Read All About It - Professor Green featuring Emeli Sande
I Miss The Misery - Halestorm
Va Va Voom - Nicki Minaj
Diamonds - Rihanna
Battle Scars - Guy Sebastian and Lupe Fiasco
RIP - Rita Ora featuring Tinie Tempah
Don't Wake Me Up - Chris Brown
Yet Again - Grizzly Bear
This Kiss - Carly Rae Jepsen
Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself) - Ne-Yo
This week, the hardy trio of Mark Foster (of Foster The People fame), A-Trak, and New Zealand artist Kimbra (featured on the year's biggest charting hit, "Somebody That I Used To Know") finally reach the pole position after thirty-one weeks of climbing. With that, it handily breaks the previous record of twenty-nine weeks held by Xandria's "Save My Life, which reached number one in early 2008 after charting much of the latter half of 2007.
While both Mark Foster and Kimbra have had number one singles (Foster's coming from Foster The People's "Pumped Up Kicks"), this is a first for A-Trak, whose previous highest single was with his collaborative duo, Duck Sauce, which peaked at number three in 2011 with "Barbra Streisand."
Other Chart Notes
One Direction achieve greatest gainer honors, moving forward 7 spaces 32-25 with "Live While We're Young."
Lady Antebellum moves downward with the greatest decrease of the week, sinking 14-34. This movement is attributed to the playlist making room for Lady A's upcoming holiday entries: "On This Winter's Night" and "Holly Jolly Christmas"
The highest debut of the week comes to Seattle-based rapper Macklemore and his collaborative producer Ryan Lewis. The video for their collaborative single with Wanz, "Thrift Shop," has gone viral, owing in part to the song's healthy start. The song is already on the right track to achieving great things in 2013.
A YEAR AGO: Young The Giant's "Cough Syrup" holds at number one for a second week, facing stiff competition from LMFAO's novelty hit "Sexy And I Know It." Other songs present in the top five are Coldplay's "Paradise," Cobra Starship's "You Make Me Feel..." and J. Cole's "Work Out," making the top five a rare male-dominated field, with only a female feature from Sabi to make a representative appearance from the opposite sex.
RIP - Rita Ora featuring Tinie Tempah
I Miss The Misery - Halestorm
Va Va Voom - Nicki Minaj
Battle Scars - Guy Sebastian and Lupe Fiasco
Don't You Worry Child - Swedish House Mafia featuring John Martin
This Kiss - Carly Rae Jepsen
Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself) - Ne-Yo
Don't Wake Me Up - Chris Brown
Yet Again - Grizzly Bear
Key Entity Extraction I: Domino The Destitute - Coheed and Cambria
Newcomer band Imagine Dragons take a faithful leap into the top slot after settling for second-best for three weeks. The Las Vegas group take over with debut hit, "It's Time," becoming the first alt-rock set to do so since Foster The People made it last year with "Pumped Up Kicks." Fun. did it earlier this year with their charting debut, "We Are Young," but it wasn't their first single release overall, despite it being their explosion onto the mainstream scene.
A YEAR AGO: LMFAO's "Sexy And I Know It" displaces Young The Giant at number one, sending them down to number four. Jessie J's "Domino" bounds into the runner-up position from outside the top ten (11-2). Coldplay's "Paradise" remains stagnant while Rihanna's "We Found Love" enters the top five (7-5).