ARTISTS: Mariah Carey, Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, Rihanna, Fergie, Sheryl Crow, Miley Cyrus, Melissa Etheridge, Ashanti, Natasha Bedingfield, Keyshia Cole, Ciara, Leona Lewis, LeAnn Rimes, and Carrie Underwood
Ed. note: Chris "dennisobell" Molanphy, our resident chart guru, looks at the upward, downward, and lack of movement on this week's Billboard charts:
The upper reaches of this week's Billboard Hot 100 are a little sleepy—two songs sneak into the bottom rungs of the Top 10, and every song above them either holds position or moves at most a spot or two.
But one of the Top 10 entrants boasts an unusual pair of credits: he has his first Top 10 hit as a recording act in the same week that he's enjoying his first chart-topper as a songwriter. Making it somewhat more unusual, at least among multi-hyphenate types: he just turned 21 about a month ago.
We're talking about former boy bander, former small-screen star, and TRL mainstay Jesse McCartney. The song he co-wrote—Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love," penned with OneRepublic schlock-meister Ryan Tedder—is actually in its fourth nonconsecutive week at No. 1. The newer hit is his own: "Leavin'," which leaps four spots to No. 10 after a huge, iTunes-fueled debut last week.
Throw in the fact that he did a voice for the March blockbuster Horton Hears A Who! and this kid's having an awfully good spring.
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Yes, that's will.i.am, Yoko Ono, Natasha Bedingfield, and the guy from Train. Supergroup! And after the jump, we've got a preview of the bizarre benefit single they've cut to raise awareness of the importance of musical education.
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Ed. note: Once again, Idolator intern Kate Richardson scours the video sites, looking for the best fan-made music videos. In this installment, she looks at two clips that venture into Everybody Loves Raymond's living room:
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Perpetually cheery British singer Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwritten" nearly missed one of your Idolator's best-of-'06 singles lists, so we downloaded the sunshiny, Vegas-set (!?) "I Wanna Have Your Babies" as soon as we spotted it on O.C. While "Babies" isn't as instantly grabbable as the up-with-everyone "Unwritten," it does have a posse of Joey Lawrence-channeling backing vocalists—and a chorus where Bedingfield, apparently zonked on hormones, describes visions of babies popping up out of the ground "like daisies." Is she planning on pitching this song to the Modern Love column down the road?
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