2/10/01

PTS	2W	LW	TW	TITLE: ARTIST	WKS	#PK/#WKS	NOTES
+2			50	Breathless: The Corrs	1		first Top 50
	23	40	49	When the Money's Gone: Bruce Roberts featuring Elton John and Kristine W	10	#9/1wk
+5			48	Now I Can Die: Nina Gordon	1		second Top 50
+8			47	Paradise: S Club 7	1		third Top 50
+8	----	48	46	Let Love Lead the Way: Spice Girls	2
+8	----	47	45	Should I Call You Jesus: Billie Myers	2
	17	34	44	Sunshine: Gabrielle	13	#7/1wk
+15			43	DEBUT HIT *Light Years: Kylie Minogue*	1		*eleventh Top 50*
+4	46	42	42	Proud (from "Queer as Folk"): Heather Small	3	#42/2wks
	32	36	41	Freedom: Erasure	22	#9/1wk
+12	----	45	40	Giving Up, Giving In: Sheena Easton	2
+3	45	41	39	Bouncing Off the Ceiling (Upside Down): The A*Teens	3
	36	37	38	Killin' Time: Tina Cousins	14	#1/1wk
+14	----	44	37	My Love: Westlife	2
	24	23	36	I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues (Live): Elton John and Mary J. Blige	7
	13	14	35	The Power of One: Donna Summer	10	#13/1wk
+6	39	38	34	You Make Me Sick: Pink	8
	26	15	33	Don't Tell Me: Madonna	13	#1/1wk
	14	27	32	Stronger: Kristine W	32	#2/7wks
	9	16	31	Everytime You Need Me: Fragma featuring Maria Rubia	10	#9/1wk
	16	17	30	By Your Side: Sade	6	#16/1wk
+18	----	39	29	AIRPLAY HIT *Me: Kina*	2
	7	15	28	I Am Who I Am: Lara Fabian	12	#3/2wks
+15	43	35	27	It's the Way You Make Me Feel: Steps	3
+17	18	32	26	Can't Fight the Moonlight: Leann Rimes	12	#10/1wk
+15	41	33	25	Issues: Vernessa Mitchell	4
+13	38	31	24	Should I Stay: Gabrielle	4
	11	19	23	Girl from the Gutter: Kina	10	#1/1wk
+6	19	25	22	Stars: Roxette	8	#19/1wk
+9	30	28	21	Glorious: Andreas Johnson	5
+4	25	21	20	Beautiful Day: U2	6
+16	35	29	19	Spanish Guitar (Remix): Toni Braxton	11
	5	6	18	Please Stay: Kylie Minogue	9	#5/2wks
+23	37	30	17	COMBO HIT *Dive in the Pool (from "Queer as Folk"): Barry Harris featuring Pepper Mashay*	5
	12	10	16	I Put a Spell on You: Sonique	7	#10/1wk
+20	33	24	15	SALES HIT *Do You Want Me: Da Buzz*	3
+15	29	22	14	Around the World: ATC	7
	4	5	13	Miss the Way: Reina	10	#4/2wks
+11	28	18	12	Ordinary World: Aurora featuring Naimee Coleman	5
+18	31	20	11	The Call: Backstreet Boys	5
+8	26	13	10	Nobody Wants to Be Lonely: Ricky Martin and Christina Aguilera	4		rm: 5th top 10; ca: 2nd top 10
+10	20	12	9	Higher Plane: Cyndi Lauper	5
+6	22	11	8	You're My Number One: S Club 7	5		first top 10
+2	10	8	7	Runaway Lover: Madonna	7
	1	4	6	Supreme: Robbie Williams	8	#1/2wks
+3	8	7	5	Lovin' You: Kristine W	30	#1/7wks
+11	21	9	4	If You're Gone: matchbox twenty	6
	3	1	3	If That Were Me: Mel C	7	#1/1wk
	2	2	2	Let Me Love You: Da Buzz	12	#1/1wk	fourth week at #2
+5	6	3	1	NUMBER ONE *Let Love Reign: Kristine W*	6	*#1/1wk*	*seventh #1 hit*

Kristine W scores her seventh #1 hit with "Let Love Reign" from the STRONGER album. The song is the fourth #1 hit from the album, following "Clubland," "Stand in Love," and "Lovin' You," which moves back into the top 5 this week at #5. "Let Love Reign" is rumored to have a circuit club mix out and about and I have yet to find it. The song hits #1 on its album version alone. However, the track could face stiff competition from other current top 10 charters on next week's chart.

Holding at #2 for a fourth week is the recent #1 song "Let Me Love You" by Da Buzz. The song has been in the #2 position longer than any other prior #1 song (after hitting #1). The song has a stronghold on the #2 spot and could easily compete with the nearest top 10 competition for #1 again next week. Although the song isn't gaining any points, it isn't losing any either.

