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Adele 'Rolling' Along Atop Hot 100, Jason Aldean & Nicki Minaj Reach Top 10

by Gary Trust, N.Y.  |   June 15, 2011 3:15 EDT
Adele
Andrew Yee

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The Black Eyed Peas
Jennifer Lopez
Pitbull
Paramore
Jason Aldean
Adele
Katy Perry
Nicki Minaj
Lady Gaga
LMFAO
The Band Perry

Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" logs a sixth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart to be released Thursday (June 16) on Billboard.com, while Jason Aldean and Nicki Minaj enter the top 10.
 
"Rolling in the Deep" spends a third week atop Radio Songs (151 million in audience, up 1%, according to Nielsen BDS). The multi-format smash rewrites the weekly plays record (5,109) on the Adult Pop Songs airplay survey for a fifth straight week, tops Pop Songs for a third week and bullets as the Greatest Gainer at No. 2 on Adult Contemporary.

 

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On Digital Songs, "Deep" claims a sixth frame at No. 1 (224,000 downloads sold, down 8%, according to Nielsen SoundScan).
 
Pitbull's "Give Me Everything," featuring Ne-Yo, AfroJack and Nayer, holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100, pushing 3-2 on Radio Songs (129 million, up 11%). The track spends a fourth week at No. 2 on Digital Songs (211,000, down 3%).
 
LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem," featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock, jumps 6-3 on the Hot 100 with Airplay Gainer honors. The song zooms 16-9 on Radio Songs (67 million, up 34%). On Digital Songs, it holds at No. 3 (189,000, up 12%).
 
Katy Perry's former Hot 100 No. 1 "E.T.," featuring Kanye West, dips 3-4 and Bruno Mars' "The Lazy Song" saunters 4-5.
 
Lady Gaga's "The Edge of Glory" rises 7-6 on the Hot 100. The song drops 4-5 on Digital Songs (154,000, down 7%) but bounds 15-10 on Radio Songs (67 million, up 31%), fueled by advances on Pop Songs (10-8) and Adult Pop Songs (22-14 as the chart's Greatest Gainer).
 

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Jennifer Lopez's "On the Floor," featuring Pitbull, slides 5-7 on the Hot 100 and the Black Eyed Peas' former No. 3-peaking "Just Can't Get Enough" holds at No. 8.
 
Jason Aldean's "Dirt Road Anthem" speeds 23-9 with the Hot 100's Digital Gainer award. As it flies 16-4 on Digital Songs with 169,000 downloads sold (up 99%), the song nets the second-best weekly sum for a male country artist. 2011 "American Idol" champion Scotty McCreery's "I Love You This Big" began with 171,000 two weeks ago.

 

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Aldean performed "Anthem" with Ludacris on the CMT Awards (June 8). A new studio version of the song with the rapper was released June 7 and its 75,000-unit first-week download total accounts for 44% of the title's overall download total.
 
With the vault, Aldean surpasses his previous best Hot 100 showing, reaped with "Big Green Tractor" (No. 18, 2009).
 
Nicki Minaj earns her first Hot 100 top 10 as a lead artist, as "Super Bass" steps 11-10. The cut climbs 8-6 on Digital Songs (143,000, up 8%) and blasts 31-14 on Radio Songs (50 million, up 38%).
 
Minaj had previously ranked in the top 10 last year as a featured act on Trey Songz's "Bottoms Up" (No. 6).
 
Paramore heads up nine new titles (eight debuts and a re-entry) on the Hot 100, as "Monster" creeps in at No. 36. The song, from the "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" soundtrack, due on next week's charts, starts at No. 16 on Digital Songs (88,000). The Digital Songs entrance marks the group's best rank on the list since debut entry "Misery Business" reached No. 11 in 2007.
 
The Band Perry's "If I Die Young" returns to the Hot 100 at No. 46 after inking a 28-week chart run between July and January. The song peaked at No. 19 in October on its way to reaching the Country Songs summit in December. The ballad, which "Idol" runner-up Lauren Alaina performed on the series' May 17 episode, has been promoted to pop and adult radio since early this year and re-enters the Hot 100 powered by No. 29 rankings on Pop Songs and Adult Contemporary and a No. 32 bow on Adult Pop Songs. On Digital Songs, the track rebounds 44-36 (49,000, up 21%).
 
Other notable Hot 100 debuts include Brad Paisley's "Remind Me," with Carrie Underwood (No. 59), spurred by 42,000 downloads sold in its first week; "The Voice" contestant Dia Frampton's cover of Kanye West's "Heartless" (No. 78), the show's second track to make the survey, following Javier Colon's remake of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" (No. 65) last month; and, Aventura frontman Romeo Santos' "You" (No. 97), which spends a fifth week - its entire chart run - atop Latin Songs.
 
All charts, including the Hot 100, Digital Songs and Radio Songs, will be refreshed tomorrow on Billboard.com.

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