A pretty stock standard week here, the usual array of new entries including one that's debuted in the top five so lets not delay things any further and dive into the top ten where sitting at number one for another week is "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None the Richer, it held up on sales this week but I am not certain for how much longer because the challengers are coming.
One of those could be our new entry at nunmber two, "Last Kiss" by Pearl Jam. Terrific sales numbers put this in a good position to challenge...I'll have more to say about this one in the new entries.
Then we get to this week's bulldozer song because "If You Had My Love" by Jennifer Lopez rising eight slots to number three, it pushed "Sometimes" by Britney Spears back to number four.
Madonna's "Beautiful Stranger" remained glued to number five, just unable to bridge the margins to the songs aboveit.
The chart scramble above left former chart topper "No Scrubs" by TLC down four to number six while "Man! I Feel Like A Woman" by Shania Twain fell three places to seven and "I Want It That Way" by Backstreet Boys slipped one to number eight.
Into the top ten this week is the breezy pop jam "Say It Once" by Ultra which has been climbing quietly in recent weeks, this week its up from sixteen to nine.
Finally "Look at Me" by Geri Halliwell fell two places to number ten.
Losers
Beginning with "Right Here, Right Now" by Fatboy Slim which slipped nine spots to fifty.
Unfortunately "Canned Heat" by Jamiroquai fell twelve to forty nine while 4 The Cause's god awful cover of "Stand By Me" slipped nine to forty eight.
Britney Spears "Baby, One More Time" slumped ten spots to forty six. "Have You Ever" by Brandy fell nine to forty four and "How Deep Is Your Love" by Dru Hill skidded from twenty six to forty three (Dru Hill have a song in the new entries this week so we aren't done with them).
Cher's "Strong Enough" is weak enough to fall eight to twenty seven.
Gains
What caught me by surprise other than Ultra's rise into the top ten was the twenty place gain to eighteen for "Westside" by TQ...good song but boy does that gain feel random.
"Shimmer" by Fuel is a different story as it has had consistent momentum rising eleven to twenty one
Soulsearcher's "Can't Get Enough" rose twelve spots to thirty six.
New Entries
Six new entries this week beginning with...
47. "Give It To You" by Jordan Knight
Oh god, starting off the week with New Kids On the Block alumni Jordan Knight isn't exactly what I'd consider great and looks like my concerns were well justified because this is some incredibly overproduced shlock that even Usher would say no to because this is just some incredibly unsexy pop shlock where Knight claims that she knows he can give his dick to her and how anything goes when the stuffing of the sausage the marshmallow (my interpretation) is done right and the production doesn't even give anything close to romantic or even remotely convince me that Knight knows how to seduce this girl with the overcooked drum machines and bored backing vocals
There are better sex songs out there than this. Get your freak on to something better.
42. "What's My Age Again?" by Blink 182
So we step away from bad pop/r'n'b and into pop punk with this Blink 182 lead single from their album "Enema of the State" and yeah, this one actually is pretty fun helped by that raucous groove and the song being hilarious as it's all about the dumb things the narrator did when he was in his early twenties because hey. we're all naive and silly in our twenties (also helps the video is completely silly). The only nitpick I have is that the vocals are mixed a bit low but otherwise...yeah, damn good, dumb fun. Check this out,
38. "Heartbreak Hotel" by Whitney Houston feat. Faith Evans and Kelly Price
Look, I am not as hung up on Whitney Houston as others, sure wonderful voice but you all know how I feel about her cover of "I Will Always Love You" (I hate it...it's one of the worst songs of 1992/93) however her pop music in the 80s does appeal for me, songs like "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" and "How Will I Know" are absolutely classic pop songs so I was hoping she'd bring the pop class of the 80s just touched up for the late 90s so how does this work?
Well, I am not sure this works mostly because Whitney isn't quite alble to belt on the hook and it sounds like she is straining her voice at points and when Faith Evans only gets the two lines of the bridge and like Kelly Price backing vocals...yeah, this song is really not adding up to the sum of it's part especially when the synth sounds whiny. This is pretty generic R'n'B and I hate saying that about a legend like Whitney Houstion
34. "These Are The Times" by Dru Hill
Anything has to be better than the last time I talked about this group, right? Well at least the production is a little better this time and Dru Hill aren't sounding like they are singing through a tin can however when your song's opening line is "God knows you're a sexy thang"...yeah...straight out of the Song of Solomon that, Dru Hill? The writing really does bring this song down though, I mean "Tear you up in little pieces" and "swallow you up like Reese's Pieces"...seriously?
Again, production not terrible but wow, there's a long way to go in the writing department.
29. "Get Ready" by Ma$e feat. Blackstreet
The lead and apparently only single from Ma$e's album "Double Up" and apparently it was in part produced by Puff Daddy or P Diddy or abuser but anyway, he brought Blackstreet on board for this song and really...come on...there's nothing all that hard about the production here although that farting synth is doing a lot of trying to lift a song as Ma$e brags about his wealth, luxury and the lifestyle of famous people because that's relatable. Also that sample of Shalamar's 1982 hit "A Night to Remember" really is the most interesting part of this song...next.
2. "Last Kiss" by Pearl Jam
I actually kind of like Pearl Jam to a degree, they have some absolute classic songs in their discography and I'd argue "Ten" is a 90s classic rock album however I was leery woth song and turns out I had every right to be because this really does feel like a song stripped of what made Pearl Jam a force in the nineties not helped by Eddie Vedder howling his lungs out on the hook while nothing else surrounding him has any real punch. Yeah, bit disappointed by this.
That ends our week, the best of the week falls out easily "What's My Age Again" by Blink 182 is riding the Japanese bullet train away with that.
As for the worst? Well there's two incredibly awful sex songs here, I am going to give it to "Give It To You" by Jordan Knight, at least Dru Hill got the mood in the production somewhat right.
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