Week of December 12

In the final week of the 2010 chart year (mid-December 2009 to mid-December 2010), lots of action this week to talk about -- much of it due to two acts: Neon Trees and Cee-Lo Green.

Neon Trees not only makes another strong move, 9-3, with its debut hit "Animal," but also follows up with a debut at No. 39. "Wish List" was promoted a few weeks ago on iTunes as a free holiday download, but the song really isn't so much a holiday tune as a strong follow-up to "Animal" that happens to use holiday imagery. We'll see how it does in the weeks to come, especially after Dec. 25.

And Cee-Lo Green now has three of the top 40 songs of the week. As his former No. 1, "Forget You," slides to No. 30, he makes a bid for a chart-topping follow-up via his guest appearance on Fantasia's "The Thrill Is Gone," up 5-2. Meanwhile, he has the highest debut of the week with "Fool for You," a track from his CD "The Lady Killer" that features backing vocals from Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind & Fire. "Fool for You" begins at No. 36.

Eleven artists move up five or more positions this week, the strongest total in a few months. That includes the new No. 1 hit, Danny Gokey's "I Will Not Say Goodbye," which leaps from No. 6. Gokey's hit takes the top in its 16th chart week -- tying it with Robbie Williams' "The Last Days of Disco" and Barenaked Ladies' "Summertime" for the year's slowest rise to the top. (The Bird and the Bee's "Heard It on the Radio" was No. 1 in its 17th week, but that was the song's second time at No. 1; it first hit the top in its 10th week.)

The week's biggest mover? Michael Jackson, whose duet with Akon, "Hold My Hand," sprints 33-22. If it keeps at this pace, it could become the singer's second posthumous No. 1 after last year's "This Is It."