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. Avril Lavigne - Keep Holding On
Canadian Business, the longest-running business magazine in Canada, named Avril Lavigne one of the 10 most powerful Canadians in Hollywood.
2. Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around...
Justin Timberlake is celebrating a Grammy Award Album of the Year nomination for his smash hit album FutureSex / LoveSounds.
3. Daughtry - It's Not Over
Daughtry will be performing their hit single "It's Not Over" live from Times Square as part of Fox TV's New Year's Eve Special December 31, 2006.
4. Rihanna and Sean Paul - Break It Off
Rihanna will be the star performer at the halftime show of this year's Sun Bowl college football game December 29, 2006 in El Paso, Texas.
5. My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
My Chemical Romance fans will enjoy today's re-release of the band's album I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love featuring 2 previously unreleased videos.
6. Bow Wow featuring Chris Brown and Johnta Austin - Shortie Like Mine
Johnta Austin is celebrating a Song of the Year Grammy Award nomination as co-writer of Mary J. Blige's huge hit single "Be Without You."
7. Fall Out Boy - This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race
Fall Out Boy guitarist Patrick Stump recently told Billboard magazine that the group's upcoming albm Infinity on High will feature a much wider variety of sounds than their breakthrough From Under the Cork Tree. There is a greater use of piano, strings, and horns as well as some elements approaching the sound of classic rock
8. Stone Sour - Through Glass
Stone Sour are on the Grammy Awards nomination list with their song "30/30-150" nominated for Best Meta Performance.
9. Pussycat Dolls featuring Timbaland - Wait a Minute
The Pussycat Dolls take the stage as opening act for Christina Aguilera's 2007 Back to Basics concert tour.
10. All-American Rejects - It Ends Tonight
All-American Rejects are on the bill for a downtown Las Vegas concert bash to ring in the 2007 New Year.
