According to Billboard, he’s #3 on Hot Digital Tracks, after being #1 last week. And he’s #4 on Hot Digital Singles, after being #1 last week. (I don’t know what the diff is between tracks and singles and will probably feel stoopid when I find out.)

From what I can ferret out, his radio airplay is picking up speed, yay.

I wish that Billboard round-up had mentioned that the reason all of his other songs fell away is that they were *taken* away! But industry insiders probably already know that.

Jordin Sparks’ “No Air” featuring Chris Brown drops 5-7, Ray J & Yung Berg’s “Sexy Can I” slides 7-8 and “American Idol” champ David Cook’s “The Time of My Life” falls 3-9. Only three of the 11 record-breaking debuts from last week remain on the Hot 100 by Cook, but “The Time of My Life” manages a record-breaking debut at No. 31 on the Adult Top 40. It’s the highest opening for a career-starting single by a solo male there.

Cookie broke another record??

That was hilarious! Lama Mass.
I’m first at evil. Wussed me up. Arc my wife.

I am still laughing. What’s sad is that it still sounded kinda good.

You know you’re addicted to Cookie when you spend time “interpreting” subtitles for a reversed playback of “Magic Rainbow”…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71hi5G6Of0E

Not enough to compensate. He was sitting at over 6 million AI last week and heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s at just under 8 million this week (in other words, he gained 2 points for airplay and lost 73 points in sales. Roughly. The calculations arenà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t quite that simple, but it gives you the magnitude)

Thanks for the info, Kirsten. I’ll hope it stays in the top 10.

On the one hand, I want the song to do well, because it’s David’s current single. On the other hand, I hate that non-AI viewers will get introduced to DC with Magic Rainbow.
Ah, the double-edged sword that is the coronation song.

but how will the spins on radio effect the Hot 100 placing? Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m not sure, but I think it has gained some more airplay since last week.

Not enough to compensate. He was sitting at over 6 million AI last week and he’s at just under 8 million this week (in other words, he gained 2 points for airplay and lost 73 points in sales. Roughly. The calculations aren’t quite that simple, but it gives you the magnitude)

Here are the AI numbers for the top two songs to give you an idea of how many successful songs have:

Lil Wayne: Lollipop: 156 million (sales 194K
Leona Lewis: Bleeding Love: 137 million (sales 111K)

But the top song on the digital charts (Coldplays “Viva la Vida” – 219K in sales) only has an AI of 6.6 million so there will be a lot of movement between the Digital and the Hot 100 spots. Magic Rainbows might be able to stay in the Top 10.

Yay Cookie! Those seem like 2nd week good numbers for the magic rainbow song.

Charts: GReeeeN finally takes #1

…Meanwhile, almost half of the top 10 albums came from foreign artists, as Usher and Radiohead joined Madonna and Elliott Yamin in the rankings…

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