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I have to admit, I’m a little apprehensive about this week’s edition of What The Kids Are Listening To.  And not only because there are songs called ‘Sex Room’ and ‘Teach Me How To Dougie’.  Ripped straight from the R&B/Hip-Hop charts of Billboard Magazine, I haven’t heard of half of the artists, let alone the songs.  The other half are either Usher or Drake.  Maybe it’s just the thing to make us forget the rainy London day… enjoy!

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What The Kids Are Listening To, #3: R&B/Hip-Hop

1. Chris Brown – Deuces
2. Monica – Love All Over Me
3. Usher – There Goes My Baby
4. Drake, Lil’ Wayne – Miss Me
5. Alicia Keys – Un-Thinkable (I’m Ready)
6. Drake, Swizz Beatz, T.I. – Fancy
7. Fantasia – Bittersweet
8. T.I. – Got Your Back
9. Rick Ross, Styles P – B.M.F. (Blowin’ Money Fast)
10. Nicki Minaj – Your Love
11. Jazmine Sullivan – Holding You Down (Goin’ In Circles)
12. Usher, Jay-Z – Hot Tottie
13. Drake – Find Your Love
14. Jaheim – Finding My Way Back
15. Ciara, Ludacris – Ride
16. Lil’ Wayne, Drake – Right Above It
17. Gerald Levert – Can It Stay
18. Dorrough – Get Big
19. Ludacris, Trey Songz – Sex Room
20. Cali Swag District – Teach Me How to Dougie

Billboard arrived this morning, which means it’s time for this week’s edition of What The Kids Are Listening To!  Since we might all die if we have to listen to the same Usher and Katy Perry songs every week, I’ve opted to rotate through the genre charts.  This week: country!!

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Sitting in uber-hipster East London, listening to the country charts will undoubtably feel as out of place as a lost ball in a high weed (obligatory Southern expression), and I’m fully expecting comments akin to “what is a Taylor Swift”.  Once again, these are the first 20 songs from Billboard’s country chart that were on Spotify — enjoy!

What The Kids Are Listening To, #2: Country

1. Lady Antebellum – Our Kind Of Love
2. Kenny Chesney – The Boys Of Fall
3. Uncle Kracker – Smile
4. Josh Turner – All Over Me
5. Easton Corbin – Roll With It
6. Little Big Town – Little White Church
7. Darius Rucker – Come Back Song
8. Craig Morgan – This Ain’t Nothin’
9. George Strait – The Breath You Take
10. The Band Perry – If I Die Young
11. Josh Thompson – Way Out Here
12. Brad Paisley – Anything Like Me
13. Miranda Lambert – Only Prettier
14. Steve Azar – Sunshine
15. Chris Young – Voices
16. Carrie Underwood – Mama’s Song
17. Eric Church – Smoke A Little Smoke
18. Luke Bryan – Someone Else Calling You Baby
19. Danny Gokey – I Will Not Say Goodbye
20. The JaneDear Girls – Wildflower

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Admittedly, we can be music snobs.  After all, who doesn’t enjoy being a little self-righteous about their music taste?  In an effort to understand the ‘Belieber’ generation, we’ve instituted a weekly “What The Kids Are Listening To” music hour at Songkick.  For today’s inaugural playlist (strategically played after lunchtime so there was no excuse to escape) we listened to the latest auto-tuned sensations amidst comments from the developers like “Can we stop scrobbling for this hour?”, and “this is like hanging out in a small town McDonald’s carpark drinking Spumante”.  I think they secretly liked it.

On the music player this week was the first 20 songs from the Billboard Hot 100 that were available on Spotify.  For a little pop trivia, 5 of the top 11 on the Hot 100 are songs written by songwriter and producer “Dr. Luke”, which is maybe why they sound pretty similar.

What The Kids Are Listening To, Volume 1: 2010-09-09

1. Katy Perry – Teenage Dream
2. Taio Cruz – Dynamite
3. Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull – I Like It
4. Usher, Pitbull – DJ Got Us Falling In Love
5. Katy Perry, Snoop Dogg – California Gurls
6. Mike Posner – Cooler Than Me
7. Ke$ha – Take It Off
8. B.O.B., Rivers Cuomo – Magic
9. B.O.B., Hayley Williams – Airplanes
10. Jason Derulo – Ridin’ Solo
11. Eminem – Not Afraid
12. Flo Rida – Club Can’t Handle Me
13. Travie McCoy – Billionaire
14. Lil Wayne, Drake – Right Above It
15. Usher, Will.i.am – OMG
16. Drake – Find Your Love
17. Kid Cudi, Kanye – Erase Me
18. Chris Brown – Deuces
19. Paramore – The Only Exception
20. Kenny Chesney – The Boys of Fall

Join us next week as we explore another unknown area of the Billboard charts.