UNUSUAL FAME, OUT OF THE BLUE: Ke$ha becomes the 11th solo female to collect at least four Billboard Hot 100 top 10s from a debut album in the chart’s 52-year history, as “Take It Off,” from her introductory set “Animal,” prowls 16-10.

The 23-year-old pop singer-songwriter previously spent nine weeks atop the Hot 100 beginning in the Jan. 2 issue with “TiK ToK.” Follow-up “Blah Blah Blah,” featuring 3OH!3, debuted and peaked at No. 7 three weeks later – when “Animal” debuted atop the Billboard 200 – and “Your Love Is My Drug” rose to No. 4 in June. (Ke$ha’s Hot 100 discography includes an additional top 10, although 3OH!3′s “My First Kiss,” on which she guests, appears on the band’s album “Streets of Gold.” The song reached No. 9 in May).

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APPROVED ‘DRUG’: Ke$ha banks her first No. 1 on Dance/Club Play Songs, as “Your Love Is My Drug” rises 3-1.

The singer previously reached No. 11 on the list with her maiden entry “TiK ToK” and No. 37 with “Blah Blah Blah,” featuring 3OH!3.

“Your Love Is My Drug” is the third song this year to crown Dance/Club Play Songs and Mainstream Top 40 (where it reigned for two weeks in June). Lady Gaga’s “Telephone,” featuring Beyonce, ascended to No. 1 in February and Rihanna’s “Rude Boy” reached the summit in May.

Six songs topped both lists in 2009 after just one title – Rihanna’s “Disturbia” – led Dance/Club Play Songs and Mainstream Top 40 in 2008. The elevated total of shared No. 1s in 2009-10 thus suggests a surge in popularity for dance music on pop radio.

Who may deserve the highest share of praise for the dance genre’s increased profile on mainstream top 40 airwaves? Of the nine No. 1s on both charts since last year, five belong to Lady Gaga.

Source: Billboard

ADDICTED TO ‘LOVE’: Ke$ha becomes the fifth female artist since the beginning of 2000, and the third in the last two years, to earn at least two No. 1s from a debut album on Billboard’s Pop Songs radio airplay chart, as “Your Love Is My Drug,” the third single from “Animal,” lifts 2-1.

All charts on billboard.com will be refreshed Thursday.

Ke$ha spent seven weeks atop Pop Songs beginning in February with her introductory single, “TiK ToK.” Follow-up “Blah Blah Blah,” featuring 3OH!3, peaked at No. 11 in March. (Ke$ha returns the favor, guesting on 3OH!3′s “My First Kiss,” which rises 29-26 this week).

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Ke$ha this week becomes the first “lead artist” to sell 1 million or more copies of three songs in 2010. “Your Love Is My Drug” tops the 1 million mark in paid downloads this week. “TiK ToK” and “Blah Blah Blah” (featuring 3OH!3) have also sold more than 1 million copies this year. Ludacris has also sold 1 million or more copies of three songs in 2010, but he was the lead artist on just one of those entries (“How Low”). He was the featured artist on Justin Bieber’s “Baby” and Taio Cruz’s “Break Your Heart.”

Ke$ha re-teams with 3OH!3 on the new “My First Kiss,” but this time 3OH!3 has top billing and she is the featured artist. The song sold 190,000 copies this week and enters Hot Digital Songs at #4.

Source: Yahoo! Music

(…) Ke$ha’s “Your Love Is My Drug” shoots up 19-9, the third top 10 single from her debut set “Animal.” Top 40 radio play (18-13 on Pop Songs) and a short one day of retail carry-over from her April 17 appearance on “Saturday Night Live” prompt a digital spike of 47% (13-7 on Digital Songs with 124,000 downloads). Ke$ha topped the Hot 100 for nine weeks earlier this year with “TiK ToK” and took “Blah Blah Blah,” featuring 3OH!3, to No. 7. (…)

Source: Billboard

• Ke$ha’s official new and third single of her debut album “Animal” will be “Your Love Is My Drug“, as we had previously reported, and it will be released on April 20 in the United States.

