Mel's Weekly Top 20 | Week of February 5, 2012.
Chart posted on February 4, 2012.
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Toby Keith's "Red Solo Cup", the goofiest country song of recent years, holds for the 2nd week at #1. Right behind Keith is Katy Perry, whose lastest single, "The One That Got Away" inches up from #3 to #2 this week. Top of the charts next week? Maybe.

A big break into the top 5 is Nickelback, whose latest rock anthem "When We Stand Together" bolts from #9 of last week to #4 this week.

That is still not the biggest rising song of the week. Honors for that feat goes to Train and their latest single "Drive By". That song climbs from its debut spot of #19 last week to #11 this week.

Three songs make their chart debuts: At #18 we find Kelly Clarkson returning in fine form with her latest "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)", Gotye at #19 with "Somebody I Used to Know" and Olly Murs at #20 with "Dance With Me Tonight".

We have 4 former #1 songs still on the chart, all of them dropping.... Dropping from #2 to #3 is Adele and "Someone Like You" which held the top spot for only 1 week two weeks ago. This week it drops 1 from #2 to #3. At #8 we find Matt Cardle with "Run For Your Life," followed by Bruno Mars "It Will Rain" at #9. Dropping out of the top 10 after many weeks there (including 7 at #1) is Coldplay with their huge hit "Paradise". It moves 2 points down from #10 last week to #12 this week. Matt Cardle and Coldplay have new singles waiting in the wings to replace these veteran hits.

Songs That Went to #1 in 2012

Someone Like You - Adele
It Will Rain - Bruno Mars
Run For Your Life - Matt Cardle

This week's video showcase tracks:

Nickelback - When We Stand Together

The Ting Tings - Hang It Up

Mayer Hawthorne - The Walk

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Heart Attack

More music videos at the Video Showcase and the Widescreen Video Showcase pages here.

ABOUT MEL'S WEEKLY TOP 20:

Mel's Weekly Top 20 is a compilation of my current favorite tracks as purchased and played on my iTunes and iPods along with many other tracks that I already own. A great majority of the songs on Mel's Weekly Top 20 come from the genres of alternative, pop, and rock music with a smattering of indie tracks, country, new age, R & B and perhaps a hip-hop song or two. The Weekly Top 20 is hugely biased toward my own taste and the kinds of music I like. It is after all, a personal music chart. If I ever owned or programmed a radio station, these are the current songs that would be in high rotation on such a station.

This is the main page for Mel's Weekly Top 20. I publish this chart every week and have been doing so at this site since January 2006. I purchase tracks that appear on the chart from various sources such as iTunes, Amazon.com. Other songs come from compact discs that I buy from BestBuy and other brick and mortar music retailers.

I monitor various websites including Last FM, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube.com streaming audio sites, podcasts, record label sites, TV and the radio for new music to possibly include in each new Weekly Top 20 chart.

Whether the tracks are bought from digital music retailers or ripped from compact disc, they are all imported into iTunes. Each week I compile my 20 favorite tracks in iTunes to numeric order from 1 through 20. The song titles, artists and other data are cut out of iTunes and pasted into a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet is cleaned up, data double checked and then exported to an HTML file where it is finalized and published to the web.

All of the spreadsheet files for each week are archived and the data from each week's chart is used to compile the yearly Top 100 Chart that is published in late December or early January of the next year.

Mel's Weekly Top 20 is also posted to Mel's Internet Universe Music Blog and M4B Charts Central, a message board service that tracks personal charts around the world and uses that data to compile their own weekly top 200 chart.