Women Rule The Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart This Week - Not Since 1979 Have We Seen This!

Hello everyone and TGIF! 

Theres' an unusual phenomena on the music charts these days - the top 3 songs of the week are all by female solo artists - and unusual feat that you'd have to go back to 1979 to find the last time that women dominated the top of the charts in this way. 

For the last week of September 2013, here's what the music chart looks like according to the authoritative BILLBOARD Magazine. 

• At #3 - holding for a 2nd week in a row - is the 16 year old New Zealand native and pop music newcomer Lorde and her unusual song "ROYALS" - My review? All I can say is this one is different - very slow and haunting in mood, still very catchy though.
  
  
  
  
  
• At #2 - holding also for a 2nd straight week (falling after 2 weeks at #1) is Katy Perry's ROAR - my review? - this song is classic Katy Perry pop - the first single release from her forthcoming album - which according to the buzz - is just laced with a collection of big future single releases just like her last one (recall her last album "Teenage Dream" made her only the 2nd act in the history of the music charts to have 5 #1 singles from one album - (tying Michael Jackson's Bad) - quite a feat!

• And at #1, also for a 2nd straight week, is Miley Cyrus with "WRECKING BALL" - this is Miley's revenge following the disastrous VMA performance - my review? - the song is very touching composition, but I wouldn't have predicted that it would become as big a hit as it has (i.e. I haven't taken to the song as much as the other two above). 

So much for this week in music - do many of you remember the summer of 1979?  It was the absolute pinnacle of the disco era - the top 5 looked like this back then - all women (4 songs by solo artists, one group). 

Of note and for the record, my fave from the bunch by a long shot was the #5 song - whatever happened to Ricky Lee Jones?? She basically became a one-hit wonder?.

1.  Ring My Bell - Anita Ward 

2.  Hot Stuff - Donna Summer 

3.  Bad Girls - Donna Summer 

4.  We Are Family - SIster Sledge 

5.  Chuck E's in Love - Ricky Lee Jones 

Enjoy your weekend everyone, 

Til Monday,

Kevin