Drake's "The Motto" - Stays On Top - [Music Charts Decoded]

THE MUSIC CHARTS DECODED

Every week, Frequency News will take a close look at what is going on with the Urban Mainstream, and Urban Adult radio airplay charts AND the album sales charts from the previous week. We will keep track of what is happening with your favorite music so that you don’t have to!

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TOP 10 songs played on URBAN RADIO stations across American the past week!

Urban: Drake Retains Top Spot; Beyonce Top 5; Trey Songz Top 10

* DRAKE stays at #1 here with “The Motto,” featuring LIL WAYNE

* BEYONCE makes an appearance in the top 5 with “Love On Top,” moving up from 7*-4* and up 422 spins

* TREY SONGZ is in there jumping from 11*-9* jump with “Sex Ain’t Better Than Love”

Rank	Artist	Title
*1	DRAKE	The Motto f/Lil Wayne
*2	BROWN, CHRIS	Strip f/Kevin McCall
*3	TYGA	Rack City
*4	BEYONCE	Love On Top
*5	WALE	Lotus Flower Bomb f/Miguel
6	DRAKE	Make Me Proud f/Nicki Minaj
7	YOUNG JEEZY	I Do f/JAY Z & Andre 3000
8	FIONA, MELANIE	4:00 AM
*9	SONGZ, TREY	Sex Ain’t Better Than Love
10	BLIGE, MARY J.	Mr. Wrong

Abbreviated chart. See Mediabase.com for full chart and detailed information.

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RADIO ONE AIRPLAY CHART

Week of February 26 – March 3, 2012

Check out whats playing this week on the Radio One radio stations across the country.

Radio One, Inc. is the largest African American media company in the U.S. Owning and operating 53 stations in 16 urban markets in the United States!

Here is the TOP 10 Songs being played on Radio One stations right now!

Rank	Artist	Title
1	BEYONCE	Love On Top
2	DRAKE	The Motto f/Lil Wayne
3	CHRIS BROWN	Strip f/Kevin McCall
4	WALE	Lotus Flower Bomb f/Miguel
5	DRAKE	Make Me Proud f/Nicki Minaj
6	TREY SONGZ	Sex Ain’t Better Than Love
7	MARY J. BLIGE	Mr. Wrong
8	YOUNG JEEZY	I Do f/JAY Z & Andre 3000
9	MELANIE FIONA	4:00 AM
10	BEYONCE	Countdown