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Celestial-jukebox outfit eCast has released its listing of the most popular new music played during September, and there's one band that dominates above all others: Metallica, which grabs six slots on the ten-spot chart. (Ne-Yo placed two songs on the chart from his better-with-every-listen Year Of The Gentleman, which warms my heart.) eCast chalks up the Metallica love to the bad economy, and people wanting to work through their financial insecurities via the incessant banging of their heads, but I like to think that the mass Metallica listening was actually the result of people trying to figure out if it was their stereo or something else that made the album sound not all that great. Full chart after the jump! More »

The Internet-equipped jukebox company ecast has released yet another edition of its BarPulse chart, which tracks the most-played new music on the jukeboxes it's installed in bars around the States. (Caveat: I'm not sure what criteria are used to judge whether a song is "new" or not, given that Sugarland's "All I Want To Do" was on last month's chart, too.) Topping the list is David Banner's Chris Brown-assisted "Get Like Me," while there are two tracks from the album-chart-topping Mamma Mia! soundtrack. (Do you think that a lot of inebriated people get inspired to be "funny" and play the real versions back-to-back with the ones warbled by Pierce Brosnan and Meryl Streep? Just wondering.) Full list after the jump. More »

We love charts here at Idolator, but sometimes they can be so elitist. Who cares what critics think, or what the program directors of America feel like shoving down peoples' throats? We want to know: What are the people demanding to hear? What songs inspire people to vote with their wallets, making them insert a dollar into a machine with one hand while holding a longneck in the other? More »