These are the hottest 10 pop songs of the week as determined by About Top 40. This chart is compiled consulting data from various music industry charts and sources. It is intended to indicate the hottest rising hits. Recordings that have reached the top 10 of the Billboard Pop 100 chart are disqualified from this chart.
1. Mims - This Is Why I'm Hot
And yes, indeed, he is. It looks like Mims is the first new breakout rap artist of 2007.
2. Timbaland featuring Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake - Give It To Me
It's exactly one month from the release of his solo album Shock Value and yesterday Timbaland occupied 3 positions in MTV's TRL yesterday as producer. He was behind the boards for Nelly Furtado's "Say It Right," Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around," and his own "Give It To Me."
3. Christina Aguilera - Candyman
Christina Aguilera is back with a 3rd hot hit from the album Back to Basics.
4. Nickelback - If Everyone Cared
There was little sign that Nickelback is one of today's biggest rock bands at the Grammy Awards, but that doesn't stop the group from continuing to churn out major hit singles.
5. Hilary Duff - With Love
Despite having 2 #1 albums to her credit, Hilary Duff has never made it inside the top 20 on the US pop singles chart primarily due to lack of pop radio support. It looks like things may be changing in her favor with the release of "With Love."
6. Pretty Ricky - On the Hotline
Pretty Ricky's album Late Night Special gives a good illustration of the current sales woes in the music industry. Despite having spent 3 weeks in the top 10, including one week at #1, the album has not yet sold 300,000 copies.
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (Hey Oh)
Red Hot Chili Peppers are locked in as one of the headlining bands for Al Gore's worldwide concert event Live Earth.
8. John Mayer - Waiting on the World to Change
The Grammy Awards provided a boost to the chart fortunes of a number of winning artists. John Mayer, winner of the award for Best Pop Vocal Album for Continuum, is one of the beneficiaries of the Grammy boost.
9. Avril Lavigne - Keep Holding On
The video for Avril Lavigne's upcoming single "Girlfriend" debuted yesterday on MTV's TRL.
10. Jonas Brothers - Year 3000
The success of the Jonas Brothers single "Year 3000" is demonstrating some of the impact of Radio Disney on pop music charts. The song seemed dead in the water until Radio Disney picked it up. Now it is the brothers' first pop hit single.
