Week of November 7

After last week's debut-light survey, this week makes up for lost time, with seven new songs between positions 40 and 34. A couple of names long away from the Top 40 return this week. Ricky Martin, last seen in 1999 with the No. 11 "She's All I Ever Had," enters at No. 39 with "The Best Thing About Me Is You," a duet with Joss Stone. And one position below Ricky and Joss are Huey Lewis and the News. The veteran pop/rockers debut at No. 40 with "Just the One (I've Been Looking For)," a track from their new release "Soulsville." "Soulsville" is a collection of bluesy covers of Memphis-spawned hits; "Just the One (I've Been Looking For)" was originally recorded by Johnnie Taylor for the Stax label. Huey and the boys were last in the survey in 1991 with "Hit Me Like a Hammer." That was the last of their string of 13 Top 10 hits, which began in 1982 with "Do You Believe in Love?"

Two other debut songs are records that have earned considerable airplay on adult Top 40 and adult alternative radio this year. "Animal" is the very 1980s-sounding hit by Neon Trees, a group out of Utah. It debuts at No. 35. One notch below it is "The Man Who Can't Be Moved" by the Script, the Irish trio of Danny O'Donoghue, Mark Sheehan and Glen Power; this single sounds like the best late '80s and early '90s singles from Sting.

At No. 34, this week's highest debut is Tim McGraw's latest, "Felt Good on My Lips." This is definitely the poppiest song he's charted with, but it's part of a strong chart week for country songs and artists crossing over to the Top 40. Elsewhere, there are hits from Darius Rucker, Danny Gokey and three hits in the Top 10 including the new No. 1, Lady Antebellum's "Our Kind of Love."