Finding the Rhythm

Last night I posted the chart update for last week (a bit late), and I guess it’s starting to get a little dull with those first five entries sort of jockeying around amongst themselves. 

In fact, I don’t find any surprises on the chart this week, but here’s a few, brief notables:

• Pleasure Center’s If I Sound Excited makes its entry at #14. I’ve blogged about this hot new track already, and I expect it to be on the chart for awhile.
• On the last chart update I mentioned Tod Miner’s Luv N Music, and I still find myself a little surprised it on my chart at all considering my initial impression of the song. Frankly, the more I hear it, the more I like it, and it shows at #8 this week.
• Speaking of tracks I like more the more I hear them, I blogged about Danny Saucedo last week, and his track All On You is really a fave right now. His track enters at #23.
• The sole hot add for this week comes from Radikal Records’ Plasco with a cover titled Stay. It’s originally by the country act Sugarland, and I always have a  “thing” for country covers; they’re just… Fun, and a little different sounding. What I think makes this work particularly well for me is that it’s a sort of “soft techno.” It’s 142 BPM, so it’s very fast, and the percussion is very hands-up like, even if the song itself isn’t quite. Interesting track regardless.

It’ll be interesting to see what happens on next week’s chart, given that there’s a new release I’m very, very excited about. But that’ll have to wait for tomorrow’s blog posting.