top ten update

The increasing power of TV commercials (at least for computer related products) to make hit records reinforces itself with the debut of "Your Soul", which drifts straight into the top ten this week on the MacBook Air-freshened breeze. Thanks to Apple, "Your Soul", which no one in the U.S. would ever have heard of otherwise, is now the number one seed in the 2008 Top Ten Worst Ten rankings. Otherwise, aside from some shuffling in the first five positions, the top ten remains much the same. All the real action takes place in spots 11 to 20, where records like Buckcherry's "Sorry", and Miley Cyrus's "See You Again" jump ten places or more and look like true contenders. Cyrus, however, finds herself at unlucky number 17, the same place where fellow Disney-identified acts Aly & AJ and the Jonas Brothers found their top ten dreams dashed. Without a breakthough in radio play, or massive digital sales, it looks like these kids will be stuck at 17 forever, as fitting a metaphor for their soon-to-be-declining careers as anyone could imagine.

Best Hot 100 debuts: Missy Elliott's "Ching-A-Ling", and, I kid you not, Hannah Montana's "Rock Star" (better than Nickleback, that's for sure). Weirdest, though not quite Dragonforce award material: Soulja Boy's "YAHHH!" Three singles into his career and he's already complaining about pushy fans; who does think he is, Woody Allen?

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