Whitney Houston's Forgotten Singles

I recently whipped up a list of Whitney Houston's 10 Best Songs That Radio Forgot for Idolator. It's pretty sexy, and you should check it out.

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US Chart Roundup: Katy Perry Is #1, Madonna Drops & Whitney And Adele Keep Selling

Katy Perry's bland leftover "Part Of Me" debuts at #1 on the Hot 100 this week, giving her the first chart-topping single off Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection and her seventh overall. What a dismal offering to become only the 20th single to enter in the peak position on the chart.

Meanwhile, Adele sees a post-Grammys surge as all three of her 21 jams clutter the Top 10, marking the first time a female has pulled off such a feat as a lead artist. Over on the Top 200 album chart, 21 is at #1 for a 21st week exactly one year after it was released in the States. The LP sold another 703,000 copies, and its domestic total now stands at 7.3 million.

Elsewhere, Madonna's Top 10 stay with "Give Me All Your Luvin'" proved to be short-lived, as the song has now predictably plunged 29 positions to #39 in its third week on the Hot 100. Meanwhile, I just took out a 75-year loan to see finally the Vampyre on tour this fall. I figured, well, the old '80s broads are dropping like flies these days. Better catch them while I can.

Speaking of which, Whitney Houston's former #1 single "I Will Always Love You" was a re-entry at #7 last week, and jumps up to #3 this week. Also, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" is up to #25, "Greatest Love Of All" is at #36 and "How Will I Know" re-enters the chart at #49. On the Top 200, Whitney: The Greatest Hits climbs to a new peak of #2. (It originally got to #5 upon its release in 2000).

Along these lines, be sure to check out the Whitney Houston's 10 Best Songs That Radio Forgot feature I did for Idolator this week. It will rock your to your very foundation

We'll end things on a British boy band note: The Wanted's "Glad You Came" inches up two positions to #23 on the Hot 100 this week, while One Direction's former UK #1 "What Makes You Beautiful" debuts at #28.

The U.S. Top 10:

1. "Part Of Me" - Katy Perry *new* *1 week*
2. "Set Fire To The Rain" - Adele
3. "I Will Always Love You" - Whitney Houston
4. "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" - Kelly Clarkson
5. "Rolling In The Deep" - Adele
6. "We Are Young" - fun. feat. Janelle Monae
7. "Someone Like You" - Adele
8. "We Found Love" - Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris
9. "Starships" - Nicki Minaj *new*
10. "Turn Up The Music" - Chris Brown *new*

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US Chart Roundup: Madonna Lands 38th Top 10 Hit, Battles Whitney Like It's 1992 Again

Madonna's lead MDNA single "Give Me All Your Luvin'" jumps up from #13 to #10, thus becoming her 38th Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. This puts her even further ahead of The Beatles, who racked up 34 Top 10s, and Michael Jackson, who had 28. Ye Olde Vampyre's last Top 10 single in the States was "4 Minutes," which peaked at #3 in 2008.

Billboard notes that the song's radio airplay dropped 54%, however, since the special Clear Channel promotion, where the song was played on the company's stations every hour on the hour, ended once the Super Bowl kicked off.

And if you've been following "Give Me All Your Luvin'" on iTunes, then you noticed the song had been in the Top 10 at the digital store up until last weekend, when both sales of Whitney Houston songs jumped after her death and The Grammys aired. "Poor" Madge got pushed further and further down in the wake of both events (many artists who performed at the Grammy ceremony saw an expected surge in single sales), and her single is now floundering at #34 at the store. What she could use right now is an increase in radio play.

And speaking of Whitney, her 1992 Bodyguard single "I Will Always Love You" flies back into the Top 10 at #7. The song had previously spent 14 weeks at #1 between '92 and '93. Madonna released her album Erotica three weeks before The Bodyguard soundtrack back in fall 1992, but found herself sidelined on the charts by Whitney's juggernaut movie tunes. (The fact that the public was recoiling from Madge's graphic Sex book and gouging their eyes out with sporks after watching her godawful Body Of Evidence trash in the theater didn't help.)

Other Whitney songs that re-enter the Hot 100 this week: "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" (#35) and "The Greatest Love Of All" (#41). Over on the Top 200 album chart, Whitney: The Greatest Hits is back at #6 after selling 64,000 copies by Sunday evening. The collection previously peaked at #5 in 2000.

