Sunday, February 3, 2008

Chart detail Feb. 9 issue

Unsurprisingly, Brad Paisley and Rascal Flatts hold down numbers 1 and 2 (respectively). My guess here is that Paisley might stay here for awhile -- probably becoming his first song to spend four or more weeks at #1; just a guess -- and that the Flatts will have to settle for #2.

Meanwhile, there are some surprisingly large moves in the top 10. Gary Allan flies up from #7 to #3, giving him his highest charting hit since his last #1, "Nothing On But The Radio," about three years ago. Billy Ray Cyrus and his spawn also jump up four notches to #4. Rodney Atkins's "Cleaning This Gun" (which I sang passably well at karaoke last weekend) gets the "GREATEST GAINER" label and moves up from #10 to #7. Maybe this means four consecutive #1's for Atkins. I'm a little surprised that Kenny Chesney's "Shiftwork" stays put at #9.

The rest of the top 25 is unremarkable, with most records staying put, or switching places with the song above or below it. Even the older records are still bulleted. My guess is that next week's chart will show more stagnancy in #1-5, and lots of movement in #6-#25.

2 comments:

Martin said...

That's going to be one clean gun when he finally drops her off. I'm not quite sure if that ties in seamlessly with the Declaration of Independence and Spanish. But I would definitely like to hear you sing it.

shakemegadisco said...

The song is creepylicious. Like most of his songs, really.

My favorite part is the very end: "Have her back around 10let'ssayabout9........ 30. Drive safe."