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I hope this gets a release in North America. I think Shine a Light could be huge. Frankly I think McFly are the only UK boyband who actually have a good chance in the US, especially with this album.

JUICY is right. I am absolutely loving this.

To be honest I'm a bit disappointed at Stereo Love's sales. Right now it's doing fantastic on airplay but sales are lagging. It briefly made it into Canada's top 10 iTunes chart but here it's struggling...

Loving the Hot 100 lately. Lots of movement and variety. It's rare when you can't predict who will be no. 1 next week, but that has been the case recently.

€110 billion bailout!!! And some estimates are significantly higher. Why in the world did the Irish government take responsibility for the reckless debt of its banks? Certainly it's better to have a bankrupt bank than a bankrupt government? Interesting that now it is looking like Iceland made the right decision by allowing the banks to collapse and foreign investors to lose all the capital. After two years of painful austerity, Ireland is in a recession and still needs a bailout. I used to live in Chicago where an Irish Miracle developer strolled into town about 6 years ago and started building a gigantic 2,000 foot apartment tower where 1,300 people were going to buy $1-$40 million apartments. Give me a break!! Anglo Irish gave him a gazillion dollars he got as far as a massive hole in the ground before the bubble burst and he left town. We're left with a huge hole, and the Irish government and citizens are left with a €100 million bill. Meanwhile the developer is lamenting his losses in a New York townhouse worth more than my life. Unreal.

Surprisingly, looks like Black Eyed Peas' latest didn't quite make it to the top, currently not able to rise above two solid performing singles, We R Who We R and Firework. I think tomorrow it will fall below Raise Your Glass too.

I thought I was the only one. What on earth is her appeal??

HAHAHA just listened to a clip of the ripoff cover by "Off the Record" -- it sounds like complete S H I T -- who is falling for this crap?? It's #15 on UK iTunes! I wonder who makes a career out of these awful covers.

There goes "Firework" up the chart -- it was as low as #51 just yesterday and I was wondering why...

I would love it if Ke$ha debuted at #1... but it's unlikely...

We talk a lot in this forum about how happy/relieved we are now that the Hot 100 once again incorporates sales in a meaningful way. And I still think that is best. But this Glee thing is precisely what the proponents for airplay claim they are trying to prevent. They may have a point here, I suppose. Anyway Glee isn't the worst chart manipulation I've ever seen. How about re-releasing an Elvis song every week? :P

This song is just BEYOND. And the video. Dear God. Somehow, I love it.

So glad they included Stronger, the best Britney song that no one remembers.

I must be the only one who loved Octopus, but it's actually one of my favorite albums of the 90s. Excited for new material!

Sesame Street has had celebrity cameos such, well, forever. But my fav one from the last few years is definitely Feist: fZ9WiuJPnNA

This has exploded in North America -- already top ten in the US and Canada, currently #2 on US iTunes.

:lol: Don't forget the gobs priceless art and artifacts that fill her palaces were all essentially pillaged from every corner of the globe over the centuries. I see the funds went instead of hospitals, nursing homes, schools and working class families. What a shame... :rolleyes:

Did anyone notice there's a dance song in the top 10? "Like a G6" is not bad!

FYI - Bruno Mars will be #1 on the Hot 100 tomorrow.

Judging by the iTunes reviews of most of these songs, I think you're spot on.

I'm not sure why Only Girl in the World is so massive. Granted I like the song a lot, mostly the production, as her extremely loud vocals get a bit annoying after a while... she could learn a lot from the great dance divas, you don't scream at the top of your lungs from the very beginning...

I voted Australia. It seems to have the best variety of all genres, with generally very good turnover. The US chart is indeed improving, although the airplay issue still continues to be a problem. No offense to Alicia Keys but Empire State of Mind has essentially been forgotten, while Bad Romance is undoubtedly one of the biggest songs of the last 5 years -- but airplay kept Bad Romance at #2 even though it was selling significantly more copies than ESOM! Not acceptable. However those kinds of instances are becoming rarer.

I'm not offended at all, and I generally agree with your overall point, but I don't think it's wrong to commemorate the people who died on Sept. 11 just because we're not commemorating Iraqi war casualties, or because so many more Iraqis died, or because Guatemalans died in the 60s when the CIA started a civil war, or whatever. It's not a contest, how many more died when, or who killed more people. The media is certainly too focused on the West, but it's also where most of us and our friends and family live, so it's human nature that we care more when tragedy or violence happens here. I live in Washington, DC and no one seems to be making mention of the anniversary, or they are at least reflecting quietly/personally. I suspect New Yorkers are doing the same. It's the redneck, right wing, brainless f***wits who freak out at the very mention of "9/11" and continue to vote for war mongers and civil liberty-destroyers -- even though they are perfectly f***ing safe in their homes in suburban Texas! And yet its us who live in cities who will suffer when a terrorist strikes -- and we're the ones who get it! If there is another terrorist attack, and I hope there isn't, but please, can't it be some godawful Arizona suburb or something??

Some comments... Obama will be re-elected in 2012 even if Republicans win a bunch of seats in Congress because they have no real leader capable of winning financial + social conservatives and enough independents/undecideds. Yes Palin will try and she may win a few early primaries but she won't win the GOP nomination. Regarding the "Ground Zero Mosque" protestors -- it's mostly a group of uneducated morons and/or bigots. I can't blame them fully since Murdoch's Fox News and the brainless idiot commentators they hire have created hysteria by lying, misreporting and promoting baseless conspiracy theories. Some background: most community centers in the US have some kind of religious background or history. In a country where the public sector is demonized and starved of resources, it is churches, synagogues and mosques who traditionally supported the community by providing services and a space for community life. The YMCA, of course, stands for Young Men's Christian Association. Large cities are full of Jewish, Christian and yes, Muslim community centers -- where people of any and all and no faiths come to work out, take a sculpture class, find a sitter for their children, etc. etc. etc. First, the Muslim community center in New York (NOT a mosque) is modeled after a recently constructed Jewish community center uptown whose primary clients/visitors are something like 80% non-Jewish -- it will provide non-religious services for everyone, Muslims and non-Muslims. Second, it's SEVERAL blocks from Ground Zero and anyone remotely familiar with Manhattan will tell you it's not even close in a city where every block is different. Third, there is already a real mosque even closer, along with strip clubs and sex shops. Fourth, and most importantly and obviously, there is nothing wrong with an Islamic place near Ground Zero because, well, a large number of Muslims died in the attacks, and of course blaming the entire Muslim faith for the actions of a few extremists is wrong, stupid, unethical, hypocritical, etc. That would be like blaming all Christians for a group 30 of brainless idiots in Florida who want to burn Qur'ans, which apparently scores of people in the Middle East are doing. Why? Because they are not being told the whole story by the media. Sounds familiar!!! Oh and it wouldn't be difficult to find Qur'ans even in a small Florida town, as it's probably within an hour drive of a mid-size city, and every mid-size city will have a bookstore that likely sells them. This discussion is all over the place :lol:

I'll never understand why the UK was too weak-willed considering Germany, France and generally the entire world save a handful of countries had no qualms about standing up to Bush & co. Blair gave Bush the shred of legitimacy he needed to call the effort a "coalition." I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest the whole thing may not have happened without the UK's support.