Back on the Hot 100, The Wanted climb to #25 with "Glad You Came," Ellie Goulding's "Lights" is up to #79 and Calvin Harris debuts at #90 with "Feel So Close," a previous #2 hit in the UK.

The U.S. Top 10:

1. "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" - Kelly Clarkson *2 weeks*
2. "Set Fire To The Rain" - Adele
3. "We Are Young" - fun. feat. Janelle Monae
4. "Sexy And I Know It" - LMFAO
5. "Good Feeling" - Flo Rida
6. "We Found Love" - Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris
7. "I Will Always Love You" - Whitney Houston *re-entry*
8. "Turn Me On" - David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj
9. "Rack City" - Tyga
10. "Give Me All Your Luvin'" - Madonna feat. Nicki Minaj & M.I.A.

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Whitney Houston's 'Greatest Hits' Sold A Bunch Of Copies Last Weekend

Whitney Houston's 2000 collection Whitney - Greatest Hits sold 64,000 copies by this past Sunday's chart data cut-off time — enough for it to debut on Billboard's Top 200 at #6. Pretty remarkable, considering news of Whitney's death didn't break until Saturday afternoon.

Here in the States, Houston's hits collection had been the top downloaded album on iTunes until Adele won 7,459 Grammys on Sunday and bumped the late singer down to #2. Likewise, "I Will Always Love You" had been perched atop iTunes' singles roundup until Katy Perry's godawful new warble fest "Part Of Me" was released yesterday and captured the #1 position. Great going, America!

Personally, I remember when Whitney - Greatest Hits was released and being annoyed at the fact that some of her older jams were only on it in remixed form. Isn't that always a kick in the junk? Junior Vasquez remixes of "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" over the original versions? We weren't all having fucked up weekends on meth at circuit parties at the turn of the millennium, you know.

But, hey — those remixes totally stood the test of time, right?

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Grammy Winners: Adele Takes Home All Six Awards She Was Up For

Queen Of Just About Everything Adele swept the 54th Grammy Awards on Sunday by winning all six categories she was nominated in: Album Of The Year (21), Record Of The Year ("Rolling In The Deep"), Song Of The Year ("Rolling In The Deep"), Best Pop Solo Performance ("Someone Like You"), Best Pop Vocal Album (21) and Best Short Form Music Video ("Rolling In The Deep").

Adele now ties Beyonce with the most awards won by a female in one night at the Grammys. She also performed her lead 21 single, "Rolling In The Deep", and drew a standing ovation from the crowd at the Staples Center at the end.



Ironically, Adele's 21 is currently the leader on Billboard's Top 200, and is just one week shy of matching the 20-week reign of Whitney Houston's soundtrack to 1992 film The Bodyguard. Whitney, as the world knows, died on Saturday at the age of 48.

Here's Jennifer Hudson's tribute to Houston from the Grammys last night.