Mel C's #1 "If That Were Me" drops to #3, followed closely by matchbox twenty's surprise hit "If You're Gone." The song blasts from #10 to #4 this week and is the biggest threat to Ms. W's pole position. It is matchbox twenty's highest charting hit. Their only other Top 50 hit, "Bent," spent three weeks at #28.

S Club 7 surpasses the peak of "Natural" this week as "You're My Number One" moves from #11 to #8. It is the group's first top 10 hit. Speaking of songs peaking at #11 ("Natural" spent a week there), the Backstreet Boys make a very important chart move this week with "The Call." The song rockets from #20 to #11 and ties "The One" and "I'll Never Break Your Heart" as the highest charting BSB song. The difference between the two previous titles and "The Call" is that the latest charter will most definitely enter the top 10 next week and become the BSB first top 10 on the Top 50. Of the teen superstars of the last few years, Britney Spears has had the most chart success with a #1 ("Baby...One More Time"), a #2 "("Crazy"), and a #6 ("Stronger"). N Sync follows with "Bye Bye Bye" (#5) and "It's Gonna Be Me" (#7). Christina Aguilera, however, could take the second place from the Sync boys as her second top 10 hit "Nobody Wants to Be Lonely" moves from #13 to #10 this week ("Genie in a Bottle" hit #3 in 1999).

Cyndi Lauper's sixteenth Top 50 hit becomes her fourteenth top 10 hit this week as "Higher Plane" moves from #12 to #9. Lauper has scored #1 hits with "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," "Time After Time," "All Through the Night," "She-Bop," "True Colors," "Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)," "You Don't Know," "The Ballad of Cleo and Joe," and "Fearless." She has landed in the top 10 with "Money Changes Everything," "Change of Heart," "Goonies (R Good Enough)," "I Drove All Night," and now "Higher Plane." The two charters that missed the top 10 were "My First Night without You" and her 1999 cover of "Disco Inferno."

And the award goes to...Da Buzz is having a banner year and it's only February. As previously mentioned, their recent #1 smash "Let Me Love You" spent one week atop the chart and then fell to #2. Now the song is at the runner-up position for the fourth consecutive week. Their second Top 50, "Do You Want Me," a great pop tune reminiscent of Peach Union's "On My Own," scores the SALES HIT award and moves from #24 to #15 in its third chart week. The song should easily become their second top 10 hit. Also, Da Buzz has the second highest debut this week with their third Top 50, "Paradise" at #47. As I am finding more or more of their music on the internet, it seems as though 2001 will belong to Da Buzz.

Surprising even me, Barry Harris and Pepper Mashay steal the top point gain honors this week with a song used during the closing credits (and sometimes within the show) of Showtime's "Queer as Folk." "Dive in the Pool" gets a huge boost and moves from #30 to #17 this week. I danced to this song last weekend at a club for the first time (I just don't go out enough these days) and boy was everyone moving. That helped fuel my interest in the tune and allows it to gain such a tremendous amount of points.

Third place award for point gain goes to the chart's AIRPLAY HIT at #29. Kina has already scored a #1 with "Girl from the Gutter" and looks well on her way to top 10 success with her second single "Me." The song is doing incredibly well on the Billboard Club Play charts.

The big movers on this week's chart result in some surprise moves DOWN the chart this week. After only a single week at #10, Sonique's promising "I Put a Spell on You" drops to #16. Songs by Donna Summer, Sade, and Fragma, which all peaked two weeks ago, freefall to the lower half of the chart this week. Also hurt by the chart's abundance of strong records are chart tunes by Heather Small, The A*Teens, U2, and Madonna, whose "Runaway Lover" barely gains enough points to maintain a bullet and moves one notch to #7.

Usually I report songs that have peaked and fallen in my commentary, but this week I have good news to report. A few records that had already peaked and began their descent down the Top 50 make rebounds this week. Pink's "You Make Me Sick" is growing on me and makes a four place move to #34 (it's biggest chart move since it debuted eight weeks ago). Leann Rimes' recent top 10 hit "Can't Fight the Moonlight" makes a healthy jump from #32 to #26 in its twelfth chart week. Roxette is reaching for the "Stars" again with their recent top 20 hit that bounces back to #22 this week after falling to #25. Toni Braxton's recharting of "Spanish Guitar" breaks the peak of the original chart run this week as it leaps from #29 to #19.

Other records performing well this week include songs by ATC, Andreas Johnson, Gabrielle, Steps, Vernessa Mitchell, and Westlife. Sheena Easton, Billie Myers, and Spice Girls all make modest moves up the chart this week.

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