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. Timbaland featuring Keri Hilson - The Way I Are
© Interscope
2. Amy Winehouse - Rehab
© Universal Republic
Amy Winehouse is one of the top artists in the running to create the theme song for the next James Bond movie.
3. Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls
© Beluga Heights
Sean Kingston's hit song does come from a real-life experience. Apparently, the teenage artist dated a girl for 2 years and then he discovered her cheating on him. He was devastated emotionally.
4. Rihanna - Shut Up and Drive
© Def Jam
Entertainment Weekly magazine recently named Rihanna as today's hottest music artist in their annual EW 100.
5. Kat DeLuna featuring Elephant Man - Whine Up
© Epic RecordsWhen 19-year-old Kat DeLuna performed for Epic Records president Charlie Walk, he wouldn't let her leave until she had signed a contract with the label.
6. Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone
© RCA Records
Avril Lavigne has set her sights on movie stardom. She is reportedly in talks with Sony BMG for a lead part in a thriller.
7. Lil Mama - Lip Gloss
© Jive RecordsThe video accompanying "Lip Gloss" was filmed at Lil Mama's high school, the Edward R. Murrow High School, in Brooklyn, New York.
8. Gwen Stefani - 4 in the Morning
© Interscope
Gwen Stefani surprised her hometown concert fans in Orange County, California last Friday. Bandmates from the group No Doubt joined her onstage and they tore through a selection of the group's hits for a wildly cheering crowd.
9. Nickelback - Rockstar
© Roadrunner Records
Nickelback recently announced they will extend their current concert tour into early September, 2007 which will take the band nearly into the second anniversary of the release of their album All the Right Reasons.
10. Gym Class Heroes - Clothes Off
© Decaydance
It didn't seem to take long in the spotlight for Gym Class Heroes to inspire the naming of a new genre of popular music. The group's blend of hardcore influences and hip hop has been dubbed "emo rap."
