Divas on Top: This Week on Billboard

Florence Welch

This week's Billboard Dance/Club chart is a bore, frankly, except for the top four spots, and then at the bottom.

Florence Welch (of Florence + The Machine) sits atop the #1 throne this week with the Calvin Harris dance track, "Sweet Nothing." Love this song! "Your Body," the Chistina Aguilera number is now number two with the probability of ascending to the top spot next week. Rihanna's "Diamonds" glitters at #3 assisted by great remix work from Liam Keegan, Alessio Silvestro and Sharaf Moran.

Yoko Ono is still going strong as a vital club diva. She will turn 80 this February! So, it is very exciting to see her chart so highly and so well with the remixes of her latest dancefloor hit, "I'm Movin' On." She certainly is. God bless the queen!

Lenny Kravitz cracks the top 25 in the 25th place with "Superlove." Oh, yeah! Nelly Furtado at #22 with her new "Parking Lot." And, at #21, Paloma Faith is "Picking Up the Pieces."

Calling out around the world! Are you ready for a brand-new beat? Thanks to all the hits over the week from Serbia, India, Spain and Japan! And to increased hits from my friends in France, Canada, the UK, Indonesia, Russia and the US of A!

The Ralphi Rosario radio edit remix of Yoko below:

Billboard Shake-Up

It was sad to see Kathy Griffin's fabulous "I'll Say It" drop off the top 25 Billboard Dance/Club Chart this go-round, but good to see Florence Welch (of "+ the Machine") ascend to #14 (from #20 last week) on vocals for "Sweet Nothing" by Calvin Harris. While I love listening to Harris' extended version, it offers no intro for mixing into a set. For that purpose, I recommend the Tiesto remix.

Christina Aguilera leaped into the top 25 in a major way when her quite catchy but undistinguished "Your Body" made it from last week's #26 song to the #16th. I'll refrain from any Greatest Gainer comments.

Mariah Carey's "Triumphant" is still solid at #11, having peaked at numero uno. X Factor's Melanie Amaro is rising right behind, at #12, with "Don't Fail Me Now." And, at #13, we have Beyonce, losing wind and nudging up just one spot from last week, with "I Was Here." Yeah, you was.

Pet Shop Boys peaked at #12 with "Winner" on the US chart, though Kristine W is up at #4 with the fantastic, Bimbo Jones-produced floor-filler, "Everything That I Got." Meanwhile, Yoko Ono is "Moving On" to the number 10th place.

Let me tell you, I could eat up every part of a guy like Cheyenne Jackson in a New York minute (pictured at top)! But who couldn't? Tall, dark, handsome and out (but married). The Conaire remix of the Broadway crooner's "Drive" crossed my desk recently.  Unfortunately, it doesn't quite gel for the dance floor. Good song, but not a good mix. Unlikely to peak on Billboard or end up in my mix.

More on the dance floor musique and some more Billboard club jive soon. Love ~~ Dj Buddy B!