The 54th Grammy Award winners

ALBUM OF THE YEAR: 21, Adele
RECORD OF THE YEAR: “Rolling In The Deep”, Adele
SONG OF THE YEAR: “Rolling In The Deep”, Adele
BEST NEW ARTIST: Bon Iver
BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE: “Someone Like You”, Adele
BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM: 21, Adele
BEST POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE: “Body And Soul”, Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse
BEST SHORT FORM MUSIC VIDEO: “Rolling in the Deep”, Adele
BEST LONG FORM MUSIC VIDEO: “Foo Fighters: Back and Forth”, Foo Fighters
BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA: Boardwalk Empire: Volume 1
SCORE SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA: The King’s Speech
BEST DANCE RECORDING: “Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites”, Skrillex
BEST DANCE/ELECTRONICA ALBUM: Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites, Skrillex
BEST TRADITIONAL POP VOCAL ALBUM: Duets II, Tony Bennett
BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE: “Walk”, Foo Fighters
BEST ROCK SONG: “Walk”, Foo Fighters
BEST HARD ROCK/METAL PERFORMANCE: “White Limo”, Foo Fighters
BEST ROCK ALBUM: Wasting Light, Foo Fighters
BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM: Bon Iver, Bon Iver
BEST R&B ALBUM: F.A.M.E., Chris Brown
BEST R&B PERFORMANCE: “Is This Love”, Corinne Bailey Rae
BEST TRADITIONAL R&B PERFORMANCE: “Fool For You”, Cee Lo Green & Melanie Fiona
BEST R&B SONG: “Fool for You”, Cee Lo Green and Jack Splash
BEST RAP/SUNG COLLABORATION: “All Of The Lights”, Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie
BEST RAP PERFORMANCE: “Otis”, Jay-Z & Kanye West
BEST RAP SONG: “All of the Lights”, Kanye West
BEST RAP ALBUM: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West
BEST COUNTRY ALBUM: Own The Night, Lady Antebellum
BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE: “Mean”, Taylor Swift
BEST COUNTRY DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE: “Barton Hollow”, The Civil Wars
BEST COUNTRY SONG: “Mean”, Taylor Swift
BEST AMERICANA ALBUM: Ramble At The Ryman, Levon Helm
BEST BLUEGRASS ALBUM: Paper Airplane, Alison Krauss & Union Station
BEST BLUES ALBUM: Revelator, Tedeschi Trucks Band
BEST FOLK ALBUM: Barton Hollow, The Civil Wars
BEST IMPROVISED JAZZ SOLO: “500 Miles High”, Chick Corea
BEST JAZZ VOCAL ALBUM: The Mosaic Project, Terri Lyne Carrington and Various Artists
BEST LARGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE ALBUM: The Good Feeling, Christian McBride Big Band
BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM: Forever, Corea, Clarke and White
BEST SPOKEN WORD ALBUM: If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t), Betty White
BEST CHILDREN’S ALBUM: All About Bullies… Big and Small, Various Artists
BEST MUSIC THEATER ALBUM: The Book of Mormon
BEST COMEDY ALBUM: Hilarious, Louis C.K.
BEST REGIONAL ROOTS MUSIC ALBUM: Rebirth of New Orleans, Rebirth Brass Band
BEST WORLD MUSIC ALBUM: Tassili, Tinariwen
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSICAL: Paul Epworth

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UK Chart Roundup: Madonna's New Single Flops, Whitney Houston Sales Expected To Surge

Despite Top 10 chart placings in other European countries and a #13 debut in the ever-fickle US market, Madonna's lead MDNA single "Give Me All Your Luvin'" has entered the UK chart at the humbling position of #37. This marks her second-lowest chart placing for an official single in the country since her career began, following Hard Candy's "Miles Away" peaking at #39 in 2008. Maybe the Brits are over Her Madgesty after she dared to make W.E.?

Whatever the case may be, the wave of Madonna goings-on in recent weeks has now certainly been overshadowed by the death of Whitney Houston. The 48-year-old singer was found dead in her hotel room at Los Angeles' Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday (supposedly submerged in her bathtub), the eve of today's Grammy Awards. Whitney was expected to attend her mentor Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy party last night.

Says the Official Charts Company:

"The Official Charts Company expects a slew of the tragic singer's songs to take places in the Official Singles Chart and Official Albums Chart over the next week, as fans pay tribute by enjoying her music in the wake of her untimely death. Although first verified sales reports will not be made until Tuesday morning (incorporating sales from Sunday and Monday), the Official Charts understands that sales are already surging."

Here in the US, Whitney's "I Will Always Love You" is currently the #1 song on iTunes, while "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" is #7, "The Greatest Love Of All" is #9, "One Moment In Time" is #15 and "How Will I Know" is #18. Whitney - The Greatest Hits is the top album.

At the UK iTunes store, Houston's The Ultimate Collection and Whitney - The Greatest Hits are the top two albums, respectively.

The UK Top 10:

1. "Somebody That I Used To Know" - Gotye feat. Kimbra *1 week*
2. "Titanium" - David Guetta feat. Sia
3. "T.H.E." - Will.i.am ft. Jennifer Lopez/Mick Jagger *new*
4. "Domino" - Jessie J
5. "Alone Again" - Alyssa Reid feat. Jump Smokers
6. "Wild Ones" - Flo Rida feat. Sia
7. "Twilight" - Cover Drive
8. "Mama Do The Hump" - Rizzle Kicks
9. "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" - Kelly Clarkson
10. "Born To Die" - Lana Del Rey

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