http://www.billboard.com/...5142.story


Kelly Clarkson makes history on this week's Billboard Hot 100 with the largest leap to No. 1 in the chart's 50-year history. Her new single, "My Life Would Suck Without You," rockets 97-1 after selling 280,000 digital downloads in its first week of availability.

The song is also faring well at radio, jumping 58-38 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart and 27-18 on the Mainstream Top 40 list.

"My Life" introduces Clarkson's March 17 RCA album "All I Ever Wanted." This is the second time the artist has set the record for largest jump to No. 1. She took her "American Idol" victory song, "A Moment Like This," 52-1 on the chart dated October 5, 2002.

That mark lasted nearly five years until Maroon 5 soared 64-1 with "Makes Me Wonder" in May 2007 and had been broken four more times since, most recently by Britney Spears' "Womanizer" (96-1).

"My Life" is Clarkson's first No. 1 since her debut single, though she has placed six other songs in the top 10 during this time, including the No. 2-peaking "Since U Been Gone" in April 2005.

yea! Kelly

My life would be great without that song.

Would you rather have Prom Queen by Lil Wayne or Heartless from Kanye?

good song . but the structure reminds me too much of Since You Been Gone. but hey if it works

It seems like the largest leap to #1 keeps being broken every few weeks.

I'm waiting for someone to go 100-1 so it'll be the end of it.

Haven't heard the song, but what an awful title.

musicjunky318 said:

All it takes is the right timing of radio and iTunes releases. It will happen before 2010.

VoicesCarry said:

Hell it'll probably happen in a few weeks!

does it really matter though? the singles chart is just like the album chart at this point, you rarely see a song climb. you debut and then you fall. My problem is that these lame ass radio stations (oh wait they are all lame), get a song and play it for 6 months or even more, drop the song and move on, play b sides, mixes, anything to shake the shit up. There is so much payola now, the labels have a list of what is going to be number one every week for the rest of the year.

midnightmover said:

Horrendous, isn't it? It's so ugly.

lastdecember said:

That's why radio is dead to me.

The video:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...ap-oZI-Grc

newpower99 said:

God, I saw that song this morning with the sound on mute and I thought "I bet you this sounds like 'Since You Been Gone'"

give the people what they want

It's amazing how she did this whole break out thing then it took her like 2 seconds to get sucked (lol) back into the pop machine again.

STAND YOUR GROUND WOMAN!

purplesweat said:

Yeah that was very predictable.

purplesweat said:

Kelly said she would do a record the label wanted if she was allowed to release My December, so she's holding up her end of the bargain. Regardless, few artists try to do anything different, so I give her credit. She's been on tour with Reba McEntire for a few years now, which is also something completely left-field for her.

Timmy84 said:

My problem with Kelly is more of her music, its all so "avril Lavigne-ish" and this is what people try to pass off as a "rock female" which is why you have people say Fall Out Boy are a "rock band". I mean she has a good voice, but musically it goes nowhere, her songs are so "in the mold" and "painted by numbers" this is why everyone is just tredding water at this point.

I think it's an excellent song. Not everthing that is commercial and accessible is bad. I think the lyrics are very good with real emotion and intelligent, and not too cliched.
I haven't seen anyone promoting Kelly Clarkson as a female rock artist. She's been promoted as a pop singer who uses guitars in her music. By the way, I like Fall Out Boy, too! They both do music that incorporates live instruments and guitars but in a more eclectic way than stereotypical rock music. The harder heavier rock music just doesn't appeal to everyone. Kelly and Fall Out Boy do guitar based pop music. There's nothing wrong with that. I don't believe in categorizing music and criticizing artists and saying they aren't authentic enough. Their music is a nice counterpoint to all the R&B and hip hop driven stuff that has dominated the airwaves recently.

Glindathegood said:

it has nothing to do with it being commercial, i mean Bon Jovi and Motley Crue were commercial "rock bands", but it was more about the other bands that got through like Warrant,Slaughter and things like that because of what they were doing. Meaning that its all become so "routine" now with these songs, you know the chord changes, were the chorus is going, the big guitar riff(which is usual not even a real guitar being played), but the themes and the writing is so interchangeable i can even tell the difference between any of these artists at this point.

ehhh she takes two steps back with this one. wheres the maturity? get over the dude already. geez

Kelly Clarkson <3

viciuzurban said:

I agree, basically all of her songs are about some scumbag guy.