Misery" is the first hit from the group's forthcoming album "Hands All Over."

Three of the week's biggest movers are from artists coming off recent Top 10 hits. MercyMe follows "All of Creation" with "Back to You," which leaps 22-12. David Gray's follow-up to his No. 1 duet with Annie Lennox, "Full Steam," is "A Moment Changes Everything" (23-14). And the Zac Brown Band is trying for back to back No. 1's, following "Free," as the group's collaboration with Alan Jackson, "As She's Walking Away," sprints 10-4. Meanwhile, jumping from 40 to 30 is "Not Broken," the latest from the Goo Goo Dolls. That group is making a bid for its first Top 10 hit since "Here Is Gone" went to No. 7 in 2002.

Of the three debuts this week, the most noteworthy is "Hey You," the first Top 40 hit in 20 years for Heart. In 1990, the group hit No. 24 with "Stranded." The group, led by sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, was a top album-rock act in the 1970s, but they had a comeback as a power-pop band in the 1980s, when they scored a No. 1 hit in 1985 with "Never." "Hey You" is from their new CD "Red Velvet Car."

Natasha Bedingfield is back at No. 38 with "Touch," her first hit in about a year and a half, when "Soulmate" hit the Top 10. And Sara Bareilles isn't letting much time pass; while her former No. 1 "King of Anything" is still in the Top 10, she debuts with another cut from the CD "Kaleidoscope Heart." The nostalgic-sounding "Gonna Get Over You" enters at No. 39.

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