3/24/01

PTS	2W	LW	TW	TITLE: ARTIST	WKS	#PK/#WKS	NOTES
	12	23	50	Around the World: ATC	13
+4	NEW		49	Baby Come on Over: Samantha Mumba	1		second Top 50
+4	NEW		48	Unforgiven: The Go-Go's	1		tenth Top 50*
	32	37	47	Runaway Lover: Madonna	13
+3	----	47	46	Broken Promises: Tonya Mitchell	2
+12	NEW		45	Give Me A Little More Time: Gabrielle	1		sixth Top 50
+12	NEW		44	Crying in the Rain: Erasure	1		53rd Top 50*
+16	NEW		43	Love Will Never Do (Without You): Macy Gray	1		fourth Top 50
	13	25	42	Nobody Wants to Be Lonely: Ricky Martin and Christina Aguilera	11	#6/2wks
+19	NEW		41	DEBUT HIT Run for Cover: The Sugarbabes	1		second Top 50
	23	36	40	If You're Gone: matchbox twenty	12	#2/2wks
	18	34	39	Lovin' You: Kristine W	36	#1/7wks
	26	35	38	Let Me Love You: Da Buzz	18	#1/1wk
+15	----	44	37	It's All Up to You: Mikaila	2
+27	----	50	36	COMBO HIT Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know (Remix): Britney Spears	2
+14	47	43	35	Jolene: Sherrie Austin	3
+8	45	40	34	Love by Grace: Lara Fabian	3
+14	46	39	33	My Heart Goes Boom: French Affair	3
	20	18	32	You Make Me Sick: Pink	14	#18/1wk
	16	19	31	Should I Stay: Gabrielle	10	#16/2wks
+19	49	41	30	Unsolved Mysteries: Kay Cee	3
	11	11	29	Issues: Vernessa Mitchell	10	#11/2wks
	19	17	28	My Love: Westlife	8	#17/1wk
+9	36	31	27	Just Keep Thinking About You: Gloria Gaynor	5
+6	30	29	26	Get it Up: Ultra Nate	5
+13	38	32	25	This is Me: Dream	4
+3	28	26	24	Boy 2000: Book of Love	6
	4	13	23	You're My Number One: S Club 7	11	#1/1wk
+22	43	33	22	SALES HIT All 4 U: Janet Jackson	3
+10	35	30	21	Time Stood Still (Remix): Madonna	4
+18	37	28	20	Thank You: Dido	4
+10	33	24	19	Stranger in My House (Remix): Tamia	4
	6	12	18	Higher Plane: Cyndi Lauper	11	#6/1wk
+4	25	21	17	Breathless: The Corrs	7
+22	39	27	16	AIRPLAY HIT Filthy Mind: Amanda Ghost	7
+9	24	20	15	Now I Can Die: Nina Gordon	7
+15	27	22	14	Careless Whisper: Bananarama	5
	2	3	13	The Call: Backstreet Boys	11	#2/1wk
	5	7	12	Let Love Reign: Kristine W	12	#1/3wks
+10	22	16	11	Never Had a Dream Come True: S Club 7	6
+5	17	14	10	Paradise: Da Buzz	7		third top 10
	3	2	9	Can't Fight the Moonlight: Leann Rimes	18	#2/1wk
+13	21	15	8	What it Feels Like for a Girl: Madonna	6		61st top 10*
+8	15	10	7	By Your Side: Malina	6
+4	10	8	6	It's the Way You Make Me Feel: Steps	9
+2	8	6	5	Me: Kina	9
+11	14	9	4	MYOB: Deborah Gibson	6
+2	7	4	3	Do You Want Me: Da Buzz	9
+8	9	5	2	Light Years: Kylie Minogue	7
	1	1	1	NUMBER ONE Your Disco Needs You: Kylie Minogue	5	#1/3wks

In last week's commentary, I mentioned that there was really no super strong record on the Top 50. So once I published my chart, I went onto the internet and did some searching and found a huge long list of new music. I also ordered the Japanese import of Kristine W's STRONGER that includes two extra tracks. Likely the next to chart on the Top 50, "River Divides" is phenomenal. If anyone can get a hold of this track, get to it now. Other artists that I have downloaded and will likely be charting soon include Love, Inc., Rosabel, Nelly Furtado, Veronica, and more Bananarama and more Da Buzz...now for this week's commentary...

Britney Spears makes a surprise move this week with her latest Top 50 hit "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know." In last week's chart commentary, I had written off the Spears tunes in its first week and expected only moderate chart success, if any. However, I downloaded a nifty remix of the song last weekend and can't get enough of it now. The remix mirrors the style of Celine Dion's fantastic "I Want You to Need Me" from 2000. Spears is able to take the biggest point gain award this week as she moves from #50 to #36. I expect Britney will have at the least the same chart success she saw with "Stronger" (#6), if not the success she has seen with "Baby...One More Time" (#1) and "(You Drive Me) Crazy" (#2).

