And so not a new song cracks the Top 10 of Billboard's Hot 100 chart this week. However, Lady GaGa makes a move to firmly plant her stripper pole on Planet Pop—her second single "Poker Face" moves up to #3 while "Just Dance" is still sitting firmly at #7, and her full-length set The Fame also clim...

Egads! When Taylor Swift is #1 for a 10th week, and the album only moved 62,000 copies in the past seven days, the death knell is ringing loudly for commercial LP sales as we know them. Remember only two years ago when the Dreamgirls soundtrack marked the lowest-selling week for a #1 album, with sal...

Goddammit! The other day I had to go and mention how around this time back in 2005, 50 Cent's "Candy Shop" was #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 for nine weeks, and subsequently kept far greater pop singles like Green Day's "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" and Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" stuck at #2. W...

No new singles enter the Top 10 of Billboard's Hot 100 chart this week, and Kelly Clarkson's "My Life Would Suck Without You" remains #1. I finally heard "Suck" somewhere other than my own iPod yesterday—in the courtyard of a shopping center—so it's nice to know it's getting airplay amongst the ...

Clive Davis, put on your party dress. (Yes, you can wear the little black one, you old slut.) Kelly Clarkson has topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 with her new single "My Life Would Suck Without You" after only its first week of availability at digital retailers. It's her first #1 in the States sinc...

Wow—four years. This is like entering a second term in political office. When's the corruption scandal gonna hit? Anyway, I won't ramble on too much about Chart Rigger's anniversary because—ta dah!—there's a quick, D'luvvly video blog for that purpose: Wow, the charisma. And appropriately, it'...

Wow, pop really is back, even if it is in the form of pop-rock, somewhat. That Taylor Swift "Love Story" song? I don't even consider that country. You hear it on the radio and you're like, "Oooh, a beat. Now here's a girl who puts out!" And Lady GaGa? She took her leather thong, tied it around a fla...

Alright, folks, it's a new year and a new outlook. Who cares if the world is falling apart now more than ever? Lady GaGa has a smash hit on her hands! This week "Just Dance" creeps up from #3 to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Lady GaGa, doesn't your man-in-a-wig ass know that #2 is dangerous territory...

First off, Beyoncé is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 with "Single Ladies"...again. I'm starting to think she and T.I. are playing some elaborate joke. "What's that, you're getting tired up there? Here are a couple $100 bills, baby, go buy yourself something to eat and I'll take over for awhile." Second ...

In honor of Britney Spears a.) debuting at #1 on the Billboard album chart with Circus after sales of 504,000+ copies, 2.) debuting at #3 on the Hot 100 Singles chart with the album's title track, and f.) having two back-to-back Top 10 hits off an album for the first time ever, let's watch this old ...