Usher's "OMG" Overtakes B.o.B's "Nothin' on You" on Hot 100

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The same week B.o.B topped the Billboard 200 with his debut album The Adventures of Bobby Ray , the up-and-coming rapper relinquished the Number One spot on the Hot 100. "Nothin' on You" dropped to Number Two as Usher's "OMG" with Will.i.am grabbed the top spot. "OMG" marks the ninth time since 1998 that Usher has scored a Hot 100 Number One, outpacing both Rihanna and Mariah Carey, both of whom have earned six in that time span. Usher's last Number One single was March 2008's "Love in This Club."

The rest of the Hot 100 Top 10 remained largely the same — last week's Top Five each moved down one spot to make room for "OMG" — with the exception of Number 10, where Jay-Z and Mr Hudson's Blueprint 3 track "Young Forever" reached a new peak in its 16th week on the chart.

As has been the case in recent weeks, a new episode of Glee means a handful of new selections from the Fox show enter the Hot 100. This time around, five Glee songs debuted, led by "One Less Bell to Answer/A House is Not a Home" at Number 53.

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Song Stories

“V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.”

Fishbone | 1985

Quite a few musicians have utilized initials for song titles -- Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T.," Abba's "S.O.S.," Donald Fagen's "I.G.Y.," etc. But the more curiously initialed tune has to be "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.," short for "Voyage to the Land of the Freeze-Dried Godzilla Farts." Fishbone's original guitarist, Kendall Jones, explained to Rolling Stone, "When Norwood [Fisher] wrote it, he introduced it to the band saying, 'Man, I've been hearing about all these Nazi right-wing groups on the news saying the Holocaust was staged. So what if America said it never dropped two atom bombs on Japan, that it was actually Godzilla popping a couple off?' Only Norwood would come up with something that out." The same year "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F." was released, the film Godzilla 1985 appeared in North America.

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