Chart Moves

Chart Moves: Gotye's 'Somebody' Conquers Yet Another Radio Format, Hitting No. 1 on Adult Contemporary

As previously reported Carly Rae Jepsen leads the Billboard Hot 100 for a ninth week with "Call Me Maybe." With yet another week atop the Hot 100 podium, the song passes the chart's prior champ, Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" (eight), for most frames at No. 1 in 2012.

-- Gotye: The singer's former No. 1, "Somebody That I Used to Know," holds at No. 6 on the Hot 100 and becomes the first track to surpass 6 million download sales (6.046 million) in the 2012 calendar year, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The title also adds another chart-topping feat under its belt, as it rises to No. 1 on Adult Contemporary. In May, it became the first song to hit No. 1 on Alternative Songs, Dance Club/Play Songs and the Billboard Hot 100. Thus, "Somebody" is now the only tune to have topped all four of the above-mentioned tallies. It's one of the most crossed-over hits in Billboard history, having also climbed to No. 1 on Triple A, Rock Songs, Mainstream Top 40, Adult Top 40 and Dance/Mix Show Airplay.

-- Ellie Goulding: The blindingly successful "Lights" by Ellie Goulding continues to barrel up the chart track, motoring 5-2. Meanwhile, on the Adult Top 40 chart, the song makes the longest climb into the top 10 by a woman in a single chart run as it motors 11-8 in its 28th week. (Sarah McLachlan's "I Will Remember You [Live]" took 29 weeks, but in two separate chart runs.)

Among all acts, "Lights'" rise is the slowest to the region since One Republic's "All the Right Moves" also took 28 frames on April 24, 2010. The all-time most-leisurely route to the top 10 is owned by Augustana's "Boston," which waited 32 weeks (Jan. 27, 2007).

-- Maroon 5: The group's "Payphone" has seemingly tied for the single with the most weeks in the top three -- that never went to No. 1 -- as it dips 3-5. The tune spent 15 weeks bouncing between Nos. 2 and 3 on the chart.

If "Payphone" does not receive a call back to the top three, it will have equaled the top three runs of these non-No. 1s: LeAnn Rimes' "How Do I Live," Shania Twain's "You're Still the One" and Timbaland featuring OneRepublic's "Apologize." All four songs peaked at No. 2.

-- Nicki Minaj: Sound the alarm for "Pound the Alarm." The diminutive (sometimes) rapper's latest dance/pop confection soars 92-50 on the Hot 100. The Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded track shifts 47,000 downloads, a gain of 239%, which is the largest percentage improvement among titles on Hot Digital Songs (where it debuts at No. 35) after the 472% jump by Phillip Phillips' "Home," which scoots 47-1 on that list (228,000; up 472%).

-- 50 Cent: The rapper arrives as the Hot Shot Debut at No. 79, instantly earning his best chart ranking as a lead artist since "Baby By Me" peaked at No. 28 in 2009. The new song, which features Dr. Dre and Alicia Keys, shifts 51,000 in its first sales week and previews his November release Street King Immortal. The song activity adds to a busy week for 50 Cent who co-stars with Forest Whitaker and Robert De Niro in Freelancers, which hits theaters on Aug. 10.

All American Rejects and Eve 6 bring youthful spirit to Deer Valley

All American Rejects and Eve 6 bring youthful spirit to Deer Valley

When you look at those previous performers at this season’s Deer Valley Amphitheater concert series presented by the Park City Performing Arts Foundation, you might notice something. If you averaged the ages of each, it would come to nearly 62 years.

Of course, the appeal of that lineup is that Williams and the others bridge generation gaps, and young listeners can find as much beauty, wisdom and timeless art from Hodgson, Yoakam and Neville as older fans do.

The challenge is getting young music fans to buy tickets.

So, in a nod to the younger people who might be avoiding the older-skewing, wine-sipping Deer Valley Music Festival this summer — Kansas and Earth, Wind & Fire, anyone? — the decidedly younger rock bands All American Rejects and Eve 6 will perform in the next installment of the performing-arts series.

In past years, bands like OneRepublic, Civil Twilight, Katie Herzig and Thriving Ivory have played PCPAF shows, says Teri Orr, PCPAF’s executive director. She met some resistance when the OneRepublic show was booked, yet everyone in attendance loved the youthful energy the pop-rock group brought.

All American Rejects and Eve 6 feature "great musicians," just as talented as the older generation of performers, she said.

The Tribune talked to both bands to see what the kids have to offer when the volumes are as high as the elevation.

All American Rejects » The rock quartet from the bubbling music scene of Stillwater, Okla., met early success— they were signed to a record contract when band members were still in high school — but never as much as when their kiss-off song "Gives You Hell" was the most-played song of 2008 on mainstream radio. A video of the song garnered more than 25 million views on YouTube.

Other songs, such as "Dirty Little Secret," "Swing, Swing," "Move Along" and "It Ends Tonight," have propelled the band to the top of the charts as well, and its most recent album, 2012’s "Kids in the Street," debuted at No. 12 on the Billboard albums chart.

All American Rejects were in Park City in January, where they performed a rare acoustic set at the Sundance Film Festival’s Music Café. "It was easy for us," said Mike Kennerly, guitarist. "We got to have a nice evening in a cool town."

In between the band’s 2008 album "When the World Comes Down" and "Kids in the Street," songwriters Nick Wheeler and Tyson Ritter retreated to secluded spots all over the United States to write skeletons of new, different