This is the sort of week in the top ten that tends to send me spiraling into depression. It's bad enough that after nearly two full months only seven new songs have made the top ten. What's even worse is that the top five has barely moved at all in that time, and over half of the new songs have been truly awful. This week, if it hadn't been for the sudden collapse of Yael Naim's "New Soul"--after debuting in the top ten two weeks ago and moving up another step last week, it's now dropped completely out of the top forty--there would have been nothing new at all. Not that that would have been a bad thing, since it would have saved me the pain of writing a review of "Independent".

Best new debut: Taylor Swift's "Picture To Burn", a teenage version of "Before He Cheats", except instead of trashing her ex's car, she threatens to go out with all his best friends and tell everybody he's gay. Chuck Eddy says that Swift's album is better than Miranda Lambert's, and judging from the singles I've heard, I'm beginning to believe it.

Most unbelievably awful record you're likely to hear all year: Celine Dion and Josh Groban's "The Prayer" (recorded live, so you can vicariously wallow in the audience's adulation). Compared to Dion, Groban's voice sounds impossibly weak, and she kicks his ass all over the stage. At the end, they introduce each other, and Groban calls her the "brilliant, brilliant Celine Dion". Compared to him, she is.

Update: How depressed was I about the top ten this week? So depressed that I put it all together, wrote and posted an update, and then forgot to put the new list up. Now it's there. It's been that kind of week.