Blazing temperatures aren’t the only thing heating up the summer of 2012. Consider this the season of Girl Power at CHR radio. As Carly Rae Jepsen’s ubiquitous uptempo anthem “Call Me Maybe”
logs a sixth week atop the Singles Chart, four other solo female singers join her in the top 10. You’d have to go back to the beginning of the millennium—a la Britney, Christina and Jessica—to see as many pop princesses rallying in the higher
reaches of the Billboard Hot 100.
Let’s call this the Summer of Love… for females. In addition to Jepsen’s debut release feat, singer/songwriter Adele sets yet another record with “21.” Her sophomore album spends a 73rd week inside the Billboard 200’s top 10, the longest run by any woman in history—trumping Alanis Morissette's 1995 “Jagged Little Pill.” And then there’s the fervent return of pop staple Pink.
As Jepsen's “Call Me Maybe” continues its command of the Hot 100 in its 21st week on the chart, the track earns its keep as the longest-running No. 1 for a female solo artist since
Adele’s “Rolling In the Deep” logged seven weeks from May to July 2011. It also leads On-Demand Songs for a fifth week, and is No. 2 on Radio Songs, Pop Songs and Digital Songs (after leading the latter list for eight weeks). In addition, it tops the Summer Songs 2012 tally for a third week, which Radio-Info.com’s Sean Ross has been keeping tabs on.
Also among the week’s top 10 singles, Katy Perry's "Wide Awake" rises 4-3, newcomer Brit Ellie Goulding’s pop-fueled “Lights” holds at 5, Rihanna's "Where Have You Been" is locked at No. 6—and entering the top 10 at No. 9 is the massive return of Pink.
And that’s where we focus for the rest of this week’s female-centric Week In Music. Pink—pardon me, she has returned to being known as P!nk—rockets into the top 10 on the Hot 100 with new single "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)," which catapults 58-9 in its second week on the chart. The break-up anthem flies 41-4 on Digital Songs, while CHR radio is actually ahead of the game this time: It rallies 56-23 on Radio Songs, with 39 million all-format audience impressions, according to Nielsen BDS.
“Blow Me” is the 32 year old’s 12th Hot 100 top 10, which began in 2000 with “There You Go.”
Within the millennium, she has more top 10s than any other female act, other than Rihanna (22) and Beyonce (14). With the new single, she trumps both Lady Gaga and Katy Perry.
This is the first release from Pink's sixth studio album, “The Truth About Love,” due September 18. It’s been four years since her last studio album, 2008's "Funhouse,” which produced hits "So What," "Sober" and "Please Don't Leave Me." Her 2010 "Greatest Hits... So Far!!!," included No. 1 "Raise Your Glass" and No. 2 "Fuckin' Perfect.”
Already, “Blow Me” has reached No. 1 in Australia (her sixth)—where it debuted in the top spot—while it’s also top 10 in Canada and New Zealand. A worldwide tour will follow the album’s release this fall.
With women in charge, how fitting that the Spice Girls reunited last week for the first time since 2008 to announce the launch of “Viva Forever,” a jukebox theatrical musical packed with their 1990s’ hits. It opens this December in London. Girl power, indeed. *
of course, was a spin-off from Norman Lear's All in the Family, which focused on George and his wife Weezie 
(Louise), played by Isabel Sanford. His performance was Emmy and Golden Globe nominated.
TAYLOR TOP 25, January-June 2012
Minaj has, in 10 years, she'll be regarded as the MC Hammer of our day. But these other songs will forever remind us where we were, what we were doing, marking time, when we fell in love with them. That is the magic of music. *
Traditions... Oh, those few things we hold onto and treasure. For the
past 150+ years, Bobby, Timmy 
and I have been counting down our top
songs of the year... in Brooklyn, in Manhattan, in Jersey City and Fire Island... and along the way there have been many invited
guests.
This photo above merited a new Facebook profile pic...
season of American Idol. According to sources, Mimi is set to make somewhere between $12 and $17 million to judge the next endless season.
to living above the law. 
and, worst of all, college officials typically turn the other way when it comes to behavior that would be deemed unacceptable in any other forum (except, perhaps, the scandal-ridden Catholic church).
aghast that the college was forced to pay for its sins pretty much says it all. Media reports say some actually wept out of disappointment! (These are the same students who held a demonstration when shamed Coach Joe Paterno was fired.)
school for letting Sandusky slide for decades, just so its athletics program might continue to excel. The school was fined $60 million, banned from bowl games for four years and had a share of athletic scholarships stripped away. And perhaps best of all, every one of Penn State's wins from 1998
to 2011 has been stricken from the record. "The Penn State case has provoked in all of us a deeply 
emotional response and shaken our confidence in many ways," NCAA President Mark Emmert said. The sanctions were intended to help Penn State "rebuild a culture that went terribly awry."
abuse. It equates one year's revenue for the football team, Emmert said. Being deemed ineligible for Big Ten championship games for four years will cost the university its $13 million share of bowl game revenues. 
FBI Director Louis that proved longtime Head Football Coach Joe Paterno and other university officials didn't act on allegations of sexual abuse involving Sandusky. He was convicted in June on 45 counts related to abusing 10 boys over a 15-year period, starting in 1994.
As we gear up for the Summer Olympic games in London, beginning 
, July 25, we continue to show just how much we've come to love sports. Here's 27-year-old Scottish rugby player Thom Evans, who retired from professional sports following a neck injury.
Evans was among the models at the April 2011 Dressed To Kilt in NYC, which I covered for Country Weekly. Of course, at the time, I had no earthly idea who the hell he was... other than a hot guy. *
Caesars Palace has released a commercial promoting Shania 
Twain's upcoming Las Vegas residency, along with the posh new Nobu Hotel tower (that Celine Dion's 
ongoing residency no doubt bankrolled). Shania's "Still the One" show is set to launch at The Colosseum at
Caesars Palace December 1. She'll rotate with Celine, Elton John and Rod
Stewart.
concert presence... and thus she appears in the spot. Man, oh man, Celine looks beautiful.
Blazing temperatures aren’t the only thing heating up the summer of 2012. Consider this the season of Girl Power at CHR radio. As Carly Rae Jepsen’s ubiquitous uptempo anthem “Call Me Maybe” 
logs a sixth week atop the Singles Chart, four other solo female singers join her in the top 10. You’d have to go back to the beginning of the millennium—a la Britney, Christina and Jessica—to see as many pop princesses rallying in the higher 
reaches of the Billboard Hot 100.
Adele’s “Rolling In the Deep” logged seven weeks from May to July 2011. It also leads On-Demand Songs for a fifth week, and is No. 2 on Radio Songs, Pop Songs and Digital Songs (after leading the latter list for eight weeks). In addition, it tops the Summer Songs 2012 tally for a third week, which Radio-Info.com’s Sean Ross has been keeping tabs on. 
Within the millennium, she has more top 10s than any other female act, other than Rihanna (22) and Beyonce (14). With the new single, she trumps both Lady Gaga and Katy Perry. 
