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. Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls
"Beautiful Girls" borrows from Ben E. King's 1961 classic "Stand By Me," a true pop music standard.
3. Blake Lewis - You Give Love a Bad Name
This is one of 4 Blake Lewis performances to debut this week on the Billboard pop singles chart.
4. Plain White T's - Hey Delilah
Look for the Plain White T's this summer on the ABC family series Greek playing themselves in speaking roles and performing as a band.
5. Kat DeLuna featuring Elephant Man - Whine Up
Check out Kat DeLuna dancing to her hot hit at her official web site.
6. Elliott Yamin - Wait for You
Whether it's Elliott Yamin's personal magnetism or the production Midas touch of Stargate, it looks like he has a Billboard pop top 10 single in the making.
7. Nickelback - Rockstar
One year and 8 months after its release with sales of nearly 6 million copies at its back, Nickelback's album All the Right Reasons is generating a 5th hit single.
8. Fall Out Boy - Thnks fr th Mmrs
Rumors have flown recently about a romance between Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson. Now the word is that they are creating new songs together as well.
9. Gwen Stefani - 4 in the Morning
It's possible Gwen Stefani may think twice before inviting Akon on her next concert tour. Earlier this year bad publicity followed revelations of lewd behavior at one of his solo shows in Trinidad. Now New York police are trying to determine whether Akon committed a crime when he threw someone attending the concert tour off the stage and into the audience.
10. Green Day - Working Class Hero
For those looking forward to the next full-length Green Day album, it's unlikely to appear before 2008.