Of course, Kylie Minogue holds #1 for a third week, as expected. This week, Kylie takes a distinction few other artists have had as "Your Disco Needs You" is at #1 and the title track to her album LIGHT YEARS is at #2. Kristine W was the last artist to hold the top 2 spots (in 2000 with "Lovin' You" and "Stronger"). Minogue's "Light Years" is likely not going to be the song that removes "..Disco.." from the top spot. Deborah Gibson's "MYOB" has a pretty good shot at hitting the top and becoming Gibson's first #1 hit since "Only Words" charted in 1998. Prior to that, you would have to go back four or five years to even see Gibson on the Top 50. "MYOB" moves from #9 to #4 this week.

Madonna scores an amazing 61st top 10 hit this week as "What it Feels Like for a Girl" becomes the fourth top 10 from the album MUSIC. The song blasts from #15 to #8 this week and has a lot of points fueled by video play. I recorded the controversial video and have been playing it over and over again--because I love it and because I'm still trying to figure out the controversy. However, my point on the matter is...if a certain rapper had been driving the car, and the angry woman had been, oh, say, beaten and tied up in the trunk of the car, I'd bet you that CTV (Censorship Television, as MTV should be known) would be playing the video every hour on the hour. Just proves the point that I believe Madonna and Guy Ritchie were trying to make with the song and the video...it's just not okay to be a girl! Sad, very sad.

Da Buzz scores a third top 10 hit this week with "Paradise" at #10. Da Buzz is also currently holding the #3 position with their second top 10 "Do You Want Me" and the #38 position with their recent #1 "Let Me Love You." It seems the US has finally jumped on the Da Buzz bandwagon as "Let Me..." is currently moving up the dance charts fairly quickly.

At #16 is the recharting hit by Amanda Ghost called "Filthy Mind." The song rockets up eleven notches in its third week on the chart since reentering. The song takes AIRPLAY HIT award this week and has been fueled by its use in a very HOT sex scene from "Queer as Folk." SALES HIT belongs to Janet Jackson's "All 4 U," which blasts eleven positions as well, landing at #22 this week. If you love this song and haven't checked out the remixes yet, I definitely recommend them. Too often good songs lose that hook that makes them good when they're remixed, however, Janet's tune stays true to its original in the remix.

As I said above, I searched high and low for new music last weekend and found it in abundance. Seven songs debut in this week's chart. DEBUT HIT belongs to "Run for Cover" by The Sugarbabes. This is a great little pop record that also has a decent dance mix available. The Sugarbabes are following their modest #28 hit "Overload" (which debuted on John Keith's chart last week). The song enters at #41. At #43 is the fourth Top 50 for Macy Gray. This time, she borrows from hitmaker Janet Jackson and is charting with the live performance of "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" from MTV's ICON. Of all of the performances on ICON, this was definitely my favorite (although N Sync was fabu with "That's the Way Love Goes").

Coming in this week at #44 is the second Top 50 from Erasure's LOVEBOAT. "Crying in the Rain" is also the duo's 53rd Top 50. The disco version of the song is available on Napster. I do have to say that as much as I love this album, there isn't really any one song that stands out to me. For example, on Erasure's previous albums, I can easily pick the following as my favorites:

Gabrielle is on the RISE again, but with a tune from her second album (thanks Matt!!). "Give Me a Little More Time" follows the #1 hits "Dreams" and "Rise," the #49 charter "When a Woman," the #6 hit "Sunshine," and the #16 hit "Should I Stay." "Give Me.." will probably be sharing the chart with Gabrielle's latest "Out of Reach" sometime in the near future. The Go-Go's return to the Top 50 this week for the first time since they hit #6 with "The Whole World's Lost It's Head." Their latest, "Unforgiven," is the band's tenth Top 50 hit. Samantha Mumba also returns to the Top 50 this week, with her second hit "Baby Come on Over."

Other big chart movers this week include Dido's "Thank You," which moves from #28 to #20, Kay Cee's "Unsolved Mysteries," which moves from #41 to #30, and Sherrie Austin's "Jolene," up eight from #43 to #35. The top 10 is also loaded this week as nine of the ten songs are bulleted. This is the most crowded the top 10 has been in months.

Some records lose grip and take a tumble this week. Leann Rimes couldn't fight the competition as she is pushed down to #9 after making it to #2 last week with "Can't Fight the Moonlight." Westlife's second and highest charting Top 50 stalled at #17 last week and tumbles to #28 this week. After two weeks at #11, Vernessa Mitchell's first Top 50 "Issues" plummets to #29. Pink's third top 20 hit falls short of the top 10 success of her last hit and peaks at #18, falling to #32 this week.

In the NOTES column on the chart, three titles (Madonna, #8; Erasure, #44; and The Go-Go's, #48) have an asterisk (*) by their note. This asterisk represents a supposed figure had I been compiling charts when their initial singles or albums were released. Their chart biographies are based on how I remember feeling about the songs at the time they were released, even though I did not compile a formal chart. In the future, I will use this notation (*) to represent an artist with a supposed chart biography.

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