• The director of the “Your Love Is My Drug” music video will be Honey and Ke$ha will be shooting it very soon. Honey has a very unique style and directed several amazing videos such as Paramore’s “Ignorance”, Dave Navarro’s “Rexall”, Crazytown’s “Butterfly” and many others.

• “Your Love Is My Drug” is currently at #21 on the US iTunes main singles charts so make sure you tell everyone to buy it now! The song has peaked so far, without an official release, at #27 on the US Billboard Hot 100, #29 on the New Zealand Singles Chart, #48 on the Canadian Hot 100 and #63 on the UK Singles Chart. The song is also already having great reception in the radio and being played in lots of stations everyday so let’s keep requesting it!!

• As most of you already know, Ke$ha was recently in Japan to promote the release of her new album “Animal“. The album will be released in that country on May 12, and their edition will contain an exclusive DVD and 4 bonus tracks! You can click here for more information and make sure you keep visiting KeshaSebert.org for updates!

Billboard’s new pan-European sales charts show Sade starting a third week atop European Albums with “Soldier of Love” (Epic/Sony Music Entertainment), while Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” (RCA/Sony Music Entertainment) moves into a fifth week at No. 1 on Hot 100 Singles. (…)

The Ke$ha single keeps its European crown with the help of another week at No. 1 in France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria (further afield, a parody version of the song by the Midwest Vikings on the Independent label holds at No. 5 in Australia).

Ke$ha’s “Animal” album falls 10-16 on the Europe-wide chart, but remains in the top ten in Austria and Switzerland. (…)

Source: Billboard

Black Eyed Peas have climbed to the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 with their latest single ‘Imme Be’.

The four-piece knock Ke$ha’s ‘Tik Tok’, which has spent the past nine weeks in pole position, into second place.

The all-star ‘We Are The World 25: For Haiti’ drops four places to six, while Young Money, Lady GaGa and Lady Antebellum each rise one place.

R&B singer and actor Trey Songz climbs two places into the top ten with Fabolous collaboration ‘Say Ahh’, and Ke$ha holds steady at 11 with ‘Blah Blah Blah’.

Elsewhere, Rihanna’s ‘Rude Boy’ jumps to 23 from last week’s 63, while The Script climb six places to 22 with ‘Breakeven’.

The highest new entery comes from Christopher Wilde, who debuts at 57 with ‘Hero’ from the Disney Channel original movie StarStruck.

The top ten singles in full:

1. (3) Black Eyed Peas: ‘Imma Be’
2. (1) Ke$ha: ‘Tik Tok’
3. (4) Young Money: ‘BedRock’
4. (5) Lady GaGa: ‘Bad Romance’
5. (6) Lady Antebellum: ‘Need You Now’
6. (2) Artists For Haiti: ‘We Are The World 25: For Haiti’
7. (7) Train: ‘Hey, Soul Sister’
8. (8) Ludacris: ‘How Low’
9. (9) Jason Derulo: ‘In My Head’
10. (12) Trey Songz: ‘Say Aah’

Source: Digital Spy

Still an amazing run so congratz!! “Blah Blah Blah” remains at #11 at this week’s Billboard Hot 100 so keep buying and requesting Ke$ha’s new single!

Ke$ha’s “TiK ToK” holds off the impressive arrival of charity single “We Are the World 25: For Haiti” by Artists for Haiti to remain at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a ninth consecutive week.

“TiK ToK” has now persevered over a pair of No. 2-debuting songs during its No. 1 run. Just three weeks ago, Taylor Swift’s “Today Was a Fairytale” opened in the runner-up slot. Meanwhile, Ke$ha’s second single “Blah Blah Blah,” featuring 3OH!3 is the Hot 100′s Digital Gainer (up 35,000 downloads) and jumps 22-11.

“We Are the World 25: For Haiti’s” arrival pushes the Black Eyed Peas’ “Imma Be” down 2-3, while Young Money’s “BedRock” featuring Lloyd holds solid at No. 4, as does Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” at No. 5. (…)

Source: Billboard

Nearly 25 years after hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, charity single “We Are the World” makes its way back to chart, debuting at No. 2, thanks to the all-star collective Artists for Haiti. “World” trails Ke$ha’s “TiK ToK,’ which holds at No. 1 for a ninth straight week. (…)

Source: Billboard

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