Okay, we are back after taking Thanksgiving off, and the good news- from my side- is that the top 5 were the same both weeks! The bad news- but good for you music lovers- is that each week debuted two songs! So let me start with a tune that debuted last week at #9, and rises to six this week! Because I now have a hard copy of where everything M10 charted, I can tell you this is this duo's 3rd time in the ten- with the #1 Can't Help The Way I feel to their credit! Here are Lilly and Madeline...
The next of the Debuts was #7 last week- but slides to #10 this week. This is Marika Hackman- and I will say the official video is a bit too bizarre for my sensibilities, thus you get the still-life...
So the chart last week also had Hozier/Carlile sliding to 6 with Damage Gets Done (which drifts back into the lower part of the fifteen this week); Cafune's Shadowboxing, which moved 2 to #8 and then went up one more to 7 this week; And Duran Duran's Black Moonlight, which paused at 10 last week on its way out.
This time, we go to feature year 1973. The Carpenters were on top of the Cashbox chart with Top Of The World, while Canada had last week's #1, Ringo Starr's Photograph, on their top spot, while Australia's #1 had been tops here even longer ago- the Rolling Stones and Angie. In the meantime, my final three on a seven-song Songs I Wouldn't Turn Off list run the gamut of reactions in our three nation's charts.
My #3 was a #1 in all three nations- the aforementioned Carpenters and Top Of The World.
My # 2 barely charted here, and failed to on either of the other nations- Steely Dan's My Old School, at a high water mark of #63 this week.
And my #1 SIWTO basically splits the difference, hitting 68 in Australia, 17 in Canada, and sitting this week at # 8 here- Todd Rundgren's Hello It's Me.
The two debuts this week start out with this band's 6 time on the chart, and a decent run will land this act in the list of M10 superstars- they are looking to become the 23rd act to rack up 200 points on the ten! At #8, here is Saint Asonia...
Finishing out the debuts, this song came to me when Larry The Cable Guy- yes, that Larry- mentioned this song was in his top five all time. To my shock, I learned that Larry is a lot like me- this song is an lp cut, never released! Here, from 2019's Feels Like Country Music, at #9- Jon Wolfe:
And with that, there remains only the top five- both weeks the same...
5- Frankie Cosmos leaped 4 last week to this spot with Abigail...
4- Alvvays moved up one with Tile By Tile....
3- Juliana Hatfield moved up 4 with Can't Get It Out Of My Head....
2- a-ha's unplugged Take On Me spent 2nd and 3rd week at 2....
And with their 3rd and 4th weeks at the top....
...Dark Side Of Light and Summer Breeze!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hoping for a more normal next week....
