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Top 5 Songs for Week Ending November 2


We’re spotlighting 1 the five most popular songs in the Billboard 2 Magazine Hot 100 pop singles chart, for the week ending November 2, 2013.


No newcomers means one thing: if you liked last week’s show, you’ll love this week’s lineup.


Let’s open in fifth place, where Drake and Majid Jordan stay put with “Hold On, We’re Going Home.” Who is Majid Jordan you ask? Well, Majid Jordan isn’t a person - it’s two people. The duo of Majid Al Maskati and Jordan Ullman hails from Canada - just like Drake. They met while studying at the University of Toronto, and released their first EP as Good People. They’re currently signed to Drake’s record label, OVO Sound.


Spending another week in fourth place is "Wake Me Up!" by Avicii, who criticizes a musical genre 3 he helped popularize. Despite being one of the biggest stars in EDM, or electronic dance music, this Swedish DJ feels the genre has gotten stale and predictable. He feels “Wake Me Up!” helped shake things up with its country influences, but admits the song drew some hostile reactions at first.


Miley Cyrus is in a sharing mood, having traded places with Katy Perry over the past couple weeks. This time, “Wrecking Ball” falls a slot to number three. Miley says she’s a musical outlaw… Speaking in the December edition of Cosmopolitan 4 Magazine, Miley says although she’s enjoying her fame, she sees herself as an underdog - and believes society wants to shut her down.


Our second-place artist has a few things to say about singers who adopt risqué approaches.  It’s an “up” week for Katy Perry, as “Roar” regains 5 a slot in second place. Speaking with National Public Radio, Katy says female pop stars need to stop getting naked so much. Katy admits she herself has gone that route, but feels it should be used more selectively.


Lorde would agree - the 16-year-old tries to strictly 6 regulate her image. She spends a fourth big week atop the Hot 100 with “Royals".  And the young singer is proving her music travels well. She also topped charts in her native New Zealand, along with Canada, Ireland, Scotland, and the United Kingdom.


Is a fifth week in the cards for Lorde? We’ll find out soon enough. Join us next week for another top 5 countdown.




v.聚光照明( spotlight的现在分词 );使公众注意,使突出醒目
n.布告板,揭示栏,广告牌
  • He ploughed his energies into his father's billboard business.他把精力投入到父亲的广告牌业务中。
  • Billboard spreads will be simpler and more eye-catching.广告牌广告会比较简单且更引人注目。
n.(文学、艺术等的)类型,体裁,风格
  • My favorite music genre is blues.我最喜欢的音乐种类是布鲁斯音乐。
  • Superficially,this Shakespeare's work seems to fit into the same genre.从表面上看, 莎士比亚的这个剧本似乎属于同一类型。
adj.世界性的,全世界的,四海为家的,全球的
  • New York is a highly cosmopolitan city.纽约是一个高度世界性的城市。
  • She has a very cosmopolitan outlook on life.她有四海一家的人生观。
复得( regain的第三人称单数 ); 赢回; 重回; 复至某地
  • It will take a lot of repair work before the theatre regains its former splendour. 要想剧院重拾昔日的辉煌,必须进行大规模整修。
  • He lays down the book and regains the consciousness. 他惊悸初定,掩卷细思。
adv.严厉地,严格地;严密地
  • His doctor is dieting him strictly.他的医生严格规定他的饮食。
  • The guests were seated strictly in order of precedence.客人严格按照地位高低就座。
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adamant metal
adultier
advertising departments
after-school program
alkaline glaze
Alsterbro
american society of medical technology
annointing
armature air gap
Aschheim-Zondek reaction
avenue of infection
barberry families
bayrumtree
boiler storage
brenson
cathartid
Cauto, R.
choreutis ophiosema
closed cycle cryogenic refrigerator
Coachella
color of the trichomes
combined steam and gas turbine (cosag) machinery
critical-load
cyclical graded bedding
dagobert
dahm
deed-box
direct drive electric tool
disrupted seam
et alia
excision of osteochondroma
Existing Home Sales
first-order bench mark
freighthopping
full to
furfural resin adhesive
fusser
gait analysis system
heir by devise
hemichorea
hepatic cyst
hexosephosphoricesters
infra red (ir)
JDL,JDL
knuckle-bone
kprofilograph
kyphorachitic pelvis
letter transfer
lighter-aboard-ship
lottia tenuisculpta
lyricist
marry into money
merrigan
microtropis triflora merr. et freem.
mind boggler
nanophanerophyte
nasal tip profile
naval beach group
negatived
Nicholson, Jack
number of repetitions
of great eminence
oh my fuck
one generation household
Parima, R.
pellizzari
professional golves
punctura
push type slab kiln
putting together
pyramid (of) selling
pyridine disulfonic acid
rastello
Rathmullan
reverting value
Richardson extrapolation
semisimple associative algebra
service port
sewer-pipe
spectromicroscopical
steam drive
Stilwell Road
subgeniculate
subsurface stacking chart
sucked in
suckerfishes
sunninghill
surface manoeuvring
tactile meniscus
term appointment
Tioor, Pulau
triturating
tut work
ultra-rapid high pressure gauge
underwater kit
unpronouncable
uranium isopropoxide
weather lurch
window screens
wolveboon
wriggled
wristers