Week of October 24

This week is a big week of chart movement, with five new songs in the Top 40 and five new songs in the Top 10.

Of the new entries to the Top 10, Nelly places highest with "Just a Dream" moving 12-6. The St. Louis native most recently appeared on the chart with Janet Jackson on "Call on Me" (No. 17, 2006), but his two biggest hits fell during the period when my weekly charts were on hiatus. Both "My Place" featuring Jaheim and "Over and Over" featuring Tim McGraw were hits in 2004; though I didn't post weekly charts at the time, I did create year-end surveys, and both songs placed in the year-end top 15. "My Place" was No. 11, while "Over and Over" was the year's top song.

The country crossover ratio in the Top 10 continues at the same pace as last week as new Top 10 crossovers from Reba McEntire ("Turn on the Radio," 13-9) and Trace Adkins ("Between the Rainbows and the Rain," 14-10) replace descending hits from Darius Rucker and the team of the Zac Brown Band and Alan Jackson.

By moving 16-8 with their take on the George Harrison composition "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," Yo-Yo Ma notches his first Top 10 hit, India.Arie her sixth, and Santana his/their seventh (that total includes credits for the group and for leader Carlos Santana). One of those was the No. 1 collaboration "Do You Like the Way?" in 2000, which also featured the artist who moves 15-7 with "Forget You," Cee-Lo Green.

Five debuts this week feature artists familiar to the survey: Shakira, Seal and Darius Rucker as well as the duo of Elton John and Leon Russell and former Barenaked Ladies singer Steven Page. "Never Too Old (to Hold Somebody)" at No. 39 comes from the new CD "The Union," the first album collaboration between the veteran musicians who had commercial peaks in 1975 -- Russell with the Top 20 hit "Lady Blue," and John with No. 1 hits in "Philadelphia Freedom," "Island Girl" and "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" as well as a Top 5 hit in "Someone Saved My Life Tonight." Page, meanwhile, has his first solo Top 40 hit, coming only a couple of month after BNL had their first non-Page No. 1 song, "Summertime."